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Cambria Town City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VII

General Business District B-2

The General Business District is established to accommodate general retail trade and business uses including uses oriented to the automotive trade, together with any business use permitted in the Light Retail Business District.

§ 288-700 Permitted uses, buildings and other structures.

Car wash.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Automobile sales area.
Boat, boat trailer and marine accessory sales and rental.
Building material sales including lumber yards.
Company trailers, sales and rentals.
Hotels conforming to the provisions of § 288-1121.
Ice or roller skating rinks.
Mobile home sales lots.
Motor vehicle service station, conforming to the provisions of § 288-1104.
Public garages, conforming to the provisions of § 288-1104.
Salesroom or shop of a builder, or artisan. No equipment, materials or supplies shall be stored out-of-doors, unless expressly permitted by the Planning Board in its site plan approval, provided the principal building used by said builder or artisan is already constructed, and provided further that the area used for outside storage is suitably fenced.
Saleroom or shop of a contractor, provided no equipment, materials or supplies are stored out of doors.
Theaters other than drive-ins.
Accessory uses and building customarily incidental to above permitted uses, including signs up to 32 square feet per business establishment located upon private property and off of the road right-of-way and otherwise permitted pursuant to a site plan approval hereunder.
Outside storage of boats, recreational vehicles, trailers, etc., if expressly permitted by the Planning Board in its site plan approval, provided the area used for outside storage is suitably fenced.
Other uses as provided in §§ 288-1100, 288-1101, 288-1106 and 288-1107.
Antique, beauty and barber shops.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Bowling alley or similar recreational establishment entirely enclosed within a building.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Financial establishments including banks, credit agencies other than banks, security and commodity brokers, dealers and services.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Hardware stores, food stores, apparel and accessory stores, and furniture and home furnishing stores.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Insurance carriers, agents, brokers and services.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Ice storage and vending (three tons or less capacity).
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Laundry, coin operated, dry cleaner.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Motel or motor court, conforming to the provisions of § 288-1102.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Motion-picture theaters, amusements and recreation services, medical and other health services and legal services.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Motor vehicle service station, conforming to the provisions of § 288-1104.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Offices.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Real estate establishments.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Retail trade including building materials and hardware, general merchandise, food stores, apparel and accessory stores, furniture, home furnishing and eating and drinking places including bars and restaurants.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Private swimming pool not operated for gain.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Agriculture as defined in Article II, except as prohibited in § 288-701 herein.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Open parking for operative passenger vehicles for persons visiting the premises.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Public park and playgrounds.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Temporary stands where agricultural or garden products are sold which are produced predominantly in or upon the property or in the Town of Cambria or as a farm operation as defined hereunder, may be erected and used by the owner of that property, provided the stand shall be located not nearer than 20 feet from the street or highway right-of-way, and further proper and adequate driveways and parking shall be maintained in connection therewith.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Permanent stands used for the sale of agricultural or garden products which are predominantly produced in the Town of Cambria, or as a farm operation as defined hereunder, but which are not defined as agribusiness hereunder, shall be at least 70 feet from the highway right-of-way and no closer than 100 feet from any sideline. Sufficient off-road parking shall be provided, including off-road parking for buses, if applicable.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Tennis court not operated for gain.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Barns and other buildings, used for active agricultural purposes.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Home occupations.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Agricultural tourism, subject to site plan review for such a use pursuant to § 288-705 hereof.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]

§ 288-701 Prohibited uses in B-2 District.

[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
All uses and structures not permitted in §§ 288-300, 288-400, 288-600, 288-700 and including but not limited to the following:
Automobile wrecking graveyards or disassembly plants.
Bakery employing more than five persons.
Bottling works.
Coal yards.
Commercial warehouse.
Crude oil, gasoline or any of its volatile products or other highly flammable liquid storage in above ground tanks in an amount greater than 550 gallons.
Dumps.
Electric welding other than that incidental to building construction.
Flea markets and auction barns.
Farms, except a winery, brewery, cidery, distillery, meadery or microbrewery that is licensed as a farm winery, farm brewery, farm cidery, farm distillery, farm meadery or farm microbrewery by the New York Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Law § 76, et seq., whose agricultural crops used to produce its alcoholic beverages do not constitute a farm operation under New York Agriculture and Markets Law § 305-a due to less than 51% of its agricultural crops being used to produce the alcoholic beverage, is a permitted use in the B-1 and B-2 Districts by special permit.
Junkyards; secondhand material yards and the storage, baling and/or treatment of junk, old iron, rags, bottles or scrap paper; sludge processing or storage of sludge or similar waste material; recycling; storage or depositing in any manner of toxic waste or hazardous waste as defined by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Laundries other than laundromats and similar self-service establishments and dyeing and cleaning works, using power machinery or employing more than five persons.
Live animal or poultry sales.
Mining, quarry, sand pit, topsoil stripping.
Manufacturing.
Meat smoking and processing meat for animal foods whether or not incidental to a retail business conducted on the premises.
Milk distribution plants.
Motor freight terminal.
Motor vehicle repair station.
Outdoor storage of commercial tractors and trailers.
Rendering lard and other fats.
Residential dwellings.
Slaughtering poultry and animals.
Warehouse.
Wholesale business.

§ 288-702 Yard, area and height restrictions in B-2 District.

As in § 288-602.

§ 288-703 Entrances and exit upon public streets in B-2 District.

As in § 288-603.

§ 288-704 Landscape treatment in B-2 District.

As in § 288-604.

§ 288-705 Site plan review and approval.

As in § 288-605.
Stormwater pollution prevention plan. A stormwater pollution prevention plan consistent with the requirements of this chapter shall be required for site plan approval. The SWPPP shall meet the performance and design criteria and standards in this chapter. The approved site plan shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter.