This article shall apply to the Apartment District.
No building may be erected, altered or used
and no lot or premises may be used except for the following:
A. Multiple dwelling or apartment house; however, no
single-family dwelling structures shall be permitted.
B. Office, studio or occupational room of a physician,
surgeon, dentist, lawyer, teacher, accountant, artist, architect,
professional engineer or any other professional person when said office,
studio or occupational room is located in an apartment house and said
professional person uses an apartment therein primarily as his residence.
The minimum lot area for any lot occupied by
a multiple dwelling or apartment house shall be 500 square feet for
each apartment in such multiple dwelling or apartment house.
No multiple dwelling or apartment house shall
be more than three stories high nor exceed, in height, 36 feet.
Every building shall face the street on which
the Apartment District fronts, namely South Middle Neck Road, and
every main and public entrance or entrances to such building shall
be on such street. Any other entrance to or exit from a building built
on a corner lot shall be for service or emergency use only, and not
for public use.
Upon the erection of a building on a lot in
the Apartment District adjoining a Residence AA, Residence A or Residence
B District, there shall be provided on the Apartment District property,
for the full width thereof, a landscaped area of at least six feet
in depth, measured from the boundary line between such districts,
consisting of trees and/or shrubs so located and of sufficient density
as to effectively screen the Apartment District property from the
residence district property.
A. Any application for a building permit or certificate
of occupancy shall designate the trees and/or shrubs to be planted
and the location thereof. The plan for such planting and the character
and the nature of such trees and/or shrubs shall be subject to the
approval of the Building Inspector. Such planting shall be continuously
thereafter maintained so long as such building on the Apartment District
property shall stand.
B. Such landscaped area may be considered as part of
the rear yard.
C. In lieu of such landscaped area on the Apartment District
property, a like landscaped area may be provided and maintained for
the full required depth, or any part thereof, on the residence district
property immediately abutting the said Apartment District property.
Within each multiple dwelling or apartment house
there shall be provided garage facilities adequate to accommodate
one automobile for each apartment.