As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
A use or structure subordinate to the principal use of a
building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental
to the use of the principal building. Manufactured homes, trailers,
truck trailers or bodies or similar movable objects which are not
designed for permanent attachment to a realty shall not be deemed
an "accessory structure."
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
ALTERATIONS
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
outside in the structural parts or in the exit facilities or an enlargement,
whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height, or moving
from one location or position to another.
ALTERATIONS, STRUCTURAL
Any outside change in the supporting members of a building
such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
APPROVED MINED LAND-USE PLAN
An approved mined land-use plan as described in § 23-2713
of the Environmental Conservation Law, including both a mining plan
and a reclamation plan.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
AUTOMOBILE OR TRAILER SALES AREA
An open area, other than a street, used for the display,
sale or rental of new or used motor vehicles or trailers in operable
condition and where no repair work is done.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION
A building or place of business where gasoline, oil and greases,
batteries, tires and automobile accessories are supplied and dispensed
directly to the motor vehicle trade, at retail, and where minor repair
service is rendered.
BEDROCK
Consolidated rock underlying the surface.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
BOARD OF APPEALS
The Board of Appeals of the Town of Phelps.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
BOAT REPAIR SERVICE
A building or place of business where gasoline, oil, greases,
batteries, tires and boat accessories are supplied and dispensed direct
to the boating industry at retail, and where major and/or minor repairs
services are rendered.
[Added 8-5-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
BOAT YARDS, SALES OR BUILDING FACILITIES
A building or open area, other than a street, used for the
display, sale or rental of new or used boats and accessories used
by boaters.
[Added 8-5-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
BUILDING
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls,
used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons,
animals or property.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the mean level of the
ground surrounding the building to a point midway between the highest
and lowest point of the roof, but not including chimneys, spires,
silos, towers, tanks and similar projections.
BUILDING LINE, FRONT
The line, as extended to the lot lines, of that point of
the principal building nearest the street line. This point includes
covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed, but does not include
steps. If there are street lines on two or more sides of the building
(e.g., corner lots), the building shall be considered to have two
front building lines.
[Added 8-10-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
BUILDING LINE, REAR
The line, as extended to the lot lines, of that point of
the principal building opposite and most distant from the front building
line. This point includes covered porches, whether enclosed or unenclosed,
but does not include steps. If there are street lines on two or more
sides of the building (e.g., corner lots), the building shall be considered
to have two rear building lines.
[Added 8-10-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL
A structure in which is conducted the principal use of the
site on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling
shall be deemed to be a "principal building" on the district lot on
which the same is located.
CAMP
Any area of land or land and water, including any buildings,
tents, shelters or other accommodations suitable for temporary or
seasonal living purposes.
CAMPING GROUND
A parcel of land used or intended to be used, let or rented
for transient, vacation and recreational occupancy of travel trailers,
campers, tents, recreational vehicles, motor homes and the motor vehicles
propelling or carrying the same, but excluding mobile homes designed
for year-round occupancy or as a place of residence.
[Added 7-10-2023 by L.L. No. 4-2023]
CANNABIS ON-SITE CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENT
A business operating pursuant to a license issued pursuant
to the NYS Cannabis Law that authorizes the consumption of cannabis
in an area specified in such license.
[Added 4-11-2022 by L.L. No. 2-2022]
CANNABIS RETAIL DISPENSARY
A retail facility that sells at retail any cannabis product
authorized under the NYS Cannabis Law, and the sale for which a license
is required.
[Added 4-11-2022 by L.L. No. 2-2022]
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
The administrative officer charged with the duty of enforcing
the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
COVERAGE
That percentage of the plot or land area covered by the building
area.
CUSTOMARY HOME OCCUPATION
Any use customarily conducted entirely within the principal
structure and carried on by the inhabitants thereof, which use is
clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the principal structure
and does not change the character thereof.
DEC
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
DUMP
A lot or land or part thereof used primarily for the disposal
by abandonment, dumping, burial, burning or any other means and for
whatever purpose of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded
machinery, vehicles or parts thereof or waste material of any kind.
DWELLING
Any building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons intended
for nontransient use. Manufactured and modular homes are included.
Recreational vehicles and travel trailers are not included.
[Amended 5-16-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988; 10-3-1994 by L.L. No.
2-1994]
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY
A building or portion thereof used or designed as a residence
for three or more apartment or dwelling units.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
A detached building, designated for or occupied exclusively
by one family and containing not more than one dwelling unit.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A detached or semidetached building where not more than two
individual family or dwelling units are entirely separated by vertical
walls or horizontal floors, unpierced except for access to the outside
or to a common cellar.
DWELLING UNIT
One or more rooms, including cooking facilities, and sanitary
facilities in a dwelling structure, designed as a unit for occupancy
by not more than one family for living and sleeping purposes. Each
unit shall be in conformance with the applicable regulations of the
New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
ELUVIATION
The transportation of dissolved or suspended materials within
the soil by the movement of water when rainfall exceeds evaporation.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
ESSENTIAL SERVICES
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by
public utilities or the Town or other governmental agencies of underground
or overhead gas, electrical or water transmission or distribution
systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits,
cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants
and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith,
reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such
public utilities or the Town or other governmental agencies or for
the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including
buildings.
FACTORY-BUILT HOME
Any structure that is wholly or in substantial part made,
fabricated, formed or assembled in manufacturing facilities for installation
on a building lot and is designed for long-term residential use. For
the purposes of these regulations, "factory-built homes" will consist
of two types, known and described as follows:
[Added 5-16-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988]
(1)
MANUFACTURED HOME OR HOUSINGA factory-built structure that is manufactured or constructed under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 5401, for transit to and installation or assembly on a residential lot and bearing a label certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act.
(3)
MODULAR HOME OR HOUSINGAll other factory built housing certified as meeting the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, and shall include housing commonly known as "modular," "panelized," "precut" and "prefabricated" as opposed to conventional stick built housing. For purposes of this chapter, "modular homes" shall be subject to the same standards as conventional stick built housing.
FAMILY
One or more persons occupying the premises and living as
a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying
a boardinghouse, lodging house, club, fraternity or hotel.
FARM
A parcel of land of 10 or more acres used principally in
the raising or production of agricultural products and the necessary
or usual dwellings, farm structures, storage and equipment.
FLOOR AREA
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several floors
of a building and its accessory buildings (excluding those used for
off-street parking). "Floor area" shall not include cellar space,
stairways and any floor space with floor to ceiling height less than
seven feet.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
A detached or attached accessory building used only for the
storage of private passenger vehicles.
HAULAGEWAY
All roads utilized for mining purposes, together with that
area of land over which material is transported, that are located
within the permitted area.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
ILLUVIATION
The accumulation of dissolved or suspended soil materials
in one area or horizon as a result of eluviation from another.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
JUNK
Scrap metals and their alloys, bones, used materials and
products (such as rags and cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles,
old tools and machinery, automobiles, fixtures and appliances, lumber,
boxes or crates, pipe and pipe fittings) and other manufactured goods
that are so worn, deteriorated or obsolete as to make them unusable
in their existing condition, but are subject to being dismantled for
sale or parts.
JUNKYARD
An area of land, with or without buildings, primarily used
for the storage outside of a completely enclosed building of used
and discarded materials, including but not limited to wastepaper,
rags, metal, building materials, house furnishing, machinery, vehicles
or parts thereof, including junk, as defined in this chapter, with
or without dismantling, processing, salvage, sale or other use or
disposition of the same. The deposit or storage of two or more wrecked
or broken motor vehicles or the major parts of two or more vehicles,
with the exception of agriculture-related vehicles, for a period of
two months or longer shall be deemed to make the lot a "junkyard."
KENNEL
Any premises on which four or more dogs six months old or
older are kept, bred and/or boarded.
[Added 7-2-1990 by L.L. No. 2-1990]
LARGE-SCALE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
A tract of land not less than five acres for nonresidential
development, and which is planned for development as units under single
ownership and control and which includes two or more nonresidential
principal buildings.
LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
A tract of land not less than 10 acres for nonresidential
development, and which is planned for development as units under single
ownership and control and which includes two or more nonresidential
principal buildings.
LAYERS
Soil generally consists of visually and texturally distinct
layers (also referred to as "horizon"). The Town of Phelps will use
the general and fairly universal sequence of O-A-B-C-R to designate
these layers/soil profiles (see attached Exhibit A). Not all of these layers are present in every location.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
LOT
A piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal building or a group of such buildings and accessory
buildings or utilized for a principal use and uses accessory or incidental
to the operation thereof, together with such open spaces as required
by this chapter, and having frontage on a public street.
LOT AREA
The computed area contained within the lot lines.
LOT, CORNER
A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection
or upon two parts of the same street, such streets or parts of the
same street forming an interior angle of less than 135°. The point
of intersection of the street lot lines is the "corner."
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance between the front and rear lot
lines.
LOT LINES
The property lines bounding the lot.
(3)
LOT LINE, SIDEAny lot line other than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from a street is called a side street lot line.
LOT, NONCONFORMING
Any district lot which does not conform to the minimum width,
depth and area dimensions specified for the district in which said
lot is located and the owner(s) of which does not own any adjacent
property the subdivision of which would create one or more conforming
lots.
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
LOT WIDTH
The distance between the two side lot lines measured at the
required setback line.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK OR COURT
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and/or improved for the placement of two or more manufactured homes
intended for nontransient use.
[Amended 5-16-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988]
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK UNIT OR STAND
That part of a manufactured home lot which has been reserved
for the placement of a manufactured home, appurtenant structure or
additions, including driveway apron and patio. The manufactured home
stand area is derived from the area of the lot which remains after
all setbacks are met.
[Amended 5-16-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988]
MINE
Any excavation from which a mineral is to be produced for
sale or exchange, or for commercial, industrial or municipal use;
all haulageways and all equipment above, on or below the surface of
the ground used in connection with such excavation, and all lands
included in the life of the mine review by the DEC.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
MINERAL
Any naturally formed, usually inorganic, solid material located on or below the surface of the earth. For the purposes of §
145-8.2 of the Zoning Law, peat and topsoil shall be considered minerals.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
MINING
The extraction of overburden and minerals from the earth;
the preparation and processing of minerals, including any activities
or processes or parts thereof for the extraction or removal of minerals
from their original location and the preparation, washing, cleaning,
crushing, stockpiling or other processing of minerals at the mine
location so as to make them suitable for commercial, industrial, or
construction use; exclusive of manufacturing processes, at the mine
location; the removal of such materials through sale or exchange,
or for commercial, industrial or municipal use; and the disposition
of overburden, tailings and waste at the mine location. "Mining" shall
not include reclamation of a mine or the excavation, removal and disposition
of minerals from construction projects, exclusive of the creation
of water bodies, or excavations in aid of agricultural activities.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
MOTELS, MOTOR COURTS AND MOTOR HOTELS
A series of attached or semidetached dwelling structures,
where each unit has convenient access to parking space for the use
of the unit's occupants. The units, with the exception of the manager's
or caretaker's, are designed to provide sleeping accommodations for
automobile transients or overnight guests.
OVERBURDEN
All of the earth, vegetation and other materials which lie
above or alongside a mineral deposit.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
PERSON
Any individual, public or private corporation, political
subdivision, government agency, department or bureau of the state,
municipality, industry, partnership, association, firm, trust, estate
or any other legal entity whatsoever.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT GROUPS
A structure or a group of structures designed to be maintained
and operated as a unit in single ownership or control by an individual,
partnership, corporation or cooperative group, and which has certain
facilities in common, such as yards and open spaces, recreation areas,
garages and parking areas.
PLANNING BOARD
The Planning Board of the Town of Phelps, Ontario County,
New York.
[Added 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
RECLAMATION
The conditioning of the affected land to make it suitable
for any uses or purposes consistent with the provisions of the Environmental
Conservation Law.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
RECREATION
(1)
RECREATION, COMMERCIALRecreation facilities operated as a business and open to the general public for a fee, including golf courses, golf driving ranges, ice-skating rinks, swimming pools, picnic and clambake groves, amusement parks and fairgrounds.
(3)
RECREATION, PUBLICRecreation facilities operated as a nonprofit enterprise by the Town of Phelps, any other governmental entity or any nonprofit organization and open to the general public.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A wheeled vehicle primarily designed as temporary living
quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, with or without
a mode of power, of such size or weight as not to require a special
highway movement permit and to be eligible to be licensed by the state
as a recreational vehicle. The term includes camping trailers, travel
trailers, fifth wheels, motor homes and truck campers, and other similar
vehicles. The term further includes the vehicles that have been disassembled
as to not allow it to be mobile.
[Added 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE, PARKED
A recreational vehicle situated upon property not owned by
the owner or operator of the recreational vehicle.
[Added 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE, STORED
A recreational vehicle situated upon the property of the
owner or operator thereof.
[Added 6-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
REGOLITH
The layer of loose, unconsolidated rock and dust that sits
atop a layer of bedrock.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
RELIGIOUS USE
A church, temple, synagogue, mosque or other similar place
of worship.
REPAIR
The replacement or renewal, excluding additions, of any part
of a building, structure, device or equipment, with like or similar
materials or parts, for the purpose of maintenance of such building,
structure, device or equipment.
ROOMING HOUSE
A building containing a single dwelling unit and containing
rooms for the rooming and/or boarding of at least three persons, but
not more than 10 persons, by prearrangement for definite periods of
not less than one week.
SEASONAL DWELLING
A detached dwelling not used for permanent residence and
not occupied for more than six months in each year.
SIGN
A name, identification, description, display or illustration
or any other visual display which is affixed to or painted or represented
directly or indirectly upon a building, structure or piece of land
and which directs attention to an object, product, place, activity,
person, institution, organization or business. However, a "sign" shall
not include any display of official court or public office notices
nor any official traffic control device nor shall it include the flag,
emblem or insignia of a nation, state, county, municipality, school
or religious group. A "sign" shall not include a sign located completely
within an enclosed building except for illuminated or animated signs
within show windows. Each display surface of a sign shall be considered
to be a "sign."
SIGN, ADVERTISING
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than
on the premises where the sign is located.
SOIL HORIZON
A layer generally parallel to the soil surface, whose physical
characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath. A soil horizon
commonly is differentiated from the horizons adjacent to it by characteristics
that can be seen or measured in the field, such as color, structure
and texture. Horizons are defined by obvious physical features, chiefly
color and texture. The following are the main soil horizons generally
found within the Town of Phelps:
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
(1)
O HORIZONO stands for organic matter; surface organic deposit with litter layer of plant residues in relatively nondecomposed form; mostly made up of leaf litter and humus (decomposed organic matter) and/or grass.
(2)
A HORIZONTopsoil; this is the surface soil comprised of organics with mineral matter; it has the most organic matter accumulation. This is the zone in which the most biological activity occurs. Soil organisms such as earthworms, pot worms, arthropods, nematodes, fungi and many species of bacteria and archaea are concentrated here, often in close association with plant roots.
(3)
B HORIZONSubsoil; subsurface layer reflecting chemical or physical alteration of parent material. This layer accumulates iron, clay, aluminum and organic compounds, a process referred to as illuviation.
(4)
C HORIZONParent rock; the parent material in sedimentary deposits. It consists of slightly broken-up bedrock. It is the unconsolidated material below the A and B horizons. This layer is also called the "regolith."
(5)
R HORIZONThe layer of unweathered bedrock at the base of the soil profile, and is composed largely of consolidated masses of hard rock that cannot be excavated by hand. This is the unweathered rock (bedrock) layer that is beneath all the other layers.
SOIL PROFILE
A vertical section exposing a set of horizons (layers) from
the ground surface to the parent rock/bedrock.
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
SPECIAL USE
A use which because of its unique characteristics requires
individual consideration in each case by the Board of Appeals and
the Planning Board before it may be permitted in the district enumerated
in this chapter.
STATE MINING PERMIT
A permit issued by the DEC under Article 23 of the Environmental
Conservation Law.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed, the use of which requires permanent
location on the ground or attachment to something having permanent
location on the ground, including stationary and portable carports.
STRUCTURE, NONCONFORMING
A structure or sign, the design or size of which does not
conform to the regulations of this chapter for the district in which
it is located.
TAILINGS
Material of inferior quality or value resulting from the
removal, preparation or processing of minerals.
[Added 7-9-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012]
TOPSOIL
Of the five master soil horizons, this is the horizon designated
as the "A horizon."
[Added 3-14-2016 by L.L.
No. 2-2016]
TOURIST HOME
A dwelling in which overnight accommodations are provided
or offered for transient guests for compensation.
TOWN BOARD
The governing body of the Town of Phelps.
TRAVEL TRAILER
A vehicle less than 32 feet in length and used for temporary
living or sleeping purposes and standing on wheels.
TRAVEL TRAILER CAMP
Any site, lot, field or tract of ground on which two or more
manufactured homes or travel trailers may be placed, and shall include
any building, structure, tent, vehicle or enclosure used or intended
to be used as a part of the equipment of such camp and intended for
transient use.
USE, NONCONFORMING
A building, structure or premises legally existing and/or
used at the time of the adoption of this chapter, or any amendment
thereto, and which does not conform with the use regulations of the
district in which located.
VARIANCE
The Board of Appeals authorized departure from the terms
of this chapter in accordance with the procedures set forth therefor
in this chapter:
(1)
USE VARIANCEThe authorization by the Board of Appeals for the use of land for a purpose which is otherwise not allowed or is prohibited by this chapter.
[Added 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
(2)
AREA VARIANCEThe authorization by the Board of Appeals for the use of land in a manner which is not allowed by the dimensional or physical requirements of the chapter.
[Added 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
YARD
An open space which lies between the principal building or
group of buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and
unobstructed, except for permitted accessory uses and trees and other
shrubs, from the ground upward except as herein permitted:
[Amended 10-3-1994 by L.L. No. 2-1994]
(1)
YARD, FRONTAn open space extending the full width of the lot between a principal building and the front lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
(2)
YARD, REARAn open space extending the full width of the lot between a principal building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
(3)
YARD, SIDEAn open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a principal building and the nearest side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward.
ZONING MAP
The Official Zoning Map of the Town of Phelps of 1974, together
with all amendments subsequently adopted.