Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right48
- Agriculture
- Farm employee housing
- Greenhouse, private
- Roadside stand
- Sawmill
- Silvicultural activities
- Stable, commercial
- Stable, private
- Accessory apartment
- Dwelling, single-family, detached
- Dwelling, single-family, farm
- Family day care home
- Group home
- Guest house
- Home occupation, community
- Home occupation, rural
- Kennel, private
- Manufactured home, Class A
- Manufactured home, Class B
- Temporary emergency housing
- Camp
- Cemetery
- Club
- Community center
- Community recreation
- Cultural service
- Day care center
- Park and ride facility
- Post office
- Public facilities
- Public maintenance facility
- Public park and recreational area
- Religious assembly
- Utility service/minor
- Agricultural service
- Antique shop
- Construction office, temporary
- Golf course
- Real estate office, temporary
- Studio, fine arts
- Taxidermy
- Amateur radio tower
- Hunt club
- Hunting preserve
- Outdoor gathering
- Parking facility
- Turkey shoot
- Windmill
Conditional / special use44
- Manufactured home, family member residence
- Manufactured home, temporary residence
- Day care center
- Campground, workforce
- Office, general
- Taxidermy
- Veterinary hospital/clinic
- Contractor's yard
- Convenience center
- Custom manufacturing
- Communication tower
- Dwelling, multifamily conversion
- Manufactured home park
- Manufactured home subdivision
- Battery energy storage system
- Child care institution
- Correctional facility
- Crisis center
- Educational facility
- Halfway house
- Nursing home
- Rehabilitation service
- Utility service/major
- Auction establishment
- Bed and breakfast
- Camp
- Campground
- Commercial outdoor recreation
- Kennel, commercial
- Livestock auction market
- Lumber yard
- Marina
- Motor vehicle repair service/minor
- Motor vehicle repair service/major
- Landfill
- Mining
- Power plant
- Scrap and salvage service
- Transfer station
- Alternate discharge sewage system
- Aviation facility, commercial
- Aviation facility, private
- Reconstructed wetland
- Shooting range, outdoor
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size4 pct
Accessory structures shall not exceed four percent of the lot area not to exceed 5,000 square feet unless a special use permit is approved by the BZA.
- Cluster development density calculation
Maximum density calculated by subtracting minimum lot size for first 15 lots and dividing remaining acreage by three acres.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. in cluster development50 pct
Where parent parcel contains 40 acres or more, at least 50% of total acreage retained in open space.
- Protection of floodplains, wetlands, steep slopes
All floodplains, wetlands, and steep slopes shall be protected from clearing, grading, filling, or construction.
From the ordinance
Purpose: protect agricultural and forest lands. Permitted uses in 3-302. Lot requirements in 3-304. Height/bulk in 3-305.