Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
- 40,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.92 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Minimum lot depth
- 200 ft
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right34
- Agriculture
- Silvicultural activities
- Accessory apartment
- Day care center
- Park and ride facility
- Post office
- Public facility
- Public maintenance facility
- Public park and recreational area
- Utility service/minor
- Adult entertainment establishment
- Agricultural service
- Auction establishment
- Bank
- Business support service
- Business or trade school
- Construction office, temporary
- Crematorium
- General service and repair
- Laundry
- Livestock auction market
- Office, general
- Truck stop
- Convenience center
- Industry, Type I
- Industry, Type II
- Laboratory
- Recycling center
- Scrap and salvage service
- Transfer station
- Warehousing and distribution
- Parking facility
- Reconstructed wetland
- Windmill
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase to 70 ft with yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. increase70 ft
The height limit for principal structures may be increased to 70 feet or up to five stories, whichever is lesser; provided, that each required yard is increased one foot for each additional foot of principal structure height over 35 feet.
- Base heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. limit35 ft
The height limit shall be 35 feet in height.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures only in side or rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
Accessory structures shall only be allowed in the side or rear yard (behind the front face of the principle building).
- Buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.
A buffer yard is required on lots adjacent to residential and agricultural zoning districts (see section 5-400).
- Building separation for structures over 35 ft30 ft
Where structures exceed the 35-foot height requirement a building separation of 30 feet shall be required.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on secondary highway50 ft
On secondary highway or other street: 50 feet.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: 40,000 square feet. Maximum building height: All structures: 75 feet. The height limit shall be 35 feet in height. The height limit for principal structures may be increased to 70 feet or up to five stories.