Ellicott Town City Zoning Code
ARTICLE III
Agricultural-Residential District
§ 146-12 Boundaries.
[Amended 9-5-1990 by L.L. No. 2-1990]
The Agricultural-Residential District shall include all the rest of the remaining lands in the Town of Ellicott, exclusive of that territory within the limits of the Villages of Falconer and Celoron, not specifically included within the Residential Districts, Mercantile Districts, Shopping Center Districts, Neighborhood Business or Professional Office Districts, Industrial Districts and Industrial Park Districts.
§ 146-13 Permitted uses.
[Amended 4-22-1998 by L.L. No. 4-1998; 3-7-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002]
In the Agricultural-Residential District, no building, premises or structure may be designed, erected, altered, used or maintained for any purpose other than for one of the following uses and accessory uses:
Any use or accessory use permitted in the Residential District.
Any structure wholly devoted to agriculture or the housing of persons on the premises who are engaged therein.
Public or private stables, riding stables and riding academies.
Mobile home courts pursuant to specifications and limitations provided in the mobile home courts and trailers chapter, Chapter 84, Mobile Homes.
Frontage within the Agricultural-Residential District may be used by a resident thereof for the display and sale of farm products along the highways, provided that unless specifically authorized by the Board of Appeals, subject to this chapter, no stand, table or shelf used for the display or sale of such products shall be permitted or maintained less than 15 feet from the nearest edge of any public highway.
Mobile homes on private lots. Mobile homes shall be permitted on private lots subject to the following restrictions:
No mobile home shall be permitted unless it has a width of at least 20 feet.
No mobile home shall be installed without the intention of permanency given a site-built home. All removable transportation accessories shall be removed and the home affixed to the permanent foundation.
Only new mobile homes shall be permitted. The certificate of origin, vehicle identification number and construction specifications shall be provided to the Town upon request.
§ 146-14 Excluded uses.
[Amended 4-22-1998 by L.L. No. 4-1998]
All uses not specifically permitted are excluded.
§ 146-15 Special permit uses.
[Amended 9-5-1990 by L.L. No. 2-1990; 4-22-1998 by L.L. No. 4-1998; 3-7-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002; 8-17-2020 by L.L. No. 1-2020]
Uses permitted under special permit are airports, animal hospitals, kennels, cemeteries, churches, parish houses, crematories, drive-in theaters, educational institutions, hospitals, nursery schools, nursing homes, quarries of stone, sand, gravel and clay, golf courses, tourist and trailer camps, commercial solar energy production systems, and other uses permitted by special permit in residential districts.
§ 146-16 Bulk regulations.
[Amended 4-22-1998 by L.L. No. 4-1998; 3-7-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002]
The building front line of any dwelling in any Agricultural-Residential District shall be at least 25 feet from the highway right-of-way, and 15 feet from side and rear property lines. For special restrictions on property on floodplains, see Floodplain, Article X.
In any residential district, no one-story residential building shall hereafter be erected unless it shall occupy a building area of at least 900 square feet. No two-story residential building and no story-and-a-half residential building, as herein described, shall be hereafter erected unless it shall occupy a building area of at least 1,500 square feet.
[Amended 5-13-2024]
In determining the number of square feet occupied by such residential building, the measurements shall be made along the exterior of the main foundation wall of the building at the ground level. Except as specifically provided in Subsection E of this section, there shall be excluded, in determining the number of square feet occupied by such residential building, any portion thereof occupied by a porch, areaway or other structure erected on trench foundations and further excluded therefrom any area occupied by a garage, whether detached or forming a part of said building.