No dimensional standards extracted
Uses
Permitted by right53
- Adult care residences
- Adult day care facilities
- Adult entertainment establishments, adult book stores, adult motion picture theaters and massage parlors
- Art galleries
- Auto rental establishments
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- Catering businesses
- Churches and other places of worship
- Communications centers and telephone repeater stations
- Contractors' shops, offices and display rooms
- Day nurseries
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- Dwelling units
- Funeral homes
- Furniture repair and upholstery shops
- 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
- Marinas, including facilities for dispensing motor fuels, boathouses, piers and docks
- Permanent supportive housing
- Nursing homes
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices
- Parking decks and parking garages
- 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
- 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
- Service businesses
- Shopping centers
- Showrooms and display areas for goods sold at wholesale and retail
- Social service delivery uses
- Tourist homes
- Transitional housing
- Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency
- Wireless communications facilities
- Short-term rental
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to permitted uses
Conditional / special use4
Accessory1
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to permitted uses
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Signage
- Maximum aggregate sign area per street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The aggregate area of all signs directed toward or intended to be viewed from any street frontage shall not exceed two square feet for each linear foot of lot frontage along the street nor in any case 200 square feet for each street frontage.
- Maximum flag heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
provided that a flag shall not exceed a height of 35 feet.
- Maximum freestanding sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One freestanding sign not exceeding 50 square feet in area or eight feet in height shall be permitted along each street frontage.
- Maximum freestanding sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
or eight feet in height.
- Maximum projecting sign projection from building5 ft
No such sign, other than a noncommercial flag, shall project greater than five feet from the face of the building.
- Maximum sign area transfer between building faces25 pct
provided that the permitted sign area for any building face may be increased by up to 25 percent by transferring permitted sign area from another face of the same building.
- Maximum wall sign area above 100 feet heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.300 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
In addition to the permitted sign area set forth in subsection (2)a of this section, one wall sign not exceeding 300 square feet may be located on each face of a building above a height of 100 feet when no other signs are located on such face above a height of 35 feet.
- Minimum distance between projecting signs on same wall25 ft
No projecting sign shall be located within 25 feet of another projecting sign on the same building wall.
From the ordinance
In the B-4 Central Business District: ...