21.218 An Ordinance to Amend Zero Lot Line Section of Code - POST CR wAS edits. docxCity of Northampton
MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year Two Thousand Twenty One
Upon the Recommendation of Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Planning & Sustainability
21.218 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ZERO LOT LINE SECTION OF CODE
An Ordinance of the City of Northampton, Massachusetts, providing that the Code of Ordinances, City of Northampton, Massachusetts, be amended to alter the requirements of Zero Lot Line
projects in order to maintain more consistent setbacks within neighborhoods.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Northampton, in City Council assembled, as follows:
Move subsection 10.14 to a new Subsection in Chapter 350-6 and amend as shown
§ 350-6.13Zero lot line (ZLL) developments.
Zero lot line (ZLL) developments are developments, or portions of developments, where house lots have a side yard setback of zero feet on one side (the "zero lot line"), while the opposite
side meets the standard side yard setback of the district (the “standard setback”), if the following standards are met:
The zero lot line side of a lot must:
Abut permanently protected open space; or
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Abut the lot line of a lot which is under common ownership at the time the zero lot line development is proposed and
shares a party wall with the abutting structure on the commonly-owned lot OR has a reduced side setback of up to 5’ from the standard setback.
Abuts the standard setback area of an adjoining zero lot line lot under common ownership. However the last such lot in a series as described under the same ownership shall have 2x the
standard setback for both side lots.;
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A five-foot maintenance easement must be obtained by the owner of a house on a zero lot line fromthe property owner abutting the zero lot line in any development pursuant to A(1) or
A(2)(ii) above to allow normal maintenance. Said easement may allow a roof overhang of up to two feet and may allow roof drainage onto the easement area and sheet flow across the abutting
property. ; and
There shall be a minimum of four shade trees of not less than 1.5 inches' caliper planted or maintained on each lot in accordance with the City’s Tree List & Planting Guidelines, including
two along the street frontage. (See also § 350-6.5D.)
Only one principal structure per lot is allowed in a zero lot line development.
Any detached accessory structure on the lot must meet the standard setbacks for such structures.