Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right45
- Accessory apartment
- Cemetery
- Club
- Community center
- Cultural service
- Day care center
- Educational facility
- Park and ride facility
- Post office
- Public facilities
- Public park and recreational area
- Religious assembly
- Utility service/minor
- Antique shop
- Bank
- Bed and breakfast
- Business support service
- Business or trade school
- Construction office, temporary
- Event center
- Funeral home
- Golf course
- Hospital
- Hotel/motel/motor lodge/inn
- Kennel, commercial
- Laundry
- Marina
- Medical office
- Motor vehicle parts/supply, retail
- Office, general
- Pawn shop
- Personal improvement service
- Personal service
- Real estate office, temporary
- Restaurant, general
- Retail sales
- Studio, fine arts
- Taxidermy
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Alternate discharge sewage system
- Communication tower
- Outdoor gathering
- Parking facility
- Reconstructed wetland
- Windmill
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.
A buffer yard is required on lots adjacent to residential and agricultural zoning districts (see section 5-400).
- Landscaping requirement
Any part of the lot or project area not used for buildings or other structures, parking, loading and accessways, shall be landscaped with grass, trees, shrubs, or pedestrian walks.
- No exterior storage
Permitted stores, shops, offices or businesses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building and except for temporary display items as limited by these regulations there shall be no exterior storage of merchandise or materials unless these are enclosed within storage yard established and maintained in accordance with these regulations.
- Stormwater drainage
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage from parking and loading areas. Water shall not be permitted to drain from such areas onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement.
- Warehousing not permitted
No commercial warehousing, wholesaling, of jobbing or killing of animals or poultry shall be carried on and no merchandise shall be stored other than to be sold at retail on the premises, and provided further, that no more than 50 percent of the floor area of any building shall be used for the storage of merchandise.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to provide primarily for low intensity retail shopping and personal service uses, developed either as a unit or in individual parcels, to satisfy those basic needs which occur daily or frequently and so require commercial facilities in close proximity to residences.