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DRAFT PROPOSED REVISIONS – OCTOBER 2011 b. Specific Requirements. Subject to the stipulations, guiding principles and conditions contained in this section, the Planning Board shall have the power to grant conditional uses authorized by the Table of District Regulations, in specified districts, as follows: 1. In districts where only residential uses are authorized except as noted. (a) Farm Produce Stand. In an R-1, R-2, R-3 or R-3AH District, a farm produce stand for the sale of produce grown on the premises only, provided that the location of such use is deemed by the Planning Board to be appropriate to the immediate neighborhood, and subject to such conditions and safeguards as the Board may impose, with respect to, among other matters, minimizing traffic congestion, and adequate off-street parking areas of patrons; and further provided that no such facilities shall serve patrons whose vehicles are standing upon the street. Comment [PG73]: no longer necessary (a) Public Utility Buildings and Structures/Telephone Exchanges. (1) The minimum front yard shall be fifty (50) feet. (2) The minimum side yards shall be twenty five (25) feet and twenty five (25) feet. (3) The minimum rear yard shall be fifty (50) feet. (4) There shall be a twenty five (25) foot wide buffer adjacent to all residential property lines, within the required setback, which shall consist of natural vegetation and, if required by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment, new vegetation to supplement the existing vegetation. (5) All structures shall be designed to be complementary to, or sufficiently screened from, a residential neighborhood. (b) Additional Off-Street Parking. In R-5, R-6, R-T, R-G and R-M Districts, additional off-street parking shall be permitted upon approval of the same as a conditional use by the Planning Board. Such conditional use shall have all existing front, rear and side yard requirements of the district in which it is located applied to it. All

by the Planning Board. Such conditional use shall have all existing front, rear and side yard requirements of the district in which it is located applied to it. All abutting residential property shall be screened by a fence of solid wood or masonry, or a combination thereof, and backed with maintained evergreen planting. The front yards shall be screened with evergreen plantings or hedges. Parking shall be prohibited within all required front, rear and side yard setbacks. (c) Private Club. In any residential district, a club for social, athletic or military purposes, which is not conducted as a business, and is either nonprofit or a public facility, provided that the nature of such club shall not be such as is liable to create a nuisance and subject to such conditions and safeguards as the Planning Board may impose with respect to, among other matters, the location and adequacy of entrances, exits and parking areas, which Comment [PG74]: vague (1) Parking lot entrances and exists shall be clearly visible from the public street and shall not be located within seventy-five (75) feet of a street intersection. (2) There shall be a twenty five (25) foot wide buffer adjacent to all residential property lines, within the required setback, which shall consist of natural vegetation and, if required by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment, new vegetation to supplement the existing vegetation. (3) All structures shall be designed to be complementary to a residential neighborhood. (4) A landscape plan, which provides substantial buffering of the parking area, must be approved by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment and kept on 111