Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right36
- Retail stores and shops directly affiliated with an institution
- Publishing, printing and lithographing for institutional private uses
- Assembly halls
- Business, private, public and vocational schools and classrooms, academic facilities, administrative offices and associated support structures
- Churches and other places of worship, church school buildings
- Clubs and lodges, fraternities, meeting places of other organizations
- Dining halls, restaurants, cafes, and other eating establishments directly affiliated with an institution
- Hospitals
- Laboratories and research facilities
- Libraries
- Museums
- Police, fire and rescue squad stations
- Post offices
- Public and institutional buildings and properties of a cultural, administrative, or service type
- Public service and storage buildings
- Public utilities
- Repair facilities for institutional equipment and property only
- Indoor theaters
- Small-scale production establishments directly affiliated with an institution
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Parks and playgrounds
- Childcare centers and family day care homes
- Dormitories
- Two-family homes
- Family care homes, foster homes or group homes, rest homes, homes for adults, or nursing homes
- Multifamily homes/apartments
- Single-family dwellings
- Townhouses
- Greenhouses
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Off-street parking as required
- Agriculture
- Athletic playing fields, golf courses, driving ranges, and similar outdoor recreation uses which are primarily for daytime use and which do not have artificial lighting directed onto the area of play or recreation
- Indoor athletic facilities, to include gyms, indoor pools, dance studios, and similar uses
- Indoor firing ranges
- Bus and taxi stands
Conditional / special use8
- Bakeries
- Business and professional offices not affiliated with an institution
- Campgrounds or recreational vehicle parks
- Restaurants, cafes, and other eating establishments not affiliated with an institution
- Commercial radio, television, and communication towers
- Antennas on existing structures
- Laundries, dry cleaning shops, and clothes dyeing establishments
- Athletic playing fields, golf courses, driving ranges, outdoor theaters, or similar outdoor recreation or performance uses which have artificial lighting directed onto the area of play or recreation
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting restrictions
Outdoor lighting shall be designed to limit light trespass or light pollution to the greatest extent feasible. Fixtures shall be full cutoff type or otherwise limit the amount of light escaping upward. Photosensor or motion sensor lighting should be used where possible. Light poles shall not exceed 24 feet in height.
Other
- No yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirement
No yard requirement.
Use
- Multiple principal by-rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. uses
Insofar as allowed by the building codes, single structures may have multiple uses by right.
From the ordinance
Uses in the institutional district are oriented to or supportive of one or more institutions.