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Village of Spring Valley, NY
Rockland County
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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"[1] shall be deemed part of this chapter and is referred to herein as the "Use Table."[2]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Appendix A, Table of General Use Requirements, located at the end of this chapter.
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 302.1, 302.2, 302.3, as amended 1-28-1986 by L.L. No. 1-1986, 302.4 and 302.5, which immediately followed this section and dealt with utilization of the Use Table, were deleted 4-11-1995 by L.L. No. 1-1995.
A. 
Any use not identified in the Use Table shall be deemed prohibited. Any use indicated by special permit shall be deemed prohibited unless approved in a manner specified by this chapter. Where special permit uses are identified by generic word or description, the Village Board shall determine whether a specific use shall be construed to be part of such generic class.
B. 
In addition to all uses not identified in the Use Table, the uses which are listed in this section are prohibited in the village:
(1) 
Manufacturing uses involving primary production of the following products from raw materials:
(a) 
Asphalt, cement, charcoal and fuel briquettes.
(b) 
Chemicals, aniline 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 hydrochloric, nitric, phosphoric, picric and sulfuric acids.
(c) 
Coal, coke and tar products, including gas manufacturing; explosives; fertilizers; gelatin, glue and size.
(d) 
Linoleum and oilcloth; matches; paints, varnishes and turpentine.
(e) 
Rubber (natural or synthetic); soaps, including fat rendering; starch.
(2) 
The following processes: nitrating of cotton or other materials; milling or processing of flour, feed or grain; magnesium foundry; reduction, refining, smelting and alloying of metal or metal ores; refining secondary aluminum; refining petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosene, naptha or lubricating oil; distillation of wood or bones; and reduction and processing of wood pulp and fiber, including paper mill operations.
(3) 
Operations involving slaughterhouses, grain elevators, slag piles and keeping, breeding and raising of pigs for commercial purposes.
(4) 
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.
(5) 
Bulk or wholesale storage of gasoline and all other Class I products above ground.
(6) 
Dumps and junkyards, except those owned and operated by the village.
(7) 
Quarries, stone crushers, screening plants and storage of quarry screenings.
(8) 
Incineration of waste materials, except in a plant owned and operated by the village.
(9) 
Disposal of septic or sewage wastes.
(10) 
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, radiation, dust, refuse matter, garbage, smoke, vibration, gas, noise or any other factor that is dangerous to the comfort, peace, enjoyment, health or safety of the area or the community.