[Added 2-5-2008]
[1]
Editor's Note: A map delineating the Light
Industrial District #4 is included in the pocket at the end of this
volume. Said map is entitled “Proposed Zone Change, Land of
Yale University.”
A.
University or college, including related facilities.
B.
Medical offices, clinics, health care facilities,
and inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities.
C.
Natural resource education areas and facilities, nature
preserves, trails and walkways.
D.
Storage or warehousing related to university or college
use.
E.
Laboratories for research, testing and development;
printing and publishing establishments.
F.
Data centers or facilities.
G.
Office buildings for business and professional establishments,
excluding those non-medical establishments which primarily provide
services to customers and clients on the premises.
H.
Manufacture, processing or assembling of goods.
I.
Warehousing of goods or materials manufactured on
the same lot or warehoused for distribution and sale or resale and
wholesale business.
J.
Freight and materials tracking businesses when clearly
accessory and subordinate to another permitted use on the same lot.
K.
Repairing and servicing of motor vehicles when clearly
accessory and subordinate to another permitted use on the same lot.
L.
Public utility substations, telephone equipment buildings
and switching stations; water supply pump stations and storage facilities;
public utility transmission lines; public utility maintenance facilities.
M.
Buildings and facilities of the Town of Orange, State
of Connecticut, and federal government, excluding corporate or proprietary
uses unless otherwise permitted above.
N.
Railroad rights-of-way and storage sidings.
P.
Accessory uses customary with and incidental to any
aforesaid permitted use, provided such accessory uses are located
on the same lot with the use to which they are accessory or on lots
contiguous thereto; such uses may include, but are not limited to,
off-street parking and loading spaces, and eating, recreation and
auditorium facilities primarily for persons employed on the site,
employed at other facilities of the owner, students, patients or participants
in university or college associated programs conducted at the site.
A.
On-premises child care and preschool development facility,
when located (1) on property of an employer or user employing no fewer
than 500 employees in Orange and/or adjacent towns (the "employer"),
or (2) on the same parcel as or on parcel(s) contiguous to a research,
development or educational facility or development located in whole
or in part in the Light Industrial District #4 and having at least
500,000 gross square feet (the "site"). At least 1/3 of the clients
served by the child-care or preschool development facility must be
children of employees employed at the site or children of other employees
of the employer provided, however, that the Commission may modify
or waive such requirement for a period of time of it's determination,
for good cause shown.
B.
Hotels and inns, provided that:
(1)
The hotel or inn use contains not less than
100 sleeping rooms for transient lodging, where a sleeping room shall
mean a transient lodging unit which consists of a bedroom, may include
common areas and kitchen facilities, and designed for independent
occupancy;
(2)
The hotel or inn has frontage on 1-95 and Marsh
Hill Road;
(3)
Maximum height of structures shall not exceed
60 feet;
(4)
In addition, a proposal under this subsection
may also include a restaurant facility as accessory and subordinate
to the hotel or inn and subject to a special permit approval. Such
facility may be located within the hotel or inn structure or in a
detached structure, and said restaurant shall be a full-service facility
where patrons are served by wait staff and only when seated at tables.
Such use may include a bar area and limited take-out, incidental to
the primary permitted use, but shall specifically exclude drive-through
service and establishments where customers are served primarily at
take-out counters.
C.
Stores and other buildings and structures where goods
are sold or service is rendered primarily for persons employed on
the site, employed at other facilities of the owner, students, patients
or participants in university or college associated programs conducted
at the facility. Such stores and other buildings shall not have direct
access or visibility from a road or public right-of-way, nor shall
any sign or advertising be visible from a public road or public right-of-way.
D.
Conference and training centers for use by companies,
corporations, organizations, educational institutions, and groups
for events, executive, management or educational training purposes,
or meetings of their officers, directors, shareholders, members, faculty,
students and/or employees.
E.
Indoor recreational facility providing opportunity
for athletic activities, sports training and therapy in an enclosed
building, but shall not include the following:
(1)
Bowling alleys.
(2)
Billiard pool halls.
(3)
Amusement devices, meaning any mechanical, electric
or electronic device used or designed to be operated for entertainment
or as a game of skill by the insertion of a piece of money, coin,
token or other article into said device or by paying money to have
it activated.
Maximum height: 60 feet.
Prior to approval of any application for a certificate of zoning compliance, a site plan shall be submitted and approved in accordance with the provisions of Article XIII.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article XVIII, the number of off-street parking and loading spaces required for uses, buildings or other structures in the Light Industrial District #4 shall be determined as set forth below.
A.
Number/location: In calculating the number of off-street
parking spaces available to satisfy the off-street parking requirements
of the Town of Orange for a facility or development on a site located
in part in the Town of Orange and in part in the City of West Haven,
spaces provided on the portion of the site located in the City of
West Haven will be considered.
B.
Modification: The Commission may modify and reduce the number of off-street parking spaces and loading spaces otherwise required by §§ 383-172 and 383-176 of Article XVIII if it determines that the parking and loading spaces provided are sufficient to accommodate the parking and loading needs of the uses, buildings or other structures located in the Light Industrial District #4.