The basic regulations governing the use of land and the size of lots, yards and buildings within each zoning district are established in this Article. For certain specific uses or exceptional situations, these basic regulations are supplemented by Article V and by other provisions of this chapter.
A. 
Regulations governing the use of land. Regulations governing the use of land within the various zoning districts shall be as set forth in Schedule I.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedule I can be found at the end of this chapter.
B. 
Regulations governing the size of lots, yards and buildings for permitted uses. Regulations governing the size of lots, yards and buildings in the various zoning districts for permitted uses shall be as set forth in Schedule II.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Schedule II can be found at the end of this chapter.
C. 
Regulations governing special uses. Regulations governing certain special uses are set forth in § 220-15.
A. 
No use shall be permitted in any district if it is to be operated in such a manner so as to create any dangerous, injurious, noxious or otherwise objectionable fire, explosive, radioactivity, environmental or other hazard, noise or vibration, smoke, dust, dirt or other form of air, solid waste or water pollution, electrical, glare or other disturbance which will adversely affect the surrounding area or premises or be dangerous to public health and safety.
B. 
No use shall be developed unless it is served with an adequate water supply and sanitary disposal facilities. Such facilities may consist of either private and/or public water and sanitary disposal facilities, with sufficient capacity to serve the proposed use. Where private facilities are proposed or where the adequacy of the facilities is in question, the Zoning Board of Appeals shall review all the pertinent facts and make a determination of adequacy. If necessary, the Zoning Board of Appeals may require the proposed developer to submit sufficient expert data on which to base a decision.
Fourteen use classes are hereby established as shown in Schedule I.[1] The specific uses included in each use class are outlined below.
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedule I can be found at the end of this chapter.
Uses listed as permitted uses in Schedule I shall require no special action by the Board of Appeals or by the Planning Board before a zoning permit is granted by the Code Enforcement Officer.
A. 
Use Class 1, Single-Family Residential: includes single-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Use Class 2, Two-Family Residential: includes two-family dwellings.
C. 
Use Class 3, Multifamily Residential: includes multifamily dwelling structures.
D. 
Use Class 4, Central Commercial: includes the following central commercial uses which shall be carried on in a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading facilities and limited outdoor displays not occupying more than 25% of the lot area:
(1) 
Retail business establishments, including shops selling food, drugs, cigars, candy, clothing and clothing accessories, newspapers, books, stationery, dry goods, hardware, paint, variety goods, household goods, appliances, flowers, package liquor, photo supplies, garden supplies, artist and hobby supplies, sporting goods, specialty and gift items, furniture and office supplies. The limited production of such goods which are primarily intended for retail sale on the premises shall be permitted, provided that such production is a necessary adjunct of the retail establishment.
(2) 
Customer service establishments, including shops engaged in the repair of household goods, clothing, shoes and appliance items, pickup stations and self-service establishments for the dry cleaning and laundering of clothes, business and professional offices, eating and drinking establishments, off-street parking lots, gymnasiums and physical health salons, photographic studios, medical and dental centers, hotels and motels, banks and financial institutions, blueprinting and graphic reproduction shops, printing and publishing establishments, wholesale offices and showrooms, office buildings and offices of all types, radio and television studios, auto supply stores, bus passenger stations and funeral homes.
(3) 
Commercial recreation and entertainment establishments, including theaters, night clubs, art galleries and cultural establishments, bowling alleys, skating rinks, billiard parlors, social halls, clubs and lodges and swimming pools.
(4) 
Residential uses consisting of residential dwelling units located above the ground floor level.
E. 
Use Class 5, General Commercial: includes the following general commercial and limited industrial establishments which shall be carried on in a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading facilities:
(1) 
Commercial education establishments, including schools for the study of business, technical trades, art, music, dancing and photography.
(2) 
Limited heavy commercial uses, including wholesale business, wholesale produce and meat markets, mechanical and vehicle equipment repair establishments, dry-cleaning and dyeing plants, carpet and rug cleaning establishments, laundries, sign painting and automatic car wash.
(3) 
Limited industrial uses which are conducted above the first floor, including experimental, photo and testing laboratories, the manufacture of musical and small precision instruments, watches and clocks, toys, novelties, garments, pottery and ceramic products using kilns fired only by electricity or gas and other limited industrial production or testing activities employing no more than 50 persons.
F. 
Use Class 6, Industrial - Buffer: includes low-intensity industrial and commercial uses which shall be carried on in a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading facilities and incidental storage.
(1) 
Such low-intensity industrial and commercial uses, because of their proximity to adjoining residential areas, shall be so designed that the most intensive portion of their use shall be located furthest from adjoining residential uses. All rear and side lot lines which abut residential properties shall be provided with a minimum ten-foot-wide buffer area adequately screened and/or fenced as specified in § 220-23A for the purpose of protecting adjoining residential uses.
(2) 
Low-intensity industrial uses include the manufacture, fabrication, processing, assembly, repair, testing, packing and related storage (but excluding truck and freight terminals and delivery or distribution centers) of all types of products made from previously prepared materials such as cloth, plastic, food, paper, glass, leather, metals, stones, electronic components and other materials.
(3) 
Low-intensity commercial uses include retail business and customer service establishments of a type intended to serve a limited market area, which includes only the nearby surrounding neighborhood or industrial area.
(4) 
Such low-intensity industrial and commercial uses shall not create any external nuisances, hazards, disturbances, congestion or other evidence of their operation which would adversely affect adjoining residential uses and shall be limited to an employee density not exceeding 50 employees per acre of lot area.
G. 
Use Class 7, General Industrial: includes various types of heavy commercial and general industrial uses of which at least 60% of the activity shall be carried on in an enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading facilities and incidental storage.
(1) 
Such heavy commercial uses shall include storage and warehousing establishments, truck and freight terminals and delivery and distribution centers.
(2) 
Such general industrial uses shall include the manufacture, fabrication, processing, assembly, repair, testing, packing and storage of all types of products made from previously prepared materials and also the processing of raw materials. All uses except for incidental storage and off-street parking or loading facilities which are carried on outside of a completely enclosed building shall be enclosed by a permanent fence or wall as specified in § 220-23A which is adequate to screen such uses from adjacent properties and from any public street.
H. 
Use Class 8, Customary Accessory Uses and Essential Services: includes uses customarily accessory to the principal use of a lot and essential services provided by public utilities. Such uses include the following:
(1) 
Accessory uses which are customarily subordinate to the principal use of a lot or a building located on the same lot and which serve a purpose customarily incident to the use of the principal building or lot within any district. Such uses include home occupations, home gardening, nurseries and greenhouses (not including outdoor storage of equipment) and professional offices of persons residing on the premises, private garages or parking areas, signs, off-street parking and loading, temporary tract offices, unoccupied travel trailers and buildings and other uses customarily appurtenant to other permitted or special uses.
(2) 
Essential services for public utilities as defined in § 220-7 which conform to the height regulations of the zoning district in which they are proposed.
A. 
Uses listed as special uses in Schedule I[1] shall require individual consideration in each case because of their unique characteristics. Such special uses may be referred to the Planning Board by the Board of Appeals for review and recommendation and may be permitted only upon authorization by the Board of Appeals, subject to certain conditions and safeguards, as provided in this section.
[1]
Editor's Note: Schedule I can be found at the end of this chapter.
B. 
Such special uses shall comply with the provisions of this section and may be permitted by the Zoning Board of Appeals subject to any additional conditions and safeguards which may be warranted by the character of the areas in which such uses are proposed or by other special factors.
C. 
A special use shall not cause substantial injury to the value of other property where it is to be located, shall conform with regulations applicable to the district where located, shall be compatible with adjoining development, shall provide adequate landscaping and screening to protect adjoining areas, shall provide off-street parking and loading so as to minimize interference with traffic on the local streets and shall not jeopardize the public health, safety, welfare and convenience.
D. 
Applicants for special uses shall submit plot plans in sufficient detail to provide the Board of Appeals and the Planning Board with enough information to properly evaluate the proposed planned use.
E. 
The following regulations shall apply to special uses (Use Classes 9 through 14) which are authorized by the Board of Appeals.
(1) 
Use Class 9, Related Residential Uses: includes nursing and convalescent homes, rooming houses and nurseries for the day care of young children. Such uses shall comply with the following:
(a) 
Except for a sign, there shall be no external evidence of any gainful activity.
(b) 
Any such use shall have sufficient parking to serve the anticipated number of users and employees as specified in § 220-20 and shall have suitable street access without causing excessive traffic on local residential streets.
(c) 
All such buildings shall conform to the minimum lot size, minimum yards, maximum building height and maximum building coverage regulations specified in Schedule II[2] for multifamily dwellings in the R-3 District.
[2]
Editor's Note: Schedule II can be found at the end of this chapter.
(2) 
Use Class 10, Multifamily: includes multifamily dwelling structures developed on a minimum lot area of at least 20,000 square feet. Such dwelling structures shall be served with adequate water supply, sanitary disposal and parking facilities, and adequate yard planting and screening shall be provided to effectively screen off any adjoining commercial uses and shall be designed to complement abutting commercial uses and not to conflict with or bisect natural areas for commercial development.
(a) 
Such dwelling structures shall be planned and developed with adequate yards, building layout and spacing and open space and shall comply with the following:
Residential Type
Building Height
stories)
Maximum Building Coverage
(percent)
Units Per Gross Acre
Usable Open Space
(square feet per dwelling unit)
Town- or row houses
3.0
40
16
500
Garden apart- ments
3.0
40
22
400
High-rise for elderly1 in the C-1 and R-3 Districts only
12.0
30
72
200
NOTES:
1 Designed primarily for families where at least one member of the family is at least 62 years of age.
(b) 
When a high-rise for the elderly is proposed for location in an R-3 District, then professional offices may also be permitted if approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals, provided that such professional offices do not occupy more than one-fourth (1/4) of the ground floor area.
(3) 
Use Class 11, Conversions: includes the redesign and conversion of existing residential structures into two-family and multifamily dwellings. All conversions shall have at least one off-street parking space per dwelling unit, and each unit shall have adequate light, air, heating and plumbing facilities and shall have at least 600 square feet of living space for each dwelling unit.
(4) 
Use Class 12, Planned Residential Development. Residential uses of all types located on a tract of land at least two acres in size which is planned for development in its entirety under single ownership or control shall conform with the provisions of this section. Such planned residential developments may be permitted by the Zoning Board of Appeals for the purposes of encouraging a flexibility of design which will result in an integrated site plan designed to benefit the residents or occupants of such development and of neighboring properties and shall comply with the following:
(a) 
It shall consist of either single-family, mobile home, two-family or multifamily dwellings or combinations thereof which may be arranged in a conventional or cluster design pattern in accordance with the following requirements:
District
Residential Type
R-1
R-2
R-3
Building Height
(stories)
Net land area per dwelling unit (square feet)
Single-family
7500
5000
5000
2.5
Mobile home
7000
4500
4500
2.0
Two-family
4000
3250
3250
2.5
Multifamily
Town- or row house
3000
2500
2250
3.0
Garden apartment
2500
2250
2000
3.0
High-rise
N.P.
—1
—1
12.0
Usable open space (square feet per dwelling unit)
500
400
200
—
Gross project density (units per gross acre)
15
25
40
—
Maximum building coverage (percent)
35
40
40
—
KEY:
N.P. = Not permitted
NOTES:
1 Use is permitted but net land area requirement per dwelling unit is not applicable.
(b) 
The proposed developer shall demonstrate that a sufficient market exists for the type, size and character of the development proposed.
(c) 
Adequate, safe and convenient pedestrian and vehicular circulation facilities, including roadways, driveways, off-street parking and loading, sidewalks, malls and landscaped areas to serve the development shall be provided.
(d) 
Paving and drainage facilities shall be designed to adequately handle stormwaters and prevent erosion and the formation of dust.
(e) 
The orientation of buildings shall provide adequate light, air and open space.
(f) 
Usable open space suitable for use as play areas for children or as outdoor living space for families shall be provided in amounts not less than 300 square feet per dwelling unit.
(g) 
No residential use of the type herein specified shall be allowed unless said planned residential development is attached to public water and the public sewer before inhabitation of any portion of the development.
(5) 
Use Class 13, Appropriate Public Uses: includes public and quasi-public uses of a welfare, educational, religious, recreation, governmental and cultural nature and associated accessory uses, radio and television, transmission or receiving towers and essential public utilities that require enclosure within a building. A public use permitted by the Board of Appeals as a special use shall be appropriate to the character of the district in which it is proposed and to the area which it will serve. Such appropriate public uses shall have adequate access, shall provide off-street parking and loading as specified in § 220-20, shall provide necessary landscaping and screening to protect adjoining areas and shall have lot areas, yards and building coverage consistent with the character of the neighborhood and the district requirements in which they are proposed.
(6) 
Use Class 14, Automotive Uses: includes automotive service stations and sales areas, lots or showrooms for automobiles and other vehicles, including but not limited to boats, trailers and mobile homes. Such uses shall be located so as to secure adequate and safe street access without creating disturbances or excessive noise, congestion or other nuisances for abutting or nearby residential districts, and such uses shall be screened as required by § 220-23A.