No building shall be constructed on a lot of
an area less than 40,000 square feet.
The building area shall not exceed 50% of the
lot area.
There shall be a front yard, the depth of which
shall not be less than 10 feet, except that any building fronting
on a county road shall have a front yard not less than 50 feet.
There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which
shall not be less than 25 feet.
There shall be two side yards, one on each side
of the building, the aggregate width of which shall be at least 20
feet. Neither side yard shall be less than five feet wide. In the
case of a corner lot where one of the corners borders on a county
road, the side yard nearest said county road shall be at least 50
feet wide.
[Amended 9-23-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
No building shall exceed two stories or 25 feet in height, except that under §
176-106B(14) a movie and/or film studio may exceed the height requirement under this section but shall not exceed a height of 50 feet. The fifty-foot height allowance for soundproof movie and film studio is limited to a parcel of property that has a minimum lot size of not less than 10 acres, and only one building per ten-acre parcel may exceed the twenty-five-foot height requirement unless there was a preexisting building already existing when this section was enacted which exceeded 25 feet on the parcel.
Paved parking facilities shall occupy not less than one square foot for each two square feet of ground floor space in the building, plus one additional square foot of paved parking facilities for each four square feet of floor space on floors over the ground floor. In addition thereto, there shall be paved facilities for loading of trucks, separate and apart from the parking area. Means of ingress and egress from both the parking and loading and unloading areas shall also be paved. Neither the parking area, loading and unloading area, nor the means of ingress and egress shall be used for the storage, servicing, dismantling or abandonment of automobiles, other vehicles or articles. The means of ingress and egress shall be kept free of vehicles and other obstructions at all times when not in use. All parking areas, areas for loading and unloading and driveways shall be surfaced with not less than 4 1/2 inches of bituminous penetrated broken stone (after compaction) and 1 1/2 inches of premixed bituminous material (after compaction), in accordance with Village specifications. Access driveways shall be marked with arrows indicating the proper flow of traffic, and lines indicating individual parking spaces shall be painted in the parking areas. Parking areas shall be illuminated at night during the business hours of the buildings which they serve, but said illumination shall be so shielded as to prevent its being visible more than 75 feet in any direction from the area which it is designed to illuminate. Neither the parking area, nor the loading and unloading areas, nor any part of them shall be located in any portion of the front yards required by §
176-111 hereof.
No building shall contain an aggregate floor
area greater than 100% of the lot area.
Buildings and structures and exterior and interior
alterations erected or made after the effective date of this chapter
shall be constructed in full compliance with the requirements of the
Building Code.
The provisions herein described shall be enforceable
by the Village, and failure of the Village to enforce any or all said
regulations or provisions shall in no event be deemed a waiver of
the right to do so thereafter.