Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, no building or structure or land shall be used nor shall any building or structure be built or altered in a Very-Low-Density Residential District R5A, except for the purposes specified in the following sections. Any use not listed as a permitted use, permitted accessory use, specially permitted use, or use requiring site plan approval shall be deemed to be prohibited.
In a Very-Low-Density Residential District R5A, permitted principal uses, buildings and other structures shall be as follows:
A. 
Agriculture.
B. 
Animal husbandry.
C. 
Dwellings, one-family.
D. 
Farms.
E. 
Farmhouses.
F. 
Forest nurseries, tree-seed gathering and extracting and gathering of gums and barks.
G. 
Forestry service.
H. 
Parks, public and private.
I. 
Playgrounds.
J. 
Post offices.
K. 
Public utilities installations, including electric transportation lines.
L. 
Schools, elementary.
M. 
Schools, nursery.
N. 
Schools, secondary.
O. 
Home occupations.
In a Very-Low-Density Residential District R5A, permitted accessory uses, buildings and other structures shall be as follows:
A. 
Accessory use of a building as defined herein.
B. 
Accessory buildings and structures customarily associated with the permitted principal uses, buildings and other structures.
C. 
In a dwelling or farmhouse, the keeping of not more than two transient roomers and boarders. This shall not be construed, however, to be an accessory apartment.
D. 
Between the yards of a dwelling:
(1) 
Outdoor storage of not more than one of each of the following: a boat, boat trailer, camp trailer or cargo trailer, any of which shall be only for personal use by a resident on the premises.
(2) 
A private garage or open parking for operative passenger vehicles owned by persons residing or visiting on the premises.
(3) 
A playhouse, tool house or garden house.
(4) 
A private swimming pool not operated for gain, subject to the additional provisions of § 120-68.
E. 
Off-street parking for commercial vehicles while loading and unloading as required by § 120-64.
F. 
Off-street parking and automobile storage space as required by § 120-63.
G. 
Signs as permitted by § 120-66.
H. 
Temporary structures as permitted by § 120-69.
I. 
Fences and hedges as permitted by § 120-59.
A. 
Special permit uses. In a Very-Low-Density Residential District R5A, uses for which the Planning Board may issue a special permit in accordance with the provisions of Article XI shall be as follows. All uses requiring a special use permit shall also require site plan approval from the Planning Board.
(1) 
Boardinghouse or rooming house.
(2) 
Bus passenger shelter, for which the Board of Appeals may waive the provisions of § 120-17.
(3) 
Cemetery.
(4) 
Clinic, dental.
(5) 
Clinic, medical.
(6) 
Clubhouse, as defined herein.
(7) 
Educational institution on a site not less than 50 acres, subject to the additional provisions of § 120-58.
(8) 
Electric substation, gas district governor station, telephone exchange or other public utility building or structure, except a business office, storage yard, repair shop or facility for the manufacture or storage of illuminating gas.
(9) 
Hospital.
(10) 
Hospital (animal) or veterinary clinic.
(11) 
Kennel on a site not less than 10 acres.
(12) 
Motel or motor court, subject to the additional provisions of § 120-61.
(13) 
Nursery school.
(14) 
Nursing or convalescent home.
(15) 
Private or commercial automobile parking lot on land directly abutting a business district at the side or rear, provided that no part of such lot extends more than 400 feet beyond the boundary line of such business district or extends into a front yard or extends closer to the side line of the lot than 50 feet, and provided that, wherever abutting on other than commercial property, the parking lot is to be densely planted with trees and shrubbery for a depth of not less than 25 feet. (See Plate 22.[1])
[1]
Editor's Note: Said plate is included as an attachment to this chapter.
(16) 
Sanitarium or sanatorium.
(17) 
Tourist home.
B. 
Site plan review and approval. The following uses shall be reviewed through the site plan approval process (Article XII):
(1) 
Church or parish house.
(2) 
School, vocational.
In a Very-Low-Density Residential District R5A, area, yard, coverage and height provisions shall be as follows:
A. 
General. The area, yard, coverage and height provisions established by this section apply to all permitted uses in R5A Districts for which special criteria are not established elsewhere in this chapter.
B. 
Area per establishment. Except as specified otherwise, the minimum area per establishment shall be one acre.
C. 
Lot dimensions. Except as specified otherwise, the minimum width of the lot at the front building line shall be 100 feet.
D. 
Front yards. Except as otherwise specified, no part of any building or structure shall extend nearer to the street line than 50 feet or nearer to the center line of the street than 75 feet, whichever distance requires the greater setback from the street line.
E. 
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 50 feet.
F. 
Side yards. There shall be two side yards having a total width of not less than 50 feet. One side yard shall be at least 1/3 of the total side yards.
G. 
Height. Thirty-five feet for the principal structure and 20 feet maximum for any accessory structure.
H. 
Coverage. The maximum coverage shall be 25%.
A. 
No driveway, as measured from its edge, shall intersect a street line less than 50 feet from the intersection of any two street lines.
B. 
Driveways shall be no more than 18 feet wide for residential uses and 26 feet for commercial uses.
C. 
Commercial uses:
(1) 
May have not more than two driveways or accessways from the main street or highway it fronts; and
(2) 
A maximum of 25% of the frontage shall be used as a driveway.
D. 
For corner lots, both sides of the street frontage shall be considered front yards.
E. 
Commercial uses on corner lots shall have a maximum of two driveways.
A. 
Major subdivisions proposed within the R5A are encouraged to and may be designed as a clustered subdivision to maximize the amount of open space preserved and to emulate traditional small-lot, Village neighborhoods. The Planning Board is further authorized to require a clustered subdivision when proposed on a parcel where the Land Conservation Overlay is present and when, in the Board's opinion, a clustered subdivision would benefit the Village by the further preservation of open lands contained within the LC Overlay District.
B. 
For any proposed or required clustered subdivision, the Planning Board may waive the heretofore-established dimension requirements, including width, front, side and rear yard requirements, provided that:
(1) 
The net land area per dwelling unit in a development as defined herein is one acre. A clustered development shall result in a permitted number of building lots or dwelling units which shall in no case exceed the number which could be permitted, in the Planning Board's judgment, if the land were subdivided into lots conforming to the minimum lot size and density requirements of the zoning law applicable to the R5A district.
(2) 
The minimum distance between any two buildings or structures shall not be less than 25 feet.
(3) 
The Planning Board as a condition of approval may establish such conditions on the ownership, use, and maintenance of such preserved open lands shown on the plat as it deems necessary to assure the preservation of the natural and scenic qualities of such open lands.
(4) 
The proposed cluster development shall be subject to review at a public hearing.
(5) 
All the subdivision procedures pursuant to the Village of Nassau Subdivision Law shall be followed.
(6) 
The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to authorize a change in the permissible use of such lands as provided in this zoning chapter.
(7) 
A stormwater pollution protection plan (SWPPP) shall be prepared and submitted for review to the Planning Board pursuant to New York State Department of Environmental Conservation regulations [Title 6 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR)] to ensure that no development will adversely impact wetlands, streams, or increase erosion or sedimentation.
C. 
The clustered subdivision shall be designed to preserve, at a minimum, all the lands of the parcel contained within the LC Overlay District.
(1) 
Upon approval of a clustered development, the Planning Board shall file the plan with the Village Clerk and, if a subdivision, with the office of the County Clerk.