In any Agricultural District as indicated on
the Building Zone Map, no building or other structure shall be erected,
altered or used and no land shall be used or occupied for a purpose
except one or more of the following:
A.
Any use permitted in a Residence A-1 or A-2 District.
B.
Farms, dairies, nurseries, truck gardens, greenhouses
and natural ice-harvesting activities and buildings or structures
accessory thereto.
C.
Buildings or shelters for the sale of farm products,
provided that a major portion of the products offered for sale at
all times are raised on the premises and no advertising of products
other than those raised on the premises shall be displayed.
D.
The processing of forests and wood lots by portable
woodworking mills and machinery for processing wood cut on the premises,
if approved by the Board of Appeals.
E.
Airports and landing strips and buildings or structures
necessary thereto, if located west of Suffield Street.
F.
Off-street parking for 24 hours or less for motor
vehicles when the use is an accessory to an existing conforming amusement
park containing at least three acres of land adjacent to agriculturally
zoned land and by special permit.
[Added 2-20-2001 by TOR-2001-1]
A.
Side yards. There shall be a side yard between any
building and any side lot line. It shall comply with the side yard
requirements of the nearest residence district measured in a direct
or air line.
B.
Rear yards. For a residence, accessory building or
other structure, the rear yard shall comply with the rear yard requirement
of the nearest residence district measured in a direct or air line.
No lot shall be used for residence purposes
with a frontage of less than 120 feet on a street or an area of less
than 20,000 square feet.
There shall be no lot coverage regulations in
this district.
A.
Landscaped administrative offices, laboratories devoted
to research, design or experimentation and processing and fabrication
incidental thereto and appurtenant buildings consistent with and designed
to promote and benefit the value and use of property in residential
districts or in areas which are predominantly residential although
partly lying in less restricted districts, provided that no materials
or finished products shall be manufactured, processed or fabricated
on such premises for sale except such as are incidental to such laboratory
research, design or experimentation conducted on such premises.
B.
The special use established must be on plots having
a minimum of 20 acres, must have a two-hundred-foot front yard and
100 yards along all other lot lines and must provide off-street parking
for employees and visitors. If the front yard is on an interior lot
line, 200 feet of setback shall apply to this lot line. The only sign
permitted must be in front of the building and subject to Planning
Board approval. Traffic directional and parking signs must be not
more than four feet high from the ground level. Not over 25% of the
land shall be used for building purposes.
[Amended 11-19-2018 by TOR 2018-14]
C.
Landscaped rest homes or convalescent homes, except
those for contagious diseases, for the care of drug or liquor patients,
for correctional purposes or for the care of the insane or feebleminded.
Rest homes or convalescent homes must be on plots having a minimum
of 10 acres, must have a one-hundred-foot front yard and fifty-foot
yards along all other lot lines and must provide off-street parking
for employees and visitors. Not over 25% of the land shall be used
for building purposes.
D.
Nonprofit golf courses shall be permitted. Golf courses
operated for profit shall be permitted with that portion of land covered
by a clubhouse to be zoned Business A. All golf courses must be on
plots having a minimum of 75 acres.
E.
To assure that special use structures shall be reasonably
attractive in appearance, the builder or his representative shall
submit to the Planning Board, in addition to other requirements, an
architect's rendering or comparable illustration of the planned construction,
including landscaping, prior to applying for a building permit. Unless
such a drawing approved by the Planning Board is submitted to the
Inspector of Buildings, no permit for a building shall be issued,
nor shall an occupancy permit be granted, unless and until the finished
structure conforms to the drawing submitted.
