Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right10
Conditional / special use2
Prohibited40
- Single-family detached (Suburban, street access)
- Single-family detached (Town, street access)
- Multiplex or Multifamily
- Manufactured home
- Live-work
- Assisted living or congregate care
- Boarding or rooming house
- Convalescent center, Alzheimer's care, memory care, nursing home
- Sheltered care facility
- Adult Day Care
- Protective Care
- Place of Assembly
- Funeral Home or Crematorium
- Cemetery or Mausoleum
- Child Care Center, Large
- School
- College or University
- Vocational School/Job Training Center
- Hospital or Emergency Room
- Medical Office or Clinic
- Natural Medicine Healing Center
- Business Services
- Heavy Retail
- Liquor Stores
- Mail Processing Center
- Personal Services
- Retail Sales and Services Type 1
- Retail Sales and Services Type 2
- Professional or Business Offices
- Recording or Television Studio
- Veterinary and Animal Facilities
- Fueling/Charging Stations or Light Motor Vehicle Repairs and Services
- Heavy Motor Vehicle Repairs and Services
- Motor Vehicle Wash
- Motor Vehicle Parking
- Motor Vehicle Sales and Rental
- telecommunications towers
- agricultural or commercial crop production
- keeping and pasturing of livestock
- wholesale nursery or greenhouse
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum building coverage for nonresidential on arterial35 pct
State Highway or Arterial: 35%
- Maximum building coverage for nonresidential on collector30 pct
Collector: 30%
- Maximum building coverage for nonresidential on local street25 pct
Local Street: 25%
- Maximum front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction for additions (Option #2)25 pct
The reduction is more than ten (10) percent of the required front setback, but less than twenty-five (25) percent of the required front setback...
- Maximum interior side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction40 pct
Interior side setbacks may be reduced by up to forty (40) percent if it is demonstrated that the proposed construction meets the following standards...
- Maximum nonresidential floor area on collector15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Collector: 15,000 sf.
- Maximum nonresidential floor area on local street8,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Local Street: 8,000 sf.
- Maximum rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction for additions25 pct
Rear setbacks may be reduced by up to twenty-five (25) percent if it is demonstrated that the proposed construction meets the following standards...
- Maximum rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction (20%)20 pct
Rear setbacks may be reduced up to twenty (20) percent if it is demonstrated that...
- Maximum street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction on corner lots of double-loaded blocks50 pct
On corner lots of double-loaded blocks, street side setbacks may be reduced up to fifty (50) percent if it is demonstrated that...
- Minimum distance between facing windows15 ft
The building expansion does not include a window that is located directly across from another window on a residential building that is closer than fifteen (15) feet away...
- Minimum privacy fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for window proximity6 ft
a privacy fence is installed between the two (2) buildings to a height of six (6) feet
Setback
- Minimum useable permeable landscaped area in back yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. reduction500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
There will be at least five hundred (500) square feet of useable, permeable landscaped area in the back yard.
- Minimum side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for building expansion over 12 ft in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.5 ft
Building expansions that are more than twelve (12) feet in height ... are set back at least five (5) feet from the side lot line.
- Minimum side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for building expansion 12 ft or less in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3.5 ft
Building expansions that are twelve (12) feet in height ... are set back at least forty-two (42) inches from the side lot line.
From the ordinance
Minimum LSR for EN: 15%. Flexible setback standards for EN zone.