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Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 1 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Agriculture
- Public parks and recreational areas
- Public uses
- Home occupations
- Accessory uses
- Cluster developments
- Greenhouses, non-commercial
- Kennels, private
- Mobile food unit
- Small scale solar generation facility
- Utilities, minor
- Dwellings, accessory
- Dwellings, single-family detached
- Dwellings, two-family
- Group homes
- Short-term rental of a residential dwelling
Conditional / special use11
Accessory15
- Agriculture*
- Public parks and recreational areas
- Public uses
- Home occupations
- Cluster developments
- Greenhouses, non-commercial
- Kennels, private
- Mobile food unit
- Small scale solar generation facility
- Utilities, minor
- Dwellings, accessory
- Dwellings, single-family detached
- Dwellings, two-family
- Group homes
- Short-term rental of a residential dwelling
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
- Cluster frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on existing public roads100 ft
Minimum frontage on existing public roads: 100 ft.
- Cluster frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on new internal public roads80 ft
Minimum frontage on new internal public roads: 80 ft.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near lot line1 story
No accessory building within 15 ft of any property lot line shall be more than 1 story high.
- Dwelling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase45 ft
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 ft provided one foot or more per side yard is added for each additional foot of building height over 35 ft.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase60 ft
A public or semi-public building may be erected to a height of 60 ft from grade provided that required yards are increased.
Lot
- Corner lot conformance
Any lot or parcel fronting on two or more roads shall conform to the frontage, minimum lot width and setback requirements for all such roads.
Other
- Cluster maximum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Maximum lot size: 1 acre (43,560 square feet).
- Cluster minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.15,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot size: fifteen thousand square feet.
- Cluster development open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.50 pct
Not less than ½ of the area of any cluster development shall be permanently restricted.
Setback
- Cluster rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.25 ft
Minimum rear yard: 25 ft.
- Cluster setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from existing public roads75 ft
Minimum setback from existing public roads: 75 ft.
- Cluster setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from other roads25 ft
Minimum setback from all other roads: 25 ft.
- Cluster side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.10 ft
Minimum side yard: 10 ft.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 43,560 sq ft, max density 1 du/acre, frontage 100', setbacks: front 75', side 25', rear 50', height 35'.