CHAPTER III— USE DISTRICTS 



The Districting resolution herewith submitted, together with the accom- 

 panying use district maps, provide for four classes of use districts: (1) 

 residence, (2) business, (3) unrestricted, (4) undetermined. The proposed 

 regulations apply only to future buildings and do not interfere with any 

 existing structure or occupancy. 



In a residence district all kinds of business and industry are excluded. 

 Dwellings, private clubs and most institutional buildings are permitted. 

 The term " dwelling " includes an apartment house, tenement house, 

 boarding house, or a hotel having thirty or more sleeping rooms. The usual 

 accessory buildings, such as private garages, are permitted but they must be 

 located on the same plot with the building to which they serve as accessory. 

 A private garage for more than five motor vehicles would, however, be 

 excluded. A private club that has as its chief activity a service customarily 

 carried on as a business, such as a garage, would be excluded. While the 

 regulations are not intended to interfere with a doctor or dentist who prac- 

 tices his profession in the usual inconspicuous way in his private dwelling, 

 they would exclude any business such as a store in connection with a tene- 

 ment, club or hotel. It is provided, however, that the superintendent of 

 buildings 1 may, after notice and hearing and with appropriate- conditions 

 and safeguards, permit in a residence district any building or use in keeping 

 with its use for residence purposes. 



In a business district, residence and business uses are permitted but 

 industrial uses are either prohibited entirely or limited in the percentage of 

 floor space they may occupy. A list of specified industries and uses of a 

 clearly objectionable character are entirely excluded, as are also all other 

 uses that are noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of noise, odor, 

 dust, smoke or gas. No building may be used for factory purposes in excess 

 of 25 per cent, of the total floor space of the building, but a space at least 

 equal to the ground area of the building or lot may be so used. The term 

 " factory " is defined as a building or portion of a building in which six or 

 more persons are employed in any process or part of a process of trans- 

 forming or converting raw material, partly wrought material or imperfect 

 material into forms suitable for use. 2 This limited provision for factory 

 use in a business district is appropriate both on account of the considerable 

 percentage of factory use required in connection with the retail trades and 

 on account of the numerous customary small trades and factory uses that 

 are necessary or desirable for the convenience of the neighborhood and, if 

 limited in size, are not objectionable from the point of view either of the 

 business use of the street or of the residential use of the adjacent areas. 



A garage for five or more motor vehicles 3 will be excluded from a busi- 

 ness district except that with the approval of the building superintendent 1 



'This discretion vested in Board of Appeals in Resolution adopted July 25, 1916. 



1 Definition of " factory " omitted in Resolution adopted July 25, 1916. 



* Changed to " more than five motor vehicles " in Resolution adopted July 25, 1916. 



