Article 24, § 175-24.1-24.6
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- Court House Area Business DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
- Geographic extent
- Court House Area Business DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Uses
Permitted by right48
- Accessory uses
- Alternative support structures
- Apartment houses
- Art galleries and studios
- Bakeries
- Barber and beauty shops
- Bed-and-breakfast establishments and inns
- Churches and other places of worship
- Cottage and craft industries
- Coffee shops
- Condominiums, residential
- Day-care centers
- Dance studios
- Drainage, erosion and flood-control facilities
- Drug and variety stores
- Dry cleaners and laundries
- Duplex, triplex, quadruplex
- Dwelling, multifamily, including senior (age-restricted) housing
- Financial institutions without drive-through windows
- Flexible residential/business use with professional offices
- Florist shops
- Funeral homes
- Hardware stores
- Home appliance sales and service
- Home occupations
- Medical and other professional offices
- Libraries
- Mobile food vending vehicle
- Museums
- Office buildings and business and governmental offices, including schools, post offices and fire, rescue squad and police stations
- Public park
- Public parking lot
- Radio and television broadcast studios excluding transmission towers
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards or less
- Residential apartments above ground floor commercial uses
- Restaurants, dine-in or carry-out, which have no drive-through service
- Retail food stores
- Retail stores and shops
- Short-term vacation rental
- Small-scale alcohol production facility
- Social, fraternal clubs and lodges
- Signs
- Theaters, indoor
- Therapeutic massage facilities
- Townhouses
- Utility use, minor
- Veterinary hospital without kennels
- Wayside stand, roadside stand, wayside market
Conditional / special use18
- Adult bookstore
- Adult theater
- Assisted living facility
- Auto sales and repair
- Cabaret
- Convalescent, nursing or rest homes
- Farmer's market
- Financial institutions, with drive-through windows
- Flexible residential/business use with a business use other than professional offices
- Home enterprise
- Hotels and motels
- Local shopping centers
- Recreation and amusement enterprise
- Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity in excess of 10 cubic yards
- Self-storage facilities and offices
- Sewage treatment systems (private) where outside floodplain
- Telecommunication towers
- Utility use, major
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Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Minimum distance between opposing buildings30 ft
the distance between opposing buildings is at least 30 feet.
- Minimum facade frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on main streets40 pct
The first floor of buildings along main streets shall maintain 40% or more of their facade fronting the main street.
- Minimum nonresidential first floor area on main streets15 pct
On main streets, at least 15% of the total first floor area of new mixed-use buildings fronting the street on any parcel shall be devoted to nonresidential uses.
Historic
- HistoricHistoric districtAn area where exterior changes need design review to protect its character. preservation encouraged
The preservation of historic structures and sites, including the adaptive reuse of historic structures, is encouraged.
Lighting
- Maximum lighting heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.18 ft
Lighting shall not exceed 18 feet in height unless mounted on a building.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential10 ft
except that when abutting a residential use or district the side and rear yard setbacks shall be 10 feet.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
The minimum side and rear yard for accessory structures shall be five feet, except that when abutting a residential use or district the side and rear yard setbacks shall be 10 feet.
- Maximum gross floor area for individual use7,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Commercial and residential buildings shall not exceed 7,500 square feet gross floor area for an individual use
- Maximum gross floor area for mixed-use or multi-tenant building15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
or 15,000 square feet gross floor area for a mixed-use or multi-tenant building.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per 500 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. nonresidential100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of 100 square feet of open space shall be provided for each 500 gross square feet of nonresidential space.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of 200 square feet of open space shall be provided for each single-family attached or multifamily dwelling unit
- Minimum pedestrian way width5 ft
A primary pedestrian way providing no less than five feet of clear and unimpeded area shall be provided across the front of structures.
- Street tree canopy coverage goal30 pct
Street trees shall be provided along each sidewalk and road frontage with a goal of achieving tree canopy coverage of the sidewalk of between 30% and 70% at maturity.
- Underground utilities required
Where new utility lines/cables are required for internal service to a new development/redevelopment project, such lines/cables shall be placed underground.
Parking
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. aisle width one-way12 ft
Parking lot aisle and driveway widths shall be a minimum of 12 feet for one-way travel and 22 feet for two-way travel.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. aisle width two-way22 ft
Parking lot aisle and driveway widths shall be a minimum of 12 feet for one-way travel and 22 feet for two-way travel.
Use
- Maximum residential gross area without CUP60 pct
Residential uses that exceed 60% of the gross area of a parcel as part of a mixed-use development or redevelopment project shall require approval of a conditional use permit.
From the ordinance
This district is designed to accommodate a mixture of commercial activities (particularly those that are pedestrian-oriented), institutional/public uses and residential housing types that will complement existing village development