* Lot & Yard Measurement/Setback diagrams
 
Traffic Sensitive Districts
 

A. Traffic Sensitive Districts as shown on the Official Zoning Map are established for the following purposes:

1. To facilitate the movement of traffic along major roads in Middletown in a safe and orderly manner;

2. To reduce the number and increase the spacing of driveways which may disrupt traffic flow;

3. To reduce infringement on the rights of the public to travel roadways in a safe manner, while at the same time providing for adequate egress and egress to properties; and

4. To protect the public safety along major thoroughfares in the Town where accidents have frequently occurred.

 
B. In any Traffic Sensitive District, the minimum lot width/frontage per lot specified in Section 603 shall be 300 feet. All other provisions contained in Section 603 regarding District Dimensional Regulations and all other applicable provisions of this Ordinance shall be required for the corresponding zoning district to which the letter ³A² has been added.
 

C. On any lot existing on the effective date of this Ordinance (the ³original lot², the lot width/frontage may be reduced to the provisions of Section 603, provided:

1. Only one driveway or curb opening onto streets listed in Subsection E of this Section shall be created to serve the original lot; or

2. Future subdivisions or lots created from the original lot shall be served by a single common driveway or curb opening onto the streets listed in Subsection E below; or

3. A public street or street system approved by the Planning Board under the provisions of the Rules and Regulations Regarding the Subdivision of Land shall be created to serve all subsequent lots created from the original lot.

 
D. Common driveways, rights-of-way or other common means of access to adjacent streets listed in Subsection E below shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Board before any building permit shall be issued for lots created from the original lot.
 

E. The frontage/lot width requirements of this Section shall be applicable only to lots having frontage on the following streets:

• East Main Road (Route 138);

• West Main Road (Route 114);

• Valley Road (Route 214); and

• Aquidneck Avenue (Route 138A)

 
 
All Info per Article 6, Section 602-603 of Town of Middletown Zoning Ordinance
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Public District
 
PERMITTED USES
 

Agricultural

Field crop farms, or horticultural nurseries, incluing wholesale sales on the same lot

Governmental, Education and Institutional on Privately Owned Land

Library or museum

Commercial Outdoor Recreation

Bathing beaches

Conservation lands, bird sanctuaries, wildlife preserves

Public and private parks

Bathing beaches, public or private non-profit

Accessory Uses

Accesssory use customarily incidental to a use permitted in the district and located on the same lot as the principal use.

 

Non-category Permitted Uses

Agricultural awareness programs

Product stands for sale of fruit and vegetable produce raised on the premisie, including nursery stock (maximum 150 sq. ft. permanent structure)

Traditional farm-related accessory uses otehr tan product stands

 
 
 
PERMITTED BY SPECIAL USE PERMIT
 

Agricultural

Livestock farms, excluding raising swine

Transportation, Communication and Utilities

Commercial dock or pier

Commercial off-street parking

Electric power substation

High voltage transmission towers

Sewage treatment plant

Solid waste transfer station

 

Wireless Communication Facilities

Disguised facilites

Pole-mounted antennas

Accessory Uses

Accessory uses customarily incidental to a use permitted as a special use in the district and located on the same lot as the principal use.

 

Non-category special uses requiring a permit

Farm-promotion accessory uses

Product stands for sale of fruit and vegetable produce raised on the premises; nursery stock, plants and seedlings raised on/off the premises; farm supplies and associated products (permanent structyre exceeding 150 sq. ft.)