In a Residence A District, the following regulations
of this article shall apply.
No building shall be erected, altered or used
and no lot or premises shall be used except for one or more of the
following purposes:
A.
A residence or dwelling for a single family or housekeeping
unit.
[Amended 9-24-1984 by L.L. No. 2-1984]
B.
The office of a physician, surgeon, dentist, architect,
engineer or lawyer, provided that the occupational facility is located
in the dwelling where the practitioner lives.
[Amended 1-16-1967]
C.
Libraries or public museums.
D.
Private docks, private boathouses and private bathhouses
for the use of the owner thereof and his immediate family and acquaintances;
provided, however, that no charge shall be made for the use thereof
and that the same shall not be used for profit.
E.
Farming, truck gardening or nurseries, provided that
no commercial greenhouses are used in connection therewith.
F.
Accessory uses customarily incident to the above uses,
including a private garage, greenhouse, garden house or professional
sign bearing the name and occupation of the practitioner only, not
exceeding 1 1/2 square feet in area. The term "accessory use,"
however, does not include a business use or any building or use not
located on the same lot with the building or use to which it is accessory.
H.
Village police purposes.
[Amended 7-25-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988; 4-25-1991 by L.L. No.
2-1991; 1-9-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2001]
The maximum height of any building or any part
thereof shall be 28 feet in the case of a gable, hip or gambrel roof,
or 25 feet in the case of all other roofs, or 2 1/2 stories,
whichever is less. No principal building shall be raised and no principal
building or any part thereof shall be erected or altered which has
a height of less than one story or 20 feet, whichever is less.
[Amended 4-19-1954; 11-27-1989 by L.L. No. 24-1989]
No building shall hereafter be erected or altered
on a lot of less area than 20,000 square feet, nor shall a building
hereafter be erected or altered unless such lot shall have a frontage
of not less than 100 feet on at least one street, except that in the
case of a corner lot, such lot shall have a frontage of not less than
100 feet on at least two streets. Any lot smaller in area or with
less frontage than in this section required, of which the ownership
at the date of the adoption of this section differs from the ownership
of all adjoining lots, may be improved as herein permitted, provided
that the minimum yard areas hereafter required are provided.
A.
Further exception to this section is made in the case
of a parcel of land starting at the intersection of the easterly boundary
of the property of the Rockaway Hunt Club and Woodmere Bay running
thence 252 feet northerly to Hempstead Bay Drive, easterly along Hempstead
Bay Drive to the village boundary, southerly along the village boundary
to Woodmere Bay and thence easterly along the shore to the point of
beginning, which may be divided into two plots with frontage on Hempstead
Bay Drive of as nearly equal division as practical, provided that
the minimum yard areas hereinafter required are provided.
B.
It is further understood in connection with this parcel
that the same shall be considered to have a waterfront only along
the southerly boundary fronting on Woodmere Bay.
Every building hereafter erected or altered
shall have a rear yard of a minimum depth of 25 feet.
[Amended 10-9-1946; 9-13-1954]
No building shall be hereafter erected or altered
which shall have its front wall nearer to the street line than 50
feet. In case of a corner lot, a front yard shall be required on each
street upon which the lot abuts. The interior angles formed by the
intersection of the lot's lines with the street line shall not be
less than 75° for the entire distance from the street lines to
the front yard setback line or lines.
[Amended 1-15-1968; 7-16-2018 by L.L. No. 3-2018]
A.
On every interior lot, there shall be two side yards. Neither side
yard shall be less than 20 feet.
B.
On a corner lot, there shall be one side yard. Said side yard shall
be not less than 20 feet. The side yard shall be on the side adjoining
the interior lot opposite the front yard having the greater front
line length. Where the front line lengths for each front line are
equal, the side yard shall be on the side of the building immediately
adjoining the front wall of the house. The front wall of the house
is the wall containing the front yard access to the building. The
remaining interior yard shall be a rear yard.
A.
Where property borders upon tidewater or where interior
lots have a right-of-way to the waterfront and rights of users permitting
the same, there may be constructed adjacent to and abutting the waterline
on the property a dock, pergola, summerhouse, boathouse or bathhouse
not designed or to be used for the storage of automobiles or keeping
of horses or for any purpose other than to facilitate the uses of
the waterfront. None of such buildings may be over two stories in
height. No such accessory buildings or docks as may be erected shall
be used for any public use or for any other use not permitted specifically
under this section. In the case of a structure permitted by this subsection,
there shall be two side yards, one on each side of the structure,
and such shall be at least 15% of the width of the lot. Neither side
yard shall be less than 7 1/2 feet. In the case of a lot, held
in single and separate ownership at the effective date of this subsection,
of a width less than 50 feet, a structure permitted by this subsection
may be built thereon with the side yards of less width when authorized
as a special exception by the Board of Appeals.
B.
No principal building and no accessory building, except
as noted above, shall be constructed upon any lot fronting or bordering
upon water at a distance of less than 50 feet, measured from any part
of such building, to the high-water mark.
[Added 10-6-1952]
No main dwelling shall be erected unless it
has habitable floor area of 2,400 square feet.
[Added 1-9-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2001]
The maximum building height to front yard setback
ratio shall be 0.420.
[Added 1-9-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2001]
The maximum building height to side yard setback
ratio shall be 1.050.
[Added 1-9-2001 by L.L. No. 1-2001]
The maximum permitted floor area shall be calculated
based upon the following table:
|
Lot Size
(square feet)
|
Maximum Permitted Floor Area
(square feet)
|
|---|---|
|
0 to 12,000
|
3,000
|
|
12,001 to 14,000
|
3,000, plus 0.26 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
14,001 to 16,000
|
3,000, plus 0.25 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
16,001 to 18,000
|
3,000, plus 0.24 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
18,001 to 20,000
|
3,000, plus 0.23 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
20,001 to 22,000
|
3,000, plus 0.22 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
22,001 to 23,000
|
3,000, plus 0.21 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
23,001 to 29,000
|
3,000, plus 0.20 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
29,001 to 30,000
|
3,000, plus 0.19 times lot area over 12,000
|
|
30,001 and above
|
3,000, plus 0.18 times lot area over 12,000
|
