20.165 An Ordinance Relative to Two-Family By Right - Amendment to URB-URC Tables of UseCity of Northampton
MASSACHUSETTS
In the Year Two Thousand Twenty
Upon the Recommendation of Mayor David J. Narkewicz and Planning & Sustainability
20.165 An Ordinance Relative to Two-Family By Right - Amendment to URB-URC Tables of Use
An Ordinance of the City of Northampton, Massachusetts, providing that the Code of Ordinances, City of Northampton,
Massachusetts, be amended to allow two-family homes/lots by-right in most of the residential districts within the City.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Northampton, in City Council assembled, as follows:
Amend 350 Attachment 7, 8 for URB and URC tables with additions and strikethroughs follows, with no other changes to
those attachments:
FOR URB, URC
Lot Dimension
Requirements
Layout Setbacks for all uses. See additional form/layout requirements for two-family
below in “Uses Allowed by Right”
Lot Size
Single or Two family: 3,750
ft2
3+ units: 2,500 ft2 minimum
(min) per unit
Frontage/Width = 50’ Min.
Depth = 75’ Min.
Detached accessory
structure/garage/storage =
10’ behind front of principal
structure , 4’ (side and rear
lot line)
Design Standards Illustrated
Planning Board may waive, by site plan approval elements 2, 3, 4 below if it can be shown that a different design meets a pedestrian-
scale design that encourages public/private transition and interface (e.g. similar elements facing internal courtyards or private streets)
1. If aFor attached garages/
or other parking structures
that face the street, is
attached, it must be set
a) The front face of the
garage must be stepped
back 120’ from the
house façade; and
b) Tthe garage/structure
shall comprise no more
than 30% of the front
facade of the primary
structure, unless the
garage is stepped back
from the façade by
20’(A).
DELETE:
Two-Family By- Right
Ordinances 3 of 10
The criteria above does not
apply to residential
structures that are either
behind another principal
structure which is along the
street front or if the
structure is setback 40’ or
more from the front lot line.
c) The sSide setback may
be 10’ for the garage
only when not used as
workshop/storageliving
area etc.
See additional specific
criteria for 2-family
homes
ADD:
USES ALLOWED
Uses Allowed By Right:
Two – family less than 3,400 sf total of new construction
Attached(to a single family) accessory dwelling unit not to exceed 900 F 2 Gross Living Area. See 350-10.10. Same setback as for
principal structures.
Site Plan Approval required for the following:
Any Construction (other than for a single family home or two-family less than 3,400 sf) greater than 2,000 ft2
Two single-family dwellings per lot
Two-family, greater than 3,400 sf total of new construction
Special Permit Approval required for the following uses by Planning Board unless otherwise noted:
Detached Accessory Dwelling Unit see 10.10—Zoning Board of Appeals Special Permit