[Added 10-5-2004 by L.L. No. 32-2004]
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.Â
No buildings shall be erected nor any lot or land area utilized unless
in conformity with the Zoning Schedule[1] incorporated into this chapter by reference and made a
part hereof with the same force and effect as if such requirements
were herein set forth in full as specified in said schedule, except
as may be hereafter specifically modified.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Schedule is included as an attachment to this chapter.
B.Â
No individual retail store shall have a floor area of less than 10,000
square feet, excepting that 10% of the total floor area may be improved
with retail stores of less than 10,000 square feet with a minimum
size per retail store of 3,500 square feet.
C.Â
In order to maintain the Town's scenic and rural quality, properties
shall provide a contiguous landscaped area equal to at least 20% of
the lot area. Such open space area shall be landscaped with shrubs,
flowers, rock gardens, ornamental grasses, or other plantings rather
than grass lawns.
D.Â
The following minimum required nondisturbed transitional yards and
screening shall be provided within nonresidential districts in order
to assure orderly and compatible relationships along certain boundary
lines:
[Added 10-16-2013 by L.L. No. 18-2013]
(1)Â
Adjoining
residential districts and uses.
(a)Â
The minimum required nondisturbed transitional side and rear yards
shall be 50 feet. When buildings are less than 5,000 square feet in
size, the required side and rear transition yards shall be 25 feet
adjacent to the residential district.
(b)Â
The minimum required screening within such nondisturbed transitional
side and rear yards shall be a six-foot-high stockade-type fence or
equal and landscape plantings to be erected and maintained by the
nonresidential property owner along the side and rear property lines;
provided, however, that the Planning Board may modify these requirements
for screening where the same screening effect is accomplished by the
natural terrain or foliage.
(c)Â
The minimum required nondisturbed transitional side and rear yards
provided for in this section may be modified by the Planning Board
as part of site plan review where the subject premises is a single
lot which lies across district boundaries or where natural, physical
or other existing features are present and the goals of this section
will be accomplished.
(d)Â
Where a site does not have existing vegetation within the required
nondisturbed transitional yard sufficient to screen the proposed development
from the adjacent residential zone or use, a landscaping plan shall
be submitted to the Planning Board. In addition to the existing vegetation
in the required nondisturbed transitional yard, the landscaping plan
shall include plantings, berms and/or fencing in this area to visually
screen and reduce noise impacts of the proposed development.
[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.Â
Design standards.
(1)Â
Development is intended to have a campus-style layout, with
no strip-style development permitted.
(2)Â
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)Â
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.
B.Â
Buffering and transitions.
(1)Â
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened by wood fences or landscaping, or a combination thereof, pursuant to § 245-8.
(2)Â
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.Â
Parking standards.
(1)Â
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)Â
Curb cuts to parking lots shall be minimized by sharing driveways
and consolidating entrances for access to adjacent parking lots.
(3)Â
Planted berms shall be used to screen the view of parking areas
from public roadways.
(4)Â
Off-street parking is prohibited within 10 feet of all property
lines.
(5)Â
Driveways are prohibited within five feet of side property lines.
(6)Â
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)Â
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)Â
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)Â
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)Â
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)Â
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.