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16 2. The term "Accessory Use" shall not include: (a) Any use not on the same lot with the building to which it is accessory unless authorized by the Board of Appeals. (b) A garage or storage for commercial vehicles unless authorized by the Board of Appeals. (c) Advertising signs except those pertaining to the lease or sale of a lot or building on which they are placed, and not exceeding twelve (12) square feet in total area; provided that . on a lot occupied by a dwelling house there may not be more than two (2) signs with a total area of •not more than three (3) square feet, pertaining to the use of or accessory use of such building. 3. In business and industrial areas, no advertising signs shall exceed a width greater than one-half of the building frontage, nor a depth ex- ceeding twelve (12") inches. The use of neon or similar gases is prohib- ited for advertising purposes, as is also the use of continually flashing lights. F. ZONING DISTRICTS I. RESIDENCE DISTRICTS: 1. R-75 Residence District: ( a) Use: In a R-75 Residence District, no building shall be erected or altered and no building or premises shall be used for any purpose except: (1) Detached one or two-family dwelling, (2) The taking of not more than ten (10) lodgers by a family resident in the dwelling. (3) Any of the following uses, provided the Board of AppeaL, authorizes a special permit therefore. Hotel, boarding house, lodging house, apartment house, or dwelling house, otherwise not permitted. (b) Size of Lots—No building, except one-story buildings of ac- cesory use, shall be erected on a lot less than seventy-five (75) feet wide and containing less than seventy-five hundred (7500) square feet, pro- vided that one (1) one -family dwelling and its accessory buildings may be erected on any lot which on the date these by-laws are adopted is separately owned, the owner thereof not owning adjacent land. 2. R-100 Residence District: (a) Use: No building shall be erected or altered and no building or premises shall be used for any purpose except: (1) Detached one -family dwelling, except that alterations of single family units may be permitted, to allow use as a two-family unit by the granting of a special permit. (2) In addition to accessory uses permitted under Paragraph E of this by-law the following uses may be permitted, subject to the oper- ator living upon the premises and to the limitations stated herein. A billboard, signboard or advertising sign shall in no case be permitted as an accessory use, except as herein specified. The placing of a "For Sale" or "For Rent" sign, shall, however, be permitted as an accessory use. A sign pertaining to a home occupation, as herein specified, shall be permitted, provided such signs •be not over three (3) square feet in area. Offices for professional use and customary home occupations such as arts, crafts, service businesses, antique and gift shops, or any use determined to be of a similar character, said determination to be made by the Board of Appeals following a petition of the land owner or owners and a special permit granted therefor, including only uses conducted in dwellings or in accessory buildings and involving only the services of