In all RTC-1 Residence Town Center-1 Districts
the following uses, and no others, of lands and buildings are permitted:
A. Single-family and two-family detached dwellings.
B. Single-family and two-family semidetached dwellings.
C. Multiple-family dwellings, provided that a building
or a lot does not contain more than six dwelling units, when authorized
as a conditional use by the Planning Board.
[Amended 6-14-1993 by Ord. No. 1666-93]
D. Home occupations as allowed in the R-1 Zone and as
permitted therein.
[Added 6-14-1993 by Ord. No. 1666-93]
E. Accessory uses and accessory structures on the same
lot with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted
uses, including the renting of not more than three rooms, without
housekeeping privileges, in a main dwelling to not more than a total
of four nontransient roomers or boarders, provided that off-street
parking space is available exclusively for said roomers or boarders
as follows: one space for each roomer or boarder having use of a motor
vehicle, but in no case less than one space for each room so rented.
[Amended 8-12-1985 by Ord. No 1239]
Height, bulk, area and buffer requirements shall
be as follows:
A. Height: The maximum allowable height is 35 feet.
B. Front yards:
(1) All front yards shall be equal to the average building
setbacks of existing main buildings within 100 feet of both sides
of the lot or lots on which the proposed building is to be located.
(Any vacant lots within that distance shall be assumed to have a front
yard equal to the average of the lots abutting them or, if those are
vacant, the first lots with an existing building.)
(2) Front yards required under this section shall be solely
devoted to landscaping and a driveway. Parking lots are specifically
prohibited between the street and the front of any building.
C. Lot area, rear and side yards and lot coverage requirements:
(1) Single-family detached dwellings and two-family detached
dwellings:
(a)
Minimum rear yard: 15 feet.
(b)
Minimum lot area: 4,000 square feet per dwelling
unit.
(c)
Minimum side yard: each eight feet wide.
(d)
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious
surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.
(2) Single-family semidetached dwellings and two-family
semidetached dwellings:
(a)
Minimum rear yard: 15 feet.
(b)
Minimum lot area: 4,000 square feet per dwelling
unit
(c)
Minimum side yard: one side yard, 10 feet wide.
(d)
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious
surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.
(3) Multifamily dwellings:
(a)
Minimum rear yard: 25 feet.
(b)
Minimum lot area: 4,000 feet per dwelling unit.
(c)
Minimum side yard: each 15 feet wide.
(d)
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious
surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.
D. Buffers. With off-street parking for four or more
cars, excluding single-width driveways, all lots shall be provided
with at least a five-foot-wide buffer strip in the required side and
rear yards and on which no impervious cover is allowed. The buffer
area must be provided with a permanent landscape screen of trees and
shrubs and/or fencing. The purpose of the screen is to block any view
of the off-street parking lot from the street, other than along a
driveway, and from all abutting residential properties. Landscape
plans shall include a minimum of 60% evergreen material. The shrubs
shall be a minimum of three feet in height at the time of planting
and have a mature height of at least five feet. Evergreen trees shall
be at least five feet in height at the time of planting and must be
accompanied by low-growing material to supplement the screen when
these trees are mature and have a tendency to lose lower branches.
Deciduous trees shall have a caliper of at least 2 1/2 inches
in diameter, measured four feet above the ground.