Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right13
- detached single family dwellings
- apartments
- townhouses
- condominiums
- duplexes
- bed and breakfasts
- single lot subdivisions
- minor subdivisions
- major subdivisions
- offices and storage buildings for maintenance/rental/sale of units
- public utilities
- assembly areas
- non-residential recreational structures
Conditional / special use11
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum gross residential density5 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The gross residential density shall not exceed five dwelling units per acre of usable property
Design
- Minimum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. variation2 ft
Facades of dwelling units in a townhouse development shall be varied by changed front yards of not less than two feet
Other
- Maximum townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. per grouping8 units
No more than eight and no less than two townhouses shall be included in any townhouse grouping
- Minimum access easement width40 ft
a 40-foot minimum width access easement
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.10 pct
Ten percent of the total area of the subject property(ies) shall be dedicated to be in common open space
- Minimum cul-de-sac radius55 ft
The radius for all cul-de-sacs shall be at least 55 feet.
- Minimum sidewalk width5 ft
A sidewalk five feet in width on at least one side of the easement
- Minimum townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. per grouping2 units
No more than eight and no less than two townhouses shall be included in any townhouse grouping
From the ordinance
The gross residential density shall not exceed five dwelling units per acre of usable property