Section XVI, ED-MA District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Accessory uses and structures
- Artisan craft production
- Assisted living facilities
- Automobile parking (as a stand-alone use)
- Banks and financial services
- Churches and places of worship
- Coffee shop
- Commercial indoor entertainment
- Commercial indoor sports and recreation
- Community gardens
- Conference center or performance venue
- Data center or call center, limited to healthcare industries
- Day care, for children or adults
- Drug store or pharmacy
- Funeral home or mortuary
- Gym or health club
- Hospital
- Hotel or motel
- Medical or dental office or laboratory
- Nursing home
- Public parks, playgrounds, and open space
- Research and development, limited to healthcare industries
- Residential cluster development (limited to attached or multifamily dwellings)
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, fast food
- Schools, colleges and academic institutions
- Urgent care center
- Vocational or trade school
Conditional / special use13
- Cemetery or mausoleum
- Heliport or helipad associated with a permitted use
- Manufacturing, processing, and assembly, limited to healthcare industries
- Outside storage
- Personal services establishment
- Professional office space
- Public buildings, infrastructure, and other facilities
- Rail or bus transit terminal
- Retail sales establishment
- Telecommunications equipment and towers
- Temporary marketing offices for new residential development
- Veterinary clinic
- Waiver of minimum district size for cluster subdivisions
Extracted standards
12 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. All uses shall conform to federal, state and city environmental regulations and performance standards and design criteria relating to: air pollution, fire and explosion hazards, radiation hazards, electromagnetic radiation and interference hazards, liquid, gas and solid wastes hazards, noise standards, vibration standards, illumination and glare, water quality.
Other
- Landscaped buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential districts
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in a residential zoning district, a landscaped buffer yard shall be provided, with landscape materials and placement subject to site plan approval. Fencing may be required in such cases with fence material and heights subject to site plan approval.
- Minimum distance from curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. to intersecting street curb line (corner lots)60 ft
For corner lots, no curb cut shall be located closer than sixty (60) feet to the nearest curb line extended from the intersecting public street.
- Minimum distance from curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. to side or rear lot line20 ft
No curb cut shall be located closer than twenty (20) feet to a side or rear lot line, unless a common curb cut serves adjacent uses, and in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than sixty (60) feet.
- Maximum number of curb cuts on a single right-of-way2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two (2) curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet between them.
- Minimum horizontal distance between unconnected structures
Where individual structures are not physically connected by common party walls, linking structures, or other architectural unit, then such structures shall be located no closer to each other than a horizontal distance derived from the ratio of one foot in horizontal distance for every one foot in building height of the taller structure.
- Minimum distance between curb cuts on same right-of-way100 ft
A freestanding use shall have no more than two (2) curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet between them.
- Minimum distance from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.200 ft
Heliports and helipads shall not be located closer than two hundred (200) feet to any residential district.
- Outdoor storage screening
Outdoor storage shall be screened. The location and use of outdoor storage, loading and display areas shall be limited to the designated area(s) on the approved site plan.
- Refuse enclosure
All refuse stored on-site shall be contained in completely enclosed and screened facilities.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for buildings over 35 feet1 ft per ft over 35 ft
All applicable setbacks and yard requirements shall be increased by one foot for each foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.
- Stormwater management compliance
All site development activities shall comply with the state stormwater management regulations in effect at the time of site plan application.
From the ordinance
No Single Detached Permitted. Other Residential Uses Follow Provisions of the R-C District*