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Town of South Kingstown Zoning Ordinance
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§ 604

Kingstown Road Special Management District

Construction of any new use, or significant expansion of any existing use having direct lot frontage on Kingstown Road, Saugatucket Road or Curtis Corner Road within the Kingstown Road Special Management District shall be subject to development plan review, and shall also conform to the following standards:

    • A. Frontage lots. Creation of new lots having frontage and vehicular access on Kingstown Road, Saugatucket Road or Curtis Corner Road shall be avoided. If possible, new lots shall front on internal streets. The use of common or shared driveways among adjacent lots or access through parcels abutting the frontage lot to the side or rear, and/or construction of private or public access roads shall be employed.

    • B. No-access easement. Where permanent vehicular access to the lot is provided from an internal circulation road, through adjacent land, or from any point other than from the roads listed above, the lot shall be restricted by means of an easement granted to the town prohibiting any future driveway or other vehicular access from the roads listed above.

    • C. Common driveways. Where alternative access as provided in subsection A., above, is not possible, adjacent lots of record in the same ownership shall be required to share a common driveway so as to limit the total number of driveways with direct access to the roads listed above to the smallest possible number. Standards for common driveways shall be as provided in the subdivision and land development regulations of the Town of South Kingstown.

    • D. Parking. Parking lots shall be located to the side or rear of the building away from major streets whenever possible. The area between the building and the street shall be devoted to a landscaped street yard.

    • E. Landscaped street yards. Within any zoning district within the Kingstown Road Special Management District any lot having direct frontage on Kingstown Road, Saugatucket Road or Curtis Corner Road shall provide landscaping within the area between the street right-of-way line and the principal building. Landscaped street yards may contain only the following features:

      • 1. Landscaping, as provided in the subdivision and land development regulations;

      • 2. Driveways, not to exceed twenty (20) feet in width for single-household and two-household residential uses, or thirty-five (35) feet in width for any other uses, with no parking permitted;

      • 3. Pedestrian walkways or bicycle paths;

      • 4. Permitted freestanding signs;

      • 5. Mailboxes customarily accessory to residential uses;

      • 6. Street signs or traffic control signs;

      • 7. Underground utilities.

The delineation of the landscaped street yard is illustrated by the landscape diagrams in the subdivision and land development regulations. This requirement shall not apply to use code 45, Automotive or Gasoline Service Stations.

    • F. Location of buildings. In order to allow parking in the rear of the building in the Kingstown Road Special Management District, the front yard and corner side yard setbacks may be reduced to zero (0) by the planning board as a condition of approval of development plan review.

    • G. Residential uses. Single-household and two-household detached structures having direct lot frontage on Kingstown Road, Saugatucket Road or Curtis Corner Road within the Kingstown Road Special Management District shall be subject to development plan review, and shall also conform to the following standards:

      • 1. Common driveways shall be employed for adjacent lots wherever possible;

      • 2. A landscaped street yard shall be required;

      • 3. Any garages shall have doors facing to the side or rear of the house and away from the roads listed above;

      • 4. Any off-street parking facility located on the side of the house or in any side yard shall be screened from the roads listed above.

    • H. Drive-through-windows. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 220, no drive-through window service of any kind accessed by motor vehicles for any use shall be permitted within the Kingstown Road Special Management District.

    • I. Maximum building size. Within the Kingstown Road Special Management District, no structure containing any use shall exceed seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet of gross leasable floor area (GLFA). The GLFA of a shopping center shall not exceed ten thousand (10,000) square feet. No single use within a shopping center, however, shall exceed seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet GLFA.

    • J. Driveway openings. The width of driveway openings (curb cuts) on Kingstown Road shall be no more than twenty-four (24) feet for any use, other than Automotive or Gasoline Service Stations (use code 45) and Public Safety Facilities (use code 25.2).

    • K. Prohibited uses. Any use in Use Code Category 10 - Marijuana-Related Uses shall be prohibited within the Kingstown Road Special Management District.

(Ord. of 5- 8-17)