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ARTICLE 4. VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT (VR) 4.1. Purposes. The Town shall have a Village Residential District as shown on the OFFICIAL ZONING MAP. The purposes of the Village Residential District are to preserve and enhance the established development pattern and traditional neighborhoods near Merrimac Square, to promote a range of housing choices, and to provide opportunities for community investment in areas supported by adequate infrastructure and services. In the Village 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. 4.2. Permitted Uses and Structures. 4.2.1. SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLING. 4.2.2. TWO-FAMILY DWELLING. 4.2.3. Home professional office. 4.2.4. Home personal service. 4.2.5. Home business workshop. 4.2.6. One Accessory Dwelling unit either attached to a 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 [Type here] -21- one parking space for the accessory dwelling. 4.2.7. AGRICULTURE or horticulture, as defined by G.L. 128, Section 1A, on any parcel of more than five acres. 4.2.8. 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. 4.2.9. ACCESSORY USES customarily incidental to any use permitted herein. 4.2.10. A MOBILE HOME park in existence prior to the effective date of this Bylaw. 4.2.11. Rooftop residential solar installation 4.3. Permitted Uses Subject to SITE PLAN REVIEW. 4.3.1. Infill residential uses, subject to “Regulations for Infill Residential Uses” at