For the purposes of this chapter, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings or limitations of meanings
herein defined. All present tenses shall include past and future tenses
and all past tense the present. All singular terms shall include the
plural and the plural the singular.
ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITAn accessory dwelling unit shall mean a self-contained, separate housekeeping unit, complete with its own sleeping, cooking and sanitary facilities and a separate means of egress that is substantially contained within a single-family structure and is clearly subordinate to the primary single-family dwelling unit.[1]
[Added ATM 5-6-2017 by
Art. 31]
ACCESSORY BUILDINGA building devoted exclusively to a use accessory to the principal use of the lot on which it is located.
ACCESSORY USEA use incident and subordinate to and on the same lot as a principal use.
An establishment having a substantial or significant portion
of its stock-in-trade printed matter, books, magazines, picture periodicals,
motion-picture films, video cassettes, or coin-operated motion-picture
machines for sale, barter or rental which are distinguished or characterized
by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to sexual
conduct as that term is defined in MGL c. 272, § 31; or
an establishment having for sale sexual devices, which shall mean
any device primarily designed, promoted or marketed to physically
stimulate or manipulate the human genitals, pubic area or anal area,
or an establishment with a segment or section devoted to the sale
or display of such materials.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
Establishments which feature live entertainment which consists
of entertainers engaging in sexual conduct or nudity, or topless and/or
bottomless wait persons or employees or any other form of nude or
partially nude service or entertainment as defined in MGL c. 272,
§ 31.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
An enclosed building with a capacity for less than 50 persons
used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by emphasis
on matter depicting, describing or relating to sexual conduct as defined
in MGL c. 272, § 31, for observation by patrons therein.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
An enclosed building with a capacity of 50 or more persons
used for presenting material distinguished or characterized by an
emphasis on matter depicting, describing or relating to sexual conduct
as defined in MGL c. 272, § 31, for observation by patrons
therein.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
An establishment having as a substantial or significant portion
of its stock 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.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
An establishment having 35% or more of its stock-in-trade
devoted to books, magazines, publications, tapes, films and/or other
items that are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter
depicting, describing, or relating to sexual activities or anatomical
genital areas.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
An establishment having a substantial or significant portion
of its stock-in-trade, videos, movies or other film, material which
is distinguished or characterized by its emphasis depicting, describing
or relating to sexual conduct or sexual excitement as defined by MGL
c.272, § 31.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 30]
UNITAny room or suite of rooms forming a habitable unit for one family with its own cooking and food storage equipment and its own bathing and toilet facilities and its own living, sleeping and eating areas wholly within such room or suite of rooms.
APARTMENT BUILDINGA building containing four or more apartment units, with no portion of the building below the first story or above the second story used for dwelling purposes.
A workshop for the production, in whole or in part, of custom-made
goods by a skilled craft-worker or artisan which are to be sold on
site.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Housing units and associated facilities designed for the
elderly who require daily assistance but who do not require nursing
home care. An assisted living housing unit consists of the same characteristics
as a congregate living housing unit. Associated facilities typically
provide additional services beyond congregate housing, including daily
meals and personal services, medical monitoring and supervision. Assisted
living shall refer to certified assisted living residences only, as
regulated under EOEA 651 CMR 12.02.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Any technology that uses living organisms or parts of organisms
to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop
micro-organisms for specific uses as defined by the United States
Office of Technology Assessment.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Includes the words "erect," "construct," "alter," "enlarge,"
"move," "modify," "excavate," "fill" and any others of like significance.
With the exception of the Village Center District, each lot shall have at least half of its minimum lot size required by zoning consisting of contiguous upland. The upland area shall be exclusive of any resource area as defined by Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act Regulations 310 CMR 10.00 or Chapter 202 of the Westminster General Bylaws.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Includes the word "structure," unless the context unequivocally
indicates otherwise. "Building" shall also mean any three-dimensional
enclosure by any building materials of any space for use or occupancy,
temporary or permanent, and shall include foundations in the ground;
also, all parts of any kind of structure above the ground, except
fences and field or garden walls or embankment retaining walls.
A retail store where building materials such as lumber, bricks,
plywood, drywall, paneling, cement blocks and other cement products,
and other building supplies are stored and sold. Such merchandise
may be stored in the open, provided that all merchandise so stored
is screened from ground level view from any abutting street or abutting
property at the property line where such materials are stored.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Establishments primarily engaged in the rendering of services
to other businesses, such as photocopying, printing, blueprinting
shops, advertising firms, mail and packaging services, data processing
and office support services, janitorial and building maintenance,
employment agencies, protective services, office equipment repair
and leasing, and other similar services.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to
other businesses, such as photocopying, printing, and blueprinting
shops, advertising firms, mail and packaging services, data processing
and office support services, janitorial and building maintenance,
employment agencies, protective services, office equipment repair
and leasing, and other similar services.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
An establishment used for boarding, holding, day care, overnight
stays or training of animals that are not the property of the owner
of the establishment at which such services are rendered in exchange
for consideration and in the absence of the owner of any animal; provided,
however, that "commercial boarding or training kennel" shall not include
an animal shelter or animal control facility, a pet shop licensed
under MGL c. 129, § 39A, a grooming facility operated solely
for the purpose of grooming and not for overnight boarding or an individual
who temporarily, and not in the normal course of business, boards
or cares for animals owned by others.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
An establishment, other than a personal kennel, engaged in
the business of breeding animals for sale or exchange to wholesalers,
brokers or pet shops in return for consideration.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
As defined by the Massachusetts Office of Elderly Affairs,
congregate housing is a shared living environment designed to integrate
the housing and services needs of elders and younger disabled individuals.
The goal of congregate housing is to increase self-sufficiency through
the provision of supportive services in a residential setting. Congregate
housing is neither a nursing home nor a medical care facility. It
does not offer twenty-four-hour care and supervision. Services are
made available to aid residents in managing activities of daily living
in a supportive, but not custodial environment. Each resident has
a private bedroom, but shares one or more of the following: kitchen
facilities, dining facilities, and/or bathing facilities.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
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 preschool, or known under any
other name, which receives children under seven years of age, or under
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.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
A facility operated, owned or maintained by a domestic charitable
corporation registered with the Department of Agricultural Resources
or an animal welfare society or other nonprofit organization incorporated
for the purpose of providing for and promoting the welfare, protection
and humane treatment of animals, including a veterinary hospital or
clinic operated by a licensed veterinarian, which operates consistent
with such purposes while providing veterinary treatment and care.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
DWELLING, ATTACHEDA building designed for or occupied as a one-family residence and separated from another attached dwelling on one or both sides by a vertical party wall.
DWELLING, DETACHEDA building designed for or occupied as a one-family residence and separated from any other building except accessory buildings by side yards.
UNITSame as "apartment unit."
ONE-FAMILY DWELLINGA building designed for or occupied by one family.
TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGA freestanding building, designed or intended exclusively for residential use containing two dwelling units. (This can be two attached dwelling units.)
EXISTING DWELLINGA dwelling existing at the time of adoption of this chapter.
Buildings used for public recreation, including but not limited
to bowling alley, gyms, dance and yoga studios, skating rink, theater
or sport arena or concert hall, provided that such use is housed indoors
in sound-insulated structures.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Any number of individuals, including domestic employees,
living together in a dwelling unit and living as a single, nonprofit
housekeeping unit, provided that a group of five or more persons who
are not within the second degree of kinship to each other, as defined
by civil law, shall not be deemed to constitute a "family."
A private residence which, on a regular basis, receives for
temporary custody and care during part or all of the day children
under seven years of age, or children under 16 years of age if those
children have special needs, and receives for temporary custody and
care for a limited number of hours children of school age. The total
number of children under 16 in a family child-care home shall not
exceed six, including participating children living in the residence.
Family child-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 as
defined and regulated under MGL c. 15D, § 1A, provided that
any outdoor play area is screened by fence, wall or planting line
from any neighboring residential structure.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Agriculture, orchard, horticulture, or silviculture, whether
or not the farm is exempted under MGL c. 40A, § 3, provided
that any building housing farm animals be not less than 50 feet from
the property boundary, unless the building was in existence at the
time of adoption of this chapter.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
A bank, savings and loan, credit union, mortgage office,
lending institution, investment company, with or without drive-through
services and/or automated teller machine.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
The continuous portion of the line separating a lot from
a street to which the owner of the lot has a legal right of access
and to which the owner could provide for vehicular access from a principal
building or a required parking space. Frontage may be measured at
the front yard setback line if the street is an arc of a curve with
a radius of 300 feet or less, provided that there is, in any event,
not less than a fifty-foot width of such frontage at the street.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Measured as the vertical distance between the highest point
of the roof and the mean finished grade of the ground adjoining the
building.
The plant of the genus cannabis and any part of the plant,
whether growing or not, with a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol concentration
that does not exceed 0.3% on a dry weight basis or per volume or weight
of marijuana product or the combined percent of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid in any part of the plant of the genus
cannabis regardless of moisture content.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
An activity customarily carried on by the permanent residents
of a dwelling unit, inside the dwelling unit, requiring only customary
home equipment. "Home occupations" do not include barbershops, beauty
shops, commercial offices such as real estate or insurance, nor do
they involve the sale of articles produced outside the dwelling unit
nor the raising or production of products involving odor, vibration,
smoke, dust, heat or other objectionable effects.
A structure containing sleeping rooms with or without a common
eating facility, each room having its own private toilet facilities
and each room let for compensation.
Housing units and associated facilities designed for the
elderly who are self-sufficient and require no on-site personal or
health care services. An independent living housing unit consists
of a room or group of rooms designed or intended to provide a habitable
unit for one or more persons with provisions for cooking, living,
sanitation and sleeping for the exclusive use of the household unit.
Associated facilities may include substantial common and socializing
areas and other amenities as regulated under HHS 107 CMR 10:00.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Refers to hemp that is used exclusively for industrial purposes
including, but not limited to, the fiber and seed. The Department
(Massachusetts Department of Agriculture) will consider all permitted
activities under this policy as falling under the definition of "Industrial
Hemp" in M.G.L. c. 128, § 116. All references to "hemp"
or "industrial hemp" in this policy shall mean industrial hemp.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
A pack or collection of dogs on a single premises, including
a commercial boarding or training kennel, commercial breeder kennel,
domestic charitable corporation kennel, personal kennel or veterinary
kennel.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
A private residence which, on a regular basis, receives for
temporary custody and care during part, or all of the day, children
under seven years of age, or children under 16 years of age if such
children have special needs, and receives for temporary custody and
care for a limited number of hours children of school age, but the
number of children under the age of 16 in a large family child-care
home shall not exceed 10, including participating children living
in the residence. A large family child-care home shall have at least
one approved assistant when the total number of children participating
in child care exceeds six. Large family child-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 as defined and regulated under MGL c. 15D,
§ 1A, provided that any outdoor play area is screened by
fence, wall or planting line from any neighboring residential structure.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
A solar photovoltaic system that has a minimum nameplate
capacity of 250 kW DC. Such installations may be either ground-mounted
or installed upon a rooftop.
[Added STM 11-27-2018 by Art. 12]
Advanced and applied sciences that expand the understanding
of human physiology and have the potential to lead to medical advances
or therapeutic applications, including, but not limited to, agricultural
biotechnology, biogenetics, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering,
biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemical synthesis, chemistry technology,
diagnostics, genomics, image analysis, marine biology, marine technology,
medical devices, nanotechnology, natural product pharmaceuticals,
proteomics, regenerative medicine, RNA interference, stem cell research
and veterinary science (MGL, Chapter 130 of the Acts of 2008). Facilities
that utilize animal testing of products are not included in this definition.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Place of manufacturing, assembly or packaging of goods, provided
that all resulting cinders, dust, flashing, fumes, gases, odors, refuse
matter, smoke and vapor are effectively confined to the premises or
are disposed of in a manner that does not create a nuisance or hazard
to safety or health.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Livestock or poultry, provided that any building housing
livestock or poultry be not less than 50 feet from the property boundary
unless the building was in existence at the time of adoption of this
chapter. The raising of swine is permitted on parcels that are at
least five acres in size.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
An off-street area for the loading and unloading of goods
and materials from a vehicle.
[Added ATM 5-2-2015 by Art. 41]
The whole area of a single parcel of land undivided by a
street under one ownership, with ascertainable boundaries established
by deed or deeds of record or a segment of land ownership defined
by lot boundary lines on a land division plan duly approved by the
Planning Board under the Subdivision Control Statute.[2], [3]
The amount of area on a lot covered by the horizontal cross
section of structures, exclusive of recreational facilities, such
as swimming pools, tennis courts, etc., for the use of the residents.
[Amended ATM 5-7-2016 by Art. 37]
The distance measured along the boundary of a lot coinciding
with the street line, being an unbroken distance along a way currently
maintained by a town, county, or state, or along ways shown on the
definitive plans of approved subdivisions which have been secured
or constructed, through which actual access to the potential building
site shall be required.
[Amended ATM 5-3-2005 by Art. 41]
A line dividing a lot from a street. On any lot bounded on
more than one side by a street, the street boundary that is to be
the lot front shall be so designated in any application for a permit
to build on such lot.
Except for a triangular lot, the lot line opposite the front
lot line.
Any lot line not a front or rear lot line.
As measured wholly within such lot, the shortest distance
between side lot lines at the required front yard depth.
An entity licensed by the state to cultivate, process and
package nonmedical marijuana, to deliver nonmedical marijuana to RMEs
and the transfer marijuana to other RMEs, but not directly to consumers.
A craft marijuana cultivator cooperative performing a similar function
shall be included within this definition.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
An entity licensed by the state to obtain, manufacture, process
and package nonmedical marijuana and marijuana products, to deliver
nonmedical marijuana and marijuana products to RMEs and to transfer
nonmedical marijuana and marijuana products to other RMEs, but not
directly to consumers. A craft marijuana cultivator cooperative performing
a similar function shall be included within this definition.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
Products that contain marijuana or an extract from marijuana,
including concentrated forms of marijuana and products composed of
marijuana and other ingredients that are intended for nonmedical use
or consumption, including but not limited to edible products, beverages,
topical products, ointments, oils and tinctures.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
An entity licensed to purchase and deliver nonmedical marijuana
and marijuana from RMEs and to deliver, sell or otherwise transfer
nonmedical marijuana and marijuana products to RMEs and to consumers.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
A commercial enterprise having an area for the storage, mooring
or service of boats with frontage on a navigable body of water and
with facilities for the landing of boats. If storage is to be on land
and of a transient nature requiring frequent launchings and landings,
it shall be inside a building.
A registered marijuana dispensary (RMD) as defined in the
regulations promulgated by the Massachusetts Department of Public
Health (DPH), 105 CMR 725.000. Such facilities shall be registered
with the state that acquires, cultivates, possesses, processes, transfers,
transports, sells, distributes, dispenses or administers medical marijuana,
products containing marijuana, related supplies, or educational materials
to qualifying patients and/or their personal caregivers.
[Added ATM 5-3-2014 by Art. 35; amended 5-5-2018 ATM by Art.
29]
MOBILE HOMEA transportable, single-family dwelling unit built on a chassis for year-round occupancy and containing the same water supply, waste disposal and electrical conveniences as immobile housing.
TRAILERThe following shall be considered a trailer.
TRAVEL TRAILERA vehicular portable structure built on a chassis, designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation and having body width not exceeding eight feet and a body length not exceeding 32 feet.
PICK UP COACHA structure to be mounted on a truck chassis for use as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreation and vacation.
MOTOR HOMEA portable temporary dwelling to be used for travel, recreation and vacation, constructed as an integral part of a self-propelled vehicle.
CAMPING TRAILERA folding structure mounted on wheels and designed for travel, recreation and vacation use.
A parcel of land which has been planned and improved for
the placement of mobile homes or trailers for transient or nontransient
use and is designed to accommodate two or more mobile homes or trailers.
LOTA lot that does not conform to a dimensional regulation prescribed by this chapter for the district in which it is located but was in existence at the time of adoption of this chapter and was lawful at the time it was established and conforms to the requirements of MGL c. 40A.
USEA use of a building or lot that does not conform to a use regularly permitted by this chapter for the district in which it is located, but was in existence at the time of the adoption of this chapter and was lawful at the time it was established.
Includes the words "designed, arranged or intended to be
occupied."
An area containing adequate space, as determined by the Planning
Board, to be used exclusively as a parking stall for one motor vehicle.
[Amended STM 11-27-2007 by Art. 13]
A pack or collection of more than four dogs, three months
or older, owned or kept under single ownership for private personal
use; provided, however, that breeding of personally owned dogs may
take place for the purpose of improving, exhibiting or showing the
breed for use in legal sporting activity or for other personal reasons;
provided further that selling, trading, bartering or distributing
such breeding from a personal kennel shall be to other breeders or
individuals by private sale only and not to wholesalers, brokers or
pet shops; provided further that a personal kennel shall not sell,
trade, barter or distribute a dog not bred from its personally owned
dog; and provided further that dogs temporarily housed at a personal
kennel, in conjunction with an animal shelter or rescue registered
with the Department of Agricultural Resources, may be sold, traded,
bartered or distributed if the transfer is not for profit.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
Businesses where the primary occupation is the repair, care
of, maintenance, or customizing of personal properties that are worn
or carried about the person or are a physical component of the person.
Personal service establishments shall include but not be limited to:
barbershops, beauty salons, manicurists, laundry, dry-cleaning and
other garment servicing establishments, tailors, dressmaking shops,
shoe repair shops, watch repair shops, opticians, tanning salons,
and other similar places of business, but not including offices for
physicians, dentists, and veterinarians.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Buildings and facilities owned by a corporation, association,
person or persons for a social, educational, or recreational purpose,
to which membership is required for participation and not primarily
operated for profit nor to render a service that is customarily carried
on as a business.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
An office or offices of recognized professions, such as doctors,
lawyers, licensed massage/muscular therapists, engineers, artists,
musicians, designers and others who through training are qualified
to perform services of a professional nature.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Those corporations located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
that provide a public service or services, regulated by the Massachusetts
Department of Public Utilities or the Massachusetts Department of
Telecommunications and Cable, and which may be exempted from local
zoning after a public hearing held by either department to determine
the applicability of MGL c. 40A, § 3, where the Town is
notified as an interested party.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Investor-owned electric power, natural gas, and water utilities
in the commonwealth.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
The term shall apply to marijuana cultivators, independent
testing laboratories, marijuana product manufacturers or any other
type of licensed adult use/nonmedical marijuana-related business pursuant
to MGL Chapter 94G.
[Added 5-4-2019 ATM by
Art. 30]
The use of land and/or structures for the collection and/or
processing of used materials, excluding motor vehicles and excluding
bottle and can redemption, whereby the resultant product is to be
reused in the same or different form or matter, provided that all
resulting cinders, dust, flashing, fumes, gases, odors, refuse matter,
smoke and vapor are effectively confined to the premises or are disposed
of in a manner that does not create a nuisance or hazard to safety
or health.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
A solar photovoltaic system that has a maximum nameplate
capacity of 25 kW DC. Such installations may be either ground-mounted
or installed upon a rooftop.
[Added STM 11-27-2018 by Art. 12]
A business that sells consumer products directly to consumers
and may include, but is not limited to, department stores and stores
that sell the following: furniture, clothing, hardware, household
furnishing, sporting goods, electronics, and appliances, provided
that all storage and sales of materials are conducted within a building
and such building is no greater than 25,000 square feet of gross floor
area.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
An establishment consisting of a structure or group of structures
containing separate storage spaces of varying sizes leased or rented
for dead storage as individual leases. Individual storage spaces shall
be leased or rented to tenants who are to have access to said space
for the purpose of storing or removing personal property. No individual
storage space shall exceed 900 square feet of gross floor area. Trucking
terminals are specifically excluded from this definition and the intent
is to limit the definition to that use set forth in Massachusetts
General Laws, Chapter 105A, Self-Storage Facilities.
[Added ATM 5-6-2000 by Art. 31]
Parking spaces that may be shared by different uses to be
counted towards the parking requirement. Parking spaces to be shared
should serve uses that have different hours of operation.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Includes any permanent or temporary structure, device, letter,
word, model, banner, pennant, insignia, trade flag or representation
used as or which is in the nature of an advertisement, announcement
or direction or is designed to attract the eye by intermittent or
rapid motions or illumination.
An active solar energy collection device that converts solar
energy directly into electricity whose primary purpose is to harvest
energy by transforming solar energy into another form of energy or
transferring heat from a collector to another medium using mechanical,
electrical, or chemical means.
[Added STM 11-27-2018 by Art. 12]
Any activity, together with associated buildings, structures
and facilities, concerning the handling, movement, transfer, composting,
reuse, sorting, storage, gas-to- energy conversion, and disposal of
solid waste as regulated or permitted by the Massachusetts Department
of Environmental Protection pursuant to 310 CMR 19, including any
such activities and associated facilities as they may be regulated
or permitted by amendments of such regulations or by successor state
agencies.
[Added STM 11-28-2017 by Art. 12]
Those areas within the exterior walls of a dwelling which
have headroom of not less than seven feet measured vertically upward
from the top of the finished floor, but excluding basement areas and
excluding areas in any accessory structure attached to any dwelling.
That portion of a building contained between any floor and
the floor or roof next above it, but not including any portion so
contained if more than one-half (1/2) of such portion vertically is
below the average natural grade of the ground adjoining such building.
A public way or private way on record at the Registry of
Deeds which affords a principal means of adequate access to abutting
property and open to travel by the general public or a way shown on
a subdivision plan duly approved by the Planning Board under the Subdivision
Control Statute.[4]
A combination of material assembled at a fixed location to
give support or shelter, such as a building, tower, framework, platform,
bin, sign or the like.
A specialized instructional establishment that provides on-site
training of business, commercial and/or trade skills (such as accounting,
data processing, and computer repair).
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
Dwelling units located above first-floor commercial or institutional
uses in the Village Center District.
[Added ATM 5-7-2016 by
Art. 37]
The purpose for which land or a building is arranged, designed
or intended or for which either land or a building is or may be occupied
or maintained.
The main or primary purpose for which a structure or lot
is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is permitted to
be used, occupied or maintained under this chapter.
[Added ATM 5-3-2005 by Art. 42]
A veterinary hospital or clinic that boards dogs for reasons
in addition to medical treatment or care; provided, however, that
"veterinary kennel" shall not include a hospital or clinic used solely
to house dogs that have undergone veterinary treatment or observation
or will do so only for the period of time necessary to accomplish
that veterinary care.
[Added STM 11-18-2014 by Art. 15]
FRONT YARDAn open space extending the entire width of a lot from lot side line to lot side line between the front lot line or lines and the nearest point of a building.
REAR YARDAn open space extending the entire width of a lot line from side line to side line between the rear lot line or the corner of a triangular lot farthest from the front lot line and the nearest point of the building.
SIDE YARDAn open space extending along a side line of a lot (between the front yard and the rear yard on such lot) and extending between the side line of such lot to the nearest point of the building.
