I-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right27
- Airports, heliports and helistops
- Automotive rental, parts and supply stores
- Automotive repair garages
- Business, medical, financial, nonprofit, professional and similar office buildings
- Commercial parking lots
- Eating and drinking establishments
- Establishments such as linen suppliers, freight movers, communication services and canteen services
- Establishments which deliver merchandise in bulk by truck or van
- Facilities for construction, maintenance and repair of boats and vessels
- Heavy equipment sales and services
- Low explosives storage with a valid federal explosives permit or license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF)
- Manufacturing, processing, extracting, packaging or fabricating establishments
- Military installations
- Motion picture studios
- Piers, wharves and docks
- Printing, lithographic or publishing establishments
- Public buildings and grounds
- Public utilities installations and substations including offices
- Recreational facilities other than those of an outdoor nature
- Repair establishments
- Ship supply establishments and facilities
- Terminals for freight or passengers arriving or departing by ship
- Vocational, technical, industrial and trade schools
- Wholesale and retail establishments dealing primarily in bulk materials delivered by ship, or by ship and railroad or ship and truck in combination
- Wholesaling, warehousing, storage or distribution establishments
- Wind energy conversion systems, freestanding
- Wind energy conversion systems, roof-mounted
Conditional / special use16
- Animal hospitals, veterinary establishments, pounds, shelters, and commercial kennels
- Automobile museums
- Bars or nightclubs
- Borrow pits
- Communication towers standard process
- Day-care and child care education centers
- Firewood preparation facility
- High explosives manufacturing, storage and distribution
- Home-based wildlife rehabilitation facilities
- Low explosives manufacturing and distribution
- Petroleum processing
- Radio or television transmission and relay stations
- Satellite wagering facility
- Solid waste management facilities
- Storage or processing of salvage, scrap or junk
- Wildlife rehabilitation centers
Accessory1
- Accessory activity operated for profit in a residential dwelling unit
Prohibited4
- Collection depots for recyclable materials
- Mobile home sales
- Public schools, colleges and universities, and private schools, colleges and universities having similar academic curriculums
- Recreational facilities of an outdoor nature
Extracted standards
24 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. adjacent to A-12 or A-18 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.35 ft
When adjacent to an A-12 or A-18 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. adjacent to A-24 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.45 ft
When adjacent to an A-24 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be forty-five (45) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. adjacent to A-36 ApartmentMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.120 ft
When adjacent to an A-36 Apartment District, the maximum height shall be one hundred and twenty (120) feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. adjacent to street
No portion of a building or other structure located on a zoning lot which is adjacent to a street within the I-1 or I-2 Industrial District shall exceed a height equal to twice the distance from such structure to the vertical projection of the centerline of such street.
Other
- Minimum yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to office/business/hotel districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.15 ft
a fifteen-foot minimum yard shall be required along all lot lines adjoining the office district. Category IV landscape screening shall be required within the yard area.
- Minimum yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
a twenty-five-foot minimum yard shall be required along all lot lines adjoining the residential or apartment district. Category VII screening shall be required within the yard area.
- Landscape screening category7 category
Category VII screening shall be required within the yard area.
- Landscape screening category4 category
Category IV landscape screening shall be required within the yard area.
Signage
- Maximum freestanding sign area (100-200 ft frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.)32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Establishments with a lot frontage of between one hundred (100) linear feet and two hundred (200) linear feet shall be permitted one (1) freestanding sign, which shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area per face.
- Maximum freestanding sign area (over 200 ft frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.)75 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Establishments with a lot frontage greater than two hundred (200) linear feet shall be permitted one (1) freestanding sign, which shall not exceed seventy-five (75) square feet in area per face.
- Maximum number of for sale signs4 count
no more than four (4) signs shall be erected on any property.
- Maximum number of signs per establishment3 count
No more than three (3) signs shall be permitted, per establishment, including one (1) freestanding sign.
- Maximum sign area for property for sale/lease/rent32 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Property for sale, lease or rent, shall be permitted, no more than two (2) signs for each one hundred (100) feet of lot frontage. Such signs shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area and no more than four (4) signs shall be erected on any property.
- Maximum sign area for buildings over 10 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.300 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Commercial buildings of more than ten (10) stories in height may have two (2) signs up to three hundred (300) square feet each in addition to other allowed signage.
- Maximum sign area for industrial park (10+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Industrial parks containing three (3) or more establishments and a minimum of ten (10) acres of land area, shall be permitted one (1) additional sign not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) square feet per face in area at each principal entrance or frontage.
- Maximum sign area for industrial park (30+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
An industrial park containing three (3) or more establishments and a minimum of thirty (30) acres of land area, shall be permitted one (1) additional sign not exceeding two hundred (200) square feet in area per face at each principal entrance or frontage.
- Maximum sign area for buildings under 5 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Commercial buildings of less than five (5) stories in height may have two (2) signs up to one hundred fifty (150) square feet each in addition to other allowed signage.
- Maximum sign area for buildings 5-10 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Commercial buildings of five (5) stories to ten (10) stories may have two (2) signs up to two hundred (200) square feet in addition to other allowed signage.
- Maximum sign area for small frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.40 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Uses with twenty-six (26) linear feet or less of building or occupancy frontage shall be allowed forty (40) square feet of signage.
- Maximum temporary sign area for new industrial park (10+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
In an industrial park containing a minimum of ten (10) acres of land area, one (1) sign no greater in area than one hundred fifty (150) square feet may be erected at each principal entrance.
- Maximum temporary sign area for new industrial park (30+ acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
In a new industrial park containing a minimum of thirty (30) acres of land, one (1) sign no greater in area than two hundred (200) square feet may be erected at each principal entrance.
- Minimum separation between for sale signs50 ft
All such signs shall be separated by at least fifty (50) linear feet.
- Sign area per linear foot of building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1.5 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./ft
One and a half (1½) square feet of signage shall be permitted for every linear foot of building frontage or occupancy frontage.
- Temporary sign removal condition70 pct
Such signs shall be removed when seventy (70) percent of the property is occupied or leased, or after a period of twenty-four (24) months from the date a certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever comes first.
From the ordinance
When adjacent to a Residential District, the maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.