The purposes of this article are to provide for multifamily
residences and professional office activities adjacent to neighborhood
commercial areas; to respect and preserve the existing rural and woodland
character of hamlets; and to provide for coordinated site design which
unifies individual developments, thereby allowing convenient and safe
vehicular circulation and promoting high-quality design of developments
which complements the scale and hamlet character of these areas.
[Amended 4-20-2010 by L.L. No. 7-2010; 10-2-2012 by L.L. No.
26-2012]
In the Multifamily Residential Professional Office Zone District,
no building, structure or premises shall be used, arranged or designed
to be used and no building or structure shall hereafter be erected,
reconstructed or altered, unless otherwise provided in this chapter,
except for one of the following permitted uses and their customary
accessory uses:
A. Permitted uses:
(1) Multifamily residential condominiums served by a community water
system of Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
(2) Day-care centers or nursery schools, as defined by the Social Services
Law.
(3) Professional offices of:
(k)
Insurance agents or brokers.
(r)
Person or persons determined by the Town Board to be engaged
in a profession similar to those set forth above.
(4) One-family townhomes or multifamily units.
(5) Agricultural production, including but not limited to the following:
(a)
Field crops, including corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, hay,
potatoes, and dry beans.
(b)
Fruits, including apples, peaches, grapes, cherries and berries.
(c)
Vegetables, including tomatoes, snap beans, cabbage, carrots,
beets and onions.
(d)
Horticultural specialties, including nursery stock, ornamental
shrubs, ornamental trees and flowers.
(e)
Livestock and livestock products, including cattle, sheep, hogs,
goats, horses, poultry, farmed deer, farmed buffalo, fur-bearing animals,
milk, eggs and furs.
(f)
Christmas trees grown in a managed Christmas tree operation,
whether dug for transplanting or cut from the stump.
(g)
Commercial horse-boarding operations.
(6) Professional studios and performing arts studios.
B. Special permit uses:
(1) Public libraries/museums.
(2) Public facilities, including firehouses and police stations.
(3) Institutions, including schools, places of worship, and community
centers.
C. Accessory uses:
(1) Those uses customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses
or specially permitted uses when located on the same lot and not involving
the conduct of a business unless as otherwise specified below.
(2) The sale at retail of homegrown or homemade products, provided that all retail uses shall be subject to site plan approval pursuant to Article
LVI, Site Plan Review, and the other provisions of this chapter. The farmer may sell supporting farm products and farm products not grown by the farmer, provided that the area devoted to the sale of said products at no time exceeds 40% of the total merchandising area.
[Amended 4-20-2010 by L.L. No. 7-2010; 10-2-2012 by L.L. No.
26-2012]
A. Lot area. The minimum lot area shall be 160,000 square feet.
B. Lot width. The minimum width (frontage) shall be 400 feet.
C. Yards.
(1) Front. The minimum front yard shall be 50 feet. No building, structure,
storage, tennis court, swimming pool, parking or other similar accessory
uses shall be located in the front yard so provided. Sidewalks, walkways,
and access driveways shall be exempt from this requirement.
(2) Side. The minimum side yard shall be 25 feet.
(3) Rear. The minimum rear yard shall be 50 feet, except that the minimum
rear yard shall be 25 feet when adjacent to a property within a Multifamily
Residential Professional Office Zone District.
D. Building area.
(1) The maximum building area shall be 15%.
(2) The number of dwelling units permitted for residential uses shall
be based on the number of bedrooms per dwelling unit and the type
of community water and sewage system provided, which number shall
be incorporated as a filed restriction in all deeds and titles related
to the condominium site as follows:
(a)
One-bedroom dwelling units: 4.0 per acre.
(b)
Two-bedroom dwelling units: 3.0 per acre.
E. Floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall be 0.20.
F. Impervious surface coverage. The maximum impervious surface coverage
for all uses shall be 75%.
G. Height. The maximum height of buildings and structures shall be 35
feet, and the maximum stories shall be 2 1/2.
H. Unit size. The maximum size of dwelling units, exclusive of up to
400 square feet for attached or detached garages, shall be as follows:
(1) One-bedroom dwelling units: 1,400 square feet.
(2) Two-bedroom dwelling units: 1,800 square feet.
[Amended 4-20-2010 by L.L. No. 7-2010; 10-2-2012 by L.L. No.
26-2012; 5-22-2013 by L.L. No. 8-2013]
A. A front yard landscape buffer plan shall be reviewed
and approved by the Planning Board for property zoned Multifamily
Residential Professional Office (MRP) Zone for residential uses. Said
plan shall include a minimum thirty-five-foot front yard landscaped
buffer along the entire property line with the exception of the required
site and emergency access locations and/or bus shelter, as required
by the Planning Board. Proposed landscaping shall not impede sight
distances from any street intersections and/or driveways.
B. Proposed landscaping shall be staggered and of sufficient
height to fully diffuse and screen the mass and scale of the development
from the street view year round. The term "sufficient height" shall
mean deciduous trees no less than a caliper of 3 1/2 inches and
a variety of evergreen trees a minimum of six feet in height. Said
buffer yard may be designed to include the installation and planting
of an earthen berm and/or fence not to exceed six feet in height.
Said fence shall be placed behind any required berm or buffer vegetation.
C. Yard landscaping. Within all the required yards, the existing vegetation
shall be retained. Any proposals for disturbance shall be subject
to site plan approval and Architectural Review Board recommendation.
D. Preservation of existing vegetation. Site plans for
the development of property located in a Multifamily Residential Professional
Office Zone District shall include an indication of existing mature
trees and other instances of unique, indigenous and/or significant
vegetation or other natural features so as to ensure their preservation
and thereby retain an open space environment which enhances the character
of the Town.
E. Parking areas.
(1) The visual impact of parking areas shall be softened
by interrupting continuous rows of parking spaces with planting and
by creating planted canopies over parking areas.
(2) Any open parking areas of 15 spaces or more shall
be provided with internal landscaping covering not less than 10% of
the total area of the parking area.
(3) Landscaping shall be reasonably dispersed throughout
the parking area. Primary landscape materials shall be shade trees.
Secondary materials shall complement the tree planting and the surrounding
natural environment.
Signage shall meet the requirements of Article
XLVIII, Signs, of this chapter.