Revere, MA Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

Revere Municipal Code § 17.16.175(E) sets a professional office park's yard requirements out as plain dimensional prose rather than a table entry: a twenty-foot front yard and a fifty-foot side and rear yard. The fifty-foot side and rear figure is unusually deep for Revere, a dense, mostly built-out coastal city where many commercial and industrial uses get by with side and rear yards in the range of five to twenty feet; it reflects the larger, five-acre-minimum parcels office parks are required to sit on and the buffering the city wants between office park activity and whatever abuts it.

The setback applies wherever a professional office park use is allowed, meaning by right in the PDD2 and TED districts and by special permit in the RB, RC, RC1, RC2, RC3, PDD1, NB, GB, GB1, CB, HB, LI and IP districts. Because an office park can be authorized by special permit in so many districts, the fifty-foot side and rear yard functions as the real buffer between an office campus and adjoining residential or lower-intensity commercial property, doing more work than the front yard figure in protecting neighboring uses. The site plan review committee reviews compliance with these setbacks before the city council can act on a special permit application, and the building inspector will not issue a building permit for a structure that encroaches on the required yard.