The location and boundaries of said districts are established on the Zoning Map of the City of Amsterdam. Said map together with all explanatory matter thereon and all amendments thereto is hereby declared to be an appurtenant part of this chapter. Said map shall be kept up-to-date and be located in the offices of the City Clerk for the use and benefit of the public. A certified copy of said map shall also be maintained in the Office of the Building Inspector. In accordance with §
250-7.1, please refer to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Hazard Boundary and Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for delineation of the Greenway Corridor Overlay (GW-O) District.
The boundaries of the Greenway Corridor Overlay Zone are established
herein as delineated on the most current edition of the appropriate
Federal Emergency Management Agency's Flood Hazard Boundary Map/Flood
Insurance Rate Map as issued for the City of Amsterdam. Any revisions,
amendments or successors thereto, with all explanatory matter thereon,
are hereby adopted and made a part of this chapter. The latest edition
of said map shall be kept on file in the offices of the City Clerk
and the Building Inspector for the use and benefit of the public.
Any regulations or restriction of the Greenway Corridor Overlay
District does not void or supersede the recommendations and projects
of the 1992-1993 City of Amsterdam Local Waterfront Revitalization
Plan.
Except as hereinafter otherwise provided:
A. No building or structure shall be erected and no existing building
or structure shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall
any land, building or structure be designed, used or intended to be
used for any purpose or in any manner except in conformance with the
regulations specified herein for the district in which it is located.
B. No yard or existing lot at the time of passage of this chapter shall be reduced in size or be below the minimum requirements set forth herein. Yards or lots created after the effective date of this chapter shall meet the minimum requirements established by this chapter. Other special lot requirements are found in Article
V.
C. No part of any yard or other open space required in connection with
any building or use shall be considered as providing part of a yard
or other open space similarly required for another building.
D. No off-street parking or loading space required for one building
or use shall be considered as meeting, in whole or in part, the off-street
parking or loading space required for another building or use, except
as otherwise provided by this chapter.
E. There shall be not more than one principal building and one principal use, nor more than two accessory structures, of which no more than one shall be a private garage, on each lot intended or used for residential purposes, except as provided within Article
IX of this chapter.
F. Within each district, the regulations set forth by this chapter shall
be considered minimum regulations and shall apply uniformly to each
kind of building, structure or land.
Any land hereafter annexed to or consolidated with the City of Amsterdam shall be deemed to be zoned Low Density Neighborhood (LDN) District until such land is reclassified by specific amendment to this chapter. Said provision shall not be construed to preclude concurrent consideration of the annexation of land and its classification to a zoning district other than Low Density Neighborhood (LDN) District by the Common Council, provided that the amendment procedure set forth in Article
XII of this chapter is followed, including compliance with all applicable requirements of the General City Law, the General Municipal Law and the Environmental Conservation Law, specifically SEQRA, Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and related Title 6, Part 617, NYCRR.