Osram mixed use special overlay district (OMUSOD)
The Osram mixed use special overlay district (OMUSOD) creates a zoning overlay district within an M zone, which may include properties located within an MBRD, containing obsolete or underutilized manufacturing and/or industrial buildings which have been identified for specific development purposes. The OMUSOD designation allows the development of such sites according to a plan for mixed use, and further expressly permits the use of existing buildings located within the OMUSOD for certain uses set forth in Section 304 above. All such re-use development shall be done in accordance with this section.
602.1 - OMUSOD development. In accordance with section 101.4 of this ordinance, an OMUSOD district may contain one or more manufacturing and/or commercial structures with appurtenant accessory buildings, common areas, open space and roadways, including the ability to utilize existing structures within the OMUSOD for mini-storage and self-storage by right contingent on the mini-storage and self-storage occurring inside existing buildings located on properties in the OMUSOD, as of the date the OMUSOD was established hereunder, and up to a total limit of 230,000 square feet of mini-storage and self-storage within the OMUSOD. The purpose of the OMUSOD is to allow for the further development of the properties within the overlay district for mixed use development through careful site planning. OMUSOD zoning overlays may be applied in any M zone, including within an MBRD.
602.2 - Re-use development establishment and regulations.
(a) Establishment: A reuse development may be established upon approval by the planning commission pursuant to G.L. 1956, § 45-24-47 in any M zone in which the proposed principal use of each building is permitted in accordance with article III and section 602.2.
(b) Permitted uses: Uses as permitted in article III and the following uses listed by use category are permitted in a OMUSOD development:
i. Residential, 11,14 and 14.1.
ii. Institutional and governmental services, 21, 22, 24, 24.1 and 24.2.
iii. Cultural, entertainment and recreation services, 31, 32 (limited to auditorium, exhibition hall and theater) and 34.
iv. General services, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47 and 48.3.
v. Trade, 55, 56.
(c) Additional criteria for approval: To approve an OMUSOD re-use development, the zoning board, or the planning board if reviewed as part of a unified development review, shall find that:
i. That the re-use development is not displacing an active manufacturing and/or industrial use, and, further, that there is no reasonable expectation that manufacturing will continue at the site.
ii. The re-use development will not create a serious conflict with adjacent manufacturing and/or industrial businesses in the M zone.
iii. The developer has a plan to notify all tenants and owners of the buildings and units in the re-use development that they are in a M zone and that allowed M zone uses that may be perceived as a nuisance or otherwise obnoxious shall give them no cause for action against such industrial and/or manufacturing activity.
iv. The plans for the re-use development are consistent with the comprehensive plan.