[Amended 2-25-1992; 4-8-1997; 7-12-2022]
These provisions are intended to provide for appropriate locations for inpatient care for emergency medicine and the Town's aging population. Sites in the General Service C District are optimally placed on or in very close proximity to nonindustrial arterial highways, downtowns and/or recreational areas with the goals of minimizing response time for medical emergencies and offering recreational and social interaction for the patients, residents, and visitors of the listed permitted uses.
[Added 7-12-2022]
In a General Service C District, no building, structure or premises shall be used or occupied, and no building or part thereof or other structure shall be so erected or altered, except for one or more of the following purposes:
A. 
Hospital.
B. 
Nursing home or skilled-nursing facility.
C. 
Adult home or assisted-living facility.
D. 
Life-care community or continuum-care facility.
E. 
Adult day-care facility.
F. 
Child day-care center.
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Editor's Note: Former § 68-182, Uses permitted by special permit from Town Board after public hearing, as amended 9-18-1973 and 8-27-1974, was repealed 11-1-1988. Former § 68-183, Uses permitted as special exception by Board of Appeals after public hearing, amended 11-1-1988, was repealed 4-8-1997.
[Amended 4-8-1997]
Customary accessory uses, structures and buildings, provided that such uses are clearly incidental to the principal use and do not include activity commonly conducted as a business.
[Added 4-8-1997; amended 3-23-1999]
All uses not expressly permitted are prohibited.
[Amended 4-8-1997; 9-11-2001; 9-19-2017]
A. 
No building or structure shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of 35 feet or two stories.
B. 
A hospital, skilled nursing facility, assisted-living facility, or continuum-care facility may be erected to a height in excess of 35 feet or two stories with the approval of the Town Board after due public hearing, and provided that the portion of the building which is erected in excess of 35 feet shall be set back one additional foot for each additional foot of height with relation to front yards, rear yards and side yards.
C. 
Flagpoles shall not exceed 35 feet in height.
D. 
No accessory building shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of 18 feet.
[Amended 11-1-1988; 7-20-2021]
The total building area, including all buildings, shall not exceed an FAR of 0.45.
[Amended 4-8-1997; 7-12-2022]
The minimum required lot area for a hospital, nursing home or skilled-nursing facility, adult home or assisted-living facility, or life-care community or continuum-care facility shall be 120,000 square feet. The minimum required lot area for other permitted uses shall be 30,000 square feet.
A. 
The minimum required width of lot for all permitted uses shall be 150 feet throughout.
[Amended 4-8-1997]
B. 
Exception. A lot need not have the required width throughout, so long as:
(1) 
Said lot has the required width as measured parallel to and 40 feet back from the front property line, and
(2) 
Said lot has frontage on a cul-de-sac or curvilinear road where the side lines of the lot are straight but not parallel, and has a minimum width of 50 feet at the front property line, and
(3) 
Said lot otherwise complies with all requirements of this ordinance.
A. 
The minimum front yard setback for a hospital shall be 100 feet, unless arterial highway setback is greater (see Article XXXII). The minimum front yard setback for other permitted uses shall be 40 feet, unless arterial highway setback is greater.
[Amended 4-8-1997]
B. 
Corner lots. All main buildings hereafter erected on a corner lot in a General Service C District shall also have a front yard facing the side street. This front yard shall be a minimum of 30 feet, unless arterial highway setback is greater (see Article XXXII).
C. 
Through lots. A minimum front yard setback of 40 feet shall be required from both streets, unless arterial highway setback is greater (see Article XXXII).
D. 
Accessory buildings.
(1) 
An accessory building in a General Service C District shall have a minimum front yard setback of 80 feet.
(2) 
Accessory buildings on corner lots shall have a minimum front yard setback from the side street of 50 feet.
A. 
Permitted buildings. All main buildings hereafter erected in a General Service C District shall have a side yard along each lot line other than a street or rear line. The sum of the width of the two side yards shall be 50 feet with a minimum width of either of such side yards of 25 feet. The required space of a side yard shall remain open and unobstructed except for permitted encroachments or other features of a strictly landscape or ornamental character or nature.
B. 
Accessory buildings.
(1) 
Accessory buildings in a General Service C District shall have a minimum side yard of 10 feet.
(2) 
Exception. Structures designed for and used in connection with mechanical sewerage treatment plants shall not be closer to any property line than 50 feet.
A. 
All main buildings in a General Service C District shall have a minimum rear yard of 35 feet.
B. 
Accessory buildings.
(1) 
Accessory buildings shall have a minimum rear yard of 10 feet.
(2) 
Exception. Structures designed for and used in connection with mechanical sewerage treatment plants shall not be closer to any property line than 50 feet.
The following encroachments are hereby permitted:
A. 
Cornices, eaves, gutters and chimneys projecting not more than 24 inches.
B. 
Bay windows and fireplaces not wider than six feet and projecting not more than 24 inches.
C. 
Open and unroofed entrance platforms or terraces not wider or deeper than six feet nor more than three feet in height.
[Amended 4-8-1997; 4-5-2005]
A. 
The exterior site improvements and land clearing of property shall be regulated under the Subdivision and Land Development Regulations and Article XXXI of this chapter.
B. 
A minimum buffer area of 25 feet in width, in accordance with Town standards, shall be provided and maintained adjacent to any residential zone or use.
(See Article XXX.)