The following uses are Ground Level Uses, and are Allowed or Conditional uses within the GWOD, provided that uses described in Use Item Numbers 34A and 38A of Table of Section 8-3 (Use Regulations) are forbidden. This list is intended to be illustrative of Ground Level Uses and not exclusive.

Allowed uses

Antique stores

Appliances, repair shops

Appliances, sales

Artists' supply and music stores

Athletic goods stores

Bakeries or pastry shops

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

Churches

Cigar stores

Clock or watch stores or repair shops

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

Clubs, noncommercial

Coffee shops

Coin stores

Community centers

Dance halls, public

Delicatessen stores

Department stores

Diners

Dressmaking shops, custom

Dry-cleaning establishments or laundromats

Dry goods or fabric stores

Fabric or yarn store

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

Hardware stores

Historical exhibits

Hobby shops

Hotels

Housewares

Household appliance repair shops

Ice cream stores

Interior decorating establishments

Jewelry shops

Kitchenware

Lamp shops

Leather goods or luggage stores

Locksmith shops

Luggage stores

Millinery shops

Museum

Newsstands, enclosed

Office or business machine stores, sales or rental

Offices (lobby space only)

Optician or optometrist establishments

Orthopedic stores

Paint stores

Parish houses

Parks, public or private

Party shops

Perfume shops

Pet shops

Phonographic repair shops

Photographic developing or printing establishments

Photographic equipment stores

Photographic studios

Photographic supply stores

Photostatting establishments

Picture framing stores

Police stations

Post offices

Printing establishments

Radio appliance shop, repair or sales

Record stores

Recreational centers (noncommercial)

Residential uses (lobby space only)

Restaurants (not including take-out restaurant uses)

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 shop

Stamp stores

Stationery stores

Tailor shops, custom

Telegraph offices

Television repair shops

Tobacco stores

Tour operator

Toy stores

Travel agency, limited to 25 linear feet

Typewriter stores

Typewriter or other small business machine repair stores

Variety or convenience stores

Video or motion picture store, sale or rentals

Wallpaper stores

Conditional uses

Bank branch offices

Bank machines, limited to 25 linear feet

Drug stores

Health clubs

Liquor stores

Office uses (other than lobby space)

Pharmacies

Residential uses (other than lobby space)

Take-out restaurant uses

Taxi or limousine service, limited to 25 linear feet

Ticket agency, limited to 25 linear feet

Vehicle rental

(Text Amd. No. 464, § 5a., 11-8-2023; Text Amd. No. 471, § 14g., 4-3-2024.)

For the purposes of this Article 49A only, except as provided herein, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated.

"Display Window Area" means that area of any Priority Greenway Frontage of a Proposed Project that is between a height of two (2) feet above the ground floor and the height of the underside of the floor structure of the second floor of the Proposed Project, or fourteen (14) feet, whichever is less.

"Greenway Overlay District " or "GWOD" means the area depicted on Maps entitled, "Map 1, Boston Proper", "Map 1A, Midtown Cultural District", "Map 1C, North Station", "Map 1G, Chinatown District", "Map 1H, Government Center/Markets District", "Map 1L, North En Neighborhood District", "Map 1Xa/1Xb, Central Artery Special District", and "Map 1E/1F, Harborpark District: North End/Downtown Waterfront", of the series of maps entitled "Zoning Districts City of Boston," as amended.

"Greenway Parcel" means the following parcels listed in Article 49: Parcels 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17N, 17S, 18N, 18S, 19, 21, 22N, 22S, and 23N. See the Map attached as Appendix C to this Article.

"Ground Floor Ceiling Height" means the height of the building or structure under the floor structure of the second floor.

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

"Priority Greenway Frontage" means the frontage of a Proposed Project that fronts on any Greenway Parcel, and the first twenty (20) feet of frontage of a Proposed Project on any of the following "Crossroads": Hanover Street, State Street, Broad Street, Oliver Street, Northern Avenue, Congress Street, Summer Street, Beach Street, and Kneeland Street. See the Map attached as Appendix C to this Article.

"Street Wall" means the exterior wall or portion of the exterior wall of a Priority Greenway Frontage of a Proposed Project.

"Underlying Zoning" means the zoning regulations that are otherwise applicable to a Proposed Project or site within the GWOD, including the regulations of any other overlay districts as set forth in this Code, without regard to the provisions of any applicable PDA Development Plan, PDA Master Plan, or Institutional Master Plan.

(Text Amd. No. 463, § 33, 8-16-2023)