1.

Ground Level Uses The following uses are Ground Level Uses and are allowed uses within the Stuart Street District. This list is intended to be illustrative of Ground Level Uses and not exclusive, and includes uses and space accessory to ground level uses.

Antique stores

Appliances, sales

Artists' supply and music stores

Athletic goods stores

Bakeries and pastry shops

Bank branch offices

Barber shops

Beauty parlors

Bicycle shops: sales, rental, or repair

Book stores and card stores ^[1]

Cafes

Candy stores

Child care centers

Accessory family child care home

Churches

Cigar stores

Clock sales or repair shops

Clothing retail establishments

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

Clubs, noncommercial

Coffee shops

Community centers

Dance halls, public

Delicatessens

Department stores

Diners

Dressmaking shops, custom

Drug stores

Dry cleaning establishments

Dry goods stores

Eating or drinking places, in accordance with the provisions of Use Item No. 38 ^[2]

Fabric stores

Fire stations ^[3]

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

General merchandise mart

Gift shops

Hair products or headwear

Hardware stores

Historical exhibits

Hobby shops

Housewares stores

Household appliance repair shops

Ice cream stores

Interior decorating establishments

Jewelry shops

Kitchenware stores

Lamp shops

Laundromats

Leather goods stores

Libraries

Locksmith shops

Luggage stores

Millinery shops

Newsstands, enclosed

Office or business machine stores: sales or rental

Offices (only lobby space is allowed at grade on streets bounding blocks)

Optician and optometrist establishments

Orthopedic stores

Paint stores

Parish houses

Parks, public or private

Party shops

Perfume shops

Pet shops

Photographic equipment stores

Photographic studios

Photographic supply stores

Picture framing stores

Police stations ^[4]

Post offices

Printing establishments

Record stores

Recreational centers (noncommercial)

Residences (only lobby space is permitted at grade on streets bounding blocks)

Restaurants

Schools

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

Tailor shops, custom

Telegraph offices

Television repair shops

Tobacco stores

Tour operators

Toy stores

Variety or convenience stores

Video or motion picture store, sale or rentals

Watch sales or repair shops

2.

Cultural Uses. The following uses are Cultural Uses, and are allowed uses within the Stuart Street District. This list is intended to be illustrative of Cultural Uses and is not exclusive.

Art galleries, commercial and nonprofit

Art metal craft shops

Art needle work shops

Auditoriums

Motion picture or video production studio

Museums

Music stores

Musical instruments, repair

Philanthropic and nonprofit institutions which provide direct support to the arts

Public Art, display space

Studios: music, dancing, visual arts, or theatrical

Theater ^[5]

Ticket sales

(Text Amd. No. 420, 3-23-16; 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.

"Ground Level Uses" means the uses listed in paragraph 1 of Appendix B to this article.

"Stuart Street Planning Study" means the comprehensive plan, adopted by the Boston Redevelopment Authority on October 15, 2015, pursuant to Chapter 652 of the Acts of 1960, Section 3 of Chapter 4 of the Ordinances of 1952, which sets forth the planning policies, development controls, and design guidelines for the Stuart Street District.

"Stuart Street District" means the area depicted on a map entitled "Map 1S Stuart Street" of the series of maps entitled "Zoning Districts - City of Boston" as amended.

"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, determined pursuant to Section 488.1.

(Text Amd. No. 420, 3-23-16; Text Amd. No. 463, § 4, 8-16-2023)

(Text Amd. No. 420, 3-23-16)