The Board of Trustees of the Village of East Hills finds that the inclusion of the Business Park District (hereinafter designated as the "BPD District") as part of Chapter
271, Zoning, of the Village Code is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan of land use as embodied in this article and all of the other provisions of the Village Code. Additionally, the Board of Trustees finds that the adoption of the Business Park District is in accord with the development policy of the Village of East Hills, as more specifically set forth in §
271-2 of the Code of the Village of East Hills. Further, it is the purpose of this article and the intent of the Board of Trustees in adopting this article to control, promote and encourage the unified, comprehensive and well planned development of large-scale office, business, commercial and medical-related facilities and uses on large tracts of land within the Village of East Hills. Currently, the Village of East Hills is comprised of nine separate zoning districts. Of the nine zoning districts, only three zoning districts (Business A, Business B and Light Industrial A) allow any type of business or industrial use. None of the current zoning districts provide appropriate guidelines for the unified development of large tracts of land for a combination of uses in a single building or group of buildings. The Board of Trustees finds that the inclusion of the Business Park District promotes appropriate development within the Village, while protecting the health safety and welfare of its residents.
All word and terms already defined in §
271-7 of the Village Code shall have the same meanings as set forth therein.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used for any of the specific purposes set forth in this article and for no other purpose. All of the following uses, operations or activities shall be carried on within a fully enclosed building or structure, and there shall be no outdoor storage of materials or equipment. The following uses are permitted in the Business Park District. (NOTE: Any and all of the permitted uses set forth in §
271-240 can be made a special permit use in accordance with §§
271-244 and
271-245 of this article.)
A. Research and design facilities.
B. Offices for business, professional, administrative and technology
based firms and organizations.
C. Financial services offices, including banks, brokerage firms, financial
advisors and other financial institutions.
D. Hospital-affiliated outpatient care facilities, including ambulatory
surgery centers, outpatient clinics, imaging and research centers,
and laboratories customarily located within such medical facilities.
E. Professional medical offices.
All uses not set forth in this article are strictly prohibited.
All uses as set forth herein shall conform to the performance standards, where applicable, set forth in Article
X, §§
271-99 through
271-108 the Code of the Village of East Hills.
The following special uses may be permitted only when authorized by the Village Board of Trustees after public hearing thereon. Prior to authorizing the issuance of a permit for any such special use, the Village Board of Trustees shall follow the procedures and make appropriate findings as set forth in §
271-245B of this article. The uses requiring a special use permit are as follows:
A. Fully enclosed, indoor filmmaking studios and/or sound stages.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises
may be used for any of the purposes set forth in this article on a
lot less than 15 acres.
No principal building shall exceed 50 feet in height. No accessory
building shall exceed 30 feet in height.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no building
within the Business Park District shall be erected, altered or used
unless off-street parking spaces as specified below are provided for
on the premises. However, during site plan review, the Board of Trustees
may in its discretion determine, based on a traffic and parking study
prepared by a qualified traffic engineering professional and verified
by professionals retained by the Village, that the required off-street
parking requirement is in excess of the projected parking generation
for a proposed use, in which case, the Board of Trustees may permit
a lesser number of spaces to be provided upon a finding that such
number of spaces shall be sufficient to serve the projected demand
and that no adverse impacts will result. The Village may also choose,
during the site plan review process, to require land banking of parking
spaces, with the imposition of appropriate conditions.
A. Professional or medical offices: one space for every 250 square feet
of gross floor area (not including common areas, maintenance/utility
rooms, cafeterias or gym facilities for the exclusive use of the tenants).
B. Storage space: one space for every 1,000 square feet of gross floor
area.
C. All other uses: one space for every 500 square feet of gross floor
area (not including common areas, maintenance/utility rooms, cafeterias
or gym facilities for the exclusive use of the tenants).
Provisions for off-street loading and unloading shall be made
for all uses in the Business Park District in a location that will
not interfere with accessory parking and means of ingress and egress
thereto, and such areas shall be surfaced in the same manner as the
parking areas. The area to be allocated for loading and unloading
shall be at least 10 feet in width, 25 feet in length and 15 feet
in clear height.
A. Provisions for off-street loading and unloading shall be governed
by the following requirements:
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Use
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One Loading Area for Each
(square feet)
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Storage space
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10,000
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Office/all other businesses
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40,000
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B. In no case shall more than three such spaces be required.
All wiring, feed lines, energy sources and all equipment accessory
to all utilities for any building in the Business Park District shall
be placed underground. The Village Board of Trustees may waive this
requirement at the request of the applicant in cases where the Board
of Trustees shall determine that installation or installation services
will result in substantial difficulty in construction and economic
hardship.
In addition to all other requirements as set forth in the article, any and all construction of a new building, alteration of an existing building or change of use as provided in this article within the Business Park District shall also require an application to and approval from the Village's Architectural Review Board pursuant to and as more fully set forth in Chapter
271, Article
XX, of the Code of the Village of East Hills.
All signs in the Business Park District shall comply with the requirements of §§
271-91 and
271-92 relating to signage in the Business B District.
Any application for the construction of a new building, alteration
of an existing building or change of use of an existing building,
as provided in this article, within the Business Park District shall
be subject to the environmental review requirements of the New York
State Environmental Quality Review Act (Article 8 of the Environmental
Conservation Law) and its implementing regulations (6 NYCRR Part 617)
("SEQRA").
All fees and deposits shall be required in accordance with §
271-138 of the Village Code.