The Arts Overlay District (AOD) is established to encourage
the development, preservation, and enhancement of Arts-Related Uses,
particularly within East Dedham. The district shall preserve and enhance
the area as a center for a variety of retail, business services, housing,
and office uses, and promote strong pedestrian character and scale
throughout the district.
The boundaries of the AOD are depicted on the Zoning Map on
file with the Town Clerk.
The provisions of the Arts Overlay District (AOD) shall apply
to all land within the AOD. Any matter not addressed herein shall
be governed by the Single Residence B, General Residence, General
Business, and Limited Manufacturing A provisions of the Zoning Bylaw.
To the extent of any inconsistency between the provisions of the AOD
and any other provisions of the Dedham Zoning Bylaw, the provision
of the AOD shall govern. Uses allowed by right in the Single Residence
B, General Residence, General Business, and Limited Manufacturing
A shall also be allowed by right in the AOD.
ART
The production of art or create work either written, composed,
created, or executed by a craftsperson, visual artist, musician, photographer,
sculptor, woodworker, digital media, literature, illustrator, printmaker,
fabric artist, and culinary artist. Such use may include the fine
and applied arts including painting or other like picture, traditional
and fine crafts, sculpture, food, writing, print, motion picture production,
creating animation, the composition of music, choreography studio,
and the performing art studio.
ART AND COMMUNITY CENTER
A facility containing an Art Center and one or more additional
uses such as full service restaurant, community space open to the
general public for community activities, events, and other similar
community activities not associated with the arts.
ART CENTER
A facility where creative arts are produced, exhibited, performed,
taught, and sold such as drawing, painting, music, sculpture, metal
and woodworker, culinary arts, printmaking, ceramics, digital media
and broadcasting, textiles, fabric art, performance and dance, literature,
illustration, industrial art which includes art gallery, art school,
artist studio, concert hall, dinner theatre, live theatre, movie theatre
with seating capacity of not more than 100, museum, retail sales of
goods and services, provided the facility is operated in a unified
way under one management.
CREATIVE ART HOME OCCUPATION
The use of any portion of a dwelling or building accessory
thereto as an office, studio, or workroom for architect, landscape
architect, industrial designer, craftsperson, visual artist, musician,
photographer, sculptor, woodworker, digital media, literature, illustrator
by a person who owns the premises, provided that:
A.
Such use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the
premises as a dwelling.
B.
Not more than two persons other than residents of the premises
regularly provided aid services in connection with such use.
C.
Commodity or service can be sold or provided to another person
who is not on the premises, provided the space is less than 100 square
feet.
D.
No offensive noise, traffic, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, heat,
or glare is produced as a result of the home occupation.
E.
There is no exterior display or exterior sign except as permitted
under the Town of Dedham Sign Code.
F.
There is no exterior storage of materials or equipment, and
no other exterior indication of such use or variation from the residential
character of the premises.
G.
All parking for such home occupation, other than for residents
of the premises, shall be provided off street. Adequate off-street
parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of the
Zoning Bylaw.
H.
Such use has been approved in writing by the Building Commissioner.
SPECIALTY ARTISTIC MANUFACTURING/PRODUCTION
An establishment for the preparation, manufacturing, production,
display, and sale of individually crafted artwork, jewelry, furniture,
sculpture, pottery, leathercraft, hand-woven articles, and related
items of unique artistic works.
SPECIALTY ARTISTIC MANUFACTURING/PRODUCTION, SMALL SCALE
An establishment for the preparation, manufacturing, production,
display, and sale of individually crafted artwork, jewelry, furniture,
sculpture, pottery, leathercraft, hand-woven articles, and related
items of unique artistic works. Such manufacturing shall not be of
mass-production or assembly line nature, and will be consistent with
an artisan or craftsman custom producing individual items. The maximum
amount of space for this use shall be 2,000 square feet or less.
The following dimensional requirements shall govern within the AOD for the uses listed in the Table of Dimensional Requirements for the AOD. Within the AOD, these requirements shall supersede any contrary or inconsistent requirements in the Zoning Bylaw including, but not limited to, the requirements set forth in Article
IV. Except as set forth below, the dimensional requirements (Table 2) shall continue to apply to other uses allowed in the Single
Residence B, General Residence, General Business, and Limited Manufacturing
A.
Table 10 - Table of Dimensional Requirements - Arts Overlay
District
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Use
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Area
(square feet)
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Frontage
(feet)
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Front Setback
(feet)
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Side Setback
(feet)
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Rear Setback
(feet)
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Floor Area Ratio
(FAR)
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Art Center
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N/A
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N/A
|
0
|
N/A
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N/A
|
0.5
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Art and Community Center
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120,000
|
200
|
25
|
15
|
15
|
0.5
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Artist in combination with dwelling units
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16,000
|
50
|
0
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N/A
|
N/A
|
.5
|
Artist
|
N/A
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N/A
|
0
|
10
|
10
|
.5
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Specialty artistic manufacturing/production (small)
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N/A
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N/A
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0
|
10
|
10
|
0.5
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Specialty artistic manufacturing/production
|
N/A
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N/A
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0
|
15
|
15
|
0.5
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Notes to Table:
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1.
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More than one principal building is allowed on the same lot,
whether characterized as residential or nonresidential.
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2.
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Buildings may be connected across internal lot lines within
the AOD.
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Where soil conditions, lot shape, topography, architectural or structural conditions make literal compliance with the terms of §
280-12.8 or §
280-12.9 impracticable or infeasible, the Planning Board may approve a site plan showing alternative means of complying with the objectives of this Bylaw, and may allow the use of alternative land-scaping, buffers, or parking, provided it determines that such alternatives to be in the public interest and not inconsistent with the intent and purpose of this Bylaw. For any modification, the Planning Board shall make detailed written findings of:
A. Specific conditions that render literal compliance with the terms
of this Bylaw impracticable or infeasible.
B. The specific alternative means of complying with the terms of this
Bylaw.
C. An analysis of the manner in which the modification is in the public
interest and not inconsistent with the intent and purposes of this
Bylaw.