Babylon City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XVII
H Heavy Industrial Districts
§ 213-212 Permitted uses; exclusions.
[Amended 10-12-1971]
A.
In an H Industrial District, buildings and premises may be used for any purpose whatsoever not in conflict with any ordinance of the Town; provided, however, that no building or occupancy permit shall be issued for any of the following uses until and unless the location of buildings and all other appurtenances of the use shall have been approved by the Planning Board, Board of Appeals and also approved by the Town Board, as hereinafter provided:
Acetylene, natural or any type of gas manufacturing or storage |
Acid manufacture |
Arsenal |
Auto shredder [Added 9-7-1977] |
Bars, taverns, restaurants and on-premises food consumption establishments, unless permitted by special exception by the Town Board, subject to such conditions, restrictions and safeguards as may be imposed by the Town Board [Added 12-20-2006 by Res. No. 6] |
Blast furnace |
Boiler works |
Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture |
Chemical works and manufacture |
Coal tar products manufacture |
Coke ovens |
Distillation of bones |
Dwellings (all types) |
Explosives, manufacture or storage |
Fat rendering |
Fertilizer manufacture |
Fireworks or explosive manufacture or storage |
Fuel tanks |
Garbage, offal or dead animal reduction, dumping or incineration |
Gas manufacture (all types) |
Glue manufacture |
Gunpowder manufacture or storage |
Ink manufacture |
Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture |
Petroleum products, refining or wholesale storage of petroleum |
Plastic compounds manufacture |
Public garages and filling stations, unless permitted by the Board of Appeals and subject to the following provisions: |
(1)
No repair work shall be performed in the open.
(2)
Pumps, lubricating and other devices shall be located at least 25 feet from the line of any street or highway rights-of-way.
(3)
All fuel, oil or similar substances shall be stored at least 35 feet distant from any street or lot line.
(4)
No automobile parts, dismantled vehicles and similar articles shall be stored in the open.
Retail use [Added 6-18-2002 by L.L. No. 13-2002] |
Smelting of tins, copper, zinc or iron ores |
Stockyards or slaughter of animals |
B.
No use shall be permitted which is found by the Town Board to be detrimental to the health, welfare and safety of the residents of the Town.
C.
The procedures governing hearings before the Town Board pursuant to this section and Article XXXII and the standards and conditions governing the issuance of special exception use permits under this section and Article XXXII by the Town Board are set forth in §§ 213-383 through 213-385 of Article XXXII.
[Added 4-8-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988]
§ 213-213 Loading space.
In an H Industrial District, where no off-street parking is provided for or on the same lot or plot on which the structure is to be erected, no building shall hereafter be erected or altered or added to in excess of 50% of its floor space area prior to July 7, 1954, unless such building shall be provided with one loading space, either as a part of the building or accessory thereto on the same lot, for each 8,000 square feet or fraction thereof. Such loading space shall be not less than 12 feet in width, 25 feet in length and 15 feet in height.
§ 213-214 Building height.
[Amended 11-18-1975; 5-15-1990]
In a H Industrial District, no building or structure hereafter erected or altered shall exceed 35 feet in height.
§ 213-215 Lot area; frontage required.
In an H Industrial District, no building shall be erected or altered on a lot having an area less than two acres or upon a lot having a frontage of less than 200 feet.
§ 213-216 Front yards.
A.
In an H Industrial District, the required front yard depth shall be not less than 100 feet. If the street frontage on the same side of the street between the two nearest intersecting streets shall have been improved with two or more industrial or business buildings, or in the event that building permits shall have been issued therefor and work commenced thereon, not less than the average front yard depth as so established by such existing or permitted buildings shall be maintained; provided, however, that any such front yard depth shall not be required to be more than 100 feet.
B.
In a case where a new street line with respect to a lot has been created by the acceptance by the Town or the County of Suffolk of the dedication of an area designed for public off-street parking, the required depth of front yard along such new street line shall be not less than 50 feet; provided, however, that such dedication area shall be not less than 50 feet in depth for a distance of at least 80% of the width of the lot.
C.
In the case of facade or facade related improvements in Town Board designated commercial facade improvement areas, there shall be no minimum front yard setback requirements.
[Added 6-18-2002]
§ 213-217 Double front lots.
In the H Industrial District, the required front yard for double front lots shall be provided for on both streets.
§ 213-218 Corner lots.
In an H Industrial District, corner lots shall have a front yard on each street as is provided for § 213-216, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary therein contained, each such front yard shall be not less than 50 feet.
§ 213-219 Rear yards.
In an H Industrial District, there shall be a rear yard having a minimum depth of 50 feet. The rear yard may be used for the purpose of off-street parking and loading space up to and within three feet of all rear and side property lines.
§ 213-220 Building area.
In an H Industrial District, the total building area shall not exceed 30% of the total lot area.
§ 213-221 (Reserved) [1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 213-221, Signs, as amended 12-21-1976, was repealed 9-25-1990.
§ 213-222 Uses not permitted.
§ 213-223 Outside storage and display.
[Added 1-18-1977; amended 1-17-1978]
In an H Industrial District, the outside storage and display of merchandise intended for retail sale and which is displayed for that purpose is hereby prohibited; however, a forty-five-day temporary permit may be issued in the discretion of the Chief Building Inspector.
§ 213-224 Buffer strips.
[Added 9-15-1981 by Res. No. 9]
Wherever an H Industrial zoned parcel shall abut upon a residential zoned parcel or any parcel used for residential purposes (except for cemeteries), there shall be a buffer strip five feet wide erected, planted and thereafter maintained on the plot pursuant to Planning Board requirements, unless the Planning Board shall require a greater or larger buffer strip.