Zoneomics Logo
search icon

Wayland City Zoning Code

ARTICLE 3

Establishment of Districts

§ 198-301 Designation.

301.1. 
For the purpose of this Zoning Bylaw, the Town of Wayland is divided into the following types of districts, designated as:
301.1.1. 
Single Residence Districts. For the purposes of § 198-705.1 and § 198-705.2 of Article 7 of this Zoning Bylaw, the Single Residence District shown on the map referred to in § 198-301 herein is hereby divided into four types of zones designated as follows, all as shown, defined and bounded on a second map accompanying this Zoning Bylaw entitled "Town of Wayland, Amendment to Zoning Map 1934, March 1939," dated and approved February 27, 1939, by the Wayland Planning Board, as revised March 13, 1939, by said Board and on file with the Town Clerk, and said second map and the explanatory matter thereon, as so revised, are hereby made a part of this Zoning Bylaw:
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15; 5-4-2000 ATM by Art. 35]
301.1.1.1. 
Residence Zone 20,000 square feet - 120 feet Front.
Residence Zone 30,000 square feet - 150 feet Front.
Residence Zone 40,000 square feet - 180 feet Front.
Residence Zone 60,000 square feet - 210 feet Front.
301.1.2. 
Roadside Business Districts.
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15]
301.1.3. 
Business Districts A.
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15]
301.1.4. 
Business Districts B.
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15]
301.1.5. 
Light Manufacturing Districts.
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15]
301.1.6. 
Limited Commercial Districts.
[Amended 3-12-1973 ATM by Art. 15]
301.1.7. 
Planned Development Districts.
[Amended 10-30-1974 STM by Art. 7]
301.1.8. 
Refuse Disposal District.
[Amended 11-12-1975 STM by Art. 8]
301.2. 
Said districts are defined and described in numerous votes of the Town, beginning with the adoption of this Zoning Bylaw under Article 5 of the September 5, 1934, Special Town Meeting, and subsequent Town Meetings, and are shown on a plan accompanying this Zoning Bylaw that has been filed with the Town Clerk entitled "Town of Wayland Zoning Map," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, Massachusetts, 01778, December 5, 2003, as the same may be amended from time to time hereafter.
[Amended 5-7-1997 ATM by Art. 39; 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 23; 5-5-2004 ATM by Art. 19]

§ 198-302 Overlay districts.

[Amended 3-20-1974 ATM by Art. 44; 4-30-1975 ATM by Art. 28]
302.1. 
To carry out the purposes of this Zoning Bylaw, the Town of Wayland is also divided into the following districts that overlay the districts established by § 198-301 above:
302.1.1. 
A Floodplain District that includes all land and water in the Town of Wayland subject to seasonal or periodic flooding by the Sudbury River, except for temporary excavations, whose surface lies below elevation 124 feet above mean sea level, as such elevation is shown by the notation "--124--Floodplain" in the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, prepared and corrected to January 1, 1972, by Everett M. Brooks & Co., corrected to January 1, 1975, by the Wayland Engineering Department.
302.1.2. 
A Federal Flood Protection District, which includes all special flood hazard areas within the Town of Wayland designated as Zone A, AE, AH, AO, AR, V, VE and A99, and "Floodway Areas in Zone AE" on the Middlesex County Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the administration of the National Flood Insurance Program. The map panels of the Middlesex County FIRM that are wholly or partially within the Town of Wayland are panel numbers 25017C0369F, 25017C0386F, 25017C0388F, 25017C0507F, 25017C0509F, 25017C0517F, 25017C0526F, 25017CIND1B, 25017CIND2B, dated July 7, 2014; and 25017C0389G, 25017C0527G, 25017C0528G, 25017C0529G, and 25017C0536G, effective July 8, 2025. The exact boundaries of the Federal Flood Protection District are defined by the 100-year base flood elevations shown on the FIRM and further defined by the Middlesex County Flood Insurance Study (FIS) reports effective respectively July 7, 2014 and July 8, 2025. The FIRM and FIS reports are incorporated herein by reference and are on file with the Town Clerk. The FIRM is hereby incorporated as part of the Zoning Map of the Town of Wayland.
[Amended 5-4-1982 ATM by Art. 17; 5-4-2004 ATM by Art. 19; 5-5-2005 ATM by Art. 31;[1] 4-7-2011 ATM by Art. 20; 11-13-2018 STM by Art. 4; 4-7-2025 ATM by Art. 21]
[1]
Editor's Note: This article also repealed former § 198-302.1.2, which provided for a Watershed Protection District, and redesignated former § 198-302.1.3 through 198-302.1.6 as § 198-302.1.2 through 198-302.1.5, respectively.
302.1.3. 
A Southeast Wayland-Cochituate Planning District that includes all land to be placed in said district by a two-thirds vote of Town Meeting, but including only such land with an area not less than 25 acres, a substantial portion of which (herein defined as more than 30%) is wet areas, as defined in § 198-1402 herein, and that is located in the area shown as Residence Zone 30,000 square feet-150 feet Front bordering on the Wayland-Natick town lines on the map entitled "Town of Wayland Zoning Overlay Districts," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated December 5, 2003.
[Amended 6-16-1987 STM by Art. 3; 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 22; 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 23; 4-29-2002 STM by Art. 5; 5-4-2004 ATM by Art. 19; 5-5-2005 ATM by Art. 31]
302.1.4. 
An Aquifer Protection District that is shown on a map on file with the Town Clerk entitled "Town of Wayland Zoning Overlay Districts," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated December 5, 2003. The district comprises areas in the Town of Wayland where liquids or water-soluble materials placed on or below the surface of the land will migrate to the Town's municipal wells if pumping is sufficiently heavy and prolonged. For data, standards and procedures by which the boundary of the district was established and for other details, see a report on file with the Town Clerk entitled "Aquifer Mapping Project, Town of Wayland," January 1988, by IEP, Inc., Consulting Environmental Scientists of Northborough, Massachusetts, and also a report on file with the Town Clerk entitled "Report on Conceptual Zone II Study of the Baldwin Pond Wellfield," March 1994, by Anderson-Nichols & Company, Inc., Consulting Engineers, Boston, Massachusetts.
[Added 5-1-1989 STM by Art. 7; amended 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 23; 4-29-2002 ATM by Art. 5; 5-4-2004 ATM by Art. 19; 5-5-2005 ATM by Art. 31]
302.1.5. 
A Senior and Family Housing Overlay District which includes all of the following land: Parcels F and G as shown on a plan entitled "Town of Wayland Zoning Overlay Districts," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated December 5, 2003, and is available at the office of the Town Clerk for public inspection.
[Added 4-28-1997 STM by Art. 5; amended 4-30-2001 ATM by Art.23; 4-29-2002 ATM by Art. 5; 5-4-2004 ATM by Art. 19; 5-5-2005 ATM by Art. 31]
302.1.6. 
A Wireless Communications Services District that includes the land owned by the Town of Wayland known as the "old landfill site" as shown in the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 1999, on Plates 22 and 23, Parcels 22-001 and 22-002, and known as the "new landfill site" as shown in the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 1996, on Plates 17, 21, and 22 inclusive, that portion of Parcel 17-018 that is south of the line that is the continuation of the northwestern property line of Parcel 22-004, Parcels 21-010A, 22-003, 22-004, 22-006 and 22-007; and the land comprising the portion of the so-called Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), "right-of-way" from its boundary with the southerly sideline of Boston Post Road (Route 20) westerly to its westernmost boundary with the Town of Sudbury as shown in the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 1999, on Plates 22, 26 and 27, inclusive, and as shown on the plan entitled "Town of Wayland Zoning Overlay Districts," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated December 5, 2003, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 11-17-1999 STM by Art. 3; amended 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 23; 4-29-2002 STM by Art. 5; 5-4-2004 ATM by Art. 19; 5-5-2005 ATM by Art. 31[2]]
[2]
Editor's Note: This article also redesignated former § 198-302.8 as § 198-302.6.
302.1.7. 
[3]A Municipal Services Overlay District that includes the parcels of land on Boston Post Road as shown on Plate 22 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 2008, numbered as Parcels 22-3 (line parallel with 500' from north sideline of Route 20), 22-6 and 22-7 and shown on the plan entitled "Plan of Land in Wayland. Massachusetts Showing a Municipal Services Overlay District," dated September 9, 2010, prepared by the Town Surveyor's Office, a copy of which plan is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 11-16-2010 STM by Art. 12]
[3]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection 302.1.7, Cochituate Interim Planning Overlay District, added 4-30-1997 STM by Art. 7; amended 5-8-2000 ATM by Art. 47 and 4-30-2001 ATM by Art. 23, was repealed 5-5-2004 ATM by Art. 18.
302.1.8. 
A River' s Edge Housing Overlay District (" REHOD") that includes the parcels of land on Boston Post Road as shown on Plate 22 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 2008, numbered as Parcels 22- 003 ( portion), 22- 006 and 22- 007 and as shown on the plan entitled " Town of Wayland Zoning Overlay Districts," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated April 3, 2014, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 4-3-2014 ATM by Art. 15]
302.1.9. 
A Planned Wireless Communications Services District that includes the land on Reeves Hill, so-called, as shown on Plate 34 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 1996, numbered as Parcels 34-026, 34-027, and 34-026A, and as shown on the plan entitled "Town of Wayland Planned Wireless Communications Services Zoning Overlay District," prepared by the Town of Wayland Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated August 11, 2005, a copy of which plan is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 11-1-2005 STM by Art. 2]
302.1.10. 
A Mixed-Use Overlay District that includes the land as shown on Plate 23 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 2002, numbered as Parcels 23-052, 23-052B, 23-052C, and 23-052F, and as shown on the plan entitled "Town of Wayland Mixed-Use Overlay District," Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated September 6, 2005, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 5-3-2006 STM by Art. 2]
302.1.11. 
A Multi-Family Housing Overlay District that includes land in four sub-districts as follows:
[Added 5-13-2024 ATM by Art. 26]
302.1.11.1. 
"Route 20 West" that includes the land shown as Lots 1, 2, and 3 on Plan 1807 of 1985, insofar as they are within the limits of the Town of Wayland, on file at the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds;
302.1.11.2. 
"River's Edge West" that includes the land shown as Lot A and a portion of Lot E on a plan entitled "Multi-Family Housing Overlay District - River's Edge West Sub-District Wayland, Massachusetts," dated March, 2024, a copy of which is on file at the Office of the Town Clerk and at the Department of Public Works Engineering Division;
302.1.11.3. 
"Town Center Development Area" that includes the land shown as Lot 7-1, a portion of Lot 1-1-C and a portion of Lot 2-1 on a plan entitled "Multi-Family Housing Overlay District - Town Center Development Area Sub-District Wayland, Massachusetts," dated March, 2024, a copy of which is on file at the Office of the Town Clerk and the Department of Public Works Engineering Division;
302.1.11.4. 
"Planned Development District - Central" that includes the land shown as Lot 17 on the Middlesex South Land Registration Office Plan 16568L, Sheet 5, dated August 2, 1979.
302.1.12. 
A Restaurant Pre-Order Pick-Up Window Overlay District that includes land as shown on Plate 23 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 2002, numbered as Parcels 23-010, 23-011, 23-013, partial 23-014, 23-021, 23-022, 23-023, 23-024, 23-025, 23-027, 23-028, and 23-029 and as shown on the plan entitled "Town of Wayland Restaurant Pre-Order Pick-Up Window Overlay District" Survey Department, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778, dated February 19, 2025, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 4-7-2025 ATM by Art. 20]
302.1.13. 
A Medical Marijuana District that includes the parcels of land on Boston Post Road as shown on Plate 21 of the Atlas of the Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, 2016, numbered as Parcels 21-010, 21-005, 21-008A, 21-002, 21-004, 21-002A, 21-001, 21-008, 21-006A, 21-006 and 21-003, and as shown on the plan entitled "Figure 1 Town of Wayland Medical Marijuana District" as included in the April 29, 2019, Annual Town Meeting Warrant at page 76, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Added 4-7-2025 ATM by Art. 21]
302.2. 
Any land lying within the Aquifer Protection District, the Federal Flood Plain Protection District, the Floodplain District or the Watershed Protection District shall also be subject to the regulations of the underlying districts to the extent not inconsistent with the regulations for the applicable overlying district or districts and shall, in addition, conform to the additional requirements of the one or more overlying districts in which the land lies. In the event of any conflict between the regulations applying to two or more overlying districts that apply to the same parcel of land, the conflict shall be resolved by applying the most restrictive provisions.
[Added 5-4-1982 ATM by Art. 17; amended 5-1-1989 STM by Art. 7; 4-7-2011 ATM by Art. 20]

§ 198-303 Plans and maps.

303.1. 
The plans and maps referred to in §§ 198-301 and 198-302 shall be part of this Zoning Bylaw.
[Amended 6-21-1978 STM by Art. 6; 4-17-1980 ATM by Art. 23]