Industrial B Districts shall be that area bounded
by Suffield Street, Silver Street and Shoemaker Lane zoned Industrial
at the Town Meeting of December 10, 1957, and those areas zoned Industrial
B on or after the Town Meeting of December 10, 1957.
Permitted uses shall be all uses permitted in
Industrial District A.
Industrial buildings shall not exceed two stories,
40 feet in height, except with approval of the Board of Appeals after
a public hearing. These provisions shall not apply to required equipment
appurtenant to industrial buildings, except that smokestacks, water
tanks, grain elevators and the like are not permissible except after
approval of the Board of Appeals after a public hearing.
A.
No lot shall have an area less than 43,560 square
feet, one acre, on which a building may be constructed for industrial
use, except with approval of the Board of Appeals relative only to
previously filed lots whose area is less than one acre; provided that
the file lot does not abut an additional parcel owned by the same
owner which if combined would meet with the one-acre requirement of
this section.
B.
Except for office, professional or administrative
buildings, no building shall be less than 5,000 square feet in area.
C.
No lot shall have frontage of less than 100 feet on
a street line; however, this frontage requirement shall not apply
to lots established by a deed or plan recorded in the Hampden County
Registry of Deeds prior to the first notice of the public hearing
on this subsection amendment (March 3, 1994) if, and only if, said
parcel of land was not held in common ownership with sufficient adjoining
parcels of land on the date of the first notice of public hearing
on this subsection amendment (March 3, 1994) to satisfy, in combination,
the required 100 feet of frontage on a street line.
[Added 5-2-1994 by TOR-94-5]
A.
To assure that structures in industrial districts
shall be reasonably attractive in appearance, the builder or his representative
shall submit to the Planning Board, in addition to other requirements,
an architect's rendering or comparable illustration of the planned
construction, including landscaping, prior to applying for a building
permit. Unless such a drawing approved by the Planning Board is submitted
to the Inspector of Buildings, no permit for an industrial building
shall be issued, nor shall an occupancy permit be granted unless and
until the finished structure conforms in appearance to the drawing
submitted.
B.
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former Subsection B, which provided that
the front of the building must be faced with either brick masonry
exterior walls, curtain walls of decorated colored aluminum, enameled
colored steel, stainless steel walls or glass wall construction and
have an attractive appearance, was repealed 11-19-2018 by TOR-2018-14.
C.
All buildings in an industrial zone shall be appropriately
landscaped with lawns, shrubs and trees.
D.
All residential development is prohibited, except
that alteration, reconstruction, extension or structural change to
any existing residential structure is permitted.
[Amended 11-9-1994 by TOR-94-7]
E.
Not more than one unregistered motor vehicle shall
be allowed on any parcel of land used as a gasoline filling station;
provided, however, that any such gasoline filling station having an
automobile dealer's permit shall be governed by the provisions of
such permit.