[Amended 10-5-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992; 9-18-2012 by L.L. No.
2-2012]
A.
Permitted
uses. In an A Residence District, no building or premises shall be
used and no building shall hereafter be erected or altered, unless
provided in this chapter, except for one or more of the following
uses:
(1)
One-family dwellings.
(2)
Public parks, playgrounds, recreational areas and
real property and structures owned and operated by the municipality
and for municipal purposes of the Village of Belle Terre.
(3)
Accessory buildings, including one private garage when located on the same lot and when meeting the requirements of § 170-9 and when such buildings are incidental to the principal use of the dwelling and do not include any activity commonly conducted as a business.
[Amended 10-16-2018 by L.L. No. 3-2018]
C.
Prohibited uses. Any use other than a single-family dwelling is prohibited in the Village of Belle Terre, except for the special exception uses set forth in § 170-5B above. The following are specifically prohibited uses within Village:
[Added 8-18-2020 by L.L. No. 2-2020]
(1)
Heliports
and helipads. The use of helicopters for landing or taking off within
the Village of Belle Terre is prohibited, except as otherwise provided
herein.
(a)
Heliports, helipads or any other structure and/or area intended for use as a landing or taking-off point for helicopters are prohibited within the Village of Belle Terre, except as may necessarily be required in association with the exceptions stated in Subsection C(1)(b).
(b)
This prohibition shall not apply to the use of helicopters as may
be required for military or governmental purposes or for medical or
police emergencies.
(2)
Seaplanes.
The use of seaplanes for landing, taxiing or taking off within the
Village of Belle Terre or from waterways under the jurisdiction of
the Village of Belle Terre is prohibited.
(3)
Penalties for offenses. In addition to the penalties set forth in § 170-54 of this chapter, a violation of § 170-5C(1) or (2) is punishable as follows:
(a)
Each offense shall be a violation punishable by a fine not to exceed
$5,000. Each landing and takeoff in violation of this section shall
constitute a separate and distinct violation.
[Amended 10-5-1992 by L.L. No. 1-1992]
In the A Residence District, no building or
structure hereafter erected or altered shall exceed 35 feet in height.
Where the finished grade surrounding the building varies, the distance
from the lowest grade surrounding the building to the top of the highest
roof shall not exceed 45 feet.
A.
Each one-family dwelling shall have a separate lot
area of at least one acre.
B.
Corner lots. A corner lot shall have a front yard on each street as provided by § 170-9A. A corner lot shall be deemed to comply with the provisions of this chapter if, regardless of the design or placement of the main entrance to the proposed building in relation to the street, said corner lot has one rear yard as provided by § 170-9C and one side yard as provided by § 170-9B. For the purposes of this section, the rear and side yards shall be interchangeable, and it shall be immaterial where the main entrance to the proposed building shall be placed in relation to a particular street.
A.
In the A Residence District, no one-family dwelling
shall be erected or altered on a lot that has less than 200 feet of
frontage at the building line thereof.
B.
The front building line or line of said face of the
building is not to be less than 60 feet back of the street line on
which the lot abuts. No part of any building shall be less than 60
feet back of the street line except chimneys, stoops, parapets and
roof overhangs.
A.
Front yard.
(1)
In the A Residence District, there shall be a front
yard having a depth of not less than 60 feet, unless 40% or more of
the frontage on that side of the street between two intersecting streets
is improved with buildings, a majority of which have observed an average
front yard line having a variation in depth of not more than six feet,
in which case no building shall project beyond the average front yard
so established. However, this regulation shall not be interpreted
to require a front yard depth of more than 100 feet.
(2)
Interior lots having a frontage on two streets shall
have a front yard on each street as provided above.
(3)
All front yard setbacks shall be measured from the property line
unless the property line encompasses all or a portion of a road in
which case the setback will be measured from the edge of the road
nearest the dwelling. In the event the dwelling has multiple front
yards. they will be measured independently.
[Added 10-16-2018 by L.L.
No. 3-2018]
B.
Side yards. In the A Residence District, there shall
be two side yards, one on each side of the building, the total width
of both to be not less than 80 feet, and no one side shall be less
than 35 feet wide.
C.
Rear yard. In the A Residence District, there shall
be a rear yard having a minimum depth of 90 feet.
[Amended 10-16-2018 by L.L. No. 3-2018]
B.
No structure
whatsoever may be erected in any front yard area as defined herein.
C.
A fence
or wall, provided that it complies with the requirements of § 170-
13, may be constructed in the rear or side yard to enclose property
within the lot.
D.
With the
exception of ground cover defined as plantings of less than one foot
in height, no trees, shrubs or any plants greater than two feet high
may be planted within five feet of the edge of any paved road. Further,
no landscape boulders may be placed within three feet of the edge
of any paved road.
A.
Each such one-family dwelling, if it consists of one
level, must have 2,000 square feet of gross floor area and if it consists
of more than one level, not less than 2,500 square feet of gross area
above the foundation. The minimum foundation area in the case of a
one-family dwelling of more than one level must be at least 1,750
square feet, which may include attached garages but will exclude such
open spaces as carports, porches or breezeways.
B.
The total building area shall not exceed 20% of the
total lot area.
With every dwelling hereafter erected, there shall be provided an enclosed garage to house at least one automobile. Said garage may be attached to or form part of the building or be permitted as an accessory building as permitted in § 170-5.
[Amended 3-18-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014; 10-16-2018 by L.L. No. 3-2018]
A.
In the A Residence District, no fence or wall shall be erected higher than four feet from the ground, except as required to enclose a swimming pool as provided in § 140-5. Fencing, and as required for a wireless communications tower as provided in Chapter 168, Wireless Communications Towers and Antennas, and as permitted to keep deer out as provided in Subsection B herein. The height of any fence shall include the height of any berm created to increase the total elevation of the fence.
B.
A deer fence. as defined in § 170-1, is permitted to be erected in any location where a fence is otherwise permitted under this Code. This shall not include fences approved by variance.
C.
Any fence
must be screened with landscaping sufficient to obscure visibility
of the fence when viewed from the center line of any paved road.
In the A Residence District, all signs shall be in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 29, Advertising Materials.
In the A Residence District, no building shall
hereafter be erected unless provision shall be made for the off-street
parking of at least two parking spaces (400 square feet) for each
one-family dwelling.
No driveway shall be constructed or structurally
altered unless a permit for such construction or alteration has been
issued by the Building Inspector. There shall be no fee for such permit.
