The intent of the Destination Retail Center (DRC) Zoning Use
District is to provide a location for large retail centers along Route
58 that attract customers from the East End of Long Island and beyond,
while linking development along the Route 58 corridor to open space
protected in the Agriculture Protection (APZ) Zoning Use District.
It is the further intent to allow increased floor area in the DRC
Zoning Use District with the use of transferred development rights
where appropriate. Development is intended to have a campus-style
layout, with no strip or freestanding businesses permitted.
In the DRC 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:
(3)
Car dealerships.
[Added 3-7-2006 by L.L. No. 13-2006]
(4)
Banks.
[Added 8-1-2006 by L.L. No. 27-2006]
(5)
Warehouse clubs or wholesale clubs.
[Added 6-15-2010 by L.L. No. 14-2010]
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 included are the following:
[Added 1-17-2006 by L.L. No. 2-2006]
(1)
Drive-through windows for banks and pharmacies.
(2)
Fueling facilities accessory to a warehouse club or a wholesale
club, located a minimum of 500 feet from a residentially used or occupied
property boundary.
[Added 6-15-2010 by L.L. No. 14-2010]
[Amended 5-5-2009 by L.L. No. 29-2009]
The design, buffer and parking standards listed in the provisions
below (Subsections A, B and C 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 C(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)
Development is intended to have a campus-style layout, with
no strip-style development permitted.
(2)
Driveway openings and curb cuts shall be aligned with the existing
curb cuts along Route 58 or other 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.
B. Buffering and transitions.
(1)
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened by wood fences or landscaping, or a combination thereof, pursuant to §
245-8.
(2)
Buffer plantings or opaque fences, preferably wood fences, shall
be provided between commercial uses and adjoining residential uses
or zones, as well as along frontages with arterial roads.
C. Parking standards.
(1)
The number of off-street parking spaces in the DRC 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 parking areas
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.