A.
For the purposes of this chapter, the Town of Williamstown
is divided into the following types of basic districts:
(1)
Residential districts:
[Amended 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 35]
Rural Residence District 1 (RR1)
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Rural Residence District 2 (RR2)
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Rural Residence District 3 (RR3)
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General Residence District (GR)
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(2)
Nonresidential districts:
[Amended 5-18-2010 ATM, Art. 27]
Limited Business District (LB)
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Limited Industrial District (LI)
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Tourist Business District (TB)
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Village Business District (VB)
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Planned Business District (PB)
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(3)
Mixed use districts:
[Added 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 33]
Southern Gateway District
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B.
In addition, there are the following overlay districts
which are superimposed over portions of the above districts:
[Amended 5-18-2004 ATM, Art. 28; 5-15-2007 ATM, Art. 32; 5-17-2016 ATM, Art. 35]
Floodplain District (FP)
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Upland Conservation District (UC)
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Mobile Home Park District (MHP)
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Water Resource District 1 (WRD1)
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Water Resource District 2 (WRD2)
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Confined Aquifer District (CA)
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Wellhead Protection District (WPD)
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Cable Mills Redevelopment District (CMRD)
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Waubeeka Overlay District (WOD)
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District purposes are as follows for the basic districts. Purpose or intent for each of the overlay districts is stated in § 70-7.4, Overlay District Requirements.
A.
Rural Residence District 1 is intended to provide
for residential standards compatible with the rural and upland character
of sensitive environmental areas at the higher elevations of the Town.
B.
Rural Residence District 2 is intended as a district
for typical rural uses with which single-family homes are compatible.
C.
Rural Residence District 3 is intended to provide
for the protection and preservation of special community service districts
from the dangers of development in those districts exceeding the reasonable
capacity of the services, thereby rendering their benefits unavailable
to the Town and the rest of its inhabitants.
D.
General Residence District is intended to provide
an area in the Town where people can live who prefer not to live in
a rural or semirural atmosphere, or who prefer not to live in a sparsely
populated area, and to provide this area in such a manner and location
that the character of the Town will not be destroyed, and that the
soil conditions can accommodate the permitted density.
[Amended 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 35[1]]
E.
Limited Business District is intended to provide goods
and services at retail, in contradistinction to goods and services
for businesses or commercial enterprises.
F.
Limited Industrial District is intended for use by
research laboratories, office buildings and selected light industries
which are compatible with a low-density, rural residential community.
G.
Tourist Business District is intended to provide goods
and services primarily for transients and tourists.
H.
Village Business District is intended to accommodate
a broad mixture of uses in a compact pedestrian-oriented environment.
I.
Planned Business District is intended to accommodate
a broad range of uses in an environment allowing integrated planning
of relatively large parcels.[2]
[2]
Editor’s Note: Former Subsection K, regarding the Business
Campus District, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed
5-18-2010 ATM, Art. 27.
J.
Southern Gateway District is intended to protect the scenic southern
entrance to Williamstown from overdevelopment while also ensuring
the viability of existing businesses and residences.
[Added 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 33]
A.
Basic districts. The basic zoning districts are hereby established as shown, located, defined and bounded in the Williamstown Geographic Information System (GIS) on a map entitled "Town of Williamstown – Zoning Districts" and as subsequently amended in accordance with § 70-8.6, which is available for public view on the Town website and a paper copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk. The Zoning Map, together with all explanatory matter thereon, is hereby incorporated in and made a part of this chapter.
[Amended 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 30]
B.
Floodplain District.
[Added 5-19-1998 ATM, Art. 26]
(1)
The location of the Floodplain District is that area
within the one-hundred-year flood level as shown on the maps entitled
"Flood Boundary and Floodway Map," including Panels 1 through 3; Town
of Williamstown Flood Insurance Rate Maps, including Zones A and A1-30,
dated April 3, 1984, as issued by the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, on file in the office of the Town Clerk. That study shall
be used in interpreting the location of and regulations for the Floodplain
District.
[Amended 5-16-2006 ATM, Art. 39]
(2)
In Zones A, A1-30 and AE, along watercourses that
have not had a regulatory floodway designated, the best available
federal, state, local or other floodway data shall be used to prohibit
encroachments in floodways which would result in any increase in flood
levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood
discharge.
C.
Water Resource and Confined Aquifer Districts. Water
Resource Districts 1 and 2 and the Confined Aquifer District are established
as shown in the Williamstown Geographic Information System (GIS) on
a map entitled "Town of Williamstown – Water Resources –
Zoning Overlay Districts," a paper copy of which is available for
public view on the Town website and within the office of the Town
Clerk.
[Amended 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 30]
D.
Wellhead Protection District. The Wellhead Protection
District is established as shown in the Williamstown Geographic Information
System (GIS) on a map entitled "Town of Williamstown – Wellhead
Protection District," apaper copy of which is available for public
view on the Town website and within the office of the Town Clerk.
Said map is hereby incorporated into this chapter.
[Amended 5-21-2013 ATM,
Art. 30]
E.
[1]The Cable Mills Redevelopment District is composed of land
shown on Lot 91, Map 121, Williamstown Assessors Atlas, as updated
to 2007, and to include Assessor's Parcels 131 - 901 through 906 in
the Cable Mills Redevelopment District, and on file in the office
of the Town Clerk.
[Added 5-15-2007 ATM, Art. 32; amended 11-14-2017 STM, Art. 7]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection E, regarding
boundaries of the Station Mill Redevelopment District, added 5-18-2004
ATM, Art. 28, was repealed 5-15-2007 ATM, Art. 29.
F.
Waubeeka Overlay District is composed of land shown on the Williamstown
Assessor's Maps, as of the date of the passage of this chapter, Map
303, Lot 51 and 17, and Map 304, Lot 30.
[Added 5-17-2016 ATM,
Art. 35]
A.
Layout center lines. Where the boundary lines are
shown upon said map within the street lines of public and private
ways, or utility transmission lines, the center lines of such ways
or lines shall be the boundary lines, unless otherwise indicated.
B.
Offset boundary lines. Boundary lines located outside
such street lines or transmission lines, and shown approximately parallel
thereto, shall be regarded as parallel to such lines, and dimensions
shown in figures placed upon said map between such boundary lines
and such transmission lines are the distance in feet of such boundary
lines from the center line of such streets, private ways or transmission
lines, such distances being measured at right angles to such lines
unless otherwise indicated.
C.
Property lines. Where the boundary lines are shown
approximately on the location of property or lot lines, and the exact
location of property, lot or boundary lines is not indicated by means
of dimensions shown in figures, then the property or lot lines shall
be the boundary lines.
D.
Contour lines. Contour lines used as boundary lines
are the elevation above the datum sea level as indicated by the United
States Geological Survey map of the Williamstown Quadrant, dated 1960,
on file in the office of the Planning Board.
E.
Soil association lines. Soil association lines used
as boundary lines are the soil association boundary lines shown on
the Soil Conservation Service Map, dated August 1962, which is an
overlay on the United States Geological Survey map of the Williamstown
Quadrant, dated 1960, on file in the office of the Planning Board.
F.
Other boundary lines. In all cases which are not covered
by other provisions in this section, the location of boundary lines
shall be determined by the distance in feet, if given, from other
lines upon said map, by the use of identification as shown on the
map or by the scale of said map.
G.
Wellhead Protection District boundary disputes.
(1)
If the location of the Wellhead Protection District
boundary in relation to a particular parcel is in doubt, resolution
of boundary disputes shall be through a special permit application
to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Any such application for a special
permit shall be accompanied by adequate documentation.
(2)
The burden of proof shall be carried by the owner(s)
of the parcel in question to demonstrate where the Wellhead Protection
District boundary should be properly located.
(3)
The Zoning Board of Appeals shall retain qualified
experts at the reasonable expense of the owner(s) to evaluate the
application and submittals, except in those cases where such assistance
is determined by the Zoning Board of Appeals to be unnecessary due
to the simplicity of the case.
A.
District boundary lines. Where a district boundary
line divides any lot of record existing at the time such boundary
line is adopted, any building or use permitted in either district
shall be permitted for said lot within a distance not exceeding 30
feet beyond the district boundary line. All requirements of the district
in which the use is located (including lot area, frontage and yards)
must be met without making use of land beyond that thirty-foot distance.
However, the lot shall be considered as a whole in the case of a use
allowed in both districts, in which event the dimensional regulations
of the district in which the majority of the lot frontage lies shall
apply to the entire lot.
B.
Town boundary line. When a lot is situated in part
in the Town of Williamstown and in part in an adjacent municipality
or state, the provisions of this chapter shall be applied to that
portion of the lot lying in the Town of Williamstown in the same manner
as if the entire lot were situated therein.