In a Business Office District, the following
regulations shall apply:
A. Permitted uses. No building shall be erected, altered
or used, and no lot or premises shall be used, except for one or more
of the following types of offices:
(1) Administrative office: executive functions concerned
with managing the affairs of a business organization.
(2) Accounting services: billing and related financial
and recordkeeping services, statistical services and electronic data
processing.
(3) Cafeterias for tenant use: an eating service area,
containing tables and chairs, in which food, variously priced, is
displayed on counters or available from vending machines, and patrons
serve themselves.
(4) Engineering services, including drafting and surveying.
(6) Investment broker services.
(9) Real estate broker and appraisal services.
(11)
A church or other place of worship, provided that a special use permit has been issued for such use by the Board of Trustees pursuant to Article
XXIX of this chapter.
[Added 12-2-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999]
(12)
The office of a medical doctor, chiropractor, dentist, optometrist,
optician, podiatrist or other licensed healthcare provider.
[Added 3-6-2014 by L.L. No. 4-2014]
B. Prohibited uses. A building, lot or premises shall
not be used for any of the following:
[Amended 3-20-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997; 3-6-2014 by L.L. No.
4-2014]
(3) Retail of manufactured goods.
(4) The production, exchange or delivery of chattels,
goods, wares or merchandise shall not be included in permitted office
uses.
(5) Adult uses as defined in Article
II of this chapter.
(6) Any use not permitted hereinbefore shall be prohibited.
A minimum buffer area of five feet shall be
maintained along all property lines, except that adjoining the lot
line or lines nearest any adjacent lot or lots that are zoned for
residential uses, there shall be a buffer strip at least 15 feet in
width within which there shall be an evergreen planting of such type,
height and density as will provide a screening of the business development
from said adjacent residential area. Such buffer planting may be supplemented
by a wall or solid fence sufficient to block the light from headlights
of cars. Such buffer planting shall be maintained in good condition.
The total coverage for buildings and structures
shall not exceed 50% of the plot area. The remaining area of the plot
area may be used for the accessory parking of vehicles, loading and
unloading spaces and buffer planting area. Except for parking areas,
driveways and sidewalks, as approved on the site plan hereinafter
provided, all other areas shall be lawn and landscaped areas. Required
plantings shall be properly trimmed and maintained throughout the
continuance of the use on the lot, as a condition of the certificate
of occupancy.
No building shall exceed five stories with a
maximum height of 54 feet, except that the height limitation shall
not apply to ventilators, skylights, water tanks, bulkheads or similar
features and necessary mechanical appurtenances usually carried above
the roof level. Such features shall only be erected to a height necessary
to accomplish the purpose it is intended to serve, but in no case
more than 14 feet above its lowest point of contact with the roof.
The total area covered by such features exempted from the height limit
shall not exceed, in cross-sectional area, 25% of the roof area on
which they are located.
All buildings not provided with municipal sewage
disposal facilities shall be equipped with an independent sewage disposal
plant approved by the Nassau County Department of Health.
It is specifically provided that Article
XXXI, Comprehensive Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations, shall be applicable in this district not only with uses hereafter erected, enlarged, created or extended, as provided in said Article
XXXI, but also upon the initial use of any property in this district.
[Amended 7-30-1985 by L.L. No. 5-1985; 2-5-1987 by L.L. No. 1-1987]
Except as exempted by §
248-252 of this chapter, no building permit shall be issued and no building or use shall be established, except in conformity with a site development plan approved by the Planning Board, in accordance with Article
XXVIII of this chapter.
The Planning Board may, on its own initiative,
propose a general or specific site plan for a particular area where
site development plan approval may be required in the future, using
the requirements of this chapter as a guide.