Town of Brewster, MA
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2023-01-05
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Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 179 Zoning
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Article V Area and Bulk Regulations
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 5 Administration
- Ch 6 Boards, Commissions and Authorities
- Ch 7 Festivals
- Ch 8 Bylaws
- Ch 9 Cemetery, Town
- Ch 10 Civil Defense
- Ch 12 Committees
- Ch 15 Council on Aging
- Ch 16 Health and Human Services Committee
- Ch 17 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 18 Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Ch 20 Fees
- Ch 21 Finances
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 36 Personnel
- Ch 38 Public Meetings, Minutes of
- Ch 39 Property, Sale of
- Ch 41 Regional School District
- Ch 42 Select Board
- Ch 43 Town Property, Disposal of
- Ch 46 Town Counsel
- Ch 48 Town Meetings
- Ch 49 Police Department
- Ch 53 Water Districts
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 56 Accommodations
- Ch 58 Alarm Systems
- Ch 59 Recreational Marijuana Retailers
- Ch 60 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 61 Ambulance Service
- Ch 62 Auctions
- Ch 65 Beaches
- Ch 69 Boats
- Ch 72 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Camping
- Ch 83 Staff Review
- Ch 86 Dogs
- Ch 87 Domestic Partnerships
- Ch 89 Dredging and Soil Removal
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 93 Erosion
- Ch 97 Firearms and Explosives
- Ch 98 Hunting in the Punkhorn Parklands
- Ch 100 Flooding
- Ch 106 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 112 Water
- Ch 115 Illicit Connections and Discharges
- Ch 119 Fertilizer Nutrient Control
- Ch 122 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 125 Noise
- Ch 128 Numbering of Property
- Ch 130 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 132 Peeping or Spying
- Ch 135 Pollution and Environmental Hazards
- Ch 146 Secondhand Articles, Sale of
- Ch 150 Sewers
- Ch 152 Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles
- Ch 155 Streetlighting
- Ch 157 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 159 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 160 (Reserved)
- Ch 168 Vehicles, Unregistered
- Ch 171 Water Betterments
- Ch 172 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 179 Zoning
- Ch 179 Art V Area and Bulk Regulations
- § 179-15 Applicability of regulations.
- § 179-16 Tables of regulations.
- § 179-17 Fences, walls and other enclosures.
- Ch 272 Stormwater Management
- Division 2: Select Board Regulations
- Ch SR Select Board Regulations
- Division 3: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch BOH Board of Health Regulations
- Division 4: Miscellaneous
- Ch 290 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Appendix
- Ch A295 General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A296 Committees, Boards and Councils
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
The regulations for each district pertaining to minimum lot area, minimum lot frontage, maximum height of buildings, maximum number of stories, minimum front yard depth, minimum side yard width, minimum rear yard depth and minimum residential net floor area shall be as specified in this section and set forth in the Table of Area Regulations and Height and Bulk Regulations and subject to the further provisions of this section. A fence, wall or other enclosure is not regulated except as provided in § 179-17 below.
See tables on accompanying pages, plus attached
notes, which are declared to be a part of this chapter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Table 2, Area Regulations Minimum
Required Lots, and Table 3, Height and Bulk Regulations, are located
at the end of this chapter.
A.
A fence, hedge, wall or other enclosures may be maintained
on a corner lot, provided that no structure or vegetation shall be
over 3.5 feet in height within the sight triangle.
B.
The "sight triangle" is defined as the area within
a triangle formed by two lines measured along the center of the nearest
lane of the traveled way of intersecting streets from the point of
intersection for a distance of 25 feet and a third line connecting
the points on the two legs. The height restrictions shall designate
the distance above each point in the plane of the sight triangle.
