Weymouth City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VII
Business District B-1
§ 120-23 Permitted uses.
[Amended May 1987 ATM by Art. 52, approved 8-27-1987; May 1993 ATM by Arts. 55 and 56, approved 7-9-1993; May 1997 ATM by Art. 43, approved 8-11-1997]
See Article XXVA, § 120-123E, for site plan review applicability for any of the permitted uses listed in this section. In a Business District B-1, no building or premises shall be erected, altered or used for any purposes injurious, noxious or offensive to a neighborhood by reason of the emission of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration or noise or other cause or for any purpose, and, further, no building, group of buildings or premises shall be placed on either a lot of 40,000 square feet or more or contain 20,000 square feet or more of gross floor area except:
A.
Hotel, motel or restaurant, not including a drive-in restaurant.
B.
Trade, professional or other school for ages 16 and above conducted as a gainful business.
C.
Private club or lodge operated for members only.
D.
Place of amusement or assembly, provided that the structure is sufficiently sound-insulated to confine noise to the premises.
E.
Clinic or office of an architect, attorney, physician, dentist or other similar professional persons or firm, real estate, insurance or other agency office, bank, office building, post office or similar establishment.
F.
Printing shop, photographer's studio, taxidermist or caterer.
G.
Retail business, service or public utility not involving manufacturing on the premises except of products, the major portion of which are to be sold at retail by the manufacturer to the consumer, and provided that no more than four operatives shall be employed in such manufacture.
§ 120-23.1 Prohibited uses.
§ 120-24 Special permit uses by Board of Zoning Appeals.
Any of the following uses, or uses customarily accessory thereto, on approval of the Board of Zoning Appeals, unless otherwise provided, subject to the conditions and requirements of Article XXV:
A.
Service station, repair garage and car wash on approval of the Board of Selectmen, subject to the conditions and requirements of § 120-101 of this bylaw, as applicable, provided that all washing, lubricating and the making of repairs is carried on inside the building and that the structure housing major repairs, including auto body and paint shop, is sufficiently sound-insulated to confine noise to the premises and any flashing, fumes, gases, smoke and vapor is effectively confined to the premises.
[Amended May 1989 ATM by Art. 47, approved 7-28-1989]
B.
Commercial parking lot or parking garage.
[Amended May 1989 ATM by Art. 47, approved 7-28-1989]
C.
Detached one-family dwelling.
D.
Wholesale business, jobbing or dispatching establishment and storage in roofed structure, but not including wholesale storage of inflammable liquids, gases or explosives.
[Added May 1980 ATM by Art. 49, approved 8-27-1980]
E.
Enclosed or open-lot storage of new building material, contractor's equipment, machinery and metals, other than scrap or junk, and similar materials, provided that any material stored in unenclosed premises to a height greater than four feet above grade level is surrounded by a substantial seven-foot-high wall, tight fence or a proper landscape screening.
[Added May 1980 ATM by Art. 49, approved 8-27-1980; amended May 1990 ATM by Art. 50, approved 9-13-1990]
F.
Lodging house, not to exceed 10 lodgers; and only in the conversion of a building, existing at the time of adoption of this amendment, containing up to three dwelling units, and further provided that the Board of Selectmen shall be the special permit granting authority, subject to the conditions and requirements of Article XXV.
[Added October 1982 STM by Art. 3, approved 1-11-1983]
G.
Funeral home.
[Added 12-20-2021 by Order No. 21-116]
§ 120-25 Special permit uses by Planning Board.
The following uses, or uses customarily accessory thereto, may be granted as special permit uses by the Planning Board, subject to the conditions and requirements of Article XXV:
A.
C.
Any permitted use having drive-through service or windows.
[Added May 1993 ATM by Art. 57, approved 7-9-1993]