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Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 150 ft
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Offices and office buildings (business, professional, or administrative)
- Banks, financial services, savings and loan or small loan office (without drive-in services)
- Clinics, medical or dental
- Data processing center
- Employment agency
- Funeral home or undertaking establishments (no crematory services on site)
- Studio for artist, designer, writer, photographer, sculptor, or musician
- Bed and breakfast facility
- Accessory uses (coin operated vending machines, lunchroom/snack bar, storage of office supplies up to 10% floor area)
- Temporary uses per Article 8, Section 2
Conditional / special use8
- Business or technical school
- Single Family Residential
- Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nurseries or day care centers
- Churches and other places of worship
- Commercial buildings in excess of 5,000 square feet
- Public or governmental buildings
- Public utility or public service facilities
- Telecommunications service equipment and facilities on publicly owned property
Accessory2
- Coin operated and vending machines for food, ice, soft drinks and sundries inside a building and for the use of the occu
- Lunchroom or snack bar for the use of employees.
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Access road requirement
The principal means of access for an office park containing more than 2,500 square feet of floor area shall be from arterial and collector thoroughfares. In no case shall the principal means of access for such building be from a minor residential street.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near lot line15 ft
No accessory structure that is within 10 feet of any adjoining owner lot line shall be more than 15 feet. Accessory structures over 15 feet in height shall meet primary setbacks of the district. All accessory structures shall be of less height than the main buildings on the lot.
- Corner lot visibility15 ft
Where a front yard is provided, fences, signs, landscaping, shrubbery, evergreens and trees in excess of three feet in height are prohibited within 15 feet from the corner of a lot at intersecting streets.
- Equipment screening
Equipment shall be located in a paved area or on a concrete pad and hidden from general public view, either from within or outside the premises by means of fences, walls, or landscape planting.
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, and flagpoles of any height, and television or radio antennas up to 65 feet in height, are exempt from height regulations. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Landscaping requirement
Any part of the lot or project area not used for buildings or other structures, parking, loading and access ways, shall be landscaped with appropriate planting or with pedestrian walks in accordance with an approved landscaping plan.
- Off-street loading
Off-street loading space for individual uses shall be provided in accord with the provisions of Article 6. Loading operations shall be conducted within a building and screened from general public view from fronting streets or shall be conducted at the side or rear of buildings.
- Public building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.45 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, or library, may be erected to a height of 45 feet from grade provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 30 feet.
- Refuse storage screening
Refuse containers or refuse storage shall be located in a paved area or on a concrete pad and hidden from general public view, either from within or outside the premises by means of fences, walls, or landscape planting.
- Site plan required
Site plan approval is required. An office park or office buildings or other commercial buildings shall be designed to promote harmonious relationships with surrounding adjacent and nearby properties...
- Stormwater drainage
Provision shall be made for proper storm water drainage. Water from parking and loading areas shall not be permitted to drain onto adjacent property except into a natural watercourse or a drainage easement... Provision shall be made for protection against erosion and sedimentation.
Parking
Off-street parking for individual uses shall be provided in accord with the provisions of Article 6. No parking shall be permitted within a required front yard.
Signage
- Sign regulations
Subject to the general sign regulations of Article 7.
From the ordinance
For permitted uses the minimum lot size shall be 20,000 square feet with minimum lot width of 100 feet and a minimum lot depth of 150 feet... Building coverage shall be limited to a maximum of 40 percent of lot area. Building, parking and driveway coverage shall be limited to a maximum of 80% of lot area. Buildings may be erected up to 30 feet in height...