Pursuant to the authority conferred by MGL c.
40A and for the purpose of encouraging housing for persons of all
income levels and promoting the health, safety, convenience and welfare
of the inhabitants of Randolph by lessening congestion in the streets;
securing safety from fires, panic and other dangers; providing adequate
light and air; preventing the overcrowding of land; avoiding undue
congestion of population; facilitating the adequate provision of transportation,
water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements; and
by other means, in accordance with a comprehensive plan, now, therefore,
this chapter is adopted.
If any provisions of this chapter or the application
thereof to any persons or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder
of this chapter, and the application of such provision to other persons
or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby.
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The word "used" or "occupied" includes the words "designed,
arranged, intended or offered to be used or occupied"; the word "building,"
"structure," "lot," "land" or "premises" shall be construed as though
followed by the words "or any portion thereof"; and the word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory. Terms and words not
defined herein but defined in the State Building Code or the Town
of Randolph Subdivision Regulations[1] shall have the meanings given therein unless a contrary
intention clearly appears. Words not defined in either place shall
have the meanings given in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, latest
edition.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Subdivision Regulations
are on file in the Town Clerk's office.
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ABANDONMENT
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(2)Â
(3)Â
ABUT
ACCESS
ACCESS CONNECTION
ACCESS DRIVE
ACCESS, CROSS
ACCESSORY SIGN
ADULT USES
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(2)Â
(3)Â
(4)Â
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (AA), ET AL
ALTERATION
ALTERATION, STRUCTURAL
ALTERATIONS/ALTERED, SIGNS
APARTMENT HOUSE/COMPLEX
APPLIANCE, FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT RENTALS/MACHINE
RENTALS, SMALL
APPLIANCE, FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT SALES/MACHINE SALES,
LARGE
AREA OF SIGNS
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY
AUTO REPAIR GARAGE
AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE (ATM)
AUTOMOBILE TOWING AND IMPOUND FACILITIES
BASEMENT
BED-AND-BREAKFAST FACILITY
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPs)
BOARDINGHOUSE
BUFFER STRIP
BUILDING
BUILDING LOT COVERAGE
BUS STATION, COMMERCIAL
BUS TERMINAL
BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
CABINET/CARPENTRY SHOP, LARGE
CABINET/CARPENTRY SHOP, SMALL
CALL CENTER
CAR WASH
CATERING ESTABLISHMENT (OFF-PREMISES)
CATERING ESTABLISHMENT (ON-PREMISES)
CHANGEABLE-COPY SIGN, ELECTRONIC
CHANGEABLE-COPY SIGN, MANUAL
CHECK CASHING AND PERSONAL LOAN SERVICES
CHILD-CARE FACILITY
(1)Â
(2)Â
CLINIC
CLUB
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
CONVALESCENT/NURSING HOME
CONVENIENCE STORE
CONVENTION CENTER
CONVENTION CENTER/EXHIBIT HALL
COPY SHOP
COURIER/DELIVERY/MESSENGER SERVICE
CREMATORY
CUSTODIAL INSTITUTION
DATA CENTER
DAY CARE
DAY-CARE CENTER
DAY LABORER
DAY LABORER HIRING CENTER
DAY SPA
DEPARTMENT STORE
DIRECTIONAL MEDIAN OPENING
DISCOUNT DEPARTMENT STORE
DISTRICT
DONATION CENTER
DRIVE-UP OR DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY
DRIVEWAYS
DRY-CLEANING AND LAUNDRY ESTABLISHMENT, ON PREMISES
DRY-CLEANING AND LAUNDRY ESTABLISHMENT, OFF PREMISES
DUPLEX DWELLING
DWELLING
DWELLING UNIT, ACCESSORY
DWELLING, ATTACHED
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY FIFTY-FIVE-PLUS
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
DWELLING UNIT
ERECTED
ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICE OR UTILITY
ESTATE SALE
EXTENDED-STAY HOTEL
FAMILY
FAMILY DAY-CARE-HOME
FARMER'S MARKET
FAST-FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
FAST-FOOD ESTABLISHMENT, FORMULA
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
FLOOR AREA
FLOOR AREA RATIO
FLOOR AREA, GROSS
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CART
GASOLINE SERVICE STATION
GROCERY STORE/FOOD MARKET, LARGE
GROCERY STORE/FOOD MARKET, SMALL
GROUP HOME, CONGREGATE-LIVING
GROUP HOME, LARGE
GROUP HOME, SMALL
HARDSHIP CULTIVATION
HEIGHT OF BUILDING
HOME OCCUPATION
HOSPITAL
HOTEL
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE COVERAGE
IMPOUND
IMPOUND YARD
IN-LAW APARTMENT
LIVERY
LOT
LOT COVERAGE, MAXIMUM
LOT DEPTH
LOT FRONTAGE
LOT LINE, REAR
LOT LINE, SIDE
LOT, NONCONFORMING
LOT WIDTH
MACHINE SHOP, LARGE
MACHINE SHOP, SMALL
MAJOR HIGHWAY
MANUFACTURING, FABRICATION AND PROCESSING OF GOODS, LARGE
MANUFACTURING, FABRICATION AND PROCESSING OF GOODS, SMALL
MARIJUANA
MARIJUANA CULTIVATION
MARIJUANA DISPENSARY AGENT
MARIJUANA HARVESTING
MARIJUANA SALES
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TREATMENT CENTER
MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
MINI STORAGE FACILITY
MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT, MULTIFAMILY UNITS
MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT
MOTEL
MUNICIPAL LIAISON
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA), ET AL
NATURAL MARIJUANA
NONACCESSORY SIGN
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
OFF-PREMISES SIGN
OFFICE FOR EXECUTIVE OR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES
OFFICE OR PROFESSIONAL USE
ON-PREMISES SIGN
OUTDOOR SALES AND DISPLAY
OWNER
PARKING GARAGE/DECK
PARKING SPACE
PAWN SHOP
PERMIT-GRANTING AUTHORITY
PERSONAL CAREGIVER
PEST CONTROL OFFICE
PEST CONTROL OFFICE WITH STORAGE OF CHEMICALS
PET GROOMING SERVICE
PLASMA CENTER
POLITICAL SIGN
PRINTING, LARGE-SCALE
PRINTING, SMALL-SCALE
RECORDED
RECORDING STUDIO
RECYCLABLE MATERIALS SEPARATION FACILITY
RECYCLING COLLECTION POINT
REHABILITATION FACILITY
RESTRICTIVE MEDIAN
RETAIL FLOOR SPACE
RETAIL LIQUOR STORE, LARGE
RETAIL LIQUOR STORE, SMALL
RETAIL SALES
RETAIL, SPECIALTY STORE
RETAIL USE, LARGE, FREESTANDING
SALES, SECONDHAND
(1)Â
(2)Â
(3)Â
SALES, WHOLESALE
SALVAGE YARD
SCHOOL
SCHOOL, BUSINESS, TRADE, VOCATIONAL
SCHOOL, SPECIAL INSTRUCTION
SENIOR HOUSING
SHOPPING CENTER
(1)Â
(a)Â
(b)Â
(c)Â
(2)Â
(a)Â
(b)Â
(c)Â
(d)Â
SIGN
SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTING AUTHORITY
SPORTING GOODS SALES/RENTAL
SPORTING GOODS SALES/RENTAL, WITH FIREARMS
STORAGE CONTAINER
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
STRUCTURE, NONCONFORMING
SWAP MEET
SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA
TABLE OF ALLOWABLE ACTIVITY
TATTOO PARLOR/STUDIO
TAXI OR LIMOUSINE DISPATCHING SERVICE
TAXI OR LIMOUSINE OPERATIONS AND SERVICE
TOURIST HOME
TOWNHOUSE
TRUCK STOP
USE
USE, NONCONFORMING
USE, PRINCIPAL
VARIANCE
VENDOR STAND/CART
VETERINARY HOSPITAL
VIDEO RENTAL STORE
WHOLESALE
WHOLESALING, WAREHOUSING, DISTRIBUTING, REPAIR, RENTAL AND SERVICING
OF ANY COMMODITY, EXCLUDING LIVE ANIMALS, EXPLOSIVES AND STORAGE OF
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND GASES, LARGE
WHOLESALING, WAREHOUSING, DISTRIBUTING, REPAIR, RENTAL AND SERVICING
OF ANY COMMODITY, EXCLUDING LIVE ANIMALS, EXPLOSIVES AND STORAGE OF
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS AND GASES, SMALL
As used herein, the following words and terms shall
have the following respective meanings:
The visible or otherwise apparent intention
of an owner to discontinue a nonconforming use of a building or premises;
The removal of the characteristic equipment
or furnishings used in the performance of the nonconforming use, without
its replacement by similar equipment or furnishings; or
The replacement of the nonconforming use or
building by a conforming use or building.
To touch; be contiguous; border on; without intervening land.
A way or means of approach to provide vehicular or pedestrian
entrance to or exit from a property.
Any driveway, street, curb cut, turnout or other means of
providing for the movement of vehicles to or from the public/private
roadway network.
A permanent (dust-free) surface which is required for each
lot, for the passage of motor vehicles for access and egress to and
from a street. An access drive may lead to or from a parking space
or loading bay or to other access drives or to a related maneuvering
aisle.
A service drive providing vehicular access between two (2)
or more contiguous sites so the driver need not enter the public street
system.
Any sign that, with respect to the premises on which it is
erected, advertises or indicates one (1) or more of the following:
the person occupying the premises or the business transacted on the
premises, or any part thereof, and which contains no other advertising
matter.
Adult uses are characterized by material having as a dominant
theme an emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to specified
sexual activities or nudity (MGL c. 272, § 31). Each of
the following adult uses shall be considered a separate use, and approval
of one (1) use shall not infer the approval of any other adult use.
If an adult use is approved in combination with any other adult use,
interior access is required throughout the entire establishment.
ADULT BOOKSTORE or ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATERAs defined in MGL c. 40A, § 9A.
ADULT CLUBSAny nightclub, bar, restaurant, tavern, dance hall or similar commercial establishment which, as a form of entertainment, allows a person or persons to perform in a state of nudity, as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31, or allows a person or persons to work in a state of nudity as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31, or features films, motion pictures, videocassettes, laser discs, slides or any other photographic reproductions depicting a person or persons in a state of nudity, as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31, or depicting sexual conduct or sexual excitement as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31.
ADULT PARAPHERNALIA STOREAn establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock-in-trade devices, objects, tools or toys which are distinguished or characterized by their association with sexual activity, including sexual conduct or sexual excitement as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31.
ADULT VIDEO STOREAn establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock-in-trade videos, movies or other film materials which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on depicting, describing, or relating to sexual conduct or sexual excitement as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31.
Any nonprofit organization/program consisting of abstinent
alcoholics whose purpose is to stay sober and help others recover
from the disease of alcoholism.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
An addition, expansion, change or moderation of a building,
sign or structure or the accessory equipment thereof, that is not
classified as an ordinary repair. The moving of a building or structure
from one (1) location to another shall be considered an alteration.
[Amended 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of
a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, or
girders; provided, however, that the application of any exterior material
to an existing building for the purpose of changing its appearance
shall not be considered a structural alteration. "Structural alteration"
shall include any enlargement or diminution of a building or structure
or usable space therein.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The changing of moveable parts of an approved sign that is
designed for such changes or the repainting or reposting of display
matter shall not be deemed an alteration, provided that the conditions
of the original approval of the sign permit requirements are not violated.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A building or buildings, under single ownership, each of
which contains three (3) or more separate but attached dwelling units
arranged atop each other, for use by families living independently
of each other and who have a common right in halls, stairways and
amenities.
[Amended 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Establishments involved in rental or sales of home furnishings,
instruments or devices designed for use in the home such as stoves,
refrigerators, televisions, etc., where the facility is less than
seven thousand (7,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Establishments involved in rental or sales of home furnishings,
instruments or devices designed for use in the home such as stoves,
refrigerators, televisions, etc., where the facility is greater than
seven thousand (7,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The area of a sign shall be computed as the overall size
of the display, including all backing, frames or casings. A double-faced
sign shall be computed as the area of both sides. Any sign made up
of individual letters or characters shall be computed by multiplication
of the overall length of all letters, including spaces between letters,
by the average height of the letters or characters.
[Added 11-3-1997 STM by Art. 13, approved 2-6-1998]
A facility licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
as a boarding home for people who have either a need for assistance
with activities of daily living (including but not limited to eating,
toileting, ambulation, transfer and bathing) or some form of cognitive
impairment but who do not need the skilled critical care provided
by convalescent/nursing homes.
[Added 4-8-2013 by Ord.
No. 2012-028]
A building or place of business where oil, batteries, tires
and other allied products, supplies or parts of motor vehicles are
furnished or sold directly or indirectly to the motor vehicle trade
or where minor repairs or adjustments to motor vehicles are performed.
An automated device that performs banking or financial functions
at a location remote from the controlling financial institution.
A principal use with more than two (2) salvaging vehicles
such as tow trucks, cranes, and flatbed trucks used to tow or haul
motor vehicles.
A story of a building which is partly or completely underground.
Any family-occupied dwelling used or designed in such a manner
that certain rooms in excess of those used by the family are rented
to the transient public on a daily basis for compensation. Breakfast
is the only meal that may be served. May also be referred to as a
"tourist home."
For the purposes of stormwater management, structural or
nonstructural and managerial techniques that are recognized to be
the most effective and practical means to prevent or reduce non-point
source pollutants from entering receiving waters.
A family dwelling where lodging, with or without meals, is
furnished for compensation on a weekly or monthly basis to three (3)
or more persons who are not members of the family occupying and operating
the premises.
A strip of land (often including vegetation) where disturbance
is not allowed or is closely monitored to preserve or enhance aesthetic
and other qualities along or adjacent to roads, trails, watercourses
and recreation sites or between properties or lots.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering
any use or occupancy.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The total area covered, measured from the outside of the
exterior walls, by all principal and accessory buildings on a lot.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility for the pickup and discharge of passengers and
freight for buses; includes ticket sales and may include administrative
offices.
A facility which includes equipment and garage for the maintenance,
storage, and refueling of buses.
Each separate place of business, whether or not consisting
of one (1) or more buildings.
A workshop for the building, assembly and/or finishing of
wooden products where the facility is greater than seven thousand
(7,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A workshop for the building, assembly and/or finishing of
wooden products where the facility is less than seven thousand (7,000)
square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A central place where customer and other telephone calls
are handled by an organization, usually with some amount of computer
automation. Typically, a call center has the ability to handle a considerable
volume of calls at the same time, to screen calls and forward them
to someone qualified to handle them, and to log calls. Call centers
are used by mail-order catalog organizations, telemarketing companies,
computer product help desks, and any large organization that uses
the telephone to sell or service products and services.
A building, area or entity that provides facilities for,
and whose primary purpose is, washing, cleaning, and/or waxing vehicles,
either by mechanical means or by hand, either as a service provided
by others or by self-service. Facility may provide detailing of motor
vehicles as an added service.
[Amended 5-11-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-012]
Preparation of food and related materials for a special event,
occasion, or other related contracts, which are to be delivered to
a location other than where prepared.
Preparation of food and related materials for a special event,
occasion, or other temporary contract, which may be consumed on site
or delivered to a location other than where prepared.
A sign that changes its message or copy at intervals by programmable
electronic, digital or mechanical processes or by remote control.
[Added 5-6-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-022]
A sign that changes its message, copy, and/or content by
physically or manually altering the surface of the sign.
[Added 5-6-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-022]
Businesses whose primary purpose is to provide limited financial
services to individuals, such as check cashing and deferred-deposit
loans. This includes check cashers, payday advance businesses and
other business regulated by MGL Chapter 169A.
An establishment licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
for the purpose of either:
A day-care center, which provides daily care for more than six
(6) children under the age of seven (7) years, or sixteen (16) years
if such children have special needs; or
A school-age child-care program, which provides supervised group
care for children enrolled in kindergarten or older children who are
not more than fourteen (14) years, or sixteen (16) years of age if
such children have special needs.
A building or part thereof in which the ambulatory patients
are provided diagnostic, therapeutic or preventative medical, surgical,
dental or optical treatment by a group of health care professionals
or programs licensed or certified by the state, acting conjointly,
but not providing for overnight residence of patients.
An institution used or intended to be used for an association
of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, for some common
purpose, such as Lions, Elks, Rotary, or Shriners, but not including
adult uses, or a group organized solely or primarily to render a service
customarily carried on as a commercial enterprise, or only administrative
offices supporting the club.
Every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for
the transportation of property or passengers in furtherance of commercial
enterprise, or any vehicle of over eight thousand five hundred (8,500)
pounds gross unloaded weight, but not including any manufactured home
or recreational vehicle.
A medical facility licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
providing accommodation and care to aged and infirm persons but not
providing acute-care services. This definition excludes any facility
meeting the definition of "hospital" or "rehabilitation facility."
[Added 4-8-2013 by Ord.
No. 2012-028]
Any retail establishment offering for sale a relatively limited
selection of prepackaged food products, household items, and other
related goods, not including gasoline or fuel sales, characterized
by a rapid turnover of customers and high traffic generation.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility used for business or professional conferences
and seminars, often with accommodations for sleeping, eating and recreation.
A facility used for business or professional conferences
and seminars, often with accommodations for sleeping, eating and recreation.
A retail establishment that provides duplicating services
using photocopying, blueprint, and offset printing equipment and may
include the collating and binding of booklets and reports.
Operations office for the dispatching, coordination, preparation
and routing of package pickup and delivery [items weighing under one
hundred (100) pounds], or telephone message system.
An establishment containing a furnace or incinerator for
the purposes of reducing dead bodies to ashes by burning.
[Amended 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A group facility used for the housing of persons on probation
or parole.
A special facility that performs one (1) or more of the following
functions:
The care, supervision and guidance for compensation of four
(4) or fewer children unaccompanied by a parent, guardian or custodian,
on a regular basis for periods less than twenty-four (24) hours per
day, in a place other than the child's or children's own home or homes.
Any facility operated on a regular basis whether known as
a "day nursery," "nursery school," "kindergarten," "child play school,"
"progressive school," "child development center," or "pre-school,"
or known under any other name, which receives children not of common
parentage under seven (7) years of age, or under sixteen (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.
"Day-care center" shall not include any part of a public school system;
any part of a private, organized educational system, unless the services
of such system are primarily limited to kindergarten, nursery or related
preschool services; a Sunday school conducted by a religious institution;
a facility operated by a religious organization where children are
cared for during short periods of time while persons responsible for
such children are attending religious services; a family day-care
home; an informal cooperative arrangement among neighbors or relatives;
or the occasional care of children with or without compensation therefor.
A person who sells his/her labor for the day, hour, or for
a particular job.
Any place where day laborers gather to await employers to
hire them.
A facility which specializes in the full complement of body
care, including, but not limited to, body wraps, facials, pedicures,
make-up, hairstyling, nutrition, exercise, water treatments and massage,
which is open primarily during normal daytime business hours and without
provisions for overnight accommodations.
A large retail store organized into departments offering
a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain.
An opening in a restrictive median, which provides for the
specific movements and physically restricts other movements. Directional
median opening for two (2) opposing left or "U-turn" movements along
a road segment are considered one (1) directional median opening.
A business which is conducted under a single owner's name
wherein a variety of related or unrelated merchandise and nonautomotive
services are advertised and sold primarily at discounted prices and
are housed, enclosed, exhibited and sold directly to the customer
for whom the goods or services are furnished or sold. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any such business may have various departments, services
or uses that are identified by separate names and/or are owned or
operated independently of the business for which the department store
is named.
A zoning district as established by Article II of this chapter.
A man or unmanned drop-off center for charitable organizations.
The use of land, buildings or structures, or parts thereof,
to provide or dispense products or services, either wholly or in part,
through an attendant or a window or an automated machine, to customers
remaining in motorized vehicles that are in a designated stacking
lane.
An open space located on a lot, which is not more than twenty-four
(24) feet in width, built for access to a garage or off-street parking
or loading space.
A facility that has equipment on-site to provide dry-cleaning,
garment pressing and laundry services.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility that serves as a pick-up station for laundry and
dry-cleaning services to be provided at another site. The facility
may provide on-site garment pressing.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A two-family building designed with separate dwelling units
side by side, separated by a firewall. Only one (1) such building
shall be developed on any one (1) lot.
A privately or publicly owned permanent structure containing
a dwelling unit or dwelling units. The terms "one-family dwelling,"
"two-family dwelling" and "multifamily dwelling" shall not include
a hotel, lodging house, hospital, membership club, trailer or dormitory.
A second dwelling unit added to, created within, or detached
from a single-family detached dwelling for use as a completely independent
or semi-independent unit with provisions for cooking, eating, sanitation,
and sleeping.
A dwelling with two (2) or more party walls (firewall) or
one (1) party wall in the case of a dwelling at the end of a group
of attached dwellings.
A building containing three (3) or more dwelling units.
[Amended 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A multifamily dwelling, as defined by this chapter, for exclusive
residential occupancy by persons fifty-five (55) or older.
[Added 11-18-2002 ATM by Art. 2, approved 1-21-2003]
A building containing only one (1) dwelling unit for one
(1) family. Only one (1) such building shall be developed on any one
(1) lot.
A building containing two (2) dwelling units. Only one (1)
such building shall be developed on any such lot.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
One (1) or more rooms or enclosed floor spaces used or to
be used by one (1) or more individuals living as a single family or
housekeeping unit with cooking, living, sanitary and sleeping facilities.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Includes "altered," "rebuilt," "remodeled" and "moved."
Provided by a public service corporation or by governmental
agencies through erection, construction, alteration or maintenance
of gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems
and collection, communications, supply or disposal systems, whether
underground or overhead, but not including wireless communications
facilities. Facilities necessary for the provision of essential services
include poles, wires, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, alarm
boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar
equipment in connection therewith.
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-009]
A means of selling goods via professional organizer and/or
auctioneer and lasting more than one (1) day.
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-009]
A building designed for or containing both individual guestrooms
and efficient units/suites, under resident supervision, which maintains
an inner lobby through which all tenants must pass to gain access
to apartments, rooms or units and offers discounts for extended stays
beginning at five (5) days or seven (7) days.
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-009]
Except as may otherwise be required by any applicable state
or federal law, including education purposes and disabled persons
as defined in MGL c. 40A, § 3, or the Fair Housing Act (42
U.S.C. § 3604), one (1) or more persons, including domestic
employees, occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit
housekeeping unit, provided that a group of five (5) or more persons
who are not within the second degree of kinship shall not be deemed
to constitute a family; provided, however, that foster children shall
not be counted for this purpose.
[Amended 4-28-2003 ATM by Art. 17, approved 10-1-2003]
Any private residence which on a regular basis receives for
temporary custody and care during part or all of the day children
under seven (7) years of age or children under sixteen (16) years
of age if such children have special needs; provided, however, in
either case, that the total number of children under sixteen (16)
in a family day-care home shall not exceed six (6), including participating
children living in the residence. "Family day-care home" shall not
mean a private residence used for an informal cooperative arrangement
among neighbors or relatives, or the occasional care of children with
or without compensation therefor.
Retail sale of fresh fruits and vegetables, and other food
and related items, at a facility with spaces occupied by several different
temporary tenants on a short-term or daily basis; may be indoor or
outdoor; this term does not include roadside stands.
Any restaurant serving the majority of its food in disposable
containers, packages, or other similar wrapping, for consumption on
or off the premises.
A restaurant which primarily sells food prepared and made
ready for immediate sale in advance of a customer's order, which may
be served in paper, plastic or other disposable containers through
a combination of in-car, window, drive-through, or over-the-counter
service, and which is required by contractual or other arrangements
to offer standardized menus, ingredients, food preparation, decor,
external facade, or uniforms. The foregoing shall not apply if food
or beverage sales are wholly incidental to a conventional restaurant
or other allowed principal use; nor shall this regulation apply to
ice cream parlors.
Any establishment, the primary business of which is concerned
with such state-regulated activities as banking, savings and loans,
and consumer loan companies.
The total area enclosed within the several floors of a building
as measured from the exterior faces of the walls, excluding any space
where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six (6) feet. Floor
area requirements shall be construed to be based on the gross floor
area unless specified as leasable floor area.
Determined by dividing the gross floor area of all buildings
on a lot by the area of that lot.
The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors
of a building measured from the exterior face of exterior walls, or
from the center line of a wall separating two (2) buildings, but not
including interior parking spaces, loading space for motor vehicles,
or any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than six (6)
feet.
A vehicle-mounted food service establishment that is designed
to be readily movable. Mobile food vendors include push carts, mobile
kitchens, hot dog carts, pretzel wagons, etc.
Any land, building or structure used for sale or retail of
motor vehicle fuels, oils, or accessories, or installing or repairing
parts and accessories, but not including repairing or replacing of
motors, doors, or fenders, or painting motor vehicles.
Establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line
of food, such as canned and frozen foods; staple foodstuffs, fresh
fruits and vegetables; and fresh and prepared meats, fish, and poultry
and other grocery products, including nonfood items such as soaps,
detergents, paper goods, other household products, and health and
beauty aids, which are greater than five thousand (5,000) square feet
gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Establishments primarily engaged in retailing a general line
of food, such as canned and frozen foods; staple foodstuffs, fresh
fruits and vegetables; and fresh and prepared meats, fish, and poultry
and other grocery products, including nonfood items such as soaps,
detergents, paper goods, other household products, and health and
beauty aids, which do not exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet
gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility that provides an assisted-living program for senior
citizens and/or persons with disabilities group homes [seventeen (17)
or more persons].
A facility that provides an assisted-living program for senior
citizens and/or persons with disabilities group homes [nine (9) to
sixteen (16) persons].
A facility that provides an assisted-living program for senior
citizens and/or persons with disabilities group homes [one (1) to
eight (8) persons].
The process of cultivating marijuana subject to registration
and restrictions set forth by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
The vertical distance from the established grade at the center
of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof surface
if a flat roof, to the deck line for mansard roofs, and to the mean
height level between eaves and ridge for gabled, hip and gambrel roofs.
Any commercial use conducted entirely within a dwelling unit
and carried on by family members residing in that dwelling unit, the
use of which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the
dwelling for dwelling purposes, and which does not alter the exterior
or affect the residential character of the neighborhood, and in connection
with which there is no display nor stock-in-trade.
A medical establishment licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
whose facilities provide inpatient accommodations for acute medical
and surgical care; and other inpatient services for sick, ailing or
injured persons; and including such related facilities as laboratories,
outpatient departments, training facilities, central services, staff
offices and residences that are integral with and accessory to the
principal use.
[Amended 4-8-2013 by Ord.
No. 2012-028]
A building occupied or used as a predominantly temporary
abiding place by individuals or groups of individuals, with or without
meals, and in which building there are more than five (5) sleeping
rooms and in which rooms there is no provision for cooking.
Any hard-surfaced, man-made areas that do not readily absorb
or retain water, including but not limited to patios, paved parking
and driveway areas, walkways, sidewalks and paved recreation areas
(e.g., basketball courts, tennis courts, swimming pools). This would
exclude public sidewalks on private property and buildings.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The area of the lot occupied by impervious surfaces.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
To take and hold a vehicle in legal custody.
Any area or enclosure established and used solely and exclusively
for the parking and storage of impounded vehicles.
A separate dwelling unit within a detached single-family
dwelling subordinate in size to the single-family dwelling and which
maintains the appearance of the structure as a single-family dwelling.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A business wherein vehicles are offered for hire by the public
with fees fixed on an hourly or per-trip basis and not having any
route or fixed schedule.
[Added 12-19-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-009]
A parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one
(1) main building or use, with its accessories, and including the
open space accessory to it, which is defined in a deed or plan recorded
with the Norfolk Registry of Deeds or Norfolk Registry District. No
land which is within the boundaries of a street accepted, proposed
or dedicated shall be included in determining lot areas.
[Amended 4-24-2001 ATM by Art. 23, approved
12-21-2001]
Includes the percentage of a lot covered by buildings plus
that percentage of a lot covered by impervious surfaces.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and
the rear lot line.
The property line dividing a lot from a street (right-of-way).
On a corner lot, the owner shall designate one (1) street line as
the front lot line. On a corner lot, where the junction of two (2)
streets is formed by a curve, the frontage shall be measured along
the tangent line of the curve from the point of intersection to the
side lot line.
The lot line opposite the front lot line.
Any lot line not a front or rear lot line.
A lot lawfully existing at the effective date of this chapter,
or any subsequent amendment thereto, which is not in accordance with
all provisions of this chapter.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines as measured
at the minimum required setback distance required by this chapter.
A workshop where power-driven tools are used for making,
finishing, or repairing machines or machine parts, which is greater
than three thousand (3,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A workshop where power-driven tools are used for making,
finishing, or repairing machines or machine parts, which shall not
exceed three thousand (3,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A street designated as a numbered highway by the commonwealth
if having at least two (2) travel lanes in each travel direction.
An establishment engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation
of materials (natural and man-made) or substances into new products,
including but not limited to machine parts; fabricated structural
metal products; and electronic and communication components, systems
and equipment, which is greater than three thousand (3,000) square
feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
An establishment engaged in the mechanical or chemical transformation
of materials (natural and man-made) or substances into new products,
including but not limited to machine parts; fabricated structural
metal products; and electronic and communication components, systems
and equipment, which shall not exceed three thousand (3,000) square
feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Has the meaning given "marihuana" in MGL Chapter 94C, defined
as all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not;
the seeds thereof; and resin extracted from any part of the plant;
and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation
of the plant, its seeds or resin. It does not include the mature stalks
of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil, or cake made from
the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks, except the resin extracted
therefrom, fiber, oil, or cake or the sterilized seed of the plant
which is incapable of germination.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
The act or art of improving, using, and preparing in order
to foster growth and/or to raise a specific crop product of natural
or synthetic marijuana.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
An employee, staff, volunteer, officer, or board member of
a not-for-profit medical marijuana treatment center.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
The act, process, collection, receipt, benefit, or period
of gathering a crop that ripens or is gathered during a specific time
period that consists of a quantity of a specific crop product of natural
or synthetic marijuana.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
To sell, exchange, give or dispose of marijuana to another
person or persons.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
A Massachusetts not-for-profit entity, registered by the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health pursuant to all applicable
state laws and regulations, that acquires, cultivates, possesses,
processes (including development of related products such as food,
tinctures, aerosols, oils, or ointments), transfers, transports, sells,
distributes, dispenses, or administers marijuana, products containing
marijuana, related supplies, or educational materials to qualifying
patients or their personal caregivers.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
The acquisition, cultivation, possession, processing (including
development of related products such as food, tinctures, aerosols,
oils, or ointments), transfer, transportation, sale, distribution,
dispensing, or administration of marijuana, for the benefit of qualifying
patients in the treatment of debilitating medical conditions, or the
symptoms thereof.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
A building or group of buildings divided into separate compartments
used to meet the temporary storage needs of small businesses, apartment
dwellers and other residential uses; and may include refrigerated
facilities.
A dwelling unit with not less than six hundred twenty-five
(625) square feet of usable living area, not more than two (2) bedrooms,
at least one (1) full bath and an individual laundry unit (no shared
laundry facilities on the premises).
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The combination of residential and business uses on a single
lot
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A building made up of two (2) or more separate living or
sleeping quarters used independently of each other and used principally
for overnight accommodations for compensation.
A single point of contact appointed by the Town Manager to
serve as the primary municipal liaison for all issues relating to
the Expedited Permitting Statute, MGL c. 43D, §§ 1
through 16.
[Added 12-3-2007 STM by Art. 7, approved 4-14-2008]
Any nonprofit organization/program that focuses on recovery
from drug addiction.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
Organic, naturally grown, nonmanufactured marijuana derived
from the plant Cannabis sativa L.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
Any billboard, sign or other advertising device that does
not come within the foregoing definition of an accessory sign.
An entity that exists solely for religious, charitable, educational,
political or civic purposes and is not in business to make a profit.[2]
A sign which identifies a facility or service which is not
located on the premises where such sign is located.
[Added 11-3-1997 STM by Art. 13, approved
2-6-1998]
A space in which services are offered or rendered to the
public by professionals not resident therein, including (but not limited
to) offices for medical doctors, dentists, engineers, architects,
lawyers, accountants, landscape architects, chiropractors, podiatrists,
optometrists, psychologists, insurance or investment counselors, real
estate offices or social workers.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A space in which services are offered or rendered to the
public by professionals not resident therein, including (but not limited
to) offices for medical doctors, dentists, engineers, architects,
lawyers, accountants, landscape architects, chiropractors, podiatrists,
optometrists, psychologists, insurance or investment counselors, real
estate offices or social workers.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A sign which is erected and maintained according to the standards
set forth herein and upon the same real property on which the business
facility or point of interest is located.
[Added 11-3-1997 STM by Art. 13, approved
2-6-1998]
Land uses in which merchandise is sold or displayed principally
outdoors or in which services are offered or rendered to customers
principally outdoors. This does not include:
The duly authorized agent, attorney, purchaser, devisee,
trustee, lessee or any person having vested or equitable interest
in the use, structure or lot in question.
An off-grade structure primarily for the parking of motor
vehicles.
An off-street space, whether inside or outside a structure,
for exclusive use as a parking stall for one (1) motor vehicle, as
required elsewhere in this chapter.
A facility in the business of lending money on mortgages,
deposits or pledges of wearing apparel, jewelry, ornaments, household
goods or other personal property purchasing such property on the condition
of selling the same back again at a stipulated price, when the property
so mortgaged, pledged or purchased is deposited with the lender.
A person who is at least twenty-one (21) years old who has
agreed to assist with a qualifying patient’s medical use of
marijuana. Personal caregivers are prohibited from consuming marijuana
obtained for the personal, medical use of the qualifying patient.
An employee of a hospice provider, nursing, or medical facility providing
care to a qualifying patient may also serve as a personal caregiver.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
See "office or professional use."
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A professional office space with on-site storage of pesticides,
economic poisons, or mechanical devices for preventing, controlling,
eradicating, identifying, inspecting for, mitigating, diminishing,
or curtailing insects, vermin, rodents, pest birds, bats, or other
pests in, on, or under a structure, lawn, or ornamental. This does
not apply to pest control performed by a person upon his own individual
residential property using disinfectants, sanitizers, or ready-to-use
pesticides sold over the counter at retail or pest control performed
in greenhouses, plant nurseries, on agricultural crops, trees, groves,
orchards and other agricultural areas.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility engaged in the manicuring, bathing, clipping and
styling of pets.
A business which provides compensation to patrons for plasma
drawn from the human body.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A sign erected for the benefit of a political candidate,
party or position.
[Amended 4-16-1996 ATM by Art. 9, approved 7-29-1996]
A printing establishment generally serving account customers
and utilizing a sheet-fed or web-fed press rather than a typical one-person
offset press.
A printing establishment generally serving both walk-in and
account customers, utilizing small-scale printing presses which are
set up and operated by an individual and may include a bindery person
as an assistant. Products primarily consist of business cards, envelopes,
letterheads, reports, manuals and brochures.
Recorded in the Norfolk Registry of Deeds or registered in
the Norfolk District Registry of the Land Court.
Any premises or part of a building where there is an assemblage
of equipment, spaces and persons such that a performance in sound
may be created and recorded onto a medium for later reproduction.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility for the collection, separation, compaction, sorting,
temporary storage and transfer for reprocessing of residentially and
commercially generated recyclable materials, including but not limited
to glass, paper, plastic and polystyrene. Separation may include both
hand and mechanized sorting, with all activities other than unloading
and loading to occur inside an enclosed building.
A facility that serves as a neighborhood drop-off point for
temporary storage of recoverable resources such as bottles, newspapers,
glass and cans.
A freestanding facility or unit of contiguous dedicated beds
and spaces within a licensed health service facility that provides
short-term, inpatient or outpatient care, post-acute treatment and/or
medical services to persons with functional limitations or chronic
disabling conditions resulting from physical injury. It uses a coordinated,
integrated, interdisciplinary approach to assess, alleviate or ameliorate
the disabling effects of injury through physical, psychosocial and
cognitive treatment. This does not include facilities meeting the
definition of "hospital" or "convalescent/nursing home."
[Added 4-8-2013 by Ord.
No. 2012-028]
A physical barrier in the roadway that separates traffic
traveling in opposite directions, such as a concrete barrier or landscaped
island.
That part of a commercial or retail structure wherein one
(1) or more articles of merchandise or commerce are sold at retail,
excluding that used exclusively for storage, shipping or offices for
employees of the business, and other non-sales areas.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
An establishment with greater than seven thousand (7,000)
square feet gross floor area (including refrigerated space) that sells
alcoholic and/or malt beverages for consumption off premises.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
An establishment with not more than seven thousand (7,000)
square feet gross floor area (including refrigerated space) that sells
alcoholic and/or malt beverages for consumption off premises.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
The sale of goods, merchandise to the general public for
personal or household consumption. Unless otherwise specified in the
district use regulations, retail sales exclude automobile repair and
service facilities, car washes, gasoline filling stations, automobile
sales, automobile painting and body shops, junkyards and salvaging
operations and restaurants.
A small retail store [size not exceeding seven thousand five
hundred (7,500) square feet gross floor area] that sells a broad range
of single category goods.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
Any large single-occupant building or unit used for retail
purposes exceeding sixty thousand (60,000) square feet gross floor
area located in a building or unit, or within a building group of
fewer than five (5) units connected by party walls, partitions, canopies
and similar features, and designed as a single or freestanding commercial
use or group, which may be included or be part of a shopping center,
possibly sharing parking areas and vehicular travelways with other
buildings or uses and which may be connected by walkways and accessways
to other buildings or uses.
The sale of goods, previously owned and/or used by other
than a licensed pawnbroker, but does not include:
The buying or selling by a licensed business
of articles which were acquired as a trade-in or a credit upon the
purchase of a new article of the same general kind through an arm's
length transaction.
The buying, selling, or trading of coins, gold,
silver, or jewelry.
The selling of used articles in garage sales
or other similar sales on the property of the owner of the articles
which do not occur more often than six (6) days, or portion thereof,
each calendar half year.
The sale of products, to anyone other than the end user of
the products, for resale.
A facility or area for storing or processing scrap or discarded
material or equipment which is not considered as another use under
this chapter. Scrap or discarded material includes, but is not limited
to, metal, paper, rags, tires, glass, motor vehicle parts, machinery,
structural steel, equipment and appliances. The term includes facilities
for separating trash and debris from recoverable resources and other
products which can be returned to a condition in which they may again
be used for production.
A facility that provides a curriculum of elementary and secondary
academic instruction, including kindergartens, elementary schools,
junior high or middle schools, and high schools, either public or
private.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility that provides training for employment in business
skills such as clerical, data processing and the like, or in trades
such as construction skills, heavy equipment operation and the like.
[Amended 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility for the private instruction of skills or activities
not directly related to academic pursuits or employment, which may
include a dance studio, music studio, gymnastics, craft and/or art
studio, exercise studio (not having locker or shower facilities).
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A multiple-family dwelling or dwelling group intended for,
and solely occupied by, persons fifty-five (55) years of age or older.
A group of five (5) or more retail/commercial
uses, located in a zoning district where retailing is permitted as
a principal use and having any or all of the following characteristics:
The uses are connected by party walls, partitions,
canopies, and, similar features; or
Some or all of the uses are located in separate
buildings which are designed as a single commercial group sharing
common parking areas and vehicular travelways and are connected by
walkways and accessways designed to encourage customer interchange
between uses, and otherwise present the appearance of a continuous
commercial area without regard to ownership; or
The uses are under the same management or association
for the purpose of enforcing reciprocal agreements controlling management,
parking, site coverage, advertising and similar agreements.
Shopping centers shall be grouped according
to size as follows:
Shopping center - A [less than fifty thousand
(50,000) gross square feet].
Shopping center - B [from fifty thousand (50,000)
gross square feet up to one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) square
feet].
Shopping center - C [from one hundred fifty
thousand (150,000) gross square feet up to and including four hundred
thousand (400,000) gross square feet].
Shopping center - D [over four hundred thousand
(400,000) gross square feet].
Any letter, word, symbol, drawing, picture, device, article
or object that advertises, calls attention to or indicates any premises,
persons, products, businesses or activities, whatever the nature of
the material and manner of composition or construction.[3]
The Planning Board, Town Council or Board of Appeals, as determined by reference to Article VIII of this chapter.
The sale or rental of clothing or equipment designed for
sports/recreational purposes, but not to include firearms.
The sale or rental of clothing or equipment designed for
sports/recreational purposes, including firearms.
A portable or semi-portable container, with or without wheels,
which is used for temporary or permanent storage of any materials
and is not a permanent part of a building or structure. Containers
used for the storage or disposal of solid waste are specifically exempt.
[Added 4-24-2001 ATM by Art. 15, approved
12-21-2001]
That part of a building included between the surface of any
floor and the surface of the next floor or of the roof next above
it. When the distance from the average established grade to the ceiling
of a story partly below such grade exceeds five (5) feet, then the
basement or cellar constituting the story partially below grade shall
be counted as a story.
A story which is situated within a sloping roof, the area
of which at the height of four (4) feet above the floor does not exceed
two-thirds (2/3) of the floor area directly below it, wherein living
quarters are used only as a part of the dwelling situated in the story
below.
A way which is over twenty (20) feet in right-of-way width
which is dedicated or devoted to public use by legal mapping or by
any other lawful procedure. A street includes all public ways, a way
which the Town Clerk certifies is maintained and used as a public
way, a way shown on a plan approved and endorsed in accordance with
the Subdivision Regulations[4] and a way having, in the opinion of the Planning Board,
sufficient width, suitable grades and adequate construction to provide
for the needs of vehicular traffic in relation to the proposed uses
of the land abutting thereon or served thereby and for the installation
of municipal services to serve such land and the buildings erected
or to be erected thereon.
A structure lawfully existing at the effective date of this
chapter, or any subsequent amendment thereto, which does not conform
to one (1) or more provisions of this chapter.
An open-air market.
Any nonorganic manufactured variation and/or form of natural
marijuana.
[Added 1-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-001]
A matrix of primary land uses for each zoning district organized
into a compressed, accessible format.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A business that marks the skin with any indelible design,
letter, scroll, figure, symbol or any other mark that is placed by
the aid of needles or other instruments upon or under the skin with
any substance that will leave color under the skin and that cannot
be removed, repaired or reconstructed without a surgical procedure.
A tattoo studio may or may not be operated in conjunction with a body
piercing studio.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility engaged in the dispatching of passenger vehicle
transportation for hire, including business offices and the parking
of vehicles; no servicing of vehicles permitted.
The provision of passenger vehicle transportation for hire,
including business offices and dispatching.
See "bed-and-breakfast facility."
A row of at least three (3) one-family attached dwelling
units whose side walls are separated from other dwelling by a firewall
or -walls. Each unit in the row may be owned by a separate owner if
in condominium.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility where a range of services and goods to professional
drivers and the general public are congregated, such as fuel sales,
vehicle service, overnight accommodations and restaurants.
The purpose for which a structure or lot is arranged, designed
or intended to be used, occupied or maintained.
A use lawfully existing at the time of adoption of this chapter,
or any subsequent amendment thereto, which does not conform to one
(1) or more provisions of this chapter.
The main or primary purpose for which a structure or lot
is designated, arranged or intended or for which it may be used, occupied
or maintained under this chapter. Any other use within the main structure
or the use of any other structure or land on the same lot and incidental
or supplementary to the principal use and permitted under this chapter
shall be considered an accessory use.
Such departure from the terms of this chapter as the Board
of Appeals, upon appeal in specific cases, is empowered to grant under
the terms of applicable state law.
A temporary table/stand or cart with functional wheels which
is not affixed to the ground, and which is operated for the purpose
of selling or displaying for sale retail goods/items on a temporary
basis
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
A facility for the prevention, cure or alleviation of disease
and injury in animals, including surgery.
An establishment primarily engaged in the retail rental or
lease of videotapes, films, CD-ROMs, laser discs, electronic games,
cassettes or other electronic media. Sales of film, videotapes, laser
discs, CD-ROMs and electronic merchandise associated with VCRs, video
cameras and electronic games are permitted accessory uses.
The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities
for resale to consumers.
[Amended 4-25-2005 ATM by Art. 5, approved
11-18-2005]
An establishment involved in storing, stocking, distributing,
rental and/or repair of merchandise or commodities where the facility
is greater than seven thousand (7,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
An establishment involved in storing, stocking, distributing,
rental and/or repair of merchandise or commodities where the facility
is less than seven thousand (7,000) square feet gross floor area.
[Added 5-22-2006 ATM by Art. 50, approved
10-17-2006]
[2]
Editor's Note: The definition of "nursing home," which immediately
followed this definition, was repealed 4-8-2013 by Ord. No. 2012-028.
See now the definition of "convalescent/nursing home" above.
[3]
Editor's Note: The definition of "standing
sign," which immediately followed, was repealed 11-3-1997 STM by Art.
13, approved 2-6-1998.
[4]
Editor's Note: The Subdivision Regulations
are on file in the Town Clerk's office.