CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS
Area Regulations –
Lot Area: Minimum Size Required 8,500 SF
Lot Width: Minimum Width Required 85 FT
Frontage: Minimum Required 50 FT
Front Yard: Minimum Depth Required (See Note B)
Side Yard: Minimum Width Required (See Note C)
Rear Yard: Minimum Depth Required none
(See Notes A, D and E)
NOTE A: Section 6.3 includes additional regulations applicable in the CB district
NOTE B: The depth of required front yards shall be not less than the average setback of any principal buildings within 125 feet on each side of the proposed development. Said 125 foot distance shall be measured from the midpoint of the front street line but need not extend across any intervening street with a right of way width of 30 feet or more. In no case, however, shall the front yard setback exceed 25 feet. In the event there are no buildings on either side of the proposed development, such development may be placed on the front street line, provided entrances and exits are designed to prevent doors from opening into public sidewalks.
NOTE C: Side yards, corner lots: No part of any building on a corner lot shall be nearer the side street line than the average setback of any principal building on such side street within 150 feet of the proposed development. Said 150 foot distance shall be measured from the midpoint of the side street line for such development but need not extend across any intervening street within a right of way width of 30 feet or more. In no case shall the depth of such a side yard exceed 15 feet and for those corner side yards located along arterial streets, the depth of side yards shall not be less than 15 feet. In all other cases, if there are no principal within 150 feet of the proposed development, such development may be placed on the side street line provided entrances and exits are designed to prevent doors from opening into public sidewalks.
NOTE D: No commercial establishment for the sale or dispensing of alcoholic beverages shall hereafter be erected or placed so that any entrance or exit at the street line thereto shall be within a radius of 200 feet from any entrance or exit at the street line of any public or private school, public library, church, playground or institution if such entrances or exits are on the same street or on an intersecting street; and no driveway or door to such premises shall be in any part within thirty (30) feet of any residence district.
NOTE E: See Section 10.1 for standards regarding the coordinated development of parcels in excess of 30,000 square feet.
Building Regulations -
Building Coverage of Lot - Maximum Percentage Permitted 90%
Building Height: Maximum Permitted 4 Stories or 60 FT
(See Note A)
NOTE A: Special Permits as to building height limits may be granted by the Board of Appeals provided that such permits require side yards of not less than one-fourth of the height of the building.
Permitted Uses in Central Business District- Table 5-2 -
**Subject to Change, MUST be confirmed with current Zoning Ordinance
RESIDENTIAL USES
1. Boarding house and lodging house- requires site plan review
COMMUNITY FACILITIES
1. Churches or other religious purposes and any religious sectarian or denominational educational purposes
2. Educational uses, not conducted for profit
3. Child care facilities
4. Family home day care- requires site plan review and special permit
5. Recreation community center- requires site plan review and special permit
6. Membership clubs, lodges- requires site plan review and special permit
7. Municipal, County, State and Federal use- requires site plan review
8. Cemeteries adjacent to or in extension of existing cemeteries and cemeteries for the use of religious societies
RETAIL AND SERVICE COMMERCIAL USES
1. Convenience market- requires site plan review
2. Bookstore, newsstands, stationery stores, barber shops and beauty parlors- requires site plan review
3. Pharmacy, drugstore- requires site plan review
4. Supermarket, grocery store- requires site plan review
5. All other retail establishments- requires site plan review
6. Restaurants, cafeterias, lunchrooms, coffee shops, and other similar eating places- requires site plan review
7. Taverns, pubs and cocktail lounges- requires site plan review
8. Hotel, motel, inn, bed-and-breakfast use- requires site plan review
9. Gasoline filling stations and commercial automobile parking lot- requires site plan review
10. Gasoline filling station with convenience market- requires site plan review
11. Car wash- requires site plan review
12. Funeral home- requires site plan review
13. Theater, billiard or pool parlor, bowling alley, skating rinks, and similar indoor recreational uses or places of amusement, not including carnivals or circuses- requires site plan review and special permit
14. Self-service stores for laundry and dry-cleaning - requires site plan review
15. All other personal service establishments- requires site plan review
16. Consumer service establishments- requires site plan review
17. Photocopy shop, printing shop engaged in sheet-fed printing- requires site plan review
18. Bank, credit union, trust company or similar financial institution- requires site plan review
19. Bank, credit union or trust company with drive through service- requires special permit
20. Medical/dental center, offices, clinic or laboratory- requires site plan review
21. Rest home, convalescent home, nursing home- requires site plan review and special permit
22. Telephone and express offices, radio and television broadcasting stations and film studios- requires site plan review
23. All other professional, business, insurance, executive, administrative, and technical offices and services- requires site plan review
24. Residential Communications Link
25. Wireless Communication Facilities
26.
AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES
1. Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, or viticulture
2. Bus, railroad or other public transportation stations- requires site plan review
3. Removal of soil, loam, sand or gravel from land not in public use
ACCESSORY USES
1. Accessory storage of unregistered motor vehicle stored in the open
2. Fences
3. Accessory industrial and commercial structures to serve principal industrial and commercial uses respectively- requires site plan review
4. Accessory signs
5. Accessory off-street parking and loading standards
6. Off-site parking area or structure
7. Temporary structure
8. Storage
9. Common Driveways- requires special permit