Off-street parking, loading and unloading facilities shall be provided as necessary in connection with every use. One-family and two-family residential uses shall be provided with two off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit. Parking needs with respect to all other uses shall be determined in conjunction with special use and site plan review. The amount of parking required shall be based on the following factors:

Each parking space shall consist of not less than an average of 270 square feet of usable area for each motor vehicle, including interior driveways, driveways connecting the garage, or parking space, with a street or alley. Garages, carports, and driveways not in the public right-of-way may be considered parking spaces. The minimum parking space size shall by nine feet by 19 feet.

Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoining premises and public rights-of-way.

All parking areas which are designed to accommodate 12 or more vehicles shall be landscaped using materials of sufficient growth and height to aesthetically balance the impact of the open paved area and provide effective stormwater control (see § 400-18). The following are guideline standards the Planning Board may apply:

Any building erected, converted or enlarged for commercial, office, manufacturing, wholesale, institutional or similar use shall, in addition to the off-street parking required above, provide adequate off-street areas for loading and unloading of vehicles. Public rights-of-way shall, under no circumstance, be used for loading or unloading of materials. The minimum size loading space shall be 60 feet in depth and 12 feet in width, with an overhead clearance of 14 feet.

Access to and from all nonresidential off-street parking, loading and vehicle service areas along public rights-of-way shall consist of well-defined separate or common entrances and exits and shall comply with the following provisions:

All nonresidential parking and loading areas and parallel circulation and service lanes shall be separated from the paving edge of a public thoroughfare or adjoining property lines by a planting strip at least 20 feet in depth landscaped according to standards provided herein for such landscaping.

The Planning Board, at its discretion, may require a traffic impact study with any special use application involving an activity likely to generate more than 500 trip-ends per day based on the following daily rates:

Home occupations are hereby defined as any occupation or business activity that occurs within structures or on property where the primary land use is residential, and where the occupation or business is clearly incidental to such residential use. Such uses may include professional occupations, antique and craft shops, artisan activities, personal service shops and other non-automotive-related businesses.

Home occupations, as defined above, are permitted as special uses within specified residential districts, provided they do not detract from the residential character, appearance, or make-up of the neighborhood in which the business is located. The following review criteria shall be used to determine if this standard will be met:

Minimal impact home occupations shall be processed as accessory uses hereunder and permitted everywhere in the Village, provided they meet the above standards. "Minimal impact" shall mean:

No home occupation, having once been permitted or established, shall be added to, expanded, enlarged or otherwise increased or changed substantially in character without complying with this chapter, and such permission or establishment shall not be a basis for a later application to establish a principal commercial use. Moreover, the conversion of a residence with a home occupation to a commercial use by the abandonment of the residence or sale, rent or transfer of the business to a party which does not reside on site is strictly prohibited unless the business is then moved off site.

Where a commercial or manufacturing use is contiguous to an existing residential use in any district (including those situated on the opposite side of a highway) or any approved residential lot in a residential district, the Planning Board may require that the minimum front, side and rear yards be increased by up to 50%. The Board may also require, for purposes of separating incompatible activities or shielding the residence from negative impacts, that a buffer consisting of a solid fence of wood and/or a twenty-foot-wide dense evergreen planting not less than six feet high be maintained, unless the properties are in the same ownership or the full width of the yard is already wooded. See also the landscaping standards contained herein.

All activities involving the manufacturing, production, storage, transfer or disposal of inflammable and explosive materials shall be provided with adequate safety devices against the hazard of fire and explosion. Fire-fighting and fire suppression equipment and devices shall be provided pursuant to National Fire Protection Association guidelines. Burning of waste materials in open fires is prohibited. Details of the potential hazards and planned safety and accident response actions shall be provided by the applicant, and the Planning Board may require greater front, side and rear yards and/or fencing.

No activities shall be permitted which emit dangerous radioactivity or electrical disturbance adversely affecting the operation of any equipment other than that of the creator of such disturbance.

Noise associated with any new use permitted under this chapter and hereafter established shall not exceed an intensity of 65 decibels as measured 100 feet from the boundaries of the lot where such use is situated. The use of outdoor public address systems is strictly prohibited except for emergency purposes.

No vibration shall be permitted on a regular or continuing basis which is detectable without instruments at the property line.

All lighting and use of mirrors shall be designed so as to avoid unnecessary or unsafe spillover of light and glare onto operators of motor vehicles, pedestrians and land uses in proximity to the light source. Light sources shall comply with the following standards:

No emission shall be permitted on a regular or continuing basis from any chimney or otherwise, of visible gray smoke of a shade equal to or darker than No. 2 on the Power's Micro-Ringlemann Chart, published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Inc., and copyrighted 1954.

No emission of fly ash, dust, fumes, vapors, gases and other forms of air pollution shall be permitted on a regular or continuing basis which can cause any damage to health, to animals, vegetation, or other forms of property, or which can cause any excessive soiling.

All activities involving the possible contamination of surface or ground water shall be provided with adequate safety devices to prevent such contamination. Details of the potential hazards (including the groundwater characteristics of the area in which the use is proposed) and planned safety devices and contamination response actions shall be provided by the developer.

Whenever a vehicle and equipment sales, mechanical and body repair use is proposed as a special use, or as an expansion of an existing nonconforming use, the following additional performance standards shall apply:

All industrial uses, processing and storage shall be within fully enclosed structures, and no tanks, cupolas, vents or other apparatus peculiar to the processing shall be visible outside the approved buildings. The facade of buildings and structures in industrial uses shall be compatible with adjacent development and shall be fully landscaped in accordance with the requirements therefor that are contained herein.

Purpose. The following standards are intended to enhance the appearance and natural beauty of the Village and to protect property values through preservation and planting of vegetation, screening and landscaping material. Specifically, these standards are intended to enhance the appearance of major travel corridors and business areas; to reduce excessive heat, glare and accumulation of dust; to provide privacy from noise and visual intrusion; and to prevent the erosion of the soil, excessive stormwater runoff and the consequent depletion of the groundwater table and the pollution of water bodies.

General requirements. The following provisions shall apply to any use in all zoning districts:

Front landscaped area. A front landscaped area shall be required for all uses in all zoning districts. The required landscaped area shall be covered with grass and other appropriate trees and shrubs unless maintained in the existing natural cover.

Landscaped parking area. In addition to front yard landscape areas and buffer area requirements, parking areas shall comply with the following minimum standards:

Planning. The Planning Board may require a landscape plan be prepared as part of any site plan/special use or site plan application. Such a plan may also be required whenever any nonresidential use is proposed in any district so as to buffer parking areas and buildings from the highway, each other and other uses. Where it is determined that a proposed use would not have a significant impact on the natural environment, adjoining landowners or the view from a public highway, these requirements may be appropriately modified by the Planning Board. The landscape plan, if required, shall specify locations of all mature shade trees or other species of six-inch caliper or greater and indicate existing vegetation to be removed or preserved. It shall demonstrate how building materials, colors, and textures will be blended with the natural and man-made landscape. It shall also include visual depictions of the proposed landscape from the perspective of persons who will view the site from the highway or adjoining properties. Specific locations, varieties, sizes, winter hardiness, and schedules for all proposed plantings shall, too, be provided as part of the plan. The Planning Board, in reviewing a landscape plan, may employ the assistance of design professionals. The Planning Board shall also specifically consider the following before approving, approving with modifications or disapproving the special use: