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Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.5 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.
- 87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right6
Conditional / special use24
- Temporary or permanent dwellings for farm workers
- Veterinary clinics and veterinary hospitals
- Volunteer fire and rescue facilities
- Commercial warehouses for bulk agricultural products
- Private airports and heliports
- Dinner theaters and outdoor performance spaces (seating capacity ≤ 500)
- Indoor shooting ranges
- Country clubs, community centers, swimming, tennis, golf, fishing, and gun clubs and similar uses
- Carnivals, fairs and circuses (temporary)
- Commercial cemeteries and memorial parks
- Child care centers
- Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers
- Adult day-care centers
- Meeting places for clubs, fraternal and civic organizations
- Home businesses
- Extraction and processing of natural resources for commercial use
- Garden centers
- Observation tower
- Outdoor recreational facilities
- Mulch production facility
- Group home or home for developmentally disabled persons
- Residential accessory structure (greater than 768 sq ft)
- Recycling center
- Solar energy generation facilities
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Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
- Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on cul-de-sac100 ft
The minimum required frontage for permitted uses in a cul-de-sac shall be 100 feet at the setback line.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exemptions for architectural features
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, water towers, silos, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, television antennae, observation towers, and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, or library may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Accessory structures shall be located five or more feet from side and rear lot lines.
- Corner lot side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.40 ft
The corner side yard shall be 40 feet from edge of right-of-way.
- Manure storage structure setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Buildings that house manure storage structures shall be located a minimum of 600 feet from a residence (not including owner's residence); 1,000 feet from a town boundary; 200 feet from a property line; 200 feet from a primary highway or roadway; 150 feet from a secondary highway or right-of-way; 600 feet from recreational ponds or lakes; and 1,000 feet from a river, channel, or water impoundment.
- Quarry special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. restrictions
Restrictions include: pre-blast survey within half mile, no blasting during high wind (>20 mph) or high humidity, blasting only 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays, max 1,000 pounds per delay, liability insurance of at least $200,000, stagnant water drained within 48 hours, stationary equipment at least 400 feet from property lines, noise restrictions 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., permit void after 18 months of cessation, site plan requirements including 100 ft setback from public roads and 400 ft from existing dwellings.
- Street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. based on right-of-way width
Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width, or 75 feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area for permitted uses shall be two acres (87,120 square feet). Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width, or 75 feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.