If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board

URBAN RESIDENTIAL C (URC) RENAME? CENTER

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

USES ALLOWED - (by-right unless otherwise noted) any accessory uses/structures (home business, tag sales 2.1, fences 6.8, horses & animals 5.3)

See11.1new constructionof 2,000+ft (otherthanSingle FamilyHome) triggerssiteplan

2

1. If a garage or other parking structure is attached, it must be set back 20 and the garage/structure shall comprise no more than 30% of the front facade of the principal structure. 2. Front doors must face the street. 3. Front porches of at least 6 deep and 8 long must be included.

Single, Two, Three Family, Multi-family, Townhouses 2 (new construction >2000 ft = site Plan approval) Eliminate sp for apartments over 4 stories) Attached accessory apartment Home Business up to 25 visits per week as defined in sect.2.1 Zero Lot Line Single Family see section 350-10.14 Add tag sale language Preexisting nonconforming uses (may trigger ZBA permit) Family day care (with registration with Building Commissioner) Educational use -non-profit , dormitories, Frat/Soror. Any religious use, Day care, school-aged child-care program (MGL c. 28A, 9) and Historical association or society and nonprofit museum (may include the residence of a caretaker) Educational use -private for-profit colleges, schools, etc Detached Accessory Apt see 10.10 Home Business for personal service business by appointment only or Home Business more than 25 visits etc. see 10.12 for other criteria Mixed use buildings /lots, Live/work(mixed residential/work- (Retail oriented commercial not allowed) Community Center, Nursing Homes, Assisted Living, Lodging House, Tourist Home/Bed & Breakfast, halfway house

LotSize=3,000ft Frontage/Width=50 Depth=50 Setbacks Front =10

Side= 10 * (20 if bldg. taller than 40) Rear= 20

1/500900ft
2

PlanningBoard ZoningBoard PlanningBoard

For mixed uses see below

MaxHeight=50 OpenSpace=30% SeealsoEUOVERLAYdimen. *0sideforzerolotline singlefamily Noadditional projections/Dimensionalave orotherreliefallowed **AccessoryAptcannot 2 exceed900ft GLA20height

ofGFAand upto2per 4. For new buildings, setback, scale, massing should fit unit,3if within the block face. contains accessory Planning Board may waive, apt.(no by site plan approval rounding) elements 2, 3, 4 if it can be
shown that a different design meets a pedestrian-scale design that encourages public/private transition and interface (e.g. similar elements facing internal courtyards or private streets)

See8.2 tableof parkingfor

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all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 1

If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board PlanningBoard

URBAN RESIDENTIAL C (URC) RENAME? CENTER

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

Substantial improvements in WP, meeting all requirements under the State Building Code, Wetlands Protection Act, and city ordinances Reuse of Historic Educational or Religious Building for: Any residential use, live/work space, or office, provided however that no more than 20% of the floor space of the building shall be used for medical, banking or any offices where a primary function is to provide services to retail customers or individuals; and further provided that such use is within the footprint of existing building. The existing building may be expanded to accommodate elevators and stairwells, provided that all historically contributing portions of the building are retained and covered with a Historic Preservation Restriction granted to the City of Northampton in a form acceptable to the Planning Board, with input from the Historical Commission, as preserving the key character defining features visible from the road (and not necessarily meeting federal or state preservation standards for the entire building). Portions of the building that are not part of the original architecture of the building and which do not contribute to the historical or architectural significance of the building as determined by the Planning Board, with input from the Historical Commission, may be demolished. Accessory structures- detached (but no larger than 1,000 square feet of lot coverage or 3% of lot area whichever is greater unless it is used for agricultural purposes) See also 350-6.7 Cemetery, including any crematory therein meeting accessory structure setbacks Planned unit development. See 350-10.6. Open Space Residential Cluster development. See 350-10.5. MERGE PUD AND CLUSTER

maxfordetachedstructure Sameasabove

eachuse

NA

Front=20 Side=4 Rear=4 Height=20max

Upto2per unit,tobe determined

Planning Board to review layout to ensure project transitions between existing neighborhood along street

PlanningBoard

ProjectLot=2AcreMin ProjectFrontage=50

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 2

If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board

URBAN RESIDENTIAL C (URC) RENAME? CENTER

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

ProjectDepth=100 SetbacksfromProject Boundary Front=10 Side=15 Rear=20 MaxHeight=50

ProjectOpenSpace=50% SeeBldgDes.forinternal layout
Membership club operated as a not-for-profit corporation, as defined by MGL c. 180, excluding any adult establishments which display live nudity Temporary event or use with a temporary events permit from City Council, a license from the Parking Commission for short-term temporary use of facilities under their jurisdiction, or a permit from the Board of Public Works for use of streets, sidewalks or Pulaski Park, in accordance with the Northampton Code of Ordinances and any applicable regulations Junk cars, motor vehicle accessories, scrap metal. See 350-8.8L. Parking off site and combined parking. See 350-8.5 and 350-8.7. Parking lot access for nonresidential uses across a residential lot. See 350-8.9. Parking requirement reduction. See 350-8.10F. Residential Shared driveways see 350-8.8R , Expansion of parking by more than 6 spaces Filling of any land. See 350-10.4. Filling of water or wet area. See 350-10.3.

byproject and approvedby PB

and proposed. For new buildings, setback, scale, massing should fit within the block face. Mature specimen trees shall preserved unless shown to be infeasible. No minimum setbacks, lot size, frontage, open space for internal lots. More than one structure may be located on a single lot.

PlanningBoard

1spaceper 3seats

PlanningBoard PlanningBoard NA
OPD Admin See 11.4&5A

Same as above See8.2 tableof parkingfor Site design compliance with 350-8.0

PlanningBoard

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 3

If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board

URBAN RESIDENTIAL C (URC) RENAME? CENTER

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

Funeral establishment crematory meeting accessory structure setbacks

PlanningBoard

eachuse NA

Municipalfacility,Facilitiesforessentialservices
Heavy public use. See 350-10.7. Private utility, substation or district utility

CityCouncil PlanningBoard

Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, noncommercial forestry, the growing of all vegetables and a temporary (not to exceed erection or use for a period of four months in any one year) greenhouse or stand for retail sale of agricultural or farm products raised primarily on the same premises Year-round greenhouse / stand for wholesale and retail sale of agricultural farm products raised on site Telecommunication antennas located on existing telecommunications towers or other structures which do not require the construction of a new tower (in accordance with 350-10.9) Telecommunications facilities (in accordance with 350-2.1 and 350-10.9)

PlanningBoard

PlanningBoard

Setback=twicetowerheight
n/a

Rooftopsolarhotwaterandphotovoltaic
Solar photovoltaic of any size, ground-mounted over any legal parking lot or driveway

Same as for accessory structure

Sufficient landscaping within the setbacks to provide effective visual separation

Accessory solar photovoltaic ground-mounted on a parcel with any building or use, provided that the PV is

Planning

Front/Rear/Side Setbacks

Same as above

Installations must be maintained in good condition, with painting, structural repairs and security maintained and facilities no longer being used dismantled within 90 days.

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 4

If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board

URBAN RESIDENTIAL C (URC) RENAME? CENTER

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

sized to generate no more than 200% of the annual projected electric use of the non-PV building or use Up to 100% by right. 100-200% by PB

Board???

=5020, 10, 20

350-6.8 In the case of one-family, two-family, and three-family dwellings, no more than one principal building may be built on any single lot, except as allowed in 350-10.5, Open space residential development (cluster), and as allowed in 350-10.6, Planned unit development (PUD). In all other cases, more than one principal structure may occupy the same lot, provided that if they aggregate they do not represent a more intensive use of land than would be allowed if all uses were contained within a single structure. C. Projections into required yards or other required open spaces are permitted subject to the following: (1)Balcony or bay window may project up to two feet into a required yard or other open space, provided that it is limited in total length to 1/2 the length of the building face.(2)Open terrace or steps or stoop, less than four feet in height, may project into a required yard or open space up to 1/2 the required setback.(3)Steps or stoop four feet and over in height, window sill, chimney, roof eave, fire escape, fire tower, awnings, storm enclosure, or similar architectural features may project not more than three feet into a required setback. (4)Decks and porches, where the floor is less than four feet higher than the abutting sidewalk or street and where at least 60% of the facade facing a street is open to the air without heating, windows, or other barriers of any kind except insect screening, may project up to 1/2 the required front setback. Porches (but not decks) may be higher than four feet for homes in existence on January 1, 2003, when the floor of the porch is no higher than the first floor.
Formatted: para

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 5

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 6

If Checked, Site

If Checked Special Permit approval required by designated board

EDUCATIONAL USE OVERLAY (EU)

Plan Approval required by Planning Board

DIMENSIONS

LANDSCAPING

MIN. PARKING

Building Design

USES ALLOWED - (by-right unless otherwise noted) any accessory uses/structures (home business, tag sales 2.1, fences 6.8, horses & animals 5.3)
Education use or other religious use These standards apply for projects or portions thereof that are at least 30 from the edge the EU overlay boundary and the edge of any street containing that boundary. In the area between that 30 line and the edge of the EU overlay, the dimensional requirements of the underlying district shall apply.

See underlying district

Seetable 8.2

Asapplicableand indicatedinother underlying districts.

MaxHeight=85
In the EU northwesterly of Paradise Road, generally the area between Paradise Road and Kensington Avenue, the maximum building height is 45. Elsewhere in the EU, at the 30 line, the maximum height is 55 Maximum building height shall increase from the thirty-foot line on a 1-to-1 slope for each foot in back of the line to a maximum of 85 feet.

[Typetext]
all uses may be on any floor; business uses are limited to miscellaneous professional and business offices and shall not include banking, real estate and insurance offices or retail, personal and consumer service establishments, medical doctors, dentists or chiropractors. 8/15/20125/23/2012 7