No land, building or premises, or part thereof, shall hereafter
be used and no building, or part thereof, or other structure shall
be constructed, extended, enlarged, moved or altered except in conformity
with these regulations. No lot shall have an area, width, or a front,
side or rear yard less than that set forth in the applicable section
hereof, except as otherwise specifically provided in these regulations.
No building, buildings or structures shall occupy in the aggregate
a greater percentage of lot area, nor be greater in height, than as
set forth in the applicable section hereof, except as otherwise specifically
provided in these regulations. Except as otherwise specifically provided
by these regulations, any permitted building or permitted use may
be located in that portion of the lot not contained in any required
front, side or rear yard.
[Amended 9-12-2022]
No building or other structure shall be constructed, reconstructed,
enlarged, extended, moved or structurally altered in such a manner
as to exceed a height of 35 feet. Appliances, towers, tanks, and other
similar structural features, including wireless telecommunication
facilities, that occupy no more than 10% of the building area and
are not designed for human occupancy may be constructed, enlarged,
extended, moved or structurally altered to a reasonable and necessary
height upon the granting of a special permit by the Lyme Planning
and Zoning Commission.
[Amended 9-12-2022]
A. Detached accessory buildings or structures, not more than 15 feet
in height and not used for human habitation or for the housing of
animals, may be located in the required rear yard, and in that portion
of the required side yard that lies not less than 75 feet from any
street line, provided that they are not less than 20 feet from any
side or rear line and provided further that they occupy in the aggregate
not more than 20% of the area of the required rear yard.
B. Fuel tanks, generators, including generator enclosures, all less
than six feet high or deep may be located in the side or rear yard
10 feet from that portion of the property line that is 60 feet or
greater from a neighboring dwelling. The structure must be reasonably
screened from view. The ZEO may reduce those distances for undersized
lots.
No lot shall be diminished in lot area or frontage, nor shall
any required front, side or rear yard be reduced, unless the resulting
lot or lots conform to the provisions of these regulations.
No building shall be built on any lot unless such lot has the
minimum lot width at the building setback line required for the district
in which it has been located and has a frontage of at least 50 feet
on an approved Town road or state highway. If frontage is on a state
highway, the highway must lie within the boundaries of the Town of
Lyme. Frontage on abandoned, impassable, private or any other roads,
paths, etc., is not acceptable. For the list of approved Town roads
and state highways, see appendix map titled "Town Roads," Lyme, Connecticut,
Department of Transportation, with the exclusion of the road designated S1, which serves as an access road from Grassy Hill Road to Stone Ranch Military Reservation, which map is a part of these regulations. Minor structures, including those required for solar energy use, not meeting the definition of "building" in Article 2 may be constructed on lots that do not meet the requirements of this regulation upon the granting of a special permit pursuant to Article
12.
Nothing in these regulations shall prohibit the projection of not more than one foot into required front, side or rear yards of bay windows, pilasters, columns, belt courses, sills, cornices, or other similar architectural features, nor the planting or landscaping of such required yards, except as provided in §
315-7.7.
No fence, wall, hedge, shrubbery or other obstruction to vision
may be placed or allowed to grow at street intersections within the
area formed by a line joining points on each front lot line 20 feet
from the intersection of the tangents of such streets, nor shall landscaping
or other obstruction to vision be placed to interfere with sight lines
of the street at driveway entrances.
In the case of lots fronting on streets less than 50 feet in
width, the required front yard shall be increased by 1/2 the difference
between 50 feet and the actual width of the street.
If the right-of-way of a street has not been surveyed and is
not otherwise established by walls, fences, or other ancient monumentation,
the right-of-way shall be deemed to be 60 feet wide, extending 30
feet on each side from the center of the traveled way.
The use of land for access to or for parking in connection with
a use shall be accessory to and part of such use.
No more than two family dwelling units may be built on one lot.
No trailer camp or recreational vehicle park may be established,
maintained, conducted or operated in any district. No trailer coach
or recreational vehicle shall be occupied for human habitation in
any district, except as provided in this section. The Zoning Enforcement
Officer may grant a permit, except in flood hazard areas as depicted
on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, for the temporary occupancy, not
to exceed a period of one year, of a trailer coach on a lot by the
owner thereof during the construction of his dwelling under a valid
permit. The Zoning Enforcement Officer may renew the permit for such
temporary occupancy for an additional period not to exceed one year.
Except in a flood hazard area, the owner of any lot may permit a nonpaying
guest to occupy one trailer coach or recreational vehicle belonging
to such guest on such lot for a period not to exceed 30 cumulative
days in a calendar year.
Except as provided for in §
315-7.14, Conversion of existing dwelling to two-family dwelling, and §
315-8.2, Accessory apartments, if more than one family dwelling unit shall be located on any one lot, all units shall be located so that each such dwelling and any buildings accessory to it could be set off as a separate lot conforming to all of the applicable provisions of these regulations.
Except as provided in §
315-8.2, a dwelling, the construction of which shall have been completed for a period of not less than 20 years, may be converted to contain two one-family dwelling units, provided that the lot area is equivalent to twice the minimum lot area required for a one-family dwelling in the district in which it is located.
A. No dumping or storing of refuse shall be permitted other than the
temporary dumping or storage within a building or screened from view
from off the premises of small amounts of such material for brief
periods pending final lawful disposition.
B. No inoperable motor vehicle or motor vehicle which is incapable of
being registered may be stored on any lot except within a building.
C. No refuse not originating on the premises may be disposed of on any
lot except at a facility for that purpose operated by the Town of
Lyme.
No land, building, structure or part thereof in any district
shall be used in any manner injurious or offensive to a neighborhood
because of the emission of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration, noise,
unsightliness, light pollution or other cause, or in any manner which
will result in the discharge of waste or refuse into any stream or
river.
No commercial cutting of timber shall occur without a permit issued by the Lyme Zoning Enforcement Officer. After submission of a commercial cutting plan to said Zoning Enforcement Officer, a permit shall be granted if it is found to be consistent with the minimum standards set forth in Article
17.
Fences commonly referred to as "deer fences" of up to eight
feet in height shall be permitted within property line setbacks provided
that the fence is dark in color and of an open mesh design and that
a zoning permit is issued by the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
For applications that include activities involving stream crossings,
the applicant shall incorporate, to the maximum feasible extent, standards
and practices recommended in the Connecticut Stream Crossing Guidelines
as published by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental
Protection and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Copies are available for review in the Lyme Town Hall or can be found
on the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection websites.
A. The Commission, or its duly authorized agent, may require that the
applicant design a stormwater management plan which conforms, to the
maximum feasible extent, to the Connecticut Stormwater Quality Manual,
as amended, and published by the Connecticut Department of Energy
and Environmental Protection. All stormwater management plans shall
include measures to capture and treat stormwater runoff and to incorporate
low-impact development design elements to the extent that is practical.
Such design plan shall detail how the stormwater runoff and associated
water quality impacts resulting from the development will be controlled
and managed during and after construction, including long-term maintenance.
The plan must be prepared by an appropriate design professional. Further,
the Commission may restrict the use of and/or require substitution
of certain best management practices based on maintenance requirements.
B. The following documents provide further guidance on the purpose,
specifications and design elements for stormwater management and low-impact
development. These documents are located in Appendix I.
(1)
Office of Long Island Sound Programs, Fact Sheet for Stormwater
Management.
(2)
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Inland Water
Resources Division Fact Sheet, Considering Low Impact Development
Principles in Site Design.
(3)
Rainfall as a Resource, A Resident's Guide to Low Impact Development
in Connecticut.
(4)
Stormwater/LID Review Checklist.
For uses on properties that either contain conservation restrictions
or are adjacent to properties that have conservation restrictions
an A-2 survey may be required for the purposes of confirming setback
requirements in accordance with these regulations.
[Added 11-14-2022]
The commercial cultivation, propagation, processing, distribution,
and wholesale or retail sale of cannabis in the Town of Lyme is prohibited.