B-1
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right32
- accessory uses
- amusement enterprises
- art or photography studios
- bed and breakfast lodging
- bus terminal facilities
- childcare centers
- clinics and doctors' offices
- commercial retail
- commercial services
- eating establishments
- financial institutions
- funeral homes
- government facilities
- home occupations
- homestays
- hotels
- indoor sport facilities
- libraries
- lodges
- meeting and banquet rooms
- motor vehicle sales and their accessory uses
- multifamily, townhouse, and multifamily condominium developments
- museums, art galleries, civic or cultural centers, historic exhibits
- offices
- parking facilities, public or private
- public parks
- public utilities
- religious assembly
- residential uses of all floors in existing commercial structures
- schools
- theaters, auditoriums, and performance venues
- wineries, breweries, and distilleries
Conditional / special use15
- accessory dwelling units
- cemeteries
- commercial communications equipment
- emergency homeless shelters
- financial institutions, with drive through
- group homes for children
- homes for adults
- manufacturing, custom
- open air market
- parking structures
- printing, bookbinding, and publishing
- satellite dishes
- single-family dwellings
- two-family dwellings
- utilities, private
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Maximum brightness near residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.150 fl
no light within 500 feet of a residential district and visible from that district shall exceed 150 footlamberts in brightness.
- Maximum illumination at other lot line1 fc
nor 1.0 footcandles at any other lot line
- Maximum illumination at residential lot line0.1 fc
Light emitted from any use shall not exceed an illumination level of 0.1 footcandles at any lot line adjoining a residential district
Other
- Common walls exemption
Minimum yard setbacks for two-family dwellings, condominiums, townhouses, duplexes, and apartments shall not apply to common walls.
- Enclosed building requirement
All business servicing, storage or processing shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building except where the nature of the activity makes it impossible; except for displays on the premises; and except as provided for below.
- Hotel ground floor restriction
no hotel guest rooms shall occupy the ground or street level along the building's primary street frontage.
- Maximum manufacturing floor area percentage40 pct
For retail and service uses, manufacturing, processing or treatment of materials, goods, or products shall occupy less than 40 percent of the floor area.
- Maximum outdoor display percentage10 pct
Outdoor displays shall contain no more than ten percent of the merchandise offered for sale on the premises.
- Repair enclosure requirement
any mechanical, tire or body repair must be conducted entirely within a structure which shall not have any opening, other than a stationary window within 100 feet of a residential district
- Residential ancillary use restrictions
such uses do not conflict with the commercial vitality of the B-1 zone; such residential units meet the minimum standards of the town; a distinct entrance and enclosed stairway to the upper level dwelling units is provided that is separate from all commercial uses occurring in the same building including, but not limited to sales, storage, and display; adequate parking is provided, either on the same lot, or in a location approved by the zoning administrator.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
When a parcel zoned B-1 abuts a residential district, the side and rear yard setback shall be equal to that of the adjacent residential district.
- Uncovered parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.0 ft
Uncovered parking lots and spaces, sidewalks, and walkways, etc., shall have no minimum yard setback.
- Used car operating condition
all vehicles on a used car lot must be in operating conditions at all times.
From the ordinance
The B-1 Zoning District shall have no minimum lot area or minimum lot width. The maximum percentage of any lot that may be covered by the footprint of a building shall be 100 percent. The maximum height of any building shall not be limited. Multifamily, townhouse, and multifamily condominium developments of a density not exceeding 16 units per acre of a gross site area