Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right23
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling
- business and professional office
- cemetery
- church
- day care center
- medical laboratory
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- health profession office
- motor vehicle parking or storage
- outdoor dining on private property at a commercial complex
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public school
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- restaurant located within a commercial complex
- retail shopping establishment
- seminary, convent or monastery
- social service use
- utilities
Conditional / special use21
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation
- co-living dwelling
- restaurant
- outdoor garden center
- outdoor market
- outdoor dining on private property
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- bus shelter on private property
- congregate housing facility
- day labor agency
- continuum of care facility
- fraternal or private club
- funeral home
- motor vehicle parking or storage (more than 20 vehicles)
- medical care facility
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- private school, academic (more than 20 students)
- public building
- recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- retail shopping establishment (larger than 20,000 sqft)
Accessory1
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Window transparencyGround-floor transparencyThe share of a ground-floor street wall that must be windows rather than blank surface. required
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk... shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
Other
- Appliance sales limited to small appliances
Appliance sales, repair and rental shall be limited to small appliances only
- Auxiliary dwellings up to 4 units4 units
Up to four auxiliary dwelling units are permitted and shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone.
- Co-living dwellings up to 2 units2 units
Up to two co-living dwellings shall be categorized as nonresidential for the purpose of applying the area and bulk regulations of this zone.
A day care center or commercial school shall obtain all required state, federal and local licenses and certificates prior to opening its place of business.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan required
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- All operations enclosed
All commercial operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building
- Manufacturing prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. except certain
Manufacturing, processing and assembly uses are prohibited except for the fabrication of art and craft objects, food and beverage production, printing, woodworking, eyeglass lenses and other similar uses when conducted solely to produce items for retail sale on the premises.
- Maximum vehicles per business1 vehicle
No more than one vehicle limited to one car or light truck shall be used on the premises as part of the operation of any business
- Noxious uses prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No use shall be conducted in any manner which would render it noxious or offensive by reason of dust, refuse matter, odor, smoke, gas, fumes, noise, vibration or glare.
- Tobacco retail prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. within 1000 ft of schools1,000 ft
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products... are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
Parking
- Off-site parking allowed within 1000 ft1,000 ft
Parking for commercial uses may be located on a lot other than the one on which the commercial use is located if the other lot is zoned for commercial uses and is located within 1,000 feet of the use served.
From the ordinance
The CL zone is intended to provide for small scale retail and service uses...