Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right49
- health club
- spa
- gym
- home occupation
- beauty/barber shop
- professional office
- wearing apparel shop
- gift shop
- motel
- hotel
- restaurant
- day care facility
- nursing home
- hospital
- wayside vendor
- pharmacy
- drugstore
- auto service
- service station
- public amusement
- club
- lodge
- retail store
- funeral home
- caterer
- school
- municipal facility
- church
- light waterfront seafood industry
- mobile home park
- campground
- accessory structure
- public utility
- sign
- pony penning sale
- yard sale
- fence
- single-family dwelling
- two-family dwelling
- townhouse
- condominium
- rooming house
- boarding house
- tourist home
- multifamily dwelling
- vacation rental cottage
- bed and breakfast
- rest home
- site trailer
Conditional / special use6
Accessory2
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Containment fence maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
Such containment fences shall not exceed a maximum height of eight feet.
- Front fence maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
All fences located from a point even with the front... shall have a maximum height of four feet and shall be at least 30 percent open space.
- Rear fence maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Any fence on the remainder of the property shall have a maximum height of six feet and may be of solid construction.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.25 ft
No accessory building or structure shall be more than 25 feet in height.
Other
No minimum lot size for permitted uses shall be required, with the exception that all residential uses must comply with R-3 requirements.
- Wayside vendor additional land per unit3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Additional wayside vendors on the same parcel are required to have an additional 3,000 square feet of usable land for each unit.
- Wayside vendor front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.35 ft
Wayside vendor units shall be placed a minimum of 35 feet from the front property line.
- Wayside vendor minimum usable land5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The minimum usable land for one wayside vendor shall be 5,000 square feet in area.
- Wayside vendor parking spaces4 spaces
Each wayside vendor shall provide a minimum of four parking spaces.
and five feet from the rear lot line.
- Wayside vendor side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.15 ft
Such units shall be placed 15 feet from the side lot lines.
Setback
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
Structures excluding steps... shall be located a minimum of 25 feet from any street right-of-way.
Each main structure shall have a minimum rear yard of 25 feet except waterfront properties would have no required setback.
The minimum side yard for each main structure shall be ten feet.
Signage
- Wayside vendor flag area15 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One flag is permitted provided it shall not be larger than 15 square feet.
- Wayside vendor freestanding sign area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Only one 32-square-foot freestanding sign is permitted on a parcel.
From the ordinance
Uses permitted by right in C-3; area regulations: commercial no min lot, setback 10 ft, side 5 ft, rear 15 ft; residential min lot 10,500 sq ft, setback 25 ft, side 10 ft, rear 25 ft; height 36 ft max, 3 stories.