Definitions for the Route 1 zoning area; namely for the C-1N, C-1S,
and CRSP-R1 Districts.
AQUACULTURE
The science, art, and business of cultivating marine or freshwater
food, shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, or fish under controlled conditions
for distribution and consumption.
BREWERY
A facility, licensed under the relevant state and federal
statutes, for the production and packaging of malt, ale, spirituous,
wine, or hard cider beverages for distribution, retail, or wholesale
sale, which may include a tap room or tasting room where beverages
produced on the premises may be sold and consumed. The definition
of "brewery" includes "distillery" or "winery."
BUSINESS SERVICES
Business services include services in the business-to-business
market, such as equipment rental or leasing, photocopying, printing
and marketing services, graphic design, advertising and media services,
or computer and technology-related services. Adult cabaret establishments
or adult motion-picture theaters are not business services. Radio
and telecommunications transmission are not considered business services.
CAMPGROUND
An area or tract of land on which accommodations for temporary
occupancy are located or may be placed, including cabins, tents, and
major recreational equipment, and which is primarily used for recreational
purposes and retains an open air or natural character.
CHILD-CARE FACILITY
A day-care center or a school-age child-care program, as
these terms are defined in MGL c. 28A, § 9, as amended from
time to time.
COMMON DRIVEWAY
A driveway servicing at least two but no more than four building
lots, provided said driveway extends from the street frontage of a
lot of one of the uses being served. Common driveways shall also include
any driveway serving two or more uses on separate building lots, provided
said uses existed before July 20, 1999, and that said driveway would
not serve any additional uses unless otherwise in compliance with
this definition. Within any district, each lot must have the street
frontage for that zoning district. A common driveway is not a street
and does not provide legal street frontage.
CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS, HEAVY VEHICLE STORAGE
A construction business is a business engaged as either a
prime or subcontractor in the building trades or heavy construction
businesses. Heavy vehicle storage may be either within enclosed buildings
or outdoors. Any outdoor storage of vehicles must be for registered
vehicles only and appropriately screened.
CONVENIENCE STORE
Any retail store with a gross floor area of 3,000 square
feet or less, generally open expanded hours, selling a limited selection
of groceries, beverages and snacks to be consumed primarily off the
premises, lottery tickets, newspapers, magazines, tobacco products,
household products and personal items.
COUNTRY INN
A building used or designed for overnight lodging, and which
may also provide a restaurant and accessory guest services to lodgers
and the public, but excluding function and conference facilities.
A country inn shall be located in an historic building built before
1929.
DAY-CARE CENTER
A facility operated on a regular basis which receives children
not of common parentage under seven years of age, or under 16 years
of age if such children have special needs, for nonresidential custody
and care during part or all of the day separate from their parents,
subject to the conditions contained in MGL c. 28A, § 9,
as amended from time to time.
DAY-CARE FACILITY, ADULT
A facility or program operated on a regular basis which provides
supervised, nonresidential group or individual care for adults for
part or all of the day.
DAY SPA
A business, employing professionally licensed therapists,
which provides facilities and a variety of services for the purpose
of improving health, beauty and relaxation through personal care treatments
including, but not limited to, cosmetic, therapeutic massages, holistic
treatments, body or facial treatments. A day spa must comprise a minimum
of 3,000 square feet of space.
DEVELOPMENT
All structures and other modifications of the natural landscape
above and below ground or water, on a particular site.
DISTRICT
A part, zone or geographic area within the Town within which
certain zoning or development regulations apply.
DRIVE-UP WINDOW
A premises where persons, while in their automobiles, are
served, purchase, consume, as appropriate, banking services, food
or goods.
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME
Any private residence which, on a regular basis, receives
for temporary custody and care, during part or all of the day, children
under seven years of age or children under 16 years of age if such
children have special needs, subject to the conditions contained in
MGL c. 28A, § 9, as amended from time to time.
FARM
Any parcel of land used for the raising of agricultural products,
livestock, poultry or dairy products.
FUEL BUSINESS
A commercial use engaged in the sale of separate allotments
of heating oil, coal, propane gas or firewood, which are primarily
delivered off-site to individuals, businesses or government facilities.
FUNERAL HOME
A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial
and the display of the deceased and ceremonies connected therewith
before burial or cremation.
GARAGE, MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR
Any building, premises and land in which or upon which a
business, service or industry involving the maintenance service, repair
or painting of vehicles is conducted or rendered. Maintenance services,
repairs or painting of vehicles shall be conducted within a building.
An accessory use may include a designated yard area with appropriate
buffers and screening.
HEALTH-CARE FACILITY
An establishment primarily engaged in furnishing medical,
surgical or other services to individuals, including the offices of
physicians, dentists, and other health practitioners, medical and
dental laboratories, outpatient care facilities, blood banks, and
oxygen and miscellaneous types of medical supplies and services. Health-care
facilities shall not include any uses or activities of a registered
marijuana dispensary or off-site medical marijuana dispensary.
HEALTH CLUB
An entity which provides structured exercise programs utilizing
both indoor and outdoor facilities such as a gymnasium, swimming pool,
running track, court layouts and the like for the development of personal
fitness under the supervision of personnel knowledgeable in health,
physical education and exercise physiology.
HOTEL
Any building or group of buildings in which there are guest
rooms used, designed or intended to be used, let or hired out for
the purpose of offering to the general public lodging on a day-to-day
basis, typically not to exceed 30 consecutive calendar days, where
the primary entrance is through a lobby or foyer; and also that in
which there are no provisions for cooking in any individual room or
suite. A hotel may include additional facilities and services, such
as restaurants, meeting rooms, entertainment, personal services and
recreational facilities.
INDOOR COMMERCIAL RECREATION FACILITY
A building within which the general public is invited for
a fee or membership charge to participate in athletic or recreational
activities, which may include swimming, exercise, weight training,
running, tennis, squash, racquetball, ping-pong, bowling, billiards,
darts, miniature golf, golf and baseball/softball training or simulation
facilities, basketball, soccer, curling, ice skating, roller skating,
hockey, motorized sports activities, sports medicine facility, physical
therapy and rehabilitation facility, restaurant. (Said facility may
contain accessory uses such as a pro-shop, health club, child-care
facility and concession stands.)
JUNK
Any scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether
or not stored or used in conjunction with dismantling, processing,
salvage, storage, baling, disposal or other use or disposition. Junk
includes, but is not limited to: vehicles, tires, vehicle parts, equipment,
paper, rags, metal, glass, building materials, household appliances,
brush wood and lumber.
JUNKYARD
Any area, lot, land, parcel, building or structure or part
thereof used for the storage, collection, processing, purchase, sale
or abandonment of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or other scrap or
discarded goods, materials, machinery or two or more unregistered,
inoperable motor vehicles or other type of junk.
KENNEL, COMMERCIAL
Any building, structure, or land area used for the boarding,
breeding, grooming, training, showing, protection or raising of dogs,
cats or other small animals primarily for sale or profit, or for humane
purposes. Pet shops, private kennels, and veterinary hospitals shall
be exempt from the definition of "commercial kennel."
KENNEL, PRIVATE
Any structure or premises on which more than four dogs greater
than or equal to three months of age are kept in or adjoining a private
residence for private enjoyment and not for monetary gain, with the
exception of occasional breeding of household pets. No more than two
of the dogs shall be used for breeding and the frequency and scope
of said activity shall be subject to the grant of a special permit
from the Planning Board.
LIGHT MANUFACTURING
Fabrication, processing, finishing, assembly, or packaging
operations employing only electric or other substantially noiseless
and inoffensive motor power, and provided that all power and processes
shall confine disturbing agents, such as smoke, fumes, dust, odors,
vibration, gas, glare, electromagnetic radiation, and noise, to the
confines of the premises or disposed of in a manner so as not to pose
a present or potential hazard to human health, safety, welfare or
the environment by reason of the potential for fire, explosion, radiation
release or other casualty.
LIVE PERFORMANCE THEATER
A building where live productions of plays, concerts or other
forms of staged entertainment are performed before an audience of
the general public. In some cases, said activity may be conducted
in conjunction where food and beverages are served to the patrons
in a so-called "dinner-theater" setting. Such an establishment shall
be exclusive of adult cabaret establishments or any other adult uses.
MOTOR VEHICLE SALES
The use of any building, land area or other premises for
the display and sale of new or used automobiles, panel trucks or vans,
trailer(s), or recreation vehicles, and including any warranty repair
work and other repair service conducted as an accessory use. Exterior
storage of any specific vehicle is limited to short-term storage,
not to exceed a period of one year on the premises.
NURSERY
Land or greenhouses used to raise trees, shrubs, flowers,
and other plants for sale.
NURSING HOME
An extended- or intermediate-care facility licensed or approved
to provide full-time convalescent or chronic care to individuals who,
by reason of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity, are unable
to care for themselves.
OFFICE
A room or group of rooms used for conducting the affairs
of a business, professional, service establishment, industry, or government
agency.
OFFICE BUILDING
A building used primarily to house offices for conducting
the affairs of a business, professional, service establishment, industry
or government agency, or like activity that may include ancillary
services for office workers such as a restaurant, coffee shop, newspaper
or candy stand.
OFFICE PARK
A development on a tract of land that contains a number of
separate office buildings, supporting uses and open space designed,
planned, constructed and managed on an integrated and coordinated
basis.
OUTDOOR COMMERCIAL RECREATION FACILITY
Land, including accessory building/structures, on which the
general public is invited for a fee or membership charge to participate
in any of the following athletic or nonmotorized recreational activities,
which may include soccer, football, lacrosse, baseball, softball,
cricket, basketball, running, bicycling, miniature golf, golf driving
range, tennis, handball, racquetball, paddle tennis, boating, training
facilities for baseball/softball/soccer/golf, croquet, polo, badminton,
bocce, Frisbee, shuffleboard, horseshoes and swimming. (Said facility
may contain accessory uses such as a pro-shop and concession stands.)
Water parks, amusement parks and any motorized vehicular recreational
activities, which are similar in nature, are specifically excluded.
PERSONAL SERVICES
Personal services are services such as a hair salon, barber
shop, nail salon, tanning beds, laundry, dry cleaning, shoe repair,
tailor, and the like. Adult cabaret establishments or adult motion-picture
theaters are not personal services. Automotive services, radio and
television services, and any service entailing cannabis are not considered
personal services.
PHYSICAL THERAPY AND REHABILITATION FACILITY
A facility which provides for the restoration and development
of function lost or impaired by trauma, accident or pathology. Said
facility shall be professionally staffed by at least one chiropractor,
physical or massage therapist, licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
or athletic trainer licensed by the National Athletic Trainers Association.
PLANNED BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT (PBD)
A development of one or more otherwise allowed commercial uses on a lot or two or more contiguous building lots encompassing a total area of not less than 18 acres with at least 400 feet of continuous street frontage along a state numbered route. The entire minimum frontage distance and not less than 80% of the minimum area of a PBD as required herein shall be located within the same zoning district. A PBD is characterized by common driveway(s), shared parking lot(s), coordinated landscaping features, complementary architectural design and shared infrastructure (water distribution, sewage disposal system and/or stormwater drainage facilities), which are managed and maintained by an association of owners of property within the development. A PBD shall be serviced by no more than one site access driveway or street accommodating left-turning vehicles onto and/or off an adjoining public way unless otherwise specifically allowed by the Planning Board in authorizing the PBD under §
390-4.2 in consideration of traffic safety and circulation patterns
within the vicinity.
PLANNED INDUSTRIAL/OFFICE PARK (PI/OP)
A combined industrial park and office park located on a large
tract of land with ancillary services located on site at a scale designed
to primarily serve the PI/OP.
PRIVATELY OWNED WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY (PWTF)
Any device or system owned by a private entity that is used
for the treatment and disposal (including recycling and reclamation)
of sewage. A privately owned wastewater treatment facility includes
the sewers, pipes, or other conveyances that convey the wastewater
to the treatment facility.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
The office of a member of a recognized profession maintained
for the conduct of that profession.
PUBLIC OR MUNICIPAL UTILITY FACILITY
Telephone, electric and cable television lines, poles, equipment
and structures; water or gas pipes, mains, valves or structures; sewer
pipes, valves or structures; pumping stations; telephone exchanges
and repeater stations; and all other facilities, equipment and structures
necessary for conducting a service by a government or public utility.
RESEARCH LABORATORY
An establishment or other facility for carrying on investigation
in the natural, physical or social sciences, or engineering and development
as an extension of investigation with the objective of creating end
products, not including facilities designed and intended for the development
of nuclear, chemical, germ/biological weapons, or similar activities.
RESTAURANT
An establishment that is leased, rented or owned by a person
holding a duly issued and valid license as a common victualler under
the provisions of MGL c. 140, with adequate and sanitary kitchen and
dining room equipment and capacity for preparing, cooking and serving
suitable food for patrons and customers.
RESTAURANT, DRIVE-THROUGH
A building or portion thereof where food and/or beverages
are sold in a form ready for consumption and where all or a significant
portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place
outside the confines of the building, often in a motor vehicle on
the site.
RESTAURANT, FAST-FOOD
An establishment whose principal business is the sale of
preprepared or rapidly prepared food directly to the customer in a
ready-to-consume state for consumption either within the restaurant
building or off premises.
RESTAURANT, TAKE-OUT
An establishment which by design of physical facilities or
by service or packaging procedures permits or encourages the purchase
of prepared ready-to-eat foods intended primarily to be consumed off
the premises, and where the consumption of food in motor vehicles
on the premises.
RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT/STORE
An establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise
to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering
services incidental to the sale of such goods. Such an establishment
shall be exclusive of an adult motion-picture theater, adult bookstore,
adult paraphernalia store or adult video store, as so defined herein.
The sale of marijuana in any form whatsoever on any land within the
Town of Wrentham shall not be construed so as to fall within this
definition and shall not be considered retail.
SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY (SLC)
A residential community designed for occupancy by individuals
55 years of age or older within the meaning as defined in MGL c. 151B,
§ 4(6) and 42 U.S.C. § 3607(b)(2)(c), and also
incorporating the preservation of natural open space areas as an integral
element of the development. An SLC may include a variety or combination
of housing types that may be sold or leased to individual residents,
or may be operated or managed by a corporation or organization having
among its principal purposes the provision of housing and resident
services for retired and/or aging persons.
SHOPPING CENTER
A group (two or more) or complex of commercial uses, including,
but not limited to, retail or service establishments, shops, indoor
theaters, restaurants and similar establishments, with immediately
adjoining off-street parking facilities.
SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
Establishments providing assistance and aid to those persons
in need of child-care facilities, nurseries, residential care, employment,
counseling for psychological problems, and assistance with learning
disabilities and physical disabilities.
SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATION
A device, structure, or structural design feature, a substantial
purpose of which is to provide for the collection, storage and distribution
of solar energy for generation of electricity. This includes appurtenant
equipment for the collection, storage and distribution of electricity
to buildings or to the electric grid.
SPORTS MEDICINE FACILITY
A facility to provide the recreational individual or team
athlete with education to prevent athletic injury as well as to serve
as a resource center to coaches, trainers and other nonmedicals who
work with sports programs through an interdisciplinary utilization
of physicians, orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, nutritionists
and other appropriate allied health personnel that are licensed through
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
STABLE, PUBLIC
A building or land where animals are kept for remuneration,
hire, sale, boarding, riding, or show.
WAREHOUSE
A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.
A warehouse may include distribution activities of manufactured products,
supplies, and equipment, but excluding bulk storage of materials that
are inflammable or explosive or that created hazardous or commonly
recognized offensive conditions.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FACILITY
All equipment, buildings, and structures with which a wireless
communication service provider broadcasts and receives the radiofrequency
waves which carry its services and all locations of said equipment
or any part thereof. A wireless communication facility may also include
equipment used by governmental agencies for public safety communications.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTER/RECEPTOR
Fixtures or equipment, other than any support structure such
as a tower, used for the wireless transmission and reception of radio
signals, excluding equipment owned and operated under an amateur radio
operator license, including:
(1)
Reception and transmission equipment and fixtures such as antenna,
panels or communication dishes of not greater than 30 inches in diameter
and similar devices;
(2)
Any accessory mechanical, electronic, or telephonic equipment,
fixtures, wiring and protective covering customary and necessary to
operate such wireless communication equipment. A wireless communication
transmitter/receptor shall not serve to transmit signals from broadcast
television and/or radio stations.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSMITTER/RECEPTOR, ENCLOSED
Any indoor wireless communication transmitter/receptor mounted
inside or supported entirely within a nonresidential building or structure
(including, without limitation, cupolas, church spires, inactive smokestacks,
and the like) which is occupied and/or used primarily for other purposes.
Said transmitter/receptor shall be shielded from view from outside
of the existing building or structure.