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Elmsford City Zoning Code

§ 335-11

Light Industrial District uses.

[Amended 10-20-1952]
A. 
In any Light Industrial District, no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for any of the following specified trades, industries or uses:
[Amended 11-6-2000 by L.L. No. 7-2000]
(1) 
Acetylene gas manufacture for commercial purposes.
(2) 
Arsenal.
(3) 
Asphalt manufacture or refining.
(4) 
Assaying (other than gold or silver).
(5) 
Blast furnace for steel making, not including cupola or converter furnaces used in foundries and in which no wood is used as fuel.
(6) 
Boiler works, structural steel fabrication shop, steel car shops, locomotive shops and railway repair shops and any metalworking shop operating pneumatic or electric reciprocating hammers or chisels within 100 feet of any boundary of the property or outside of any masonry building.
(7) 
Brick, tile, concrete block or terra-cotta manufacture.
(8) 
Candle manufacture.
(9) 
Carbon, lampblack or graphite manufacture.
(10) 
Coke oven.
(11) 
Crematory.
(12) 
Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(13) 
Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture.
(14) 
Distillation of coal, wood or bones.
(15) 
Dyestuff manufacture.
(16) 
Electroplating shops, except those having artificial ventilation systems.
(17) 
Emery cloth or sandpaper manufacture.
(18) 
Explosives, fireworks or match manufacturing, assembling or storage in bulk.
(19) 
Fat rendering.
(20) 
Fertilizer manufacture.
(21) 
Fish smoking or curing.
(22) 
Forge.
(23) 
Gas, illuminating or heating manufacture in excess of 10,000 cubic feet per day, except for purposes of public utility.
(24) 
Glue, size or gelatin manufacture.
(25) 
Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry.
(26) 
Lime, gypsum, cement or plaster of paris manufacture.
(27) 
Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture.
(28) 
Ore reduction or the smelting of iron, copper, tin, zinc or lead.
(29) 
Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture.
(30) 
Perfume and extract manufacture.
(31) 
Refining or reclaiming waste oil of any description.
(32) 
Planing mill, except one within 100 feet from a railroad.
(33) 
Potash works.
(34) 
Printing ink manufacture.
(35) 
Pyroxylin plastic manufacture or the manufacture of articles therefrom.
(36) 
Rawhides or skins, storage, curing or tanning.
(37) 
Reduction of garbage, dead animals, offal or refuse except where operated by a municipality.
(38) 
Rock or stone crusher.
(39) 
Rolling mill.
(40) 
Rubber or gutta-percha manufacture from the crude or scrap material, or treatment.
(41) 
Sand, clay or gravel pit except as hereinafter provided.
(42) 
Sauerkraut manufacture.
(43) 
Sausage manufacture.
(44) 
Shoeblacking or stove polish manufacture.
(45) 
Slaughtering of animals.
(46) 
Smelter.
(47) 
Soap manufacture.
(48) 
Starch, glucose or dextrine manufacture.
(49) 
Stockyard.
(50) 
Sugar refining.
(51) 
Sulfurous, sulfuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid manufacture.
(52) 
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining.
(53) 
Tar distillation or manufacture.
(54) 
Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture.
(55) 
Tobacco (chewing) manufacture.
(56) 
Vinegar manufacture.
(57) 
Wool pulling or scouring.
(58) 
Yeast manufacturing.
(59) 
An open storage yard for the sale or the storage or display of goods, wares and merchandise and any and all kinds of machinery, equipment and materials, unless approved by the Board of Appeals and permission therefor, subject to appropriate regulations and safeguards, be granted by the Board of Appeals.
[Added 6-22-1953; amended 7-12-1965]
(60) 
In a Light Industrial District, there shall be no commercial automobile repair work carried on outside of a building on any premises located in said district.
[Added 6-22-1953]
(61) 
No public garage, major vehicle repair shop or gasoline service station or filling station shall be permitted in a Light Industrial District except pursuant to special permit issued by the Board of Trustees pursuant to § 335-23 of this chapter, if in the opinion of the said Board of Trustees such additional facilities are in the public interest. Such permission and approval shall be subject to such restriction as the Board of Trustees may deem necessary for the protection of public interests.
[Added 2-2-1959; amended 7-1-1968; 6-4-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007]
(62) 
There shall be no wrecking or dismantling of used or abandoned automobiles, either inside or outside of a building on any premises located in said district.
[Added 12-19-1960]
B. 
No building or premises or any structure whatsoever shall be used for any trade, industry, business or purpose of any kind that is noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, refuse matter, garbage, smoke, gas or noise or that is dangerous to the comfort, peace, enjoyment, health or safety of the community or tending to its disturbance or annoyance.
C. 
No building or premises shall be used for residential purposes.
[Added 7-1-1963][1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection D, Permitted uses, added 3-23-1987 by L.L. No. 2-1987, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 6-22-1987 by L.L. No. 6-1987. Former § 80-10, Heavy Industrial District uses, added 10-20-1952, as amended, which immediately followed former Subsection D, was repealed 2-21-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995.
D. 
Self-storage facilities limited to the Light Industrial District located north of I-287.
[Added 4-8-2024 by L.L. No. 4-2004]