Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Any principal use permitted in R-1 district
- Single-family attached dwellings
- Two-family detached dwellings
- Multifamily dwellings
- Nursing homes
- Day nurseries
- Tourist homes situated on Federal highways
- Parking areas
- Parking decks
- Offices
- Hospitals
- Adult day care facilities
- Short-term rental
- Adult care residences
- Permanent supportive housing
- Transitional housing
Accessory6
- Any accessory use or structure permitted in R-1 district
- Guest units in multifamily developments
- Incidental uses within multifamily dwellings, nursing homes and office buildings
- Restaurant facilities, ATMs, shops in hospital buildings
- One dwelling unit in accessory building (existing)
- Emergency housing
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Inclined plane heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. restriction
No portion of a building shall penetrate an inclined plane originating at the centerline of an abutting street and extending over the lot at an inclination of one foot horizontal for each two feet vertical along any street frontage where a front yard is required and one foot horizontal for each three feet vertical along other street frontages.
Other
- Day nurserySilviculture / plant nurseryGrowing trees or plants as a crop — forestry and commercial plant production. outdoor play area
A minimum outdoor play area of 100 square feet for each child enrolled shall be furnished on the premises, but not within a required front yard; enclosed with a continuous opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height.
- Guest units in multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. developments
Total number of guest units shall not exceed one for each 50 dwelling units within the development.
- Incidental uses in multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive./nursing/office buildings
No advertising signs, displays, show windows or ATMs visible from exterior; no direct public entrance; aggregate floor area not exceed 5% of building.
- Minimum distance between buildings on same lot
Where two or more buildings, at least one of which contains a dwelling use, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet; where neither contains a dwelling use, not less than 10 feet.
- 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 for dwelling uses.
Parking
- Parking deck screening
Parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity.
Setback
- Side and rear yards for newly constructed multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. dwellings15 ft
Side and rear yards for newly constructed multifamily dwellings and buildings accessory thereto shall be not less than 15 feet in depth.
- Side and rear yards for other uses10 ft
Side and rear yards for uses and buildings other than single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings and buildings accessory thereto shall be not less than ten feet in depth.
From the ordinance
Front yard depth not less than 15 feet; FAR not exceed 2.0; height not exceed 150 feet; multifamily dwellings permitted.