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.
[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.
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.
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.
M. Senior care housing, in accordance with §
340-111 et seq.
The building area shall not exceed 90% of the lot area.
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.
A setback of at least 10 feet from the front property line on
interior lots shall be required.
No side yards are required, except that where abutting any residential
district a ten-foot setback is required.
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.