The general purpose and intent of this residential district
is to provide for areas within the Village of Unadilla where the living
environment associated with single-family residential development
and their related facilities can be preserved and/or where the development
of such an environment is encouraged. In promoting the general purpose
of this Zoning Chapter, the specific intent of this article is to:
A. Encourage the construction of and the continuous use of the land
for single-family residential dwellings; encourage the development
of recreational, religious and educational facilities required for
and compatible with a balanced single-family residential neighborhood;
and permit offices of physicians, surgeons, dentists, lawyers and
architects, engineers or like professions when part of their family
residence.
B. Discourage all business, commercial and industrial development of
the land and multiple-family units, clustered developments, mobile
homes or mobile home parks and to prohibit any other use which would
substantially interfere with or be deleterious to the development
or continuation of single-family dwellings in this residential district.
C. Discourage all land uses which would generate traffic on residential
streets other than normal traffic to the residences on those streets.
Uses permitted by right shall be as follows:
A. One-family dwellings, to include new modular homes, but not including
mobile homes.
B. Accessory uses and structures to any permitted use. (See §
159-81 for private swimming pool regulations.)
The following regulations apply to all uses permitted by right
or by special permit:
A. Minimum lot requirements shall be as follows:
Type
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Minimum Requirements
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Lot size
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12,000 square feet
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Frontage
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75 feet
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Front yard
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30 feet
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Rear yard
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30 feet
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Side yard
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15 feet
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B. Increasing front yard depth. Front yard depth along collector and
arterial roads shall be increased to 50 feet, except where existing
development occurred prior to the enactment of this Zoning Chapter.
In those cases, the front yard depth may be the average of the front
yard depth for 250 feet on both sides of the proposed use along the
contiguous street line.
C. Increasing side yard depth. On a corner lot, the minimum side yard
requirement shall increase to 25 feet for the side yard between the
street line and the building line on the side street.
D. Lot coverage. No more than 30% of the lot may be covered by buildings,
including garages and accessory buildings.
E. Garages, accessory buildings and parking areas. Garages, accessory
buildings and parking areas must be built according to the following
requirements:
(1) Attached garages must meet setback and yard requirements listed above
for principal buildings.
(2) Detached garages, accessory buildings and parking areas must be located
behind the front yard line, have a minimum side yard depth of 10 feet
and a minimum rear yard depth of 10 feet.
F. Building or structure height. No building or structure shall be erected to a height in excess of 35 feet, except upon approval of a special permit application by the Zoning Board of Appeals. (See §
159-74 for exceptions.)
H. Walls, fences, hedges and screening. The yard requirements of these regulations shall not apply to any retaining wall nor to any fence, wall, hedge or screening to be erected along the lot lines in conformance with this chapter. Such fence, wall, hedge or screening shall not exceed eight feet in height. (See §§
159-76 and
159-77 for further regulations.) When fences are along property lines within 15 feet of an adjacent property residence, those fences shall not exceed four feet in height.