Revere, MA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

Revere Municipal Code § 17.16.175 governs professional office parks, a use allowed by right in the PDD2 and TED districts and by special permit from the city council in the RB, RC, RC1, RC2, RC3, PDD1, NB, GB, GB1, CB, HB, LI and IP districts. Subsection H caps lot coverage at 25 percent of the land area, excluding whatever ground accessory structures and parking facilities occupy, so the 25 percent figure applies only to the principal office buildings themselves. Subsection I pairs that cap with an open space requirement: 15 percent of the land must be designated open space, on top of whatever area the coverage limit leaves unbuilt.

The same section layers on other site standards that shape how much of a lot an office park can actually use. It requires a minimum parcel size of five acres, so the coverage and open space percentages apply to a sizeable footprint rather than a small infill lot. It bars public restaurants (though eating facilities for office park occupants and guests are allowed) and bars retail businesses except for sales and services reasonably incidental to the office complex, and it forbids genetic engineering and the handling of volatile or hazardous substances that would endanger public health, safety or welfare. Parking demand is set at one space per 300 square feet of general office space and one space per 200 square feet of medical or dental office space, which in practice also limits how much of the remaining 75 percent of the lot can go to building footprint once required parking is laid out.