Farmingdale City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XXIV
Planned Shopping Centers
§ 600-186 Special use permit required.
A.
No building or premises shall be used as a planned shopping center, as hereinafter defined, unless a special use permit therefor shall have been approved by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Farmingdale after public hearing. Each applicant for such special use permit shall, at the time of filing such application, pay to the Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Farmingdale a filing fee, which shall be set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees, which fee shall be included in a schedule of fees to be maintained by the Village Clerk-Treasurer. Such fee shall be in addition to the fees for a building permit otherwise prescribed.
B.
For the purposes of this section, a "planned shopping center" shall be any installation designed to house primarily retail commercial uses and which occupies a site of more than one acre and provides for more than 20,000 square feet of floor area or for more than five tenants or occupants.
C.
A planned shopping center may contain more than one building but shall be designed as an integrated unit and shall be owned and managed by a single person, partnership or corporation. Construction of a planned shopping center may be staged or phased over a period of time, but the Board of Trustees shall approve a site plan for the entire tract before any building permit is issued. Any change in the site plan resulting in an expansion of building coverage or usable building area shall require another public hearing or hearings.
§ 600-187 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses in a planned shopping center are as follows:
A.
Offices and financial institutions, including the business offices of public utilities or government agencies.
B.
Retail stores.
C.
Personal service shops, such as shoe repair, self-service laundry or dry cleaning, beauty parlor, barbershop, optician or optical dispensary.
D.
Restaurants and luncheonettes in which indoor seating is provided for all customers.
E.
Theaters and bowling alleys, but all other commercial recreation establishments are specifically prohibited.
F.
Bar and grill.
§ 600-188 Prohibited uses.
Prohibited uses in a planned shopping center are as follows:
A.
Any use requiring fabrication or assembly of products or outside storage or display of products is specifically prohibited.
§ 600-189 Building height.
No building erected in a planned shopping center shall exceed two stories or 35 feet in height.
§ 600-190 Front yard.
There shall be a front yard not less than 25 feet in depth along each street frontage, and no parking area or drive shall be located within such front yard or yards.
§ 600-191 Side and rear yards.
Side and rear yards shall be provided, and no such yards shall be less than 20 feet in width or 1 1/2 times the height of any structure facing thereon, whichever shall be the greater.
§ 600-192 Building coverage.
The maximum area of the site covered by buildings shall be 25%.
§ 600-193 Off-street parking.
[Amended 11-2-2015 by L.L. No. 12-2015]
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter of the Village Code, the off-street parking requirement for unspecified retail commercial use areas shall be one space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area in the building or buildings. The requirements for other uses shall be as specified in Article XIX of this chapter. Interior malls or pedestrianways not devoted to sale activity shall not be included in the calculation of required parking area.
§ 600-194 Landscaping, fencing and screening.
Front yards and other site areas not used for buildings or parking areas shall be suitably landscaped in accordance with a plan to be approved by the Board of Trustees. Wherever a side or rear yard adjoins a residence district boundary, there shall be a reserved buffer strip not less than 20 feet in width. Such strip shall be fenced with a six-foot-high double-sided sapling fence mounted on galvanized steel posts set in concrete with upper and lower horizontal steel rails and shall be planted and maintained with a staggered row of evergreens, five feet to six feet in height, planted seven feet on centers.
§ 600-195 Site plan review.
Building and site development plans for the proposed use shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees before an application for a building permit is made. Such plans shall include:
§ 600-196 Approval of site plan.
The Board of Trustees may approve, modify and approve or reject such plans in order to promote the spirit and intent of this article, and no building permit shall be issued until such plans have been approved.