[Added 7-25-77 by Ord. No. 77-8-OOO]
Uses permitted shall be:
A. 
All uses and buildings permitted in the R-3 District, subject to the restrictions and procedures set forth in § 228-26.
B. 
Professional occupations, including the office of a physician, surgeon, dentist, veterinarian, minister, architect, engineer, attorney or other member of a recognized profession.
C. 
The studio of a teacher of music, dancing or art.
D. 
The studio of a photographer.
E. 
The office of an insurance agent, real estate broker, accountant, travel agent or bookkeeper.
F. 
Undertaking establishment.
G. 
Any other use similar to those listed above, provided that the Board of Adjustment or Planning Board, as the case may be, shall review such request and determine whether it is similar to any use listed above.
H. 
Residential dwellings. Where a single-family dwelling existed on a lot in a residential zone at the time this section was adopted (July 25, 1977), the residential use may be thereafter continued and the structure may be thereafter enlarged or expanded as long as the proposed alteration conforms to the minimum requirements for height, area, yard and off-street parking as they existed prior to July 25, 1977. If the proposed alteration does not conform to the prior bulk regulations, an application for a bulk variance shall be made to the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
[Added 8-27-79 by Ord. No. 79-159]
[Amended 5-22-78 by Ord. No. 78-29; 6-25-79 by Ord. No. 79-146; 12-13-82 by Ord. No. 82-480; 8-28-89 by Ord. No. 89-51; 10-27-97 by Ord. No. 97-22; 6-23-2025 by Ord. No. 25-24; 8-11-2025 by Ord. No. 25-28]
A. 
All uses not specifically listed above as permitted are hereby prohibited and specifically the following:
(1) 
Fast food restaurants.
(2) 
Mechanical amusement devices and mechanical amusement facilities.
(3) 
Sex clubs and massage parlors.
(4) 
Limousine or livery service.
(5) 
Storage yard for wreckers and damaged or disabled vehicles associated with a wrecker operation.
No building or structure in an OP-2 District shall be erected or enlarged to exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height, measured at the average grade around the structure, or two and one-half (2 1/2) stories.
A. 
Minimum lot size for undertaking establishments shall be 1.5 acres. Minimum lot size for all other permitted uses shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.
[Amended 9-28-81 by Ord. No. 81-400]
B. 
Maximum coverage for buildings and structures shall be thirty percent (30%) of the total lot area. Total lot coverage, including buildings, structures, parking, loading drives, walkways and other paved surfaces shall not exceed sixty-five percent (65%) of the total lot area.
C. 
Every lot used for buildings and uses permitted in the OP-2 District, as listed under § 228-143, shall have a minimum width of one hundred twenty (120) feet at the street line, except that one side of a corner lot shall have a minimum of one hundred sixty (160) feet at the street line.
D. 
Front yards of business lots shall have a minimum depth of 20 feet from the street line if off street parking space is to be provided at the side or rear of the building and a minimum depth of sixty (60) feet from the street line if off street parking space is to be provided in front of the building. In any location where the land on the opposite side of the street is in a residence district, the twenty foot strip of front yard adjacent to the street line shall be improved with a landscaped buffer, installed with a mixture of deciduous and coniferous plant materials at a minimum height of four feet and maintained at a height of a minimum of six (6) feet, excluding areas necessary for adequate sight distance, and this area shall not be used for off-street parking purposes or for the display of merchandise. An earth berm of a minimum of three feet may be installed in such a twenty-foot landscaped buffer area, in which case the height of the plant materials may be revised as approved by the Planning Board at the time of site plan approval.
E. 
Side yards of business lots shall have a minimum width of 20 feet each from the side lot lines.
F. 
Rear yards of business lots shall have a minimum depth of sixty (60) feet from the rear lot line. In any location where the land on the opposite side of the street of a rear property line is in a residential district, there shall be a twenty foot strip of the rear yard adjacent to the street line improved with a landscaped buffer, installed with a mixture of deciduous and coniferous plant materials at a minimum height of four feet and maintained at a height of a minimum of six (6) feet, excluding areas necessary for adequate sight distance, and this area shall not be used for off street parking purposes or for the display of merchandise. An earth berm of a minimum of three feet may be installed in such a twenty foot landscaped buffer area, in which case the height of the plant materials may be revised as approved by the Planning Board at the time of the site plan approval.
[Amended 11-28-77 by Ord. No. 77-8-UUU]
G. 
An attached group of businesses and offices may be considered as one building in applying the above yard space requirements.
H. 
In any OP-2 Zone where the zone line is immediately contiguous or adjacent to any residential zone, a fifty foot landscaped buffer shall be installed of deciduous and coniferous plant materials at a minimum height of five (5) feet and maintained at a minimum height of not less than fifteen (15) feet. An earth berm of a minimum height of five (5) feet may be constructed, in which case the Planning Board may lessen the requirements for plant materials. The Planning Board may waive the requirements for buffering if equivalent screening is provided by parks or by topography or other natural conditions. Such a buffer area is required to shield adjacent residential areas from parking lot illumination, headlights and fumes and to diminish the visual encroachment of residential privacy and residential neighborhood characteristics.
I. 
All buildings within two hundred (200) feet of residential zones shall be designed in a residential character emulating the architectural style of residential areas in scale, height of buildings, facade materials and general structural treatment.