B-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right17
- All permitted uses in B-1
- Supermarkets
- Churches
- Automobile service stations, with repairs under cover
- Wholesale and retail plumbing and electrical supply, with storage under cover
- Marine sales and service, with repairs under cover
- Machinery sales and services, with repairs under cover
- Car washes
- Funeral homes
- Hospitals and medical clinics
- Lumber and building supply, with storage under cover
- Print shops
- Signs, as permitted under section 38-183
- Clubs and lodges
- Apartments on floors above the ground floor, owner-occupied only
- Exercise gyms
- Mobile food vendors
Conditional / special use3
- Public billiard parlors, poolrooms, dance studios, and similar forms of public amusement
- Inns
- Nightclubs
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase for buildings over 35 ft1 ft per ft
Buildings may be erected to a height of more than 35 feet, provided that both required side yards setbacks are increased one foot for each foot in height by which the building exceeds 35 feet. In no case shall the building height exceed 60 feet.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.1.5 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building shall be more than 1 ½ stories high.
Other
- ApartmentsMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. above ground floor owner-occupied only
Apartments on floors above the ground floor, owner-occupied only, with occupants to use off-street parking.
- Nightclub special exception valid 365 days365 days
any special exception issued for this use shall be valid for 365 days only, unless further renewed by the town council for successive terms of 365 days each.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. may be average of existing structures
When a structure is to be built in an area where there are existing structures, the minimum setback may be waived to allow the setback line to be the average setback of the structures fronting on either side.
Signage
- Maximum sign area by rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld.100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Up to 100 square feet of signage shall be permitted by right only on the specific premises where the business is located, subject to other applicable provisions of article XI of this chapter. A special use permit shall be required for signage over 100 square feet.
From the ordinance
Buildings shall be located 45 feet or more from any street right-of-way. For permitted uses the minimum side yard shall be ten feet. Main buildings shall have a ten-foot rear yard setback.