[Amended 11-12-2025 by L.L. No. 5-2025]
Zoning districts established. In order to fulfill the purposes of this Zoning Chapter, the Town of Tuxedo is hereby divided into the following zoning districts (sometimes referred to herein as "district"), as shown on the Zoning Map, for the purposes indicated below:
District Type: | Symbol | Title |
|---|---|---|
Open Space Districts: | SR | Special Recreation |
C | Conservation | |
Residential Districts: | R-1 | Low-Density Residential |
R-2 | Low-Medium-Density Residential | |
R-3 | Medium-Density Residential | |
R-4 | Medium-High Density Residential | |
S-HR | Southfields-Hamlet Residential | |
Mixed-Use Districts: | T-TC | Tuxedo - Town Center |
NB | Neighborhood Business | |
Nonresidential Districts: | S-HB | Southfields — Hamlet Business |
GB | General Business | |
RO | Research Office | |
LIO | Light Industry Office | |
TB | Tourism Business | |
Overlay: | PID-O | Planned Integrated Development Overlay |
CRD | Cannabis Retail Dispensary | |
Floating: | MU | Mixed-Use |
A.
Special Recreation (SR). The Special Recreation zoning district encompasses primarily public parkland, trails, and recreational areas that are used for open space and passive recreational purposes. The zoning district allows uses that are consistent with open space and recreational lands.
B.
Conservation (C). Consistent with the comprehensive plan, the Conservation District is limited primarily to very-low-density open-space-related nonresidential uses as the land is environmentally constrained and distant from Town community facilities and services. Said lands are not conducive to intense development. Adaptive reuse of existing historic structures is encouraged, and nonresidential uses are allowed that are consistent with the rural character of this area.
C.
Low-Density Residential (R-1). The Low-Density Residential Zoning District encompasses lands that are intended to remain primarily as open space or in low-density single-family detached residential use given its distance from community facilities and services, and the usual lack of public water or sewer services.
D.
Low-Medium-Density Residential (R-2). The Low-Medium-Density Residential Zoning District is intended to be developed primarily with medium-density single-family detached residential dwellings, community facilities intended to serve these neighborhoods, and a limited range of nonresidential uses that are generally consistent with a residential neighborhood. The R-2 district may be served by public water and/or sewer services.
E.
Medium-Density Residential (R-3). The Medium-Density Residential Zoning District encompasses smaller-lot residential neighborhoods within the hamlet areas which are either served by public water and/or sewer or are intended to be served by public water and/or sewer. The R-3 district is primarily within or in close proximity to the Town's existing hamlets and accommodates a greater mix of housing types than other zoning districts in the Town.
F.
Medium-High Density Residential (R-4). The Medium-High Density Residential Zoning District encompasses the Town's residential neighborhoods that allow a mix of single-family detached, single-family attached, two-family and multifamily dwellings and are served primarily by public water and/or sewer or are planned to be served by public water and/or sewer.
G.
Southfields-Hamlet Residential (S-HR). The Southfields-Hamlet Residential district encompasses pre-existing small-lot, single-family residential enclaves in the Southfields hamlet. The intent of the district is to protect the existing single-family residential character of these enclaves, while not increasing the density of residential uses in these areas, where central sewer and water service is unavailable.
H.
Tuxedo-Town Center (T-TC). The Tuxedo-Town Center district encompasses properties within the central business district of the Tuxedo hamlet. The district will allow a range of nonresidential and residential uses that serve the Town of Tuxedo population. The Town Center district is intended to effectuate, and is guided by, the Town Center study contained in the Town of Tuxedo Comprehensive Plan. Consistent with the Town Center Study, the Town Center is designed to encourage and accommodate a unified, compact, contiguous shopping and entertainment area focused around restaurants and retail shops. This area is intended for development that preserves and enhances the historically significant buildings that exist in the hamlet. These stores in combination with residential and public uses should provide daily and weekly convenience shopping for the area. The Town Center is designed to accommodate social and cultural events and gatherings.
I.
Southfields-Hamlet Business (S-HB). The Southfields-Hamlet Business district encompasses properties within the Southfields hamlet. The intent of the district is to renew and revitalize the Southfields hamlet by allowing a variety of nonresidential uses that encourage revitalization of the hamlet.
J.
Neighborhood Business (NB). The Neighborhood Business Zoning District is intended to serve the limited local retail and service commercial needs of the residential neighborhoods in proximity to same.
K.
General Business (GB). The General Business Zoning District encompasses properties that are located with frontage on, or in close proximity to, Route 17. These properties are isolated and scattered along Route 17 and are intended to be developed for a range of nonresidential uses that benefit from their location on a major highway corridor.
L.
Research Office (RO). The Research Office Zoning District encompasses properties generally that have been developed with campus-like nonresidential uses or are vacant and intended to be developed with campus-like nonresidential settings. The intent of this district is to preserve and protect the Town's taxable and employment base by allowing nonresidential uses exclusively.
M.
Light Industry Office (LIO). Similar to the RO district, the Light Industry Office Zoning District encompasses properties that have generally been developed with campus-like nonresidential uses or are vacant and intended to be developed with campus-like nonresidential settings. The intent of this district is to allow light industrial and other uses in a manner which still preserves and protects the Town's taxable and employment base by allowing nonresidential uses exclusively.
N.
Tourism Business (TB). The Tourism Business Zoning District encompasses properties primarily with frontage on Route 17A located centrally within the Town of Tuxedo and Sterling Forest State Park. The purpose of this zone is to promote economic development by allowing nonresidential uses, and to promote uses which reinforce and complement recreational activities conducted within the state park system.
O.
Planned Integrated Development Overlay (PID-O): This overlay zone encompasses properties that are included in any Planned Integrated Development special use permit approved by the Town Board.
P.
Mixed-Use (MU) Floating Zone: This floating zone is intended to allow mixed-use residential and nonresidential developments on parcels which are adequately serviced by transportation and utility infrastructure, and which can be designed as traditional small mixed-use neighborhoods where the Town Board, in its discretion, determines these uses are appropriate.
Q.
Cannabis Retail Dispensary Overlay (CRD-O): This overlay district is intended to regulate the siting of cannabis retail dispensaries by limiting such dispensaries to this overlay zoning district, which district requirements impose certain time, place and manner restrictions on cannabis retail dispensaries in accordance with the zoning authority reserved to municipalities under the Cannabis Law.