Russell Gardens City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VI
Apartment District
§ 60-32 Applicability of provisions.
This article shall apply to the Apartment District.
§ 60-33 Permitted uses.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used except for the following:
A.
Multiple dwelling or apartment house; however, no single-family dwelling structures shall be permitted.
B.
Office, studio or occupational room of a physician, surgeon, dentist, lawyer, teacher, accountant, artist, architect, professional engineer or any other professional person when said office, studio or occupational room is located in an apartment house and said professional person uses an apartment therein primarily as his residence.
§ 60-34 Lot area.
The minimum lot area for any lot occupied by a multiple dwelling or apartment house shall be 500 square feet for each apartment in such multiple dwelling or apartment house.
§ 60-35 Yards and setbacks.
A.
There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which shall not be less than 15 feet.
B.
No multiple dwelling or apartment house, or any portion thereof, shall be so erected, reconstructed or altered as to project beyond a line parallel to and 10 feet distant from the nearest street line on the streets of the Village known as Melbourne Road, Darley Road and Dunster Road, even if such building shall front on other streets or highways intersecting such above-named streets.
§ 60-36 Building height.
No multiple dwelling or apartment house shall be more than three stories high nor exceed, in height, 36 feet.
§ 60-37 Orientation of buildings; exits and entrances.
Every building shall face the street on which the Apartment District fronts, namely South Middle Neck Road, and every main and public entrance or entrances to such building shall be on such street. Any other entrance to or exit from a building built on a corner lot shall be for service or emergency use only, and not for public use.
§ 60-38 Landscaped buffer strip.
Upon the erection of a building on a lot in the Apartment District adjoining a Residence AA, Residence A or Residence B District, there shall be provided on the Apartment District property, for the full width thereof, a landscaped area of at least six feet in depth, measured from the boundary line between such districts, consisting of trees and/or shrubs so located and of sufficient density as to effectively screen the Apartment District property from the residence district property.
A.
Any application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy shall designate the trees and/or shrubs to be planted and the location thereof. The plan for such planting and the character and the nature of such trees and/or shrubs shall be subject to the approval of the Building Inspector. Such planting shall be continuously thereafter maintained so long as such building on the Apartment District property shall stand.
B.
Such landscaped area may be considered as part of the rear yard.
C.
In lieu of such landscaped area on the Apartment District property, a like landscaped area may be provided and maintained for the full required depth, or any part thereof, on the residence district property immediately abutting the said Apartment District property.
§ 60-39 Garage facilities.
Within each multiple dwelling or apartment house there shall be provided garage facilities adequate to accommodate one automobile for each apartment.