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ARTICLE 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMITTED USE TABLE <br />AND SCHEDULE <br />4.1 Establishment of Use Regulations <br />Except as otherwise provided herein, regulations governing the use of land and - <br />structures are hereby established as shown in the Schedule of Permitted Uses. Uses <br />not expressly permitted are prohibited. <br />*Within all districts there are certain uses that are permitted as a matter of right. The <br />uses are: <br />*Amended <br />1/19/82 1. Above ground and buried utility lines for local distribution of electricity, telephone, <br />and cable television service, accessory and appurtenant apparatus such as <br />poles, guy wires, transformers and switching boxes. <br />*Amended <br />1/17/95 2. Cabinetized telephone and/or fiber optic equipment associated with the local <br />distribution of services. Setbacks from the right -of -way for such equipment may <br />be reduced to 20 feet in the Agricultural Residential, Rural Residential and Rural <br />Buffer zoning districts provided that the equipment is screened from view by <br />landscape materials. <br />3. Bona fide farms. <br />4. Buildings and other temporary structures used in connection with the <br />construction of a permanent building. <br />5. Neighborhood utility facilities located within a public right of way with the <br />permission of the owner of the right of way (State, City or Town). <br />6. Off street parking as a required accessory use to a permitted use. <br />7. , Public and private streets and roads. Railroad rights of way. <br />8. Water and sanitary sewer lines, gas and liquid fuel distribution lines. <br />`Amended <br />1 0/4/82 9. Telephone exchanges (without business offices), subscriber loop huts, pressure <br />regulator stations, water and sanitary sewer pumping stations. <br />(See Article 6.16.12). <br />*Amended <br />1/3189 10. Electrical substations, switching and metering stations and associated <br />transmission lines, where incoming voltage does not exceed 100 kilovolts (kv). <br />(See Article 6.16.14). <br />4 -1 <br />