In the Business District, the following regulations shall apply.
No buildings shall be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used except for one or more of the following purposes:
A. 
Retail store, except liquor store, bar, cocktail lounge, discotheque or cabaret, whether or not food is served therein.
B. 
Office building, bank or financial institution, telephone or telegraph business.
C. 
With the permission of the Board of Trustees, a restaurant, bakery shop, confectionary shop or florist.
[Amended 10-16-1989 by L.L. No. 16-1989]
D. 
Newspaper office or job printing, book bindery, hand laundry, express office.
E. 
Shops for carpenter, plumber, upholsterer, electrician, tinsmith, paperhanger, painter, tailor, dressmaker, millinery shop, shoemaker, jeweler, watch and clock maker, optician, musical or scientific instruments.
F. 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection F, as amended, which dealt with signs, was repealed 11-26-1996 by L.L. No. 15-1996.
G. 
Any manufacturing, fabricating, treating, converting, finishing, altering or assembling in connection with the aforesaid permitted uses and which is a necessary incident and accessory to the preparation of articles to be sold primarily at retail on the premises or to the performing of a service primarily for the residents of the neighborhood and on a scale requiring not more than five horsepower and more than five operatives engaged on such work and to an extent involving for such work not more than the rear 1/2 of the entire first floor of the building.
H. 
Public parking place for motor vehicles when authorized by permit granted by the Board of Trustees. Such permit may be so granted only after public notice and hearing and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards. The Board of Trustees shall fix and determine the location and size of the parking place and the appurtenant means of ingress and egress and the duration of the permit which, in any event, shall not exceed one year, and may require appropriate screening and enclosure to prevent annoyance to adjoining property owners. Any such permit may fix the maximum fees payable by the users of such place to the owner or operator thereof. Any such permit so issued shall be revocable at any time by the Board of Trustees for failure to operate and maintain in an orderly manner such place in accordance with the provisions of the permit. The provisions of Article XIV, § 203-119,[2] of this chapter are applicable to all public parking places.
[2]
Editor's Note: Section 203-119 was repealed 11-26-1996 by L.L. No. 17-1996.
I. 
Horticultural nursery and greenhouse.
J. 
Municipal office building, municipal meeting hall, municipal building for storage of equipment, facilities or records.
K. 
With the permission of the Board of Trustees, public utility company electric substations with transformers, regulators, switchgear, usual accessories and protective fencing, provided that the Board of Trustees may require such protective and decorative measures as may be appropriate, including screening and landscaping with trees, shrubs and similar plantings, and such other conditions as may be required to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
[Added 7-31-1990 by L.L. No. 6-1990]
L. 
Religious uses, with the permission of the Board of Trustees, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[Added 11-27-1990 by L.L. No. 9-1990; amended 1-14-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
M. 
Educational uses, with the permission of the Board of Trustees, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[Added 11-27-1990 by L.L. No. 9-1990; amended 1-14-1991 by L.L. No. 1-1991]
A. 
No building shall cover more than 60% of the land area.
B. 
There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which shall not be less than 25 feet, cumulative side yards of not less than 10 feet and a front yard of not less than 15 feet from any property line abutting a street. On corner property, the rear yard must be opposite the principal business street.
No building shall exceed three stories or 35 feet in height.
None of the uses listed in § 203-56 of this Article shall be permitted unless such use or business shall be conducted entirely within a building erected on such lot in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, except in the case of a use permitted by § 203-7A(6) of Article III.
[Amended 8-8-1988 by L.L. No. 4-1988]
Upon the erection of a building on a lot adjoining an R-6, R-7, R-8, R-9, R-10 or Apartment B District or adjoining a lot used for residential purposes, there shall be provided on such lot, for the full width thereof, a landscaped area of at least 10 feet in depth, measured from the boundary line between such districts or such lots, consisting of trees and/or shrubs so located and of sufficient density to screen effectively the Business District from the Residence or Apartment District or lot used for residential purposes. Any application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy shall designate the trees and/or shrubs to be planted and the location thereof. Such plan for such planting and the character and nature of such trees and/or shrubs shall be subject to the approval of the official charged with the enforcement and administration of this chapter. Such planting shall be continuously thereafter maintained so long as such building in the Business District shall stand. Such landscaped area shall not be included as part of the area required for off-street parking, but may be considered as part of the rear yard.
[Added 12-14-2009 by L.L. No. 5-2009]
With an incentive use permit from the Board of Trustees, a property in the Business District as described in this section may be used for parking and storage of motor vehicles, as an incentive use pursuant to Village Law § 7-703, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this section.
A. 
An applicant for an incentive use permit for such use shall provide to the Board, in addition to any other information customarily required in applications to the Board of Trustees or Board of Appeals for special use permits, a master plan for the entire site where such use or facility is proposed, including a landscaping plan.
B. 
Whether or not such condition is stated in the approval of an incentive use permit pursuant to this section, it shall be a specific and express condition of any such permit that the use be constructed and operated in compliance with all applicable governmental licensing requirements and all other applicable laws and regulations of the Village or any other government having jurisdiction over such use.
C. 
A building or lot in the Business District used for parking and storage of motor vehicles pursuant to an incentive zoning permit shall not be used for any other use.
D. 
Such application may be made only if the property which is the subject of the application has street frontage of not more than 60 feet and a property depth of at least 100 feet.
E. 
Provisions for public amenities.
(1) 
An applicant for an incentive use permit pursuant to this section shall include in any such application a plan or proposal for the provision of public amenities, including facilities for public use, and whether by transfer, gift, lease, easement or otherwise, to the extent that the same may be acceptable to the Board of Trustees, and feasible and adequate. The determination whether any such plan is acceptable, feasible, adequate, or in a form acceptable to the Village, shall rest in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Board of Trustees. In the alternative, the applicant may propose payment to the Village of an incentive zoning fee, to be used by the Village solely for the purposes of providing public amenities as required and permitted by law.
(2) 
In connection with the grant of an application under this section, the Board of Trustees may impose any additional terms and conditions which it finds necessary and appropriate to protect the public health, safety and general welfare.
F. 
Public hearing. No incentive use permit shall be granted pursuant to this section except after a public hearing before the Board of Trustees. The said public hearing shall be held and conducted in the same manner as if it were a public hearing on an application to the Board of Appeals for a use variance, but the determination whether to grant an incentive zoning permit shall be in the sole discretion of the Board of Trustees.
G. 
Costs. As required by Village Law § 7-703(3)(c), any applicant who applies for an incentive use permit pursuant to this section at any time after the approval of any previous incentive use permit approved pursuant to this section shall pay to the Village a proportionate share of the cost of any generic environmental impact statement and other studies prepared in connection with the enactment of this section, or in the authorization of any incentive use permit issued pursuant to this section, within five years immediately prior to such application. Said costs shall be added to any other site-specific charges authorized to be imposed on said applicant for environmental studies and review. These costs shall be apportioned among applicants according to the number of applicants required to share in such costs. Monies paid by a prior applicant shall be proportionately reimbursed in the event of a subsequent applicant which may be responsible for, and pays, a portion of these costs.
H. 
The determination by the Board of Trustees whether to grant an application for an incentive use permit pursuant to this section shall be in the sole discretion of the Board of Trustees. No person or entity shall have any right to such a permit under any circumstances unless and until such a permit is approved by the Board of Trustees. Any such approval by the Board of Trustees may be granted upon reasonable conditions.