1.

The following uses are Ground Level Uses and are allowed uses within the Leather District, provided that the uses described in Use Items No. 34A and No. 38A are forbidden. This list is intended to be illustrative of Ground Level Uses and not exclusive.

Antique stores

Appliances, repair shops

Appliances, sales

Art galleries, commercial and nonprofit

Art metal craft shops

Art needle work shops

Artists' supply and music stores

Athletic goods stores

Auditoriums

Bakeries or pastry shops

Bank branch offices

Bank machines, provided that the ground level street frontage of a bank facility containing only bank machines is limited to twenty (20) feet.

Barber shops

Beauty parlors

Bicycle stores, rental or repair

Book stores or card stores

Cafes

Candy stores

Carpet, rugs, linoleum, or other floor covering stores

Child care centers

Accessory family child care home

Churches

Cigar stores

Clock or watch stores or repair shops

Clothing retail establishments

Clothing stores (men's, women's, children's apparel)

Clubs, noncommercial

Coffee shops

Coin stores

Community centers

Costume rental establishments

Dance halls, public

Delicatessen stores

Department stores

Diners

Dressmaking shops, custom

Drug stores

Dry cleaning establishments or laundromats

Dry goods or fabric stores

Eating or drinking places, provided that Fast Food Restaurant Uses, as

described in Subsection 44-10.5(c), are conditional as provided in Section 44-10.5, and subject to the provisions of Section 44-10.6.

Electronic, video or audio sales or repair

Entrance/exit to off-street parking or loading area provided that it occupies not more than thirty (30) feet of ground level street frontage.

Entrance/exit to public transit facilities

Fabric or yarn stores

Fire Stations

Fishing tackle or equipment stores, or rental establishments

Florist shops

Food stores, including supermarkets, produce and grocery stores, markets,

health foods, delicatessens, prepared food/special food, spices and herbs, coffees, teas, meat, fish, poultry, and cheese stores

Furniture stores

Furrier shops, custom

Gift shops

Hair products for headwear

Hardware stores

Health club or gym (only a Lobby Entrance Area not occupying more than twenty (20) feet of ground level street frontage)

Historical exhibits, open to the public generally

Hobby shops

Hotel or motel (only a Lobby Entrance Area not occupying more than twenty (20) feet of ground level street frontage)

Housewares

Household appliance repair shops

Ice cream stores

Interior decorating establishments

Jewelry shops

Kitchenware

Lamp shops

Leather goods or luggage stores

Libraries, open to the public generally

Locksmith shops

Luggage stores

Millinery shops

Motion picture or video production studios

Museums, open to the public generally

Music stores

Musical instruments, repair

Newsstands, enclosed

Office or business machine stores, sales or rental

Offices (only a Lobby Entrance Area of an office or office building, not occupying more than twenty (20) feet of ground level street frontage)

Optician or optometrist establishments

Orthopedic stores

Paint stores

Parish houses

Parks, public or private

Party shops

Perfume shops

Pet shops

Photographic developing

Photographic equipment stores

Photographic studios

Photographic supply stores

Photostating establishments

Picture framing stores

Police stations

Post offices

Printing establishments

Radio appliance shops, repair or sales

Record stores

Recreational centers (noncommercial)

Residences (only a Lobby Entrance Area of a residential building, not occupying more than twenty (20) feet of ground level street frontage)

Sewing machine stores, selling household machines

Shoe repair and shoeshine shops

Shoe stores

Sign painting shops

Skating rinks, outdoor ice

Sporting goods stores

Sports shops

Stamp stores

Stationery stores

Studios: music, dancing, visual arts, or theatrical

Tailor shops, custom

Telegraph, FAX, or Express Mail offices

Television repair shops

Theater

Ticket sales

Tobacco stores

Tour operator

Toy stores

Typewriter stores

Typewriter or other small business machine repair stores

Variety or convenience stores

Video or motion picture store sales or rentals

Wallpaper stores

(Text Amd. No. 464, §§ 3a., 3f., 11-8-2023.)

For the purposes of this article only, the following words and phrases, when capitalized, shall have the meanings indicated.

Corner Lot means a parcel located at the intersection of two public streets.

Curb Line means the line of the curb or other structure or indication separating the portion of the street devoted to vehicular traffic from the sidewalk.

Ground Floor Ceiling Height means the height of the underside of the floor structure of the second floor.

Display Window Area means that portion of the Street Wall between

(i)

a height of two (2) feet above the ground floor and

(ii)

the height of the underside of the floor structure of the second floor, or fourteen (14) feet, whichever is less.

Ground Level Uses means the uses listed in Appendix A to this article.

Lobby Entrance Area means the frontage at street level of the lobby of an office, residential, hotel, motel, or other structure.

Leather District Plan means the zoning regulations applicable to the Leather District and the plan for the District as evidenced by applicable development precedents and planning studies and any applicable comprehensive plan for the District, adopted by the Boston Redevelopment Authority pursuant to Chapter 652 of the Acts of 1960, Section 3 of Chapter 4 of the Ordinances of 1952, and Section 27D-18 of the code.

Leather District means the area, so entitled, depicted on Map 1C of this Code.

Modal Street Wall Height means the Street Wall Height calculated as follows:

(1)

For each developed lot on the same side of the same street, the height above grade of the Street Wall is measured. The measurement is rounded off to the nearest half foot if the said buildings are attached and to the nearest foot if the said buildings are detached. The width of each lot is then measured. These measurements may be scaled off from a reliable plan or map.

(2)

The widths of all lots with the same Street Wall Height are added up.

(3)

The Street Wall Height with the largest total lot width is the Modal Street Wall Height for the block. If two or more Street Wall Heights, as thus computed, have equal lot widths, the one closest to the Proposed Project shall be the Modal Street Wall Height.

Street Wall means the portion of the exterior wall (including recesses, bays, windows, doors, and other features) of a Proposed Project that fronts on a public street (excluding public alleys) and is below the Street Wall Height, determined pursuant to Section 44-7.

Street Wall Plane means the planar surface of the Street Wall (disregarding recesses, bays, windows, doors, etc.) required pursuant to Section 44-7.

(Text Amd. No. 463, §§ 25, 26, 8-16-2023)