[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
D. Carpet or rug cleaning establishments, except as set forth in §
625-22D hereinabove.
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.
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.
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]
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 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.