Permanent off-street parking spaces shall be provided and satisfactorily maintained by the owner of the property for each building which, after the date when this article becomes effective, is erected, enlarged, altered or changed for use for any purpose.

Such parking space shall be required open space associated with the permitted use and shall not be reduced or encroached upon in any manner.

Location of parking space.

Shared parking areas.

Parking space and loading space maintained in connection with an existing and continuing principal building, structure or land use on the effective date of this article shall be continued and may not be counted as serving a new building, structure, addition or land use.

A parking space shall be nine feet wide by 19 feet long. A single access lane shall be a minimum 20 feet in width and a double access lane shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width. Required fire lanes shall be a minimum of 50 feet of clear area. All fire lanes are to be striped for no parking and appropriate signage shall be installed.

Where a nonresidential district or use abuts a residential district or use, the parking must be no closer than 15 feet to the property line. NOTE: This does not apply to the B-2, General Business District.

Permanent off-street vehicle or other type of equipment storage, parking or standing space shall be provided at the time of the erection of any building or structure, at the time any building or structure is enlarged or increased in capacity by adding dwelling units, guest rooms, seats or floor area or before conversion from one zoning use or occupancy to another. Such space shall be deemed to be required open space associated with the permitted use and shall not be thereafter reduced or encroached in any manner. Except in a driveway, no required yard or portion of it on any lot shall be used to provide parking spaces in this article.

Each lot in a residential zone, or being used for residential purposes, shall be entitled to a single curb cut onto the Village right-of-way.

No off-street vehicle or other equipment parking or storage space shall be used or designed, arranged or constructed to be used in a manner that will obstruct or interfere with the free use of any street, alley or adjoining property.

In Business Districts B-1, B-2, and B-3, parking surfaces shall be asphalt or concrete. In a PID district, parking surfaces shall be asphalt, concrete or crushed stone.

Residential uses.

Hotel, motel, boardinghouse: one parking space for every guest room.

Dormitory, fraternity, sorority, hospital: one parking space for every two beds.

Places of public assembly: every structure used as a theater, amusement facility, auditorium, community center, club, school auditorium, stadium, library, museum, church, lodge halls or other place of public or private assembly which provides facilities for seating people: one parking space per five persons of permitted occupancy per New York State Fire Code.

Business office, professional office: one parking spaces for every 250 square feet of office space.

Medical office: one parking space for every 200 square feet of office space.

Commercial and retail: one parking space for every motor vehicle used directly in the business, plus one parking space for every 250 square feet of gross floor area.

Restaurant, eating and drinking establishments: one parking space for every 100 square feet of gross floor space.

Industrial, wholesale, warehouse, storage, freight and trucking uses: one parking space per 300 square feet of gross floor area or one space for every 1.5 employees during a maximum shift. Selection of appropriate parking shall occur at the time of site plan review by the Planning Board.

Awnings that include glossy fabrics or finishes, plastic lightweight fiberglass, aluminum or stock metal awnings are not permitted. Coverings should be of flexible woven, natural or synthetic materials.

Backlit awnings are not permitted, and awnings shall be lit by exterior building lights only.

Awnings should extend between four and seven feet from the building facade.

Awnings should not be lower than seven feet in height from the base elevation of the sidewalk and should not impede the flow of pedestrian traffic.

Colors shall complement the storefront, signage and the building colors.

Awnings shall be maintained in good repair and display a clean and attractive condition while installed on the building.

No lighting or heating fixtures, windscreens or removable signs should be attached to the awning.

A site lighting plan shall be required during review of any nonresidential or multifamily site which contains uses that are proposed to operate during hours of darkness. The purpose of lighting standards are to:

Fixture.

Fixture height.

Illumination levels.

All refuse containers or receptacles shall be screened or enclosed on all sides.

Refuse containers or receptacles shall be located to the side or rear of buildings and shall meet the setbacks of the applicable zoning district.

Areas shall be screened with an opaque material, which may include fences, walls, plantings or a combination thereof not to exceed eight feet in height.

Natural vegetation shall form an opaque screen and attain six feet in height within two years of planting.

In all districts the following uses are not permitted: junkyards, machinery-wrecking yards; bulk storage of butane, propane, gasoline; unenclosed manufacturing or processing of goods or materials, except in the Heavy Industrial District with the approval of the Planning Board and after issuance of a special permit by the Board of Appeals.

In all districts the following uses are not permitted: smelters; blast furnaces; slaughterhouses; rendering plants; hide-tanning or curing plants; manufacture or processing of fertilizer, bone, rubber, asphalt, ammonia, chlorine; manufacture or refining of gasoline, gas, explosives; bulk storage of explosives; dumps.

In all districts the following uses are not permitted: all uses which emit noise in excess of 70 decibels measured at the individual property line; all uses which emit any odor which is considered offensive measured at the individual property line; all uses which emit dust or dirt which is considered offensive, measured at the individual property line; all uses which emit any smoke, in excess of Ringelmann Chart No. 2, measured at the individual property line; all uses which emit any noxious gases which endanger the health, comfort, safety or welfare of any person, or which have a tendency to cause injury or damage to property, business or vegetation; all uses which cause, as a result of normal operations, a vibration which creates displacement of 0.005 of one inch, measured at the individual property line; all uses, lighting or signs which create glare, which could impair the vision of a driver of any motor vehicle; all uses which cause a fire, explosion or safety hazard.

In all districts any uses from which harmful wastes are discharged into the public sewer system, streams, rivers or other bodies of water are not permitted. Effluent disposal shall comply with local and state health standards.

The storage of any highly flammable liquid, in aboveground tanks with unit capacity greater than 550 gallons, shall be prohibited in all districts, unless such tanks up to and including ten-thousand-gallon capacity are placed not less than 80 feet from all property lines, and unless all such tanks of more than ten-thousand-gallon capacity are placed not less than 200 feet from all property lines.

All tanks having a capacity greater than 550 gallons shall be properly diked with dikes having a capacity not less than 1 1/2 times the capacity of the tank or tanks surrounded.

No excavation, blasting or stockpiling of materials shall be located within 200 feet of any public road or other property line.

No power-activated sorting machinery or equipment shall be located within 600 feet of any public road or other property line, and all such machinery shall be equipped with satisfactory dust-elimination devices.

All excavation slopes in excess of one to one shall be adequately fenced as to be determined by the Code Enforcement Officer.

Extension of an existing nonconforming operation shall not be permitted.

Stripping of topsoil for sale or for use on other premises, except as may be incidental to a construction project and confined to the construction area, shall be prohibited in all districts.

Before approval of any new, or extension to a sand, gravel or stone-quarrying operation by the Planning Board, a performance bond shall be secured from the applicant sufficient to ensure that upon completion of the extraction operations the abandoned quarry will be left in a safe, attractive and useful condition in the interest of public safety and general welfare. The bond shall be sufficient to cover the cost of redevelopment of the quarry as a park, recreation area or other usable open space.

In any residential district, vans and trucks of more than one-ton carrying capacity, unlicensed motor vehicles and cars used for drag or stock-car racing must be stored in an enclosed garage and shall not be parked in the front, side or rear yards.

No more than two commercial trucks/trailers shall be parked on a residentially zoned property at any time.

Plans for the erection or structural alteration of any drive-in facility or business shall be submitted to the Planning Board for approval.

The Planning Board may require such changes or additions in relation to yards, driveways, driveway entrances and exits and landscaping, and the location and height of buildings and enclosures, to ensure safety, to minimize traffic or difficulties and to safeguard adjacent properties.

Other provisions of this article notwithstanding, upon approval by the Planning Board and after issuance of a special permit by the Board of Appeals, nothing shall prohibit a lot of less area or less frontage than that required for a single-family dwelling in the district in which the lot is located to be used for a single-family dwelling, provided that said lot cannot be practicably enlarged to conform with these requirements, and further provided that all other provisions of this article are complied with, when such lot, at the time of the passage of this article, was held under separate ownership from the adjoining lots.

The side yard requirements for such lots may be reduced, in which case the total of these two side yards shall be at least 12 feet, and one side yard shall be at least five feet wide.

No lot shall be so reduced in area that the area, yards, lot width, frontage, coverage or other requirements of this article shall be smaller than herein prescribed for each district.

The provision of this section shall not apply when a portion of a lot is taken for a public purpose.

Conversions shall be restricted to buildings currently used exclusively for dwelling purposes.

No dwelling unit shall be created or reduced to less than 850 square feet of livable space.

No exterior change in size or dimension shall be made to any existing building being converted.

No more than 10% of buildings on any named street in an R-1 residential zoned district shall be converted; i.e., West Maple Avenue would be considered one street; East Maple Avenue would be considered one street. Once there are 10% two-family or multiple-family residences on any named street in any R-1 residentially zoned district, then there shall be no more conversions allowed. In computing the ten-percent limit, a building located on a corner lot, regardless of street address, shall be computed for each street the building faces.

On any named street in an R-1 residentially zoned district, preexisting or new two-family or multiple-family dwellings shall be computed as one-dwelling building and shall be counted in determining the percentage of permissible conversions.

No conversions to dwelling units shall be permitted to nonresidential buildings.