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Sec. 16. Urban enterprise district (UE). Statement of purpose. The purpose of the urban enterprise district is to encourage the improvement, reuse and redevelopment of older mixed use areas of the city by allowing a wide range of uses with appropriate development standards. Applicability. The standards of the urban enterprise district shall apply to all land shown on the "Official Zoning Map of the City of Lewiston" as being located within an urban enterprise district. Permitted uses. In an urban enterprise district, any new building or structure which is constructed, any existing building or structure or part thereof which is used, altered or enlarged and any parcel of land, whether in whole or in part, may be used for one or more of the following: Hotels, motels and inns; Restaurants; Drive-in restaurants; Places of indoor assembly, amusement or culture; Retail stores; Art and craft studios; Professional offices; Office buildings and business offices; Tradesman's offices; (10) Personal services; (11) Wholesale sales, warehousing and distribution facilities; (12) Lumber and building material dealers; (13) Building and construction contractors, provided that all exterior storage of materials and equipment are screened to a minimum height of eight feet from all abutting properties and public streets; (14) Self-storage facilities; (15) Research, experimental and testing laboratories; (16) Reserved; (17) Transportation facilities; (18) Gasoline service stations; (19) Auto repair garages; (20) Equipment repair garages; (21) Commercial parking facilities; ---PAGE BREAK--- (22) Light industrial uses; (23) Mortuary or funeral parlors; (24) Academic institutions, including buildings or structures for classroom, administrative, laboratory, art, theater, dining, service, library, bookstore and student recreational uses, and athletic buildings or structures in which the number of spectators permitted under the fire code of the City of Lewiston shall not exceed the combined staff and resident student population of the institution; together with buildings accessory to the foregoing permitted principal buildings or structures; (25) Hospitals, including institutions for the handicapped; (26) Religious facilities including churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship, rectories and parsonages and church-affiliated community purpose facilities; (27) Municipal buildings and facilities; (28) Private or commercial schools including business colleges; (29) Home occupations; (30) Accessory buildings and uses; (31) Automotive services, except repair; (32) Family day care homes; (33) Small day care facilities; (34) Day care centers; (35) Private industrial/commercial developments; (36) Forest management and timber harvesting activities in accordance with the standards of article XII; (37) New car dealerships; (38) Mixed use structures; (39) Movie theaters. (40) Veterinary hospitals, Humane Society and related facilities; (41) Group care facilities. Conditional uses. In an urban enterprise district, any new building or structure which is constructed, any existing building or structure or part thereof which is used, altered or enlarged and any parcel of land, whether in whole or in part, may be used for one or more of the following uses only after the issuance of a conditional use permit in accordance with article X of this Code: Reserved; Multifamily dwellings; Reservoirs, pumping stations, standpipes or other water supply uses involving ---PAGE BREAK--- facilities located on or above the ground surface; Transformer stations, high voltage power transmission lines, substations, telephone exchanges, microwave towers or other public utility or communications use; Industrial uses; Recycling and reprocessing facilities; Boarding houses; Lodging houses; Motor freight transportation facilities; (10) Used car dealership except for areas of the urban enterprise (UE) district in the downtown portion of the city as defined as north of Gulley Brook and south of Island Avenue; (11) Used car dealerships. Space and bulk standards. TABLE INSET: ! " # " " ! # # $ # " & Additional standards. The use of an existing building or structure shall be changed to another allowed use only if there is adequate off-street parking and loading to meet the requirements of article XII for the new use without variation. The enlargement of an existing building or structure shall be permitted only if the entire project will comply with the off-street parking and loading requirements of article XII upon completion of the expansion. ---PAGE BREAK--- Any required side or rear yard area for uses other than residential located within 50 feet of a residential zoning district shall be maintained as a buffer area meeting the standards of article XIII. Any required side or rear yard area for uses other than residential located within 50 feet of a lot containing a dwelling not in a residential zoning district shall be maintained as a buffer area meeting the standards of article XIII. In areas where the existing buildings have an established uniform setback relationship to the street, any new building or modification to an existing building may maintain this established relationship notwithstanding the provisions of subsection An established uniform setback relationship is deemed to exist when the distances between the front face of the building and the edge of the travel way in the adjoining street for the two adjacent parcels fronting on the same street on each side of the subject parcel are within five feet of mean of this distance for the four parcels. For the purposes of this provision, lots shall be deemed to be adjacent even if separated by a street or public easement. Used car dealerships may be deemed an accessory use to gasoline service station, auto repair garages and automotive services, except repair uses, if the following criteria are met: a. That all the criteria outlined in the definition of accessory use under article II, section 2 are adhered to; b. That the parking and on-site circulation for both the existing and proposed use is reviewed and approved pursuant to development review under article XIII; c. That the maximum number of used vehicles for sale on-site, at any one item, does not exceed six vehicles. Used car dealerships which are not an accessory use to gasoline service stations, auto repair garages and automotive services, except repair uses, are permitted only after the issuance of a conditional permit in accordance with article X of this Code, and the project is reviewed and approved pursuant to development review under article XIII. Modifications (ie. relaxation of standards) of setbacks, yards, maximum lot coverage ratios, maximum impervious surface ratios, minimum open space ratios, and maximum building height as contained in subsection may be granted by the board of appeals, planning board, staff review committee and the code enforcement official pursuant to articles V, VII, VIII, IX, and XIII of this Code. (Ord. No. 89-3, 4-7-89; Ord. No. 90-3, 5-17-90; Ord. No. 92-12, 6-4-92; Ord. No. 92-18, 9-10-92; Ord. No. 92-27, 11-19-92; Ord. No. 93-1, 2-4-93; Ord. No. 93-2, 2-4-93; Ord. No. 94-9, 8-18-94; Ord. No. 95-8, 7-20-95; Ord. No. 96-3, 4-18-96; Ord. No. 97-3, 5-15-97; Ord. No. 97-7, 9-11-97; Ord. No. 98-6, 7-2-98; Ord. No. 99-16, 10-12-99; Ord. No. 99-18, 11-20-99; Ord. No. 00-19, 10-5-00; Ord. No. 04-07, 4-15-04; Ord. No. 05-07, 3-17-05) Editor's note: See editor's note at article XI.