No trade, industry, purpose or use shall be
conducted in such a manner as to create corrosive or toxic fumes,
gas, smoke or odors, obnoxious dust, vapor or wastes, offensive noise
or vibration, which may be detrimental to the public health, safety
and general welfare.
On any corner lot no wall, fence or other structure
shall be erected or altered, and no hedge, tree, shrub or other growth
shall be maintained so as to obscure the view and create a dangerous
traffic hazard. For the purpose of this chapter a traffic hazard is
deemed to be created by any fence, wall or other structure, or any
hedge, tree, shrub or other growth, maintained within an area the
radius of which extends a distance of five feet from the point of
intersection of the two street lines.
Courts as provided in this chapter shall be
governed by the provisions of the Multiple Dwelling Law.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 175-67,
Accessory buildings housing animals, was repealed 10-15-2007 by L.L.
No. 5-2007.
[Added 11-10-1959]
A.
No building shall be erected, and no permit shall
be issued for the erection of any building, unless it shall be provided
with connections of sufficient size and capacity to existing electricity,
gas, water and sewage lines (where a sewage connection is to be made)
of sufficient size and capacity to accommodate and provide for all
equipment, fixtures, and appliances to be used or installed in the
building in accordance with its plans and specifications, the Building
Code, and recognized practice.
B.
All dwellings, except those of noncombustible construction,
shall be so constructed and situated that unobstructed routes or areas
of sufficient size and bearing capacity are provided for direct and
timely access to and egress from the outside of each individual dwelling
unit for fire equipment and apparatus employed by the fire district,
and no building permit shall be issued for any building not provided
with such means of access and egress.
C.
An applicant for a building permit shall submit such factual data as will affirmatively establish compliance with Subsections A and B hereof, but the Superintendent of Buildings may waive the requirements of this section as to data respecting any one or more of the items set forth in Subsections A and B if he shall find from his own knowledge of existing lines or facilities that the same are adequate by reason of similarity in size and use of a proposed structure to adjacent existing structures; however, in no case shall a building permit be issued unless there shall appear in the application or in the papers annexed to and made a part of it, the size and location of necessary and proper connections as set forth in Subsection A.[1]
[Amended 3-7-2019 by L.L.
No. 1-2019]
[Amended 9-19-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
A.
The parking of any vehicle in the front yard of any
residentially zoned private property anywhere within the Village is
permitted only on a paved driveway or other driveway surface acceptable
to the Village Superintendent of Buildings for purposes of durability
and elimination of dirt, dust and noise, or within a garage. Without
limiting the foregoing, the parking of vehicles on grass, lawn or
dirt surfaces in any front yard in any Residence A District of the
Village, other than on a permitted driveway surface in any such yard
or in a garage within any such yard, is expressly prohibited.
[Amended 3-7-2019 by L.L.
No. 1-2019]
B.
Accessory parking of more than five automobiles or
other motor vehicles on a vacant lot or lots may be permitted by the
Board of Appeals for a limited duration of time and subject to such
conditions and safeguards as the Board may deem proper. The use of
such lot or lots shall not include any other use or any storage, servicing
or dismantling of automobiles or other motor vehicles. Such a parking
lot shall not be used for any commercial or other gainful purpose.
All theatres, arenas, auditorium, churches and
other places of public gatherings hereafter erected shall provide
off-street parking in the form of a surfaced area or garage of sufficient
size to accommodate at least one car for every seven seats provided,
and the location of such parking space or garage shall not be more
than 500 feet distant from the place of public assembly which it shall
serve.
An institution required to be licensed under
the Mental Hygiene Law of the State of New York is hereby prohibited
in all use districts.
A.
No public garage, motor vehicle repair shop or gasoline
service station shall be erected, altered or used within 200 feet
of any premises used for a public school, public library, church,
hospital or orphanage.
B.
No public garage, motor vehicle repair shop or gasoline
service station shall be located within 40 feet of any residence district
and the vehicular entrance door thereto shall set back a distance
of at least 18 feet from the street line, and an open, unoccupied
space shall be maintained between said door and the street line.
Business or industrial buildings shall front
only on business or industrial streets or on an approved parking district.
No part of such buildings shall have a business frontage on side streets
except for display purposes and a second means of exit as required
by the Labor Law of the State of New York.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 175-74,
Junkyards, was repealed 10-15-2007 by L.L. No. 5-2007.
A.
Except as otherwise provided in Article III, § 175-36, the lawful use of a building or premises existing at the effective date of this chapter, or authorized by a building or other permit issued prior thereto, may be continued although such use does not conform with the provisions of this chapter, and such use may be extended throughout the building or premises lawfully acquired previous to said date.
B.
A nonconforming use of a building or premises may
be changed to a use of the same or higher classification according
to the provisions of this chapter.
C.
Whenever a district shall hereafter be changed, any
then-existing nonconforming use of a building or premises in such
changed district may be continued or changed to a use of a similar
or higher classification, provided there is compliance with all other
regulations governing the new use.
D.
Whenever a nonconforming use of a building or premises
has been abandoned or changed to a higher classification or to a conforming
use, such use shall not thereafter be changed to a use of a lower
classification.
E.
Discontinuance of any nonconforming use for a period
of one year or more terminates such nonconforming use of a structure
or premises, and thereafter the structure or premises shall not be
used except in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
No building which has been damaged by fire or
other causes to the extent of more than 50% of assessed value, exclusive
of foundations, shall be repaired, rebuilt or used except in conformity
with the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 11-7-2019 by L.L. No. 4-2019]
No nonconforming building shall be extended
or altered except in conformity with the provisions of this chapter,
or in a manner that reduces the nonconformity.
Nothing herein contained shall require any change
in the plans, construction or designated use of a building, the construction
of which shall have begun at the time this chapter becomes effective,
and which entire building shall have been completed within one year
from the date of the adoption of this chapter.
[Amended 9-19-2005 by L.L. No. 1-2005]
Any person may apply to the Board of Appeals, pursuant to Article IX, § 175-86, for a permit for the temporary storage of materials such as combustible materials, junk, metal, bricks, stone, concrete, concrete blocks, pavement, plaster, lumber, or any other kind of building material, automobiles, automobile bodies, automobile chassis, or parts or portions thereof, tanks, barrels, containers, machines, machinery, engines, utensils or appliances, any of which, or any parts whereof, are entirely or in part made of metal, or any other abandoned article.
[Added 6-10-1980 by L.L. No. 2-1980]
Any lot which abuts the waters of Manhasset
Bay shall have a yard extending across the full width of such lot
with an interior boundary line which is parallel to the mean high
water line of Manhasset Bay and 30 feet therefrom measured along a
line which is perpendicular to said mean high water line. If a bulkhead
or sea wall has been constructed on such lot and exists on the effective
date of this section, said 30 feet shall be measured from the seaward
face of said bulkhead or sea wall rather than from said mean high
water line. No building or structure shall be constructed which is
all or partially located within said yard. The parking of motor vehicles
shall not be permitted within said yard.
