A.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Town Law of the State of
New York, Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Laws, Article 16, to protect
and promote public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, economy,
Town aesthetics and the general welfare and for the following additional
purposes:
(1)
To promote and effectuate the orderly physical development of the
Town in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
(2)
To ensure a more ecologically and economically sustainable community
for the benefit of future generations through:
(a)
Encouraging the most appropriate use of land in the community
in order to conserve and enhance the value of property;
(b)
Creating a suitable system of open spaces and recreation areas
and to protect and enhance existing wooded areas, scenic areas and
waterways;
(c)
Regulating building densities in order to assure access of light
and circulation of air, in order to facilitate the prevention and
fighting of fires, in order to promote appropriate concentration of
population and in order to provide efficient municipal utility services;
(d)
Improving transportation facilities and traffic circulation
and to provide adequate off-street parking and loading facilities,
and safe walking and biking infrastructure where appropriate;
(e)
Realizing a sustainable development plan designed to conserve
valued natural ecological resources such as water, habitat and soil
resources;
(f)
Realizing a sustainable development plan designed to optimize
the cost of municipal services.
(3)
To decrease community energy use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and promote an energy-independent and secure community through more
efficient land use and community use of renewable energy.
(4)
To enhance community resilience and preparation for the potential
effects of climate change.
(5)
To assure privacy for residences and reasonable freedom from nuisances
and things harmful to the senses.
(6)
To reasonably protect the community against unsightly, obtrusive
and noisome land uses and operations.
(7)
To enhance the aesthetic aspects throughout the entire community
and maintain its present character and natural beauty while allowing
positive change.
B.
In order to provide adequate open spaces for access of light and
circulation of air, to facilitate the prevention and fighting of fires,
to prevent undue concentration of population and to lessen congestion
on streets, no building or premises shall be erected, altered or used
except in accordance with the regulations and standards set forth
below.
A.
Except where specifically defined herein, all words used in this
chapter shall carry their customary meanings. Words used in the present
tense shall include the future. Words used in the singular number
include the plural, and words used in the plural number include the
singular, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary.
B.
The word "shall" is always mandatory. The word "may" is permissive.
"Building" or "structure" includes any part thereof. The word "lot"
includes the word "plot" or "parcel." The word "person" includes an
individual person, a firm, a corporation, a copartnership and any
other agency of voluntary action.
C.
The phrase "used for" includes "arranged for," "designed for," "intended
for," maintained for" and "occupied for."
D.
The words "include," "includes" and "including" mean to comprise
or contain as part of a group or total, or to incorporate, encompass,
cover, or embrace.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A building detached from and subordinate to a main building
on the same lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those
of the main building.
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use
or building.
A retail or wholesale enterprise operated as an accessory
use to an active farm on the same premises, providing products or
services principally utilized in agricultural production, including
structures, agricultural equipment and agricultural equipment parts,
batteries and tires, livestock, feed, seed, fertilizer and equipment
repairs, or the sale of grain, fruit, produce, trees, shrubs, flowers
or other products of agricultural operations, and including breweries,
cideries, distilleries, wineries, and juice production, that are not
otherwise specifically defined as a farm operation.
Additionally, these enterprises may bring together tourism and
agriculture for the education and enjoyment of the public and, therefore,
agricultural commerce shall include special events, farm tours, agriculture-themed
festivals, outdoor music, and other public or private events associated
with such previously identified retail or wholesale enterprises.
[Added 5-26-2022 by L.L. No. 3-2022]
An agriculture-related enterprise, operated as an accessory
use to an active farm operation, which brings together tourism and
agriculture for the education and enjoyment of the public, and which
may include: hay rides, corn mazes, hay mazes, petting zoos (farm
animals only), farm tours and agriculture-themed festivals and other
public or private events.
The use of land and on-farm buildings, equipment, manure
processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute
to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, animal husbandry,
livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including
a commercial horse-boarding operation as defined in the Agriculture
and Markets Law, Article 25-AA, § 301, and timber processing
as defined in this Zoning Law.
The care of and/or breeding of domestic livestock and other
animals, excluding the care and breeding of dogs and cats.
The total of areas taken on a horizontal plane at the main
grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings
exclusive of balconies, eaves, windows, roofs and floors projecting
two feet or less from the main structure, terraces, uncovered steps
and decks less than two feet above main grade level.
A fenced area inhabited, occupied or used by livestock where
vegetation is not maintained.
A story that is not a story above the average of the finished
ground level adjoining the building at all exterior walls. A basement
shall be counted as one story in determining the height of a building
in stories.
An owner-occupied residence resulting from a conversion of
a single-unit dwelling, used for providing overnight accommodations
and a morning meal to transient lodgers and containing not more than
three bedrooms for such lodgers.
A sign or structure which directs attention to an idea, product,
business activity, service or entertainment which is conducted, sold
or offered elsewhere than upon the lot on which such sign is situated.
Any building or lot in the Town of Geneva wherein a person
or persons keep eight or more dogs or eight or more cats over 12 months
of age, breed three or more litters of dogs or three or more litters
of cats in a calendar year or sell or transfer any dog or cat to a
dog or cat dealer or pet shop.
Any building or lot in the Town of Geneva wherein a person
or persons keep fewer than eight dogs or fewer than eight cats over
12 months of age, breed two or fewer litters of dogs or two or fewer
litters of cats in a calendar year or sell or transfer any dog or
cat to any person or entity other than a dog or cat dealer or pet
shop.
An additional required setback area on any lot, generally
on the boundary between two zoning districts, where through use of
vegetation, earth, wall, fence or combination of such elements a visual
screen is created and maintained between properties.
Any structure which has one or more floors and a roof and
is intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals
or chattel.
The line beyond which the face of a building may not extend,
including sun porches, garages, decks, covered porches and covered
walking patios, terraces, entrances and balconies, whether enclosed
or unenclosed, but not including steps or overhanging eaves under
two feet in width.
See "accessory building."
A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
A building in which is conducted the main or principal use
of the lot on which said building is situated.
A term used to describe the size, volume, area and shape
of buildings and structures and the physical relationship of their
exterior walls or their location to lot lines, other buildings and
structures or other walls of the same building; and all open spaces
required in connection with a building, other structure or tract of
land.
Any parcel of land on which are located two or more cabins,
tents, shelters or other accommodations of a design or character suitable
for seasonal or other more or less temporary living purposes, including
summer colony, resort and day camp, but not including a manufactured
home park, hotel or bungalow colony.
A business operating pursuant to a license issued pursuant
to the New York State Cannabis Law that authorizes the retail sale
of adult-use cannabis to cannabis consumers.
[Added 9-14-2021 by L.L.
No. 4-2021]
A business operating pursuant to a license issued pursuant
to the New York State Cannabis Law that authorizes the consumption
of cannabis in an area specified in such license.
[Added 9-14-2021 by L.L.
No. 4-2021]
A facility operated within a family home by an occupant of
said home providing child care for up to six children for hire, for
more than three hours per day per child, and which is operated in
accordance with the state and county regulations governing operations
of such facilities.
A facility, or other establishment providing child care for
seven or more children for hire, and which is operated in accordance
with the state and county regulations governing operations of such
facilities.
An organization catering exclusively to members and their
guests, or premises and buildings, for social, fraternal, civic, recreational
or athletic purposes which are not conducted primarily for gain, provided
that there are not conducted any vending stands, merchandising or
commercial activities, except as required generally for the membership
and purposes of such club.
A vehicle of more than one-ton capacity used for the transportation
of persons or goods primarily for gain or a vehicle of any capacity
carrying a permanent affixed sign exceeding one square foot in area
or lettering of a commercial nature.
A type of sign owned and maintained by the Town Board or
by a group of business persons, as approved by the Town Board, and
which sign contains several directional signs for the purpose of directing
persons to business and community establishments within the community.
An aerobic method of decomposing solid wastes, such as vegetable
food scraps, lawn clippings, leaves and shrub clippings, that results
in the decomposition of such organic waste into humus, also known
as compost, for use in enriching and enhancing soils.
A residential facility licensed by the State of New York
designed to provide nursing care and medical services under the general
direction of persons licensed to practice in the State of New York,
for the accommodation of convalescent or other persons who are not
in need of hospital care but who do require, on a twenty-four-hour
basis, nursing care and related medical services. This definition
shall include skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities,
nursing facilities and hospices.
Any space, whether inside or outside a building, used for
the storage or keeping of construction materials and inventory, construction
equipment, machinery or vehicles, or parts thereof, which are in active
use by a construction operator.
That lot area or percentage of a lot area covered by buildings
or structures, as defined in "area, building" above.
The use of land in such a manner that it in any way affects
the stormwater or surface water drainage characteristics of the property
used.
A self-contained unit of accommodation containing sleeping,
sanitary and cooking facilities for one or more families. The term
"dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family dwelling," "multifamily
dwelling," "multiple-dwelling" or "dwelling group" shall not be deemed
to include hotel, rooming house or other accommodations used for more
or less transient occupancy.
A group of two or more dwellings occupying a lot in one ownership.
A building or portion thereof providing complete kitchen
and bathroom facilities for one family.
A dwelling within a multifamily structure designed for occupancy
by one or more persons living independently but for which additional
services may be provided, such as prepared meals, including meals
in group dining facilities, transportation, recreation and social
programs and outpatient medical services.
An owner-occupied one-family detached dwelling generally
having a floor area of at least 720 square feet but generally not
more than 1,200 square feet and built as part of a cluster of similar
cottage-style homes and sharing common open spaces, driveways, parking
and other accessory residential facilities in a condominium or cooperative
ownership arrangement.
Example of a cottage court residential development.
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A building containing three or more dwelling units and occupied
or designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently
of each other.
A building containing one dwelling unit only.
A one-family dwelling on its own lot connected by a party
wall to a second dwelling, also located on its own lot.
A one-family dwelling on its own lot which is owner-occupied
and connected by a party wall to two or more other dwellings, each
also located on its own individual lot.
A building containing two dwelling units.
A facility that supplies electric energy for the recharging
of electric vehicles, such as plug-in electric vehicles, including
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, electric cars, trucks, motorbikes,
utility vehicles and other vehicles.
A facility hosting activities such as dancing, skating, music
entertainment, arcade games, bowling and other indoor sporting activities
to the general public for a fee, and which may include food and drink
and equipment rentals as an accessory use.
One or more persons living and cooking together, exclusive
of household servants, as a single housekeeping unit.
A dwelling unit located on an active farm operation that
is accessory to such operation and is occupied by employees of the
farm or members of the farm household.
Any structure, regardless of composition, except a living
fence or temporary enclosure for a playpen use or dog kennel, that
is erected or maintained for the purpose of enclosing a piece of land
or dividing a piece of land into distinct portions.
Enterprises offering banking, investment, insurance, real
estate sales, financial planning and similar services to the general
public.
The elevation at which the finished surface of the surrounding
lot intersects the walls or supports of a building or other structure.
If the line of intersection is not reasonably horizontal, the finished
grade, in computing the height of buildings and other structures or
for other purposes, shall be the average elevation of all finished
grade elevations around the periphery of the building.
The aggregate sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several
floors of the building or buildings, measured from the exterior walls
or from the center lines of walls separating two buildings. In particular,
the "floor area" of a building or buildings shall include:
Basement space.
Elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor.
Floor space for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom
of seven feet six inches or more.
Attic space (whether or not a floor has actually been laid)
providing structural headroom of seven feet six inches or more.
Interior balconies and mezzanines.
Enclosed porches.
Accessory uses, not including space for accessory off-street
parking.
However, the "floor area" of a building shall not include:
Cellar space, except that cellar space used for retailing shall
be included for the purposes of calculating requirements for accessory
off-street parking spaces and accessory off-street loading berths.
Elevator and stall bulkheads, accessory water tanks and cooling
towers.
Floor space used for mechanical equipment, with structural headroom
of less than seven feet six inches.
Attic space, whether or not a floor has actually been laid,
providing structural headroom of less than seven feet six inches.
Uncovered steps; exterior fire escapes.
Terraces, breezeways, open porches and outside balconies and
open spaces.
Accessory off-street parking spaces.
Accessory off-street loading berths.
An enterprise providing prepared meals, drinks and other
foodstuffs for consumption on or off premises, including restaurants,
bars, taverns, nightclubs, banquet halls, and catering services, and
also including bakeries, craft wineries, craft breweries, craft distilleries
or other specialty food or drink producers that provide for on-premises
retail sale of their products.
The vertical distance measured from the average finished
grade along the wall of the building (or adjacent to the side of the
structure) to the average height of the roofline of such building
or structure.
Any electric line operating at voltage in excess of 34.5
kilovolts.
An accessory use conducted within a dwelling by the residents thereof which is clearly secondary to the dwelling use for living purposes and does not change the residential character of the building within which the activity occurs, and which conforms to the conditions set forth in § 165-33.
[Amended 9-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
An office of an accountant, architect, attorney, engineer,
medical professional, photographer, teacher or other occupation located
within such person's residence, where activities are limited to providing
services not involving direct sale of goods, as an accessory use to
a dwelling, and not occupying more than 25% of the floor area of the
dwelling, nor employing more than one person outside the immediate
occupants of the dwelling.
The practice of digging a well, first down vertically to
a depth above the target gas-bearing rock formation, then on a curve
so that the hole is drilled horizontally or at an angle within the
gas-bearing rock.
A building other than a hospital or nursing home where more
than two terminally ill persons are regularly lodged and furnished
with meals and nursing care and which has been granted a certificate
of approval to operate as a hospice pursuant to the Public Health
Law or any successor regulating state law.
A building containing beds for four or more patients and
used for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments and shall
be deemed to be limited to places for diagnosis, treatment or other
care of human ailments.
A building or group of buildings, or any part thereof, which
contains living and sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy,
and which may have a common exterior entrance or entrances and which
may contain one or more dining rooms.
The practice of pumping a fluid and a propping material,
typically composed of sand or other chemicals, down a well under high
pressure to create fractures in gas-bearing rock.
An area of land, with or without buildings, used for or occupied
by the storage, keeping, or abandonment of junk, including scrap metals
or other scrap, used or salvaged building materials or the dismantling,
demolition or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery
or parts thereof. The keeping on a lot of two or more old or secondhand
motor vehicles no longer intended or in condition for legal use on
the public highways, or the storage or deposit of unregistered, old,
or secondhand motor vehicles, inoperative machinery, tires and other
refuse, wastes and debris generated by or used on the premises by
any ongoing agricultural operation, as determined by the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Markets, and which is kept in a reasonably orderly
fashion with a reasonable possibility of future utility, shall not
be deemed a junkyard.
A structure which complies with the Code of the Town of Geneva
and which is intended for or used specifically for the housing of
dogs and/or cats.
The manufacture of finished products or parts, predominantly
from previously processed or prepared materials, including processing
or fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage,
or sales and distribution of such products.
A fixture mounted on the exterior of a structure, pole or
post, designed for providing illumination of exterior portions of
a property for safety, security, or aesthetic purposes.
Any structure used for housing of livestock.
A defined portion or parcel of land considered as a unit,
established by deed or subdivision plat in accordance with the applicable
regulations Code of the Town of Geneva at the time of creation, and
which is devoted to a specific use or occupied by a building or a
group of buildings that are united by a common interest, use or ownership,
and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.
A lot shall abut and be accessible from a public or private street.
See "coverage."
A lot line which is coincident with a street line.
The lines bounding a lot as defined in this section.
The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured
at a distance from the front yard line equal to the minimum required
front yard depth.
A lot situated at the junction of and adjacent to two or
more intersecting streets.
The mean distance from the front lot line or street line
of a lot to its rear lot line.
A lot which faces on two streets at opposite ends of the
lot and which is not a corner lot.
A one-family dwelling, conforming to the requirements of
the Department of Housing and Urban Development Manufactured Home
Construction and Safety Standards and the New York State Uniform Building
Code or other applicable laws, which is designed and built to be towed
on its own chassis, composed of frame and wheels, in one or more sections,
and is suitable or intended for year-round occupancy.
A tract of land which is developed for the siting of two
or more manufactured homes, on individual lots that may be leased
or sold, and which includes supporting infrastructure such as streets,
parking, water, sewerage, electricity and telecommunications services
to individual homes.
A facility constructed as an accessory use to an animal husbandry
use, riding stable or kennel intended to collect, hold, process, store,
treat or distribute in excess of 1,200 cubic feet of solid animal
waste or 10,000 gallons of liquid animal waste. Included within this
definition are storage tanks, lagoons, seepage pits, drains, piles,
compost systems, or piles and collection systems intended to handle
animal waste. Not included within this definition are systems designed
and constructed to handle human waste.
A retail business or service or commercial establishment
for the sale, servicing, repairing, renting, mooring and storage of
boats, boat motors, boat trailers, boat hoists and other boating equipment,
accessories and supplies incidental to the use of boats.
The original or undisturbed natural surface of the ground
before any excavation or filling occurs or has occurred.
That part of a building, other structure or tract of land
which does not conform to one or more of the applicable bulk regulations
of this chapter, either following its effective date or as a result
of subsequent amendments thereto, which bulk was lawful prior to such
adoption or amendment.
Any use of a building, other structure or tract of land which
does not conform to the use regulations for the district in which
such use is located, either at the effective date of this chapter
or as a result of subsequent amendment thereto, which use was lawful
prior to such adoption or amendment.
Any place, however designated, operated for the purpose of
providing daytime care or instruction for compensation for two or
more children, from two to five years of age inclusive, and operated
on a regular basis, including kindergartens, day nurseries and day-care
centers.
An area of land or water that remains free from intensive
development for residential, commercial, industrial or institutional
use, including agricultural and forest lands, and any undeveloped
coastal and estuarine lands, undeveloped scenic lands, water bodies
such as lakes and bays, and public parks and preserves.
A facility or lands owned and maintained by a membership
organization for the purpose of providing outdoor recreational opportunities
for members and their guests, including activities such as trap shooting,
target shooting and archery, for both practice and competition, hunting
and trapping, and all-terrain vehicle, snowmobile and other off-road
motor vehicle trails; provided, however, that no motorized racing
is involved, as well as kitchen and dining facilities for the use
and benefit of the members, and to further the purposes of the organization.
A temporary, nonpermanent device which announces, directs
or advertises any political, educational, charitable, philanthropic,
civic, professional, religious or similar organization, campaign,
show, drive, movement or event.
A lot, together with all the buildings and uses thereon.
A public or private tract of land dedicated to the protection
of one or more scenic or environmental attributes, including but not
limited to flora, fauna, geological features, lakes, streams, wetlands
or other hydrological features.
The receiving of recyclable and nonrecyclable wastes and
the sorting, processing and temporary storage of said wastes on site
prior to shipping to other locations for disposal, reuse, or further
processing.
An area of land, including structures thereon, or any building
or part thereof, that is used primarily for the sale and direct delivery
to the motor vehicle of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel or
oil and other lubricating substances and which may be a standalone
operation or combined with other retail sales.
A business or service facility catering to the day-to-day
needs of the community through the sale of items used in a household,
including but not limited to clothing, appliances, furniture, vehicles
and their accessories, home improvement and lawn and garden maintenance
products, foodstuffs, convenience goods, pharmaceuticals, and sundry
other items commonly utilized in a household.
Enterprises offering personal care services such as hair
cutting and styling, spa services, licensed massage therapy, and tattooing,
as well as dry cleaning, laundry (full- or self-service) and shoe,
clothing and other repair services, except vehicle or equipment repair
services.
A strip of land appropriated for the purpose of constructing
and maintaining public streets, highways and other public transportation
or utility purposes.
A temporary or permanent accessory structure or structures,
wagons or trailers, not exceeding 240 square feet in size, for the
purpose of retail sale of produce, baked goods and handicraft items
to the public.
The distance in feet from the street line or any other deeded
or owned property line to any structure on a lot.
A dwelling unit that is rented, in whole or in part, to any person or entity for a period of less than 30 consecutive nights and meets all of the regulations, requirements and standards contained in § 165-39 of this chapter, as amended. “Rental” means an agreement granting use or possession of a residence, in whole or part, to a person or group in exchange for consideration valued in money, goods, labor, credits, or other valuable consideration. Use of a short-term rental by a record owner of a property shall not be considered to be a rental under this section.
[Amended 7-14-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020]
Any structure or part thereof or any device attached to a
structure or painted or represented on a structure which shall display
or include any lettering, wording, model, drawing, picture, banner,
flag, insignia, device, marking or representation used as or which
is the nature of an announcement, direction or advertisement. A "sign"
includes a billboard, neon tube, fluorescent tube or other artificial
light or string of lights, outlining or hung upon any part of a building
or lot for the purposes mentioned above.
The area within the smallest rectangle that encloses the
outside perimeter of all sign faces, including all decorations and
lights, but excluding the supports if they are not used for advertising
purposes, or, in the case of a representational sign, the sum of the
areas of the vertical faces of the smallest polyhedron that will encompass
the sign structure. For any sign containing three or more faces, the
sign area shall be measured as the sum of areas of all of the sign
faces.
The distance from the top of the sign structure to the top
of curb of the public or private road nearest the sign, or to the
crown of public road nearest the sign if no curb exists, or the distance
from the top of the sign structure to the natural grade at the location
of the sign.
A sign located off the premises on which a business is located,
not exceeding nine square feet in area, posted by the business along
a public road or highway for the purpose of guiding prospective customers
to its location.
A sign which incorporates any artificial lighting as an inherent
part or feature or which depends for its illumination on transparent
or translucent material, including exposed neon tubing, light bulbs,
LED or other source of light, as integral design elements in the sign
structure.
A sign composed of two faces or surface areas upon, against
or through which copy is placed.
An illuminated sign on which the artificial lighting is not
maintained stationary or constant in intensity and color at all times
while in use.
A sign designed to give forth any artificial light or designed
to reflect such light deriving from any source which is intended to
cause such light or reflection; however, in no case shall the source
of light and glare be visible to the sign viewer.
A sign illuminated with an artificial light which is separated
from or is not an intrinsic part of the sign itself.
A sign which directs attention to a business, commodity,
service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than
on the premises where the sign is located or only incidentally on
the premises, if at all.
A sign attached to and projecting horizontally from the face
of a wall or building, where the sign face or sign faces are not parallel
to the building wall.
Any three-dimensional sign which is built so as to physically
represent the object advertised or is designed as a sculptural feature
or other artistic element. Sign area will be the sum of the areas
of the vertical faces of the smallest polyhedron that will encompass
the sign structure.
A sign composed of one face or surface area upon, against
or through which copy is placed.
Possession of land under single or unified control, whether
by sole, joint, common or other ownership, or by a lease having a
term of not less than 30 years, regardless of any division of such
land into parcels for the purpose of financing.
Any lot or group of contiguous lots owned or controlled by
the same person or entity, assembled for the purpose of a single development.[1]
An area of land or other area used for a solar collection
system principally used to capture solar energy and convert it to
electrical energy to transfer to the public electric grid in order
to sell electricity to or receive a credit from a public utility entity,
but also may be for on-site use, and which may consist of one or more
freestanding ground- or roof-mounted solar collector devices, solar-related
equipment and other accessory structures and buildings, including
light reflectors, concentrators, and heat exchangers, substations,
electrical infrastructure, transmission lines and other appurtenant
structures and facilities.
[Added 9-14-2021 by L.L.
No. 4-2021]
A solar photovoltaic cell, panel, or array, or solar hot
air or water collector device, which relies upon solar radiation as
an energy source for collection, inversion, storage, and distribution
of solar energy for electricity generation or transfer of stored heat,
secondary to the use of the premises for other lawful purposes, with
the total surface area of all solar collectors on the lot not to exceed
4,000 square feet.
[Added 9-14-2021 by L.L.
No. 4-2021]
A building and ancillary facilities for hire, remuneration
or sale, such as paddocks, indoor and outdoor riding rinks and pastures,
that provide care, housing, training and health-related services to
horses kept on the premises or on other properties owned or leased
by the stable operator, including horses boarded on the premises by
others, and which may include activities such as the sale of horses
to the general public, the hiring of horses and horse-drawn vehicles
to the general public, and a riding academy providing lessons in horseback
riding and other equestrian skills or sport.
An accessory building in which horses are kept for private
use and not for hire, remuneration or sale.
That part of a building comprised between a floor and the
floor or roof next above it. (See "basement.")
That portion of a building situated above a full story and
having at least two opposite exterior walls meeting a sloping roof
at a level not higher above the floor than a distance equal to 1/2
the floor-to-ceiling height of the story below.
An existing public way or private way which affords principal
means of access to abutting properties and is suitably improved to
Town of Geneva Standards, or a proposed way shown on an official map
of the Town of Geneva, or shown on a plat approved by the Town Planning
Board and/or recorded in the office of the County Clerk.
The boundary line of any public or private street or road
corridor, whether owned in fee, a right-of-way or by easement.
A public or private vehicular drive located to the rear of
lots and designed to provide access to parking areas, service areas,
or accessory structures on adjacent properties, and which may also
contain utility easements.
A street that: 1) is the only street that a site or lot fronts
on; or 2) is the street from which the site or lot takes its address
from; or 3) in the case where a building fronts on multiple streets,
the street that abuts the longest side(s) of a lot.
Any street abutting a site or lot that is not a primary street.
A static construction of building materials, including buildings,
stadiums, sheds, display stands, storage bins, signs, reviewing stands,
gasoline pumps, mobile dwellings (whether mobile or stationary at
the time) and the like.
The temporary occupancy of a unit, group of units, dwelling
or portion of a dwelling, hotel, or other building for periods of
less than 30 days or one calendar month, whichever is less.
A term employed in referring to:
The exterior form of a building as exhibited in building
height and the continuous length of a building wall without any offsets
or other breaks in the wall plane, including bay windows. (See graphic
below.)
That portion of any exterior wall of a building that is not
occupied by windows, doors or other fenestration, or columns, pilasters,
cornices or other decorative features, or a substantial change in
building materials. (See graphic below.)
That portion of any building facade facing a street or other
publicly owned or maintained space that is dedicated to windows and
doors fitted with glass that has a transparency higher than 80%, and
external reflectance of less than 15%. (See graphic below.)
Example graphic for wall area articulation showing elements governed under district regulations in Art. III.
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Example graphic illustrating blank wall areas and transparent
areas (windows)
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An electric-generating facility whose main purpose is to
convert wind energy to electrical energy to transfer to the public
electric grid in order to sell electricity to or receive a credit
from a public utility entity, but also may be for on-site use, consisting
of one or more wind turbines and other accessory structures and buildings,
including substations, meteorological towers, electrical infrastructure,
transmission lines and other appurtenant structures and facilities.
An electric-generating facility whose main purpose is to
convert wind energy to electrical energy, consisting of a wind turbine,
a tower or other support structure and associated control or conversion
electronics, which has a rated capacity of not more than 250 kW and
which is intended to primarily reduce on-site consumption of utility
power.
A wind energy conversion system that converts wind energy
into electricity through the use of a wind turbine generator, and
includes the nacelle (structure which houses all of the generating
components, gearbox, drive train, etc.), rotor, tower, and pad transformer,
if any.
The portion of the property that faces the municipal road
that the property is accessed from. The yard extending across the
full width of the lot, from side property line to side property line,
and lying between the front property line and the principal building.
The yard extending the full width of the lot, from the side
property line to side property line, and lying between the rear property
line and the principal building.
The yard extending from the principal building to the side
property line and lying between the front line and rear line of the
principal building.
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Editor's Note: The former definitions of "solar energy system,
commercial," "solar energy system, community," and "solar energy system,
noncommercial," which immediately followed this definition, were repealed 9-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021.
