A.
Unless otherwise provided by these regulations, in a business or
industrial zone, every building shall be required to be set back from
the property line such a distance as may be necessary to keep its
street wall, walls or covered porches thirty-five (35) feet from the
center line of the street or streets upon which its lot may abut or
front, except that where twenty-five percent (25%) of the length of
a given block front is occupied by buildings on the street line or
within one (1) foot of same, no setback shall be required for additional
buildings on said block front.
[Amended effective 1-16-1987]
B.
Wherever the Common Council shall have established a building line
or wherever the Common Council may in the future establish a building
line, as provided in the Charter of the City of Norwalk, then such
building line shall control the distance that the buildings shall
be set back upon the lot, in lieu of these regulations.
C.
No building or structure shall be maintained within seventy (70)
feet of the center line of Connecticut Avenue as established by George
C. Stout, City Engineer, and which center line is shown and delineated
on a certain map entitled "Map Showing Center Line of Traveled Portion
of Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut, August, 1944," said map
on file in the Town Clerk's office.
[Amended effective 12-20-1944]
D.
No building or structure of any kind shall be erected or maintained
within fifty (50) feet of the center line of Main Avenue as shown
on a certain map entitled, "Map of Main Avenue, Showing Center Line
Established for Zone and Building Line Purposes from Merritt Parkway
to Wilton Town Line, 1946," on file in the Town Clerk's office.
[Amended effective 3-22-1946]
E.
No building or structure of any kind shall be erected or maintained
within fifty (50) feet of the center line of Westport Avenue, said
center line as shown on certain maps, three (3) entitled "Maps Showing
Center Line of Traveled Portion of Westport Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut,
1" = 40', 1947," said maps being on file in the office of the
Town Clerk under file numbers 2560, 2561 and 2562. Reference to said
maps is hereby made and had for the particular location of said center
line.
[Amended effective 12-15-1950]
F.
All properties used for commercial and industrial purposes shall
provide a buffer strip on every side which abuts a residence zone,
except that no buffer or graduated setbacks from residence zones shall
be required where the abutting property is within a limited access
highway or railroad right-of-way. An existing commercial or industrial
building or use shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.
All buffer strips must be kept free of litter and maintained to the
satisfaction of the Zoning Inspector.
[Added effective 9-15-1975; amended effective 1-16-1987; effective 8-30-2002]
G.
Each buffer strip shall be a minimum of 10% of the average lot width
or depth, but need not exceed 30 feet maximum.
[Added effective 9-15-1975; amended effective 1-16-1987]
H.
The treatment of the buffer strip shall be subject to the approval
of the Zoning Inspector. Fences, walls, berms, existing vegetation
or natural changes in grade may supplement planted material or be
considered in lieu thereof when, in the opinion of the Zoning Inspector,
the intent of this regulation is adequately served. The Zoning Inspector
shall consider the extent to which the treatment of the buffer strip
screens noise, glare, smoke and visibility from adjacent properties.
[Added effective 9-15-1975]
A.
Except with the permission of the Commission, under appropriate conditions
and safeguards, no zoning approval shall be issued for the erection
of a garage for more than five motor vehicles or a motor vehicle service
station or gas filling station, or for the conversion of any premises
not so used to be used for such purposes, in any business or industrial
zone, if any part of the lot or plot in question is situated within
a distance of 200 feet as measured along the public street of or within
any portion of a street between two intersecting streets, between
two intercepting streets, or between an intersecting or intercepting
street in which portion there exists:
[Amended effective 7-15-1976; 12-11-1981; effective 7-28-2006]
B.
No gasoline filling appliance shall be located within 10 feet of
a street line or within five feet of an adjacent property line.
C.
No existing garage for more than five motor vehicles, a group of
garages for more than five motor vehicles or a motor vehicle service
station or gas filling station shall be deemed to become a nonconforming
use through the subsequent erection of such a school, hospital, theater
or library, as defined above, within the aforesaid prescribed area.
D.
So as to reduce traffic generation and traffic hazards, after the
effective date of this amendment to this section and these regulations,
no retail gasoline station shall be constructed or located within
2,000 feet of an existing gasoline filling station (retail). This
provision shall not, however, make nonconforming uses of retail gasoline
filling stations otherwise conforming as of the effective date thereof.
[Amended effective 12-11-1969]
E.
In accordance with Section 14-54 of the Connecticut General Statutes,
as revised, and any additional requirements herein, the Commission
shall review and act on requests for certificates of approval of locations
for licenses for dealing in or repairing of motor vehicles.
[Added effective 7-28-2006]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 118-1020, Liquor outlets
in business and industrial zones, as amended, was repealed effective
7-25-2008.
[Added effective 1-28-1994; amended effective 6-25-1999]
A.
Adult use establishments, where otherwise permitted by these regulations,
shall be subject to the following restrictions:
(1)
No adult use establishment shall be allowed within 1,000 feet
of another existing adult use establishment. The 1,000 feet shall
be measured as a straight airline distance, without regard to intervening
terrain or the actual means of travel between the two points, from
the entrance of the proposed adult use establishment to the property
line of a lot of an existing adult use establishment, as certified
by a licensed surveyor.
(2)
No adult use establishment shall be located within 500 feet
of an existing place of worship, school or community center. The 500
feet shall be measured as a straight airline distance, without regard
to intervening terrain or the actual means of travel between the two
points, from the entrance of the proposed adult use establishment
to the property line of a lot with an existing place of worship, school
or community center, as certified by a licensed surveyor.
(3)
No adult use establishment shall be located within 200 feet
of a residence zone. The 200 feet shall be measured as a straight
airline distance, without regard to intervening terrain or the actual
means of travel between the two points, from the entrance of the proposed
adult use establishment to the boundary of the residence zone.
(4)
No adult use establishment shall be permitted in a Neighborhood
Business, Rowayton Avenue Village District, East Avenue Village District,
Silvermine Tavern Village District, Golden Hill Village District,
Executive Office, South Norwalk Business District, Central Business
District, SoNo Station Design District, Washington Street Design District,
Reed Putnam Design District or a Marine Commercial Zoning District.
Adult use establishments shall not be permitted by variance in zones
where adult use establishments are prohibited.
[Amended effective 11-28-2003; effective 1-28-2010; effective 6-13-2019]
(5)
No adult use establishment shall be conducted in any manner
that permits the observation from any public right-of-way of any material
depicting, describing or relating to the adult use activities or products
located therein, specifically those activities or products in the
adult use definition.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 118-1031, Amortization
of adult use establishments, added effective 1-24-1994, was repealed
effective 5-26-2000.
