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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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