This Part 1 has been prepared and adopted to establish a plan
for dividing the Village of Granville into districts for the purpose
of regulating the location of trades and industries, and of buildings
and structures designed for dwellings, apartments, houses, trades,
industries and other specified uses, for regulating the height, volume
and size of buildings and structures and the intensity of use of lots,
areas for determining building lines, for creating a Board of Appeals
and other purposes.
This Part 1 shall be known and may be cited and referred to
as the "Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Granville."
A.
Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the
singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number
include the singular; the word "building" includes the word "structure";
and the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory.
B.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR USE
ALLEY
APARTMENT
APARTMENT HOUSE
BASEMENT
BOARDINGHOUSE
BUILDING
BUILDING, HEIGHT OF
CELLAR
CLINIC
CLUB
DECK
DISTRICT
DWELLING
DWELLING, MULTIPLE
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
FAMILY
FENCE
FILLING STATION
FRONTAGE
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GARAGE, STORAGE OR PARKING
GRADE
(1)
(2)
(3)
HOME OCCUPATION
(1)
(2)
HOTEL
LAUNDROMAT
LOADING SPACE
LODGING HOUSE
LOT
LOT, CORNER
LOT, DOUBLE-FRONTAGE
LOT OF RECORD
MOTOR COURT OR MOTEL
NONCONFORMING USE
NURSING HOME
PARKING AREA
PARKING LOT
PARKING SPACE
PLACES
ROOMING HOUSE
SHED
STORAGE UNIT
STORY
STORY, HALF
STREET
STREET LINE
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
STRUCTURE
SWIMMING POOL
(1)
(2)
TOURIST HOME
TOURIST OR TRAILER CAMP
TRAILER
YARD
YARD, FRONT
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
For the purpose of this Part 1, certain terms and words are herewith
defined as follows:
A subordinate building or use customarily incidental to and
located on the same lot occupied by the main building or use and constructed
or established at the same time or after construction of the main
building or use.
A way which affords only secondary means of access to property
abutting thereon.
A room or suite of rooms intended, designed, or used as a
residence by a single family.
See "dwelling, multiple."
A story partly underground and having at least 1/2 of its
height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement
shall be counted as a story if subdivided and used for dwelling or
business purposes, other than for the quarters of a watchman or janitor.
A building other than a hotel where, for compensation and
by arrangement, meals and lodging are provided for three or more persons.[1]
Any structure designed or built for the support, enclosure,
shelter, or protection of persons, animals, chattels or property of
any kind.
The vertical distance from the grade to the highest point
of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof,
or to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of gable, hip
and gambrel roofs.
See "basement."[2]
An establishment where patients who are not lodged overnight
are admitted for examination and treatment by a group of physicians
practicing medicine together.
A building or portions thereof or premises owned or operated
by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational
or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit or to render
a service which is customarily carried on as a business.
Any outdoor patio, regardless of the material used for construction,
which attaches to a home or other structure.
[Added 12-1-2020 by Ord.
No. 724]
Any section of the Village of Granville for which zoning
regulations governing the use of buildings and premises, the height
of buildings, the size of yards, and the intensity of use are uniform.
Any building or portion thereof which is designed for or
used for residential purposes.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by three
or more families.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by one family.
A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two families.
One or more persons occupying a dwelling and living as a
single housekeeping unit and doing their own cooking on the premises,
as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, lodging house,
or hotel, as herein defined.
A structure of wood, masonry, stone, plastic polymer or other
synthetic material or metal which encloses all or any portion of a
lot.
[Added 12-2-2008 by Ord.
No. 551]
Any building, structure, or land use for the dispensing,
sale or offering for sale at retail of any automobile fuels, oils
or accessories, including lubrication of automobiles and replacement
or installation of minor parts and accessories, not including major
repair work such as motor replacement, body and fender repair or spray
painting.
All the property on one side of a street between two intersecting
streets (crossing or terminating), measured along the line of the
street, or if the street is dead-ended, then all of the property abutting
on one side between an intersecting street and the dead end of the
street.
An accessory building designed or used for the storage of
not more than four motor-driven vehicles owned and used by the occupants
and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory,
and not storing more than one commercial vehicle or any vehicle which
exceeds a two-ton capacity.[3]
A building or portion thereof, other than a private storage
or parking garage, designed or used for equipping, servicing, repairing,
hiring, selling or storing motor-driven vehicles.
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
for term storage by prearrangement of motor-driven vehicles, as distinguished
from daily storage furnished to transients, and within which motor
fuels and oils may be sold, but no motor-driven vehicles are equipped,
repaired, hired or sold.
Any wall approximately parallel to and not more than five
feet from a street line is to be considered as adjoining the street.
Where no sidewalk exists, the grade shall be established by the Village
Engineer.
For buildings having walls adjoining one street only, the elevation
of the sidewalk at the center of the wall adjoining the street.
For buildings having walls adjoining more than one street, the
average of the elevation of the sidewalk at the centers of all walls
adjoining the streets.
For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average
level of the finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior
walls of the building.
Any occupation or activity entirely incidental to residential
use, when carried on by a member of the immediate family residing
on the premises, in connection with which there is used no sign other
than a nameplate not more than one square foot in area, or no display
that will indicate from the exterior that the building is being utilized
in part for any purpose other than that of a dwelling; there is no
commodity sold upon the premises; no person is employed other than
a member of the immediate family residing on the premises; and no
mechanical equipment is used except of a type that is similar in character
to that normally used for purely domestic or household purposes.
Clinics, doctors' offices, hospitals, barbershops, beauty parlors,
dress shops, millinery shops, real estate offices, tea rooms, tourist
homes, animal hospitals and kennels shall not be deemed to be home
occupations.
A building in which lodging or boarding and lodging are provided
and offered to the public for compensation and in which ingress and
egress to and from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office
supervised by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it is open
to the public in contradistinction to a boardinghouse, a lodging house,
or an apartment house, which are herein separately defined.
An establishment providing home-type washing, drying or ironing
machines for hire to be used by customers on the premises.
A space within the main building or on the same lot therewith,
providing for the standing, loading or unloading of trucks, and having
a minimum dimension of 12 feet by 35 feet and a vertical clearance
of at least 14 feet.
A building other than a hotel where lodging for three or
more persons is provided for compensation pursuant to previous arrangement.
A parcel of land occupied or intended for occupancy by a
use permitted in this chapter, including one main building together
with its accessory buildings, the open spaces and parking spaces required
by this chapter, and having its principal frontage upon a street or
upon an officially approved place.
A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection.
A lot having a frontage on two nonintersecting streets as
distinguished from a corner lot.
A lot which is part of a subdivision, the map of which has
been recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Putnam County;
or a parcel of land, the deed of which was recorded in the office
of the Recorder of Deeds of Putnam County.
A building or group of buildings used for the temporary residence
of motorists or travelers.
The use of land or a building, or portion thereof, which
use does not conform with the use regulations of the district in which
it is situated.
A home for the aged or infirm in which three or more persons
not of the immediate family are received, kept or provided with food
and shelter or care for compensation; but not including hospitals,
clinics or similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis
and treatment of the sick or injured.
An open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking
of automobiles exclusively and in which no gasoline or automobile
accessories are sold or no other business is conducted and no fees
are charged.
Any area used in whole or in part for storing or parking
motor vehicles and where either a parking fee is charged therefor
or the lot is operated in connection with, or for the use of customers
of, a commercial or industrial use or where the parking area is used
in connection with or for any other use and is not located on the
same lot with the building or use served or within the distance therefrom
specified in § 270-21.
A surfaced area, enclosed in the main building or in an accessory
building, or unenclosed, having an area of not less than 180 square
feet exclusive of driveways, permanently reserved for the temporary
storage of one automobile and connected with a street or alley by
a surfaced driveway which affords satisfactory ingress and egress
for automobiles.
An open unoccupied space or a public or private thoroughfare
other than a street or alley permanently reserved as the principal
means of access to abutting property.
See "lodging house."[4]
Any outdoor storage facility, whether it be mobile or not,
that is located on a property.
[Added 12-1-2020 by Ord.
No. 724]
Includes any and all semi-trailer or box containers which
may be located on the property.
[Added 12-1-2020 by Ord.
No. 724]
That portion of a building, other than a cellar or basement
(except one used for business or residence), included between the
surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or,
if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and
the ceiling above it.
A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall
plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more
than four feet above the floor of such story, except that any partial
story used for residence purposes, other than for a janitor or caretaker
or his family, or by a family occupying the floor immediately below
it, shall be deemed a full story.
A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property.
A dividing line between a lot, tract or parcel of land and
a contiguous street.
Any change, except those required by law or ordinance, in
the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns,
beams or girders, or any substantial changes in the roofs or exterior
walls, but not including openings in bearing walls as permitted by
existing ordinances.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
more or less permanent location on the ground or attached to something
having a permanent location on the ground, including, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, advertising signs, billboards,
backstops for tennis courts, and pergolas.
[Added 12-2-2008 by Ord.
No. 551; amended 1-18-2011 by Ord. No. 580]
A structure designed to contain water and to be used for recreational
purposes by persons for swimming and other related water recreational
purposes. Hot tubs or spas are excepted from the definition of a swimming
pool, so long as the hot tub or spa is less than eight feet by eight
feet and is also covered by a locking lid.
A permanent improvement to real estate and so constructed to
contain water intended primarily for swimming and other recreational
uses by humans. A swimming pool, as being regulated within the scope
of this chapter, shall have a minimum water depth of 24 inches and
shall not be susceptible to daily filling and emptying. A swimming
pool does not include landscape improvements that are ponds for the
growing of aquatic plants or the display of aquatic wildlife.
A building other than a hotel where lodging is provided and
offered to the public for compensation for not more than 20 transient
guests.
An area containing one or more tents, auto trailers or other
portable or mobile shelters for use as temporary living facilities
of one or more families, and intended primarily for automobile transients.
Any structure used for living, sleeping, business or storage
purposes, having no foundation other than wheels, blocks, skids, jacks,
horses, or skirting, and which has been or reasonably may be equipped
with wheels or other devices for transporting the structure from place
to place, whether by motive power or other means. The term "trailer"
shall include a camp car and house car. Trailers, as herein defined,
shall not be permitted in any district within the corporate limits
of the Village except upon permission expressly granted by resolution
or ordinance of the Village Board.
An open space at grade between a building and the adjoining
lot lines, unoccupied and unobstructed by any portion of a structure
from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. In measuring
a yard for the purpose of determining the width of a side yard, the
depth of a front yard or the depth of the rear yard, the minimum horizontal
distance between the lot line and the main building shall be used.
A yard extending across the front of a lot between the side lot lines, and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street or place line and the main building or any projections thereof other than projections permitted in the district regulations in Article III of this chapter. On corner lots, the front yard shall be considered as parallel to the street upon which the lot has its least dimension.[5]
A yard extending across the rear of a lot and being the minimum
horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear of the
main building or any projections thereof other than the projections
of uncovered steps, unenclosed balconies or unenclosed porches. On
all lots, the rear yard shall be in the rear of the front yard.
A yard between the main building and the side line of the
lot, and extending from the required front yard to the required rear
yard, and being the minimum horizontal distance between a side lot
line and the side of the main building or any projections thereto.
