Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- Park Avenue
- Geographic extent
- South side of Park Avenue in the central and general business zones
Uses
Permitted by right20
- 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
- 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 in such manufacturing
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 approval4 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
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
- Special exceptions for downtown improvement program
The city council may grant a special exception permit only to participants in the city downtown improvement program and may impose such conditions relating to the use as it may deem necessary in the public interest.
- Park Avenue south side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.12 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.
From the ordinance
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. 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. Maximum height for buildings is not limited except that heights above four (4) stories shall be subject to approval of the fire chief.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Filling stations, provided bulk storage of inflammables is underground"
]
}
}