The following development standards for each district shall be the minimum required setbacks, lot frontage, maximum building height, and lot coverage. Terms are defined in Chapter 1115.
Development Standards for Commercial and Industrial Districts | |||||||||
District | Maximum Height | Minimum Frontage Required | Required Yard and Setbacks in Feet | Additional Yards if Abutting Residential | Percent Lot Coverage Allowed | Maximum Ground Floor Building Size | General Function and Comments | ||
Front Setback | Side Yard | Rear Yard | |||||||
NB-1 Neighborhood Business | 35 feet | 25 feet | 100 feet | 12 feet, when there is no rear access | 40 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 30% (2) | 5,000 square feet | low intensity commercial district providing neighborhood scale service. |
GB-1 General Business | 35 feet | 125 feet | 100 feet | 12 feet, when there is no rear access | 40 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 30% (2) | 30,000 square feet | more intense commercial district than NB-1, larger tracts of land. |
CB-1 Central Business | No requirement | 35 feet (1) | none required | 20 feet | 20 feet for side yards | 75% (2) | 5,000 square feet | encourages and protects the historic core business area. | |
LI-1 Light Industrial | 50 feet | 200 feet | 100 feet | 25 feet | 75 feet | 100 feet landscaping required | 40% (2) | allows manufacturing and wholesale business which are clean and quite, operate within in closed structures. | |
HI-1 Heavy Industrial | 50 feet | 200 feet | 100 feet | 35 feet | 50 feet | 150 feet, landscaping required | 40% (2) | allows intensive manufacturing uses, salvage yards permitted by conditional use. | |
IP-1 Industrial Park | 50 feet | 150 feet | 50 feet | 25 feet | 25 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 40% (2) | light industrial district with services for workers. Goal of park-like setting. | |
ID-1 Institutional Development | 40 feet | No requirement | 50 feet | 40 feet | 40 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 70% (2) | allows institutional uses, laboratories permitted by conditional use. | |
PUD | |||||||||
(1) In established business and commercial areas, the building setback line shall be the uniform setback line observed on the same side of the street as the lot in question between two intersecting streets or for a distance of 100 feet on each side of the lot. In the event of variance of the abutting property, the setback that is nearest to thirty-five feet from the right-of-way line shall prevail as the minimum setback.
(2) All buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than the indicated percent of the lot.