The general requirements affecting the use of buildings, structures and land for each of the districts established by Article III are hereby established and set forth in this Article.
The accompanying table entitled "Table of General Use Requirements" shall be deemed part of this chapter and is referred to herein as the "Use Table."[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Table of General Use Requirements is included as an attachment to this chapter.
A. 
The Use Table is divided into columns, with each column headed by a capital letter for reference. Horizontal lines divide the requirements for one district from those of another.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Use Table for each zoning district has been included in a separate chart.
B. 
In the Use Table, all uses listed in Column B are permitted by right and subject to the bulk and supplemental requirements as applicable; some listed uses are also subject to site development plan approval by the Planning Board in accordance with Article X. All uses listed in Column C are permitted only upon approval of the Planning Board and are conditional thereon pursuant to § 274-a of Town Law. All uses listed in Column D are special permit uses, permitted on approval of the Board of Appeals in accordance with Article XVII or on approval of the Town Board in accordance with Article XVIII, as the case may be. All Town Board special permit uses and certain Board of Appeals special permit uses and all Planning Board conditional uses also require site development plan approval by the Planning Board in accordance with Article X.
[Amended 6-23-2015 by L.L. No. 2-2015]
C. 
The uses identified in Columns B, C and D are followed by a letter designating a use group for reference to the Table of Bulk Requirements. Certain accessory uses do not have respective bulk requirements, and the requirements pertaining to the principal use shall apply.
D. 
Any use not identified in the Use Table shall be deemed prohibited. Any use indicated as conditional shall be deemed prohibited unless approved in a manner specified by this chapter. Where conditional uses are identified by generic word or description, the Planning Board shall determine whether a specific use shall be construed to be part of such generic class. In making such determination, the Planning Board shall consider to what extent the proposed use is like, in land use impacts, the class of use indicated in the Use Table.
The uses which are listed in this section are prohibited in the Town, subject to the qualifications set forth in § 250-9D:
A. 
Manufacturing uses involving primary production of the following products from raw materials:
(1) 
Asphalt, cement, charcoal and fuel briquettes.
(2) 
Chemicals: analine dyes, ammonia, carbide, caustic soda, cellulose, chlorine, carbon black and bone black, creosote, hydrogen and oxygen, industrial alcohol, nitrates (manufactured and natural) of an explosive nature, potash, plastic materials and synthetic resins, pyroxylin, rayon yarn and hydrocholric, nitric, phosphoric, picric and sulfuric acids.
(3) 
Coal, coke and tar products, including gas manufacturing; explosives; fertilizers; and gelatin, glue and size.
(4) 
Linoleum and oilcloth; matches; and paints, varnishes and turpentine.
(5) 
Rubber (natural or synthetic); soaps, including fat rendering; and starch.
B. 
The following processes: nitrating of cotton or other materials; milling or processing of flour, feed or grain except by a farmer on, his own property for his own use; magnesium foundry; reduction, refining. smelting and alloying of metal or metal ores; refining secondary aluminum; refining petroluem products, such as gasoline, kerosene, naphtha and lubricating oil, distillation of wood or bones; and reduction and processing of wood pulp and fiber, including paper mill operations.
C. 
Operations involving stockyards and slaughterhouses, grain elevators, slag piles and keeping, breeding and raising of pigs for commercial purposes.
D. 
Storage of explosives, except under license from the State of New York and in a manner and place conforming to the laws of the State of New York and the American Table of Distances, and provided that no more than 5,000 pounds is stored in any one magazine.
E. 
Bulk or wholesale storage of gasoline above ground.
F. 
Dumps, sanitary landfills and junkyards.
G. 
Quarries, stone crushers, screening plants and storage of quarry screenings; and mining and open-pit mining.
H. 
Incineration of waste materials except in a plant owned and operated by the Town.
I. 
Disposal of septic or sewage wastes.
J. 
Any other use, whether specified above or not, that is of such a nature as to be detrimental to neighboring properties by reason of emission or odor, dust, refuse matter, garbage, smoke, vibration, gas, radiation, noise or any other factor that is dangerous to the comfort, peace, enjoyment, health or safety of the area or the community.
K. 
Freestanding water towers and freestanding water tanks, located below, on or above ground, except that:
[Amended 3-28-1989]
(1) 
Such a tower or tank, owned and operated by a public utility shall be allowed, as a conditional use of the Planning Board, on plots of three acres or more, subject to approval of the Town Board; and
(2) 
Water tanks on or below the ground shall be permitted when required by any Town agency.
L. 
The handling, storage or disposal of radioactive materials or toxic waste byproducts.
M. 
Heliports and helipads, and landing of helicopters.
[Amended 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2021]
N. 
Principal solar energy systems.
[Added 4-25-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017]
O. 
Animal kennels and animal shelters.
[Added 2-25-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2021]