Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Uses
Permitted by right36
- Duplex dwellings and attached duplex dwellings
- Townhouses
- Multifamily dwellings
- Planned retirement communities and/or continuing care communities
- Senior housing
- Residential uses located in buildings used for other permitted uses
- Banks and financial institutions
- Conference centers
- Convenience service establishments
- Convenience stores
- Day care centers
- Fitness studios
- Fitness centers
- Mobile food units
- Freestanding automatic teller machines
- Hotels/motels
- Indoor entertainment facilities
- Medical uses
- Offices
- Parking garages
- Playgrounds, parks and unlighted athletic fields owned/operated by City
- Printing, photocopying and publishing establishments
- Public art
- Public buildings owned/operated by City
- Research and development facilities
- Restaurants, bake shops, and other food service establishments
- Retail sales establishments (gross floor area <= 100,000 sq ft)
- Service stations
- Storage of materials and supplies incidental to permitted use
- Theaters and assembly halls
- Veterinary hospitals and clinics
- Off-street parking and loading areas
- Signs
- Accessory uses
- Home occupations
- Medical cannabis dispensaries
Conditional / special use8
- Manufacture or assembly of electronic instruments, components and devices
- Manufacture or assembly of medical, drafting, metering, marine, photographic or mechanical instruments
- Manufacture or assembly of musical instruments, toys and novelties
- Other manufacture/assembly operations of similar scale and intensity
- Lighted athletic fields owned/operated by City
- Retail sales establishments exceeding 100,000 sq ft
- Warehouses, storage and distribution centers
- Wholesale businesses
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Landscaping & trees
- Greenbelt width50 ft
Along streets designated by the comprehensive plan as greenbelts, a greenbelt of at least 50 feet shall be provided along the street line; except that at least 75 feet shall be required along Route 199.
Other
- Maximum unrelated persons per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.3 persons
The permitted dwelling unit occupancy in the economic development district ED is as follows: (1) A family; or (2) No more than three unrelated persons.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.
No accessory buildings shall be permitted, except for detached garages.
- Architectural variation requirement
The façades of townhouses in a group shall be varied by changed setbacks or variations in materials or design so that no more than three abutting townhouses will have the same or essentially the same architectural treatment of façades and roof lines.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street ROW5 ft
No front yard shall be required for an individual townhouse lot. However, all buildings in the townhouse development shall be located at least five feet from any street or highway right-of-way.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.20 ft
The minimum lot width for each townhouse shall be 20 feet.
- Minimum private street pavement width for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.22 ft
Each townhouse shall front on a dedicated public street or shall have access to a 22 foot minimum pavement width private street.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.7.5 ft
Each townhouse shall have a rear yard of not less than seven and one-half feet, or five feet when adjacent to a public or private street or alley.
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for end units7.5 ft
Each townhouse located at the end of a group of townhouses shall have a side yard of at least seven and one-half feet, or five feet when adjacent to a public or private street or alley.
- Minimum sidewalk width for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.4 ft
Sidewalks of at least four feet in width, constructed of concrete, brick or other material of reasonable durability and approved by the planning commission, shall be constructed to provide a pedestrian circulation system for the townhouse project.
- Transitional screening width when adjacent to residential35 ft
A landscaped open space for transitional screening at least 35 feet in width shall be provided along side and rear property lines when adjacent to a lot in a residential zoning district, except that no transitional screening open space shall be required for residential uses.
From the ordinance
The uses permitted in the economic development district ED are as follows: (1) Residential uses... (2) Residential uses located in buildings used for other permitted uses...