4.7.1 Purpose: The purpose of the Highway Business District is to provide areas for shopping centers, businesses and services which are highway oriented and/or serve a transient population.
4.7.2 Uses Permitted with Site Plan Approval by the Board of Selectmen:
4.7.2.1 Office, bank or financial institution.
4.7.2.2 Retail store or service establishment.
4.7.2.3 Salesrooms for automobiles, bicycles, boats, farm implements and similar equipment.
4.7.2.4 Building materials salesrooms.
4.7.2.5 Photographic studios, medical and dental offices and laboratories and clinics. (10_29_98, Art. 14)
4.7.2.6 Accessory uses within a principal structure.
4.7.2.7 Restaurant excluding those permitted in 4.7.3.6.
4.7.3 Uses Permitted on a Special Permit Granted by the Planning Board and Site Plan Approval by the Board of Selectmen: (10-21-85; 5-4-87, Art. 15)
4.7.3.1 Any retail establishment or establishments with a combined gross floor area fifty thousand (50,000) square feet or more. (10-21-85, Art. 15; 5_8_89, Art. 19)
4.7.3.2 Hotels.
4.7.3.3 Indoor recreation or amusements, including entertainment such as theaters, provided that:
(a) Noise is confined to the building.
(b) Such building is located at least seventy_five (75) feet from structures used or zoned for residential purposes.
4.7.3.4 Funeral homes, chapels, mortuaries, and crematoriums.
4.7.3.5 Commercial greenhouses, nurseries, and kennels, provided that:
(a) All displays are set back at least thirty (30) feet from the street right_of_way.
(b) The paved area shall be screened in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.7.3.7 (e) below.
4.7.3.6 Drive_in, drive_through or fast food restaurants, and other drive_in retail establishments provided that:
(a) No vehicles waiting service park or stand on a public way.
(b) The paved area shall be screened in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.7.3.7 (e) below.
4.7.3.7 Retail business and service establishments for the retail distribution of petroleum products, not including wholesale fuel storage and distribution areas, subject to the following:
(a) Repairs shall be limited to minor repairs and adjustments unless conducted within a building.
(b) There shall be no storage of motor vehicles, appliances and equipment on the premises other than those in process of repair or awaiting delivery, or required in the operation of the service station, garage or repair shop.
(c) The area used to service, repair or store vehicles shall be paved.
(d) There shall be an area at least fifteen (15) feet deep between the street line and the paved area which shall be separated from the street by a curb and which shall be seeded and landscaped except at an entrance and exit which shall be at least twenty (20) feet wide and at least fifty (50) feet apart, and further provided that there shall be only one (1)~entrance and one (1) exit for each one hundred and fifty (150) feet of street frontage.
(e) The paved area shall be screened from all adjacent lots, whether on the side or rear, by a strip fifteen (15) feet wide, densely planted with shrubs or trees, which are at least three (3) feet high at the time of planting and are of a type which may be expected to form a year_ round dense screen at least five (5) feet high within three (3) years. This screening should not obstruct a view of on_coming traffic when entering or exiting the property.
4.7.3.8 Places of amusement or entertainment, including skating rinks; dance halls; restaurants or other establishments with live entertainment; theaters.
4.7.3.9 Deleted (12-2-96). See Section 4.14.4.2.
Editor’s note—Amendment of Sec.~4.7.3 on 5-4-87 added the requirement of site plan approval to the existing special permit requirement.
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