CM-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right56
- Accessory uses
- Automobile and truck sales and service establishments and rental agencies
- Banks and financial institutions (not including alternative financial institutions)
- Bowling alleys
- Building supplies and service with storage under cover
- Car washes
- Churches
- Contractors' establishments, offices and display rooms
- Convenience and service establishments (barber shops, beauty parlors, tailors, automatic self-service laundries)
- Fire stations and rescue squad stations
- Funeral homes, and crematories when accessory to a funeral home
- Government offices
- Industrial uses: Distributing plants, parcel delivery, ice and cold storage plant, and food commissary, and bakery or catering establishment
- Industrial uses: Carpenter or cabinet shop
- Industrial uses: Contractors' equipment storage yards or plants, or rental equipment commonly used by contractors
- Industrial uses: Laundry, cleaning, and dyeing works, and carpet and rug cleaning
- Industrial uses: Machinery sales and service
- Industrial uses: Machine shop, metal fabrication shop, or welding shop, excluding punch press and drop hammers exceeding 40 ton rated capacity
- Industrial uses: Monumental stone works
- Industrial uses: Plant nurseries or greenhouses
- Industrial uses: Public utility service yard
- Industrial uses: Retail lumberyard, including only incidental mill work
- Industrial uses: Upholstery shop
- Industrial uses: Brewery, distillery, microdistillery, microbrewery, nanobrewery, and winery
- Institutions of higher education
- Library
- Museums and art galleries
- Newspaper office buildings, including printing and publishing facilities incidental to such use
- Office, business and professional
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Pet shops
- Philanthropic and charitable institutions
- Printing shops
- Public utilities (poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters, water and sewer lines, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and towers)
- Radio and television broadcasting stations, studios, or offices
- Repair services or businesses (bicycles, guns, radios, television sets, electrical appliances, locks and other home appliances, shoes, toys, typewriters, watches, and clocks)
- Restaurants
- Retail stores
- Schools
- Service stations (provided all repairs in fully enclosed building)
- Outdoor storage of materials and supplies and display of merchandise for sale or rent incidental to the conduct of any permitted uses on the lot
- Theaters, motion picture theaters, and assembly halls
- Veterinary hospitals
- Kennels
- Wholesale businesses, storage buildings, and warehousing
- Off-Street Parking Areas (for permitted and conditional uses in CM-1 and access drives for other districts)
- Signs (in accordance with Section 18-8)
- Mini-warehouses/mini-storage
- Commercial Records Center
- Pet Daycare Center
- Physical fitness or martial arts establishments
- Assembling establishments (not involved in on site manufacturing, not objectionable, with not more than ten persons employed)
- Entertainment Establishments (located at least 200 feet from residentially zoned property)
- Home Improvement Donation Center
- Wireless facilities and wireless support structures eligible for administrative review
- Solar energy systems, as a principal use
Conditional / special use17
- Day nurseries or day care centers
- Laboratories: pharmaceutical, medical, experimental, photo, or motion picture film, or testing
- Entertainment Establishments (located less than 200 feet from residentially zoned property, or where entertainment conducted outdoors)
- Private clubs and lodges
- Roller Rinks
- Bed and Breakfast Inns, Hotels and motels
- Bus Terminals
- Wireless facilities and wireless support structures not eligible for administrative review
- Motor vehicle painting, upholstering, and body and fender work
- Animal Shelters (provided no such use within 500 feet of any residential district)
- Extended stay lodging
- Alternative financial institutions (provided no such use within 500 feet of any other alternative financial institution or residentially-zoned property)
- Crematories
- Hookah establishment (provided no such use within 500 feet of similar use, school, playground, or public park)
- Arenas, Amphitheaters, and Stadiums (provided no such structure within 300 feet of any MR or LR residential district)
- Towing Yard
- Vertical farming uses (to be conducted entirely within an industrialized container)
Accessory1
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Required fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for industrial uses6 ft
Permitted industrial uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid wall or fence six feet in height.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. regulation reference
Height regulations as per Section 8-7 of this Ordinance.
Other
- Alternative financial institution distance500 ft
Alternative financial institutions, provided that no such use is located within 500 feet of any other alternative financial institution or residentially-zoned property.
- Animal shelterShelterTemporary accommodation for people without housing, usually with support services. distance from residential500 ft
Animal Shelters, provided no such use is situated within 500 feet of any residential district.
- Arena/amphitheater/stadium distance from residential300 ft
Arenas, Amphitheaters, and Stadiums provided that no such structure is situated within 300 feet of any MR or LR residential district.
- Canopy setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for angle 45-90 degrees20 ft
For canopies covering gasoline or other petroleum pumps or dispensers which are oriented at an angle between 45 and 90 degrees to the adjacent right-of-way line, there shall be a 20-foot setback required from any street or highway, or from any street or highway right-of-way.
- Canopy setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for angle less than 45 degrees10 ft
Where the above angle is less than 45 degrees, there shall be a ten foot setback.
- Entertainment establishment distance from residential200 ft
Entertainment Establishments, located at least 200 feet from a residentially zoned property, as measured from the structure containing the establishment or the off-street parking area to the residential zone property line.
- Hookah establishment distance500 ft
Hookah establishment, as defined, provided that no such use shall be located within 500 feet of a similar use, public/private school, playground, or public park.
- Mini-warehouse business activities restriction
No business activities other than rental of storage units and office for management of the facility shall be conducted on the premises.
- Mini-warehouse entrances restriction
No entrances to individual compartments shall front on public streets.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
When a rear yard abuts a lot in a residential district the minimum rear yard shall be 50 feet.
- Redevelopment site common property line yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. exemption
No side or rear yard shall be required along the common shared property line of buildings within the same redevelopment site provided conditions are met.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
when such use abuts a residential district, there shall be a side yard of 25 feet
From the ordinance
The intent of this district is to allow a mixture of commercial and light industrial uses... new residential uses are prohibited.