Accessory uses
The following uses are accessory uses to principal uses in the circumstances specified.
A. Bed and breakfast. A bed and breakfast, an owner-occupied home that provides lodging and meals to temporary guests for a fee, is permitted in all zoning districts as an accessory use to a single-household structure. Hosting functions such as weddings for a fee or in conjunction with the bed and breakfast use is prohibited.
B. Boarding house. Renting of a room for a fee to a boarder in an owner-occupied home is permitted in all zoning districts as an accessory use to a single-household structure. No more than two boarders are permitted in a single-family household. Cooking facilities are not permitted in a room occupied by a boarder.
C. Child or adult day care for up to 8 persons or for 8 or more persons. A day care center is permitted as an accessory use to a business or industrial facility.
D. Domestic livestock. The keeping and/or breeding of domestic livestock as an accessory to a residential use in compliance with chapters 18.30 and 6.18 of this Code is permitted in all zoning districts.
E. Dog boarding or breeding kennel. A dog boarding or breeding kennel (use code 754) with five (5) or fewer dogs is allowed as an accessory use to a single-family residence by special use permit in all zoning districts. The minimum lot size is three (3) acres.
F. Drive-through window. One or more drive-through window as an accessory use to a bank or financial institution (use code 704), dry cleaner (use codes 764 and 765), pharmacy (use code 812), or eating place with no service of alcoholic beverages (use code 866) is allowed by special use permit only in zoning districts where the principal use is a permitted use and not a conditionally permitted (special permit) use, and only on a lot that complies with the minimum requirements for lot area, lot width, and lot frontage for the zoning district. An advisory development plan review by the planning board is required for every application for a special use permit for a drive-through window.
G. Farm stand. A farm stand is a retail outlet accessory to a principal horticultural use located on the same lot as the horticultural use or on an adjacent lot at which products not produced on the premises may be sold. Buildings, outside sales areas, and driveways and parking areas shall not occupy a total of more than ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
(Ord. dated 7-19-16)
H. Family cemetery. A cemetery with a maximum area of 10,000 square feet is allowed by special use permit as an accessory use to a single-family or two-family dwelling. An easement must be provided for access to the cemetery from the nearest street.
I. Family day care. Family day care is supervision of no more than eight persons, no more than two of whom are residents of the home. It is permitted in all zoning districts as an accessory to a residential use.
J. Helipad. A helicopter landing pad is allowed as an accessory use to a hospital.
K. Horticulture. Horticulture (use code 212) is permitted as an accessory to a residential use in all zoning districts.
L. Small wind energy system. Prohibited.
M. Individual solar energy system. Solar panels or other solar energy conversion hardware used to convert sunlight into thermal or electric energy is permitted as an accessory to any single residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial use or building to provide energy to that use or building. An off-grid system or an interconnected solar energy system that produces 125% or less of the average annual electric energy utilized by the primary use is accessory to that use.
N. Solar energy system on a commercial farm. A system of solar panels or other solar energy conversion hardware used to convert sunlight into thermal or electric energy is permitted as an accessory to an agricultural operation that occupies ten (10) or more contiguous acres, is owned or operated by an individual or business entity with a state farm tax number, and has earned $2,500 in gross income on agricultural products in each of the preceding two years, provided that all of the following requirements are met:
1. All of the energy produced by the system is sold to a public utility.
2. The system, including fencing or vegetative screening, occupies no more than 50,000 square feet.
3. No prime agricultural soil is removed for construction of the system;
4. The system receives development plan approval. As a condition of development plan approval, the planning board may require the system to be partially or totally concealed from view by a deer-resistant vegetative buffer or a solid fence at least as high as the top of the solar panels.
(Ord. dated 7-19-16; Ord. dated 10-15-19)
O. Private community center or clubhouse. A private community center or clubhouse is a facility owned by residents of a land development project at which access is limited to residents and guests. It may include indoor or outdoor recreational facilities. It is permitted as an accessory use to a residential subdivision or a land development project with residential dwelling units.
P. Privately-owned sewage treatment facility. A privately-owned sewage treatment facility is permitted as an accessory to a permitted use or a special permit use.
Q. Home produce stand. A home produce stand is a stand no larger than three feet high, five feet wide, and eighteen inches deep from which garden produce, fruit, flowers, eggs, or honey grown or produced on the premises may be sold. A home produce stand is permitted as an accessory use to a single-family residence.
(Ord. dated 6-16-15)
R. See Chapter 18.47 for accessory uses permitted on certain farms.
(Ord. dated 7-19-16)
(Ord. dated 11-19-13; Ord. dated 6-16-15; Ord. dated 7-19-16; Ord. dated 10-7-25)