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New Paltz City Zoning Code

ARTICLE II

Use Regulations

§ 140-8 Permitted uses.

A. 
In the following schedule:
(1) 
"P" designates a use permitted by right.
(2) 
"O" designates a use permitted subject to additional standards pursuant to § 140-52 of this chapter by the Planning Board.
(3) 
[1]"S" designates a special permit use contingent on securing special perm it approval in each case from the Planning Board pursuant to the procedural requirements set forth in § 140-55E and Article X.
[Added 6-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former Subsection A(3), regarding “X” as a designation in the schedule found in Subsection B, was repealed 10-3-2019 by L.L. No. 7-2019. This local law also redesignated former Subsection A(4) as Subsection A(3).
B. 
No building or premises shall be erected, altered or used except for one or more of the uses designated for any district[2] as follows:
[Amended 12-30-1987 by L.L. No. 9-1987; 4-26-1990 by L.L. No. 6-1990; 6-18-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998; 2-25-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999; 2-25-1999 by L.L. No. 4-1999; 4-13-2000 by L.L. No. 1-2000; 9-28-2000 by L.L. No. 6-2000; 6-16-2005 by L.L. No. 3-2005; 12-27-2007 by L.L. No. 6-2007; 11-19-2009 by L.L. No. 6-2009; 8-19-2010 by L.L. No. 7-2010; 2-27-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014; 10-3-2019 by L.L. No. 7-2019]
 
Districts
Use
A-1.5
A-3
R-1
R-V
B-2
I-1
WCF
FW
FF
GF
MSMU
GB
GH
Residential Uses
Detached one-family dwelling
P
P
P
P
O
O
O
P
Fraternity and sorority house
Mobile home (§ 140-38)
O
O
Multifamily dwelling
P
O
O
O
Semidetached one-family dwelling
P
Dwelling, mixed use
O
O
P
General Uses
Agriculture, including the keeping of fowl or farm animals
P
P
O
O
O
Agriculture, not including the keeping of fowl or farm animals
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Cemetery, in compliance with § 140-39
O
O
O
Church or other place of worship
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Crematory, in compliance with § 140-39
O
O
O
Cultural facilities (library, art gallery, museum, etc.)
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Day nursery
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Electrical vehicle charging stations equipped with DC Fast Charge EVSE, as defined in § 140-4C
O
O
Essential services
O
O
O
O
O
Golf course or country club
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Hospital
O
O
O
O
Institutional or philanthropic use
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Nonprofit club or recreation use
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Nursing or convalescent home or sanatorium
O
O
O
O
Private, academic or parochial school
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Public utility or transportation use
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Retail sale of agricultural produce grown on the same lot from a road stand
O
O
O
O
P
O
O
O
O
P
P
P
Vacation resort, camp, cottage or cabin development
S
S
S
S
Accessory Uses
Accessory use customarily incidental to any of the uses mentioned herein and not on the same lot
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Accessory use customarily incidental to any of the uses mentioned herein and on the same lot
P
P
P
P
P
P
O
O
O
P
P
P
Electrical vehicle charging stations equipped with DC Fast Charge EVSE, as defined in § 140-4C
P
P
P
P
P
Electrical vehicle charging stations equipped with EVSE capable of charging an electric vehicles at Level 1 or Level 2, as defined in § 140-4C
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Home occupation, in compliance with § 140-26
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Stables for horses for noncommercial purposes
O
O
O
O
O
Business Uses
Adult uses
S
Airport
S
S
Automobile storage or repair
O
O
O
O
Bar or nightclub
S
S
O
O
O
O
Bowling alley
O
O
O
O
Car-washing station
O
O
O
Commercial indoor recreation
O
O
O
O
O
Commercial parking lot in compliance with § 140-33
S
S
O
O
O
O
Dance hall or skating rink
S
S
O
O
O
O
Drive-in movie
S
S
Equipment rental or sales yard
S
S
O
O
O
Funeral home
O
O
O
O
O
Gasoline filling station in compliance with § 140-35
O
O
O
O
General and professional office
O
O
O
O
O
Hotel
S
S
O
O
O
O
O
Laundry or dry-cleaning plant
O
O
O
Major wireless communicat- ions facilities
S
Minor wireless communicat- ions facilities
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
O
Mobile home (§ 140-38)
O
O
Motel
O
O
O
Newspaper offices and printing shops
O
O
O
O
O
Repair of recreational sports vehicles as ancillary use to automobile storage and repair
S
Restaurant
S
S
O
O
O
O
Retail business or service not otherwise specifically mentioned herein
O
O
O
O
Riding academy
O
O
O
O
School conducted for profit
O
O
O
O
Self-service laundry
O
O
O
O
Shopping Center I (pursuant to § 140-26.1)
Oa
—b
—b
—b
Shopping Center II (pursuant to § 140-26.1)
Oa
—b
—b
—b
Theater or concert hall
O
O
O
O
O
Veterinarian's office, animal hospital or kennel
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
Wholesale business or service not otherwise specifically mentioned herein
O
O
O
O
O
Light Industrial Uses
Extractive operations and soil mining in compliance with § 140-37
S
S
S
S
S
Manufacture, fabrication, extraction, assembly, warehousing and other handling of material in compliance with §§ 140-18 and 140-28 and excluding the prohibited uses listed below
O
Research laboratory
O
Note: Uses for the RD District are set forth in § 140-22.55 of the Zoning Law.
a
Shopping centers approved prior to March 18, 1999, are permitted in accordance with § 140-26.1
b
Shopping centers are permitted only in accordance with District regulations.
[2]
Editor's Note: For provisions regarding the MHN District, see § 140-21 of this chapter.

§ 140-9 Prohibited industrial uses.

[Amended 11-15-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
In any district where manufacturing or light industry is permitted, no manufacturing use nor any trade, industry, use or purpose that is noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke, toxic or noisome fumes, radiation, gas, noise, vibration or excessive light, or any combination of the above, which is dangerous and prejudicial to the public health, safety and general welfare shall be permitted, and this includes more specifically but is not limited to the following such uses:
Acetylene gas manufacture for commercial purposes
Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture
Arsenal
Asphalt manufacture or refining
Blast furnace, not including cupola or converter furnaces used in foundries and in which no wood is used as fuel
Boiler shops, structural-steel fabricating shops or metalworking shops which operate reciprocating hammers or chisels or other noise-producing electric or pneumatic tools within 100 feet of any boundary line of the premises and outside of any masonry buildings
Brewing or distilling of liquors
Bronze and aluminum powder manufacture
Carbon, lampblack, shoe blacking, graphite or stove polish manufacture
Celluloid and other cellulose products manufacture
Cement manufacture
Coal tar products manufacture
Creosote treatment or manufacture
Disinfectant and insecticide manufacture
Distillation of coal, wood or bones
Dump, unless operated or controlled by the municipality
Excelsior and fiber manufacture
Explosives, fireworks or match manufacture, assembling or storage in bulk, except the manufacture, assembling and storage in bulk of safety matches in book form
Fat rendering
Fertilizer manufacture or potash refining
Fish smoking or curing
Glue, size or gelatin manufacture or processing involving recovery from fish or animal offal
Incinerator, unless operated by the municipality
Junkyard
Lime, gypsum, cement, plaster or plaster of paris manufacture, except the mixing of plaster
Linoleum or oilcloth manufacture
Natural gas and oil exploration
Natural gas and oil extraction
Natural gas and oil support activities
Ore reduction or the smelting of iron, copper, tin, zinc or lead
Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac or enamel manufacture, except the mixing of wet paints
Perfume and extract manufacture
Petroleum refining
Poison manufacture: fumigants, carbon disulfide, hydrocyanic acid, ethyl, stomach poisons, arsenate of lead, arsenate of calcium, hellebore and paris green, contact insecticides, lime, sulfur, nicotine or kerosene emulsions
Printing ink manufacture
Radium extraction
Rubber caoutchouc or gutta-percha manufacture from crude or scrap material, except in connection with a rubber products manufacture plant
Salt works
Sandpaper and emery cloth manufacture
Slaughtering of animals, except for immediate consumption on premises or immediate retail sale
Soap, soda ash or washing compound manufacture, except products not containing caustic soda
Starch, glucose or dextrine manufacture
Stockyards
Storage, coloring, curing, dressing or tanning of raw or green salted hides or skins
Storage or disposal of natural gas and oil production by-products
Sulfurous, sulfuric, nitric, picric or hydrochloric acid or other corrosive or offensive acid manufacture or its use or storage, except on a limited scale as accessory to a permitted industry
Tallow, grease, lard or candle manufacture or refining
Tar distillation or the manufacture of aniline dyes
Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture, except where the tar or asphalt is treated at a temperature under 100º F.
Tobacco processing, exclusive of cigar or cigarette manufacture
Vinegar, pickle or sauerkraut manufacture in bulk
Wool pulling or scouring, except in connection with a woolen mill
Yeast manufacture