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 the 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 serving uses permitted in this district
- Parking decks serving uses permitted in this district
- Offices, including business, professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics, and studios of writers, designers and artists engaged in the graphic arts
- Hospitals, but not psychiatric hospitals for the care of patients committed by a court
- Adult day care facilities
- Short-term rental
- Adult care residences
- Permanent supportive housing
- Transitional housing
Accessory6
- Any accessory use or structure permitted in the R-1 district
- Guest units in multifamily developments
- Incidental uses located within multifamily dwellings, nursing homes and office buildings
- Restaurant facilities, automated teller machines and shops for the sale of gifts, flowers, drugs and similar items within hospital buildings
- One dwelling unit located in an accessory building existing at effective date
- Emergency housing
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Inclined plane 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
- Guest units in multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. developments0.02 per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.
total number of such guest units shall not exceed one for each 50 dwelling units within the development.
- Maximum floor area for incidental uses5 pct
The aggregate floor area devoted to such uses shall not exceed five percent of the total floor area of the building in which they are located.
- Maximum FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for nondwelling uses1.4 ratio
floor area ratio of buildings or portions thereof devoted to nondwelling uses shall not exceed 1.4
- Minimum spacing between buildings with dwelling use15 ft
distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet
- Minimum spacing between buildings without dwelling use10 ft
distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than ten feet
- Minimum outdoor play area per child100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
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.
- Play area fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
The play area shall be enclosed with a continuous opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height.
- Side and rear yards for non-residential uses10 ft
Side and rear yards for uses and buildings other than single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings shall be not less than ten feet in depth.
- Usable open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio0.25 ratio
usable open space ratio of not less than 0.25 shall be provided for dwelling uses
Parking
- Parking deck entrance/exit lanes per 300 spaces1 lane
Not less than one exit lane and one entrance lane shall be provided for each 300 parking spaces or major fraction thereof.
- 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.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses include R-1 uses, single-family attached, two-family, multifamily, offices, hospitals; front yard 15 ft; side/rear 15 ft multifamily; FAR max 2.0 (1.4 nondwelling); open space ratio 0.25; height max 150 ft.