UB-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right33
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services, including accessory ATMs
- Catering businesses
- Day nurseries licensed by the State Department of Social Services
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments (capacity limits)
- Dwelling units within same building as other permitted principal uses (above ground floor or to rear)
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- Hotels (with conditions)
- Laundromats and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, schools, parks and noncommercial recreational facilities (nonprofit)
- Nightclubs lawfully existing on effective date
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices, including business, professional, administrative, medical and dental offices and clinics
- Parking areas and parking lots
- Parking decks and parking garages
- Personal service businesses
- Pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
- Postal and package mailing services
- Professional, business and vocational schools
- Radio and television broadcasting studios and offices
- Recreation and entertainment uses (enclosed)
- Restaurants, tea rooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar food and beverage service establishments
- Retail stores and shops
- Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances for public utilities and transportation
- Sales lots for Christmas trees, vegetable stands and other seasonal uses
- Service businesses that service, repair or rent household items
- Shopping centers containing uses permitted in this district
- Showrooms and display areas for goods sold at wholesale and retail
- Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency
- Wireless communications facilities, microwave relay facilities, and radio broadcast antennas
- Short-term rental
- Accessory uses and structures
Conditional / special use2
Accessory1
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception for existing taller buildings4 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Where an existing building on the same lot or on an adjacent lot along the same street frontage is greater than three stories in height, no building shall exceed four stories in height.
- Minimum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.2 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Every main building hereinafter constructed shall have a minimum height of not less than two stories, except that porches, porticos and similar structures attached to a main building may be of lesser height.
Noise
- No music or public address system audible beyond premises
No music or public address system shall be operated in such a manner that sound produced therefrom is audible beyond the boundaries of the premises.
Other
- Minimum ground floor area for other permitted principal uses1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of one-third or 1,000 square feet, whichever is greater, of the floor area of the ground floor of the building shall be devoted to other permitted principal uses, and such uses shall have a depth of not less than 20 feet along the entire length of a principal street frontage.
- Screening where side or rear lot line abuts R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.3.5 ft
Where a side or rear lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen of not less than 3½ feet in height at the time of installation or opaque structural fence or wall of not less than four feet in height erected along such lot line, but not within 15 feet of any street line.
- Minimum street-level glazing for nondwelling uses60 pct
For nondwelling uses, other than those listed in Section 30-433.11(1), (5), (11) and (29), a minimum of 60 percent of the building façade between two and eight feet in height along the street frontage shall be comprised of windows or glass doors or both that allow views into and out of the interior building space.
- Minimum upper-story glazing for nondwelling uses30 pct
For nondwelling uses, other than those listed in Section 30-433.11(1), (5), (11) and (29), windows or glass doors or both that allow views out of the interior building space shall comprise a minimum of 30 percent of the building façade between two and eight feet in height above the floor level of each story above the street level story.
Parking
- Parking and circulation areas not between main building and street
Areas devoted to the parking or circulation of vehicles in the UB-2 Urban Business District shall not be located between the main building on a lot and the street line, nor shall such areas be located closer to the street than the main building on the lot.
From the ordinance
No building shall exceed three stories in height, provided that where an existing building on the same lot or on an adjacent lot along the same street frontage is greater than three stories in height, no building shall exceed four stories in height. Every main building hereinafter constructed shall have a minimum height of not less than two stories.