[Amended 9-12-2005 by L.L. No. 9-2005]
A.
No public garage shall be located on a lot located
on any portion of a street between two intersecting streets in which
portion there exists an entrance or exit to a public or private school
for children less than 16 years of age, hospital, public library or
place of worship, or within 200 feet of any charitable institution.
No public garage shall be designed or used for the storage or accommodation
of more than five vehicles.
C.
In all Residential A and Residential B Districts,
lots may be used to provide private garage space for not more than
one vehicle for each 2,000 square feet of lot area, except that a
lot shall not be used to provide private garage space for more than
a total of three vehicles.
When a detached garage is erected as an accessory
building on the same property, the side yard used as a driveway as
a means of ingress or egress to such garage shall not be less than
10 feet in width.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 288-50,
One- and two-family areas, which immediately followed this section,
was repealed 9-12-2005 by L.L. No. 9-2005.
Whenever a one-family dwelling shall hereafter
be erected, there shall be erected and maintained on the same premises
at least a one-car garage.
Whenever a two-family dwelling shall hereafter
be erected, there shall be erected and maintained on the same premises
at least a two-car garage.
No garage hereafter erected as an accessory
to a one- or two-family dwelling shall be constructed below the level
of the curb.
All existing garages shall be maintained and,
if destroyed or demolished, shall be replaced within four months.
[Amended 6-13-1988 by L.L. No. 13-1988; 5-13-2019 by L.L. No. 4-2019]
A.
In a Commercial A District, a public garage, automobile
washing or polishing establishment or gasoline service station shall
be permitted when approved by the Board of Trustees, after a public
hearing had upon at least 15 days' notice, provided that no part of
the storage space, workshop or cleaning apparatus incidental thereto
shall be nearer than 25 feet to any street.
B.
Permitted principal uses for gasoline filling stations
are as follows:
(1)
Use shall be limited to the retail sale of motor fuels,
lubricants and other motor vehicle supplies, including spark plugs,
batteries, tires and other minor parts for the repair and upkeep of
motor vehicles. Minor repairs and servicing shall be permitted, except
that body and fender work is expressly prohibited.
(2)
No repair work shall be performed in the open. All
repair work, excluding emergency service, shall be conducted only
between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m.
(3)
No pumping or sales of any motor fuels, lubricants
or other motor vehicle supplies may be performed between the hours
of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
In any district, no building, station, pump
or other apparatus for the furnishing or dispensing of gasoline, oil,
air or water to motor vehicles shall be altered, erected or installed,
unless the same shall be so located and equipped that it must be operated
and used wholly inside of the property lines of the premises on which
the same may be erected and not in any portion of any public street,
road, avenue or highway.
A sales room where motor vehicles are kept for
sale or demonstration purposes, and when no gasoline or oil is stored
on the premises, shall be permitted in a Commercial A District, provided
that no repair work is carried on nearer than 25 feet to any street.
In either Residential A or Residential B Districts,
no part of any garage shall be nearer to the street line than the
greatest setback distance of the street wall of the building, nor
shall any garage which is nearer to the street line than the rear
wall of a dwelling be nearer than six feet to any side lot line. No
garage shall be nearer than eight feet to any part of a dwelling on
another lot or nearer to the street line than 25 feet.
In either Residential A or Residential B Districts,
no part of any detached garage shall be nearer to the street line
upon which said garage faces than the front wall line of the main
building on said premises. In the event that such detached garage
faces on a street other than the street upon which the main house
faces, no part of any such garage shall be nearer to the street line
than the front wall line of the main building of the adjoining property.
If there is no building on the adjoining property, such garage shall
not be nearer to the street line than 25 feet.
In either Residential A or Residential B Districts,
no part of any garage shall be nearer to any adjoining property line
than two feet.
