In a Light Manufacturing District, the following uses are permitted:
A. 
Any light manufacturing business utilizing not more than an aggregate of two-hundred-rated horsepower, and not more than 20 horsepower on any one unit or machine, except that no internal combustion engine shall be used to provide power.
The minimum plot area shall be one acre. No more than one building shall be constructed on each plot.
The building shall not cover more than 65% of the total lot area.
No building shall exceed two stories and 25 feet in height, and the floor of the first story shall not be more than two feet above the average curb grade.
No story of any building shall be nearer to the street line on which the building faces than 20 feet. The parking of motor vehicles and any use of the front yard area other than as a landscaped yard, pedestrian walk, driveway or for a detached sign as permitted in this Code of Ordinances is hereby prohibited.
A rear yard of not less than 30 feet is required, except where the rear yard abuts a residence district, then the minimum rear yard shall be 50 feet.
There shall be two side yards, each having a minimum width of 15 feet.
Minimum off-street parking space shall be provided on the plot at the rate of one parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area or major fraction thereof. Such parking area shall not be used for any purpose other than for the temporary parking of motor vehicles directly related to the business conducted on the site. Each parking space, exclusive of access area, shall be not less than 8 1/2 feet in width by 20 feet in length and shall be graded, paved, marked and provided with adequate access consisting of a travel lane or travel lanes having a minimum width of 20 feet each and dry wells for drainage purposes, all in accordance with requirements of the Incorporated Village of Hempstead.
There shall be provided on the plot one loading space, either as a part of the building or abutting thereto, for each 20,000 square feet of floor area or major fraction thereof. Such loading space shall not be less than 12 feet in width, 40 feet in length and, if inside the building, shall be at least 15 feet in height; except that the maximum number of loading spaces required shall be no more than six. In no event shall a loading space be situated within a front yard. Each loading space shall be graded, paved, marked and provided with adequate dry wells for drainage purposes, all in accordance with the requirements of the Incorporated Village of Hempstead.
All front yards not utilized for pedestrian walks, driveways or signs shall be landscaped with lawn and/or perennial planting. Planter tubs may be utilized. Screening shall be provided whenever any side or rear yard abuts a residence district. Said screening shall be provided in any of the following forms: hedges, bushes, evergreens or other perennial planting, decorative block walls or other comparable materials as may be approved by the Village so as to adequately conceal the activities in the industrial yards. The minimum height of such screening shall at all times be six feet. The screening material shall be properly maintained at all times.
A. 
No building may be erected, altered or used and no premises may be used for any trade, industry or business unless the dissemination of smoke, steam, gas, dust, odor, radioactivity, vapor, heat, vibration, light, noise or any other offensive, noxious or deleterious by-product of same is entirely confined within the structure.
B. 
The following uses are hereby prohibited:
Abattoir
Acetylene manufacture
Acid manufacture
All uses prohibited in Article XIX
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture
Arsenal
Asphalt manufacture, refining, mixing or treating
Bag-cleaning establishment
Brick, pottery, tile, concrete block or terra cotta manufacture
Burlap manufacture[1]
Candle manufacture
Celluloid manufacture
Coke oven
Creosote treatment or manufacture
Disinfectants manufacture
Dismantling of motor vehicles, storage and sale of used parts
Distillation of bones, coal or wood
Dyestuff manufacture
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture
Explosives and fireworks manufacture or storage
Exterminator and insect poison manufacture
Fat rendering
Fertilizer manufacture
Foundry
Gas (illuminating or heating) manufacture
Gasoline service station
Glue, size or gelatin manufacture
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal
Junkyard
Lampblack manufacture
Laundromat
[Added 9-16-1997 by L.L. No. 7-1997]
Lime, cement or plaster of paris manufacture
Match manufacture
Oil cloth or linoleum manufacture
Oiled or rubber goods manufacture
Ore reduction
Outdoor storage of any type
Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture
Paper and pulp manufacture
Perfume and extract manufacture
Petroleum or other flammable liquids
Petroleum refining
Plating works
Poison manufacture
Pool table or billiard table in any place open to the public
[Added 5-5-1998 by L.L. No. 3-1998]
Potash works
Power forging, riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of iron, steel, brass or copper except as a necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noises outside the plant
Printing ink manufacture
Pyroxylin manufacture
Residence, except living quarters as may be necessary for caretakers or watchmen employed upon the premises
Rubber, caoutchouc or gutta percha manufacture or treatment
Salt works
Sauerkraut manufacture
Sausage manufacture
Shoeblacking manufacture
Smelters
Soap manufacture
Soda and compound manufacture
Stockyard
Storage or bailing of scrap paper, iron, bottles, rags or junk
Stove polish manufacture
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining
Tanning, curing or storage of leather, rawhide or skins
Tar distillation or manufacture
Tar roofing and waterproofing manufacture
Tobacco manufacture or treatment
Vinegar manufacture
Wool pulling or scouring
Yeast plant
[1]
Editor's Note: The entry for cabarets, discotheques and nightclubs, added 5-5-1998 by L.L. No. 3-1998, which immediately followed this entry, was repealed 4-20-2010 by L.L. No. 6-2010.