The Village Business District is the downtown central business district of the Village. The district is intended for daily retail shopping, on-premises food consumption, and visitor, tourist and resort shopping, all with a strong pedestrian orientation. A variety of mixed retail uses is encouraged where feasible to provide the synergy necessary to maintain the vitality and attractiveness of this district for the Village resident and visitor alike. Also permitted are restaurants and similar eating places that rely on the local resident population and downtown workers as well as visitors, tourists, and resort vacationers for clientele.

The Village Board of Trustees seeks to promote the VB Village Business District as the economic center of the Village, providing retail shopping for convenience goods as well as for shoppers' goods, business services, and public and semipublic facilities. Having determined that recreational activities and tourism are significant factors in the Village's economic base, site plan review procedures and all other procedures that influence the quality of land use and development in this district shall emphasize accessibility for pedestrians as well as for vehicles, adequate off-street parking and an attractive business center environment, including the provision of some landscaped open space. A particular concern in site plan review shall be the coordination of public accessways and views through properties in this district to the WF Waterfront District and shoreline. Recognizing the potential intensity of the uses in this district, provision shall be made for on-site storm drainage facilities, as needed to protect the surface water quality of the natural water bodies, as well as for public water supply and sewerage systems.

Minimum gross floor area of any use shall be no less than 800 square feet.

Maximum gross floor area of any use shall not exceed 2,000 square feet.

Maximum width or frontage of any use shall not exceed 50 feet.

Enlargement of gross floor area or width or frontage shall be permitted, provided any such enlargement is limited to no more than 50% of the existing gross floor area or frontage or width and the resultant gross floor area shall not in total exceed 3,000 square feet or a frontage or width of 75 feet. Any such enlargement shall be subject to approval of the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, which shall affirmatively find, among other things, that the enlargement and any resultant exterior alteration is consistent with the historic character of the existing structures within the VB District. Any such enlargement shall be conditioned upon the provision of off-street parking in compliance with § 300-9.6D, any such enlargement shall not require area variances equal to or in excess of 30% of any dimensional requirement in the Table of Dimensional Regulations and the use within any such enlargement shall not be a special exception use.[1]

Offices on a second floor within the VB District are permitted.

Any construction of a new building, including construction of a replacement building, shall require a landscaped area not less than 20% of the lot area.