Table of Use and Dim Regs GIZONING
350 Attachment 15
City of Northampton
Table of Use and Dimensional Regulations
GI Industrial District
Description:Example Structures
Primarily manu-
facturing, back office,
research and develop-
ment, non-retail-
oriented business;
warehousing
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 See also §§ 350-8.2 through 350- 8.11 for location, construction, and layout requirements for
parking lots and bicycle storage.
350 Attachment 15:1 01 - 01 - 2019
NORTHAMPTON CODE
GI 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
Industrial warehousing not associated with or accessory to another use up to a maximum of 25,000
square feet (no retail storage allowed)
Non-medical office/corporate back office , not including banks and law offices, or real estate offices
Motor freight terminal/warehousing associated with adjacent commercial/industrial uses
Artist’s space (nonresidential)
Single or multimodal passenger terminal, yards and rail freight service
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%
Private bridge, tunnel
Rooftop solar hot water and photovoltaic
Solar photovoltaic of any size, ground-mounted over any legal parking lot or driveway
Marijuana production
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 creation or 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)
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
350 Attachment 15:2 01 - 01 - 2019
ZONING
4.Setbacks:
Front: 20 feet
Side: 15 feet
Rear: 20 feet
5.Maximum height: 45 feet
6.Open space: 85%
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). PV installations must be maintained in good condition with painting, structural repairs
and security maintained and facilities no longer being used dismantled within 90 days.
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)
Commercial motor vehicle maintenance, garaging and parking facilities (Outside parking shall be
screened from public view.)
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)/ health athletic club, indoor recreation, community center
Heavy public use. See § 350-10.7. City Council Special Permit
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
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, heliport
Processing and treating of raw materials, including operations appurtenant to the taking, such as
grading, drying, sorting, crushing, grinding and milling operations
Removal of sand, gravel, quarry, or other raw material. See § 350-10.3.
Storage of a fluid other than water (as principal use)
350 Attachment 15:3 01 - 01 - 2019