[Added 12-12-1977 by L.L. No. 11-1977]
A.Â
No building or premises shall be used as a planned
shopping center, as hereinafter defined, unless a special use permit
therefor shall have been approved by the Board of Trustees of the
Village of Farmingdale after public hearing. Each applicant for such
special use permit shall, at the time of filing such application,
pay to the Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Farmingdale a filing
fee, which shall be set from time to time by resolution of the Board
of Trustees, which fee shall be included in a schedule of fees to
be maintained by the Village Clerk-Treasurer. Such fee shall be in
addition to the fees for a building permit otherwise prescribed.
B.Â
For the purposes of this section, a "planned shopping
center" shall be any installation designed to house primarily retail
commercial uses and which occupies a site of more than one acre and
provides for more than 20,000 square feet of floor area or for more
than five tenants or occupants.
C.Â
A planned shopping center may contain more than one
building but shall be designed as an integrated unit and shall be
owned and managed by a single person, partnership or corporation.
Construction of a planned shopping center may be staged or phased
over a period of time, but the Board of Trustees shall approve a site
plan for the entire tract before any building permit is issued. Any
change in the site plan resulting in an expansion of building coverage
or usable building area shall require another public hearing or hearings.
Permitted uses in a planned shopping center
are as follows:
A.Â
Offices and financial institutions, including the
business offices of public utilities or government agencies.
B.Â
Retail stores.
C.Â
Personal service shops, such as shoe repair, self-service
laundry or dry cleaning, beauty parlor, barbershop, optician or optical
dispensary.
D.Â
Restaurants and luncheonettes in which indoor seating
is provided for all customers.
E.Â
Theaters and bowling alleys, but all other commercial
recreation establishments are specifically prohibited.
F.Â
Bar and grill.
Prohibited uses in a planned shopping center
are as follows:
A.Â
Any use requiring fabrication or assembly of products
or outside storage or display of products is specifically prohibited.
No building erected in a planned shopping center
shall exceed two stories or 35 feet in height.
There shall be a front yard not less than 25
feet in depth along each street frontage, and no parking area or drive
shall be located within such front yard or yards.
Side and rear yards shall be provided, and no
such yards shall be less than 20 feet in width or 1Â 1/2 times
the height of any structure facing thereon, whichever shall be the
greater.
The maximum area of the site covered by buildings
shall be 25%.
[Amended 11-2-2015 by L.L. No. 12-2015]
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter of the Village Code, the off-street parking requirement for unspecified retail commercial use areas shall be one space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area in the building or buildings. The requirements for other uses shall be as specified in Article XIX of this chapter. Interior malls or pedestrianways not devoted to sale activity shall not be included in the calculation of required parking area.
Front yards and other site areas not used for
buildings or parking areas shall be suitably landscaped in accordance
with a plan to be approved by the Board of Trustees. Wherever a side
or rear yard adjoins a residence district boundary, there shall be
a reserved buffer strip not less than 20 feet in width. Such strip
shall be fenced with a six-foot-high double-sided sapling fence mounted
on galvanized steel posts set in concrete with upper and lower horizontal
steel rails and shall be planted and maintained with a staggered row
of evergreens, five feet to six feet in height, planted seven feet
on centers.
Building and site development plans for the
proposed use shall be submitted to the Board of Trustees before an
application for a building permit is made. Such plans shall include:
The Board of Trustees may approve, modify and
approve or reject such plans in order to promote the spirit and intent
of this article, and no building permit shall be issued until such
plans have been approved.