Except for farms or one-family or two-family residences, any
portion of a lot used for open off-street parking or reservoir space
or for open sales, service or storage areas for motor vehicles, contractor's
equipment or boats shall be deemed to be an automotive use area and
shall be subject to the following requirements:
A. Surfacing. Every automotive use area and access driveway thereto
shall be surfaced with a durable and dustless material and shall be
so graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water accumulation.
B. Lighting. Any fixture used to illuminate any automotive use area
shall be so arranged as to direct the light away from the street or
road and away from adjoining premises.
C. Screening and green area. Every automotive use area, except off-street
parking areas for less than five vehicles, shall be separated from
any adjoining lot in any R or AG District, including lots situated
across the street or road, as follows:
(1) Green area: along a street or road line, by a live planting strip
five feet wide; provided, however, that no shrub planting or tree
foliage shall be placed or maintained which obstructs vision at an
elevation between three feet and seven feet above the street or road
level. Such planting strips may be interrupted by normal entrances
and exits.
(2) Screening area: along a rear lot line or an interior side lot line
which abuts an existing or future rear yard or side yard on such adjoining
lots, by a compact evergreen hedge which will reach a height of five
feet within three years or by a solid uniformly painted fence or an
unpierced masonry wall five feet in height. Such screening shall be
maintained in good condition at all times.
D. Access.
(1) No entrance or exit to any automotive use area shall be permitted
within 30 feet of any intersecting street or road lines and, except
for off-street parking areas for uses permitted in any R or AG District
requiring less than 10 parking spaces, no entrance or exit shall be
permitted within 20 feet of a lot in any R or AG District.
(2) Access to automotive use areas, except for off-street parking areas
in an R or AG District for less than five vehicles, shall be approved
by the Town Highway Superintendent and shall be so arranged that vehicles
shall not be required to back into a street or road.
E. Restriction on use. No automotive use area shall be used for auto
wrecking or for the storage of wrecked, partially dismantled or junked
vehicles or equipment.
Where a lot is divided by any zoning district boundary so as
to be in more than one zoning district and where such lot was an existing
lot when such district boundary was established, a conforming use,
occupying 50% or more of the area of said lot and having a street
or road frontage in the district where permitted, may be extended
on such lot not more than 25 feet (measured perpendicular to the district
boundary) into any district where such use is not permitted.
[Amended 7-9-2009 by L.L. No. 3-2009]
No dwelling shall be erected on any lot which does not have
either:
A. Immediate
minimum frontage for the zoning district within which it is located
on an existing or platted street or highway.
B. A right-of-way
of a minimum of 50 feet, deeded in fee to the applicant which will
not adversely affect the required frontage of an adjoining conforming
lot located on an existing or platted street or highway.
Where a loading or unloading platform or any service entrance
in a C District faces any lot line which coincides with any R or AG
District boundary, such platform or service entrance shall be effectively
screened from such R or AG District in a manner approved by the Town
Board.