Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 90 ft
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right30
- Accessory uses and structures
- Artisan craft production
- Artist studio
- Attached dwellings
- Bakery or specialty food store
- Banks and financial services
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Catering establishment
- Churches and places of worship
- Coffee shop
- Community gardens
- Day care, for children or adults
- Duplex dwellings
- Funeral home or mortuary
- Group homes (eight (8) or fewer residents)
- Gym or health club
- Home occupations
- Library
- Live-work residence
- Medical or dental office or laboratory
- Micro-brewery or tap room
- Museum or historic site
- Multifamily dwellings
- Personal services establishment
- Professional office space
- Public parks, playgrounds, and open space
- Restaurant
- Retail sales establishment
- Single family detached dwellings
- Tailoring, alterations or shoe repair
Conditional / special use28
- Accessory residential dwelling unit
- Alcoholic beverage retail sales
- Assisted living facilities
- Automobile parking (as a stand-alone use)
- Cemetery or mausoleum
- Commercial indoor entertainment
- Commercial indoor sports and recreation
- Commercial pool, tennis, or recreation facility
- Community recreation uses for subdivision residents
- Conference center or performance venue
- Convenience store
- Dry cleaning or laundromat
- Golf course
- Group home (nine (9) or more residents)
- Hospital
- Nursing home
- Outside storage
- Plant nursery or landscape sales
- Private club, lodge, or fraternal organization
- Public buildings, infrastructure, and other facilities
- Repair services establishment
- Residential uses in accord with Table 12.1
- Schools, colleges and academic institutions
- Telecommunications equipment and towers
- Temporary marketing offices for new residential development
- Urgent care center
- Drug store or pharmacy
- Pet grooming or boarding
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Environmental impact statement may be required
An environmental impact statement may be required for any permitted or special permit use.
Other
- Landscaped buffer required adjacent to residential districts
Where a non-residential use is contiguous to property located in any R- District, a landscaped buffer yard shall be provided
- Maximum accessory dwelling unitAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. as percentage of primary unit40 pct
or forty (40) percent of the lot coverage of the primary residential unit, whichever is less
- Maximum accessory dwelling unitAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The ground floor area of a freestanding accessory residential unit shall not exceed one thousand (1,000) square feet of lot coverage
- Maximum additional parking spaces for accessory dwelling unitAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage.2 spaces
parking shall be restricted to two (2) additional vehicles on a lot
- Maximum coffee shop gross floor area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Coffee shop, limited to five thousand (5,000) square feet gross floor area
- Maximum coffee shop outdoor seating area500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
five hundred (500) square feet outdoor seating area
- Maximum curb cuts per right-of-way2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two (2) curb cuts for commercial entrances on any single right-of-way
- Maximum micro-brewery gross floor area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Micro-brewery or tap room, limited to five thousand (5,000) square feet gross floor area
- Maximum micro-brewery outdoor seating area500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
five hundred (500) square feet outdoor seating area
- Maximum non-residential floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.0.25 ratio
do not exceed a non-residential floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.25
- Maximum non-residential gross floor area per establishment5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
five thousand (5,000) SFGFA per individual establishment
- Maximum outdoor storage area as percentage of lot15 pct
The outdoor area devoted to storage, loading and display of goods shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) percent of the total lot area
- Maximum restaurant gross floor area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Restaurant, limited to five thousand (5,000) square feet gross floor area
- Maximum restaurant outdoor seating area500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
five hundred (500) square feet outdoor seating area
- Minimum distance between curb cuts100 ft
such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet between them
- Refuse enclosure required
All refuse stored on-site shall be contained in completely enclosed and screened facilities.
- Site plan approval required (except single family detached)
All uses except single family detached dwellings shall be subject to site plan approval.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses shall be those in the following land use categories which do not exceed a non-residential floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.25 and five thousand (5,000) SFGFA per individual establishment