Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Any use permitted or permissible on appeal in the B residence zone or local business zone, except manufactured home parks, industrialized office buildings and industrialized office buildings for temporary use
- Automobile parking lots and parking garages
- Automobile sales and service
- Banks
- Business and professional offices and office buildings
- Stores and shops for retail sale in completely enclosed buildings of food, drugs, liquor, general merchandise, apparel, furniture, appliances, art, antiques, books, stationery, sporting goods and similar sales establishments
- Amusement places, billiard parlors or bowling alleys, meeting places and theaters, except open-air drive-in theaters, in a completely enclosed building
- Barbershops, beauty parlors, chiropody, massage or similar personal service shops or uses
- Business or professional schools
- Clothing and costume rental stores
- Employment agencies
- Filling stations (bulk storage of inflammables underground)
- Funeral homes
- Hotels and motels
- Laboratories, medical and dental
- Manufacture, repair and service of jewelry, art objects, art needlework, watches and fine instruments, optical, dental and medical equipment and similar products where the ratio of value to weight is high
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments, including blueprinting and photostating
- Radio and television stations and studios or recording studios, but not towers more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height
- Repair and maintenance of business machines and office equipment
- Valet service shops, including shoe repairs, minor repair of garments, cleaning and pressing services, and laundry pickup services
- Wholesale display and sales of merchandise, but not warehousing
Conditional / special use1
- Manufacturing incidental to a retail business where articles are sold at retail on the premises and where not more than five (5) operatives are employed
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above 4 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code. requires fire chief approval
In all general and central business zones and industrial zones, maximum height for buildings is not limited except that heights above four (4) stories shall be subject to approval of the fire chief.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on south side of Park Avenue12 ft
On the south side of Park Avenue in the central and general business zones there shall be a twelve-foot setback from the street right-of-way.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when in same block front as residential zone25 ft
In all business zones, there shall be no setback, unless the building is in the same block front as a residential zone and then the setbacks shall be twenty-five (25) feet.
From the ordinance
In all business zones, the minimum area of any lot for dwellings shall be five thousand (5,000) square feet to which shall be added five hundred (500) square feet for each family dwelling unit more than one (1) in the same building. ... maximum height for buildings is not limited except that heights above four (4) stories shall be subject to approval of the fire chief.