Village of Rockville Centre, NY Article XVI-A Business A-1 District

[Added 5-1-2017 by L.L. No. 2-2017]

§ 340-89.1 Business A-1 District defined; Zoning Map amended.

The areas of the Village which shall constitute the Business A-1 District are those portions of the existing Business A District as are located (a) north of Sunrise Highway and between Oceanside Road and Long Beach Road, (b) along Long Beach Road north of the intersection of Oceanside Road and Long Beach Road, and (c) south of Merrick Road, east of South Kensington Avenue and west of Oceanside Road. The Zoning Map of the Village of Rockville Centre is hereby amended accordingly, to reclassify each such area as constituting the Business A-1 District.

§ 340-89.2 Permitted uses.

[Amended 5-7-2018 by L.L. No. 3-2018; 6-28-2018 by L.L. No. 5-2018]

In the Business A-1 District, only the following uses are permitted:

A. Store for the sale of goods at retail or performance of customary personal services, or services clearly incidental to retail sales, but no fabrication or manufacturing except incidental to and on the same premises with such retail sale.

B. Business, professional, banking or post office.

C. Restaurant, cafe or other place serving food or beverages; provided, however, that nightclubs or cabarets and drive-through windows are prohibited.

D. General business, including printing office, printing shop, and dry-cleaning establishment.

E. Funeral home or parlor.

F. Private school.

G. Public garage, automobile service or gas filling station, taxi or motor vehicle station, dry-cleaning establishment, bowling alley, billiard or pool parlor; subject, however, to the consent and permit of the Board of Appeals as provided in this chapter; and provided, however, that the Board of Appeals shall not give its consent nor issue any permit for any activity which would include mechanical rides of any type.

H. Parking lot area for transient motor vehicles.

I. Storage warehouse.

J. Light manufacturing; provided, however, the consent and permit of the Board of Appeals is first obtained; and further provided that the noise caused by the operation of the machinery, the emission of odors, stenches, dust, smoke, gas or noise is confined within the building or premises where such manufacturing or assembling of articles is carried on.

K. Carpet or rug cleaning; provided, however, that the consent and permit of the Board of Appeals as provided in this chapter is first obtained; and provided further that the process or operation of cleaning carpets and rugs does not employ the use of flammables of any nature whatsoever, that the operation or process is completely performed within the building where such business is carried on and that the noise caused by the operation or process of cleaning and the emission of odors, stenches, dust, smoke or gas is confined within the building where such cleaning is carried on.

L. (Reserved)

M. Senior care housing, in accordance with § 340-111 et seq.

§ 340-89.3 Building area.

The building area shall not exceed 90% of the lot area.

§ 340-89.4 Building height.

No building shall be raised and no such building or part thereof shall be erected or altered to be greater in height than the lesser of 18 feet or one story.

§ 340-89.5 Front yards.

A setback of at least 10 feet from the front property line on interior lots shall be required.

§ 340-89.6 Side yards.

No side yards are required, except that where abutting any residential district a ten-foot setback is required.

§ 340-89.7 Rear yards.

A rear yard of at least 10 feet is required, except where the rear property or lot line of any lot constitutes the common boundary line between such lot and municipally owned land or premises designed and actually used for public parking spaces for motor vehicles, in which case no rear yard setback is required.

§ 340-89.8 Corner plots.

A. On corner plots a setback of at least 10 feet from the property line on both street frontages shall be required.

B. No side or rear yard setbacks are required, except where abutting any residential district, in which case a ten-foot setback is required.

§ 340-89.9 Parking Requirements.

A. Parking space requirements are set forth in Chart IV of the Rockville Centre Zoning Code. Chart IV is entitled "Schedule of Minimum Required Off-Street Parking Spaces."[1]

[1] Editor's Note: Chart IV is included as an attachment to this chapter.

B. Required parking shall be provided and continuously maintained within 200 feet of the premises for funeral homes and parlors, theaters, bowling alleys, hotels and motels, office buildings and buildings used for the sale of goods at retail or services clearly incidental to retail sales, and light manufacturing.