Article 6, Sections 6-1, 6-2, 6-6, 6-8
Dimensional standards
Uses
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- Retail stores and shops
- Medical or dental clinics and laboratories
- Professional offices
- Business schools
- Music instruction and dance
- Wholesale merchandising brokers (excluding wholesale storage)
- Personal service establishments
- Nursing homes
- General hospitals
- Funeral homes
- Hotels and motels
- Churches
- Libraries
- Clubs and lodges
- Parking lots
- Public utilities
- Carwashes
- Gasoline service stations (with repairs within a completely enclosed building)
- Cemeteries
- Banks and credit unions
- Real estate offices
- Insurance offices
- Satellite dish antenna (ground-level, max 20 ft height, behind setback line)
- Farmers markets
- Auto, truck, and similar rolling stock sales and service (under cover)
- Nursery (child care center)
- Miniature golf course, driving range
- Restaurants and catering establishments
- Indoor theaters and assembly halls
- Outdoor craft/food sales
- Laundromats
- Residential uses (with at least one floor of finished space below, subject to Rental Inspection District and Historic Overlay District requirements)
- Building supply (with storage within a completely enclosed area)
- Recycling collection centers
- Greenhouses, garden centers
- Sports and fitness complex
- Miniwarehouses, self-service storage facilities
- Municipal, county, state, federal buildings
Conditional / special use2
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dancehalls, video game arcades and similar forms of public amusement and flea markets
- Veterinary hospitals, kennels
Extracted standards
26 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffering and screening required
Buffering and screening shall be in conformance with section 10-6.
- Corner visibility obstruction prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
On a corner lot, a fence, wall, hedge or other planting or structure that will materially obstruct vision so as to create a traffic hazard shall be prohibited by the zoning administrator.
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exempt structures
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, cooling towers, municipal water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennas, radio aerials, active solar collectors and wind generators are exempt.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Maximum satellite dish heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.20 ft
Private noncommercial radio and television satellite dish antennas may be permitted to be constructed to a height not in excess of 20 feet only when installed at ground level
- Minimum auto sales garage entrance setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from right-of-way25 ft
If a new garage, workshop, or repair building is to be constructed for the use, no motor vehicle entrance to the building will be within 25 feet of an existing right-of-way.
- Minimum auto sales lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Ten thousand square feet minimum land area for the use.
- Minimum auto sales property line setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
No activity or display within a five-foot area of any property line.
- Minimum auto sales road frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.100 ft
One hundred feet minimum road frontage for the use.
- Minimum clear sidewalk width42.5 in
It shall be unlawful to place any encumbrance on the sidewalks of the town that fails to leave 42½ inches of clear, unencumbered sidewalk.
- Minimum satellite dish property line setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
All towers, antennas, guy anchorages or similar devices shall be at least three feet from any property line, except on the side yard facing the side street the setback requirement shall be 25 feet.
- Screening required near residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
If the use is within 50 feet of a residential district, the use must be screened according to section 10-6 of this ordinance.
- Site plan required
Before a zoning permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district or a permit issued for a new use, detailed site plans indicating compliance with the substantive provisions of this ordinance (article 12) and in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes of the use shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study.
Signage
- Flashing or moving signs prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No flashing or moving sign is permitted.
- Maximum ground sign area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
On any lot with a business or industrial use, one sign permanently attached to the ground is permitted for each street where the lot has frontage, and such sign shall not exceed 100 square feet and 35 feet in height.
- Maximum ground sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
On any lot with a business or industrial use, one sign permanently attached to the ground is permitted for each street where the lot has frontage, and such sign shall not exceed 100 square feet and 35 feet in height.
- Maximum horizontal projecting sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs shall be limited in areas as follows: horizontal projecting signs, 50 square feet each side
- Maximum real estate sign area20 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
On any lot where the premises are for sale or rent, no more than two real estate signs with aggregate surface area not exceeding 20 square feet in area
- Maximum real estate sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.10 ft
Real estate signs shall be limited to ten feet in height.
- Maximum sports complex sign area120 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
On any lot with a sports complex, one sign permanently attached to the ground not to exceed 120 square feet in area and fifty (35) [sic] feet in height.
- Maximum sports complex sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
On any lot with a sports complex, one sign permanently attached to the ground not to exceed 120 square feet in area and fifty (35) [sic] feet in height.
- Maximum temporary sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Temporary signs shall have a combined surface area not exceeding 50 square feet.
- Maximum vertical projecting sign area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs shall be limited in areas as follows: vertical projecting signs, 100 square feet each side.
- Maximum wall sign area400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Wall signs are permitted with a maximum combined surface of 400 square feet.
- Minimum sign property line setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.2 ft
Signs may be erected to within two feet of the property line
- Portable trailer mounted signs prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
A temporary sign does not permit the location of a portable trailer mounted sign which are prohibited in this ordinance.
From the ordinance
Structures shall be located 30 feet or more from street right-of-way on all dual-lane divided highways. Buildings may be erected up to 50 feet in height from grade subject to building code compliance.