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2. The taking of borders or the leasing of rooms by a resident family, provided there is no display visible from the street nor signboard used to advertise such use, except an announcement sign having an area of not more than one hun- dred forty-four (144) square inches. Any illumination provided for the above mentioned sign shall be steady, and not inter- mittent while in use.
3. Churches, schools, public libraries, public museums, parish houses, hospitals, philanthropic institutions.
4. Private clubs not conducted as a business.
5. Public parks, playgrounds, municipal recreation build- ings, water towers and reservoirs.
6. Farms, stock farms, greenhouses, nurseries and truck gardens.
7. Real estate signs of not over twelve square feet in area, advertising the sale or rental of only the premises on which they are located, and bulletin boards accessory to uses specified in 3 and 5 of this section.
8. The office or studio of a physician or surgeon, dentist artist, musician, lawyer, architect, teacher or other like pro- fessional person residing on the premises, provided that there is no display visible from the street nor advertising excepting a professional name plate not larger than one hundred forty- four (144) square inches.
9. Telephone exchanges, transmission power lines and static transformer stations; provided there is no service or storage yards in conjunction therewith, and further provide that such use may be permitted only after public hearing by the Board of Appeals and its approval thereof.
10. Such accessory uses as are customary incident to any of the above uses and specifically including temporary stands for the sale of products raised cr produced on the premises. Such temporary stands shall be permitted for a period not to exceed six months in any one year. Permanent stands for the sale of products raised or produced on the premises may be permitted subject, however, tl the requirements of Sections 17 and 19 of these by-laws and after action by the Board of Appeals in accordance with Section 20 herecf.
SECTION 5
GENERAL OR CLASS B RESIDENCE DISTRICTS
All buildings and uses permitted under Section 4 and the following :
1. Semi-detached and two-family dwellings.
2. Hotels and boarding houses.
3. Fire and police stations.
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SECTION 6. BUSINESS DISTRICTS
All buildings and uses permitted under Sections 4 and 5 and the following:
1. Apartment houses.
2. Any structure, building, or establishment, the major object of which shall be to store and display goods for sale or retail on the premises or to furnish a service for residents of the locality, provided that mechanical power used in such structure does not exceed five rated horse power in the aggregate or where steam pressure not exceeding fifteen (15) pounds' gauge pressure is produced.
3. No internal combustion engine shall be used unless objectionable vibration be eliminated and it be equipped and operated with an effective muffler or silencer so as to eliminate objectionable and unnecessary ncise. No amusement park or circus shall be located within any Business District.
4. A public garage shall be permitted with no restriction as to the number of cars stored, provided that no entrance driveway shall have less than ten (1C) feet of clear width, and no mechanical power exceeding five rated horse power shall be used on the premises, except for charging batteries or for lifts, and no automobile repair work, except emergency work, shall be done out of doors, and provided that there shall be no openings, except fixed wire glass sashes in non-combustible frames, in the side or rear walls or roof within fifteen (15) feet of any lot line, except the street lines.
SECTION 7. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
All buildings and uses permitted under Sections 4, 5 and 6, and subject to permit by the Board of Appeals after public hearing, the following:
1. Manufacturing, employing unobjectionable motive power, utilizing hand labor or quiet machinery and processes, free from neighborhood disturbing oders cr agencies.
2. No use shall be permitted which would be offensive because of injurious or obnoxious noise, vibration, smoke, gas, fumes, odors, dust or other objectionable features, or because hazardous to the community on account of fire or explosion or any other cause, or any use which might prove injurious to the safety or welfare of the neighborhood into which it proposes to go, and destructive cf property values, because of any ex- cessive nuisance qualities.
HEIGHT REGULATIONS
SECTION 8. RESIDENCE DISTRICTS
1. The limit of height in all residence districts shall be two and one-half stories, not to exceed thirty-five (35) feet,
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except that school and municipal buildings may contain three full stories and may be erected as high as forty-five (45) feet.
2. The limitations of height in feet shall not apply to chimneys, ventilators, skylights, tanks, bulkheads, penthouses, and other accessory features usually carried above roofs, nor to towers or spires of churches and other buildings, if such features are in no way used for living purposes.
SECTION 9. BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
1. The limit of height in business districts shall be two stories, and not to exceed thirty-two (32) feet.
2. The limit in height in industrial districts shall be three stories.
3. The limitation of height shall not apply to such features as are mentioned in (2) of Section 8, nor to water tanks or scenery lofts which shall be at every point fifty (50) feet from the center line of any street and shall not cover more than twenty-five per cent of the area of the building.
SECTION 10. AREA REGULATIONS
In residence districts, as provided in Sections 4 and 6, land laid out after the adoption of this by-law shall provide for each family the following minimum lot sizes:
Res. Al Districts - frontage on the highway at least 100 ft. and 20,000 sq. ft. minimum area.
Res. A2 Districts - frontage on the highway at least 70 ft. and 8,750 sq. ft. minimum area.
Res. A3 Districts - frontage on the highway at least 60 ft. and 6,000 sq. ft. minimum area.
General or Class B Res. Districts - frontage on the high- way at least 50 ft. and 5,000 sq. ft. minimum area.
No lot, or the buildings thereon, as provided in this or any other section, shall be changed in size so as to violate the pro- visions hereof.
SECTION 11. AREA OF STRUCTURE OCCUPANCY
The main structure of the premises of residential districts shall occupy thereon an habitable area of not less than that fixed as a minimum in the following schedule and shall in no case exceed twenty-five per cent of the lot area in residences A1, A2, and A3 Districts:
Res. Al Districts - one story 1,100 sq. ft., more than one story, 1600 sq. ft.
Res. A2 Districts - one story 850 sq. ft., more than one story, 1,200 sq. ft.
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Res. A3 Districts - one story 640 sq. ft., more than one story 950 sq. ft.
General or Class B Res. Districts - not less than 640 sq. ft. of ground area.
SECTION 12. YARDS FRONT YARDS
In residence districts and business districts, as indicated on the map, there shall be provided in front of every building a front yard having a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in clear depth between the building and the lines of the way or ways on which the building lots abuts, and no new building or structure shall be constructed and no building or structure shall be moved, altered, reconstructed or enlarged so that a front yard less in clear depth shall result. Projecting eaves and uncovered steps shall not be considered as coming within the meaning of this section. Where to an extent of fifty per cent of the frontage space between two intersecting streets, or in a space of four hundred (400) feet on one side of a street front, yards of greater depth than twenty-five (25) feet have been established, or by common agreement, or by private building restrictions, or where through common usage they exist, such front yards shall, notwithstanding any other pro- vision of this by-law, be and remain the front yard spaces for such street or portion of street. Where in a similar space there is a variety in depth, all being above twenty-five (25) feet, the minimum of such variety in depth shall remain the required front yard depth.
Front yards for new buildings nct otherwise controlled shall conform in minimum depth to the following schedule:
Res. Al Districts - 40 feet.
Res. A2 Districts - 35 feet.
Res. A3 Districts - 25 feet.
General or Class B Res. Districts - 25 feet.
BACK YARDS
Behind every dwelling there shall be provided a back yard, between the rear line of the house and the rear lot line, not less than (30) feet in depth and in no instance less in depth than one-half the height of the building. Back yards may contain accessory buildings not over one story high and covering not over thirty per cent of the area of the back yard. Accessory buildings shall be located not nearer than three (3) feet to the rear lot lines.
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SIDE YARDS
1. At each side of every dwelling there shall be a side yard between the side of the house and the side lot line. Side yards shall be clear at all points from the front to the rear lines of the house and shall conform in minimum width to the follow- ing schedule:
Res. Al Districts - not less than 15 feet.
Res. A2 Districts - not less than 10 feet.
Res. A3 Districts - not less than 8 feet.
General or Class B Res. Districts - not less than 8 feet.
2. No part of any unattached garage, stable or other accessory building situated within sixty-five (65) feet of any street line on which the adjoining lot faces, shall extend within ten (10) feet of any lot line, intersecting such street, which serves as a side lot line to any adjoining lot located in any resi- dence district, nor within fifteen (15) feet of any street line. Unattached accessory buildings not nearer than sixty-five feet to the street line may be placed within three (3) feet of the side lot line.
YARDS FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
Any use, not residential or accessory, permitted in a residential district shall observe all provisions of this by-law in regard to depth and width of yards as applied to dwellings.
SECTION 13. ACCESSORY USES
1. Accessory uses shall be on the same lot with the build- ing of the owner or lessee, and shall be such as do not alter the character of the premises on which they are located or impair the neighborhood.
2. Garage space for not more than three cars shall be permitted as an accessory use in residence districts.
3. Where manufacturing of any kind is allowed as an accessory use, it shall be restricted to such light manufacturing as is incidental to a permitted use and where the product is customarily sold on the premises by the producer to the con- sumer.
4. The use of a room or rooms in a dwelling as an office cr studio by a physician, dentist, lawyer, music teacher or other professional person resident in the house may be permitted as an accessory use.
5. Hotels, as distinct from apartment houses, where per- mitted under this by-law, shall contain no arrangements of any. description for private cooking or housekeeping.
6. The keeping of poultry and livestock is prohibited in districts where the subdivision plot is recorded in the county registry of deeds or where the plot of land has been divided into two or more building lots or is a part of a previous sub-
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division, except for a small flock of poultry for the use of the occupant only, confined in an enclosure nct less than forty (40) feet from any street line nor ten (10) feet from any lot line. Such enclosure shall not be within less than twenty-five (25) feet of any building used for human habitation and provided that said enclosure shall be limited to an area not exceeding one-twentieth of the area of the lot on which it is located, and provided that any building or structure used for the keeping of poultry shall be limited to one story in height. The use of such enclosures or building or structure for the keeping of poultry shall be accessory to a dwelling existing on the same lot, but these restrictions relating to the keeping of poultry or livestock shall not apply to lots or districts not so recorded or subdivided.
Nothing in the foregoing shall prohibit the owner and/or occupant of the premises in question, subject to permit by the Board of Appeals, after public hearing, from keeping for his own use not more than two horses, two cows and two pigs or other livestock provided that in no case shall the aggregate number of such animals kept on the premises exceed three and further subject to such sanitary regulations and requirements as may be determined or directed by the Board of Helath.
SECTION 14. NON-CONFORMING USES
1. No lot in any residence district shall have thereon more than one building or structure occupied as a dwelling.
2. Any building or part of a building which, at the time of the adoption of this by-law, is being put to a non-conforming use may continue to be used for the same purpose.
3. Wherever a non-conforming use has been changed to a more restricted use or to a conforming use, it shall not again be changed to a less restricted use.
4. In residence districts, when a non-conforming use has been discontinued for a period of six months or more, it shall not be re-established and future use shall be in conformity with this by-law.
5. Nothing in these by-laws shall prevent the recon- struction and resumption of use of any non-conforming building which may hereafter be accidentally or criminally damaged; provided the extent of damage be less than fifty per cent of such buildings, and provided that the reconstruction be effected within one year from the occurance of said damage.
SECTION 15. GENERAL PROVISIONS
1. In residence districts the removal for sale of sod, loam, clay, sand, gravel or quarried stone, except when inci- dental to and in connection with construction of a building for which a permit has been issued or except where it is to be used within the limits of the town, shall be deemed a non-con-
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forming use of land, and shall be permitted only if written per- mission of the Board of Appeals be obtained and under such conditions as the Board of Appeals may impose and make a part of the permit. The Board of Appeals shall in each in- stance impose such conditions as will protect the neighborhood and town against permanent and temporary hazards because of conditions which may be left after operations are completed or because of the methods of handling such material at the site or of transporting such materials through the town.
2. Corner Clearance: Between the lines of streets inter- secting at an angle oi not less than one hundred and thirty-five (135) degrees and a line joining points on such lines twenty-five (25) feet distant from that point of intersection, no building or structure may be erected and no vegetation may be maintained between a height of three (3) feet and a height of eight (8) feet above the plane through their average grades.
3. Location of Automobile Services: No public garage, automobile repair shop, greasing station, storage battery service station, or gasoline filling station, or any of their appurtenances or accessory uses, shall hereafter be placed within fifty (50) feet of any residence district. No driveway to such premises shall be in any part within fifty (50) feet of any residence district. No such premises shall have any drive- way entrance or exit for motor vehicles within three hundred (300) feet of the property used by any public or private school, public library, church, playground or institution for the sick or dependent, or for children under sixteen years of age. Every structure shall hereafter be located fifteen (15) feet inside the street or setback line and no filling shall be done except into cars standing on the property of the filling station.
SECTION 16. VARIATIONS
In general this by-law is supplementary to other laws and by-laws affecting the use, height and area of buildings and premises. Where this by-law imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or premises than is imposed by existing provisions of law or by-laws, the provisions of this by-law shall control.
SECTION 17. PLANS
No permanent building or structure shall be erected with- out a building permit and applications for building permits shall be accompanied by a plan of the lot in duplicate, drawn to scale, showing the actual dimensions of the lot and the exact location and size of the building or buildings already upon the lot, if any, and of the building or buildings to be erected, together with streets and alleys on and adjacent to the lot. Accompanying such application shall be duplicate plans of the proposed structure or structures in such detail as
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will permit the Building Inspector to determine if such structure or structures conform to the provisions of Section 3 of these by-laws. A record of such applications and the plat and plans herein referred to and action taken thereon shall be kept on file in the Town Office.
SECTION 18. ENFORCEMENT
This by-law shall be administered by the Building In- specter who shall be appointed annually by the Selectmen. He shall approve no applications of any kind, plans and speci- fications and intended use for which are not in all respects in conformity with this by-Jaw.
SECTION 19. OCCUPANCY PERMIT
No building erected, altered or in any way changed as to construction or use under a permit or ctherwise, shall be occu- pied or used withcut an occupancy permit signed by the Build- ing Inspector, which permit shall not be issued ui til the build- ing and its uses and accesscry uses comply in all respects with this by-law.
SECTION 20. BOARD OF APPEALS
1. The selectmen shall, within thirty (30) days after the adoption of this by-law and thereafter as terms expire or vacancies occur, make appointments to a Board of Appeals as provided in Section 30 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended, having all the powers and duties as provided in said section.
2. Said Board shall consist of three (3) members appoint- ed for terms of such length and so arranged that the term of one appointee shall expire each year. There shall also be appointed one associate member for a term of three yiars, so that in case of a vacancy, inability to act, or interest cn the part of a member of said Board, his place may be taken tem- porarily by the associate member. Said Board shall elect annually a Chairman from its own members.
3. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Building Inspector to issue a permit or license on the grounds of non- compliance with this by-law or any person aggrieved by a decision of the Building Inspector may appeal to the Board of Appeals as provided in Chapter 40 of the General Laws and all amendments thereto.
SECTION 21.
REPETITIVE PETITIONS BEFORE TOWN MEETINGS
No proposed by-law making a change in this zoning by-law which has been unfavorably acted upon by the Town Meeting
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shall be considered in its merits by the Town Meeting within two (2) years after the date of such unfavorable action, unless adoption of such proposed by-law is recommended in the final report of the Planning Board, as required by Section 27, Chap- ter 40 of the General Laws, as amended.
SECTION 22. REPETITIVE PETITIONS BEFORE BOARD OF APPEALS
No appeal cr petition under Paragraph 3, Section 30, Chapter 40 of the General Laws as amended for a variance from the terms of this by-law with respect to a particular parcel of land, and no application under Section 30 for a special excep- tion to the terms of this by-law, which has been unfavorably acted upon by the Board of Appeals shall be considered on its merits by said Board within two (2) years after the date of such unfavorable action except with the consent of all the members of the Planning Board.
SECTION 23. AMENDMENTS
The Planning Board upon its own initiative may, and upon petition shall, hold public hearings, fourteen (14) days published notice of which shall be given, for the consideration of any amendments to the zoning map or to this by-law, and report to a regular or special Town Meeting its recommenda- tions as to what action should be taken. No hearing shall be held or appeals considered for any variation or change of dis- trict boundaries ecxept as provided in Section 30, Chapter 40 of the General Laws and in this Section.
SECTION 24. VALIDITY
The invalidity of any section or provision of the by-law shall not invalidate any other section or provision thereof.
SECTION 25. REPEAL
Any existing by-laws or any parts thereof inconsistent with this by-law are hereby repealed.
SECTION 26. WHEN EFFECTIVE
This by-law shall take effect when passed by the Town Meeting and upon its approval by the Attorney General.
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Al DISTRICTS Street Frontage 100'
40'
130'
Depth 200'
25!
70'
30'
Habitable area of structure Maximum: 5000 sq. ft. Minimum - 1 story: 1100 sq. ft. 2 story: 1600 sq. ft.
A2 DISTRICTB Street Frontage 70'
35'
60'
50°
Depth 125'
. 30'
Habitable area of structure Maximum: 2188 sq. ft. Minimum - 1 story: 850 sq. ft. 2 story: 1200 sq. ft.
A3 DISTRICTS Street Frontage 60'
3.25'
45'
Depth 100'
30'
Habitable area of structure Maximum: 1500 sq. ft. Minimum - 1 story: 640 sq. ft. 2 story: 950 sq. ft.
GENERAL OR CLASS B DISTRICTS Street Frontage 50'
25'
45'
Depth 100'
30'
Habitable area of structure Maximum: 1530 sq. ft. Minimum: Structure shall cover not less than 640 sq. ft. of ground area regardless of cumcer of stories
Shaded areas indicate maximum limits beyond which no part of the structure may project.
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Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of the Town of Wilbraham:
It is with real pleasure that I submit to you my third annual report as superintendent of schools in the town of Wilbraham. It is necessary that this report be somewhat abbreviated this year because of the paper shortage and be- cause the printer is asking for copy much earlier than usual, due to the shortage of labor.
Changes in the Teaching Staff
During the past year one change in the teaching staff at North Wilbraham school was necessitated by the resignation of Miss Patricia Mitchell who, after two years of very success- ful teaching, was elected to teach in the Bowles School, Spring- field. To fill the vacancy Miss Marie A. Parent of Westfield was elected. Miss Parent is a graduate of the State Teachers College, Westfield, holds the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, and had one year of teaching experience prior to coming here.
Mrs. Pearl Chouffet, after an extended, successful term of substituting, was elected to teach the subjects which Mrs. Simmington formerly taught. Mrs. Chouffet could not begin her work in September because of a serious operation, and Mrs. Kerr of East Longmeadow has been substituting for her. It is expected that Mrs. Chouffet will return after the first of the year.
It was with extreme regret that the school committee accepted the resignation of Mrs. Agnes Simmington as principal of The Pines school. She had served many years, most effi- ciently and conscientiously, and all pupils and teachers miss her greatly. Miss Marion E. Kelley who was appointed acting-principal during Mrs. Simmington's leave of absence was appointed principal recently.
Miss Christine E. Pike, teacher in grades 1 and 2 at the Springfield Street school, was elected in December to a position in a Springfield elementary school. Taking her place is Mrs. Julia F. Lofquist of Springfield, a graduate of Bridgewater Normal School, who has had considerable experience teaching in Connecticut.
The War and Our Schools
The schools have continued to do their bit along many lines necessitated by the war's demands. Salvage drives have found pupils and teachers anxious to do their utmost. Con- tributions of tin cans, newspapers and silk stockings have been generous. The amount of the purchases of War Bonds and Stamps has been astounding. The total sales through the
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schools of Wilbraham for the year reached the amazing figure of $5,334.73. Any school in which ninety per cent or more of the enrolment purchase one or more War Stamps per month is entitled to fly the Minute Man Flag. This means that if ninety out of each hundred pupils in a school buy one ten cent War Stamp each month the fiag with the Concord Minute Man on it will float in the breeze along with the flag of our United States at that school. About 800 schools in the state are flying these flags right now.
Obeying the emergency order of Governor Leverett Sal- tonstall transmitted through the Commissioner of Education to all superintendents of schools, the issuing of Ration Books Nos. 2 and 4 was handled at the schoolhouses by the principals, teachers and invited assistants. While it was deplorable that so much time for this purpose had to be taken from the school calendar, we were reminded that there was no other organiza- tion which could so efficiently carry on the work. Many applicants were visiting their schoolhouses for the first time since their school days and it was quite evident that they were enjoying the experience. We have been told that this latest ration book has been planned to last two years. It is to be hoped that this information is correct, for the disturbances and disruptions of the regularly planned work of the schocl have proved a serious educational disadvantage.
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