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City of Northampton
Table of Use and Dimensional Regulations
OI Office Industrial District
Description:Example Structures
Primarily back office,
manufacturing,
research and
development, non-
retail-oriented business.
Flexible reuse of
historic mill buildings.
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Lot Dimension
Requirements Layout/Setbacks for All Uses
Lot Size: 0 feet
Frontage/Width/Depth:
0 feet
Setbacks
Front = 20 feet min.
Side = 15 feet min.
Rear= 20 feet min.
Max. Height = 45 feet
Open Space = 20%
Site/Parking Lot
Landscaping See § 350-6.5 and § 350-8.9 for additional landscaping, parking lot buffers to residential.
Minimum parking
For buildings built prior to 1939, no additional parking required for the reuse of buildings.
Parking calculated only for expansion of footprint. Other buildings, in accordance with the
Table in § 350-8.2, based on use. See also §§ 350-8.2 through 350- 8.11 for location,
construction, and layout, requirements for parking lots and bicycle storage.
1 space per 1,000 square feet gross living area (round up). No more than 2 spaces required per
unit.
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OI USES ALLOWED
Uses Allowed By Right:
All manufacturing
Wholesale trade and distribution
Non-retail sales and supply of goods/services
Accessory uses to allowed uses: eating facilities, and retail sales, when not more than 10%
of the gross floor area is devoted to sales and sales are limited to goods produced or
distributed by the principal use
Research and development
Trades
Any residential use - only above the first floor
Within buildings built prior to 1939: restaurants, entertainment, commercial recreation,
health/athletic club, retail, banking, repair services, community center
Medical office allowed only in:
1.Buildings with medical use in existence as of January 1, 2010; or
2.Up to 50% of any building built prior to 1939
Any other office, except banks
Artist’s space
Mixed residential/work space, with all residential use above the first floor
Single or multimodal passenger terminal, yards and rail freight service
Marijuana manufacturing. All facilities must incorporate both high-efficiency particulate air
handlers with activated carbon filters and exhaust systems designed with vents that force
the air at least 10 feet above the roofline of the building. Alternatively, other technology
may be used upon finding by the Planning Board through site plan approval process that
such other technology will, to the extent practicable, limit odors from marijuana in any
place where the public or clients are present.
Temporary event
Facilities for essential services, municipal facility
Educational, religious use, day care, school-aged child-care program (MGL c. 28A, § 9),
family day care (with registration with Building Commissioner), historical association, and
nonprofit museum (residence of a caretaker above first floor only), agricultural uses
Land and/or work within WSP-O:
1.Lot size: 40,000 square feet
2.Frontage/Width: 120 feet
3.Depth: 140 feet
4.Setbacks:
Front: 20 feet
Side: 15 feet
Rear: 20 feet
5.Maximum height: 45 feet
6.Open space: 85%
Rooftop solar hot water and photovoltaic
Solar photovoltaic of any size, ground-mounted, over any legal parking lot or driveway
Accessory solar photovoltaic ground-mounted on a parcel with any building or use,
provided that the PV is sized to generate no more than 200% of the annual projected
electric use of the non-PV building or use.
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Short-term rentals. Such rentals must be registered with the City and are only valid for the
year in which registration is completed and expire December 31 each year.
Site Plan Approval required for the following:
Contractor’s yard, open storage of raw materials, finished goods, or construction equipment
and structures for storing such equipment, provided that outside storage areas shall be
screened from outside view
Commercial or public parking lot or structure
Parking lot expansion of more than 6 spaces, passenger terminal
Telecommunication antennas on existing towers or other structures which do not require
the construction of a new tower (in accordance with § 350-10.9)
Private bridge, tunnel
New commercial structures or substantial improvements in FP, meeting all requirements
under the State Building Code, Wetlands Protection Act, and City ordinances
1.Lot size: 40,000 square feet
2.Frontage/Width: 120 feet
3.Depth: 140 feet
4.Setbacks:
Front: 20 feet
Side: 15 feet
Rear: 20 feet
5.Maximum height: 45 feet
6.Open space: 85%
Reuse of an historic educational or religious building for any residential use on the ground
floor or any other commercial use not otherwise allowed in the district, provided that such
use is within the footprint of the existing building. The existing building may be expanded
to accommodate elevators and stairwells, provided that all historically contributing portions
of the building are retained and covered with an historic preservation restriction granted to
the City of Northampton in a form acceptable to the Planning Board, with input from the
Historical Commission, as preserving the key character-defining features visible from the
road (and not necessarily meeting federal or state preservation standards for the entire
building). Portions of the building that are not part of the original architecture of the
building and which do not contribute to the historical or architectural significance of the
building, as determined by the Planning Board, with input from the Historical Commission,
may be demolished.
Creation or expansion of 6 or more parking spaces
Parking requirement reduction. See § 350-8.10F.
Private utility, substation or district utility, small-scale hydroelectric generation or ground-
mounted PV array of any size, including accessory PV (buffers to residential districts
abutting site shall be incorporated)
Telecommunication antennas (cellular phone) located on existing telecommunications
towers or other structures which do not require the construction of a new tower (in
accordance with § 350-10.9)
Warehousing/Commercial storage as a principal use. New buildings must be thickly
screened from the road with vegetation.
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Special Permit Approval required for the following uses by Planning Board unless
otherwise noted:
New telecommunications structures/facilities (in accordance with §§ 350-2.1 and 350-
10.9)
Membership club (for-profit or nonprofit)
Heavy public use. See § 350-10.7. City Council Special Permit
Auto repair (no gas sales), junk cars, motor vehicle accessories, scrap metal, liquid
storage (other than water)
Access to parking over residential lot; see § 350-8
Bus passenger terminal and taxi facilities
Motor freight terminal/warehousing associated with adjacent commercial/industrial
uses
Commercial motor vehicle maintenance, garaging and parking facilities (Outside
parking shall be screened from public view.)
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