Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
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Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area in R districts1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
In R districts, total accessory floor area not exceed 1,000 square feet.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.50 pct
Total floor area of accessory buildings not exceed 50% of principal building floor area.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit12 ft
No accessory building exceed 12 feet in height, unless 10 ft from lot lines and not exceeding principal height.
From the ordinance
No accessory building shall exceed 12 feet in height, except that an accessory building may exceed 12 feet in height if the accessory building is located not less than 10 feet from all lot lines and does not exceed the height of the principal building. The total floor area of all accessory buildings on a lot shall not exceed 50 percent of the floor area of the principal building, except that in any R district, the total floor area of all accessory buildings on a lot shall not exceed 1,000 square feet.