Hempstead City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XVIII
Light Manufacturing Districts
§ 139-121 Permitted uses.
In a Light Manufacturing District, the following uses are permitted:
A.
Any light manufacturing business utilizing not more than an aggregate of two-hundred-rated horsepower, and not more than 20 horsepower on any one unit or machine, except that no internal combustion engine shall be used to provide power.
§ 139-122 Minimum plot area.
The minimum plot area shall be one acre. No more than one building shall be constructed on each plot.
§ 139-123 Building area.
The building shall not cover more than 65% of the total lot area.
§ 139-124 Height.
No building shall exceed two stories and 25 feet in height, and the floor of the first story shall not be more than two feet above the average curb grade.
§ 139-125 Front yards.
No story of any building shall be nearer to the street line on which the building faces than 20 feet. The parking of motor vehicles and any use of the front yard area other than as a landscaped yard, pedestrian walk, driveway or for a detached sign as permitted in this Code of Ordinances is hereby prohibited.
§ 139-126 Rear yards.
A rear yard of not less than 30 feet is required, except where the rear yard abuts a residence district, then the minimum rear yard shall be 50 feet.
§ 139-127 Side yards.
There shall be two side yards, each having a minimum width of 15 feet.
§ 139-128 Off-street parking.
Minimum off-street parking space shall be provided on the plot at the rate of one parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area or major fraction thereof. Such parking area shall not be used for any purpose other than for the temporary parking of motor vehicles directly related to the business conducted on the site. Each parking space, exclusive of access area, shall be not less than 8 1/2 feet in width by 20 feet in length and shall be graded, paved, marked and provided with adequate access consisting of a travel lane or travel lanes having a minimum width of 20 feet each and dry wells for drainage purposes, all in accordance with requirements of the Incorporated Village of Hempstead.
§ 139-129 Off-street loading.
There shall be provided on the plot one loading space, either as a part of the building or abutting thereto, for each 20,000 square feet of floor area or major fraction thereof. Such loading space shall not be less than 12 feet in width, 40 feet in length and, if inside the building, shall be at least 15 feet in height; except that the maximum number of loading spaces required shall be no more than six. In no event shall a loading space be situated within a front yard. Each loading space shall be graded, paved, marked and provided with adequate dry wells for drainage purposes, all in accordance with the requirements of the Incorporated Village of Hempstead.
§ 139-130 Screening and landscaping.
All front yards not utilized for pedestrian walks, driveways or signs shall be landscaped with lawn and/or perennial planting. Planter tubs may be utilized. Screening shall be provided whenever any side or rear yard abuts a residence district. Said screening shall be provided in any of the following forms: hedges, bushes, evergreens or other perennial planting, decorative block walls or other comparable materials as may be approved by the Village so as to adequately conceal the activities in the industrial yards. The minimum height of such screening shall at all times be six feet. The screening material shall be properly maintained at all times.
§ 139-131 Prohibited uses.
A.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no premises may be used for any trade, industry or business unless the dissemination of smoke, steam, gas, dust, odor, radioactivity, vapor, heat, vibration, light, noise or any other offensive, noxious or deleterious by-product of same is entirely confined within the structure.
B.
The following uses are hereby prohibited:
Abattoir | |
Acetylene manufacture | |
Acid manufacture | |
All uses prohibited in Article XIX | |
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture | |
Arsenal | |
Asphalt manufacture, refining, mixing or treating | |
Bag-cleaning establishment | |
Brick, pottery, tile, concrete block or terra cotta manufacture | |
Burlap manufacture[1] | |
Candle manufacture | |
Celluloid manufacture | |
Coke oven | |
Creosote treatment or manufacture | |
Disinfectants manufacture | |
Dismantling of motor vehicles, storage and sale of used parts | |
Distillation of bones, coal or wood | |
Dyestuff manufacture | |
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture | |
Explosives and fireworks manufacture or storage | |
Exterminator and insect poison manufacture | |
Fat rendering | |
Fertilizer manufacture | |
Foundry | |
Gas (illuminating or heating) manufacture | |
Gasoline service station | |
Glue, size or gelatin manufacture | |
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal | |
Junkyard | |
Lampblack manufacture | |
Laundromat [Added 9-16-1997 by L.L. No. 7-1997] | |
Lime, cement or plaster of paris manufacture | |
Match manufacture | |
Oil cloth or linoleum manufacture | |
Oiled or rubber goods manufacture | |
Ore reduction | |
Outdoor storage of any type | |
Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish manufacture | |
Paper and pulp manufacture | |
Perfume and extract manufacture | |
Petroleum or other flammable liquids | |
Petroleum refining | |
Plating works | |
Poison manufacture | |
Pool table or billiard table in any place open to the public [Added 5-5-1998 by L.L. No. 3-1998] | |
Potash works | |
Power forging, riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of iron, steel, brass or copper except as a necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noises outside the plant | |
Printing ink manufacture | |
Pyroxylin manufacture | |
Residence, except living quarters as may be necessary for caretakers or watchmen employed upon the premises | |
Rubber, caoutchouc or gutta percha manufacture or treatment | |
Salt works | |
Sauerkraut manufacture | |
Sausage manufacture | |
Shoeblacking manufacture | |
Smelters | |
Soap manufacture | |
Soda and compound manufacture | |
Stockyard | |
Storage or bailing of scrap paper, iron, bottles, rags or junk | |
Stove polish manufacture | |
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining | |
Tanning, curing or storage of leather, rawhide or skins | |
Tar distillation or manufacture | |
Tar roofing and waterproofing manufacture | |
Tobacco manufacture or treatment | |
Vinegar manufacture | |
Wool pulling or scouring | |
Yeast plant |
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Editor's Note: The entry for cabarets, discotheques and nightclubs, added 5-5-1998 by L.L. No. 3-1998, which immediately followed this entry, was repealed 4-20-2010 by L.L. No. 6-2010.