Zoning Ordinance IV: Zon Amendments Sept 16, 1974Unofficial-copy of the present zoning
ordinance, compiled by the Planning
Department, September 16, 1974
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C.44 REvmm Oan i N ANcEs of N OMUMPTON
CHAPTER 44
ZONING ORDINANCE
SECTION
ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
1. Purposes.
2. Enforcement.
2A. Certification of occupancy.
2B. Invalid certificate or permit.
3. Exceptions.
4. Board of Zoning Appeals.
4A: Appeals to Board of Appeals.
4B. Powers and duties of Board of Appeals.
4C. Appeals; procedures, eta
4D. Rules; meetings; hearings; records, etc..
4E. Reversal, eta, of orders, eta; form of vote.
4F. Reconsideration of appeal or petition.
4G. Appeals to Superior Court.
b. Penalty.
6. Validity.
7. Effective date.
DISTRICTS AND DEFINITIONS
8. Districts established.
9. District boundaries.
10. Definitions.
RESIDENCE "A"
11. Definitions, exceptions, efc.
RESIDENCE "B"
12. Definitions, exceptions, etc.
RESIDENCE "C"
18. Definitions, exceptions, etc.
BUSINESS
14. Definitions, exceptions, eta
BUSINESS "A"
14A. Definitions, exceptions, eta
INDUSTRIAL"
16. Definitions, exceptions, eta
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C. 44, §' 11 ZONING ORD INANCE C. 44, § 11
RESIDENCE "A"
Section 11. Definitions, exceptions, etc.
The Residence "A" district shall include all the area of the
city not included in any other district. In this district no build-
ing shall be erected for or altered for and no building or prem-
ises shall be used for any purpose except:
(a) Detached one family dwell.
(b) Church, parish house, museum, library, and educa-
tional use.
(c) The office or studio of a physician, artist, musician,
lawyer, teacher, engineer or other like professional person who
is residing on the premises in the same building.
(d) Farm, poultry farm, garden or nursery selling 0111y
produce or plants the major portion of which is raised in the
City of Northampton. and excluding; airy use injurious, noxious
or offensive to the neighbor hood. No business use except. r oaul-
side stands shall be. allowed as an accessory use and as other-
wise provided in this section.
(e) Municipal, recreational or waiter supply use.
(f) Tourist homes and boarding houses taking not mare
than four persons.
(g) Gal space or parking space for not more than tWl)
(2) motor vehicles provided that for each two thousand (2000)
square feet that the area of the lot exceed.; five thousand
(5000) square feet, one additional motor vehicle may be Lra-
raged or parked, provided, however, than except on a farm, not
more than one (1) commercial vehicle shall be garaged or
parked on any lot in a residential district.
(h) Telephone service buildings, prcvided they are con-
structed to conform to and harmonize with the buildings in the
district, and provided further, that the proposed' or actual use
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does not include a storage yard or repair shop.
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(i) Any of the following uses, provided they are not in- b(
jurious, noxious, of offensive to the neighborhood, and only if is
authorized by permit issued by the Board of Appeals after a p
public hearing. V
1. Private club not conducted for profit and not contain 01
ing more than five sleeping rooms, provided, that there c. S
is no bowling alley or sale of intoxicating beverages. fl
2. Hospitals, charitable institutions and sanatoriums is
provided, such buildings be located not less than one c
Hundred (100) feet from the exterior lines of the plot J y
on which the institution is located and provided they
are not primarily for contagious diseases nor for the (j) The
Care of epileptics, drug and liquor patients, nor as Cor- grocery store
rectional institutions nor for the care of the insane or warrants i+ a.
feebleminded. Within a rad:
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3. Customary home occupations carried on for a profit by 1 the proposed
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IL resident occupant, with the. assistance of not more use, . ha owns e
than two employees regularly eng therein. a ll t
g g of the center
4. A stot °a3;e yard for periods up to five years the permit would be the
for which may be renewed by the Board of Appals
after it public hearing if in the opinion of the board it (k) Ac
is not injurious, noxious, or offensive to the neighl)o r- � which s 9
hood. The storage yard shall be screened from view t for each pen
in <a manner appropriate to the environment as deter- ary on any i
mined by the Board of Appeals. section.
b. Aviation field. broadcasting station, cemetery, fur (1) Ae
farm, golf club, country, club, greenhouse, com•ales lot or builcli
cent or nursing home, ice harvesting, and storage on
not exceed it
the same premise, municipal use, outdoor movie then- 1
tre, stables, stone quarrying, gravel bank, sand bank, f (m)
removal of topsoil, trailer camps, and overnight camps. 1
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6. Conversion of a single family house too accommodate more famili
two families, and provided: game lot, of"
a. That the area of the lot on which the house is lo- number of d
sated is at least 7500 square feet.
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C. 44, J 16A REMSED ORDINANCES of NORTHAb[f'TUN C. 44,
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Rubber, caoutchouc or gotta percliP manufacture
from crude or scrap materials.
Sewapre disposal plant except when controlled by the
municipality.
Stock yard.
Sulphurous, sulphuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid
manufacture. 4
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Tar distillation.
Tar roofing manufacture.
Slaughter house.
Any area used for the storage of rags, scrap paper, scrap
metal, or junk including automobile parts or building materials
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salvage yards, shall be completer enclosed by a substantial rand
solid fence at least six (6) feet high, «•ith opnings only for
ingress and egress; said fence shall not be located nearer than
six (6) feet to any public sirewaik.
INDUSTRIAL
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Section IAA . DEef IIi =IOr�s, p �
In an industrial "A" district no building shall be erected
for or altered for, and no building or premises shall be used for
any purpose injurious, obnoxious or offensive to a neighborhood
by reason of the emission of o_lor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibra-
tion or noise or other cause or for tiny purpose except:
(a) Any use permitted in an industrial district as set �.
forth in Section 15 provided that any such building shall .be sot
back at least 35 feet from the street line.
NON CONFOR51DIG USE
Section 16. Definitions, exceptions, ect.
(9) Any building or part of a building or premises which
at the time of adoption of this ordinance is being put to a non-
conforming use, may continue to be used for the same purpose.
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(b) Any business in operation at the time of this ordi-
nance i.a prised may expand on 'the -,, lot with the permis-
sion of the I.uilding Inspector. }
(c) Any non - conforming use may lk cha.ngred to another
non- confot;nidl9 use or any non- conforrnin, building; may be re- :
built or. repaired on permit from the Iloard of Appeals, such
IlC\ use or reconstructed building:+ not to 1>e substantially dif- }
ferent in character or more detrimental or objectional to the t
neig,Yhborhood. ;
(d) Whenever a non - conforming use has been charved to
a more resdricted or conforming; use it shrill not again be
changed to r, less restricted use. .
(c) When any non - conforming; use has been discontillucd
for a period of two (2) years it shall not be re established, and
future use shall be in conformity Frith this ordinance.
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I�Iawever, in the matter of non - conforming. land used for
• ag:-iculture, horticulture, or floriculture, such non -use must
have contitluc -d for at least 5 years. '
AIII;A, YARID, AND HEIGII! IZEGUT.ATIONS
Section 17 —LOT SIZE.– ti
^11 be erect-ad 1n Reside.—ce A �1GU)
or � uiStrict on a lot le ::c t;hF�r. ore hurdreri
jt:� ide except thst l OLS 1��::� t han ore hundred feet °
trice may bo built on as provided in :section 5A of
Chap tor 40A of the General Laws of Iiassachusetts ,
r:,ovided that all other yard recuire'^erts are fuifil��u. .
S-ectioa 18. Front Yard&
In n pesidence "A" district, no buildin, shall be built less
than twenty (20). feet from the street line provided that no ;
major building need be set back more than the average of the
setbacks of the buildings on the next lots on either side if both.
these lots have major buildings built thereon.
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