Islip City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XXVI
Use District Regulations: Industrial 2 District
§ 68-353 Legislative intent.
[Amended 4-5-2005]
This district is designed for a wide range of industrial and related activities which can meet a reasonable level of performance standards than other Industrial Districts. The minimum standards of this district and the Subdivision and Land Development Regulations shall be met. Enclosure of such activities is not required except in areas or instances as provided in this chapter. No new residences are permitted except as herein specified.
§ 68-354 Permitted uses.
In an Industrial 2 District, no building, structure or premises shall be used or occupied, and no building or part thereof or other structure shall be so erected or altered, except for one or more of the following purposes:
§ 68-355 Prohibited uses.
A.
In an Industrial 2 District, the following uses are prohibited:
(1)
One-family dwelling.
(2)
Two-family dwelling.
(3)
Apartment house, garden apartments.
(4)
Boardinghouse, lodging house.
(5)
Hotel.
(6)
Nursing home, convalescent home.
(7)
Abattoirs or stockyards and poultry slaughterhouses or live storage of poultry.
(8)
Acetylene gas manufacturing.
(9)
Ammonia, chloride or bleaching powder manufacturing.
(10)
Asphalt plants, except plants for the mixing and stabilization of bituminous road material.
(11)
Blast furnaces, rolling mills, smelter or boiler works or glass manufacture.
(12)
Brick, tile or terra-cotta manufacturing.
(13)
Creosote manufacture or pressure or steam treatment of products with creosote.
(14)
Distillation of coal, petroleum, tar, refuse, grain, wood or bones, except when conducted in a laboratory for research or analysis purposes.
(15)
Dumping of dead animal offal, garbage or rubbish.
(16)
Dyestuff manufacturing, dyeing, textile converting and finishing plants.
(17)
Emory cloth manufacturing or sandpaper manufacturing.
(18)
Fertilizer manufacturing.
(19)
Foundries, boiler shop.
(20)
Glue, sizing or gelatin manufacturing.
(21)
Assaying, other than gold or silver.
(22)
Bag cleaning.
(23)
Crematory.
(24)
Lampblack manufacturing.
(25)
Starch, glucose, dextrine manufacturing.
(26)
Sugar refining.
(27)
Textile covering, finishing and dyeing plants.
(28)
Disinfectant or insecticide manufacture.
(29)
Paper manufacture.
(30)
Celluloid manufacture.
(31)
Oxygen manufacture.
(32)
Duck farms.
(33)
Ore reduction or the smelting of iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead or any other metal.
(34)
Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac, printing ink or enamel manufacturing.
(35)
Sale, curing or tanning of rawhides or raw skins.
(36)
Rubber or gutta-percha manufacturing from crude or scrap materials or the synthetic manufacture thereof.
(37)
Steel furnace.
(38)
Blooming or rolling mill.
(39)
Pickle, sauerkraut or vinegar manufacture.
(40)
Soap manufacture.
(41)
Wool scouring.
(42)
Small arms, ammunition or fireworks manufacture.
(43)
Linoleum or oilcloth manufacture.
(44)
Ammonia, bleaching powder or other chemical plants emitting corrosive or toxic fumes carrying beyond the limits of premises.
(45)
Petroleum or kerosene refining, cracking or washing or distillation of derivative by-products.
(46)
Cement, lime gypsum, plaster or plaster of paris manufacture.
(47)
Chlorine or hydrochloric, nitric, picric or sulfuric acid manufacture or storage.
(48)
Smelting of copper, tin, zinc, lead or iron ores.
(49)
Explosives manufacture.
(50)
Meat-packing, distillation of bones, fat rendering and manufacture of tallow, greases, oils, lard or associated products, fertilizer manufacture, hair manufacture, offal or dead animal reduction.
(51)
Piggery, pigpens, pigsty or pig farm.
(52)
Those uses which are a nuisance, including but not limited to those nuisances which are noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odors, stenches, dust, smoke, gas, pollution or noise which cannot be confined within the building and removed by the use of effective devices.
(53)
Retail stores or group of stores, commonly referred to as a "shopping center."
(54)
Rest home, hospital or sanatorium, philanthropic institution, penal or correctional institution, medical center or health clinic, professional building, mortuary or undertaking parlor, hotel, motel or boatel or boardinghouse or lodging house, mobile home parks.
[Added 12-18-1979]
(55)
Game room.
[Added 6-1-1982]
(57)
Farmer's market.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(58)
Banks.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(59)
Billiard hall.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(60)
Motor vehicle dealership.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(61)
Personal service establishment.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(62)
Community or regional theater.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(63)
Community building.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(64)
Racetracks or exhibition tracks.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(66)
Assembly and social recreation hall or dance hall.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(67)
Mixed-use building.
[Added 6-8-2010]
(68)
Child or adult day-care center.
[Added 5-14-2024]
§ 68-356 Uses permitted by special permit from Town Board after public hearing.
[Amended 12-7-1971; 1-2-1979; 8-19-1980; 1-19-1982; 9-16-1986; 11-14-1995; 4-8-1997]
B.
(Reserved)
C.
(Reserved)
D.
Public and private transportation terminal facility, including airports and heliports.
E.
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection E, which designated assembly and social recreation halls or dance halls as permitted uses by special permit from the Town Board after a public hearing, was repealed 6-8-2010. See now § 68-355A(66).
G.
[4]Junkyards and scrap metal processing facilities, provided that no such junkyard or scrap metal processing facility is located within 500 feet of any residential use or zone, church, school, hospital, public building or place of public assembly.
[Added 3-10-2009]
[4]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection G, Restaurants, as amended, was repealed 9-12-2000.
H.
Auto wrecking and yards.
[Amended 3-10-2009]
I.
(Reserved)
§ 68-356.1 Uses permitted by special permit from Planning Board after public hearing.
[Added 11-14-1995; amended 4-8-1997]
A.
Transfer station subject to compliance with Chapter 21 of the Islip Town Code, all necessary permits required by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and subject to the following criteria:
[Amended 9-12-2000; 7-20-2021]
(1)
A minimum lot area of two acres and the right to require a greater lot area. Such requirement will be based on the scale of operation as measured by the size of the buildings proposed for the site, the volume of solid waste handled on a daily basis and the requirements for vehicle parking and movement or a finding that the operation cannot be adequately screened from adjoining property.
(2)
A minimum distance of 200 feet from property zoned for residential use.
(3)
Submission of a route plan to indicate that traffic generated by the facility will have a minimal impact on residential streets.
(4)
A minimum of 20 feet of landscaping, including street trees in accordance with the Land Development Regulations of the Town of Islip, shall be planted and maintained along all street frontages.
(5)
An eight-foot-high chain-link fence with stockade attached shall be installed and maintained directly behind said landscaped areas.
(6)
The maximum height of the facility shall not exceed 30 feet.
C.
Private parking garage as an accessory use to a permitted principle use.
D.
Automobile parking field, provided that a site plan is submitted to and approved by the Planning Board or its designee indicating compliance with all Town standards.
E.
Convenience market.
F.
Restaurant.
[Added 9-12-2000]
G.
Taxi office.
[Added 1-14-2003]
H.
Sale, lease, or rental of heavy construction vehicles, emergency vehicles, and related equipment, provided such vehicle or equipment is not located within the front yard, or second front yard, and is set back a minimum of 200 feet from any residential use or zone, and further provided such vehicle or equipment is properly screened from view with fencing and/or landscaping at the direction of the Planning Board.
[Added 1-14-2003]
K.
Bar, tavern, or nightclub.
[Added 10-25-2011]
M.
Smoke/vape shop, provided the use is located at least 500 feet from any residential use or zone, school, park, playground, or house of worship.
[Added 5-14-2024]
N.
Smoke/vape lounge, provided the use is located at least 500 feet from any residential use or zone, school, park, playground, or house of worship.
[Added 5-14-2024]
§ 68-356.2 (Reserved) [1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former § 68-356.2, Uses permitted after review and approval of Planning Board, was repealed 12-17-2024.
§ 68-357 Uses permitted as special exception by Board of Appeals after public hearing.
B.
Flour or feed mill.
C.
Poultry slaughterhouse.
D.
Gas manufacture from coal, coke or petroleum, or the storage thereof.
E.
Railway roundhouse or shop.
F.
Commercial poultry farm.
G.
Sheep or goat farm.
H.
Fox, mink, chinchilla or rabbit farm.
I.
Producing, processing, extraction or temporary or permanent storage of radioactive materials.
§ 68-358 Accessory uses.
A.
The following uses shall be permitted when located on the same lot as the authorized use:
(1)
Building for storing products, merchandise or vehicles incidental or accessory to the authorized use.
(3)
Other customary accessory uses, structures and buildings, provided that such uses are clearly incidental to the principal use and do not include any activity commonly conducted as a business.
(4)
Game center.
[Added 8-19-1980]
(5)
Private parking garage after special permit by the Planning Board.
[Added 4-8-1997]
(6)
Spray booth when operated as an accessory to a primary permitted use, provided the booth has received a permit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or evidence is submitted demonstrating exemption for said permit.
[Added 5-28-2008; amended 6-19-2012]
B.
Except with regard to construction on property principally used for agriculture, any accessory building shall be located on the same lot with the principal building, and no accessory building shall be constructed on a lot until the construction of the main building has actually been commenced, and no accessory building shall be used unless the main building on the lot is completed and used.
§ 68-359 Height.
A.
In an Industrial 2 District, no building or structure shall be erected or altered to a height in excess of 60 feet or four stories.
B.
Accessory structures shall not exceed 18 feet in height.
[Amended 4-5-2005]
C.
Exceptions. The provision hereof shall not apply to the height of a church or similar place of worship, tower, stack, standpipe, refrigeration or compression coil, monument, chimney, water tank or elevator. In the event that such structures are within 1 1/2 miles of an established airport, the approval by the Federal Aviation Agency shall be secured and any and all conditions met.
[Amended 9-11-2001]
D.
Flagpoles shall not exceed 35 feet in height.
[Added 9-11-2001]
§ 68-360 Percentage of lot occupancy.
§ 68-361 Area density.
A.
The minimum required plot area for any use authorized in this district shall be 20,000 square feet.
[Amended 3-23-1999]
(1)
Exception. The minimum required plot area for motocross tracks shall be 200,000 square feet.
[Added 9-19-2017]
B.
Separate ownership. A permitted building may be erected on or a permitted use may occupy any lot which was separately owned at the time of the passage of this ordinance and which has not come into common ownership with adjoining property and conforms to the area density requirements of the Zoning Ordinance prior to such codification and conforms to all other minimum requirements of this ordinance.
§ 68-362 Width of lot.
A.
The minimum width of a lot for any use permitted in this district shall be 75 feet throughout.
B.
Separate ownership. A permitted building may be erected on or a permitted use may occupy any lot which was separately owned at the time of the passage of this ordinance and which has not come into common ownership with adjoining property and conforms to the width of lot requirements of the Zoning Ordinance prior to such codification and conforms to all other minimum requirements of this ordinance.
§ 68-363 Front yard.
A.
Main buildings. All permitted buildings hereafter erected shall have a required front yard of 50 feet, unless arterial highway setback is greater. (See Article XXXII.)
B.
Corner lots. All main buildings hereafter erected on a corner lot shall also have a front yard facing the side street. This front yard shall be at least 25 feet, unless arterial highway setback is greater. (See Article XXXII.)
C.
Front yard transition. Whenever a plot in an Industrial 2 District abuts property in a residence district, the minimum required front yard for all buildings shall be the same as that required in the residence district.
[Amended 1-15-1985]
§ 68-364 Side yards.
[Amended 1-15-1985; 8-5-2014]
All main buildings and accessory buildings hereafter erected shall have a side yard along each lot line other than a street or a rear line. Each side yard shall be not less than 10 feet, except where 50 feet is required adjoining residential uses or districts.
§ 68-365 Rear yard.
§ 68-366 Permitted encroachments.
No encroachments are permitted.
§ 68-367 Exterior site improvements.
[Amended 4-8-1997; 8-12-2003; 4-8-2025]
§ 68-368 Fences.
(See Article XXX.)