East Rockaway City Zoning Code
ARTICLE II
Residential A District
§ 288-7 Uses.
In Residential A Districts, no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered for other than one or more of the following uses:
A.
Permitted uses.
(1)
Single-family detached houses which shall have a roof other than one of the character or description known as a "flat roof."
(2)
Places of worship.
(a)
Off-street parking must be provided at the ratio of one space for each 100 feet of usable floor space.
(3)
Public schools.
(4)
Public libraries, museums or historical buildings.
(5)
Public parks and municipal playgrounds.
(6)
Philanthropic and eleemosynary institutions other than correctional.
(7)
Buildings, structures and premises necessary for the use and occupancy by the Village for administrative purposes, water supply, sewage pumping stations, fire and police stations and for public or municipal parks, municipal playgrounds and municipal parking places and municipal airports.
(8)
The office of a physician, lawyer, architect, teacher or similar professional person residing on the premises, and when such use is incidental to such residence; provided, however, that such use shall be within the main building and occupying not more than 1/3 of the first floor area.
B.
Permitted accessory uses located on the same lot with the permitted principal use.
(2)
Accessory use, exclusive of a private garage, shall not include the erection or maintenance hereafter of any structure other than one erected on the ground and not exceeding 120 square feet of floor area and 9 1/2 feet in height maximum, unless authorized as a variance by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
[Amended 1-28-2013 by L.L. No. 2-2013]
(3)
Fences, hedges, walls or other property demarcations as provided in Chapter 143, Fences and Hedges.
(4)
No sign, billboard, signboard or other advertisement shall be allowed in a Residential A District except as hereinafter set forth:
(a)
A real estate sign for the selling or rental of the property upon which it appears, provided that such real estate sign is not nearer to the street line than the building setback line and shall not be larger than six square feet in area.
(b)
Professional signs: one sign not exceeding two square feet in area bearing only the name and profession of the resident practitioner. Such sign may be illuminated by an electric lamp not exceeding 15 watts of power contained within the sign.
C.
Temporary election signs as described in § 244-29B(5).
[Added 4-10-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995]
§ 288-8 Building height.
[Amended 9-12-2005 by L.L. No. 9-2005]
§ 288-9 Area of lot occupied by building.
No building or part thereof erected or altered in Residential A Districts shall occupy, either alone or with other buildings, a greater percentage of the area of the lot than as follows:
§ 288-10 Lot area.
No dwelling house shall be built on property that has less than 50 feet frontage, and each house must have a separate lot area of at least 5,000 square feet, and no residence shall be erected in the rear of another residence on the same lot.
§ 288-11 Side yards.
A.
On an interior lot, two side yards are required, one on each side of the building, one of which must not be less than five feet wide and the other of which must not be less than 10 feet wide.
B.
On a corner lot, one side yard is required, and such side yard shall be on the side adjoining the interior lot opposite the front yard having the greater street frontage. Said side yard shall have a minimum width of five feet.
§ 288-12 Rear yards.
A rear yard is required on every lot; the depth of a rear yard shall be at least 25 feet.
§ 288-13 Front yards.
No building or part thereof shall be erected or altered that is nearer the street line upon which it fronts than the average setback of the buildings on the same side of the street within the same block, but no street wall of a building need set back more than 30 feet; when all lots within the block are vacant, no street wall of a building shall set nearer than 25 feet to the street line. A building erected on a corner plot shall comply with the minimum setback from the abutting street on at least one side as indicated on the Setback Map. The setback distance from the other abutting street shall be not less than 15 feet. One of the interior yards shall have a width not less than the minimum width prescribed for side yards in the district, and the other shall have a depth not less than the minimum depth prescribed for rear yards in the district.
§ 288-14 Satellite antennas.
No person shall cause, suffer or permit the erection and/or maintenance of any parabolic dish or other antenna or device, the purpose of which is to receive television, radio and/or microwave or other electrical signals from space satellites, except as set forth herein.
A.
Any such antenna shall be confined to the rear yard of any parcel of realty.
B.
No such antenna shall be maintained, erected or affixed to the roof of any building.
C.
Upon recommendation of the Superintendent of Construction, the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of East Rockaway is hereby empowered to designate the exact location of the device to be installed or maintained and to require any screening or other procedure in order to reduce or eliminate aesthetic damage to the community which may result from said installation or maintenance.
D.
No such installation shall be permitted or continued except by permit from the Superintendent of Construction.
E.
No such device shall exceed six feet at its maximum height, width or depth, and no part of such device shall be less than 20 feet from the rear and/or side property lines.
F.
There shall be no more than one such device maintained and/or erected on any parcel of realty.