No building or structure shall be erected for business, professional, or industrial use unless built of materials and of building designs appropriate for a scenic, rural New England town, recognizing architectural scale, rhythm, and proportion, avoiding monolithic building forms the architectural appearance of which is devoid of traditional scale, rhythm, and proportion. It is within the purpose of this section to encourage the use of traditional materials and forms, along with fractured facades and roof forms in order to control the scale of the built environment and maintain, to the extent possible, the traditional character of the Borough of Newtown.

It is the intention of these Regulations that all structures and land used to be provided with sufficient amount of off-street parking area to meet the needs of persons employed at or making use of such structures or land uses. No permit for the erection of a structure or alteration of an existing structure in the excess of $500.00 or for the development of a land use shall be issued unless off-street parking areas shall have been laid out in the plan, in accordance with the appropriate requirements for the structure and uses set forth in this Section below, and approved by the Commission as provided in Paragraph F of this Section.

Structures and land uses in existence at the time of the adoption of these Regulations shall not be subject to the requirements set forth below, providing that any parking areas now existing to serve such structures or uses shall not be reduced in the future except where they exceed the requirements in which case they shall not be reduced below these Requirements. Required parking area for any enlargement or extension, shall, however, be provided as a condition for the issuance of any building permit for such enlargement or extension in the future.

When Business, Professional or Industrial Zones border any Residence Zone, no building permit for the erection or alteration of a structure in excess of $500.00 or for the development of a land use shall be issued until a suitable landscape screen shall have been laid out on the Plan and approved by the Commission. Whenever the boundary between a Residence zone and a Business or Professional or Industrial zone shall be a street, the Commission may require the installation of a suitable landscape screen along said street line.

The plans for any commercial, professional or industrial building or structure or the alteration of existing structures for which site development plan approval is not required by the provisions of Article 10 but which will cost in excess of $10,000.00 shall be submitted to the Commission for approval prior to issuing a Zoning Permit by the Zoning Enforcement Officer. Said plan shall show specifically the location and size of the off-street parking area and landscape screen which may be required to comply with this Section and the means of access to such parking area from the public street or highway. The Commission may withhold its approval from any plan which does not comply with the provisions of this Regulation or does not make adequate provision for safety to traffic on the public street, safety to pedestrians using the parking facility. Required plans shall be drawn and sealed by a licensed architect and/or engineer and/or surveyor and submitted in five copies.

Nonconformity of any lot in an R-1 Residence Zone with the specific requirements for plots in an R-1 Residence Zone contained in this Section 5.04 shall not prevent the erection, enlargement, alteration or maintenance on such lot of a building or buildings in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations which were applicable to such a lot immediately prior to December 14, 1963, provided:

Nothing in the amendments to the Zoning Map, the Zoning Boundaries and the Zoning Regulations of the Borough of Newtown, effective December 14, 1963, shall be deemed to prevent the erection of a one-family house on any lot of less than required size shown on a map duly filed with the Town Clerk prior to May 1, 1956.

Any new lot created after the effective date of this regulation shall contain an area of land at least equal to the minimum lot area in acres for the zone in which it is located, exclusive of wetlands, watercourses, FEMA 100-year floodplains, and natural slopes of 25% or greater. If the lot is a rear lot, then the area of the access strip of land intended for the driveway must also be excluded from the calculation of the minimum lot size.