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Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right19
- General agriculture, farming and forestry
- Detached single-family dwellings
- Modular home
- Manufactured home
- Manufactured home, temporary
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Churches and Sunday schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples and synagogues and cemeteries accessory thereto
- Dog kennel, private (per Sec. 18-81)
- Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service (excluding those requiring conditional use permit)
- Home occupation, rural
- Hospital or clinic for small animals (on lots less than 5 acres, with conditions)
- Hunting club, private (with conditions)
- Radio or television transmission or receiving station or tower less than 125 ft in height
- Recreational uses or facilities, commercially operated or for private membership (excluding amusement parks, fairs, circuses, carnivals)
- Stable, commercial (with conditions)
- Stable, private (with conditions)
- School bus passenger shelter without advertising
- Wireless communication facilities per Sec. 18-427
- Yard sale or garage sale (with conditions)
Conditional / special use17
- Detached single-family dwelling or manufactured home on a farm of 50+ acres for farm labor (conditional use permit)
- Industrialized buildings as accessory use (special use exception)
- Camps, day or boarding, church camp, scout camp or similar camp (conditional use permit)
- Cemeteries not accessory to a church (conditional use permit)
- Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged, and family care homes (conditional use permit)
- Country inn with more than 4 guest rooms (conditional use permit)
- Dog kennels, commercial (conditional use permit)
- Facilities and structures for public utility service: buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations (conditional use permit)
- Hospital or clinic for humans (conditional use permit)
- Hospital or clinic for large or small animals (conditional use permit)
- Lodges (conditional use permit)
- Marina or yacht club (conditional use permit)
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery or child day care centers (conditional use permit)
- Private schools, colleges, or universities (conditional use permit)
- Public or governmental buildings and uses (conditional use permit)
- Radio or television transmission or receiving station or tower more than 125 ft in height (conditional use permit)
- Amusement parks, fairs, circuses and carnivals (conditional use permit)
Extracted standards
27 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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. when within 20 ft of lot line15 ft
No accessory building which is within twenty (20) feet of any party lot line shall be more than one (1) story or fifteen (15) feet in height.
- Public or semi-public building maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library or general hospital may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade; provided, that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one (1) foot for each foot in height over thirty-five (35) feet.
Other
- Animal hospital setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from lot lines200 ft
All buildings, structures, pens, or open kennels shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any lot line.
- Corner lot landscaping maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. not allowed in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
The kennel shall not be located in the front yard.
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. screening required
The kennel shall be screened to an appropriate height with fencing, foliage, shrubs or other material suitable as determined by the administrator.
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines25 ft
The kennel shall be twenty-five (25) feet from all property lines.
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residences150 ft
The kennel shall be one hundred fifty (150) feet from all residences (excluding the applicant's residence).
- KennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from water sources50 ft
The kennel shall be fifty (50) feet from all water sources, wells (unless solely designed for use by the kennel), rivers, ponds, and streams.
- Maximum number of divisions of a parcel2 count
Each tax parcel, as of the effective date of this section, shall be limited to two (2) further divisions, with said divisions complying with the minimum standards as relating to lot area, lot frontage and lot width.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for private kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. (6-20 dogs)87,120 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The property shall contain a minimum of two (2) acres.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for private kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. (21-50 dogs)217,800 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The property shall contain a minimum of five (5) acres.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for private kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. (>50 dogs)435,600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The property shall contain a minimum of ten (10) acres.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for hunt club kennelKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. (up to 50 dogs)43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The property shall contain a minimum of one (1) acre.
- Commercial stable setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot lines200 ft
Stable, commercial; provided that any buildings for keeping of animals shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet from any side or rear lot lines.
- Private stable setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot lines100 ft
Stable, private, for keeping of horses, ponies or other livestock for personal enjoyment and not as a business, provided that any building for keeping of animals shall be located at least one hundred (100) feet from any side or rear lot line.
Signage
- Name plate or directional sign maximum area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A name plate or directional sign, limited in area to two (2) square feet, to identify the owner or occupant of a dwelling or building.
- Home occupationHome occupationA business run from a dwelling, permitted so long as it stays subordinate to living there. sign maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a permitted home occupation.
- No trespassing or no hunting sign maximum area2 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No trespassing or no hunting signs, without limitations on number or placement, limited in area to two (2) square feet.
- Products raised on premises sign maximum area12 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign, limited in area to twelve (12) square feet advertising products raised or made on the premises.
- Farm/estate/subdivision identification sign maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a farm or estate or a subdivision or its occupants.
- ChurchReligious facilityA building used for organised worship, often with halls and schools attached. bulletin board or public/semi-public use sign maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, for a church bulletin board or identification of permitted public or semi-public uses, wildlife reservations, recreational uses, or clubs.
- Temporary sign directing to premises for sale/rent maximum area4 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Temporary nonilluminated signs, limited in area to four (4) square feet, directing the way to premises which are for sale or rent.
- Temporary real estate for sale/lease sign maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A temporary, nonilluminated sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, advertising real estate for sale or lease or announcing contemplated improvements of the real estate on which it is placed.
- Temporary new construction sign maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A temporary sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, erected in connection with new construction work and displayed on the premises only during such time as the actual construction work is in progress.
- Temporary direction sign for events maximum area32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Temporary signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport, or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet and subject to approval of location, design, and wording, by the administrator.
- Sign setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way10 ft
Permitted signs may be erected up to ten (10) feet from the street right-of-way.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot area shall be forty thousand (40,000) square feet. Structures shall be at least fifty (50) feet from any street right-of-way. Minimum lot width 150 ft. Side yard 15 ft, rear yard 35 ft. Height up to 35 ft.
Use details
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