Grafton City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1286
Yard, Lot Coverage and Height Restrictions
1286.01 YARD, LOT COVERAGE, AND HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS TABLE.
The following development standards for each district shall be the minimum required setbacks, lot frontage, maximum building height, and lot coverage.
Development Standards for Commercial and Industrial Districts | |||||||||
District | Maximum Height | Minimum Frontage Required | Required Yard and Setbacks in Feet | Additional Yards, if Abutting Residential | Percent Lot Coverage Allowed | Maximum Ground Floor Building Size | General Function and Comments | ||
Front Set-back | Side Yard | Rear Yard | |||||||
PO Professional Office | 35 feet | 80 feet | 75 feet | 25 feet, when no rear access | 20 feet | 50 feet, landscaping required | 30% (2) | Provides a gentle transition between areas of general commercial and single-family neighborhoods. | |
GB General Business | 35 feet | 125 feet | 100 feet | 12 feet, when no rear access | 40 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 30% (2) | 35,000 square feet | Provides retailing and personnel services which require larger tracts of land and encompass large service areas. |
CB Central Business | 40 feet | No require-ment | 35 feet (1) | None required | 20 feet | 20 feet for side yards | 75% (2) | 10,000 square feet | Encourages and protects the historic core business area. |
LI Light Industrial | 50 feet | 200 feet | 100 feet | 25 feet | 75 feet | 100 feet, landscaping required | 40% (2) | Allows manufacturing and wholesale business which are clean and quiet, operate within enclosed structures. | |
GI General Industrial | 50 feet | 200 feet | 100 feet | 35 feet | 50 feet | 150 feet, landscaping required | 40% (2) | Allows intensive manufacturing uses, salvage yards permitted by conditional use. | |
IP Industrial Park | 50 feet | 150 feet | 50 feet | 25 feet | 25 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 40% (2) | Light industrial district with services for workers. Goal of park-like setting. | |
ID Institutional Development | 40 feet | No require-ment | 50 feet | 40 feet | 40 feet | 75 feet, landscaping required | 70% (2) | Allows institutional uses, laboratories permitted by conditional use. | |
PUD | Refer to Chapter 1282 for PUD requirements | ||||||||
(1) In established business and commercial areas, the building setback line shall be the uniform setback line observed on the same side of the street as the lot in question between two intersecting streets or for a distance of 100 feet on each side of the lot. In the event of variance of the abutting property, the setback that is nearest to thirty-five feet from the right-of-way line shall prevail as the minimum setback.
All buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than the indicated percent of the lot.
(Ord. 01-014. Passed 7-17-01.)