In Residential A Districts, no building or premises
shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered for other
than one or more of the following uses:
A.
Permitted uses.
(1)
Single-family detached houses which shall have a roof
other than one of the character or description known as a "flat roof."
(2)
Places of worship.
(a)
Off-street parking must be provided at the ratio
of one space for each 100 feet of usable floor space.
(3)
Public schools.
(4)
Public libraries, museums or historical buildings.
(5)
Public parks and municipal playgrounds.
(6)
Philanthropic and eleemosynary institutions other
than correctional.
(7)
Buildings, structures and premises necessary for the
use and occupancy by the Village for administrative purposes, water
supply, sewage pumping stations, fire and police stations and for
public or municipal parks, municipal playgrounds and municipal parking
places and municipal airports.
(8)
The office of a physician, lawyer, architect, teacher
or similar professional person residing on the premises, and when
such use is incidental to such residence; provided, however, that
such use shall be within the main building and occupying not more
than 1/3 of the first floor area.
B.
Permitted accessory uses located on the same lot with
the permitted principal use.
(2)
Accessory use, exclusive of a private garage, shall
not include the erection or maintenance hereafter of any structure
other than one erected on the ground and not exceeding 120 square
feet of floor area and 9 1/2 feet in height maximum, unless authorized
as a variance by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
[Amended 1-28-2013 by L.L. No. 2-2013]
(3)
Fences, hedges, walls or other property demarcations as provided in Chapter 143, Fences and Hedges.
(4)
No sign, billboard, signboard or other advertisement
shall be allowed in a Residential A District except as hereinafter
set forth:
(a)
A real estate sign for the selling or rental
of the property upon which it appears, provided that such real estate
sign is not nearer to the street line than the building setback line
and shall not be larger than six square feet in area.
(b)
Professional signs: one sign not exceeding two
square feet in area bearing only the name and profession of the resident
practitioner. Such sign may be illuminated by an electric lamp not
exceeding 15 watts of power contained within the sign.
C.
Temporary election signs as described in § 244-29B(5).
[Added 4-10-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995]
[Amended 9-12-2005 by L.L. No. 9-2005]
No building or part thereof erected or altered
in Residential A Districts shall occupy, either alone or with other
buildings, a greater percentage of the area of the lot than as follows:
No dwelling house shall be built on property
that has less than 50 feet frontage, and each house must have a separate
lot area of at least 5,000 square feet, and no residence shall be
erected in the rear of another residence on the same lot.
A.
On an interior lot, two side yards are required, one
on each side of the building, one of which must not be less than five
feet wide and the other of which must not be less than 10 feet wide.
B.
On a corner lot, one side yard is required, and such
side yard shall be on the side adjoining the interior lot opposite
the front yard having the greater street frontage. Said side yard
shall have a minimum width of five feet.
A rear yard is required on every lot; the depth
of a rear yard shall be at least 25 feet.
No building or part thereof shall be erected
or altered that is nearer the street line upon which it fronts than
the average setback of the buildings on the same side of the street
within the same block, but no street wall of a building need set back
more than 30 feet; when all lots within the block are vacant, no street
wall of a building shall set nearer than 25 feet to the street line.
A building erected on a corner plot shall comply with the minimum
setback from the abutting street on at least one side as indicated
on the Setback Map. The setback distance from the other abutting street
shall be not less than 15 feet. One of the interior yards shall have
a width not less than the minimum width prescribed for side yards
in the district, and the other shall have a depth not less than the
minimum depth prescribed for rear yards in the district.
No person shall cause, suffer or permit the
erection and/or maintenance of any parabolic dish or other antenna
or device, the purpose of which is to receive television, radio and/or
microwave or other electrical signals from space satellites, except
as set forth herein.
A.
Any such antenna shall be confined to the rear yard
of any parcel of realty.
B.
No such antenna shall be maintained, erected or affixed
to the roof of any building.
C.
Upon recommendation of the Superintendent of Construction,
the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of East Rockaway is hereby
empowered to designate the exact location of the device to be installed
or maintained and to require any screening or other procedure in order
to reduce or eliminate aesthetic damage to the community which may
result from said installation or maintenance.
D.
No such installation shall be permitted or continued
except by permit from the Superintendent of Construction.
E.
No such device shall exceed six feet at its maximum
height, width or depth, and no part of such device shall be less than
20 feet from the rear and/or side property lines.
F.
There shall be no more than one such device maintained
and/or erected on any parcel of realty.
