Freeport City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XI
Marine Residence Districts
§ 210-98 Scope.
The following regulations shall apply in all Marine Residence Districts.
§ 210-99 Permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted:
Dwellings for not more than one family.
Public parks and playgrounds and other municipal recreation uses.
Customary home occupations, such as the office of a physician, dentist, surgeon or other professional person, provided that such use is incidental to the primary residence use of such professional persons, and provided that such use shall be conducted in the principal building.
Other customary accessory buildings, structures and uses.
Home occupations, provided that such use shall be conducted in the principal building, does not use hired personnel, uses no visible advertising thereof except such signs as are permitted under § 210-205, and creates no traffic congestion, and further provided that a permit for such use shall be obtained from the Village Clerk in conformity with the provisions of §§ 138-1 through 138-11 of Chapter 138, Licensing of Businesses, of this Code prior to engaging upon such occupation.
Garage space or parking space as an accessory use to a one-family dwelling may be provided for not more than three automobiles, one of which may be a commercial vehicle with a rated capacity of not more than 1 1/2 tons, except that no vehicle or accessory thereto, other than a pleasure car, may be stored outdoors.
Garage space for one automobile, but not including a commercial vehicle, may be rented to a person not residing on the same lot.
No detached garage or other accessory buildings shall be projected into a side or rear yard as defined in this chapter. Nothing herein contained, however, shall prohibit the maintenance, repair, alteration or reconstruction of any existing detached garage or other accessory building now in use or existing; provided, however, that no such garage or other accessory building may be reconstructed or enlarged in violation of provisions appertaining to percentage of lot coverage or in diminution of existing side yard requirements other than those already existing by virtue of such nonconforming use or structure.
Not more than one room may be rented for lodging or boarding purposes in any dwelling to a total of not more than two persons.
Boat mooring or docking.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to permit in a zoned residential district the docking or mooring of a commercial, charter, open party or similarly used boat or the loading or unloading of cargo or the embarking or disembarking of passengers, or to permit the sailing to or from property in such a district of a commercial, charter, open party or similarly used boat with its cargo, charter, party or passengers. For the purposes of this subsection, a "charter" or "open party" boat shall only be considered as such when embarking, disembarking or carrying passengers and/or when loading or unloading cargo or supplies.
Dock rental.
The renting of dock space for boats, provided that the total number of boats for which such dock space is rented does not exceed the number of boats permitted to be docked within the provisions of §§ 205-14 through 205-18 of Chapter 205, Waterfront Properties and Watercraft, and further provided that in no event shall the number of boats for which dock space is rented exceed in number one boat to each 30 linear feet of said property abutting upon or running parallel to the bank of any canal or waterway when the provisions of §§ 205-14 through 205-18 require parallel docking or mooring to the bank of said canal or waterway.
Nothing hereinabove contained shall be deemed to permit the renting or offering for rent of such dock space for boats on any unimproved property abutting upon any canal or waterway.
Open storage and sale of boats.
Parking fields for the parking of passenger vehicles only, for uses incidental to Marine Residence, Marine Business, Marine Industrial or Manufacturing Districts.
§ 210-100 Prohibited uses.
[Amended 6-27-1977 by L.L. No. 12-1977]
The following uses are prohibited:
Shooting galleries, penny or picture arcades wherein coin-operated machines such as pool tables, pong machines, pinball machines or other similar coin-operated and amusement game machines are maintained, except that the above-described machines may be permitted in any established business as permitted in the district as follows: Each store or location with a square footage of 10,000 square feet or less shall be permitted two amusement devices, and one additional amusement device shall be allowed for each additional 10,000 square feet of store space. Notwithstanding the foregoing, liquor-dispensing establishments licensed by the New York State Liquor Authority shall be permitted one amusement device for each 500 square feet of store space.
[Amended 4-28-1980 by L.L. No. 4-1980; 8-11-1980 by L.L. No. 14-1980]
Any use not herein specifically permitted is prohibited.
Tattoo parlors.
[Added 5-23-1983 by L.L. No. 11-1983]
§ 210-101 Building height.
Three stories or 35 feet is the limit of height permitted for dwellings, and no structure of any kind shall be erected to a height in excess of 40 feet, except that this provision shall not apply to restrict the height of a monument, flagpole, water tank, elevator, bulkhead or stage tower, home television or radio receiving aerial.
§ 210-102 Lot area.
No building shall be erected on a lot whose area is less than 7,500 square feet nor on any lot which has a street frontage of less than 75 feet.
§ 210-103 Lot coverage.
The principal building on any lot shall not cover more than 25% of its area; and no more than an additional 10% of the total area of the lot may be used for the erection of accessory buildings or an attached garage.
§ 210-104 Minimum floor area.
Every dwelling shall provide a minimum of 1,000 square feet of residential floor area per family. Every dwelling more than one story in height shall provide a minimum of 800 square feet or residential floor area on the first floor designed for residential use.
§ 210-105 Required yards.
Yards of the following minimum depth or width shall be provided:
Front yard depth: 20 feet;
Side yard width, minimum: 10 feet;
Rear yard depth, minimum: 20 feet;
provided, however, that in the case of side yards, the sum of the two widths of the two side yards shall not be less than 25% of the width of the lot, and further provided that the rear yard shall not be less than 20% of the depth of the lot. |
No structure or building may be erected in the required side yard of a residential building, and any building other than a dwelling with an attached garage shall have a side yard of not less than 40 feet.
