As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ACCESSORY USE OR BUILDING
A use or building customarily incidental and subordinate
to the principal use or building and located on the same lot.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ACTIVITY
Any commercial activity, whether conducted intermittently
or full-time, which primarily involves the sale, display, exhibition
or viewing of books, magazines, films, photographs or other materials
distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on matter depicting,
describing or relating to human sex acts or by emphasis on male and
female genitals or buttocks or female breasts.
AGRICULTURAL USE
A use of land containing at least two acres for the production
of horticultural or agricultural foodstuffs, excluding livestock.
For the purposes of this chapter, agricultural uses shall not include
stabling, kenneling, dairying, slaughtering or riding stables. The
sale of agricultural produce raised on the property shall be considered
as an accessory use.
ALTERATION
A structural change, rearrangement, change of location or
addition to a building other than repairs and modification in building
equipment.
BASEMENT
A story partly underground. A basement shall be counted as
a story if the vertical distance between the basement ceiling and
the average grade level of the adjoining ground is six feet or more.
BOARDINGHOUSE
Any dwelling in which the owner, either individually or with
family, maintains a dwelling unit and in which dwelling additionally
three or more persons, whether individually or in families, are domiciled
for compensation with or without meals. The term "boardinghouse" shall
include "rooming house" or "furnished room house."
BUILDING
A structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and
intended for shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
BUILDING AREA
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings,
inclusive of covered porches, terraces and steps. All dimensions shall
be measured between exterior wall faces.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the finished grade at the front of the building to the highest
point of the roof for flat and mansard roofs and to the average height
between the eaves and ridge for other roofs.
BUILDING LINE
A line parallel to the front lot line coinciding with the
building face which is closest to the front lot line. This face includes
porches and steps.
CAMP
Land on which is located one or more cabins, trailers, shelters,
houseboats or other accommodation for seasonal or temporary living
purposes, excluding mobile homes.
CLUB
A building or use catering exclusively to club members and
their guests and not operated primarily for profit, including YMCA,
YWCA, YMHA, fraternity, sorority, lodge, religious and similar clubs.
COMMUNITY CENTER
A meeting hall, place of assembly, museum, art gallery or
library not operated primarily for profit.
COVERAGE
That percentage of lot area covered by building area.
DRIVE-IN SERVICE
Includes drive-in outdoor theaters, refreshment stands, fast-food
restaurants, banks and the like, where patrons enter the premises
and are served or entertained in automobiles.
DUMP
Land used for disposal, by abandonment, dumping, burial,
burning or other means, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, machinery,
vehicles or parts thereof or waste material of any kind.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A building used as living quarters by two families living
independently of each other.
DWELLING UNIT
A building or part thereof used as living quarters by one
family. The terms "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family dwelling"
or "multiple-family dwelling" shall not include a motel, hotel, boardinghouse,
tourist home, camp, hospital, club or similar structure.
FAMILY
One or more persons living, sleeping, cooking and eating
on the same premises as a single housekeeping unit.
FLOOR AREA
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the floors of a building,
excluding basement floor areas. All dimensions shall be measured between
interior faces of walls.
GASOLINE STATION
An area of land, including structures thereon or any building
or part thereof, used primarily for the sale and direct delivery to
the motor vehicle of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel or oil
and other lubricating substances and may also include the sale of
motor vehicle accessories and/or facilities for lubricating, washing
(without mechanical equipment) or otherwise servicing motor vehicles,
but not including auto body work, welding or painting. Gasoline stations
shall include filling stations and service stations.
HOME OCCUPATION
The accessory use of a service character conducted within
a dwelling by residents thereof which is clearly secondary to dwelling
use for living purposes and does not change the character or have
any exterior evidence of such use and which conforms to the following
conditions:
(1)
Home occupations shall be carried on wholly within the principal
building. Not more than one person outside the family shall be employed.
There shall be no exterior storage of materials used in the occupation.
(2)
Home occupation includes but is not limited to an artist, babysitter,
barber, beautician, cook, draftsman, dressmaker, launderer, musician
and photographer. (See definition of "professional residence-office.")
HOSPITAL
Includes a sanatorium, clinic, rest home, nursing home, convalescent
home, home for the aged and any place for diagnosis and/or treatment
of human ailments.
HOTEL or MOTEL
A building, group of buildings or part thereof containing
five or more individual units intended as living and sleeping accommodations
for transient occupancy for compensation. (See also "tourist home.")
JUNKYARD
Any land or building used for collecting, storage or sale
of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal or discarded material or for the
collecting, wrecking, dismantling, storage, salvaging or sale of machinery
parts of vehicles not in running condition. Two or more vehicles not
in running condition shall constitute a junkyard.
KENNEL
A building or land used for harboring four or more dogs or
cats over six months old.
LOADING SPACE
An off-street space at least 12 feet wide by 40 feet long
used for the temporary location of one licensed motor vehicle. Such
space shall have access to a street or alley.
LOT
Land occupied or which may be occupied by a building and
its accessory uses, together with required open spaces, having not
less than the minimum area, width and depth required for a lot in
the district in which the land is situated as defined in the chapter
and having frontage on a street as identified on the Official Map
of the Village of Green Island or other means of access as may be
determined by the Planning Board to be adequate as a condition for
issuance of a building permit.
LOT AREA
The total area within property lines, excluding any part
thereof lying within the boundaries of a street or proposed street.
LOT DEPTH
The mean horizontal distance from the street line of the
lot to its opposite rear line measured at right angles to the building
line.
LOT FRONTAGE
The distance measured across the width of the lot at the
street right-of-way line.
MOBILE HOME
A detached residential dwelling unit designed for transportation
after fabrication on streets and highways on its own wheels or on
a flatbed or other trailer and arriving at the site where it is to
be occupied as a dwelling complete and ready for occupancy except
for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations, located
on jacks or other temporary or permanent foundations and connected
to utilities and the like. A travel trailer is not to be considered
as a mobile home.
NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL
Any commercial use such as a grocery store, newspaper stand
or drugstore which is clearly intended to serve the residents of the
immediate surrounding area or neighborhood.
NONCONFORMING USE
The use of land or structure which does not comply with all
regulations for the district in which it is located, where such use
conformed to all applicable laws, ordinances and regulations prior
to enactment or amendment of this chapter.
OWNER
The person or persons holding title to the property.
PARKING SPACE
A space at least 9 1/2 feet wide by 20 feet long used
for the temporary location of one licensed motor vehicle. Such space
shall have access to a street or alley.
PROFESSIONAL RESIDENCE-OFFICE
A dwelling in which the occupant has a professional office
which is clearly secondary to the dwelling use for living purposes,
does not change the residential character and where not more than
one person outside the family is employed. (See definition of "home
occupation.")
RECREATION, INDOOR
Includes bowling alleys, theaters, table tennis and pool
halls, skating rinks, gymnasiums, swimming pools, hobby workshops
and similar places of indoor recreation.
RECREATION, OUTDOOR
Includes golf courses, golf driving ranges, archery ranges,
swimming pools, skating rinks, tennis courts, recreation stadiums,
skiing facilities and similar places of outdoor recreation.
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
Includes churches, temples, parish houses, convents, seminaries
and retreat houses.
RESIDENTIAL USE
Includes one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, multiple-family
dwellings, professional residence-offices and mobile homes.
RETAIL STORE
An enclosed store for the sale of retail goods, personal
service shop, department store and restaurant and shall exclude any
drive-up service, pushcart or peddler cart, gasoline service and motor
vehicle repair service, new and used car sales and service, trailer
and mobile home sales and service.
SCHOOL
Includes a parochial, private and public school, college,
university and accessory uses and shall exclude commercially operated
schools of beauty culture, business, dancing, driving, music and similar
establishments.
SIGN
Any device, structure, building or part thereof for visual
communication used to bring the subject thereof to the public's
attention.
SIGN, ADVERTISING OR BILLBOARD
A sign which directs attention to a business, industry, profession,
service, commodity or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere
than upon the same lot.
SIGN, BUSINESS
A sign which directs attention to a business, industry, profession,
service, commodity or entertainment sold or offered upon the same
lot on which it is displayed, including "for sale or rent" signs.
SPECIAL USE
Any use requiring a special use permit to be obtained from
the Planning Board.
[Added 12-19-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988]
STABLE
A building in which one or more horses are kept, whether
for private use or for hire. A stable shall include riding academies
and riding stables.
STREET
A public way for vehicular traffic which affords the principal
means of access to abutting properties.
STREET LINE
The right-of-way line of a street as dedicated by a deed
of record.
TOURIST HOME
A building, group of buildings or part thereof in which not
more than four individual units are provided to transient guests for
compensation.
TRAILER
A vehicle capable of being used as seasonal sleeping or living
quarters, not exceeding 380 square feet in floor area, whether self-propelled
or towed, or a camper body mounted on a motor vehicle. "Trailer" shall
also include any vehicle which may be towed and used for carrying
goods, equipment, machinery or recreation vehicles or as a site office.
USE, PERMITTED
A use specifically allowed in the district, excluding illegal
and nonconforming uses.
YARD
Space on a lot not occupied with a building. Porches shall
be considered as part of the main building and shall not project into
a required yard.
YARD, FRONT
The yard between the front lot line and the front line of
a building extended to the side lot lines.
YARD, REAR
The yard between the rear lot line and the rear line of a
building extended to the side lot lines.
YARD, SIDE
The yard between the side lot line and the building, extending
through from the front to the rear yard.