Newton City Zoning Code
§ 320-8
T-4 Neighborhood Services Zone.
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A.
T-4 purpose. The T-4 transect zone covers smaller mixed-use neighborhood centers and supports larger neighborhood centers that provide local services to neighborhoods. These small neighborhood mixed-use commercial areas provide a sense of place and identity to the neighborhood which surrounds it.
(1)
The public frontage shall include native trees of various species, naturallistically clustered, as well as understory. Street furniture should be incorporated into the semipublic edge on commercial and mixed-use buildings.
(2)
Allowed building types: townhouse, research/warehouse, parking garage/garage with liner, mixed-use, office, live/work, civic, single-family residential, duplex and triplex.
(3)
For residential uses, parking may be permitted in the first lot layer at the discretion of the Planning Board, where the size and shape of the lot do not permit parking in the second and third lot layer as required in § 320-8C.
B.
T-4 bulk requirements.
Lot Size | Residential | 9,000 square feet minimum |
Building Configuration | Principal building | 4 stories/50 feet maximum; 2 min. |
Accessory building | 2 stories/25 feet maximum | |
Lot Occupation | Lot width | 18 feet minimum |
Lot coverage | 70% maximum | |
Building Disposition (§ 320-26B) | Edgeyard | Permitted |
Sideyard | Permitted | |
Rearyard | Permitted | |
Courtyard | Not permitted | |
Principal Building Setbacks | Front yard primary (g.1)1 | 6 feet minimum, 18 feet maximum |
Front yard secondary (g.2)1 for corner lot | 6 feet minimum, 18 feet maximum | |
Side yard (g.3)1 | 0 foot minimum | |
Rear yard (g.4)1 | 3 feet minimum | |
Frontage build-out | 60% minimum at setback | |
Accessory Building Setbacks | Front (h.1)1 | 20 feet minimum + principal bldg. setback |
Side yard (h.2)1 | 5 feet minimum or 10 feet for a corner lot | |
Rear yard (h.3)1 | 5 feet minimum | |
Private Frontages (§ 320-26A) | Common lawn | Not permitted |
Porch and fence | Permitted | |
Terrace | Permitted | |
Forecourt | Permitted | |
Shopfront and awning | Permitted | |
Gallery | Permitted | |
Arcade | Not permitted | |
Civic Spaces (§ 320-26C) | Park | Not permitted |
Green | Permitted | |
Square | Permitted | |
Plaza | Permitted | |
Playground | Permitted |
NOTES: 1 See § 320-8C. |
C.
T-4 building configuration and height.
BUILDING CONFIGURATION 1. Building height shall be measured from the average elevation of the finished grade along the front of the building to the mean elevation of the roof surface. 2. Stories may not exceed 14 feet in height from finished floor to finished ceiling, except for a first-floor commercial function which must be a minimum of 11 feet with a maximum of 24 feet. |  |
SETBACKS — PRINCIPAL BLDG 1. The facades and elevations of principal buildings shall be distanced from the lot lines as shown. 2. Facades shall be built along the principal frontage to the minimum specified width in the table. |  |
SETBACKS — OUTBUILDINGS 1. The elevation of the outbuilding shall be distanced from the lot lines as shown. |  |
PARKING PLACEMENT 1. Uncovered parking spaces may be provided within the third layer as shown in the diagram. 2. Covered parking shall be provided within the third layer as shown in the diagram. Side-or rear-entry garages may be allowed in the first or second layer at the discretion of the Planning Board. 3. Trash containers shall be stored within the third layer. |  |
