In any district, the following standards for activities shall
apply:
A. No offensive or objectionable vibration, odor or glare shall be noticeable
at or beyond the property line.
B. No activity shall create a physical hazard by reason of fire, explosion,
radiation or other such cause to persons or property in the same or
an adjacent district.
C. There shall be no discharge of any liquid or solid waste into any
stream or body of water or any public or private disposal system or
into the ground of any materials of a nature that may contaminate
any water supply, including groundwater supply.
D. There shall be no storage of any material either indoors or outdoors
in such a manner that it facilitates the breeding of vermin or endangers
health in any way.
E. The emission of smoke, fly ash or dust which can cause damage to
the health of persons, animals or plant life or to other forms of
property shall be prohibited.
F. No activity which involves horizontal or directional drilling operations,
hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking operations or the storage, processing,
handling and disposal of the fracking fluids and other by-products
or waste generated from horizontal or directional drilling operations
and hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking operations shall be permitted
in any zoning district within the Town of Geneva.
G. No commercial landfill or disposal facility where solid waste or
its residue after treatment is intentionally placed, and which is
not a land application facility, surface impoundment, injection well
or waste pile, shall be permitted in any zoning district within the
Town of Geneva.
Any premises devoted to one or more of the following activities:
short-term or seasonal storage of operable motor vehicles; or motor
vehicle cleaning, routine servicing and repairs; or dismantling, salvaging
or disassembling of motor vehicles or trailers; or storage or sale
of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles
or their parts shall be subject to the following:
A. All cleaning, servicing, repairs, dismantling, salvaging, disassembling
and sales activities must take place and be fully contained within
an enclosed structure;
B. No outdoor storage of motor vehicles or trailers, or parts thereof,
or dismantled, obsolete or wrecked vehicles shall be permitted within
any required yard areas;
C. No display of vehicles or trailers or parts thereof for sale shall
be permitted within any yard areas;
D. All areas for the storage of dismantled, partially dismantled, obsolete
or wrecked vehicles or their parts shall be screened by a solid fence
or other barrier at least eight feet high.
E. Where any automobile storage, repair, salvaging or dismantling business abuts any residential parcel or residential zoning district, there shall be a vegetated buffer area conforming to the standards set forth in §
165-40 not less than 15 feet in width, planted with trees and shrubs spaced in a manner that will result in a continuous visual screen along said boundary.
No burial or memorial plats or buildings shall be located within
any front, side or rear yard setback area, except when a dense evergreen
hedge or a wall or landscaped strip at least six feet in height providing
complete visual screening from any adjacent property is provided.
No burial or memorial plats shall be located closer than 10 feet from
any residential lot line.
The following standards shall apply to the keeping of chickens
in residential zoning districts where they may be permitted:
A. No fowl or poultry other than chickens shall be kept on the premises.
B. No more than six hens shall be permitted on any single lot.
[Amended 12-13-2022 by L.L. No. 8-2022]
C. No roosters shall be permitted.
D. No fowl or poultry shall be kept in any dwelling or in any structure
less than 15 feet from the nearest dwelling.
E. All chickens shall be confined in suitable coops or houses that are
properly cleaned and maintained in good condition at all times, and
confined with a suitable fence.
F. Any fence enclosure to accommodate free-range chickens shall be designed
and constructed to confine all animals to the property on which they
are kept.
G. All coops or fence enclosures shall be located in the rear yard of
the property, and shall be located no less than five feet from any
property line. No chicken coop shall exceed 25 square feet in area,
and no fence enclosure shall exceed 300 square feet in area.
H. All coops and fence enclosures must be kept in a neat and sanitary
manner and must be cleaned on a regular basis so as to prevent offensive
odors.
For the purpose of minimizing traffic hazards at street intersections,
on any corner lot, no obstructions higher than 2 1/2 feet above
the adjacent top-of-curb elevation shall be permitted to be planted,
placed, erected or maintained within the triangular area formed by
the intersecting pavement lines or their projections where corners
are rounded and a straight line joins the pavement lines at points
50 feet distant from their point of intersection.
Any home occupation shall conform to the following additional
conditions:
A. It shall be carried on wholly within the enclosed walls of the dwelling
or in an accessory structure on the same parcel as the principal residence,
and shall not use more than 25% of the floor area up to a maximum
of 1,000 square feet.
[Amended 9-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
B. It shall be carried on by a member of the family in the dwelling,
and no more than one person outside the family shall be employed in
the occupation.
C. There shall be no exterior storage of materials and no other exterior indication of the home occupation or variation from the residential character of the principal building. There shall be no display of goods or advertising other than a sign as permitted in §
165-62.
D. No offensive
noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, light, glare or excessive
traffic shall be produced as a result of any activity related to the
home occupation.
[Amended 9-14-2021 by L.L. No. 4-2021]
E. If the
occupation involves members of the public coming to the location,
an operating permit must be obtained from the Town Code Enforcement
Officer, and the public must be restricted to the hours of 9:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m.
[Added 9-14-2021 by L.L.
No. 4-2021]
Manufactured home parks are allowed by site plan approval in
the R-2 Residential Rural Districts, subject to the following regulations:
A. Park size and capacity. Each manufactured home park shall have a
minimum area of five acres and shall contain no more than one manufactured
home for each 6,000 square feet of gross area, including land used
for access roads, recreation and service facilities and screen planting.
B. Size of lots. No manufactured home lot shall be less than 4,500 square
feet in area and have less than 40 feet of frontage on an access road.
C. Clearances.
(1) Manufactured homes shall be located on the lot with the following
minimum clearances:
(a)
Sides: 15 feet on each side to lot line and a total of 50 feet
on both sides from adjacent manufactured homes and buildings.
(b)
Ends: 20 feet from adjacent manufactured homes and 15 feet from
access roads and manufactured home park lot lines and 30 feet from
exterior lot lines.
(2) In computing these clearances, lean-tos, auxiliary rooms and similar
accessories connected to the manufactured home, but not including
temporary porches and canopies which are open on two or more sides,
shall be considered as part of the manufactured home.
D. A minimum of 10% of the gross park area or 1,000 square feet per
dwelling unit, whichever is larger, shall be provided as common space
for outdoor recreation. This common recreation space shall be suitably
sized and configured for outdoor recreational activity and shall be
easily accessible to all units within the park.
E. In addition to the clearance requirements in Subsection
C(1)(a) and
(b) above, no manufactured home shall be located less than 50 feet from any front, side or rear yard boundary line of the manufactured home park, or less than 50 feet from any maintenance, storage areas or facilities, and sewage treatment facilities if present.
F. There shall be a vegetated buffer, not less than 20 feet in width, within any yard area located adjacent to any manufactured home park boundary line or public road or highway, planted and maintained in accordance with §
165-40.
G. Where the property fronts on a public road or highway, within the
required yard area at least 50% of the length of the frontage on said
public road or highway shall be planted and maintained with a vegetative
screen.
H. No manufactured homes or other structures, or parking areas, shall
be located within 50 feet of a stream edge or any wetland as defined
by state or federal law. With the exception of stream crossings, no
roadways shall be located within 50 feet horizontal distance from
a stream edge or any wetland as defined by state or federal law.
I. Automobile parking. There shall be at least one off-road parking
space for each manufactured home within the manufactured home lot
or within 50 feet of the manufactured home. In addition, there shall
be one off-road parking space for each five manufactured homes within
the park located throughout the park for public congregation.
J. All interior roads within the manufactured home park shall be paved
with an all-weather, permeable or impermeable, surface of crushed
stone, asphalt, brick pavers or concrete, or a combination of the
above, and shall be a minimum of 18 feet wide. Each off-road parking
space shall be at least nine feet wide and at least 20 feet long and
shall have convenient and ready access to a roadway.
K. No parking facilities or driveways, except driveways for the purpose
of ingress to or egress from the premises, shall be allowed within
any of the front, side or rear yard setback areas.
L. Sanitary disposal. No person shall undertake to construct any manufactured
home park, new building or structure in the Town without first meeting
the requirements for a system or facilities for the separate disposal
of waterborne sewage and domestic or trade wastes in accordance with
applicable regulations of the Town, the appropriate Department of
Health and other governmental authorities.
M. Any camper, recreational vehicle, boat or other trailer stored within
the manufactured home park shall be stored in a designated location
within the park and screened from any adjacent property or public
rights-of-way. No more than one such camper, recreational vehicle,
boat or other trailer per dwelling unit shall be permitted.
In any district where permitted, retail fuels stations shall
be subject to the following regulations:
A. Retail fuel stations shall be permitted only on lots of 10,000 square
feet or more, with 100 feet of minimum frontage.
B. The area for use by motor vehicles, except access drives thereto,
as well as any structures, shall not encroach on any required yard
area.
C. No fuel pump shall be located closer than 20 feet to any side lot
line nor closer than 35 feet to any street line, measured from the
outside edge of the fuel island.
D. All repair work and storage shall be within a completely enclosed
building which has a maximum height of 15 feet. Such repair work shall
not include any body repair work or spray painting or car washing
which requires mechanical equipment.
After the planned right-of-way line for future streets, for
future extensions of existing streets or for any future street widening
is established on the Official Map, if any, buildings and structures
shall be set back from such line as though it were a street line.