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Cambria Town City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VIII

Industrial Districts I-1

These districts are primarily for heavy commercial and light industrial uses whose activities do not constitute a fire hazard or emit smoke, glare, noise, odor or dust or in other ways constitute a nuisance or be detrimental to neighboring properties.

§ 288-800 Permitted uses, buildings and other structures.

All those permitted in any other class of district except as provided in § 288-801.
Mining, quarry, sand pit, topsoil stripping.
Outdoor storage of commercial tractors and trailers.
Light assembly. Assembly, packaging, storage, transfer, and distribution conducted wholly within permanent buildings in compliance with provisions of §§ 288-802, 288-803, and 288-804, and unless prohibited in § 288-801.
All other structures and uses shall require a special permit and approval of the Zoning Board of Appeals as provided in Article XI hereof, unless prohibited by § 288-801 herein.

§ 288-801 Prohibited uses.

Dwellings.
Churches.
Any process of assembly, manufacture or treatment including, but not limited to such things as: the manufacture and storage of fireworks and explosives and explosive or poisonous gases except as may be necessary and incidental to a permitted industrial process; the manufacture of illuminating gas and the storage of illuminating gas.
Dumps.
Schools.
Storage, baling or treatment of junk, rags, bottles or scrap papers, except entirely within a building.
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.
Storage or processing of scrap metal; automotive wrecking, graveyards or disassembly plants; junkyards and the storage of secondhand building materials.

§ 288-802 Yard, area and height restrictions.

In addition to the specific restrictions established in connection with permitted uses listed in §§ 288-600 through 288-605, which are hereby made applicable to the Industrial District, and the requirements listed in Article XI the following regulations apply to all other uses permitted in the Industrial District:
Area and lot dimensions. The minimum net land area per business establishment shall be 40,000 square feet and the minimum width of a lot at the front building line shall be 150 feet. However, it shall be allowable to construct a group of establishments in accordance with an integrated site and architectural plan approved by the Planning Board and the minimum land area for such a group shall be five acres with a minimum width of 400 feet at the front building line.
Front yards. There shall be a minimum yard of 80 feet from any road right-of-way into which space there shall be no encroachment of structures other than a fence, wall, or sign not larger than 32 square feet, and no encroachment of commercial usage other than parking space for customer or employee cars. There shall be a suitably landscaped buffer zone between road right-of-way and parking area of a minimum of 10 feet. In addition there shall be no outside storage permitted in the Industrial District.
Side yards. No building shall be placed closer to a side property line than 30 feet, and no automobile parking space shall extend nearer to a side property line than 15 feet.
Rear yards. No building shall be placed closer to a rear property line than 50 feet if the adjacent district is an Agricultural and Residence District AR or a Residence District R-1, or closer to a rear property line than 20 feet if the adjacent district is any other class of district.
Height. There shall be no limit on the height of buildings except for each foot the height of a building exceeds 35 feet, the offset from the side and rear property lines shall be increased by two feet.
Setbacks. All setbacks and lot size requirements referenced herein shall be determined upon a minimum road right-of-way of four rods (66 feet).

§ 288-803 Entrances and exits upon public streets.

There shall not be more than one entrance and one exit per establishment on any individual public street, and the distance between the entrance's and exit's center lines, if separate, shall not be less than 100 feet in any instance. The center line of any such entrance or exit shall not intersect any street line less than 40 feet from the intersection of any two street lines. No entrances or exits shall be permitted on less than a four rod road (a road with a width of less than 66 feet).

§ 288-804 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.