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Everett City Zoning Code

SECTION 5

Apartment Districts.

(Ord. of 4-29-91; Ord. of 6-29-87; amended as part of October 2021 update; Ord. of 4-11-88)
A. 
Uses.
In any apartment district, as indicated on the Zoning map, no building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected which is intended or designed to be used in whole or in part for any industry, trade, manufacturing or commercial purposes or for other than one of the following specified purposes:
1. 
Any use specified above in section 4 as permitted in dwelling districts.
2. 
Detached apartment or tenement houses.
3. 
Hotels and lodging houses, dormitories, providing there is no display or advertising visible from the street except for a small name sign.
4. 
The following uses shall only be permitted in the Apartment District upon the grant of a Special Permit by the Zoning Board of Appeals:
a. 
Uses, whether or not on the same parcel as activities permitted as a matter of right, accessory to activities permitted as a matter of right, which activities are necessary in connection with scientific research or scientific development or related production. The Zoning Board of Appeals may grant such permit provided that it finds that the proposed accessory use does not substantially derogate from the public good.
5. 
Open air markets of any type shall be prohibited. The sale of used household goods by residential occupants on their premises, normally referred to as garage sales, shall be allowed providing that such sale shall not continue for a period or more than seven (7) days in any year, except by Special Permit of the Zoning Board of Appeals.
B. 
Dimensional Requirements.
1. 
Residential dwelling units, except one-or two-family units, which will be subject to Section 4, Dimensional requirements.
a. 
Frontage:
Forty (40) feet plus five (5) feet per unit up to seventy (70) feet maximum required.
b. 
Four thousand (4,000) square feet plus one thousand (1,000) square feet per unit up to a total of ten (10) units, then five hundred (500) square feet per unit for all units in excess of ten (10) units.
2. 
All other residential: Floor area ratio, 1 to 1 maximum
3. 
All other uses: Floor area ratio, 1 to 1 maximum
4. 
Height:
Four (4) stories, not to exceed sixty (60) feet maximum. Penthouses shall not be subject to four-story limitations provided the total height of the building including penthouses does not exceed sixty (60) feet. Total floor area of church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, radio and flag poles, water tanks, hose towers and penthouses shall not exceed in aggregate twenty-five (25) percent of the floor area of the first floor, and provided that such church spires, belfries, cupolas, chimneys, radio and flag poles, water tanks and hose towers, penthouses and shall not be more than fifty (50) percent higher than the average height of the roof of the main structure.
5. 
Front Yard:
a. 
Twenty (20) feet minimum of which ten (10) feet shall be used for landscaping.
b. 
Corner lots, seven (7) feet minimum on one (1) side of corner.
6. 
Side Yard:
a. 
Ten (10) feet minimum up to and including three (3) stories and forty-five (45) feet in height.
b. 
Twelve (12) feet minimum for four (4) stories and over forty-five (45) feet in height.
7. 
Rear Yard:
Twenty-five (25) feet minimum.
8. 
Accessory Building:
Shall be located only within the rear yard and shall occupy not more than thirty-three (33) percent of the rear yard area and shall not exceed two (2) stories and/or twenty (20) feet in height nor be located any closer than seven (7) feet from any lot line.
9. 
Inground Swimming Pools:
Six (6) feet minimum form any lot line.