[Amended 1-11-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988]
[Amended 6-2-2008 by L.L. No. 3-2008]
Except as otherwise provided herein, any other use shall be permitted in a G-I General Industrial District, provided that the same does not violate any law, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable thereto and does not have an adverse impact on the Town as a whole. The Town Board or its officials or duly appointed representatives shall have the right to demand whatever information or proof is required to assure that the spirit, intent and ultimate performance of such will protect the good and welfare of the Town of Tonawanda, New York. Adult uses, as defined in § 215-97, shall not be subject to this requirement.
A.
Any residential use, including but not limited to trailer camps, tourist cabins, automobile tourist courts, tourist camps or parks, motels or hotels, hospitals or institutional use, is prohibited within the G-I General Industrial District. This prohibition shall not apply to a caretaker's or watchman's quarters. The provisions of this section shall be subordinate to the provisions of § 215-69 wherever the latter shall apply.
B.
Junkyards, waste transfer or disposal, land mining
and stockyards shall not be permitted.
[Amended 3-26-2007 by L.L. No. 2-2007; 6-2-2008 by L.L. No.
3-2008; 8-29-2016 by L.L. No. 1-2016]
Performance standard use permits may be required by the Planning Board or the Town Board for any proposed use or operation, except adult uses, as defined in § 215-97, within the G-I General Industrial District if deemed to be in the best interests of the Town of Tonawanda, New York.
A.
Property fronting on Grand Island Boulevard and River
Road shall be governed by Plate L regarding minimum front building
line.[1] Rear and side lines shall be governed by type of construction
as established by the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building
Code,[2] unless otherwise noted in Subsection B of this section. All other streets shall have building lines and height limitations as prescribed in §§ 215-56, 215-57 and 215-58 unless otherwise noted in Subsection B.
[1]
Editor's Note: Plate L is included at the end of this chapter.
B.
Any use located on property in the General Industrial
District having frontage on River Road shall satisfy the following
design standards:
(1)
Minimum front building line setbacks from the River
Road street line shall be a minimum of 50 feet.
(3)
Off-street parking areas shall not be used for any
purpose other than the parking of vehicles.
(4)
Off-street employee parking areas shall not be located
in the front building line setback area.
(5)
Parking areas for visitors, customers or clients may
be located within the front building line setback area, provided that
they are limited to a single row of parking spaces and the necessary
access road to said parking spaces.
(6)
All parking areas shall be paved with an asphaltic
or concrete surface and properly drained.
(7)
Off-street loading areas shall only be used for the
loading and unloading of goods.
(8)
Space required and allocated for any off-street loading
facility shall not be used to satisfy the space requirements for off-street
parking. An off-street loading space shall not be used for repairing
or servicing of motor vehicles.
(9)
Loading areas shall not be located in the front building
line setback area or in a side or rear yard if adjoining a residential
use.
(10)
A minimum depth of 50 feet of the building line setback area shall be landscaped. The area must serve as the outer border of the developed land area as defined by this chapter. Such landscaping shall include trees, shrubs, hedges, grass or any combination thereof. Parking areas as described in Subsection B(5) may be located within this area thereby reducing the amount of landscaped area accordingly, provided that a minimum depth of 20 feet of the building line setback area is landscaped as measured from the street line to the parking area.
(11)
Parking areas shall not exceed 6,000 square
feet in uninterrupted area.
(12)
Landscaping, such as elevation changes, shrubs,
fences or hedges, must be used to screen parking and loading yards
from public streets. Where fences are used, they should not exceed
a maximum of four feet in height and should consist of stone, iron
or wood materials. Chain link, metal, concrete block, plastic, fiber
glass and plywood fences are not acceptable.
(13)
A minimum of one deciduous tree of two-inch
minimum trunk diameter, as measured eight inches above ground, shall
be planted in the building line setback area for each 50 feet of frontage
on River Road.
(14)
All buildings or additions thereto shall be
designed by a registered architect or a licensed professional engineer
and shall comply with all laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.
(15)
All office and light industrial buildings shall
be of masonry construction, its equivalent or better. No such building
or additions shall be covered with sheet or corrugated aluminum, asbestos
or iron, except when such materials form an integral part of a curtain
wall panel or insulated sandwich wall.
(16)
For all office and light industrial buildings,
the outside face of walls exposed to public streets shall be finished
with face brick, its equivalent or better, and the outside faces of
walls abutting such walls exposed to public streets shall be so finished
to a minimum depth of 15 feet.
In a residential subdivision with lots averaging
less than one acre which has heretofore been laid out within any former
industrial district or which is within the C General Business District
created by this chapter, additional dwellings may be erected and occupied
within any block which contains two or more dwellings situated on
such lots. No use other than a use permitted in a business district
may be established on any portion of such block, provided that this
restriction shall not apply to any premises more than two acres in
area or more than 200 feet distant from any existing dwelling. In
no case, however, shall a building or structure for any type of industrial
use be allowed within 300 feet of any residential area, regardless
of the number of dwellings on any particular block in such residential
area, whether such residential area is within the Town of Tonawanda
or not, unless allowed under the performance standards zoning procedure
and permitted by the Town Board.