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Village of Island Park, NY
Nassau County
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(See Article X, Additional Regulations.)
[Amended 1-17-1963; 10-10-1974 by L.L. No. 1-1974]
In a Business 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 uses:
A. 
Advertising signs may be used upon roofs when the uppermost part of the sign is within the height limit of buildings in this district; no sign shall protrude beyond the building line.
B. 
Any retail or wholesale business or wholesale sample room.
C. 
Banks, offices, studios or telephone exchanges.
D. 
Dry-cleaning, limited to taking orders and pick-up and delivery. Cleaning processes are excluded, except when approved by an appropriate electrical inspection agency, as determined by the Village, accessory to laundering, tailoring and pressing and using inflammable liquid which has a flashpoint or ignites at a temperature above 100° F.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
E. 
Firehouses.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection (g), Launderettes, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
F. 
Mortuaries, undertaking or embalming parlors.
G. 
Restaurants, tea rooms, and lunch counters when used in conjunction with a restaurant and within the same premises. Nothing in this article shall be construed to permit any use in a business district of or for a lunch wagon, or vehicle, or a stand for the purpose of serving food or drink, whether such vehicle, wagon, or stand is movable or immovable.
H. 
Shops for custom work or for the making or storing of articles which shall be sold on the premises.
I. 
Places of amusement when permitted by a special permit issued by the Village Board of Trustees.[3]
[3]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
J. 
Printing offices.
K. 
Shoe repairing shops, bootblacks, hat cleaning shops.
L. 
Showrooms for the display or sale of motor vehicles, with the right to have as an accessory use thereof a repair shop, with or without gasoline service, for the servicing of cars, provided the gasoline is in tanks underground, and provided further that the use is in a permanent structure complying with the building code requirements of the Incorporated Village of Island Park, and provided further that the portion of the premises to be used as a repair shop is limited to 50% of the area of the ground floor showroom, with no more than five men employed at repair work in such repair shop. Not more than two pumps for the service of gasoline may be installed or used.[4]
[4]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
M. 
Any kind of manufacturing treatment or assembling of a permitted product is permitted in this district where the major portion of the business is conducted as a retail business on the premises, provided that not more than 25% of the total floor area of the building is used for such manufacturing or treatment of a product or where not more than five workers are continuously employed in the aforementioned work.
N. 
Tailor repairs with dry-cleaning accessory thereto, wholesale cleaning process excluded, except as stated in Subsection D.[5]
[5]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
O. 
Bake shops or bakeries where bread or cake or both products are baked or sold at retail only.
P. 
Multiple dwellings for senior citizens when authorized by the Board of Trustees.
[Added 4-20-1978 by L.L. No. 1-1978]
In the Business 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 trades, industries or uses:
A. 
Bottling or distribution stations.
B. 
Billboards or advertising signs, except on roofs or walls of buildings as otherwise provided, and except further that the placing of not more than one wooden or metal sign or two attached back-to-back signs, no larger than four feet by 18 inches, in connection with the conduct of a public garage, gasoline service station or motor vehicle repair shop, constructed on a standard securely imbedded in the ground and no higher than 10 feet from the ground, shall be permitted as an accessory use, and except further that the Board of Trustees may grant a permit for such time and upon such conditions as it deems necessary to the public interest for the erection and maintenance of a larger sign in connection with the sale, rental, construction or improvement of the premises or conduct of a business on which such sign is erected or maintained as an accessory use.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
C. 
Carpenter shops.
D. 
Carpet or rug cleaning establishments, except as set forth in § 625-22D hereinabove.
E. 
Contractor's plants.
F. 
Convalescent homes.
G. 
Establishments for cleaning and dyeing of clothes, goods, wares or merchandise, except as defined in § 625-22D hereinabove.
H. 
Gas manufacturing or storage (illuminating or heating).
I. 
Gasoline service stations.
J. 
Lumber yards.
K. 
Public garages, dance halls, used car lots or stands, storage of junk, scrap metal, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, used automobile parts or accessories, paper or rags (sorting or baling), storage and/or sale of automobiles, except those on sale within salesrooms, and other uses which are harmful or dangerous to the custom or character of the surrounding property shall not be permitted, nor shall any use be permitted which has the effect of omitting odor, dust, smoke, gas or noise into the public street or thoroughfare, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
L. 
Public or private hospitals or other places where persons suffering from mental or any kind of contagious disease whatsoever are kept or treated.
M. 
Public stables, or the storage of hay, grain, feed, excelsior, straw or other inflammable materials.
N. 
Railroad spurs or freight yards.
O. 
Repair shops for motor vehicles, unless the same are used in conjunction with a showroom as herein otherwise provided under § 625-22L.
P. 
Saw mill planing or wood working mills.
Q. 
Stone or monumental works.
R. 
Storage and/or sale of automobiles, except those on sale within salerooms.
S. 
Upholstery: a shop or place where upholstery work is performed.
T. 
Vehicles shall not be stored upon vacant lots or plots.
U. 
Veterinary, animal hospitals, kennels and boarding of animals.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection (w), regarding uses in Light Manufacturing and Industrial Districts, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
V. 
Apartment houses or multiple dwellings.
[Amended 4-23-1963]
W. 
One- or two-family dwellings, boardinghouses, lodging houses, hotels.
[Added 10-10-1974 by L.L. No. 1-1974[3]]
[3]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
X. 
Flea markets, public markets or bazaars and other retail establishments where five or more vendors are located in one building.
[Added 12-9-1982 by L.L. No. 3-1982]
Whenever a blower may be required for the purpose of eliminating dust, smoke, gas, emission of odors or stenches from the premises, such blower shall be used, provided the noise thereof shall be confined within the building and provided the same shall extend not more than four feet above the roof level of the building.
[Amended 5-24-1962]
A. 
No building or part thereof shall be erected, altered or raised in this district that is more than two stories in height and which two stories shall not exceed 30 feet in height.
B. 
Multiple dwellings for senior citizens shall not exceed three stories or 40 feet in height.
[Added 4-20-1978 by L.L. No. 1-1978]
[Amended 4-20-1978 by L.L. No. 1-1978]
Side yards are not required.
[Added 4-20-1978 by L.L. No. 1-1978; amended by L.L. No. 1-1984]
In the case of multiple dwellings for senior citizens, a setback from the street line of 10 feet is required.
[Amended 6-18-1964]
Rear yards of not less than 10 feet are required, except property adjoining a railroad right-of-way.
[Added by L.L. No. 1-1984]
No business in this district shall operate or be open to the public for the purpose of conducting business between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. unless permitted by federal or state law, except if a special permit is obtained from the Board of Trustees for good cause shown.
[Added 9-16-1993 by L.L. No. 1-1993]
All places of public assembly and cabarets will require prior approval from the Village Board.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 147, Assembly, Public.