Any building detached from, subordinate to, and whose use is customarily incidental to the use of the principal building on the same lot. Such buildings include but are not limited to: garages, carriage houses, boathouses, greenhouses, pool houses, workshops or studios, gazebos, potting sheds, storage sheds, and similar structures. An accessory building shall be deemed detached if it does not share a common wall with the principal building on the same lot.

Any sign related to a business or profession conducted or to a commodity or service sold or offered upon the premises where such sign is located.

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to a principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building.

As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts of such building or structure, or any enlargement thereof, whether by extension on any side or by any increase in height, or the moving of such building or structure from one location to another.

Man-made trees, clock towers, bell steeples, light poles and similar alternative-design mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence of antennas or towers.

Any exterior transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure and used in communications that radiate or capture electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals), wireless telecommunications signals or other communication signals.

That space of a building which is immediately below and wholly or partly within the roof framing. An attic with a finished floor which is sufficient in height or space to provide for human occupancy shall be counted as 1/2 story in determining the permissible number of stories.

See "vehicular activity."

A story not less than six feet in height partially below finished grade but having at least 1/2 of two outside walls or all of one outside wall (measured from floor to ceiling inside of the basement) above finished grade. A basement shall be counted as one story in determining the height of a building in stories. (See "cellar.")

The use of a single-family dwelling, subordinate and incidental to the principal use of the property as a single-family residence of occupancy by the homeowner(s), made available for compensation to transient guests which meet the following criteria:

A man-made landscape feature generally consisting of a linear mound of soil. Temporary soil stockpiles and retaining walls shall not be considered berms.

See "sign."

Any vessel, floating craft, or personal watercraft which utilizes a docking or mooring facility, including but not limited to canoes, rowboats, kayaks, sailboards, aircraft and other small boats or personal watercraft as defined in New York State Navigation Law § 2, Subsection 30.

An onshore structure that provides direct water or rail access for a boat to and from the water and used solely for the protection of boats from the weather and storage of boat supplies and equipment.

Any structure which is permanently affixed to the land, has one or more stories and a roof, and is intended for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals, or chattel.

See "accessory building."

See "height of building or structure."

The line formed by the intersection of a vertical plane that coincides with the most projected exterior surface of a building or structure, above or below the ground.

See "principal building."

A term used to describe the size, volume, area and shape of buildings and structures and the physical relationship of their exterior walls or their location to lot lines, other buildings and structures, or other walls of the same building, and all open spaces required in connection with a building, other structure, or tract of land.

A structure occupied as a temporary or permanent residence by three or more persons and which is either designed principally for housing for the aged where specific age limits are prescribed by public or private regulatory or administrative agencies, irrespective of the need for custodial care and/or supervision on the premises, or designed for occupancy by persons who, by reason of chronic illness, handicap, age, senility, convalescence or infirmity, are dependent upon varying amounts of custodial care and/or supervision. This term shall include, by way of illustration and not limitation, nursing homes, rest homes, homes for prenatal care, and convalescent homes and shall similarly exclude hospitals, clinics, mental health facilities, and similar institutions devoted primarily to the diagnosis and/or treatment of disease or injury, except where such facilities are accessory to a care home.

An accessory building which contains or could contain more than one story in excess of six feet in height from floor to ceiling, or any accessory building containing a bathroom. See § 225-23 of this chapter.

See "vehicular activity."

A story partially below finished grade and being less than six feet in height or having less than 1/2 of two outside walls or less than all of one outside wall (measured from floor to ceiling inside) above finished grade. A cellar shall not be counted as a story in determining the height of a building in stories. (See "basement.")

Any building or structure used for worship or religious instruction, including social and administrative rooms accessory thereto.

An organization catering exclusively to members and their guests or a premises and building used for recreational or athletic purposes which are not conducted primarily for gain, provided that there are not conducted any vending stands, merchandising or commercial activities except as required generally for the membership and purposes of the club.

See § 225-33 of this chapter.

See § 225-71A of this chapter.

A use enumerated in the Permitted Use Chart at the end of this chapter or any other use primarily intended for gain.

A vehicle of more than one ton capacity used for the transportation of persons or goods primarily for gain or a vehicle of any capacity carrying a permanently affixed sign exceeding one square foot in area or lettering of a commercial nature.

A multifamily dwelling, the dwelling units of which are individually owned, with each owner receiving a deed enabling him to sell, mortgage, or exchange his dwelling unit independent of the owners of the other dwelling units in the multifamily dwelling.[1]

A lot situated on two streets at their intersection. The front yard is designated as the yard in front of the main entrance.

One or more characteristics of a land use activity enumerated in § 225-52A of this chapter.

See § 225-52A of this chapter.

A place for the care of three or more children away from their homes who stay for a period of three hours or more but less than 24 hours, irrespective of compensation, reward or otherwise.

A land use control district.

In the following list, each district shall be deemed to be more restricted than the districts which follow it: A, B, C and D.

A floating or fixed structure projecting from or along the shore into the water of Skaneateles Lake and including floating docks, piers and wharfs used as a berthing place for boats to load or unload, as well as docks used for swimming, sitting, or other recreational purposes which may or may not have elements attached to the lake bottom.

See "vehicular activity."

Any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used. The terms "dwelling," "dwelling unit," "one-family dwelling," "two-family dwelling," "multifamily dwelling" and "townhouse dwelling" shall not be deemed to include motel, hotel, rooming house or other accommodations used for more or less transient occupancy of less than 30 days.[3]

A dwelling having no party wall in common with another building.

One or more dwellings located on a single lot or on contiguous lots with common ownership providing separate dwelling units for three or more families, including condominiums and cooperative apartment buildings.

A detached dwelling containing one dwelling unit and designed or used exclusively for occupancy by one family.

A dwelling containing one dwelling unit and designed or used exclusively for occupancy by one family, one or two of whose walls are party walls with adjoining dwellings.

See § 225-24A of this chapter.

One or more rooms located within a dwelling and providing complete living accommodations for one family, including cooking and bathroom facilities. See also "mobile home."

With reference to any sign, shall mean to build, construct, alter, repair, display, relocate, attach, hang, place, suspend, affix or maintain any sign and shall also include the painting of exterior wall signs.

One or more persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, living and cooking together, exclusive of household servants. A number of persons living together as a single housekeeping unit although not related by blood, adoption or marriage shall be deemed to constitute a family unit. A fraternity or sorority house or rooming house shall not be considered a family. [4]

The elevation at which the finished surface of the surrounding lot intersects the walls or supports of a building or structure. If the line of intersection is not reasonably horizontal, the finished grade, for purposes of computing the height of buildings and structures or for other purposes, shall be the average elevation of all finished grade elevations around the periphery of the building.

See Article VI of this chapter.

The aggregate sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several stories of a building, measured from the exterior walls of the building or from the center line of any party walls of the building. (See "minimum livable floor area.")

A front lot line which is coincident with a right-of-way line of a public street.

See "yard, front."

A dwelling or other structure used and occupied by a professional licensed mortician for burial preparation and funeral services, but expressly excluding morgues and educational facilities engaged in teaching mortuary science.

A single-story building designed and utilized principally for the parking of vehicles and limited storage of household items; provided, however, that no garage accessory to a residential use shall be used for the storage of any vehicle other than not more than three automobiles without a special use permit for such storage of such other vehicles having been issued by the Zoning Board of Appeals. Garages shall not be used for human habitation or contain cooking or bathroom facilities.

See "vehicular activity."

An area of land, including structures thereon or any building or part thereof, that is used for the sale and direct delivery of gasoline or any other motor vehicle fuel or oil and lubricating substances. (See also "vehicular activity.")

See "finished grade."

The vertical distance measured from the lowest grade point along the wall of a building or adjacent to the side of a structure to the highest point of such building or structure.

See § 225-25 of this chapter.

See § 225-22 of this chapter.

A building or group of buildings on a single lot which contain(s) as its only principal use living and sleeping accommodations for transient occupancy containing six or more rental units (rooms) with on-site supervisory management at all times, and which has a common exterior entrance or entrances, and which may contain one or more facilities incidental to such occupancy, such as dining rooms, gift shops, personal services, a bar where nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages may be served for on-premises consumption, restaurants, meeting rooms, lounges, swimming pools and related incidental uses designed primarily to accommodate the occupants thereof but which may also be open to the general public. Retail is permitted in a hotel as an accessory use at street level.

A lot or a building or structure, or any part thereof, used primarily for the collecting, storage or sale of wastepaper, rags, scrap metal, discarded appliances or other similar scrap or discarded material or for the collecting, dismantling, storage and salvaging of machinery or vehicles not licensed and not in running condition, and for the sale of parts thereof, including an auto salvage yard.

The line at the City of Syracuse datum plane of 863.27 feet. (The corresponding National Geodetic Vertical Datum level of 1929 is 865.02 feet.)

The area of any lot located between the side lot lines, the lake line, and a line located 100 feet onshore from the lake line.

The purpose for which any building or other structure or land or part thereof is arranged, designed, intended, maintained, used or occupied, and any occupation, business activity or operation conducted or intended to be conducted in or on any such building or other structure or land or part thereof (including surface, subsurface and air space).

See § 225-5 of this chapter.

A commercial use characterized by the transformation of substances into new products, including assembly of component parts of other manufactured products, with or without use of power-driven machinery and materials-handling equipment and storage and transportation facilities related to such products.

A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, on a single lot, containing individual sleeping units intended primarily for transient travelers, containing six or more rental units (rooms) with on-site supervisory management at all times. Accommodations incidental to such occupancy may be provided, including dining rooms, gift shops, personal services, a bar where nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages may be served for on-premises consumption, meeting rooms, lounges, swimming pools and physical fitness rooms, to accommodate the residents and invited guests and the general public.

An area of land contained within lot lines shown on a properly recorded subdivision map or similar document approved pursuant to this chapter or any previous zoning or subdivision code, ordinance, local law, rule or regulation of the Village or described in a deed recorded prior to March 10, 1969, and approved as a lot by any applicable regulation. Areas shown on maps or described in deeds which are contiguous shall be considered separate lots unless otherwise indicated or intended as one lot in said instrument.

An area of land, the size of which is determined by the limits of the lot lines bounding said area and which is usually expressed in terms of square feet. The lot area shall not include any area within the right-of-way line of a dedicated street or the paved area of any private street.

See "frontage."

A boundary defining ownership of land as derived from maps, deeds and similar title documents. Boundaries defining less than a fee interest, including leasehold interests, and common areas shall be submitted to the Code Enforcement Officer for a determination as to whether such boundaries constitute a lot line for purposes of allowing land use activities. Lot lines shall also be classified as rear, front and side lot lines as hereinafter defined. Where the application of such classifications cannot be made with certainty as determined by the Code Enforcement Officer, the Zoning Board of Appeals shall render a determination establishing an appropriate classification for purposes of allowing land use activities.

A lot line coincidental with the line of a street, sidewalk or other public or private right-of-way, except that where such line is described as being within the boundaries of a public or private right-of-way, then the most interior boundary of such right-of-way shall be construed to be the front lot line. Where two public rights-of-way intersect, a lot line coincidental with the boundary line of either may be selected as the front line for development purposes.

A lot line generally parallel to or directly opposite a front lot line.

A lot line extending between a front and rear lot line.

See "nonconforming building, structure or lot."

The linear dimension of a straight line situated between side lot lines of a lot.

An immovable structure which may be wholly or partially submerged and constructed of parallel rails attached to cross-ties which support a cradle to launch or haul a boat into or from Skaneateles Lake.

The sum of the floor area contained within and devoted to a single dwelling unit, measured from the faces of exterior walls. The minimum livable floor area includes enclosed porches and balconies and excludes the following:

A dwelling unit structurally designed for or adaptable to quick mobility or portability, completely manufactured and assembled off site for transportation to a location providing facilities for connection to utilities and sanitary facilities, as distinguished from travel trailers and immobile prefabricated modular units used in residential construction. A mobile home may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being moved and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well as two or more separately movable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being again separated into the components for repeated movement, and the combination of two or more of such units or expansion of one such unit via folding, collapsing or telescoping devices shall not change the character of said dwelling unit as a mobile home.

A parcel or parcels of land under single ownership, or contiguous privately owned parcels, which are designed, improved or used for the accommodation of two or more mobile homes for a residential use.

A building or group of buildings, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping units designed primarily for transient automobile travelers, each which sleeping unit is provided with a separate off-street parking space and a separate exterior entrance, together with any incidental uses permitted for a hotel.

See "dwelling, multifamily."

Any sign unrelated to a business or profession conducted, or to a commodity or service sold or offered, upon the premises where such sign is located.

That part of a building, structure or lot which does not conform to one or more of the applicable bulk regulations of this chapter, either following its effective date or as a result of any subsequent amendments thereto.

Any use of a building, structure or lot which does not conform to the use regulations for the district in which such use is located, whether at the effective date of this chapter or as a result of subsequent amendments thereto.

See "club, nonprofit."

See "care home."

See "dwelling, one-family."

The providing of on-site supervision and management at all times of all aspects of operation of a hotel or lodging or bed-and-breakfast homestay, as appropriate, to a quality and standard commensurate with the community character by either:

That part of the lot area which is not occupied by buildings, structures, or off-street parking spaces or loading berths. Open space may include lawns, trees, shrubbery, garden areas and paved surfaces which are used as access drives or a driveway turnaround, but which are not used for vehicular parking of any kind.

See § 225-33A of this chapter.

An off-street space available for parking one automobile which conforms to the requirements of § 225-58B of this chapter.

A wall which is shared by and divides two adjoining buildings, in which each of the owners of the adjoining buildings has rights of enjoyment.

A fixed structure attached to the shore, lake bottom, or any structure projecting from or along the shore into the water of Skaneateles Lake that remains in the lake for more than eight months of the year, including floating docks, piers and wharves used as a berthing place for boats. An articulating dock, which is attached to the shore year-round and projects into the lake for only part of the year, shall be deemed to be a permanent dock.

See Article XI of this chapter.

See Article VI of this chapter.

See Article X of this chapter.

See § 225-72 of this chapter.

Includes shops engaged in the repair of household goods, clothing, shoes, and appliance items, barber- and beauty shops, tailor shops, self-service establishments, pickup stations for laundering and dry cleaning clothes, and other similar establishments designated to meet the daily service needs of the surrounding neighborhood.

See "dock."

The Planning Board of the Village, duly established and appointed as provided in the Village Law.

Land and all buildings and structures thereon.

A building or structure in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which said building or structure is situated.

A use which may be carried on independently of any other use and which generally characterizes the primary purpose for which land or the principal buildings or structures thereon are intended and designed, including all activities enumerated in the Permitted Use Chart at the end of this chapter, excepting those enumerated in Subsection B, Accessory Uses, thereof.

A company that has as its principal business the supervision and management of hotel or lodging facilities and whose employees have the requisite training and experience to operate said facilities to the same standard of care and quality required of on-site supervisory management.

Any sign which projects from the exterior of any building over any sidewalk, street or highway.

A ramp employed to facilitate the movement of a disabled person riding in a wheelchair into and out of a building.

See "lot line, rear."

See "yard, rear."

Any of the uses enumerated in Subsection A of the Permitted Use Chart at the end of this chapter.

See "care home."

A building or structure or portion thereof wherein food products are prepared or packaged and sold on premises directly to the consumer primarily for consumption off the premises or within a parking area on the premises and which building or structure is designed or advertised primarily for such purposes, as distinguished from restaurants designed and utilized primarily for on-premises consumption or retail food establishments such as food and fish markets, bakeries and butcher shops. (See "vehicular activity" and "restaurant.")

A building or portion of a building where food and beverages, both nonalcoholic and alcoholic, are sold to the public for consumption on the premises. Such use may also provide entertainment on the premises.

The sale of merchandise to serve the needs of the transient residents and invited guests of the hotel or motel or lodging use. Such accessory use shall be limited to a single area not to exceed 500 square feet within the hotel or motel or lodging use.

A dwelling in which one or more rooming units are offered for rent with or without meals.

A room or rooms used to provide private living and sleeping quarters but which does not contain cooking facilities.

The distance in feet from the street line or any lot line to the building line of any building or structure located on the lot.

Includes:

See § 225-60.

See "accessory sign."

See "nonaccessory sign."

See "projecting sign."

See "lot line, side."

An outdoor dining area located adjacent to a public sidewalk and/or on private property which provides food and/or beverages and contains readily removable tables, chairs, railings, planters or similar furnishings or structures. It shall be otherwise unenclosed by fixed walls and open to the air.

See "yard, side."

An authorization for a particular land use which is permitted in this chapter, subject to conditions imposed by the Zoning Board of Appeals and the prescribed standards of this chapter to assure that the proposed use is in harmony with this chapter and will not adversely affect the neighborhood if such conditions are met.

That portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, the space between the floor and the roof next above it. (See also "attic," "basement" and "cellar.")

Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires location on the ground or attachment to something having a location on the ground.

The division of any parcel into two or more lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, and includes resubdivision. (See Chapter 190, Subdivision of Land, adopted January 6, 1986.)

See § 225-23 of this chapter.

A parking arrangement which requires parked vehicles to be moved or relocated so as to park or move additional vehicles.

The transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.

Includes but is not limited to cables, switches, towers and all other facilities and equipment employed for telecommunications.

A structure projecting from or along the shore into the water of Skaneateles Lake that remains in the lake for eight months of the year or less.[5]

Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio and similar communication purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures and structures used to support the related equipment. The term includes the structure and any support thereto.

See "dwelling, townhouse."

Living and/or sleeping accommodation provided for compensation or barter for a period of less than 30 consecutive days. Bed-and-breakfast homestays, hotels, and lodging shall individually and collectively be transient occupancies.

A vehicular portable structure built on a chassis designed to be used primarily as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational and vacation uses, having a body width not exceeding eight feet and a body length not exceeding 32 feet.

See § 225-24 of this chapter.

See "land use activity."

See "accessory use."

See "principal use."

Written authority granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals in accordance with Article XVI hereof to deviate from the strict application of the regulations, requirements and provisions of this chapter.

Refers collectively to the categories hereinafter set forth and defined:

The Village of Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York.

See "dock.”

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the street right-of-way and the nearest point of the building.

A yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear lot line of the lot and the nearest point of the building.

That portion of the open area of a lot extending open and unobstructed from the ground upward along a lot line for a depth or width as specified by the bulk regulations of the district in which the lot is located. No part of such yard shall be included as part of a yard or other open space similarly required for buildings on another lot.

A yard situated between the building and the side line of a lot and extending from the front yard rear line (or from the front lot line, if there is no required front yard) to the rear yard front line (or rear lot line).

See § 225-72 of this chapter.