B-3
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right64
- Adult care residences
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Auto service centers
- Auto, truck, motorcycle, boat, trailer, recreational vehicle, manufactured home and construction equipment sales, rental, service, storage and general repair
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- Building materials and contractors' sales and storage yards
- Breweries and distilleries
- Catering businesses
- Churches and other places of worship
- Communications centers and telephone repeater stations
- Contractors' shops, offices and display rooms
- Day nurseries
- Drive-in theaters
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- Dwelling units
- Funeral homes
- Furniture repair and upholstery shops
- Greenhouses and plant nurseries
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Janitorial and custodial service and supply establishments
- Laboratories and research facilities
- Laundromats and laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, schools, parks and noncommercial recreational facilities
- Manufacturing uses
- Marinas, boathouses, piers and docks
- Motor fuels dispensing
- Nursing homes
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices
- Parking decks
- Permanent supportive housing
- Personal loan and financial services
- Personal service businesses
- Pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
- Postal and package mailing services
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments
- Private elementary and secondary schools
- Professional, business and vocational schools
- Public utilities installations, equipment buildings and passenger terminals
- Radio and television broadcasting studios and offices
- Recreation and entertainment uses
- Recreation uses, outdoor
- Repair businesses
- Restaurants, tearooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar food and beverage service establishments
- Retail stores and shops
- Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances
- Sales lots for Christmas trees, vegetable stands and other seasonal uses
- Self-service auto washing facilities
- Service businesses
- Service stations
- Shopping centers
- Social service delivery uses
- Tire recapping and vulcanizing shops
- Tourist homes
- Transitional housing
- Travel trailer parks and campgrounds
- Truck and freight transfer terminals
- Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency
- Wholesale, warehouse and distribution establishments
- Wireless communications facilities
- Short-term rental
Conditional / special use4
Accessory1
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to permitted uses
Extracted standards
21 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Opaque fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for building materials storage6 ft
Areas devoted to storage shall be enclosed by opaque fences or walls not less than six feet in height
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. bonus prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. on transitional site
no additional height shall be permitted on a transitional site
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. bonus60 ft
additional height, not to exceed a total height of 60 feet, shall be permitted when all yards exceed the minimum required by not less than one foot for each one foot of building height in excess of 35 feet
Other
- Landscaped buffer depth for auto service center5 ft
A landscaped buffer having a depth of not less than five feet and providing an evergreen vegetative screen of not less than three feet in height
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for auto service center with fuel dispensing10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The area of the lot devoted to such use shall be not less than 10,000 square feet
- Minimum street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. for auto service center100 ft
no property line coincidental with a street line shall be less than 100 feet in length
- Drive-up facility prohibition on transitional sites
no use which includes a drive-up facility shall be located on a transitional site
- Minimum distance between buildings on same lot15 ft
Where two or more buildings, at least one of which contains a dwelling use, are erected on the same lot, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet
- Minimum evergreen screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when abutting R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.3.5 ft
continuous evergreen vegetative screen not less than 3½ feet in height at the time of installation
- Minimum opaque fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. when abutting R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.4 ft
opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height erected along such lot line
- Minimum usable open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio0.25 ratio
a usable open space ratio of not less than 0.25 shall be provided
- Minimum separation between personal loan services5,000 ft
such use may not be located within 5,000 feet of another personal loan or financial service
- Pump island setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street or property line20 ft
pump islands for dispensing motor fuels may be located within required yards adjacent to streets, but not within 20 feet of any street or property line
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R/RO districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
where a rear lot line abuts or is situated across an alley from property in an R or RO district there shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet in depth
- Outdoor restaurant area setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from R districts100 ft
No deck, patio, terrace or other area outside a completely enclosed building and used for the service or accommodation of patrons shall be situated within 100 feet of any property in any R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-5, R-5A, R-6, R-7, R-8 or R-63 district
- Side and rear yards adjacent to dwelling uses and shelters15 ft
Side and rear yards adjacent to dwelling uses and shelters, other than dwelling units contained within the same building as other permitted principal uses, shall be not less than 15 feet in depth
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R/RO districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.10 ft
where a side lot line abuts a property in an R or RO district there shall be a side yard of not less than ten feet in width
- Evergreen screen heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for tire storage8 ft
Any tire storage must be located behind a continuous evergreen vegetative screen at least eight feet high within three years of planting
Parking
- Driveway restriction on principal street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
No driveway intersection on a street that constitutes the principal street frontage of a lot shall be permitted when other street frontage or alley access is available
- Parking deck screening opacity45 pct
parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
- Parking location relative to main building
Areas devoted to the parking or circulation of vehicles shall not be located between the main building on a lot and the street line
From the ordinance
The following uses of buildings and premises shall be permitted in the B-3 district, provided that no use which includes a drive-up facility shall be located on a transitional site.