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Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 2.9 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 15,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.34 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Maximum units
- 1
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right9
Conditional / special use9
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.15 ft
Accessory buildings shall not exceed 15 feet in height.
Lot
- Maximum lot length to width ratio3 ratio
For lots having width of not more than 150 feet, the lot length shall be not greater than three times the lot width.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Unattached buildings of accessory use shall not be located closer to any rear lot line than five feet.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.8 ft
For unattached buildings of accessory use, there shall be a side yard of not less than eight feet; provided, however, that unattached one-story buildings of accessory use shall not be required to set back more than five feet from an interior side lot line when all parts or the accessory buildings are located more than 10 feet behind the main building.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for non-dwelling uses35 ft
All other permitted uses shall have a front yard setback of 35 feet.
- Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. for churches25 pct
Churches and other main and accessory buildings shall cover not more than 25 percent of the lot area.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for churches and other non-dwellings35 ft
Churches and other main and accessory buildings, other than dwellings, and buildings accessory to dwellings, shall set back from all side lot lines a distance of not less than 35 feet.
Use
- Maximum dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. per lot1 unit
There shall be no more than one dwelling unit on each lot.
From the ordinance
For each dwelling and building accessory thereto there shall be a lot area of not less than 15,000 square feet.