[Amended 6-2-1966; 5-21-1969; 7-3-1969; 8-14-1969; 5-20-1971; 10-10-1974 by L.L. No. 1-1974]
In the Residential A District, no building or
premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered
which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for other than
one or more of the following specified uses:
B. Public schools, parochial schools or private schools recognized by or under the jurisdiction of the State of New York, public libraries, and churches upon issuance of a special permit as provided in §
625-54.
C. Municipal playgrounds or parks.
D. Farming, gardening, nursery or greenhouses, provided
they are not for commercial purposes.
E. Usual accessory uses which are necessary to the above
uses when located in the same building or upon the same lot.
F. Hospitals and nursing homes. No such use, however,
shall be established or permitted on a parcel of land less than 3/4
acre in area or with less than 375 feet of frontage, nor shall any
part or portion of such use be permitted closer than 20 feet to any
adjoining structure.
G. Veterans' organizations upon issuance of a special permit, as provided in §
625-54.
H. Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of the Island Park Volunteer Fire Department upon issuance of a special permit, as provided in §
625-54.
[Amended 6-2-1966; 8-14-1969]
In the Residential A District, no building or
premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered
which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for any of the
following specified uses:
A. Cemeteries or crematories.
B. Clinics or dispensaries, including but not limited
to drug addiction or abuse centers or clinics.
C. Clubs, except as such are ordinarily a part of church
work.
D. Kindergarten, nursery or private schools when carried
on as a business or on a commercial basis and when not recognized
by or under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education of the
State of New York.
E. Mortuary undertaking or embalming parlors or similar
plants or an office for such establishment or business.
F. Philanthropic or charitable institutions.
G. Public or private hospitals or other places or buildings
where persons suffering from mental or other diseases of any kind
whatsoever are kept or treated, except this shall not prohibit a doctor
in his own office, when conducted within a dwelling, from making diagnoses
or treating patients.
H. Homes for animals or in which animals are boarded
or a hospital or place where animals are boarded, treated, cared for
or sold.
I. All uses prohibited in the following districts are
prohibited in Residential A Districts: CR Cluster Residence District,
Business District, or Commercial A, B and C Districts.
No billboards, signboards, or advertising signs
shall be allowed upon buildings or premises in this district except
upon permit issued by the Board of Trustees, and except that a small
sign showing the premises to be for rental or sale may be used, provided
such sign shall be at least 10 feet back from the street line and
shall not exceed four square feet in size.
[Amended 6-21-1962; 11-16-2017 by L.L. No. 15-2017]
A. No dwelling
shall be erected on a lot that has less than 60 feet of frontage.
In the case of a lot held in single and separate ownership at the
effective date of this amendment having a frontage of less than 60
feet, a dwelling may be built thereon when authorized as a special
permit by the Board of Appeals. Each dwelling must have a separate
lot area of at least 6,000 square feet. In the case of a one-family
dwelling, there shall be not less than 900 square feet of living space
above the foundation. In the case of a two-family dwelling, there
shall be not less than 900 square feet of living space for the first
dwelling unit and not less than 500 square feet of living space for
the second dwelling unit. In the case of a two-family dwelling authorized
as a special permit on a lot having less than 40 feet of frontage,
the first dwelling unit may have not less than 750 square feet of
living space and the second dwelling unit may have not less than 500
square feet of living space. Each such dwelling authorized as a special
permit may have a lot area of not less than 4,000 square feet. All
buildings, including accessory buildings, shall not cover more than
35% of the area of the lot.
B. The impervious
surface area of any lot shall not exceed 40%; provided, however, that
sidewalks, swimming pools and entrance pathways that lead to a front
door shall not be included in the calculation of impervious surface
area for the purposes of this section. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this subsection, impervious surface coverage may exceed 40%, but
shall not exceed 45%, where it is established to the reasonable satisfaction
of the Chief Building Inspector that the disposition of rainfall and
other surface water will comply with standard engineering practices/calculations
of water percolation, or that the property will provide dry wells
with sufficient capacity to retain and dispose of rainfall and surface
water on site.
[Amended 12-16-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976; by L.L. No. 2-1991; 8-15-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013]
A. No building
shall be raised, erected or altered in a Residential A District, the
height of which exceeds two stories and/or the height of which exceeds
the following:
(1) On a plot less than 40 feet by 100 feet: 26 feet.
(2) On a plot at least 40 feet by 100 feet, but less than
50 feet by 100 feet: 27 feet.
(3) On a plot at least 50 feet by 100 feet, but less than
60 feet by 100 feet: 28 feet.
(4) On a plot at least 60 feet by 100 feet: 30 feet.
(5) In case of a church, school or library: 65 feet.
B. For the
main roof area of all dwellings, the slope shall be not less than
four vertical over 12 horizontal. For gambrel or other main roof profiles
composed of two or more segments of differing slope, the average slope
of all segments shall be no less than four vertical over 12 horizontal.
The slope ratio requirements shall not be applicable to dormers, one-story
wings on multistory buildings, or secondary roof area. See accompanying
illustration of roof pitches.
[Added 11-16-2017 by L.L.
No. 13-2017]
[Amended 12-16-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
No building or part thereof shall be erected
or altered in the Residential A District that is nearer the street
line upon which it fronts than the average setback of the two existing
buildings adjoining the lot on each side with the same block and the
same use district. When all lots on any side of a block are vacant,
no street wall of a building need be set nearer than 25 feet to the
street line. In no event shall any building or portion of a building
be less than 15 feet from the street line. On corner lots, the setback
distance from the street line other than the street upon which the
building fronts shall be not less than 15 feet.
[Amended 12-16-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976; 9-18-2013 by L.L. No. 6-2013]
Two side yards, one on each side of the building,
the aggregate widths of which shall be at least 14 feet, are required.
Neither side yard shall be less than five feet. The following encroachments
are permitted: cornices, eaves, gutters or chimneys projecting not
more than 18 inches.
[Amended 12-16-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
A rear yard equal to a minimum of 25% of the
depth of the lot shall be required on each lot. In no case shall the
depth of the rear yard be less than 15 feet.
[Added 12-16-1976 by L.L. No. 5-1976]
A. Accessory buildings may occupy 40% of the required
area of the rear yard up to an average height of 12 feet. The yard
area occupied by such accessory building shall, however, be included
in computing the maximum percentage of the lot area which may be built
upon. No accessory building shall be nearer any front property line
than 45 feet, and accessory buildings must be at least two feet from
the rear and side property lines.
B. No accessory buildings, including garages, shall be
hereafter altered so that any part thereof shall contain a room or
rooms designed for dwelling purposes.
[Added 11-16-1978 by L.L. No. 8-1978]