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Hudson, MA 01749


 
5.4 Limited Commercial And Light Industrial District
5.4.1           USES PERMITTED

5.4.1.1         Retail sales and service occupations.

5.4.1.2         Computer sales and/or services.

5.4.1.3         Laundries, dry cleaning or dyeing establishments.

5.4.1.4         Distribution and storage of lumber, building material and fuel, provided no
petroleum products are stored above ground in tanks exceeding ten thousand (10,000) gallons in capacity.

5.4.1.5         Undertakers' establishments.

5.4.1.6         Trucking garages and terminals.

5.4.1.7                 Warehouses and food distributions centers.

5.4.1.8                 Public utility building, or yards, contractor's offices and storage yards.

5.4.1.9         Hotels and motels.

5.4.1.10           Public garages including body repairs.

5.4.1.1 Bottling or packaging of previously prepared products.

5.4.1.12        Offices for executive and/or administrative services.

5.4.1.13                Manufacturing or assembly of precision instruments, tool and die, dental, medical,
optical, pharmaceutical and health care equipment, electrical and electronic
instruments.

5.4.1.14        Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted use.

5.4.1.15        Signs pertaining to a permitted use on the premises. No signs shall be illuminated
in such a manner as to cause annoyance to existing dwellings.

5.4.1.16        Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture or viticulture, provided that such uses are
located on parcels containing at least five (5) acres.

5.4.1.17  USES ALLOWED BY SPECIAL PERMIT

5.4.1.17        Adult Entertainment Enterprises are subject to Special Permit approval in the Town of Hudson.  Such a use may ONLY be permitted in the LCI District - provided that said premises has the required frontage and lot size for that district.  This use shall also be subject to the following findings and conditions, and subject to such additional terms and conditions as the Board of Appeals may impose in granting the Special Permit: (1) No merchandise or services prohibited as obscene and/or indecent shall be disseminated or available therein; (2) No pictures, publications, videotapes, movies, covers, or other implements, items or advertising that fall within the definition of Adult Entertainment Enterprise merchandise or are erotic, prurient, or related to violence, sadism, or sexual exploitation shall be displayed in store windows or visible from areas used by the general public; (3) The permitted uses specifically exclude disseminating or offering to disseminate adult matter to minors, and allowance of minors to view the display or linger in the
store shall be deemed evidence of violation of this section; (4) No Adult Entertainment Enterprise shall be located within the same block or within 300 feet of a residential zone, residential use, dwelling unit, school, place of worship, church, park, playground, youth center, or another Adult Entertainment Enterprises; (5) Signage for Adult Entertainment Enterprises shall not contain any moving, flashing or animated lights, or visible moving or movable parts, and shall identify the name of the establishment but shall contain no advertisement in addition to that; (6) No Adult Entertainment Enterprises may display flashing lights visible from outside the establishment; (7) Hours and days of operation shall be established by the Hudson Zoning Board of Appeals.

A special permit may only be issued pursuant to the applicable provisions of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40A, Section 9A, as amended, and following a public hearing held within sixty-five (65) days after the filing of an application with the Zoning Board of Appeals; a copy of which shall forthwith be given to the Town Clerk by the applicant.

A special permit granted hereunder shall lapse within a specified period of time of not more than two (2) years and including such time required to pursue or await the determination of any appeal referred to in Section 17 of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40A, as amended, from the grant thereof, if a substantial use thereof  has not sooner commenced except for good cause, or in the case of a Permit for construction, if construction has not begun by such date except for good cause.

If any paragraph, sentence, phrase or word contained in this By-Law is adjudicated by a Court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise unenforceable, then it is intended that the remaining provisions of this By-Law continue in full force and effect.
5.4.2       USES SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED

5.4.2.1         Any use which may produce a nuisance or hazard from fire, explosion, toxic or
noxious or corrosive fumes, gas, smoke, odors, obnoxious dust or vapor, harmful radioactivity, offensive noises and vibrations, flashes, objectionable effluent or electrical interference, which may adversely effect or impair the normal use and peaceful enjoyment of any property, structure or dwelling in the Limited Commercial Industrial District or in any contiguous district or zone located within the Town of Hudson.

5.4.2.2         Contamination of ground water, pollution of any stream or other atmospheric
pollutant.

5.4.3       CONDITIONS OF USE

5.4.3.1         All permitted uses shall be conducted in enclosed buildings or structures except
by permit of the Board of Appeals.

 
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