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174-8.5. BH Highway Business District. |
A. Permitted
uses are as follows:
(1) All uses permitted in the Residential Districts.
(2) Dwelling on the premises for a night watchman or janitor.
(3) Cafeteria on the premises for use by employees and not
for the general public.
B. Permitted
uses up to fifty thousand (50,000) square feet are as follows:
(1) Office-type trailer or mobile home used as business quarters
for thirty (30) days or fewer in a year.
(2) Retail
sales and services which do not involve manufacturing on the
premises.
(3) Retail sales and services involving manufacturing of products,
the majority of which will be sold on the premises to consumers,
with not more than four (4) persons engaged in manufacturing
operations.
(4) Newspaper, job printing and publishing.
(5) Office, bank, office building.
(6) Hotel or motel, restaurant (excluding drive-through food
service establishments).
(7) Clinic or medical testing laboratory.
(8) Automotive service, gasoline station or repair garage,
automotive sales.
C. Uses permitted by special permit are as follows:
(1) All uses allowed in Subsection B that exceed fifty thousand
(50,000) square feet.
(2) Accessory apartment.
(3) Boat livery, cemetery, children's camp, golf course, private
nonprofit membership club, public utility, riding stable,
ski tow.
(4) Hospital, nursing home, home for the aged.
(5) Private school, nursery or kindergarten.
(6) Veterinarian, animal hospital, dog kennel.
(7) Conversion of a one-family house in existence for two
(2) years or longer to a two-family dwelling, on a lot with
a minimum of fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.
(8) Mobile home or travel trailer used as a dwelling or business
quarters for more than thirty (30) days in a year.
(9) Multifamily
housing for the elderly, owned by a public or a nonprofit
community housing organization.
(10)
Private garage or parking for more than three (3) cars or
more than one (1) truck or other commercial vehicle.
(11) Indoor recreation, athletic or exercise facility; theater
for cultural arts.
(12)
Sale or storage of fuel, lumber, building materials and equipment,
contractors yard.
(13) Hazardous waste storage and disposal facilities, other
than small generators, as defined by the Environmental Protection
Agency and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, except that
a special permit may be issued for such a facility upon approval
by the appropriate federal and state agencies, review and
comment by the Southborough Board of Health, Conservation
Commission, Planning Board and Fire and Police Chiefs, following
a duly advertised public hearing and in accordance with the
Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Law.
D. Prohibited uses. All uses which are not listed above, legally
nonconforming or otherwise allowable by the provisions of
the zoning regulations are prohibited.
E. Development standards are as follows:
(1) Minimum lot area: forty-three thousand five hundred sixty
(43,560) square feet [minimum twenty thousand (20,000) square
feet exclusive of wetlands].
(2) Minimum frontage: two hundred (200) feet.
(3) Minimum setbacks:
(a) Front:
fifty (50) feet; seventy-five (75) feet if on Route 9.
(b) Rear: fifty (50) feet.
(c) Side:
fifty (50) feet.
(d) Other street: twenty-five (25) feet; thirty-seven and
one-half (37 1/2) feet if on Route 9.
(4) Maximum height: forty-five (45) feet, three (3) stories.
(5) Maximum floor area ratio: sixty-hundredths (.60).
(6) Residential
dwellings. Residential dwellings in the Highway Business District
must comply with RB District standards.
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