[Amended 10-30-1979 by L.L. No. 9-1979]
In a Business District, the regulations in this article shall apply.
[Amended 11-16-1993 by L.L. No. 8-1993; 9-5-1995 by L.L. No. 6-1995; 6-21-2005 by L.L. No. 5-2005]
A. 
Permitted uses.
(1) 
Any store or shop for the sale at retail of convenience or shoppers' goods, such as:
(a) 
Drug.
(b) 
Supermarket.
(c) 
Bakery.
(d) 
Meat.
(e) 
Liquor.
(f) 
Paint or wallpaper.
(g) 
Photographic equipment.
(h) 
Florist.
(i) 
Gift and card.
(j) 
Hobby or toy.
(k) 
Office equipment.
(l) 
Apparel, including shoe.
(m) 
Variety.
(n) 
Stationery.
(o) 
Furniture.
(p) 
Appliance.
(q) 
Jewelry.
(r) 
Dry goods.
(s) 
Motor vehicle and boat showrooms, excluding repair facilities.
(2) 
Stores, shops and offices that render personal and/or professional services, such as:
(a) 
Barber.
(b) 
Beauty parlor, other than tattoo shop or fortune teller.
(c) 
Dry cleaner or laundry (depot only).
(d) 
Shoe repair.
(e) 
Tailor or dressmaker.
(f) 
Cultural arts center, theater or movie house, excluding adult uses as set forth in Code § 193-122.
(g) 
Bank or financial institution, excluding a facility which is a licensed casher of checks as defined in Article IXA of the New York State Banking Law.
(h) 
Professional and/or general offices.
(i) 
Funeral parlor.
(j) 
Book or video, excluding adult uses as set forth in Code § 193-122.
(3) 
Accessory uses customarily incident to any permitted use, specifically excluding outdoor storage.
(4) 
The following uses may be permitted by special permit from the Board of Appeals after public hearing, upon written information similar to that furnished to an alcoholic beverage control board:
(a) 
Restaurant, luncheonette, cabaret, hotel, bar, cocktail lounge, cafe and other places for the serving of food, beverages of any kind, or both food and beverages, whether such food and/or beverages are served inside of a structure or outside of a structure or both inside of a structure and outside of a structure. The applicant, its successors or assigns shall provide on-site serving personnel (waiters or waitresses) to assist customers in the taking of orders, the delivery of food/drinks to tables and the presentation of checks.
(5) 
Other uses similar to the foregoing uses of a retail, commercial or service nature may be permitted if, upon application to the Board of Appeals and by resolution, they are determined by it to be of the same general character and not incompatible with the surrounding uses.
B. 
Uses permitted only by special permission of the Board of Appeals:
(1) 
Commercial parking fields, subject to the following provisions:
(a) 
No repairing or servicing of vehicles shall be performed.
(b) 
No selling of gasoline or other fuel shall be permitted.
(c) 
Adequate paving of premises with provisions for orderly parking must be provided.
(d) 
Provisions for ingress and egress shall be adequate.
(e) 
Site plans shall be submitted and approved by the Planning Board.
[Amended 6-16-1992 by L.L. No. 2-1992; 10-17-2017 by L.L. No. 4-2017]
A. 
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used for any trade, industry or business that is noxious or offensive by reason of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration or noise. No internal-combustion engine shall be used unless objectionable noise and vibrations are eliminated and it is equipped and supplied with an effective muffler or silencer. It shall be unlawful and deemed a violation of this chapter to operate any facility or building that displays or utilizes strobe lights, flashing or blinking lights, laser lights, or flashing or blinking lights or signs on its windows or storefront. Any legal use that does not conform on the date hereof shall continue to be permitted for a period of 12 months provided no safety hazard is presented, after which time such use shall be discontinued.
[Amended 9-7-2021 by L.L. No. 7-2021]
B. 
The following uses are strictly prohibited:
(1) 
Operating any facility or location whose business operation, whether as its primary use or as an ancillary use, includes the smoking of tobacco or other substances through one or more hookah pipes (also commonly referred to as a hookah, water pipe, shisha or narghile), including but not limited to establishments known variously as hookah bars, hookah lounges or hookah cafes.
(2) 
Operating any facility or location whose business operation, whether as its primary use or as an ancillary use, includes the smoking or selling of vapors, e-liquids, or other substances that are smoked through an electronic cigarette, including but not limited to establishments known variously as vape shops.
(3) 
Operating any facility whose business operation whether as an ancillary use, includes the smoking or selling of synthetic marijuana, cannabis substitutes or related products.
A commercial billboard, signboard or advertising sign attached to a building as an accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses shall not exceed 10 feet in height, but in no case shall any commercial billboard, sign or advertising sign exceed six feet in height by 10 feet in length, the same being set back not less than the required front yard distance.
A. 
No building or structure shall exceed 24 feet in height.
[Amended 1-6-1976 by L.L. No. 3-1976; 10-30-1979 by L.L. No. 9-1979; 8-7-1985 by L.L. No. 5-1985]
B. 
No building shall occupy a lot or plot having a frontage of less than 75 feet and a depth of 100 feet, except a plot having a frontage of not less than 50 feet and being in single, separate ownership on the effective date hereof. However, a building may be erected on such plot, provided that all other provisions of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Village of Lindenhurst are complied with.
[Added 8-7-1985 by L.L. No. 5-1985; amended 8-20-1987 by L.L. No. 12-1987]
There shall be one side yard of no less than a fourteen-foot setback.
[Amended 8-20-1987 by L.L. No. 12-1987]
There shall be a front yard, the depth of which shall be at least 10 feet on all business-zoned property.
[Added 1-6-1976 by L.L. No. 3-1976]
A. 
Accessory buildings may occupy 15% of the required area of the rear yard up to a height of 14 feet. Accessory buildings shall be limited to two per lot and shall not exceed an aggregate of 600 square feet.
[Amended 8-20-1987 by L.L. No. 12-1987]
B. 
The yard area allowed for such accessory buildings shall be included in computing the percentage of lot area to be built upon.
C. 
Under no circumstances shall any accessory building or part thereof in a business zone be used as a dwelling or place of human habitation.
[Added 1-6-1976 by L.L. No. 3-1976; 8-20-1987 by L.L. No. 12-1987]
The total building area shall not exceed 50% of the total lot area.
[Added 10-30-1979 by L.L. No. 9-1979]
A. 
In a Business District, a fence, as defined in this code and not exceeding six feet in height, may be erected, provided that, if such fence shall be erected along any road or highway, the permitted height thereof shall be measured from the existing elevation of the center line of such highway opposite such fence and provided, further, that such height so measured shall not exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) feet at any point within a radius of 15 feet of the corner formed by any intersecting roads or highways unless otherwise permitted by the Board of Appeals. The provisions hereof shall also apply to hedges and other densely growing shrubbery.
B. 
The use of barbed or razor wire atop fences in this zone shall be permitted only when authorized as a special permit by the Board of Appeals and provided, further, that the additional height of barbed or razor wire shall not exceed by more than two feet the height permitted for fences in Subsection A above or as elsewhere prescribed in this code, and the barbed or razor wire shall not lean outward, away from the property so enclosed.
[Amended 6-16-1992 by L.L. No. 2-1992]
C. 
Any fence shall have the smooth or finished side facing the outside of the property, and all posts, braces or pipes must be placed on the inside of the fence.
[Added 6-16-1992 by L.L. No. 2-1992]
[Added 6-22-1981 by L.L. No. 5-1981]
A. 
There shall be, in the case of any building, accessory building or extension to any existing building in this zone, a fifteen-foot setback along the property line at any place it abuts any residential zones.
B. 
As part of the aforementioned setback, there shall be constructed along the residentially zoned property a fence and at least a five-foot-wide shrub buffer.
C. 
Prior to the issuance of a building permit, application must be made to the Planning Board, together with a proposed plot plan showing the buffer. The fence and shrub buffer shall be constructed pursuant to specifications set forth by the Planning Board designed to protect the privacy, safety and aesthetics of the area.
[Amended 6-20-1989 by L.L. No. 5-1989]