In all RLC Residence-Limited Commercial Districts the following uses, and no others, of lands and buildings are permitted, subject to the provisions of Articles
XXIII and
XXV hereof:
A. All uses permitted in R-3 Residence Districts, except the keeping of poultry or horses. A church shall comply with the standards included in §
180-45J of this chapter.
[Amended 3-10-1997 by Ord. No. 1813-97]
B. An office or office building for administrative or
executive offices, a central or headquarters office building for a
single concern or affiliated members or an insurance or financial
institution.
C. A professional office or office building, including
the offices of a physician, dentist, surgeon, optician or other practitioner
of the healing arts, attorney, accountant, tax consultant, architect,
engineer, insurance broker, real estate broker or any combination
of specified offices.
D. Sales offices, including the office of a manufacturer's
representative or catalogue-ordering establishment, provided that
no inventories of merchandise shall be maintained except for display
purposes in such offices.
E. A photographic or art studio or a dancing or music
studio when located and soundproofed so that there will not result
any noise or vibration which may interfere with the normal use of
an adjoining property for any other use permitted in the district.
F. Personal service shops as follows: beauty, barber-,
tailor or dressmaker shops, pickup agencies for dry cleaning, laundry,
shoe repair or similar services or the repair and servicing of radios,
televisions and appliances.
G. A motor vehicle parking lot or a motor vehicle parking
lot for customers, clients, employees and residents, neither of such
parking lots to be used for the sale, servicing or dead storage of
vehicles.
H. An undertaking establishment.
I. An identification sign, in accordance with the provisions of Article
XXIV, §
180-77, hereof.
J. In addition to a single-family detached dwelling, permitted under Subsection
A of this section, the following dwelling uses also are permitted:
(1) A two-family detached dwelling.
(2) A single-family or two-family semidetached dwelling,
provided that the dwelling with which it has a party wall in common
is erected at the same time.
(3) An apartment or apartments for not more than two families
in conjunction with business or office use of a building.
(4) A multiple dwelling, provided that it does not contain
dwelling units for more than six families.
(5) A multiple-family dwelling or a planned group of multiple-family
dwellings containing dwelling units for more than six families when
authorized as a conditional use by the Planning Board and subject
to the following:
(a)
Each dwelling or group of dwellings is designed
as a single architectural project or unit and is constructed, operated
and maintained as a single proprietary unit.
(b)
There shall be no commercial or business uses
within the project, except in those buildings which front on and face
a public street.
(c)
The plan is approved by the Planning Board in accordance with the provisions of §
180-107 hereof. Any subsequent change in the plan which involves additional uses or changes in type of uses shall be subject to the foregoing approval requirement and procedure.
K. Political campaign offices for a period not to exceed
three months. Notwithstanding anything in this chapter or the Land
Subdivision and Development Ordinance to the contrary, site plan review
shall not be required.
L. In those portions of an RLC Residence-Limited Commercial District which are designated on the Zoning Map as RLC-2, permitted uses shall be only those specified above in Subsections
A,
B,
C,
G,
I,
J and
K of this section.
In all RLC Residence-Limited Commercial Districts the following area restrictions and regulations are established for all dwellings and uses, except for multiple-family dwellings, authorized under §
180-54J(5):
A. Lot area.
(1) For single-family, two-family and multiple-family
dwellings which have not more than six dwelling units and for every
building used in whole or in part as a dwelling, a lot area per family
shall be provided in the RLC Districts and portions thereof designated
as RLC-1 and RLC-2 as follows:
(a)
RLC: 4,000 square feet per family.
(b)
RLC-1: 2,000 square feet per family.
(c)
RLC-2: 5,500 square feet per family.
(2) In the case of development of contiguous parcels by the same owner or development in RLC and RLC-2 Districts where the number of multiple-family dwelling units of such contiguous lots total more than six, the provisions of §§
180-54J(5),
180-56A and
B shall apply.
B. The maximum building coverage shall be 70%, and the
maximum impervious surface shall be 90%.
[Amended 10-28-2002 by Ord. No. 2013-02]
C. There shall be a front yard on each street on which
a lot abuts, which shall be not less than 25 feet in depth, subject
to the following provisions with respect to the existing alignment
of neighboring main buildings:
[Amended 5-22-1978 by Ord. No. 926]
(1) Such yard may be decreased in depth to the average
alignment of existing main buildings within 100 feet on either side
of the lot in which the proposed building is to be located, and within
the same block, if such alignment of existing buildings is less than
25 feet in depth.
(2) Such yard shall, however, be at least as deep as the
average alignment of existing main buildings within 100 feet on either
side of the lot on which the proposed building is to be located, and
within the same block, if such alignment of existing main buildings
is more than 25 feet in depth provided that in no case shall a front
yard greater than 60 feet be required.
(3) Where a vacant lot or portion thereof lies within 100 feet of either side of the lot on which the proposed building is to be located, such vacant lot shall be considered to include a building with a front yard of 25 feet for the purposes of calculating average alignment under Subsection
C(1) and
(2) above.
(4) Front yards required under this Subsection
C shall be devoted to landscaping, including trees, shrubs and lawn, and driveways as authorized by §
180-88 hereof.
D. Side yards shall be provided as follows:
(1) Single-family and two-family detached dwellings: two
side yards, neither of which shall be less than eight feet in width.
(2) Single-family and two-family semidetached dwellings:
one side yard not less than 10 feet in width.
(3) Multiple dwellings: two side yards, neither of which
shall be less than 15 feet in width.
(4) For each building which is used in whole or in part
for commercial purposes, there shall be two side yards, neither of
which shall be less than 10 feet in width; a group of attached buildings
erected in accordance with a unified plan approved by the Planning
Board shall be considered as one building for purposes of compliance
with side yard requirements. If the ground floor of a building is
interrupted for the purposes of an opening or passageway, said opening
or passageway shall not be less than five feet in width. No group
of attached buildings shall exceed 200 linear feet in frontage.
[Amended 12-8-1997 by Ord. No. 1842-97]
E. There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall
be not less than 15 feet in depth.
F. Buffer area requirements. In addition to the above
requirements, the following shall apply:
(1) Along that portion of the side or rear property line
of any lot in an RLC District used for commercial purposes which directly
abuts a lot in an R-1, R-1-A, R-2, or R-3 Residence District or abuts
a lot in another district used for residential purposes, a fifteen-foot
yard shall be provided. The five feet of such yard which abuts the
lot line shall be used exclusively as a buffer area.
(2) For the purposes of this chapter, such buffer area
is defined to include a screen planting of trees, shrubs or other
landscaping and/or fencing.
(3) Such landscaping and/or fencing shall be of sufficient
height and density to constitute an effective screen and give maximum
protection to an abutting property. Such trees or shrubs or other
landscaping at time of planting and/or fencing shall be at least five
feet in height and shall be maintained permanently. Plantings which
do not survive shall be replaced within six months. The buffer area
shall be used for no purpose other than planting or screening.
In all RLC Residence-Limited Commercial Districts
the following height restrictions and regulations are established:
A. No building or structure shall exceed 35 feet in height.