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 right4
- Any use permitted or permissible on appeal in a central business zone
- Auto repair shops and other motor vehicular services
- Places of amusement and assembly
- Any retail or wholesale business or service not specifically restricted or prohibited in this section
Conditional / special use2
- Industrialized office buildings as set forth in section 26.1-46
- Industrialized office buildings for temporary use as set forth in section 26.1-47
Prohibited14
- Storage of explosives or fireworks in excess of five hundred (500) pounds, storage of fuel gas or illuminating gas in excess of ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet except in a municipal or public service plant, and the storage of pyroxylin or articles thereof in excess of five hundred (500) pounds
- Blast furnaces
- Coalyards, junkyards or woodyards
- Distillation of bones, coal, wood or tar or manufacture of any of their products
- Drop forges
- Fat, grease, lard or tallow manufacturing, refining or rendering
- Flour mills or grist mills
- Hot rolling mills
- Incineration, reduction of dumpings of dead animals, garbage, offal or refuse, except by the city or the agents of the city or when accumulated and consumed on the same premises without the emission of odor
- Lumberyards and mills
- Production or refining of petroleum or other inflammable liquids and the storage of raw hides or skins
- Slaughtering or eviscerating plants or stockyards
- Tanning, curing or storage of raw hides or skins
- Any other use detrimental to a neighborhood because of odor, smoke, dust, fumes, fire, vibration or hazardous because of danger of fire or explosion
Extracted standards
2 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
- 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 setback 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": {
"prohibited_uses": [
"Manufacture or refining of ammonia; bleaching powder; chlorine; asphalt; brick; terra cotta; tile or pottery (except in handicrafts); cement; gypsum; lime; plaster of paris; coke; creosote; dextrin; glucose; starch; dye; explosives and fireworks; fertilizer; fuel gas or illuminating gas in excess of one thousand (1,000) cubic feet per day except in a municipal or public service plant; gelatin or glue or size from fish or animal refuse or offal; hair; hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulfuric and sulphurous acid; lampblack, linoleum or oil cloth; matches; pyroxylin or articles thereof; rubber or treatment thereof involving offensive odor, tar, turpentine or varnish"
]
}
}