A building or structure devoted exclusively to an accessory use as herein defined, and not attached to a principal building by any roofed structure.

A use customary and incidental to, and on the same lot as, a principal use.

A "Social Day Care (SDC) Program" or "Adult Day Health" Program as those terms are defined by the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA), serving not more than 15 persons.

For the purposes of § 7.1, the following definitions shall apply:

For the purposes of § 8.6, the following definitions shall apply:

For the purposes of § 8.7, the following definitions shall apply:

A device for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic waves, which is attached to a tower or other structure. Examples include, but are not limited to, whip, panel, and dish antenna(s).

An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained dwelling unit that occupies only part of a larger building that may contain one or more additional apartments, nonresidential uses, or both. Apartments may be owned (by an owner-occupier) or rented (by tenants).

A place devoted to the display and sale of objects of art.

Working place of an artist or a place for the study of art.

A story with at least 40% of its height below finished grade. However, for purposes of determining compliance with the height limit requirements of this bylaw, a basement shall not be considered a story unless its ceiling is five feet or more above the average finished grade abutting the building.

The providing of room and breakfast in a dwelling to not more than three transient guests for remuneration. There shall be no more than two persons per room. There shall be adequate off-street parking for residents and guests.

Any area in a dwelling unit which is or could be used for the provision of private sleeping accommodations for residents of the premises, whether such area is designated as a bedroom, guestroom, maid's room, dressing room, den, study, library, or by another name. Any room intended for regular use by all occupants of the dwelling unit, such as a living room, dining area or kitchen, shall not be considered a bedroom, nor shall bathrooms, halls or closets having no horizontal dimension over six feet.

An individual other than a family member occupying a dwelling unit who, for consideration, is furnished sleeping accommodations, meals, and may be provided personal care or other services, but excluding guests at a bed and breakfast.

The practice of physical adornment by permitted establishments and practitioners using, but not limited to, the following techniques: body piercing, tattooing, cosmetic tattooing, branding, and scarification. This definition does not include practices that are considered medical procedures by the Board of Registration in Medicine in the Commonwealth, such as implants under the skin which shall not be performed in a body art establishment.

The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section area of all buildings on a lot, exclusive of cornices, eaves, gutters, chimneys, unenclosed porches, bay windows, balconies and terraces, expressed as a percentage of total lot area.

A building having any portion of one or more walls in common with adjoining buildings.

A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.

A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is located.

A project located entirely within Business District D having frontage on a way comprised of one or more contiguous lots and business parcels with provisions as may be required for permanent easements running with the land, a master deed and condominium, or other mechanism acceptable to the Zoning Board of Appeals sufficient to ensure vital access and utility service to each lot and business parcel.

A tract of land located entirely within a Business District D Development with provisions for vital access and utility services that is suitable as a site for one or more principal buildings.

A child care center or school age child care program as those terms are defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

A vehicle registered for commercial use.

A driveway serving more than one lot.

Wood that has been cut into uniform lengths, used especially as firewood.

Shop for the fabrication, alteration or maintenance of hand-portable goods and household furnishings, such as cabinet makers, upholsterers, etc., to be delivered on the premises, 1) that at least 25% of the floor area of such a permitted shop is devoted to retail sales; 2) that all such work is done directly for the ultimate consumer; 3) that no motor in excess of 10 horsepower is used.

The accidental or intentional spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or dumping of toxic or hazardous materials upon or into any land or water in the Town of Sharon. Discharge includes, without limitation, leakage of such materials from failed or discarded containers or storage system and disposal of such materials into any on-site sewage disposal system, dry well, catch basin or unapproved landfill. The term "discharge" shall not include the following:

A building containing sleeping rooms, dining rooms, common rooms, and accessory facilities intended exclusively for the use of students of an educational institution, having been constructed or converted by that institution or with its specific authorization.

A facility located on one side of a building through which customers receive services, food or merchandise while remaining in their motor vehicles.

A building designed exclusively for residential occupancy, including one-family, two-family and multiple residences, but not including hotels or boardinghouses.

Services and facilities offered by public utility or governmental agency by the erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems and structures, excluding power plants or transfer stations. Facilities necessary for the provisions of essential services include poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith. Specifically excluded from this definition are municipal, state, or federal services and facilities.

An accessory use as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

An accessory use as defined in MGL c. 15D, § 1A.

The gross floor area (as defined below) of all buildings on a lot divided by the lot area (as defined below).

That area of a structure satisfying the requirements for a habitable room in the Minimum Standards of Fitness for Human Habitation of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (Article II of the State Sanitary Code).

Facility for the conducting of funerals and related activities such as embalming or cremation.

A building, a part of a building, or a group of buildings, other than a private garage, made up of units containing provisions for not more than two motor vehicles in each unit, in which motor vehicles are kept and taken care of by their respective owners, who are either tenants or owners of each unit in which their motor vehicles are kept, all said motor vehicles being solely for private or professional use, and not for sale, rent, hire, exhibition or demonstration purposes.

A building or part of a building in which one or more vehicles are kept for private or professional use, and in which no motor vehicles are kept for sale, rent, hire, exhibition or demonstration purposes.

Any building or part of a building in which motor vehicles are kept other than a private garage or group garage. A salesroom or showroom for motor vehicles shall be regarded as a public garage if any motor vehicle is kept in such room with gasoline in its tank.

Shop for lawn mower or small appliance repair, upholstery or furniture repair, bicycle repair person, printer, blacksmith, builder, carpenter, caterer, electrician, lawn mower service person, mason, painter, plumber or roofer.

The sum of the areas of the several floors of a building, including areas used for human occupancy in basements, attics and penthouses, as measured from the exterior faces of the walls. It does not include cellars, unenclosed porches or attics not used for human occupancy, or any floor space in accessory buildings or in the main building intended and designed for the parking of motor vehicles in order to meet but not exceed the parking requirements of this bylaw, or any such floor space intended and designed for accessory heating and ventilating equipment.

The total floor area reserved for tenant occupancy and exclusive use of a business, measured from centerlines of joint partitions and from the exterior faces of external walls. As in "gross floor area," it does not include cellars, etc.

May include urgent care services, primary care services, specialist services, clinics, outpatient facilities, diagnostic and lab services, day surgery, rehabilitation and sports medicine, mental health, and similar medical services provided that no overnight patient beds are provided.

The vertical distance of the highest point of the roof beams above the mean grade of the curb or of the street surface at the centerline of the highest adjoining street, or the mean grade of the ground adjoining the building if such building does not lie nearer than 12 feet to a street line. The limitations as to building height in feet shall not apply to such nonresidential accessories as chimneys, ventilators, skylights, tanks, bulkheads, penthouses and other accessory features which are required or are customarily carried above roofs, nor to towers, spires, domes, cupolas and ornamental features of churches and other buildings, if such features are not used for living purposes.

The vertical distance between the highest point of the structure, other than a building, including any devices attached thereto, and the grade.

An accessory activity carried on by only the permanent resident of a dwelling, inside the principal building, requiring only customary home or hobby type equipment and no physical evidence of which is observable from outside the building. See § 3.4.

A building housing a facility or institution licensed to provide short-term acute in-patient and/or outpatient medical and/or surgical care; not to include a doctor's office.

A building designed for occupancy as the temporary residence of transient tourists who are lodged with or without meals, and in which no provision shall be made for cooking in any individual room or suite.

Any surface impenetrable by surface water, or having a percolation rate longer than 30 minutes per inch.

An area or parcel of land or any part thereof in individual, joint or common ownership, or in ownership by the entirety, which is designated on a plan as a separate lot and which has boundaries identical with those on a plan recorded in the county registry of deeds or Land Court.

Construction, exterior alteration or exterior expansion of, or change of use within, a municipal, institutional, commercial, industrial, or residential structure with 50 or more dwelling units with 25,000 square feet or more of gross floor area.

A use engaged in the basic processing and manufacturing of materials, or the manufacture from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales and distribution of such products, but excluding the following: acid manufacture; cement, bituminous concrete or asphalt manufacture; lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture; production of chlorine or similar noxious gases; distillation of bones; drop-forge industries manufacturing forging with power hammers; manufacture or storage of explosives in bulk quantities; fertilizer manufacture; garbage, offal, or dead animal reduction or dumping; glue manufacture; hair manufacture; petroleum refining; processing of sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast; rendering or refining of fats or oils; smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ore, including blast furnace or blooming mill; stockyard or feeding pen; slaughter of animals, not including the killing of fowl.

Light industry or light manufacturing. Includes the following (with related offices): a) assembly of previously prepared or manufactured parts; b) machine shops or other metal working; c) printing and graphic arts establishments; d) manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, stamping or treatment of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical and biotechnical, toiletries and food products, and wood, but not including the rendering of fats or oils.

For the purposes of § 7.3, the following definitions shall apply:

A facility as defined in 105 CMR 145.020, including a mobile clinic and urgent care facility.

A building designed and used as an office by physicians, dentists, or psychotherapists for the diagnosis and treatment of human patients that does not include overnight care facilities or licensing as a clinic.

A building intended and designed to be used for at least two different permitted uses—one residential, the other nonresidential—as allowed in this bylaw.

Any vehicle or object, which is drawn by or used in connection with a motor vehicle, and which is so designed and constructed or reconstructed or added to by means of such accessories as to permit the use and occupancy thereof for human habitation, whether resting on wheels, jacks or other foundations. The term "mobile home" includes the type of vehicle or modular construction commonly known as a mobile home, containing complete electrical, plumbing, and sanitary facilities and designed to be installed on a temporary or permanent foundation for permanent living quarters.

Any vehicle self propelled by a battery-powered, electric or internal combustion engine, which are permitted and requires a valid registration legally issued by a governmental authority in order to be operated on a public way. A motor vehicle shall include but not be limited to automobiles, trucks, buses, motor homes, motorized campers, motorcycles, motor scooters, tractors.

A building or premises used for the dispensing, sales or offering for sale of motor fuels directly to users of motor vehicles. Other sales activities and any repairs shall be activities minor in scope and clearly subordinate to the sale of motor fuels, oils and lubricants. No drive-through facilities are permitted without further zoning relief.

A building or part of a building in which structural repairs are made to motor vehicles, or a repair shop in a garage or other building in which machinery is used. An automobile school or a motor vehicle auto body or paint shop shall be regarded as a motor vehicle repair shop.

A building containing three or more dwelling units. Also known as a "multifamily dwelling," "garden apartment," "townhouse," or "condominium."

System on land owned by the Town of Sharon, other than land under the control of the Sharon Conservation Commission; provided, however, such use is permitted only on a parcel consisting of two or more acres. Parcels separated by a road shall be considered adjacent for purposes of this definition. Municipal commercial solar energy systems permitted under this definition shall be exempt from lot coverage, natural vegetation and impervious surface requirements as otherwise set forth in this bylaw.

Facility on land owned by a municipal body, other than land under the control of the Sharon Conservation Commission; provided, however, such use is permitted only on a parcel consisting of two or more acres and which parcel is adjacent to existing municipal recreation or park uses. Parcels separated by a road shall be considered adjacent for purposes of this definition.

Land having a well-established cover of thatch, mulch or leaves, characterized by a prevalence of native plants requiring minimal use of fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides and no underground piped irrigation systems allowed.

A lawfully created structure the use of which, in whole or in part, does not conform to the regulations of the district in which the building is located.

A lawfully created use which does not conform to the use regulations of the district in which such use exists.

A business establishment, which does not offer a product or merchandise for sale to the public but offers a professional service to the public. However, general or personal service establishments are not to be included in the definition of business offices.

A portion of a lot or other area of land associated with and adjacent to a building or group of buildings in relation to which it serves to provide light and air, for scenic, recreational or similar purposes. Such space shall be available for use by the occupants of the building(s) with which it is associated, and to the general public as appropriate with respect to the location of the open space on the lot and the nature of the use. Open space shall include parks, plazas, playgrounds, lawns, landscaped areas, decorative plantings and pedestrian ways. Streets, parking lots, driveways, service roads, loading areas, and areas normally inaccessible to pedestrian circulation shall not be counted in determining required open space.

Whether as a principal or accessory use, but not including secondhand goods or parts, nor bulk goods such as lumber or gravel, provided all outdoor storage and display is screened from side and rear lot lines in the manner described in this bylaw.

Provided that the storage is appropriately screened in accordance with all applicable sections of this bylaw.

A surface parking lot, or a structure, providing three or more parking spaces together with internal islands, dividers, walks, and landscaping, plus vehicular drives which abut those elements, but not including other portions of entrance or exit drives.

A facility providing personal services such as hair or nail salon, barber shop, tanning beds, dry cleaning, print shop, photography studio, and the like.

A business providing for the diagnosis and treatment of ailment of animals other than humans, including facilities for indoor overnight care. Indoor animal day care and grooming facilities are also allowed. Crematory facilities or outdoor enclosures for animals are prohibited. Zoning changes for pet care facilities existing prior to May 1, 2023, are not applicable.

A social, sports or fraternal nonprofit association or organization which is used exclusively by members and their guests which may contain bar facilities.

For the purposes of § 9.5, the following definitions shall apply:

Indoor public or private commercial sport use or facility for amusement, leisure, or recreation, theater, motion picture house, bowling alley, dance hall, pool room, and the like.

Outdoor public or private commercial sport use or facility for amusement, leisure, or recreation, including boat livery, outdoor ice skating rink, recreation camp, ski ground, riding academy or stable, golf driving range, miniature golf course, and the like.

A vehicle designed for recreational use (as in camping).

Laboratory or research establishments including biotechnology companies, but excluding laboratories categorized as Level 3 and Level 4 by the National Institutes for Health.

An establishment whose primary business is the sale of food for consumption on or off the premises which is: 1) primarily intended for immediate consumption rather than for use as an ingredient or component of meals; 2) available upon a short waiting time; and 3) packaged or presented in such a manner that it can be readily eaten, either inside or outside the premises where it is sold.

A facility with more than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area selling new or used goods to an end user but not otherwise specifically listed in the Table of Use Regulations.[2]

A facility with less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area selling new or used goods to an end user but not otherwise specifically listed in the Table of Use Regulations.

The land and buildings thereon primarily used for the particular purpose of selling and servicing manufactured or processed products.

For the purposes of § 8.2, the following definitions shall apply:

For the purposes of § 9.4, the following definitions shall apply. All capitalized terms shall be defined in accordance with the definitions established under the Enabling Laws or this section. To the extent that there is any conflict between the definitions set forth in this section and the Enabling Laws, the terms of the Enabling Laws shall govern.

An intermodal freight container, that is, a container designed to be moved from one mode of transport to another without unloading and reloading.

For the purposes of § 3.5, the following definitions shall apply:

See MGL c. 40A, § 1A.

A public board of the Town of Sharon authorized under enabling provisions of MGL c. 40A and specific provisions of this bylaw to hold hearings, make determinations and findings, and subsequently issue or deny special permits, variances, or other special approvals specified in this bylaw. The special permit granting authority shall be the Zoning Board of Appeals unless specifically designated otherwise in this bylaw to be another authorized board or agency as allowed under the Massachusetts General Laws.

A building or part of a building in which one or more horses are kept for the private use of the owners or residents of the premises.

Any building or part of building in which horses are kept, other than a private stable.

The portion of a building included between the surface of a floor and the surface of the floor or roof next above and not including a below-grade parking structure or basement.

Includes all public ways and all private ways commonly used as streets, or for the purpose of passing and repassing. It also includes Select Board layouts.

A combination of materials for permanent or temporary occupancy of use, such as a building, bridge trestle, tower, framework, retaining wall supporting more than four feet of unbalanced fill, tank, tunnel, tent (except those less than 120 square feet and erected for fewer than 30 days), solar panel, wind turbine, stadium, reviewing stand, platform when more than one foot above grade, swimming pool, permanently affixed play structure, shelter, pier, storage container, sign, fuel pump, recreational court, or the like.

A dwelling unit containing less than 400 square feet and without a separate bedroom.

For the purposes of § 7.2, the following definitions shall apply:

All liquid hydrocarbon products, including, but not limited to, gasoline, fuel and diesel oil; and also any other toxic, caustic or corrosive chemicals, radioactive materials, or other substance controlled as being toxic or hazardous by the Division of Hazardous Waste under the provisions of MGL c. 21C.

Shop of a carpenter, plumber, electrician, mason at which goods are stored and used in the trade, not for sale.

Any vehicle or object which is drawn by a motor vehicle.

A facility where individual portions of the space are rented to consumers for the temporary storage of business or personal items.

A structure designed or used for the storage of goods awaiting distribution.

A portion of a lot, upon which the principal building is situated, unobstructed artificially from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise provided herein. A court shall not be considered to be a yard or any part thereof.