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A. 
In any research laboratory and office district, no building or premises shall be used, and no building, group of buildings or part of a building shall be erected, enlarged, altered, arranged or designed to be used, in whole or in part, except for one or more of the following uses:
(1) 
Laboratories devoted exclusively to research, product development and testing, engineering development and sales development; provided, however, that:
(a) 
Pilot plants for the testing of manufacturing, processing or fabrication methods or for the testing of products or materials shall be permitted only as an accessory to a research laboratory, and in no case shall more than 25% of the total floor area be devoted to such uses. No materials or finished processes or products shall be manufactured, processed or fabricated on said premises for sale, except such as are incidental to said research, design or experimental work. Nothing herein contained shall, however, prohibit construction of pilot or experimental models which may later be sold.
(b) 
Animals may be kept or maintained when necessary for laboratory research, design or experimental work, but only after specific authorization by the Planning Board, which shall limit the number and kind of animals, impose regulations recommended by the County Health Department and provide suitable safeguards to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
[Amended 7-5-1994 by L.L. No. 21-1994]
(2) 
Offices for professional or business use, including executive, engineering, accounting, scientific, research and development, educational, statistical and financial purposes.
(3) 
Accessory uses to the laboratory, business and professional offices, including garages for storage and maintenance of company motor vehicles, storage of gasoline and lubricating oils therefor, parking facilities, maintenance and utility shops for the upkeep and repair of other buildings and structures on the site and equipment used on the site, central heating and power plants for furnishing heat and energy to structures on the site only, water drainage, sewerage, fire-protection and other utility facilities, educational facilities for training and study connected with the research activities, buildings for storage of documents, records, testing and research equipment, experimental models and personal property and communications facilities, including antenna masts, and clinics, cafeterias, recreational facilities, banks, a company service store, living quarters for custodians or caretakers and guest facilities for the temporary accommodation of company employees and of visitors to the office as an integral part of the office building development and which are located on the same site, and helistops. Helistops meeting the standards set forth in § 300-81.1 shall be allowed with a special permit issued by the Planning Board.[1]
[Amended 6-5-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
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Editor's Note: Former Subsections A(4) and (5), regarding signs, which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed 5-18-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999. See now Art. XX, Signs.
B. 
No use permitted hereunder shall be so conducted as to cause a harmful discharge of waste materials into the ground, water or atmosphere or which constitutes a menace to persons, surrounding properties or plant growth by reason of fire, explosion or other physical hazard.
Each lot devoted to a research laboratory and office use shall have an area of at least 20 acres and shall have at least 500 feet of frontage on an existing public street or road or on a street approved by the Town Planning Board in the same manner as is prescribed by state law for the approval of plats of subdivisions and in accordance with the requirements applicable to streets herein. In addition, such streets shall be of adequate capacity to handle safely and without undue congestion the traffic associated with the use to which access is given.
A. 
No building shall be located at a distance less than 150 feet from the street on which such building fronts, except that gatehouses, bus stop shelters and security offices one story in height may be located a distance not less than 25 feet from the street. No building shall be located at a distance less than 300 feet from all other boundaries of the lot, except that where a laboratory and/or office building exists or is subsequently erected on a contiguous lot, such distance may be reduced to not less than 100 feet on each side where such lots adjoin.
B. 
All buildings on any lot shall not cover in the aggregate a total of more than 10% of the lot area, and no building shall exceed three stories or 45 feet in height, and the third story shall not exceed in area 35% of the entire ground floor area of the building. If the space of any building is partly below grade, for the purposes of this article, it shall not be considered a story if more than 1/2 of the total space is located below the adjoining minimum finished grade. The height limitations of this article shall apply to chimneys for central heating and power plants, but shall not apply to ventilators, skylights, water tanks, bulkheads, building chimneys, air-conditioning equipment, necessary mechanical appurtenances and similar features not used for human occupancy and usually extended above the roof level, except that the total area covered by all such features shall not exceed 25% of the roof area, and the height of any such feature shall not be more than 15 feet above the roof level.
C. 
One antenna mast and one water tower per lot, when accessory to the principal use, may be erected to a height not to exceed 100 feet above the ground by permission of the Planning Board after due notice and public hearing. The Planning Board may permit additional temporary antenna masts in proper cases when, in the judgment of the Planning Board, such masts are required or desirable in connection with or accessory to permitted uses in the district. Such additional masts shall not exceed 100 feet in height and shall be permitted to stand for a period not to exceed one year, after which time they shall be dismantled. The applicant for such permit shall deposit the sum of $500 with the Town Clerk to ensure the removal of said masts upon the expiration of the time period set forth in said permit. In granting such permission, the Planning Board shall find, upon satisfactory proof, that such antenna or water tower will not constitute a physical hazard or be detrimental to the value of adjacent properties, that the location, size and character of such antenna or water tower will be in harmony with the appropriate and orderly development of the district in which it is situated and will not be detrimental to the orderly development of adjacent districts and that the granting of such permission will be in harmony with the general purposes set forth in Article I of this chapter.
A. 
Access and service drives shall be laid out in such a manner that connections with the street or streets on which the lot has frontage are located and designed so as to avoid unsafe conditions or traffic congestion.
B. 
Parking space shall be provided on the lot to accommodate company, employee and visitor motor vehicles, with at least two car spaces for each three employees on duty at the peak employment period and one space for each company vehicle for which the buildings on the lot are designed. No parking area for commercial-type vehicles shall be located within 100 feet of all other property lines. Parking areas shall be permanently improved and suitably screened with planting and shall be set back from all lot boundaries at least 50 feet, except that in passing on a plan of development, the Planning Board may approve a lesser distance between parking areas of adjoining laboratory and/or office building developments.
[Amended 7-5-1994 by L.L. No. 21-1994]