Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/a5dcd1dc-4117-40b3-b3da-74a56919e14b ↗

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and harvesting of any agricultural, floricultural, B. The following nonresidential uses are permitted
or horticultural commodity. within a neighborhood nonresidential reuse.
B. The keeping of livestock, chickens or other The initial conditional use approval for the
poultry, and apiaries are prohibited. neighborhood nonresidential reuse may specify
C. Greenhouses, including high tunnels/hoop- one or more uses under the list below. A
houses, cold-frames, and similar structures, are modification of the conditional use approval is
permitted to extend the growing season. required for a change to any of the uses below
D. Accessory structures, including but not limited which were not specified in the initial or
to a shed or utility building necessary for the subsequent conditional use approval.
use’s operation may be allowed for the storage 1. General offices <5,000 square feet
of tools and materials. All accessory structures 2. General services <5,000 square feet
shall be located a minimum of five feet from 3. Restaurants
any lot line. 4. Retail <5,000 square feet
E. Farmstands are permitted, and are limited to 5. Specialty food service
sales of items grown at the site. Farmstands 6. Studios for artists and craftspeople
shall be removed during the time of the year C. No off-street parking is required for a
when the use is not in operation. Only one neighborhood nonresidential reuse.
farmstand is permitted per market garden. D. Drive-through facilities are prohibited for any
F. When located in a fully enclosed permanent neighborhood nonresidential reuse.
building, market gardens may include all of the E. Neighborhood nonresidential reuses shall
forms of cultivation and production allowed for comply with the performance standards of the
outdoor market gardens, as well as B-1 zone.
hydroponics, aquaponics, myco-culture, and
other similar indoor crop-production 6.4.27 Off-street parking
techniques. A. In the B-3 zone, structured parking is a
G. Market gardens within a fully enclosed permitted use. Surface parking within the B-3
permanent building may include an area within zone shall be allowed as a conditional use.
the building for sales of items grown at the site. B. Surface parking in the B-3 and B-6 zones is
Such sales area may occupy no more than 15% subject to the following standards:
of the floor area devoted to the principal use. 1. Surface parking lots shall be laid out in a
manner conducive to development of
6.4.26 Neighborhood nonresidential reuse future buildings, and/or structured parking
A. Neighborhood nonresidential reuse is only on site.
allowed within existing structures that are 2. All surface parking areas, including parking
nonresidential in their original construction aisles, shall be located a minimum of 35
and/or current principal use as of the effective feet from any street. This 35-foot setback
date of this Code. shall not apply to access drives oriented
perpendicularly to a street. 6-18 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE USE STANDARDS

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