Scarsdale City Zoning Code
ARTICLE III
General Dimensional Requirements
§ 310-14 Area of lots.
[Amended 3-28-1961; 7-19-1983 by L.L. No. 5-1983; 1-22-1985 by L.L. No. 5-1985; 1-13-1987 by L.L. No. 3-1987; 1-12-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988; 5-10-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988; 4-8-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997; 3-24-1998 by L.L. No. 2-1998; 1-23-2001 by L.L. No. 4-2001; 10-9-2007 by L.L. No. 11-2007; 1-13-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015]
A.
Subject to the exceptions specified in § 310-67 of this chapter, no building shall hereafter be erected in any residence district, except on a lot which, for each principal building, together with its accessory buildings, has an area of at least:
(1)
In a Residence AA-1 District: two acres (87,120 square feet).
(2)
In a Residence A-1 District: one acre (43,560 square feet).
(3)
In a Residence A-2 District: 20,000 square feet.
(4)
In a Residence A-2a District: 15,000 square feet.
(5)
In a Residence A-3 District: 10,000 square feet.
(6)
In a Residence A-4 District: 7,500 square feet.
(7)
In a Residence A-5 or C District: 5,000 square feet.
B.
No part of a lot shall be included in calculating the required lot area except such part as falls within either an inscribed quadrilateral, no part of which has less than 1/3 of the minimum required lot width, or an inscribed circle.
C.
In calculating lot area, no more than 10% of the lot area shall consist of any body of water or portion thereof, floodplain property or property designed as a retention basin for drainage control. "Floodplain property" shall mean property within the special flood hazard areas subject to inundation by the one-percent (one-hundred-year) annual chance flood as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps or other such document for the Village of Scarsdale, as issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or such other agency of legal jurisdiction.
D.
Each lot must have a measurable front yard, rear yard and two side yards that conforms to the requirements of this chapter. The creation by subdivision of a triangular shaped lot(s) in which two yards merge to eliminate a fourth yard is prohibited.
§ 310-15 Width and length of frontage.
[Amended 3-28-1961; 1-13-1987 by L.L. No. 3-1987; 1-12-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988; 5-10-1988 by L.L. No. 5-1988; 4-8-1997 by L.L. No. 3-1997; 1-23-2001 by L.L. No. 4-2001; 2-28-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012]
A.
Subject to the exceptions specified in § 310-67 of this chapter, no building shall hereafter be erected in any residence district except on a lot which, for each principal building, together with its accessory buildings, has both a lot width and a length of street line frontage of at least:
B.
These requirements are in addition to and complement § 7-736 of New York State’s Village Law.
§ 310-16 (Reserved) [1]
§ 310-18 Special setback provisions for nonconforming lots.
[Amended 3-28-1961; 1-23-2001 by L.L. No. 3-2001; 1-23-2001 by L.L. No. 4-2001]
The special setback provisions referred to in § 310-67 of this chapter are as follows:
A.
The distance that any such building is required by the other provisions of this chapter to set back from a front line shall be reduced one foot for each foot that the depth of the lot is less than 150 feet in a Residence AA-1 District, 120 feet in a Residence A-1 District and 110 feet in a Residence A-2 or A-2a District, but in no event in any district to less than 30 feet.
B.
The distance that any principal building is required by the other provisions of this chapter to set back from a side lot line shall be reduced three inches for each foot that the width of the lot, if it is located in a Residence AA-1 or A-1 District, is less than 100 feet and two inches (or four inches if such side lot line is a street line) for each foot that the width of the lot, if it is located in a Residence A-2 or A-2a District, is less than 90 feet, but in no event in any district to less than 10 feet or to less than 15 feet if such lot line is a street line.
C.
If such lot is located in a Residence AA-1, A-1, A-2 or A-2a District and is less than 130 feet in depth, the minimum distance which an accessory building shall be required to set back from any street line, in order that its setback from a side line other than a street line need be only 10 feet, shall be 60 feet.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Section 12-10-7 of the 1957 Scarsdale Village Code, as amended 5-26-1959; 3-22-1983 by L.L. No. 2-1983; 7-19-1983 by L.L. No. 5-1983, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 1-12-1988 by L.L. No. 1-1988, which local law was readopted 5-10-1988 as L.L. No. 5-1988.
§ 310-19 Lots at a distance from a street.
[Added 1-12-1988 by L.L. No. 2-1988; amended 2-28-2012 by L.L. No. 2-2012; 7-9-2024 by L.L. No. 7-2024]
A.
The creation of lots at a distance from a street is prohibited. Such interior lots, commonly called "flag lots," provide access to a street over a narrow strip of land running from the main portion of the lot.
B.
Legal nonconforming interior lots approved under former Section 12-10-7 and interior lots permitted by variance are subject to site plan review by the Planning Board. Any proposed erection, enlargement, or alteration of a building or buildings on such lot, including swimming pools and tennis courts, must be approved by the Planning Board.