[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Dobbs Ferry 2-1-1966 as Art. 7-4 of the 1966 Dobbs Ferry Village Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
- BUILDING
- The principal building on each lot, and not any minor or accessory building.
- FRONT
- As used herein with reference to buildings, that side of the building which faces the street on which the number or numbers of such lot or lots on which the building is situated have been allotted.
- STREET
- Includes any street, avenue, road, highway or thoroughfare within the Village which the public has the right to use.
A.
The several lots and buildings in the Village shall
be numbered, and such numbering shall be in general accord with the
rules therefor as hereinafter set forth.
B.
One or more whole numbers shall be assigned to each
50 feet of frontage on each side of each street, except that in a
business district one or more whole numbers shall be assigned to stores
having less than 50 feet of frontage.
C.
The odd numbers shall be on the left and the even
numbers on the right side of each street, counting in the direction
in which the numbers progress.
D.
All streets which terminate at or intersect Broadway
shall be numbered east or west from No. 1 at Broadway, and all streets
which terminate at or intersect Ashford Avenue shall be numbered north
or south from No. 1 at Ashford Avenue.
E.
All streets which cross or terminate at Flower Avenue
or the Dobbs Ferry-Hastings line shall be numbered northward with
the exception of Clinton and Judson Avenues, which shall be numbered
southward.
F.
The numbers on Broadway shall begin at the Dobbs Ferry-Hastings
line.
G.
The numbers for all other streets which are continuations
of Hastings-on-Hudson streets, regardless of whether or not their
names change at the village line, shall begin at said village line
with a number which allows two numbers for each 50 feet of frontage
on each side of the portions of such streets which are in Hastings-on-Hudson.
H.
On all interior streets (those not terminating at
or intersecting Broadway or Ashford Avenue), No. 1 shall be at the
junction with the more important of the streets at which they terminate.
I.
Interior dead-end streets shall have the highest numbers
at their dead ends.
J.
The map entitled "Home Renumbering Map (Existing Conditions
Map), Village of Dobbs Ferry, Town of Greenburgh, Westchester County,
N.Y., 1936, made by F. Morton Clark, M.E.E.M. Planning Engineer,"
now on file with the Village Clerk, made in general accordance with
the foregoing rules, is hereby approved, adopted and established as
the House and Lot Numbering Map of the Village of Dobbs Ferry; and
the numbers of the several lots and buildings in the Village as shown
on said map are hereby designated as the numbers of such lots and
buildings respectively; and wherever in a given instance the rules
for numbering as herein set forth shall conflict with the numbering
of any lot or building as shown on said numbering map, the number
for any such lot or building as shown on said map shall prevail.
K.
In case of the erection of a new building, it shall
be the duty of the Building Inspector, upon application duly made
by the owner, to assign a number thereto, determining such number
within the rules herein laid down; the number as assigned to be displayed
by the owner in accordance with the provisions of this chapter within
30 days of such assignment. Upon application by the owner, the Board
of Trustees may review such numbering and correct or alter same, at
its discretion.
It shall be the duty of the owner of each building
in the Village, at his own expense, to have the number or numbers
assigned such building pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
displayed in figures at least three inches in height either on the
front of the building or on steps leading upward from the street to
the front of the building or upon a gate, gatepost, fence or other
object in front of the building so as to be easily seen from the street.
