In this bylaw the following terms shall have
the meanings described below:
A use which, in the Town of Barre, is customarily subordinate
or incidental to the principal use of land or buildings.
A building designed as a dwelling for three or more families.
A dwelling in which the family resident therein provides
eating and/or sleeping accommodations for not more than six paying
guests who use only the cooking facility ordinarily used by the resident
family.
[Amended 6-12-2000 ATM, Art. 42]
A roofed structure forming a shelter for persons, animals
or property, and permanently located on the land.
A building or portion thereof designed for residential occupancy
on a year-round or seasonal basis, but not including apartment house,
boardinghouse, hotel or motel.
A parcel of land used principally for raising crops, or for
the raising of livestock and poultry, dairy cattle, plant or tree
nurseries or for greenhouses. Includes necessary personnel, structures,
buildings, vehicles and equipment, but not residential or commercial
structures other than those directly related to farm operation.
The dimension of a lot along the street that the lot abuts.
Said dimension is not necessarily a straight line.
[Added 2-28-2005 STM, Art. 4]
One use customarily conducted within a dwelling, such as
dressmaking, teaching of not more than two students simultaneously,
office of medical doctor, dentist, attorney, architect or certified
public accountant, carried on by the owner/occupant thereof with not
more than two nonresident employees, provided that such use is secondary
to the use of the dwelling for residential purposes by the owner and
does not change the residential character thereof.
[Amended 6-12-2000 ATM, Art. 42]
Land or structures used commercially for collecting, storing
or selling wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, or discarded material; or
for collecting, dismantling, storing, salvaging or selling inoperative
machinery or vehicles or parts thereof.
A tract of land under separate ownership, occupied or intended
to be occupied by a principal building and the structures accessory
to it and including such open spaces as are required.
A building or group of buildings on a single lot, detached
or in connected units, desired for transients and providing for accessory
off-street parking facilities for each room or suite.
Use of a building or land, existing at the time of the enactment
or subsequent amendment of the Zoning Bylaw, which does not conform
to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.
The office of recognized professionals, such as a doctor,
dentist, lawyer, architect, engineer, artist, musician, designer,
or teacher, as distinguished from an office of a business nature.
A use allowed in residential districts with a special permit
not to require more than two employees not including the owner occupant,
provided that such use is secondary to the use of the dwelling for
residential purposes by the owner and does not change the residential
character thereof.
[Added 6-13-2005 ATM, Art. 28]
A structure that is designed, constructed and intended to
convert solar energy to electricity generated for residential or commercial
use. "Solar energy facility" shall include and not be limited to:
solar energy facilities, whether referred to as "solar energy facility,"
"photovoltaic facility," "solar photovoltaic system," or otherwise.
[Added 6-21-2016 ATM,
Art. 47]
A permit approved by the special permit granting authority as designated at § 140-30, for uses that require a special permit in this bylaw, MGL c. 40A, § 9, and any other provision of MGL following a public hearing process as required by MGL c. 40A, § 11, and any other requirement of MGL.
[Added 2-26-1979 STM, Art. 6; amended 6-21-2016, Art. 44]
A public or private vehicular thoroughfare which affords
the principal means of access to abutting property and which, as defined,
includes the entire right-of-way. If no right-of-way has been established,
it shall be deemed to extend 25 feet on each side of the center of
the traveled way and parallel thereto.
A combination of materials assembled at a fixed location
to give support or shelter or for other purposes, shall include buildings,
framework, sheds, platforms, towers and the like.
A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided
for paid transient guests.
A group of at least two trailers or mobile homes.
A vehicle, with or without motive power, used or intended
to be used for human habitation or for office or business use.
A vehicular, portable unit designed for travel, camping or
recreational use.
[Added 6-12-2000 ATM, Art. 42]
The purpose for which a building or land is arranged or intended,
or for which a building or tract of land is or may be occupied.
Administrative permission to use land or structures for a
use prohibited by the applicable zoning regulations as provided under
criteria in other sections of this bylaw. Variances may be granted
for relief from use and/or area requirements of the bylaw.
[Amended 2-26-1979 STM, Art. 6]
