[Amended 5-20-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010]
In the Residence B District, a building or structure may be
erected, altered or used, and a lot or premises may be used, only
for one or more of the purposes set forth below, and for no other:
A.
A one-family dwelling, which may include the office of a physician,
lawyer, licensed architect, licensed engineer, surgeon, dentist, real
estate broker, artist or musician, when situated in the same building
used by such physician, lawyer, surgeon, dentist, real estate broker,
artist or musician as his or her private dwelling, and which may also
include customary home occupations, such as dressmaking and millinery,
conducted by resident occupants thereof; provided, however, that any
such office or occupation shall not be conducted in a basement or
cellar, and shall not occupy more than 1/3 (33 1/3%) of the gross
floor area of said dwelling.
B.
Accessory buildings, as defined and restricted in this chapter and
in the Building Code of the Village.
C.
A church, synagogue or other building used exclusively for religious
purposes, but only after issuance of a special use permit therefor,
by the Board of Trustees, following a public hearing thereon, subject
to such reasonable conditions and safeguards with respect to traffic,
parking and related issues as shall be determined by the Board of
Trustees.
[Amended 5-20-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010]
A.
Front yards. Where, at the time of the passage of
this chapter, at least 1/2 of the buildings situated on either side
of a street between two intersecting streets conform to a minimum
setback line, no new building shall be erected and no existing building
shall be reconstructed or altered to project beyond such a setback
line. The foregoing rule shall, however, in no case be applied so
as to keep the street wall or walls of buildings more than 25 feet
from the street line. Where there is no existing building in the block,
no new building shall be erected with its street wall nearer than
20 feet to the street line.
B.
Rear yards. A rear yard is required on every plot.
The depth of a rear yard shall be at least 25 feet, and not more than
40% of the area of the rear yard shall be built upon.
C.
Side yards. A side yard is required along each side
of a building, which side yard must be at least six feet in width
on each side, except on corner plots, where a side yard of at least
20 feet is required on the side toward the street.
D.
Front yard
area paving limit. Not more than 48% of the front yard area shall
be paved. On corner plots, only one front yard area may be paved.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
[Amended 5-20-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010]
A.
Height restrictions. No building erected in the Residence B District
shall exceed 2 1/2 stories, or 28 feet in height measured from
the average ground level at the perimeter of such building.
B.
Lot coverage. The building area shall not exceed 25% of the first
5,000 square feet of lot area, and 12.5% of that portion of the lot
area, if any, in excess of 5,000 square feet.
C.
The floor area ratio shall not exceed 0.45.
D.
Minimum floor area. Each dwelling shall have a minimum ground floor
area of 900 square feet.
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Editor's Note: Former § 80-17 of the 1981 Code,
Roof restrictions, was repealed 5-20-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010.
[Amended 5-20-2010 by L.L. No. 1-2010]
A.
Each detached garage, accessory building and structure, unless expressly
provided to the contrary elsewhere in this chapter, shall be located
at least three feet from the rear property line and each side property
line, and at least five feet from the primary building on the lot.
B.
No detached garage, accessory building or structure shall exceed
12 feet in height measured from the average ground level at the perimeter
thereof.
C.
No detached garage, accessory building or structure shall occupy
more than 500 square feet of lot area.
D.
Each detached garage, accessory building and structure shall be located
at least 75 feet from any street line, except to the extent that either
of the following exceptions apply:
(1)
With respect to any corner lot, any accessory building, structure
or detached garage shall be located only in the corner of the lot
farthest removed from the abutting streets, at least three feet from
the two nearest property lines, and so that the two nearest property
lines do not abut any street; or
(2)
Where the front property line and the rear property line abut streets,
or a street and a waterfront, any accessory building, structure and
detached garage thereupon shall be located at least 20 feet from the
rear property line and at least 75 feet from the front property line.
E.
No lot may contain more than one detached garage.
