The TND Traditional Neighborhood Design District is intended primarily to apply to the Highland Parkway/Englewood Avenue corridor; portions of Kenmore Avenue (east of the Village of Kenmore); Elmwood Avenue (south of the Lowell Road intersection); commercial nodes in the vicinity of Brighton Road and Eggert Road, Brighton Road and Colvin Boulevard and Belmont Avenue, Niagara Falls Boulevard (between Paige Avenue and Decatur Road) and other areas as depicted on the Official Zoning Map of the Town of Tonawanda. The boundary of this district shall follow property lines to include the entirety of all Tax Map parcels that front on the business streets within the district as depicted on the Official Zoning Map of the Town of Tonawanda certified and filed in accordance with §
215-5 of this chapter.
Minimum rear yard setbacks shall be governed by the following
conditions:
A. The depth of the rear yard setback of a lot in the TND Traditional
Neighborhood Design District that abuts the side or rear yard of a
lot(s) in a nonresidential district shall be 10 feet.
B. The rear yard of a lot in the TND Traditional Neighborhood Design
District that abuts the side or rear lot line of a lot(s) in a residential
district shall have a depth of 15 feet for buildings 30 feet or less
in height. For buildings higher than 30 feet, this distance shall
be increased one foot for each additional five feet in height. This
condition is shown on Plate E. Said rear yard shall be maintained free from storage of
any merchandise, containerized or not, or any empty containers, supplies
and/or maintenance items.
C. The rear yard shall be landscaped and shall include visual screening
in the form of an opaque fence having a minimum height of six feet
above grade and a maximum height of 10 feet above grade to separate
the nonresidential uses (including parking) and adjoining residential
properties.
Maximum lot coverage shall be governed by the following conditions:
A. When new construction or substantial alteration, modification or expansion of existing structures is proposed on a nonresidential property in the TND Traditional Neighborhood Design District, the maximum building coverage shall be 55% and the maximum coverage of the lot with total impervious or paved surfaces (buildings, parking, storage or sidewalks) shall be 90%. The remaining 10% of the lot (green space) shall be landscaped according to the provisions established in §
215-70.68.
In the TND Traditional Neighborhood Design District, the percentage
of the lot area which may be occupied by multiple dwellings shall
not exceed 50%, and the number of square feet of the lot area per
dwelling unit shall not be less than 1,100 square feet.
Should the principal structure on a lot not occupy the entire area within the building envelope (outside of the front, side or rear yards), accessory structures shall be permitted to occupy the balance of the building envelope, except that such accessory structures shall not occupy the area provided for parking of vehicles in accordance with the off-street parking requirements as provided in Article
XIII.