Dimensional standards
Lot
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, containing overnight camping facilities for tents, travel trailers, camper trucks or other recreational vehicles
- Fishing and casting ponds, recreational
- Golf courses, including the customary clubhouse and appurtenant facilities
- Golf or baseball driving ranges
- Open spaces as a part of an RPD development, public
- Parks
- Picnic grounds
- Playgrounds
- Polo grounds
- Radio and television stations and towers including studios
- Riding, hiking, bicycle trails but not including trails for motor-driven vehicles
- Swimming pool, public
- Utilities, minor, public and private; including telephone repeater stations and microwave stations
Accessory3
- Accessory buildings or structures customarily used in conjunction with permitted uses, including but not limited to playground equipment, ball fields and seating, etc.
- Solar energy systems, whether mounted on or attached to a building or mounted on the ground
- Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVCS) as accessory use
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 in order to retain the visual appeal and function of the undisturbed open space area.
- 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.
Fencing & walls
- Perimeter wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. range6 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 to be constructed along all or a portion of the perimeter of the premises as necessary to protect adjoining property.
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 setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. 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
D. O zone: 1. Minimum lot area: 10,000 square feet; 4. Open space: 70 percent of the lot area;