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Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right48
- Agriculture
- Farm employee housing
- Greenhouse, private
- Roadside stand
- Sawmill
- Silvicultural activities
- Stable, commercial
- Stable, private
- Accessory apartment
- Dwelling, single-family, detached
- Dwelling, single-family, farm
- Family day care home
- Group home
- Guest house
- Home occupation, community
- Home occupation, rural
- Kennel, private
- Manufactured home, Class A
- Manufactured home, Class B
- Temporary emergency housing
- Camp
- Cemetery
- Club
- Community center
- Community recreation
- Cultural service
- Day care center
- Park and ride facility
- Post office
- Public facilities
- Public maintenance facility
- Public park and recreational area
- Religious assembly
- Utility service/minor
- Agricultural service
- Antique shop
- Construction office, temporary
- Golf course
- Real estate office, temporary
- Studio, fine arts
- Taxidermy
- Amateur radio tower
- Hunt club
- Hunting preserve
- Outdoor gathering
- Parking facility
- Turkey shoot
- Windmill
Conditional / special use44
- Manufactured home, family member residence
- Manufactured home, temporary residence
- Day care center
- Campground, workforce
- Office, general
- Taxidermy
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Contractor's yard
- Convenience center
- Custom manufacturing
- Communication tower
- Dwelling, multifamily conversion
- Manufactured home park
- Manufactured home subdivision
- Battery energy storage system
- Child care institution
- Correctional facility
- Crisis center
- Educational facility
- Halfway house
- Nursing home
- Rehabilitation service
- Utility service/major
- Auction establishment
- Bed and breakfast
- Camp
- Campground
- Commercial outdoor recreation
- Kennel, commercial
- Livestock auction market
- Lumber yard
- Marina
- Motor vehicle repair service/minor
- Motor vehicle repair service/major
- Landfill
- Mining
- Power plant
- Scrap and salvage service
- Transfer station
- Alternate discharge sewage system
- Aviation facility, commercial
- Aviation facility, private
- Reconstructed wetland
- Shooting range, outdoor
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density bonus
- Density bonusDensity bonusExtra units allowed above the base cap in exchange for something — usually affordable homes. for workforce housing20 pct
A density bonus of one lot for every three lots allowed by the maximum density can be added, not to exceed 20 percent of the maximum density.
Design
- Preserve tree lines and minimize development on open fields
The layout shall be designed to preserve and maintain existing tree lines between fields or meadows, pastures, meadows, orchards, and mature woodlands.
Environmental
- Protection of floodplains, wetlands, and steep slopes
All floodplains, wetlands, and steep slopes shall be protected from clearing, grading, filling, or construction, except as may be approved by the Administrator for essential infrastructure.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size4 pct
Accessory structures shall not exceed four percent of the lot area not to exceed 5,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
- Maximum number of lots less than 3 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.15 lots
No more than 15 lots of less than three acres in area in a proposed subdivision shall be permitted from any parcel of record as of September 4, 1975.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. in cluster development50 pct
Where the parent parcel being subdivided contains 40 acres or more at least 50 percent of the total acreage shall be retained in open space.
- Criteria for residential use on lots less than ten acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. in agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. field or pasture
A residential use on a lot of less than ten acres and located in an agricultural field or pasture, shall meet the following additional criteria: ...
From the ordinance
The following uses are permitted by right subject to all other applicable requirements contained in this ordinance.