In a Residential B District, 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) All principal uses permitted and as regulated in Residential
A Districts.
(2) 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, municipal
parking places and municipal airports.
(3) Two-family detached houses which shall have a roof
other than one of the character or description known as a "flat roof."
(4) Rooming or boarding houses which shall be occupied
by not more than two roomers or boarders, provided that it is the
principal place of residence of the owner.
B. Permitted accessory uses located on the same lot with
the permitted principal use.
(1) All accessory uses permitted and as regulated in a
Residential A District.
[Amended 9-12-2005 by L.L. No. 9-2005]
A. Principal building. No principal building shall exceed
2 1/2 stories or 35 feet in height.
[Amended 9-16-2013 by L.L. No. 11-2013; 5-13-2019 by L.L. No. 4-2019]
B. Accessory building, structure or use. No accessory
building or structure shall exceed 1 1/2 stories or 15 feet in height.
No building or part thereof shall be erected
or altered in a Residential A or B District that shall occupy, either
alone or with other buildings, a greater percentage of the area of
the lot than as follows:
A. In case of a corner lot, not more than 55%.
B. In case of an interior lot which exceeds 90 feet in
depth and does not exceed 105 feet in depth, not more than 55%.
C. In case of an interior lot which exceeds 105 feet
in depth, not more than 50%.
No single-family dwelling house shall be built
on property that has less than 40 feet front, and each house must
have a separate lot area of at least 4,000 square feet, and no two-family
dwelling house shall be built on property that has less than 50 feet
front, and each such house must have a separate lot area of at least
6,000 square feet, and no residence shall be erected in the rear of
another residence on the same lot.
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 be set
back more than 25 feet; when all lots within the block are vacant,
then any building thereafter erected on a lot shall comply with the
minimum setback from the street upon which the building fronts as
indicated on the Setback Map. 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 10 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.