Walton Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
District Regulations
§ 260-10 R-R Residential Recreational District.
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide for the full range of recreational activities and to protect recreational land, as one of the municipality's most valuable natural resources, from the depreciating effect of objectionable, hazardous and unsightly uses. The district is also intended for protection of watersheds, water resources, wooded areas and aesthetic resources and at the same time to provide for spacious residential development for those who choose this environment and to prevent untimely scattering of more dense urban uses, which should be confined to areas planned for efficient extension of public services.
Permitted uses. A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes:
Detached single-family dwellings, including detached manufactured homes and modular homes, provided that manufactured and modular homes shall be anchored to a permanent foundation and shall be subject to the same restrictions required for detached single-family dwellings that are not of manufactured or modular construction.
Detached mobile homes on individual lots, provided that the requirements of Article X, Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks, of this chapter are complied with.
Churches, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, synagogues and any house of worship of a group that has formally received tax-exempt status as a religious organization from the United States Internal Revenue Service.
Golf courses and accessory uses, including but not limited to a building for a golf shop, locker room and snack bar, provided that no such building is located closer than 100 feet to adjoining property lines. A permitted golf course shall not be lighted for night play and does not include miniature golf courses, putting greens, driving ranges and similar activities operated as a separate business.
A greenhouse, private and commercial.
A hospital or clinic for small animals (dogs, cats, birds, and the like), provided that such hospital or clinic and any treatment rooms, cages, pens and kennels be maintained within a completely enclosed, soundproof building and that such hospital or clinic be operated in such a way as to produce no objectionable odors outside its walls; also provided that any buildings, structures, pens or open kennels and runs shall be located at least 200 feet from any lot line.
Military bases and appurtenances and parks operated by the United States government or agencies of the State of New York or of Delaware County.
Public and private forests, wildlife reservations, New York State or New York City land conservations, agricultural easements or other similar land conservation projects.
Recreational uses or facilities, commercially operated or for private membership, such as game courts, swimming pools, tennis clubs, archery ranges, fishing or boating lakes, camping areas, picnic grounds, dude ranches or similar activities, and accessory facilities, including the sale of food, beverages, bait, incidentals, supplies and equipment, provided that no such use, structure or accessory use is located closer than 100 feet to any adjoining property lines.
A stable, private, for the keeping of horses, ponies or other livestock for personal enjoyment and not as a business, provided that any building for the keeping of animals shall be located at least 100 feet from any side or rear lot lines and that there shall be housed or kept on the premises no more than one horse, pony or livestock for each acre of land.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
Garage, private.
Garden house, toolhouse, playhouse or greenhouse, incidental to residential use.
Guesthouses.
Minor home occupations in a main building.
Radio or television transmission or receiving tower not more than 50 feet in height.
Storage of a boat trailer or camp trailer or a boat, but not in the front yard.
Swimming pool and game courts, lighted or unlighted, for use of occupants or their guests.
Accessory off-street parking and loading spaces, including parking of not more than two school buses.
Solar energy systems and equipment.
Permitted conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this Zoning chapter:
Cemetery.
May include a crematorium, if such building is located at least 200 feet from the boundaries of the cemetery.
The minimum area of the cemetery shall be 10 acres. No minimum area is required for cemeteries associated with a church or limited to use by a family.
Location of the cemetery and crematorium is approved by the Village Planning Board and the Public Health Officer.
Cemetery for pets, provided that the lot area of the proposed use is approved by the Village Planning Board and Public Health Officer.
Excavation or filling; borrow pits; extraction, processing and removal of sand, gravel or stone; and other major excavations other than for construction of swimming pools and foundations for buildings and other than those approved in connection with a street, subdivision or planned residential development, provided that:
No material may be brought from off the site for processing, mixing or similar purposes.
The excavating, extraction or filling operation shall be controlled to offer reasonable protection to surrounding properties and the neighborhood, particularly in regards to the use of any residential streets for access to the site.
All mining operations impacting public highways may be required to post a bond in an amount to be set by the Village Board for damages the streets may incur from additional heavy traffic.
The location of the excavation, extraction or filling with respect to property lines, the depth of excavation or filling and relation to the water table or flood criteria, and the slope of the sides of the excavation shall be controlled to prevent a continuing, unsightly, hazardous or wasteful condition of the land.
A plan shall be approved to ensure the restoration of the land or water area to a safe and usable condition upon termination of the excavation work by regrading, draining, refilling or other treatment suitable to the particular situation. The reclamation plan shall be developed in accordance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation criteria.
All mining applications shall comply with the criteria established by 6 NYCRR Part 617.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Circus or carnival grounds, fairgrounds, amusement park, zoo or midway, permanent or temporary for a specified time period, provided that:
The land area is of sufficient size, shape and topography to accommodate the facilities proposed without serious detrimental effect on the natural landscape or on the existing or future use of adjacent properties.
The external and internal access patterns and circulation and parking areas are adequate for the uses proposed.
Structures, access points, drives, parking and use areas, signs or lights are designed and located to minimize the adverse effect on surrounding residential development, existing or future, and that any accessory sales uses are clearly incidental to operation of the recreation facility.
Exposition center.
Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways and playgrounds.
Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations or transmission lines.
Fraternal, society or club buildings, provided that they are not used chiefly for a service customarily carried on as a gainful business, and further provided that the applicant files with the Village Board of Trustees the written consents, duly acknowledged, of the owners of at least 75% of all land, other than public streets, within the Village which lies outside of and within 600 feet of each boundary line of the lot or lots to be used for such a building.
Major home occupations.
Animal kennels, commercial, providing proof of license and rabies vaccinations for each animal and provided that any building for the keeping of animals shall be located at least 50 feet from any property lines and that no outside runs, tie-outs or exercise arenas are located within 100 feet of any property line.
Airports, airfields, heliports, helipads and airstrips.
Sand and gravel mines.
Animal kennels, private, provided that any open pens, runs, cages or kennels shall be located at least 200 feet from any lot lines.
Stable, commercial, provided that any buildings for the keeping of animals shall be located at least 200 feet from any side or rear lot lines and that there be housed on the premises no more than one horse or pony for each acre of land.
Prohibited uses. In the R-R District, the following buildings and uses are strictly prohibited:
Any junk, junkyard or automobile graveyard.
Scientific research labs.
Industrial uses, including light industry.
Trucking facilities.
Any hazardous use as defined in the General Industry (I-G) District.
Rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Keeping animals or fowl. Keeping animals or fowl is prohibited unless otherwise permitted:
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules or goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
Lot coverage. Lot coverage cannot exceed 75% of the total lot size. The floor area ratio (FAR) is used to determine lot coverage requirements.
Lot size requirements. Lot size requirements are as follows:
Type | Minimum | |
|---|---|---|
Lot Width (feet) | Lot Depth (feet) | |
Single-family dwelling1 | 100 | 125 |
Church, temple, synagogue or other house of worship | 200 | 200 |
Animal hospital, large animals | 300 | 300 |
Animal hospital, small animals, open pens or kennels | 300 | 300 |
Extraction of sand, gravel or stone | 300 | 300 |
NOTES: | |
Lot width is measured at the building line. | |
The minimum street frontage is 40 feet. | |
1 | In subdivision of five or more dwellings, the minimum area of each lot may be reduced to as little as 16,000 square feet, so long as common or public space is provided in an amount sufficient to maintain an average of at least 25,000 square feet per dwelling, and further provided that the Planning Board has indicated in writing that it is satisfied that adequate provision for the permanent maintenance and upkeep of the open space has been made. |
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Type | Front Yard (feet) | Side Yard (feet) | Minimum Side Yard Aggregate (feet) | Rear Yard (feet) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Single-family dwelling* | |||||
Street 50 feet or greater in width | 30 | 20 | 50 | 40 | |
Other structures | The same or as required in the district regulations | ||||
NOTES: |
If the street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 55 feet measured from the center line. |
See Article V, Supplementary Regulations, for other yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI.
§ 260-11 R-S Single-Family Residential District.
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide for low-density single-family residential development on smaller lots where water and sewer facilities generally are provided, or will be provided in the near future, together with such religious institutions, recreational facilities and accessory uses as may be necessary or are normally compatible with residential surroundings.
Permitted uses. A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes:
Detached single-family dwellings, including detached modular homes, but not mobile homes or mobile home parks. Modular homes shall be anchored to a permanent foundation and shall be subject to the same restrictions required for detached single-family dwellings that are not of modular construction.
Two-family dwellings.
Churches, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples, synagogues and other houses of worship.
Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone, booths and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communications service, and pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and power transmission lines which are permitted as conditional uses.
Public and private parks, playgrounds, forests, wildlife reservations, New York State or New York City land conservations, agricultural easements or other similar land conservation projects.
Railroad right-of-way, including a strip of land with tracks and auxiliary facilities for track operations, but not including passenger stations, freight terminals, switching and classification yards, repair shops, roundhouses, power houses, interlocking towers, and fueling, sanding and watering stations.
Group homes, provided that they do not exceed the thresholds for more than one family or a single, independent household facility.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
Domestic storage in a main building or in an accessory building.
Garage, private.
Garden house, toolhouse, playhouse or greenhouse incidental to residential use.
Guesthouses.
Minor home occupations in a main building and in compliance with the requirements of Article IX of this chapter.
Storage of a boat trailer or camp trailer or a boat, but not in a front yard.
Swimming pool and game courts, lighted or unlighted, for use of occupants or their guests.
Temporary buildings, the uses of which are incidental to construction or sale or rental operations during development being conducted on the same or adjoining tract or subdivision and which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of such construction or the expiration of a period of two years from the time of erection of such temporary buildings, whichever is sooner.
Solar energy systems and equipment.
Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this Zoning chapter:
Hospitals and sanitariums, but not animal hospitals.
Animal kennels, private, providing proof of license and rabies vaccinations for each dog and provided that any building for the keeping of dogs shall be located at least 50 feet from any property lines and that no outside runs, tie-outs or exercise arenas are located within 50 feet of any property line.
Institutions, educational or philanthropic buildings or sites, including museums, art galleries and libraries.
A private garage with a floor area of more than 900 square feet, but not more than 2,000 square feet, and capable of housing up to four automobiles.
Commercial greenhouses, wholesale or retail.
Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged.
Adult day-care centers, child day nurseries or childcare centers, including but not limited to babysitting facilities.
Group homes exceeding the thresholds for a single-family residence.
Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings, except those which have been approved as a part of a subdivision plan.
Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and transmission lines.
Recreation facility, privately or commercially operated, such as fishing or boating lakes, camping areas, picnic grounds, dude ranches or similar activities, and accessory facilities, including the sale of food, beverages, bait, supplies and equipment.
Swimming or tennis club, private, nonprofit, or commercially operated.
Radio or television transmission or receiving tower not more than 50 feet in height, provided that measures are established to prevent accidents and the tower will not be used as part of a business activity.
Fraternal, society or club buildings, provided that they are not used chiefly for a service customarily carried on as a gainful business, and further provided that the applicant files with the Village Board of Trustees the written consents, duly acknowledged, of the owners of at least 75% of all land, other than public streets, within the Village which lies outside of and within 200 feet of each boundary line of the lot or lots to be used for such a building.
Conversion of a single-family dwelling to two-or-more-family dwelling, provided that:
The minimum floor area for room sizes meet the current NYS Uniform Building Code Minimum Property Standards for multifamily housing for structures containing more than two dwelling units.
[Amended 11-5-2007 by L.L. No. 7-2007]
A dwelling unit complies with the NYS Uniform Building Code definition: "A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation."
[Amended 11-5-2007 by L.L. No. 7-2007]
All reconstruction complies with the New York State accepted Building Code.
All other regulations concerning off-street parking indicated in this Zoning chapter shall be observed.
The design for the proposed conversion shall preserve the character of a single-family house (e.g., common entranceway to the building).
There is compliance with all other regulations and codes of the Village of Walton.
Townhouse and/or garden apartments, provided that:
All such units meet the current NYS Uniform Building Code minimum property standards for multifamily housing for structures containing more than two units.
[Amended 11-5-2007 by L.L. No. 7-2007]
All other regulations concerning off-street parking indicated in this Zoning chapter shall be observed.
Density of such housing shall not exceed 14 units per acre.
Lot size shall be a minimum of one acre.
There is compliance with all other regulations and codes of the Village of Walton.
Prohibited uses. In the R-S District, the following buildings and uses are strictly prohibited:
Any junk, junkyard or automobile graveyard.
Scientific research labs.
Industrial uses, including light industry.
Trucking facilities.
Any hazardous use as defined in the General Industry (I-G) District.
Rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Keeping animals or fowl. Keeping animals or fowl is prohibited unless otherwise permitted.
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules or goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
Lot size requirements. Lot size requirements are as follows (NOTE: If the minimum lot width cannot be met, then all other minimum lot setbacks must be met for possible project approval in this district.):
Type | Minimum in Feet | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Lot Width | Lot Depth | ||
Single-or two-family dwelling | |||
With public water and public sewerage | 70 | 100 | |
With public water but individual sewerage | 90 | 100 | |
With private individual water system and individual sewerage | 100 | 100 | |
Church, temple, synagogue or other house of worship | 200 | 200 | |
NOTES: |
Lot width is measured at the building line. |
The minimum street frontage is 40 feet. |
Averaging lot area for single-or two-family dwellings is permitted only in subdivision of two or more lots. |
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Minimum | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Front Yard (feet) | Side Yard (feet) | Side Yard Aggregate (feet) | Rear Yard (feet) | |
Single- or two-family dwelling | |||||
Street 50 feet or greater in width | 25 | 10 | 20 | 25 | |
Other structures | The same or as required in the district regulations | ||||
NOTES: |
If the street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 50 feet measured from the center line. |
See Article V, Supplementary Regulations, for additional yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI of this Zoning chapter.
Special regulations for two-family dwellings. The dwelling units and individual lots of a two-family dwelling may be sold separately if separate utilities systems are provided for each building and all other Village regulatory provisions are met.
§ 260-12 R-M Multiple-Family Residential District.
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to encourage variety in housing types and provide for residential densities as might be appropriate for relatively spacious garden apartments or townhouse developments in areas approximately located for such use, which areas are served by sanitary sewers and public water systems and which are well located with respect to major thoroughfares, shopping facilities, and centers of employment. Population density and height of buildings are low enough to be generally compatible with single-family residential development in the same general neighborhood.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
Any accessory use permitted in the R-S Single-Family Residential District.
An office located in a main building for administration of a multiple-family development containing 10 or more dwelling units.
A laundry room for use of occupants of a multiple-family dwelling development.
Coin-operated vending machines for candy, tobacco, ice, soft drinks and sundries, inside a building and for the use of occupants of a multiple-family dwelling development.
Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this Zoning chapter:
Business or professional office buildings.
Clinic or medical office buildings.
Hospitals and sanitariums, excluding animal hospitals.
Private garages as part of a multiple-family dwelling, provided that the garage is attached to the dwelling or provides space for no more than two vehicles per dwelling and is less than 500 square feet in size per unit.
Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged.
Adult day-care centers, child day nurseries or childcare centers, including but not limited to commercial babysitting facilities.
Institutions, educational or philanthropic buildings or sites, including museums, art galleries and libraries.
Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways and playgrounds.
Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and transmission lines.
A store for the sale of food, tobacco and sundries, not exceeding 1,000 square feet of the total floor area inside a multiple-family dwelling and primarily for the convenience of residents of a multiple-family development containing 100 or more dwelling units.
Swimming or tennis club, private, nonprofit, or commercially operated.
Fraternal, society or club buildings, provided that they are not used chiefly for a service customarily carried on as a gainful business, and further provided that the applicant files with the Village Board of Trustees the written consents, duly acknowledged, of the owners of at least 75% of all land, other than public streets, within the Village which lies outside of and within 600 feet of each boundary line of the lot or lots to be used for such a building.
Prohibited uses. In the R-S District, the following buildings and uses are strictly prohibited:
Any junk, junkyard or automobile graveyard.
Scientific research labs.
Industrial uses, including light industry.
Trucking facilities.
Any hazardous use as defined in the General Industry (I-G) District.
Rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Keeping animals or fowl. Keeping animals or fowl is prohibited unless otherwise permitted.
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules or goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
Lot size requirements. Lot size requirements are as follows:
Type | Minimum in Feet | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Lot Width | Lot Depth | ||
Single-family two-family dwelling | |||
With public water and public sewerage | 60 | 100 | |
With public water but with individual sewerage | 100 | 125 | |
With individual water system and individual sewerage | 100 | 125 | |
Lot width is measured at the building line. Minimum street frontage is 40 feet. | |||
Three-family dwelling, which must have public water and public sewerage | 70 | 100 | |
Four-family dwelling or more, which must have public water and public sewerage, per dwelling unit | 80 | 100 | |
Townhouses, which must have public water and public sewerage | 18 | 80 | |
Church, temple, synagogue or other house of worship | 100 | 100 | |
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Minimum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Front Yard (feet) | Side Yard (feet) | Side Yard Aggregate (feet) | Rear Yard (feet) |
Single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwelling | 25 | 1-, 2-, 2 1/2-story: 10; 3-story: 15 | 20 | 40 |
Other structures | Same or as required in the district regulations | |||
Townhouses and garden apartments | 25 | 20 | 40 | 50 |
NOTES: |
If the street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 50 feet measured from the center line. |
See Article V, Supplementary Regulations, for other yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI.
Special regulations for townhouses.
The dwelling units and individual lots of a townhouse may be sold separately if separate utilities systems are provided and if separate lots for all dwelling units in a building are created at the same time and in conformance with local laws governing subdivision.
The townhouse building shall comply with minimum lot requirements contained in the district regulations of Article IV, but each dwelling unit of a townhouse need not be located on a lot complying with minimum lot area and lot area per family requirements in the regulations, provided that the average for all dwelling units in the building equals or exceeds the minimum requirements and provided that no lot is created with a lot area less than 2,000 square feet.
Lot frontage may be waived in accordance with an approved site plan, and lot width measured at the building line for individual dwelling units of a townhouse may be reduced to not less than 18 feet. Lot width for end units shall be adequate to provide the required front and side yards.
For the purpose of the side yard regulations, a townhouse building shall be considered as one building on one lot with side yards required for end units only, in accordance with the district regulations of Article IV. Any side yard adjacent to the line of a lot occupied by a detached single-family dwelling or a lot in a single-family residential district shall not be less than 25 feet.
No detached garage or carport or other detached accessory building shall be permitted on a lot occupied by a townhouse.
Provision satisfactory to the Village Board and approved by the municipality's Attorney shall be made to assure that nonpublic areas for the common use and enjoyment of occupants of townhouses, but not individual ownership by such occupants, shall be maintained in a satisfactory manner without expense to the general taxpayer.
A site plan complying with the requirements of this article shall accompany an application for approval of a townhouse development.
§ 260-13 B-G General Business District.
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a wide variety of commercial and miscellaneous service activities, generally serving a wide area and located particularly along certain existing major thoroughfares where a general mixture of commercial and service activity now exists but which uses are not characterized by extensive warehousing, frequent heavy trucking activity, open storage of material or the nuisance factors of dust, odor and noise associated with manufacturing.
Permitted uses. A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes:
Any use permitted in the M-U Mixed Use and R-M Multiple-Family Residential Districts, except single-family, two-family and multiple-family dwellings as follows. A single-family dwelling or mobile home may be permitted in association with a permitted office, business or commercial use in the same building or on the same premises for use by the proprietor or an employee of said business. A two-family or multiple-family dwelling is permitted on any floor above the first in accordance with the minimum lot size and side and rear yard requirements of the R-M Multiple-Family Residential District.
[Amended 5-2-2016 by L.L. No. 2-2016]
Amusement places or theaters, except open-air drive-in theaters. Amusement places include bowling alleys, dance halls, skating rinks, swimming pools, miniature golf, billiard or pool parlors, indoor model-racing tracks and similar activities.
An animal hospital or commercial kennel, with any open pens, runs and cages at least 200 feet from a residential district.
Automobile, truck or bus sales, service, storage or repair, but not auto salvage or junk, and any major repair or storage of equipment or materials or damaged vehicles shall be inside a completely enclosed building.
Bakeries occupying not more than 3,000 square feet of floor area.
Banks, drive-in or otherwise, so long as at least five driveway waiting spaces shall be provided off the street for each drive-in teller's window.
Barbershops, beauty parlors or salons.
Bicycle sales, rental and repair shops.
Bottling works, dyeing and cleaning works or laundry, plumbing and heating shop, painting shop, upholstering shop not involving furniture manufacture, tinsmithing shop, tire sales and service (including vulcanizing and recapping, but no manufacturing), appliance repairs, and general service and repair establishments similar in character to those listed in this subsection, provided that no outside storage of material is permitted, except as provided in this section, and further provided that no use permitted is this subsection shall occupy more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
Bus station.
Car wash or automobile laundry, automatic or otherwise, providing reservoir space for not less than 10 vehicles for each washing lane of an employee-operated facility.
Catering or delicatessen business.
Clinics.
Data processing center.
Dry cleaning or pressing pickup stations or shops occupying not more than 2,500 square feet of floor area and using no cleaning fluid whose base is petroleum or one of its derivatives.
Filling stations, as long as bulk storage of inflammable liquids is underground.
Flower shops and greenhouses incidental thereto.
Frozen-food lockers for individual or family use.
Garages, parking or storage.
Hotels, motels, motor lodges or tourist homes.
Lawn mower and yard and garden equipment rental, sales and services.
Lumber and building materials store, but not a lumberyard.
Material storage yards, in connection with a permitted use where storage is incidental to the approved occupancy of the building, provided that all products and materials used or stored are enclosed by a masonry wall, screening, fence or hedge not less than six feet in height. Storage of all materials and equipment shall not exceed the height of the wall. Storage of cars and trucks used in connection with the permitted trade or business is permitted within the walls or screen, but not including storage of heavy equipment, such as road-building or excavating equipment.
Mobile homes sales, display and storage or sales, display and storage of travel trailers and campers, provided that all units shall be in usable condition, none shall be placed in a front yard, the minimum parcel area shall be 1/2 acre, the storage area shall be separated from the display area by a continuous visual screen with a minimum height of eight feet, such screen consisting of a compact evergreen hedge or foliage screening or louvered fence or wall, and the entire area shall be similarly screened from any contiguous residential district or existing residence.
Monument sales establishments with incidental processing to order, but not including the shaping of headstones.
Nurseries for growing plants, trees and shrubs.
Offices, general, business or professional.
Parking lots, parking spaces, parking areas, and storage lots.
Pet shop or dog beauty parlor, provided that any workrooms, cages, pens or kennels shall be maintained within a completely enclosed, soundproof building and that such shop or parlor shall be operated in such a way as to produce no objectionable noise or odors outside its walls.
Printing, publishing and engraving establishments.
Club, lodge, social center, recreation center or meeting hall.
Radio and television stations and studios or recording studios, but no towers more than 125 feet in height.
Rental of luggage trailers, but not including truck trailer bodies, except campers and travel trailers.
Restaurants, drive-in or otherwise.
Schools for industrial training, trade or business.
Shoe-repairing shops occupying not more than 2,500 square feet of floor area.
Shops for the sale, service or repair of home appliances, office machines, electrical and television and radio equipment occupying not more than 5,000 square feet of floor area.
Stores or shops for the conduct of retail business, including the sale of accessories, antiques, appliances, beverages, carpets, clothing, drugs, fabrics, food, furniture, garden supplies, groceries, hardware, hobby supplies, office supplies, paint, sporting goods and stationary and similar stores and shops.
Studios for artists, photographers, teachers, sculptors or musicians.
A telephone station or booth, including drive-in or talk-from-car stations.
Undertaking businesses or establishments or funeral homes.
Vending machine stations, automatic. Groups of vending machines shall be contained in a building.
Wholesale establishments with not more than 2,500 square feet of accessory storage per establishment.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this Zoning chapter:
Any conditional use in the R-R Residential Recreational District.
A drive-in theater, including extension into an adjoining residential district.
A wholesale establishment or warehouse with up to 15,000 square feet of floor area.
A business or commercial building greater in height than three stories of 40 feet.
Adult entertainment establishment as defined by this Zoning chapter and in accordance with Article VIII of this Zoning chapter.
Rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Prohibited uses. In the B-G District, the following buildings and uses are strictly prohibited:
Any junk, junkyard or automobile graveyard.
Any hazardous use as defined in the General Industry (I-G) District.
Keeping animals or fowl. Keeping animals or fowl is prohibited unless otherwise permitted.
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules or goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Type | Minimum | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Front Yard (feet) | Side Yard (feet) | Side Yard Aggregate (feet) | Rear Yard (feet) | |
Street 50 feet or greater in width | 50 | 25 | — | 50 |
NOTES: |
Side and rear yards are required only if adjacent to a residential district or to an existing residence. |
If the street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 75 feet, measured from the center line. |
See Article V, Supplementary Regulations, for additional yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI.
§ 260-14 M-U Mixed Use District.
[Added 5-2-2016 by L.L. No. 2-2016]
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to designate those areas where predominantly residential and commercial businesses have developed or areas that are well-suited for future residential and commercial business development. To allow for multiple uses of larger buildings, lots and tracts of land and protect the integrity of the area by restricting the development of incompatible land uses as may be allowed in other districts.
Permitted uses. Any building or land area shall be used only for the following purposes:
Any use permitted in the R-S, Single-Family Residential District.
Hospital or clinic for small animals (dogs, cats, birds, and the like), provided that such hospital or clinic and any treatment rooms, cages, pens and kennels be maintained within a completely enclosed soundproof building, and that such hospital or clinic be operated in such a way as to produce no objectionable odors outside its walls.
Apartment buildings/houses/complexes.
Professional, business, municipal or other governmental agency offices.
Antique, gift, novelty, and souvenir shops.
Hotels, motels, motor lodges or tourist homes.
Bed-and-breakfasts.
Banks and other financial institutions.
Barber shop, beauty parlor and salons.
Funeral parlors.
Group homes, including boarding homes for sheltered care, senior housing, nursing, and convalescent homes, assisted living facilities, community residences for the developmentally disabled and community shelters for victims of domestic violence.
Adult day-care centers and child day nurseries or child-care centers, including, but not limited to, babysitting facilities.
Churches and other places of worship, including temples, synagogues and mosques.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
Domestic storage in the main building or an accessory structure.
Garage, private.
Garden house, tool house, playhouse or greenhouse incidental to a residential use.
Storage of a boat trailer or camp trailer or a boat, but not in a front yard.
Swimming pool and game courts, lighted or unlighted, for use of occupants or their guests.
Temporary buildings, the uses of which are incidental to construction or sale or rental operations during development being conducted on the same or adjoining tract or subdivision and which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of such construction, or the expiration of a period of two years from the time of erection of such temporary buildings, whichever is sooner.
Accessory apartments, including, but not limited to, apartments in the primary residence and living quarters above garages or barns.
Conditional uses. In any Mixed Use District (M-U), the following buildings and uses are permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this chapter:
Farmers markets.
Convenience stores.
Public parks or playgrounds.
Club, lodge, social center, recreation center or meeting hall.
Public bowling alleys, recreation halls, dance halls, skating rinks, and any other place for public gathering and entertainment.
Laundromat.
Plant nurseries and greenhouses.
Eating and drinking places, not including fast food restaurants.
Cultural facilities, museums, botanical gardens and art galleries.
Parking lots, parking spaces, parking areas, and storage lots. Theater, excluding open-air drive-in theaters and adult use theaters.
General retail business in existing buildings.
Hospitals and sanitariums.
Veterinary offices and animal hospitals.
Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations or transmission lines.
Animal kennels, private or commercial, providing proof of license and rabies vaccinations for each animal and providing that any building for keeping of animals shall be located at least 50 feet from any property lines and that no outside runs, tie-outs or exercise arenas are located within 100 feet of any property line.
Prohibited uses. In any Mixed Use (M-U) District, the following buildings and uses are strictly prohibited:
Storage/warehouse and/or rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Light industry.
Gas/fuel distributors.
Auto repair shops.
Lumber yard.
Trucking facility.
Scientific research lab.
Sand/gravel mining.
Any hazardous use as defined in the I-G District.
Keeping animals or fowl.
Prohibited unless otherwise permitted.
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules, goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Type | Front Yard | Side Yard Minimum | Side Yard Aggregate | Rear Yard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Street 50 feet or greater in width | 50 | 25 | — | 50 |
NOTES: |
Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to a residential district or to an existing residence. |
If street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 75 feet, measured from the center line. |
NOTE: See Article V for other yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI of this chapter.
§ 260-15 I-G General Industry District.
Purpose. The purpose of this district is to provide for a wide variety of manufacturing, fabricating, processing, wholesale distributing and warehousing uses appropriately located for access by major thoroughfares but to restrict or prohibit those industries that have characteristics likely to produce serious adverse effects within or beyond the limits of the district. Certain potentially hazardous industries are permitted only after public hearings and review to assure protection of the public interest and surrounding property and persons. Commercial uses and open storage of materials are permitted.
Permitted uses. A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes, consisting of business, commercial and general industrial, warehousing, and storage uses, including certain open or enclosed storage of products, materials and vehicles and including the following uses and any similar uses that are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare, water pollution or other objectionable influences than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses listed, and the manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment, as specified, of the following products or similar products. Whereas any doubt exists as to the nature of a proposed use, products or process, the proposal shall be considered as a potentially hazardous use and referred to the Village Board after public hearing. (See Subsection C below.)
Any agricultural, business, commercial or office uses permitted in a B-G General Business District.
Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises.
Abrasive wheels or stones, abrasive paper, cloth and related products.
Agricultural or farm implements: manufacture, sale, storage or repair.
Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication and forming foundry products (electrical only); blacksmith's shop.
Animal hospital or animal pound.
Automobiles, tractors, trucks, buses, truck trailers, motorcycles and bicycles: repair, assembly, transmission repair and cleaning, tire recapping and vulcanizing.
Bolts, buttons, nuts, screws and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, tools, dyes, machinery and hardware products, sheet metal products, and vitreous enameled metal products.
Boxes, containers, furniture, cabinets, baskets and other wood, metal, fiber or plastic products of a similar nature.
Building materials (cement, lime in bags or containers, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or reinforcing steel pipe and the like): storage and sales, open or enclosed, but not manufacture or steel fabricating.
Carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics; the printing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.
The cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats, carpets and rugs.
Coal and wood yards, coke storage and sales.
Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
Cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, drugs and pharmaceutical products (compounding only).
Electrical appliances or electronic instruments and devices, medical, optical or drafting equipment, toys, novelties, games, stamps, musical instruments: manufacture and assembly.
Excelsior, wood fiber.
Exterminating establishment.
Facilities and structures necessary or rendering utility service, including poles, wires, transformers and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communications service and pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, substations and power transmission lines which are permitted as conditional uses. (See Subsection E below.)
Fertilizer storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building, but not manufacture or processing.
Flour: storage, blending and packaging, but not milling.
Food products, candy, chewing gum, cocoa, coffee, tea and spices, beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, dairy products, cheese and ice cream, oleomargarine, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, cider and vinegar, pickles and vegetable relishes, the packing and processing of fish, seafood, meat and poultry products, but not the distilling of beverages or slaughtering of animals.
Grain storage, blending and packaging, but not milling.
Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail.
Heating, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies and appliances.
Ice manufacture, including dry ice.
Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants and related industrial and household chemical elements (blending only).
Kennels, boarding or otherwise.
Laboratories, research, experimental or testing, but not including combustion engine testing.
Laundries, linen service.
Leather goods manufacture, but not including tanning operations.
Lumberyard, planing and millwork.
Monuments and architectural stone.
Paper and paperboard (from paper machine only), but not pulp mills.
Plating, electrolytic process.
Plumbing supplies: manufacture, sale or storage.
Pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products and kilns (fired by electricity or gas only).
Printing, publishing and engraving, photographic processing or blueprinting.
Pulp goods, pressed or molded (including papier-mâché) products, paper products, but not the manufacture of paper.
Radio or television broadcasting stations, studios, offices, towers.
Rubber products and rubber and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing).
Sawmill (including cooperage stock mill), stationary and planing mill.
Sign fabrication and painting shop.
Soap products, but not soap manufacture.
Stone products, sand and gravel, but not crushing or grinding.
Structural iron and steel fabrication.
Theaters, including open-air drive-in theaters.
Truck terminal, freight.
Wallboard and plaster, building insulation and composition flooring.
Warehouses, wholesale houses and distributors, wholesale market.
Welding or soldering shops.
Wire rope and cable.
Wood chip and fiberboard.
Rental storage units for domestic use and/or pod units.
Potentially hazardous uses. The following uses or the manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of products not specifically listed above or below but which may, in the opinion of the municipality's Engineer, have accompanying hazards, such as fire, explosion, noise, vibration, dust or the emission of smoke, odor, toxic gases or other pollutants, may, if not in conflict with any state or county law, be located in the I-G General Industry District, only after the location and nature of such use shall have been approved by the Village Board after public hearing. The Board shall review the plans and statements and shall not permit such building, structures or uses until there has been shown that the public health, safety, morals and general welfare will be properly protected and that necessary safeguards will be provided for the protection of beaches, wetlands, and streams or other water areas or surrounding property and persons. The Board, in reviewing the plans and statements, shall consult with other agencies created for the promotion of public health and safety and shall pay particular attention to protection of the municipality and its neighbors from the harmful effects of the air or water pollution of any type.
Acetylene, generation and storage.
Adhesives, glue.
Alcohol, industrial.
Ammunition and explosives storage.
Asbestos products.
Asphalt or asphalt products, or central asphalt mixing or batching.
Automobile wrecking yard.
Candles, including wax or tallow manufacture.
Concrete products or central mixing and proportioning plant, but not cement manufacture.
Flour, feed and grain milling.
Galvanizing or plating (hot dip).
Glass and glass products.
Hides and raw fur: curing, tanning, dyeing and storage.
Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, or related industrial or household chemical compounds.
Junkyards, automobile graveyards, open or enclosed storage of junk or scrap metal.
Leather tanning and curing.
Linoleum and other hard surface floor coverings, except wood.
Match manufacture.
Meat and fish products, including the slaughtering of animals or poultry or preparation of fish for packing.
Oils, shortening and fats (edible): manufacture and storage.
Paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish.
Petroleum storage.
Plastic material and synthetic resins: processing only.
Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses are as follows:
The storage of goods or materials used in or produced by permitted commercial and industrial uses or related activities.
Accessory uses as follows on a farm of 10 acres or more:
Accessory structures for the sale or processing of farm products raised on the premises.
Accessory, open or enclosed storage of farm materials, products or equipment.
Accessory farm buildings, including barns, stables, sheds, toolrooms, shops, bins, tanks and silos.
Dwellings for persons permanently employed on the premises.
Solar energy systems and equipment.
Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as conditional uses if approved by the Village Board in accordance with the procedures, guidelines and standards of Article XIV, Site Plan Review, and any requirements specified in this Zoning chapter:
Any conditional use permitted in the R-R Residential Recreational District.
Airports, airfields, heliports, helipads and airstrips.
Incinerator, industrial or public.
The rendering and storage of dead animals, offal, garbage and waste products; fat rendering.
Prohibited uses.
Keeping animals or fowl. Keeping animals or fowl is prohibited unless otherwise permitted.
No person shall breed, raise, harbor or maintain any bees, poultry, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other fowl, any swine, pigs, horses, cows, mules or goats or any other animals or reptiles except domestic pets within the Village unless specifically authorized in any other provision of the Code of the Village of Walton.
Further prohibited will be any animal that is vicious, dangerous, obnoxious, objectionable or offensive or that has, in the absence of intentional provocation, repeatedly chased, menaced, attacked or inflicted bodily injury to a person or domestic animal, excluding birds, rodents and reptiles.
There are no other uses strictly prohibited in this district.
Lot size requirements. Lot size requirements for all users: none, except as may be required by the municipality's Engineer to meet sanitary standards.
Yard requirements. Yard requirements are as follows:
Type | Minimum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Front Yard (feet) | Side Yard (feet) | Side Yard Aggregate (feet) | Rear Yard (feet) | ||
All uses | |||||
Street 50 feet or greater in width | 50 | 25 | — | 50 | |
NOTES: |
Side and rear yards are required only if adjacent to a residential district or to an existing residence. |
If the street is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from the center line. |
See Article V, Supplementary Regulations, for other yard requirements. |
Off-street parking and loading requirements. Off-street parking and loading requirements are contained in Article VI.