A building detached from and subordinate to a main building on the same lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

The conversion of a building or structure within a Residential-Variable (R-V) Zoning District, which building or structure was lawfully constructed for nonresidential purposes on or before the date of adoption of the 1969 Zoning Law of the Town of New Paltz, to a residential use otherwise allowed by the zoning regulations of the R-V District and complying with the Uniform Fire and Building Code of New York State.

Any change, except routine maintenance and repair, made to land or to a building, structure or other improvement on or in the land or to a natural feature on or in the land, including waterbodies and watercourses, which alters any aspect of the appearance, use or functionality of the land, building, structure, improvements or natural feature that is regulated by the Zoning Law of the Town of New Paltz or by other provisions of the Town Code of the Town of New Paltz.

The total area taken on a horizontal plane at the main grade level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive of terraces and uncovered steps.

That space of building which is immediately below and wholly or partly within the roof framing. An attic with a finished floor shall be counted as 1/2 story in determining the permissible number of stories.

A story partly below finished grade but having at least 1/2 of its height, measured from floor to ceiling, but not less than four feet above average finished grade. A basement shall be counted as one story in determining the height of a building in stories.

An owner-occupied dwelling affording overnight accommodations for paying, transient guests that provides limited food services and is limited to five guest bedrooms.

A building, other than a hotel, containing a general kitchen and a general dining room, in which at least three but not more than six sleeping rooms are offered for rent, with or without meals. A lodging house, tourist house or rooming house shall be deemed a boardinghouse.

An area of land intended to protect uses on an adjoining lot from the impacts of uses on the lot containing the buffer strip. Such strip shall include natural or planted vegetation or fencing, or both, sufficient to provide a visual and noise buffer as required by this chapter and shall not be paved nor used for buildings, accessory buildings, parking, storage or sewage disposal areas.

Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls used for, or intended to be used for, the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals or property.

See "accessory building."

A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.

A group of two or more principal buildings, and any buildings accessory thereto, occupying a lot in one ownership and having any yard in common.

The line, established by statute, local law or ordinance, beyond which a building shall not extend, as specifically provided by law.

A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.

A building attached by a party wall to another building normally of the same type on another lot, but having one side yard.

A term used to describe the size, volume, area and shape of buildings and structures and the physical relationship of their exterior walls of their location to lot lines, other buildings and structures or other walls of the same building; and all open spaces required in connection with a building, other structure or tract of land.

Any parcel of land on which is located two or more cabins, tents, shelters or other accommodations of a design or character suitable for seasonal, short-term recreational use and/or nonpermanent structures or other more-or-less temporary living purposes, including a summer colony, resort and day camp, but not including a trailer park, boardinghouse, hotel or motel.

Any space in a building, the structural ceiling level of which is less than four feet above average finished grade where such grade meets the exterior walls of the building. A cellar shall not be counted in determining the permissible number of stories.

When an electric vehicle is connected to electric vehicle supply equipment (or standard outlet) for the purpose of recharging batteries on board the electric vehicle.

The standardized indicators of electrical force, or voltage, at which an electric vehicle's battery is recharged.

An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests, or premises and buildings for recreational or athletic purposes, which are not conducted primarily for gain, provided that there are not conducted any vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities except as required generally for the membership and purposes of such club.

A recreation facility, operated entirely within an approved structure or structures, operated for compensation and available for use by the general public, including instruction and competition in the respective activity. Commercial indoor recreation shall also include the incidental sale of associated athletic or other equipment and the incidental sale of food and/or beverages to persons using the facility. Commercial indoor recreation shall include such uses as indoor tennis, indoor swimming, indoor racket ball, etc., but shall not include the use of any motorized vehicle, as for instance go-carts and minibikes and/or similar motorized apparatus.

A vehicle of more than one-ton capacity used for the transportation of persons or goods primarily for gain or a vehicle of any capacity carrying a permanently affixed sign exceeding one square foot in area or lettering of a commercial nature.

A driveway shared by not more than two lots.

Those areas intended for use or enjoyment by all residents of a development, including roads, driveways, parking areas, walkways, landscaped areas and open space and recreation areas.

A sign owned and maintained by the Town Board or by a group of businessmen as approved by the Town Board and which sign contains several directional signs for the purpose of directing persons to business and community establishments within the community.

Any space, whether inside or outside a building, used for the storage or keeping of construction equipment, machinery or vehicles, or parts thereof, which are in active use by a construction contractor.

Any parcel of land on which is located two or more cottages, cabins or other accommodations of a design or character suitable for seasonal, long-term recreational use with permanent structures or other temporary living purposes, including a summer colony or resort, but not including a trailer park, boardinghouse, hotel or motel.

That lot area or percentage of lot area covered by buildings or structures, including accessory buildings and structures.

The utilization of a lot or tract of land for two or more principal uses.

In the following list, each district shall be deemed to be more restricted than the districts which precede it: I-1, A, R-1, R-V, B-2, MSMU, GB and GH, F. The restrictiveness of districts not included in this definition will be decided on a case-by-case basis by the Building Inspector.

An open lot or part thereof, with appurtenant facilities, devoted primarily to the showing of moving pictures, on a paid admission basis, to patrons seated in automobiles or on outdoor seats.

An accessway which provides direct access between a dwelling, building, or other structure or use on a lot and a lawfully existing private road, a highway shown on an approved subdivision plat, a Town road, or a county or state highway, and which does not provide access through a lot to another lot.

A lot or land used primarily for the disposal, by abandonment, burial, burning or any other means, and for whatever purpose, of garbage, sewage, trash, refuse, junk, discarded machinery, vehicles or parts thereof or waste material of any kind.

A building designed or used principally as the living quarters for one or more families. The term "dwelling," "one-family dwelling," "two-family dwelling," "multifamily dwelling," "multiple dwelling" or "dwelling group" shall not be deemed to include a motel, hotel, rooming house or other accommodations used for more-or-less transient occupancy. (See "residence.")

A group of three or more but not more than nine attached single- or two-family dwellings with party walls between.

A dwelling unit on the upper floor of a mixed-use building with a minimum area of 750 square feet. More than three such dwellings shall not be considered a multifamily dwelling in the MSMU, GB and GH Districts; however, such units shall comply with the requirements of an ENERGY STAR^® qualified home and § 78-21 of the Town Code.

A dwelling containing three or more dwelling units and occupied or designed for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other.

A building containing one dwelling unit only.

A building containing two dwelling units.

A building or portion thereof providing complete housekeeping facilities for one family.

Any motor vehicle that is registered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles and authorized to operate on public and private highways, roads, and streets, and uses electrical energy stored on board for motive purpose. "Electric vehicle" includes battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

A public or private parking space that is served by electric vehicle supply equipment that has as its primary purpose the transfer of electric energy (by conductive or inductive means) to a battery in an electric vehicle.

An electric vehicle charging station that is publicly owned and publicly available (e.g., parking spaces on a public street or municipal parking lot) or privately owned and publicly available (e.g., shopping center parking, nonreserved parking in multifamily parking lots).

An electric vehicle charging station that is privately owned and restricted access (e.g., single-family home, designated employee parking) or publicly owned and restricted (e.g., fleet parking with no access to the general public).

The structures, machinery, and equipment necessary and integral to support an electric vehicle, including the electrical conduit and premises wiring requirements for the installation of electric vehicle supply equipment, as well as battery exchange stations.

The conductors, including the ungrounded, grounded, and equipment grounding conductors and the electric vehicle conductors, attachment plugs, and all other fittings, devices, power outlets, or apparatus installed specifically for purposes of delivering energy from the premises wiring to the electric vehicle, complying and conforming with National Electric Code Article 625 and Society of Automotive Engineers J1772 Standard.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by municipal or other governmental agencies or nonprofit corporations, of firehouses, ambulance and emergency services stations, and accessory uses thereto, for the purpose of providing fire protection, ambulance or similar emergency services, whether such services are provided by a governmental agency or a nonprofit corporation, but excluding wireless communications facilities as defined in Article X of this chapter.

One person or two or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption or not more than five persons not necessarily related by blood, who live together in a single dwelling unit and maintain a common household.

Any parcel of land containing at least 10 acres which is used for gain in raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products. It includes necessary farm structures within the prescribed limits and the storage of equipment used. It excludes the raising of fur-bearing animals, riding academies, livery or boarding stables and dog kennels.

The elevation at which the finished surface of the surrounding lot intersects the walls or supports of a building or other structure. If the line of intersection is not reasonably horizontal, the finished grade, in computing height of buildings and other structures or for other purposes, shall be the average elevation of all finished grade elevations around the periphery of the building, except that this average shall not exceed 1/2 of the floor-to-ceiling height.

The aggregate sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of the building or buildings, measured from the exterior walls or from the center lines of walls separating two buildings.

A multifamily dwelling for three or more families no greater than 2 1/2 stories in height.

An area of land, including structures thereon, or any building or part thereof, that is used primarily for the sale and direct delivery to the motor vehicle of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel or oil and other lubricating substances, including any sale of motor vehicle accessories, and which may or may not include facilities for lubricating, washing (which does not require mechanical equipment) or otherwise servicing motor vehicles, but not including auto body work, welding or painting.

The vertical distance from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade along the wall or walls of the building or structure, measured every 10 feet, to: one) to the highest point of the roof of a flat roof; or 2) the average height between eaves and ridge of gable, hip, gambrel and other sloped roofs. Utilities located on a roof shall be included in the calculation of a structure's height.

A use conducted within a one-family or two-family dwelling, clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes, which does not change the residential character or appearance of the premises, and is carried on by the permanent residents of the dwelling unit and no more than one other employee. A home occupation use does not include uses such as medical or veterinary clinics, medical testing or other laboratories, barbershops or beauty parlors, restaurants, kennels and similar uses which have water, septic, traffic and other land use concerns not characteristic of typical home occupations.

An organization of homeowners residing within a particular development whose major purpose is to preserve, maintain and provide community areas, facilities and services for the common enjoyment of the residents.

A building containing beds for four or more patients and used for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of ailments and shall be deemed to be limited to places for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments.

A building or any part thereof which contains living and sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy, has a common exterior entrance or entrances and which may contain one or more dining rooms.

The area of a lot covered by impervious surfaces. To calculate a lot's impervious surface ratio, divide the area of impervious surfaces by the lot's gross area.

A hard surface area that prevents or substantially impedes the natural infiltration of water into the underlying soil, resulting in an increased volume and velocity of surface water runoff. Impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to, buildings, patios, decks, sidewalks, driveways, compacted gravel, pavement, asphalt, concrete, roadways, parking areas and hard-surfaced recreational areas.

Any plot, piece or parcel of land, with or without buildings, used for or occupied by the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, including but not limited to scrap materials, used or salvaged building materials and/or dismantled, demolished or abandoned motor vehicles, trucks, trailers, machinery or parts thereof. The deposit on any plot, piece or parcel of land for a period exceeding 30 days of two or more unregistered or wrecked or dismantled or demolished motor vehicles, trucks, trailers or machinery, whether in whole or in part and whether the same are held for the purpose of resale, in whole or in part, or for the purpose of reclaiming for use some or all of the material therein, whether metal, glass, fabric or otherwise, or for the purpose of disposing of the same or for any other purpose shall be deemed to make such plot, piece or parcel of land a junkyard within this definition.

Any place at which there are kept four or more dogs more than four months of age or any number of dogs that are kept for the primary purpose of sale or for the boarding, care or breeding of which a fee is charged or paid.

A parcel or tract of land, which may or may not be coincident with a lot or lots shown on a map of record that has been filed in the office of the County Clerk, which is not divided by a public street or highway shown on a plan approved by the Town of New Paltz Planning Board, and which is, or is to be, occupied by buildings or structures or otherwise devoted to one or more uses regulated by this chapter, together with such open spaces, yards or other areas as may be required by the provisions of this Code or the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.[3] A lot shall have frontage on a public street or highway sufficient to meet the requirements of this Code and all statutory or regulatory requirements applicable to the proposed use of the lot.

A lot situated at the junction of and adjacent to two or more intersecting streets when the interior angle of intersection does not exceed 135º.

See "coverage."

The mean distance from the front street line of a lot to its rear line.

That lot line coincident with, and measured along, the right-of-way of any dedicated Town, county or New York State highway, or along a line 24.75 feet from the center line of any highway that has been lawfully established by use. A corner lot shall be considered to have two such frontages.

The lines bounding a lot, as defined herein.

A lot which faces on two streets at opposite ends of the lot and which is not a corner lot.

The minimum horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at the line established by the front yard setback applicable to such lot, which shall in turn be measured from the lot line established by the required lot frontage. At all points between the frontage of the lot and the greater of the line established by the minimum front yard setback or the closest point of any actual or proposed principal building on the lot, the width of the lot, measured from side lot line to side lot line, shall not be less than the required frontage.

A vehicle which is used or designed to be used for living or sleeping purposes and which is customarily standing on wheels or rigid supports.

A building or group of buildings containing individual living and sleeping accommodations for hire, each of which is provided with a separate exterior entrance and a parking space and is offered for rental and use principally by motor vehicle travelers. The term "motel" includes but is not limited to every type of similar establishment known variously as an "auto court," "motor hotel," "motor court," "motor inn," "motor lodge," "tourist court," "tourist cabin" or "roadside hotel."

The use of land for geological or geophysical activities related to the search for natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons, including prospecting, geophysical and geological seismic surveying and sampling techniques, which include but are not limited to core or rotary drilling or making an excavation in the search and evaluation of natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbon deposits.

The use of land for the purpose of extracting, developing and producing natural gas, oil or other subsurface hydrocarbons from subsurface deposits. Natural gas and oil extraction includes storage or construction staging yards associated with an oil or gas extraction operation, and gas pipelines, water lines and other gathering systems and components, including but not limited to drip stations, vent stations, injection stations and valve boxes associated with a natural gas or oil extraction operation.

Any refuse, sludge or other waste materials, whether or not recycled or reused or intended to be recycled or reused, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material that results from, is associated with or is produced as a by-product of natural gas and oil exploration or extraction, including, without limitation, production brine, produced waters, flowback, flowback fluids and hydraulic fracturing fluids.

The construction, use or maintenance of a storage or staging yard, a water or fluid injection station, a water or fluid gathering station, a natural gas or oil storage facility, or a natural gas or oil gathering line, venting station, or compressor associated with the exploration or extraction of natural gas or oil.

A structure lawfully existing at the effective date of this chapter, or at the time of any amendment thereto affecting such structure, which does not thereafter conform to one or more of the applicable "bulk" regulations established by this chapter for the district in which such building is situated, irrespective of the use to which such structure is put.

A lot, the area or dimension of which was lawful at the effective date of this chapter, or at the time of any amendment thereto affecting such lot, which does not thereafter conform to one or more of the applicable bulk regulations established by this chapter for the district in which such lot is situated by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.

Any use of a building, other structure, lot or land, or part thereof, lawfully existing at the effective date of this chapter, or at the time of any amendments thereto affecting such use, which does not thereafter conform to the use regulations of this chapter for the district in which such use is located.

Any place, however designated, operated for the purpose of providing daytime care or instruction for two or more children from two to five years of age, inclusive, and operated on a regular basis, including kindergartens, day nurseries and day-care centers.

A building with less than 15 sleeping rooms where persons are housed or lodged and furnished with meals and nursing care for hire.

Land that is left in its natural state for conservation purposes, including wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors; landscaped for aesthetic or scenic purposes; devoted to active or passive recreation; used for stormwater management facilities; or used for the preservation of distinctive architectural, historic, geologic and botanic sites, but not impervious surfaces such as driveways, parking areas or paved areas not used for recreation.

A development of a site located within the Planned Resort Overlay District in compliance with the standards applicable to the Planned Resort use. Nothing in this definition, or the Planned Resort Overlay District regulations or supplemental use regulations applies to a "vacation resort," as that term is elsewhere used in the Zoning Law.

An electric vehicle that contains an internal combustion engine and also allows power to be delivered to drive wheels by an electric motor; charges its battery primarily by connecting to the grid or other off-board electrical source; may additionally be able to sustain battery charge using an on-board internal-combustion-driven generator; and has the ability to travel powered by electricity.

A lot, together with all the buildings and uses thereon.

Snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, personal water vehicles and other motorized vehicles intended primarily for recreational off road use, operated by an individual and seating one to four riders, and required to be registered and/or titled by the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York if operated within the state. Recreational sport vehicles do not include vehicles intended to provide overnight residential accommodations, farm and construction equipment or other vehicles not designed and intended primarily for recreational use.

A building or any part of a building which contains living and sleeping accommodations for permanent occupancy. Residences, therefore, include all one-family, multifamily, boarding-, fraternity and sorority houses. However, residences shall not include the following:

Any establishment where horses are kept for riding, driving or stabling for compensation.

The full width of a street or easement established by deed or use for vehicular or pedestrian passage of the general public.

A light structure with a roof, either attached to the ground or movable, intended for the sale of local produce to the general public.

Sales and display of recreational sport vehicles that are ancillary to a principal permitted use of automobile repair in the LI District, subject to site plan and special permit use by the Planning Board in compliance with § 140-41.

The distance in feet from the street line to the principal building on a lot.

A group of contiguous or adjacent stores, shops and similar commercial retail establishments consisting of more than 35,000 square feet of floor area, planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided on site, provisions for goods delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from the elements. For purposes of this chapter, shopping center I shall include a freestanding store, shop or similar commercial retail establishment consisting of more than 35,000 square feet of floor area.

A group of contiguous or adjacent stores, shops and similar commercial retail establishments having 35,000 square feet of floor area or less, planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided on site, provisions for goods delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from the elements. For purposes of this chapter, shopping center II shall include a freestanding store, shop or similar commercial retail establishment having a floor area of 35,000 square feet or less.[5]

Possession of land under single or unified control, whether by sole, joint, common or other ownership, or by a lease having a term of not less than 30 years, regardless of any division of such land into parcels for the purpose of financing.

The use of land for the purpose of extracting and selling stone, sand, gravel or other minerals and not including natural gas or oil exploration and extraction.

That part of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above it. (See "attic," "basement" and "cellar.")

That portion of a building situated above a full story and having at least two opposite exterior walls meeting a sloping roof at a level not higher above the floor than a distance equal to 1/2 of the floor-to-ceiling height of the story below.

An existing public way which affords principal means of access to abutting properties and is suitably improved or a proposed way shown on a plat approved by all appropriate official agencies.

The width of the right-of-way or the distance between property lines on opposite sides of a street.

A static construction of building materials, including buildings, stadiums, platforms, towers, sheds, display stands, storage bins, signs, reviewing stands, gasoline pumps, mobile dwellings (whether mobile or stationary at the time) and the like.

One of a group of two or more attached dwelling units divided from each other by party walls and each having separate entrances from the outside.

A tract of land which is used or intended to be used for the parking of two or more mobile homes.

This term is employed in referring to:

Any area of land on which is located two or more cabins, cottages or a hotel or group of buildings, containing living and sleeping accommodations hired out for compensation, which has a public lobby serving the guests and may contain one or more dining rooms and recreation facilities of a design and character suitable for seasonal or more-or-less temporary living purposes, regardless of whether such structures or other accommodations actually are occupied seasonally or otherwise.

A development consisting of garden apartments, townhouses, single-family homes or a combination thereof and providing for the dedication of relatively large amounts of land to open space, conservation, recreation and landscaping.

A thoroughfare, however designated, permanently established for passage of persons or vehicles.

The space within and extending the full width of a lot from the front lot line to the part of the principal structure which is nearest to such front lot line.

The space within and extending the full width of a lot from the rear lot line to the part of the principal structure which is nearest to such rear lot line.

That portion of the open area of a lot extending open and unobstructed from the ground upward, along a lot line for a depth or width as specified by the bulk regulations of the district in which the lot is located. No part of such yard shall be included as part of a yard or other open space similarly required for buildings on another lot.

The space within a lot extending the full distance from the front yard to the rear yard and from the side lot line to the part of the structure which is nearest to such side lot line.