Permitted uses.

No special permits will be issued and no property shall be zoned a Professional District unless the property is either nonconforming business or nonconforming industrial or abuts business, marine business or industrially zoned property. For the purposes of this section, properties that are across the street from business or industrially zoned property shall be eligible for rezoning to a Professional District.

The architecture of any structure constructed or altered for use in a Professional District shall be conservative and dignified and in keeping with the use and the character of the neighborhood. In a Professional Zone, structures shall be of a residential character and nature, unless otherwise specified by the Village Board.

There shall be no exterior display (or interior display visible from the exterior) of merchandise or advertising, no exterior storage of materials or equipment and no other exterior indication of the use, except for one sign, which shall be in conformance with the professional sign requirements of Chapter 151, Signs, of this Code.

Upon application for a special permit for professional offices, there shall be submitted an artist's rendering of the front, rear and side elevations, together with a survey and plot plan showing the location of the premises and all off-street parking to be provided. The applicant shall further supply a landscape plan. The applicant shall supply a radius map showing the name and address of all owners within 500 feet of the subject premises, the zoning within that radius and the actual uses within that radius.

Front yard. The required front yard depth shall be the same as the average front yard depth of the existing buildings within 200 feet on each side of the lot and within the same block or if there are no existing buildings on the same side of the street, the average front yard depth of existing buildings within 200 feet on each side directly opposite the lot, but no front yard shall be required to have a greater depth than 30 feet. The foregoing provision shall not affect the required front yard between the proposed building and the side street in case of a corner lot.

Where a building is not controlled by § 193-56A above, there will be a front yard, the depth of which shall be at least 20 feet back from the street line. In the case of a corner lot, a front yard shall be required on each street on which the lot abuts.

Side yards. There shall be two side yards, one on each side of the main building, the aggregate of which shall be at least 12 feet. Neither side yard shall be less than five feet wide.

In a Professional District, a fence, as defined in this chapter, not exceeding six feet in height, may be erected on the rear lot line and such portion of the side lot lines as shall be lot lines enclosing the required rear yard, and, with respect to all other lot lines, any such fence shall not exceed four feet in height, provided that, if such fence shall be erected along any road or highway, the permitted height thereof shall be measured from the existing elevation of the center line of such highway opposite such fence and provided, further, that such height so measured shall not exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) feet at any point within a radius of 15 feet of the corner formed by any intersecting roads or highways unless otherwise permitted by the Board of Appeals. The provisions hereof shall also apply to hedges and other densely growing shrubbery.

Any fence shall have the smooth or finished side facing the outside of the property, and all posts, braces or pipes must be placed on the inside of the fence.

There shall be, in the case of any building, accessory building or extension to any existing building in this zone, a fifteen-foot setback along the property line at any place it abuts any residential zones.

As part of the aforementioned setback, there shall be constructed along the residentially zoned property a fence and at least a five-foot-wide shrub buffer.

The requirements of Subsections A and B above may be amended by the Village Board so as to provide for aesthetically pleasing landscaping for the property as a whole, including the setback and buffer areas.

The aforesaid buffer zone and all trees and shrubs required to be planted and fences required to be erected therein shall be maintained regularly by the owner or owners of the properties in the Professional District. The same shall include, but shall not be limited to, the replacement of trees and shrubs, of whatever type is required by the Village Board, which shall die and/or otherwise become infested, destroyed or decayed; the replacement of fences which shall fall into disrepair; and the general maintenance of the buffer zone in a clean, healthful, sanitary and aesthetic condition.

The owner or owners of record of property who shall be directed by the Village Board or its duly authorized agent to replace trees or shrubs and/or to repair or replace a fence or fences as provided in the preceding subsection shall do so within 15 days after the postmarking of a letter mailed by or on behalf of the Village Board to said owner or owners of record at the address of record set forth on the current tax assessment rolls of the Village of Lindenhurst, by certified mail, return receipt requested, directing compliance with the Village Board's directive in question. In the event that such order shall not be duly and timely complied with, the work in question shall be performed by the Village, and the entire cost thereof, including any attorneys' fees incurred, shall be assessed by the Village upon the real property and/or properties in question, and the expenses and fees so assessed shall constitute a lien and charge upon such real property and/or properties until paid or otherwise satisfied or discharged and shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as other charges, taxes and assessments of the Village.

Accessory buildings may occupy 25% of the rear yard up to an average height of 18 feet.

The yard area allowed for such accessory buildings shall be included in computing the percentage of lot area to be built upon.

Under no circumstances shall any accessory building or part thereof in a professional zone be used as a dwelling or place of human habitation.

In each case where a building, structure or use or alteration thereof is proposed in this district, except for one-family dwelling places, the applicant shall submit a site plan of the same to the Village Administrator Clerk for approval. The Village Administrator Clerk shall transmit such plan(s) to the persons designated by the Village Board for a review. The site plan shall be drawn to scale and shall show all existing and proposed buildings, structures, signs, driveways, parking spaces, curbs, sidewalks, fences, landscaping, drainage facilities and floodlights, plus any additional information the Village Board may determine is necessary to aid their deliberations.

No building permits shall be issued without approval of the site plan by the Village Board and its designated agent(s).

No alterations or changes shall be made in the subject building, structure, use or premises without submission and approval by the Village of a new site plan.