Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Hull Street, Commerce Road
- Geographic extent
- Applies to lots with street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on Hull Street or Commerce Road
Uses
Permitted by right49
- adult day care facilities
- art galleries
- auto service centers
- banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- breweries producing not more than 100,000 barrels of beer per year
- distilleries producing not more than 250,000 cases of liquor per year
- building materials and contractors' sales and storage yards
- catering businesses
- communications centers and telephone repeater stations
- contractors' shops, offices and display rooms
- day nurseries
- dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- dwelling units, other than a single-family detached, a single-family attached or a two-family dwelling
- entertainment, cultural and recreational uses
- funeral homes
- furniture repair and upholstery shops
- greenhouses and plant nurseries
- grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- hospitals
- hotels
- janitorial and custodial service and supply establishments
- laboratories and research facilities
- laundromats and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- libraries, museums, schools, parks and noncommercial recreational facilities
- manufacturing uses of under 15,000 square feet of area
- marinas, boathouses, piers and docks
- nursing homes
- office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- offices
- parking areas and parking lots
- parking decks and parking garages
- personal service businesses
- pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
- postal and package mailing services
- printing, publishing and engraving establishments
- professional, business and vocational schools
- radio and television broadcasting studios and offices
- repair businesses conducted within completely enclosed buildings
- restaurants, tea rooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors
- retail sales and food or beverage sales conducted in an open area
- retail stores and shops
- rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances
- sales lots for Christmas trees, vegetable stands and other seasonal uses
- service businesses
- showrooms and display areas
- tourist homes
- uses owned or operated by a governmental agency
- uses permitted in the M-1 and M-2 districts and not otherwise listed as permitted uses
- wholesale, warehouse and distribution establishments with not more than 30,000 square feet of floor area
Conditional / special use2
Accessory2
- accessory uses and structures
- Accessory uses and structures, including automated teller machines accessible only from interior of buildings devoted to permitted principal uses other than individual dwelling units or lodging units
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Ground floor commercial depth20 ft
such uses shall have a depth of not less than 20 feet along the entire Hull Street and Commerce Road street frontages or along street-oriented commercial frontage
- Ground floor commercial requirement for dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
a minimum of one-third or 1,000 square feet, whichever is greater, of the floor area of the ground floor of the building shall be devoted to other principal uses permitted in this district
- Ground floor depth for parking decks20 ft
such portion shall be devoted to other permitted principal uses which shall have a depth of not less than 20 feet along the principal street frontage or priority street frontage
- Ground floor use requirement for hotels
The ground floor of portions of buildings adjacent to principal street frontages or priority street frontages shall be devoted to those uses specified in subsection (2), (4), (17), (30), (37) or (39) of this section
- Ground floor use requirement for parking decks
No portion of such structure located along a principal street frontage or priority street frontage shall be used for parking or related circulation of vehicles, but such portion shall be devoted to other permitted principal uses which shall have a depth of not less than 20 feet
- Maximum antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building15 ft
or in the case of a building-mounted antenna, 15 feet above the surface of the building on which it is mounted.
- Maximum antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above ground15 ft
the supporting hardware for any such antenna does not exceed 15 feet above ground level
- Maximum lobby frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. percentage30 pct
not more than 30 percent of the frontage of such ground floor may be devoted to entrances or lobbies serving the hotel use
- Minimum distance from R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. for outdoor dining100 ft
No deck, patio, terrace or other area outside a completely enclosed building and used for the service or accommodation of patrons shall be situated within 100 feet of any property in any R district
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for hotels25,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than 25,000 square feet
- Minimum opaque fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for storage areas6 ft
Areas devoted to storage shall be enclosed by opaque fences or walls not less than six feet in height.
- Minimum street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. for hotels100 ft
no property line coincidental with a street line shall be less than 100 feet in length.
- Covered trash container requirement
Covered trash containers shall be provided in service areas, and fences, walls or vegetative screening shall be provided around service areas
Parking
- Minimum stacking space for access control device1 spaces
any card reader or other access control device at an entrance to a parking area or parking lot shall be provided with not less than one stacking space situated off the public right-of-way
- Parking deck screening opacity45 pct
parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
From the ordinance
The following uses of buildings and premises shall be permitted in the B-7 district... Dwelling units, other than a single-family detached, a single-family attached or a two-family dwelling...