Port Washington North
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VII
Senior Citizen Housing District
§ 176-48 Applicability.
[Amended 4-5-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
In a Senior Citizen Housing District, the following regulations shall apply.
§ 176-49 Definitions.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth herein:
A centralized board of managers or directors, or similar body, to which each owner of a dwelling unit is by law or by covenants and restrictions, running with the land, which serves as the rule-making body of the cluster development, which is responsible for the construction, maintenance, cleaning, snow removal, and repair of all of the streets, curbs, sidewalks, and other common area and common facilities provided within the site, and which each owner of a dwelling unit is required to financially support and obey.
A development for cluster housing for elderly persons as provided for in this article.
A complex of cluster single-family dwellings in detached, semidetached, or attached structures, which provides for ownership pursuant to a condominium plan, cooperative plan, homeowners' association, or similar legal entity, with a Board of Directors, and which provides housing intended for, and solely occupied by, persons 55 years of age or older and the spouse of any such person.
[Amended 4-5-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
A residential unit for a single family.
A person 62 years of age or older.
Housing intended for, and solely occupied by, persons 55 years of age or older and the spouse of any such person.
[Amended 4-5-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
The area which comprises the entire cluster development.
§ 176-50 Permitted uses.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used except for one or more of the following purposes:
A.
Cluster housing for elderly persons.
B.
Customary accessory facilities for housing for elderly persons, such as parks, clubhouses, recreational facilities, meeting houses, garages, walking trails, ponds, guard houses, library, property management office, and health clinics when such facilities are either contained within a building which qualifies as housing for elderly persons, or are part of the complex and ownership of a condominium, cooperative, homeowners association, or similar legal entity, which qualifies as housing for elderly persons, and the use of such accessory facilities is limited to the elderly persons occupying such facilities.
§ 176-51 Area requirements.
The minimum area for a site shall be 15 acres of continuous property, not divided by any public streets.
§ 176-52 Density; building area regulations.
The density of occupancy of any cluster development shall not exceed eight single-family dwelling units per acre, and the building area of all buildings on the site shall not exceed more than 27% of the total area of the site.
§ 176-53 Building height.
No building shall exceed 2 1/2 stories or 31 feet in height.
§ 176-54 Habitable floor area requirements.
No single-family dwelling unit shall be erected unless it has a habitable floor area of not less than 900 square feet nor more than 2,500 square feet.
§ 176-55 Front yard depth; street frontage.
Each building shall have a minimum front yard depth of nine feet on all adjoining interior streets. No building shall be adjacent to, nor face upon a public street.
§ 176-56 Rear yard requirements.
Each building shall have a minimum rear yard of 20 feet.
§ 176-57 Side yard requirements.
Each building shall have a minimum side yard of 10 feet.
§ 176-58 Distance between buildings.
There shall be a minimum distance between buildings of 20 feet.
§ 176-59 Building length.
No building shall exceed 165 feet in length.
§ 176-60 Use of cellars and basements.
No cellar or basement space shall be occupied as living or sleeping quarters.
§ 176-61 Designated parking spaces.
There shall be provided not less than one designated parking space for each dwelling unit. Each such parking space shall be designated for a particular dwelling unit and ownership of such parking space shall only be transferable together with the ownership of such dwelling unit.
§ 176-62 Additional parking spaces; commercial vehicles restricted.
Excluding all of the designated parking spaces, there shall be provided on the site not less than 0.25 off-street parking spaces per unit to accommodate occupants and guests. All such parking shall be restricted to the parking of private or passenger cars. No commercial vehicles shall be parked on the site unless they are then being used to make deliveries to the occupants or to deliver to or service the buildings on the site, or to otherwise maintain the site.
§ 176-63 Parking space specifications.
All parking spaces, whether within an enclosed garage or open, shall be not less than nine feet wide by 18 feet in depth, and if not within an enclosed garage, shall be individually identified by pavement markings and shall provide such space as is reasonably necessary for adequate ingress, egress, and turning.
§ 176-64 Maintenance of streets, curbs and sidewalks.
The owners of the dwelling units within the site shall at all times be responsible for the construction, maintenance, cleaning, snow removal, and repair of all of the streets, curbs, and sidewalks provided within the site, at no cost to the Village. In the event that the owners of the dwelling units fail to construct, maintain, clean, remove snow, and/or repair of all of the streets, curbs, and sidewalks provided within the site, the Village shall have the right, but not the obligation, to enter upon such streets and sidewalks, to perform such construction, maintenance, cleaning, snow removal, and repair, as may be necessary in the Village's sole discretion, to assure the safe passage thereover, and to levy special assessments against all of the dwelling units within the site, on an assessed valuation basis, to reimburse itself for its costs and expenses in providing such passage, whether the Village uses its own personnel or enters into a contract for such work. Such assessments shall constitute a lien and charge on the real property against which it is levied until paid or otherwise satisfied and discharged, and such assessment shall be collected by the Village Treasurer in the manner provided by the law for collection of delinquent taxes.
§ 176-65 Open space.
No less than 10% of the site shall be forever dedicated to park and recreation land for the occupants of the dwellings.
§ 176-66 Lighting.
No lighting shall be installed on the site that shall direct any light onto any adjacent residential premises.
§ 176-67 Screening.
The site shall be substantially screened in such a manner that, at the first floor of any adjacent residential property, neither the swimming pools, the tennis courts, not the first floor of any of the buildings or other structures on the site, shall be visible.
§ 176-68 Bond required.
Prior to the commencement of any work pursuant to this article, the applicant shall file, with the Village Clerk, labor, material, and performance bonds, in such amounts and in such forms as shall be approved by the Village Building Inspector and the Village Attorney respectively, to insure the completion of all roads, sidewalks, stormwater drainage, sanitary sewage transmission and disposal, electricity, gas, lights, and telephone services, and equipment and other utilities and all recreation areas, parks, swimming pools, tennis courts, and other amenities, as set forth in the plan for the site, within three years from the issuance of said bonds, together with an easement, in such form as shall be approved by the Village Attorney, granting permission to the Village to enter upon the site to complete such work. The said three-year period may be extended by resolution of the Board of Trustees with the consent of the surety that issued the bond.