[Amended 12-5-2006 by L.L. No. 52-2006]
The intent of the Commercial/Residential Campus (CRC) Zoning
Use District is to provide locations for offices and professional
offices which offer essential legal, medical, accounting, real estate,
travel, and other services to Riverhead residents, and to provide
additional housing alternatives convenient to services and arterials.
In the CRC Zoning Use District, no building, structure, or premises
shall be used or arranged or designed to be used, and no building
or structure shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, or altered,
unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following
permitted uses or specially permitted uses and their customary accessory
uses:
A. Permitted uses:
(5) Single-family residences.
(6) Two-family residences, with the use of one preservation credit.
(9) Radio and television broadcast studios.
(11)
Museums and art galleries.
(12)
Meeting rooms of fraternal organizations.
(15)
Indoor sports and recreation facilities.
[Added 12-5-2006 by L.L. No. 52-2006]
B. Accessory uses. Accessory uses shall include those uses customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses or specially permitted
uses when located on the same lot. Specifically permitted are the
following:
(2) Drive-through windows for banks and pharmacies.
[Amended 1-17-2006 by L.L. No. 4-2006]
[Amended 5-5-2009 by L.L. No. 28-2009]
The design standards and parking standards listed in the provisions
below (Subsections A and B of this section) are intended as a guide
or measure for improvements in parcels in this zoning district, and
the word "shall" recited in the provisions below, with the exception
of Subsection B(1) which requires adherence to the Parking Schedule,
is intended to obtain compliance with the provisions to the extent
practicable as determined by the Board responsible for review.
A. Design standards.
(1) Office and professional office developments shall be organized in
a campus style.
(2) Driveway openings and curb cuts shall be aligned with existing curb
cuts along major arterial roads, in order to reduce the potential
addition of traffic lights and conflicting turning movements.
(3) Continuous sidewalks, off-street transit stops (where routes exist
or are planned) and bike racks close to business entrances shall be
provided for properties fronting Route 58 or other major arterial
street.
(4) Signage shall be provided in accordance with Article
XLVIII, Signs, of this chapter.
(5) Buffering and transitions.
(a)
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened from view of streets, sidewalks, pedestrian pathways, and windows of residential buildings, pursuant to §
245-8.
(b)
Buffer plantings shall be provided between commercial uses and
adjoining residential uses or zones, as well as along frontages with
arterial roads.
B. Parking standards.
(1) The number of off-street parking spaces in the CRC Zoning Use District shall be provided in accordance with §
301-231, Off-street parking, of this chapter.
(2) Curb cuts to parking lots shall be minimized by sharing driveways
and consolidating entrances for access to adjacent parking lots.
(3) Planted berms shall be used to screen the view of automobiles from
public roadways.
(4) Off-street parking is prohibited within 10 feet of all property lines.
(5) Driveways are prohibited within five feet of side property lines.
(6) In order to soften the appearance of parking lots, parking lots shall
be landscaped with ground cover, grasses, or low shrubs for at least
10% of their land area. This landscaping requirement is in addition
to the twenty-percent parcel-wide landscaping mentioned above.
(7) In order to provide shade, parking lots with 21 or more spaces shall
have "orchard" planting: one tree per 10 off-street spaces. Such trees
shall be spread throughout the parking lot, rather than clustered
only along the edges.
(8) In order to provide recharge of the groundwater basin and minimize
runoff, at least one of the following stormwater management techniques
shall be used in parking lots where underlying soils support infiltration
of precipitation to the groundwater:
(a)
Where sanding and salting are not used in the winter, low-traffic
or seasonal parking overflow areas of the parking lot shall be surfaced
with porous pavement or gravel.
(b)
Landscaped areas of the parking lot shall be sited, planted,
and graded in a manner to provide infiltration and detention of runoff
from paved areas.
(9) Large areas of surface parking shall be broken up by landscaped walkways
connecting sidewalks and parking areas to business entrances, in order
to create parking fields of no more than 250 spaces each.