17 Orch St Merrimac, MA 01860-1811

ARTICLE 5. SUBURBAN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT (SR) 5.1. Purposes. The Town shall have a designated Suburban Residential District as shown on the OFFICIAL ZONING MAP. The purpose of the Suburban Residential District is to recognize and reinforce the provision of established single-family neighborhoods near schools, the Town center, Route 110 and other appropriate locations. In the Suburban Residential District, no STRUCTURE shall be erected or altered and no building, STRUCTURE, premises or land shall be used for any purpose or in any manner other than as permitted as follows. 5.2. Permitted Uses and Structures. 5.2.1. SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING. 5.2.2. Home professional office. 5.2.3. Home personal service. 5.2.4. AGRICULTURE, as defined by G.L. 128, Section 1A, on any parcel of more than five acres of land. 5.2.5. AGRICULTURE and horticulture on parcels of five acres or less so long as such use is not noxious, injurious or offensive to the neighborhood. 5.2.6. Real estate SIGNS not over six square feet in area advertising only the sale or rental of the premises on which they are located. Professional announcement SIGNS, farm produce SIGNS, lodging, boarding and tourist SIGNS, having an area of not more than four square feet, provided that there is only one such SIGN for each household so engaged. Illuminated SIGNS shall be non-flashing. 5.2.7. ACCESSORY USES customarily incidental to any use permitted herein. 5.2.8. Rooftop residential solar installations. 5.2.9. One accessory dwelling unit in a Principal Dwelling either attached to the Principal Dwelling or detached on a lot provided that the accessory dwelling unit contains no more than 900 square feet of total floor area or not more than 1⁄2 the square gross floor area of the principal dwelling whichever is less and the LOT contains sufficient area to accommodate parking for the occupants of the Principal Dwelling in accordance with the requirements of the bylaw and one parking space for the accessory dwelling unit. 5.3. Permitted Uses Subject to SITE PLAN REVIEW. 5.3.1. Private boat, canoe or motor boathouses. 5.3.2. Private bathhouses. [Type here] -33- 5.3.3. Public recreational uses. 5.3.4. Churches and other places of worship, parish houses. 5.3.5. FARM stands. 5.3.6. CHILD CARE or day center center. 5.3.7. Public schools, public libraries and museums, and private schools, including preschools and colleges. 5.3.8.