Sidney Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
Commercial Districts
§ 215-11 B-1 Commercial Districts.
B-1 Commercial Districts shall be regulated as follows:
Permitted principal uses.
Same as R-3, subject to all restrictions specified therein.
Stores and shops for conducting any retail business, including but not limited to personal service shops.
Offices, professional and business.
Restaurants.
Banks.
Theaters.
Community services.
Motor vehicle repair shop; retail gasoline outlets.
Funeral homes and mortuaries.
Area, height, density and yard requirements.
Residential lots: same as R-3 Residential District requirements.
§ 215-12 B-1A Commercial Development Overlay
B-1A Commercial Development Overlay shall be regulated as follows.
The purpose of this protective overlay is to encourage economic growth along Main Street and protect limited commercial space from conversion to incompatible uses.
The overlay shall include all properties along Main Street between the railroad and Bridge Street and portions of Cartwright Avenue, Smith Street, Liberty Street, Bridge Street, River Street, Division Street and Grand Street and shall include all properties as outlined on the Official Village Zoning Map located in the Village Clerk's office.
All zoning criteria for the underlying zone shall apply.
All street-level storefronts must be commercial use only.
§ 215-13 B-2 Commercial Districts.
B-2 Commercial Districts shall be regulated as follows:
Special permit uses.
Certain light manufacturing.
Light manufacturing which involves only the processing, assembly, packaging or storage of previously manufactured or refined materials, provided that at no time will such use result in or cause:
The following uses are indicative of those which are intended to be permitted:
Manufacture of machinery, such as but not limited to small machine parts, office and household machinery, tool and die products, etc.
Fabrication of metal products, such as but not limited to metal foil, sheet metal products, household furnishings, etc.
Fabrication of paper products, such as but not limited to packaging material, office and household supplies, stationery, toys, etc.
Fabrication of wood and wood and metal products, such as but not limited to boats, boxes, homes, cabinets and woodworking, furniture and toys, etc.
Food and associated industries, such as but not limited to bakeries, bottling of food and beverages, food and cereal mixing and milling, food processing, food sundry manufacturing, etc.
The manufacturing and processing of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
The manufacturing and processing of plastics and chemical products.
Also, included as part of light manufacturing, office buildings for executive, engineering and administrative purposes.
Scientific or research laboratories devoted to research, design and/or experimentation and processing and fabricating incidental thereto.
All industrial processes shall take place within an enclosed building. Incidental storage of materials out of doors shall be permitted. Industrial uses shall be located so as to be a minimum of 50 feet from any property line abutting a nonindustrial district. This fifty-foot buffer strip shall be perpetually maintained with plant material to provide a visual screen between the industrial use and the adjoining residential use. Existing light industrial properties shall be exempt from this subsection.
Area, height, density and yard requirements.
Residential lots: same as R-3 Residential District requirements.
Nonresidential lots: no area, density or yard requirements, except that side and rear yard requirements of R-3 Residential Districts shall be applicable to side or rear yards when adjacent to an existing residential lot or district. No building shall be more than 50 feet in height unless the Planning Board determines that special conditions necessitate a greater height.