In this bylaw, the following terms shall have
the meanings described below:
A use or building which is subordinate and customarily incidental
to and located on the same lot with the principal use or building
to which it is accessory.
A shop or garage for the repair of motor vehicles, other
than a private garage or service station.
A structure having a roof or cover and forming a shelter
for persons, animals or property.
A building or part thereof designed, erected and used for
continuous and permanent habitation for one family or individual,
but not including trailers, however mounted, or commercial accommodations
offered for periodic occupancy.
Any number of persons living together as a single economic
unit and ordinarily using a single cooking facility.
A structure or lot used for the sale of gasoline and oil
or servicing or storing motor vehicles, other than a private garage.
A building or part thereof, or group of buildings on a single
lot, where space is used for sleeping or eating by more than three
persons as paying guests, regular or transient.
Multifamily dwellings which consist of buildings containing
no less than two nor more than 10 independent units consisting of
a room or suite of rooms, its own bath and toilet facilities and its
own kitchen facility. In one building, a unit may be included for
occupancy by the manager of the project and his/her immediate family,
one room of which may be used as an office, and except for the unit
to be occupied and used as aforesaid by the manager, each building
and each unit shall be restricted to occupancy as an age-restricted
community in which at least one occupant of each unit shall be at
least 55 years of age or older at the time of occupancy in accordance
with 24 CFR 100, 300 and other applicable laws, and provided such
occupancy conforms with the Federal Fair Housing Act, 42 USC § 3607(b),
as amended, the regulations promulgated thereunder at 24 CFR 100,
300 et seq., Subpart E - Housing for Older Persons, as amended, and
the Massachusetts Fair Housing law, MGL c. 151B, § 4.
[Amended 5-8-2018 ATM,
Art. 18]
The area of a single parcel of land under single ownership,
whether the tenure be joint, in common or by entirety. Whenever such
parcel is on a plan which has been recorded or filed at the Essex
County Registry of Deeds the term "lot" as used in this bylaw shall
mean a single parcel on the plan. Further the description of a lot
set forth in an application shall not be changed in any future application
unless such future application conforms to this bylaw, and no new
description including part of an old lot shall be permitted unless
the remaining part of the old lot shall conform to the yard and area
regulations of this bylaw.
Covered space for the housing of motor vehicles, no more
than two of which belong to others than the occupants of the lot on
which such space is located.
Rebuilding within the same footprint and total square footage
and having similar dimensions.
[Added 5-11-2004 ATM, Art. 32]
A dwelling in which the family resident therein provides
eating and/or sleeping accommodations for not more than four paying
guests who use only the cooking facility ordinarily used by the resident
family.
A public way, a way opened or dedicated to public use or
a way plotted and laid out for ultimate public use, whether or not
constructed.
The sideline of a street or way, as determined by deeds and
plans recorded at the Registry of Deeds; where no line is thus legally
established, then a line parallel with and 25 feet distant from the
center line of a traveled way.
Any construction, erection, assemblage or other combination
of materials upon the land made in such a manner as to indicate a
purpose that it remain in position indefinitely but excluding fences,
signs and driveways.
[Amended 5-9-1990 ATM, Art. 24]
A wireless communications monopole, including antennas and
accessory structures, if any, which facilitates the provision of wireless
communications services.
[Added 5-22-1997 ATM, Art. 51]
The following types of services: cellular telephone service,
personal communications and enhanced specialized mobile radio service.
[Added 5-22-1997 ATM, Art. 51]
