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Town of Orange, CT
New Haven County
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A. 
Stores and other buildings and structures where goods are sold or service is rendered primarily at retail.
B. 
Business and professional offices; banks and other financial institutions; medical and dental clinics.
C. 
Clothes and fabric cleaning and laundry service consisting of on-premises facilities for service at retail, including self-service, or agencies for off-premises cleaners and laundries.
D. 
Indoor restaurants and other food and beverage service establishments where customers are served only when seated at tables or counters and all of the seats are located within an enclosed building, unless approved under § 383-50E.
[Amended 3-7-2006]
E. 
Indoor theaters and assembly halls.
F. 
Hotels and motels, provided all facilities are connected to the Town sanitary sewerage system.
G. 
Undertaker's establishments.
H. 
Veterinary hospitals.
I. 
Printing and publishing establishments occupying not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
J. 
Bowling alleys; billiard or pool halls.
K. 
Manufacture, processing or assembling of goods for sale only on the premises and at retail.
L. 
Churches and places of worship; parish halls; schools; colleges; universities; educational, religious, philanthropic and charitable institutions; membership clubs; lodges; community houses.
M. 
Buildings, uses and facilities of the Town of Orange.
N. 
Off-street parking facilities.
O. 
Signs as provided in Article XIX.
P. 
Public utility substations and telephone equipment buildings provided that there is no outside service yard or outside storage of supplies.
Q. 
Water supply reservoirs, wells, towers, pump stations, storage facilities and treatment facilities.
R. 
Buildings, uses and facilities of the State of Connecticut or federal government.
S. 
[1]Accessory uses customary with and incidental to any aforesaid permitted uses.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection S, allowing adult use establishments as a permitted use, was repealed 5-28-2003. See now § 383-50C. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection T as S.
A. 
Drive-through service windows for indoor banks and restaurants and other food and beverage establishments provided the service windows are incidental to the primary permitted use.
B. 
Planned residential development uses in accordance with Article XII.
[Amended 10-4-2000]
C. 
Adult use establishments in accordance with Article XV.
[Added 5-28-2003]
D. 
Sale of gasoline as an accessory use in conjunction with retail stores containing over 100,000 square feet.
[Added 7-6-2004]
E. 
Indoor restaurants and other food and beverage service establishments where customers order and receive their order at a service counter and where the food and/or beverage is intended to be consumed primarily while seated at tables or counters within the establishment.
[Added 3-7-2006]
F. 
A food take-out service incidental to the primary intended use, but shall not include the following:
[Added 3-7-2006]
(1) 
Establishments where customers are served primarily at food take-out counters.
(2) 
[1]Establishments where customers are served in a manner intended for consumption of food at outside picnic or dining areas.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection F(2), regarding restaurant establishments with carhop service, was repealed 11-16-2010. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection F(3) as Subsection F(2). See now Subsection H.
G. 
Outdoor restaurant seating in accordance with § 383-143.4.
[Added 6-15-2010; amended 9-6-2011]
H. 
Carhop restaurant service where food is brought and served in motor vehicles parked in a specially designed and designated area.
[Added 11-16-2010]
A. 
Motor vehicle service stations; motor vehicle repair garages including automobile, truck, trailer and farm equipment repairing; painting and upholstering; establishments for motor vehicle washing; establishments for the sale of new or used automobiles, trucks, trailers or farm equipment or the rental thereof.
B. 
Painting, plumbing, electrical, sheet metal, carpentry, woodworking, blacksmith, welding and machine shops.
C. 
Printing and publishing except as permitted under § 383-49I.
D. 
Warehousing and wholesale businesses; building contractors' businesses and storage yards; lumber and building materials businesses; freight and materials trucking terminals and businesses; bus terminals; commercial storage, sale and distribution of fuel.
E. 
Research laboratories, manufacture, processing or assembling of goods except as permitted under § 383-49K.
F. 
Car washes, including manual and automated washes.
A. 
Minimum lot area: 25,000 square feet.
B. 
Minimum dimension of square: 125 feet.
C. 
Minimum frontage: 50 feet.
A. 
Maximum number of stories: three stories.
B. 
Maximum height: 40 feet.
A. 
From street line: 50 feet.
B. 
From rear property line: 50 feet.
C. 
From other property line: 12 feet.
D. 
From Residence District boundary line: 50 feet.
E. 
Projections into setback area: five feet.
A. 
Maximum floor area: 50%.
B. 
Maximum ground coverage: 25%.
Prior to approval of any application for certificate of zoning compliance, a site plan shall be submitted and approved in accordance with the provisions of Article XIII.