Beacon Falls City Zoning Code

Warehousing and wholesale business, freight and materials trucking terminals and businesses.

Building contractors' businesses and storage yards, lumber and building materials businesses.

Manufacturing, processing or assembling of products, except that after September 1, 1990, no rock, sand, gravel or other earth products which are excavated outside of the Town of Beacon Falls shall be screened, washed, crushed or otherwise processed in an industrial district, provided that stockpiles of earth products excavated outside of the Town of Beacon Falls which are in existence as of September 1, 1990, must be entirely processed as of September 1, 1991, subject to the requirements of Article 64.

Signs as provided in Article 63.

Accessory uses necessarily incidental to any aforesaid permitted use, unless such accessory use shall impair the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

Off-street parking facilities, whether accessory to a permitted use or not.

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Manufacturing and assembly when conducted entirely within a building.

Business, professional and corporate offices, except medical offices and clinics.

Printing and publishing.

Research and development laboratories and facilities.

Contracting businesses when conducted entirely within a building.

Public utility facilities, including substations, water storage facilities, treatment facilities, and pump stations.

Municipal governmental facilities.

All permitted uses described in § 380-42.2 with a gross floor area of 50,000 square feet and greater.

Medical offices and clinics, not including clinics whose primary role is the treatment of individuals for substance abuse on an outpatient basis.

Motor freight establishments and trucking terminals.

Outdoor manufacturing and assembly.

Heavy equipment sales, storage and rental.

Child care centers.

Wholesale and distribution.

Warehousing, excluding self-storage warehouses.

Hospitals.

Indoor commercial recreation.

Any accessory buildings, structures or uses customarily incidental and directly related to the operation of the principal use.

Off-street parking and loading, including parking structures.

Signs, subject to the provisions of Article 63.

Retail uses when accessory to a permitted or special exception use, subject to the issuance of a zoning permit by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Outdoor storage when clearly subordinate to the principal use, provided that all outdoor storage and manufacturing activities other than parking shall be visually screened and shielded from view from adjacent properties and the public right-of-way through the use of fences, walls, evergreen trees or any other measure required by the Commission. No outdoor storage or manufacturing shall be located within the front yard.

Architectural renderings of the proposed building(s) shall be submitted to the Commission for its review.

The facade of all buildings that are visible from the street or other public areas shall be of some architecturally treated masonry or other treatment approved by the Commission.

No loading areas or overhead doors shall be visible from the street or other public areas.

The area between the parking lot and the street shall be landscaped in accordance with the requirements of § 380-62.7C.

The area between the building and the street shall be landscaped in accordance with the requirements of Section 70A,[1] in a way to provide visual interest, with a mixture of different species of shrubs, trees, ground cover, annuals and perennials. Large unbroken expanses of lawn shall be avoided. A minimum of one shrub of a minimum height of 24 inches shall be planted for each three feet of building frontage. The Commission, at its discretion, may permit the substitution of perennial gardens.

The parking lot shall be designed in accordance with the requirements of Article 62.

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