The following uses are Ground Level Uses and are allowed uses within the Cambridge Street North District, provided that uses described in Use Items No. 34A and No. 38A of Section 8-3 (Use Regulations) are forbidden. This list is intended to be illustrative of Ground Level Uses.

Antique stores

Appliances, repair shops

Appliances, sales

Artists' supply and music stores

Athletic goods stores

Automatic teller machines

Bakeries or pastry shops

Bank branch offices

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)

Coffee shops

Coin stores

Community centers

Delicatessen stores

Department stores

Diners

Dressmaking shops, custom

Drug stores

Dry cleaning establishments or laundromats

Dry goods or fabric stores

Eating or drinking places, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 47A-12.3(c) and 47A-12.4(c).

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, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 47A-12.3(k), 47A-12.3(l), 47A-12.4(e), and 47A-12.4(f).

Furniture stores

Furrier shops, custom

Gift shops

Hair products for headwear

Hardware stores

Historical exhibits

Hobby shops

Housewares

Household appliance repair shops

Ice cream stores

Interior decorating establishments

Jewelry shops

Kitchenware

Lamp shops

Leather goods or luggage stores

Libraries

Lobby space for offices or residences

Locksmith shops

Luggage stores

Millinery shops

Newsstands, enclosed

Office or business machine stores, sales or rental

Optician or optometrist establishments

Orthopedic stores

Paint stores

Parish houses

Parks, public or private

Party shops

Perfume shops

Pet shops

Pharmacies

Phonographic repair shops

Photographic developing or printing establishments

Photographic equipment stores

Photographic studios

Photographic supply stores

Photostating establishments

Picture framing stores

Police stations

Post offices

Printing establishments

Radio appliance shop, repair or sales

Record stores

Recreational centers (noncommercial)

Schools

Sewing machine stores, selling household machines

Shoe repair and shoeshine shops

Shoe stores

Sign painting shops

Sporting goods stores

Sports shop

Stamp stores

Stationery stores

Tailor shops, custom

Telegraph offices

Television repair shops

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, sale or rentals

Wallpaper stores

(Text Amd. No. 464, §§ 3a., 3f., 11-8-2023; Text Amd. No. 471, § 14g., 4-3-2024.)

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

Cambridge Street Plan means the comprehensive plan, adopted with respect to the north side of Cambridge Street 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, which sets forth the planning policies, development controls, and design guidelines for the Cambridge Street North District.

Cambridge Street North District means the area depicted on Map 1K of this Code.

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

Street Wall means the exterior wall or portion of the exterior wall of a Proposed Project that faces a street on which such Proposed Project is located and that is below the Street Wall height determined pursuant to Section 47A-11.2.

(Text Amd. No. 463, § 29, 8-16-2023)

1.

Historic Buildings and Buildings with Historic Portions

Those portions of the Charles Street Jail outlined in red in Exhibit D to "Agreement for the Acquisition of a Site for a Facility to Replace Charles Street Jail," dated February 10, 1986.

The Old West Church - 131 Cambridge Street

The Harrison Gray Otis House - 141 Cambridge Street

The Resident Physician's House at Massachusetts General Hospital - 279 Cambridge Street

2.

Buildings that Contribute to the Architectural Significance of the District

265 Cambridge Street