Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right1
- Parks, public, and associated buildings and recreation facilities
Conditional / special use17
- Arboretum
- Archery range
- Athletic range
- Botanical garden
- Campgrounds (publicly or privately owned or operated)
- Fishing and casting ponds, recreational
- Golf courses, including clubhouse and appurtenant facilities
- Golf or baseball driving ranges
- Open spaces as part of an RPD development, public
- Parks
- Picnic grounds
- Playgrounds
- Polo grounds
- Radio and television stations and towers including studios
- Riding, hiking, bicycle trails (not motor-driven)
- Swimming pool, public
- Utilities, minor, public and private
Accessory3
- Accessory buildings or structures (playground equipment, ball fields, seating)
- Solar energy systems
- Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVCS)
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Retain existing topography and vegetation
Existing topography, hydrology, soil, drainage and vegetation conditions shall be retained on undeveloped land.
- Screen rooftop mechanical equipment
All buildings shall be designed to enclose or otherwise screen from view all rooftop mechanical equipment, ducts, tanks, etc., including solar systems.
Other
- Perimeter wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. (5-6 ft) as required by director6 ft
A wall of not less than 5 feet nor greater than 6 feet in height measured from the highest ground elevation on either side of the wall may be required by the director.
Parking
- Parking in required yards prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Parking in required yards is prohibited.
Signage
- Freestanding sign minimum distance from interior property line25 ft
Freestanding signs shall be not less than 25 feet from an interior property line and shall be at least 100 feet from any other freestanding sign.
- Maximum monument sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Monument Sign: Twenty-five square feet plus 0.25 square feet for each foot of frontage over 100 feet up to a maximum of 50 square feet.
- Wall sign area per linear foot of building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. per linear ft
Wall Sign: One square foot per linear foot of building frontage.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: 10,000 square feet. Maximum lot coverage: 10 percent of the lot area. Open space: 70 percent of the lot area. No building in the Pk zone shall exceed a height of 40 feet.