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Village of Port Washington North, NY
Nassau County
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In a Residence A-1 District the following regulations shall apply.
[Amended 6-13-1977 by L.L. No. 6-1977]
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used except for one or more of the following purposes:
A. 
Detached single-family dwelling.
B. 
House of worship, a public or nonprofit school, and municipal recreational use, when permitted as a special exception by the Board of Trustees upon proper written application therefor and after a public hearing on published notice, in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) 
Such application shall show and be accompanied by appropriate documents and plans sufficient to indicate the size, location and use of all buildings, facilities and open areas, including the provisions to be made for screening, traffic flow, fencing, parking and lighting.
(2) 
The Board of Trustees shall approve said application only upon finding that the proposed layout and improvements will be free of health, safety and fire hazards; will limit the height of building and provide adequate and sufficient setbacks, screening, fencing, off-street parking, safe traffic flow and adequate and sufficient safeguards to insure, protect, and secure the use and enjoyment of neighboring properties and the general area in which the subject premises are located, without unreasonable interference.
(3) 
The Board of Trustees in approving said application may impose such additional regulations and restrictions as it feels proper in the particular circumstances to assure the safeguards hereinabove described, and in any event, shall require and provide the following minimum restrictions:
(a) 
A minimum lot of not less than one acre in area;
(b) 
Minimum street frontage and front yard width of 150 feet;
(c) 
Front yard setback of 50 feet;
(d) 
Side yard setback of 25 feet;
(e) 
Rear yard setback of 50 feet;
(f) 
Thick screening area of 10 feet in depth along all boundaries of the subject premises adjoining property located in any residence district;
(g) 
Off-street parking providing one parking space for every two persons in the total capacity of persons whom the premises are designed to legally and safely accommodate.
(4) 
Such conditions and requirements shall in all cases include limitation of the number of persons who may safely occupy the premises and any part or parts thereof at one time, ways and means of reducing noise and disturbance to the neighborhood, including limitations of hours and days during which social or nonreligious and/or noneducation functions may be conducted, and use of such structural materials and procedures and implements, equipment and appliances as shall be necessary or appropriate to safeguard against fire, health and safety, hazards and panic and shall prescribe the height, location and type of fencing.
C. 
The office of a doctor, dentist, teacher, musician or other professional person residing on the premises provided there is no display of advertising except a small professional nameplate.
D. 
Signboard for renting or sale of the real estate on which same is located, not exceeding eight feet high by 10 feet long for real estate subdivision, or nine square feet in area for a single lot, with a space of three feet between the bottom of the sign and ground, and so placed as to conform with the front and side yard restrictions.
E. 
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, including a private garage, greenhouse, small announcements or professional sign. Except as above permitted, accessory uses shall not include any use customarily carried on as a business industry on any driveway or walk giving access thereto, nor any display visible from the street, nor any billboard or advertising signboard or sign. Accessory buildings shall not be used for residence purposes where located on a lot containing less than 7,500 square feet, and in no case for other than guests or employees of the owner or tenant of the principal building. The placing of a "for sale" or "for rent" sign not exceeding nine square feet in area shall, however, be deemed an accessory use. A fence or other structure deemed by the Superintendent of Buildings to be designed primarily to cause annoyance or damage to an adjoining owner, shall in no case be permitted as an accessory use.
No building shall be constructed on a lot of an area less than 6,000 square feet, unless authorized by the Board of Appeals pursuant to Article XIII § 176-147A.
The building area shall not exceed 30% of the lot area.
There shall be a front yard the depth of which shall not be less than 25 feet.
There shall be a rear yard the depth of which shall not be less than 25 feet.
In the case of a single-family dwelling there shall be two side yards, one on each side of the main dwelling, the aggregate width of which shall be as least 15 feet. Neither side yard shall be less than seven feet; provided, however, that in the case of a lot held in single and separate ownership at the effective date of this chapter and of a width of less than 50 feet or a depth of less than 100 feet, six inches may be deducted from the aggregate width of the side yards for each foot in width such lot shall lack of the said 50 feet but no side yard shall be less than five feet wide; six inches may be deducted from the required depth of the rear yard for each foot in depth such lot shall lack of the said 100 feet, but the depth of such rear yard shall in no case be reduced thereby to less than 15 feet.
[Amended 6-13-1977 by L.L. No. 7-1977; 11-9-1998 by L.L. No. 5-1998]
No building shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or 31 feet in height.
In the case of a corner lot, a building shall be required to comply with the front yard restrictions only on the narrower street front. The depth of yard from the other street lines shall be 20% of the width of the lot, but need not be more than 20 feet.
[Added 1-6-1975 by L.L. No. 3-1975]
The minimum street frontage and front yard width shall be 60 feet.
[Added 6-13-1977 by L.L. No. 5-1977]
A. 
For the purposes of preserving the comprehensive zoning plan set forth in this chapter and the character of the residential neighborhood which has developed in accordance with that plan and for the purpose of protecting the lives and property of residents living in that area of the Village's Residence B District and Residence A-1 District where there are extreme changes in the elevation of the terrain, the additional restrictions are imposed on certain lands in the Residence B District and Residence A-1 District.
B. 
Not more than one detached single-family dwelling may be built on any one of the lots hereinafter listed in Subsection C hereof and the sole vehicular access to said lots shall be from Soundview Drive.
C. 
The lots which are subject to the limitations set forth in Subsection B of this section are known and designated as:
Lots 11, 12, 19 and 20 in Block 115, on a certain map entitled "Map of Soundview Village, Section 2," filed in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on 11/16/1959, File No. 7244.
Lots 21 through 25, inclusive, in Block 115, on a certain map entitled "Map of Soundview Village, Section 6," filed in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on 9/27/1961, File No. 7492.
Lots 50 through 58, inclusive, in Block 115, on a certain map entitled "Map of Soundview Village, Section 15," filed in Nassau County Clerk's Office on 4/26/1968, File No. 8145.
Lots 59 through 77, inclusive, in Block 115, on a certain map entitled "Map of Soundview Village, Section 16," filed in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on 4/26/1968, File No. 8146.
Lots 28 through 30, inclusive, in Block 137, on a certain map entitled "Map of Soundview Village, Section 21," filed in the Nassau County Clerk's Office on 10/23/1974, File No. 8544.