Residence districts: The purpose of the residence districts is to provide a setting for residential uses and customary accessory uses, free from the adverse effects of incompatible nonresidential uses, at various densities based on the natural features and existing development patterns in each district.

SR Special Residence: The purpose of the SR District is to preserve the historic residential character of portions of Stone Ridge while permitting certain limited nonresidential uses in existing buildings and on vacant land, subject to careful controls to preserve the scale and character of the area.

B-1 General Business: The purpose of the B-1 District is to permit the use of existing structures for business uses appropriate to the predominantly small lots in the district; to preserve the existing scale and character of the business area; and to reduce or prevent traffic congestion and safety hazards. New structures intended for business use are subject to more stringent development standards necessary to maintain traffic safety and avoid conflicts between new and existing structures and uses.

B-2 Highway Business: The purpose of the B-2 District is to provide opportunities for low-density business development, particularly uses with a highway orientation, subject to development standards intended to promote traffic safety on a heavily traveled highway.

I-1 Light Industrial: The purpose of the Light Industrial District is to provide opportunities for industrial use, subject to specific development standards, on sites found appropriate in terms of location, access, utilities and existing development patterns.

[3]I/B Light Industrial/Business District. The purpose of the Light Industrial/Business District is to provide opportunities for a range of industrial and business uses subject to certain development standards, to maintain traffic, safety, access, utilities and development patterns.

Conservation Design Overlay District: The purpose of the Conservation Design Overlay District is to promote conservation of open space and preservation of natural resources while allowing flexibility in lot size and site design. The criteria, requirements, process and applicability provisions of this District are set forth in § 200-48 and Appendix B, Design Standards for Conservation Subdivisions which is attached to and made a part of this Zoning Law.[4] These standards are also attached to and made a part of the Town of Marbletown's Subdivision Regulations. The design standards shall be considered and implemented by the applicant and Planning Board in the preparation and review of an application.

Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following the center lines or right-of-way lines of streets, highways, public utility easements and aqueducts, said boundaries shall be construed to be coincident with such lines. Such boundaries shall be deemed to be automatically moved if a center line or right-of-way line of such street, highway, public utility or aqueduct is moved a maximum distance of 50 feet. Where the boundary of a district is indicated as following shorelines of ponds and lakes, said boundary line shall be construed to follow such shorelines and, in the event of change in the shoreline, shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline. Where the boundary of a district is indicated as following a stream or other watercourse, said boundary line shall be construed to follow the center line of such stream or watercourse and, in the event of change in the same, shall be construed as moving with the actual stream or other watercourse.

Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately following the Town boundary line, property lines, lot lines or projections thereof, said boundaries shall be construed to be coincident with such lines or projections thereof.

Where district boundaries are so indicated that they are approximately parallel to the Town boundary line, property lines, lot lines, right-of-way lines, or projections thereof, said boundaries shall be construed as being parallel thereto and at such distances therefrom as indicated on the Zoning Map or as shall be determined by the use of the scale shown on the Zoning Map.

Where a district boundary line divides a lot in a single or joint ownership of record at the time such line is established, the regulations for the less-restricted portion of such lot shall extend not more than 30 feet into the more-restricted portion.

In all other cases, where not dimensioned, the location of boundaries shown on the map shall be determined by the use of the scale appearing thereon.

No land or building shall hereafter be used, occupied, erected, moved or altered unless in conformity with the regulations, hereinafter specified for the district in which it is located.

No building shall hereafter be erected or altered:

No part of a yard or other open space required about any building shall be included as part of a yard or other open space similarly required for another building.

No off-street parking or loading space required for one building or use shall be included as meeting in whole or part, the off-street parking or loading space required for another building or use except as provided in § 200-39B.

No off-street parking or loading space shall be so reduced in area that it does not meet the requirements of this chapter.