[Amended 10-6-1983 ATM by Art. 24, approved 12-7-1983; 4-9-1984 ATM by Art.
24, approved 6-15-1984]
A building or group of buildings operated by
a public agency, having three (3) or fewer independent dwelling units,
each having a room or suite of rooms with its own bathroom and toilet
facilities, for occupancy by a family unit consisting of one (1) or
more persons, such building or group of buildings having separate
kitchen facilities for the preparation and serving of meals to residents
thereof and their guests (but not to the public), and at the option
of the owner, lounge rooms for the common use of the residents thereof,
and their guests, also in connection therewith, the parking of automobiles
and such other accessory uses as are customary, all subject to conformity
with the following Subsections A and B of this section:
A. No building or other structure shall be erected or
placed on a lot containing less than forty thousand (40,000) square
feet in area.
B. In all other respects, the dimensional and density
regulations for the district in which the use is proposed shall apply.
(See the Table of Dimensional and Density Regulations.)
[Added 10-4-1984 ATM by Art. 14, approved 1-8-1985; amended 3-13-2017 STM by Art. 1, approved 4-24-2017]
A building or group of buildings, located within the Residence M (RM) Zoning District, having four (4) or more independent dwelling units, each having a room or suite of rooms with its own bathroom and toilet facilities and kitchen and cooking facilities, for occupancy by a family unit consisting of one (1) or more persons and in connection therewith, the parking of automobiles in accordance with Article
XIII and such other accessory uses as are customary, all subject to conformity with the following Subsections A through I of this section. The provisions of this section of the Zoning Bylaw are intended for multi-family residential structures within the RM Zoning District. Other multi-family residential structures are controlled by the provisions of their respective zoning districts, including overlay zoning districts.
A. No building or other structure shall be erected or
placed on a lot containing less than forty thousand (40,000) square
feet in area within the RM Zoning District;
B. There shall be provided a land area of not less than
three thousand five hundred (3,500) square feet located within the
RM District for each dwelling unit;
C. Each lot within the RM Zoning District shall have a frontage of at least seventy-five (75) feet on a street. Said frontage shall be on a street as defined under Chapter
41, Section 81L as follows:
(1) A public way or a way which the Town Clerk certifies
is maintained and used as a public way; or
(2) A way shown on a plan approved and endorsed under
the Subdivision Control Law; or
(3) A way in existence on or before September 19, 1944,
having, in the opinion of the Community Planning Commission, sufficient
width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide for the
needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed use of the
land abutting thereon or served thereby, and for the installation
of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected
or to be erected thereon;
D. No building or addition to any building, including
accessory buildings, shall be erected or placed on a lot which will
result in the covering of that portion of the lot located within the
RM District by buildings of more than twenty (20) percent of the portion
of the lot in the RM District;
E. No building shall exceed two and one-half (2 1/2)
stories in height within the RM Zoning District;
F. No building or structure shall be located within thirty
(30) feet of any property boundary line abutting a street or within
twenty (20) feet of any other property boundary line within the RM
Zoning District;
G. Screening and buffering within the RM Zoning District shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of §
200-64 and the provisions of §
200-87 as applicable to multi-family development, except that the area between a property boundary line abutting a street and a line thirty (30) feet from and parallel thereto shall be kept open and in lawn or landscaped, unparked on and unbuilt upon except for driveways and walks. Any other provision to the contrary notwithstanding, the area between any other property boundary line and a line ten (10) feet from and parallel thereto shall be kept open and in lawn or landscaped, unparked on and unbuilt upon;
H. All parking and loading facilities within the RM Zoning
District shall be suitably landscaped. Such landscaping shall be designed
to minimize the impact of the parking area upon adjacent property
and within the lot by the use of existing vegetation to the extent
practicable and new trees, shrubs, walls, fences and other landscape
elements. In the case of parking facilities for more than forty (40)
spaces, at least five (5) percent of the area within the limits of
the parking facilities shall be set aside for landscaped areas and
such areas shall be provided with a minimum width of ten (10) feet,
curbing and shade trees;