Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right28
- Dwelling, single-family
- Dwelling, two-family
- Dwelling, multifamily
- Townhouses
- Group homes
- Banks and other financial services
- Massage clinics
- Offices
- Laundromats, laundry, and drying cleaning pick up stations
- Personal service business
- Retail stores and shops
- Gasoline service stations and self-service gasoline stations
- Eating and drinking establishment
- Churches and other places of worship
- Day care home, adult
- Day care center, adult
- Day care center, child
- Day care home, family
- Home occupations
- Parks, playgrounds, other recreational facilities and community centers not operated for commercial purposes
- Educational facilities, business schools or nonindustrial trade school
- Educational facilities, elementary, middle, and secondary (public or private)
- Educational facilities, industrial trade school
- Educational facilities, school for the arts
- Accessory uses and structures
- Major utility services
- Minor utility services
- Signs, as permitted in article VI
Conditional / special use1
Accessory1
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum 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. near property line15 ft
no accessory building located within 25 feet of a property line shall exceed a height of 15 feet
Other
- Commercial permit requires 25% dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. occupied
No zoning permit for any commercial use shall be issued until certificates of use and occupancy have been issued for at least 25 percent of the dwelling units proposed in the PD district.
- Maximum commercial gross area percentage15 pct
Not more than 15 percent of the gross area of a PD district shall be devoted to sites for commercial uses
- Maximum individual commercial floor area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No individual commercial use shall contain more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 pct
Not less than 20 percent of the gross area of each PD district shall be devoted to common open space
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Each PD district shall contain not less than ten acres of contiguous land area.
- Perimeter buffer width50 ft
A buffer area of not less than 50 feet in width shall be provided around the perimeter of the PD district
- Underground utilities required
All utility lines within a PD district shall be placed underground.
From the ordinance
The density of a PD district shall not exceed ten dwelling units per gross acre. Not less than 20 percent of the gross area... A buffer area of not less than 50 feet... No building or structure in a PD district shall exceed a height of 45 feet.