A.
The Village
Business District is the downtown central business district of the
Village. The district is intended for daily retail shopping, on-premises
food consumption, and visitor, tourist and resort shopping, all with
a strong pedestrian orientation. A variety of mixed retail uses is
encouraged where feasible to provide the synergy necessary to maintain
the vitality and attractiveness of this district for the Village resident
and visitor alike. Also permitted are restaurants and similar eating
places that rely on the local resident population and downtown workers
as well as visitors, tourists, and resort vacationers for clientele.
B.
The Village
Board of Trustees seeks to promote the VB Village Business District
as the economic center of the Village, providing retail shopping for
convenience goods as well as for shoppers' goods, business services,
and public and semipublic facilities. Having determined that recreational
activities and tourism are significant factors in the Village's economic
base, site plan review procedures and all other procedures that influence
the quality of land use and development in this district shall emphasize
accessibility for pedestrians as well as for vehicles, adequate off-street
parking and an attractive business center environment, including the
provision of some landscaped open space. A particular concern in site
plan review shall be the coordination of public accessways and views
through properties in this district to the WF Waterfront District
and shoreline. Recognizing the potential intensity of the uses in
this district, provision shall be made for on-site storm drainage
facilities, as needed to protect the surface water quality of the
natural water bodies, as well as for public water supply and sewerage
systems.
The Village Business District Table of Use Regulations is included at the end of this chapter.
The VB District Table of Dimensional Regulations is included at the end of this chapter, except as dimensional regulations are also provided in this article.
A.
Minimum gross floor area of any use shall be no less than 800 square
feet.
B.
Maximum gross floor area of any use shall not exceed 2,000 square
feet.
C.
Maximum width or frontage of any use shall not exceed 50 feet.
D.
Enlargement of gross floor area or width or frontage shall be permitted, provided any such enlargement is limited to no more than 50% of the existing gross floor area or frontage or width and the resultant gross floor area shall not in total exceed 3,000 square feet or a frontage or width of 75 feet. Any such enlargement shall be subject to approval of the Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, which shall affirmatively find, among other things, that the enlargement and any resultant exterior alteration is consistent with the historic character of the existing structures within the VB District. Any such enlargement shall be conditioned upon the provision of off-street parking in compliance with § 300-9.6D, any such enlargement shall not require area variances equal to or in excess of 30% of any dimensional requirement in the Table of Dimensional Regulations and the use within any such enlargement shall not be a special exception use.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Table of Dimensional Regulations is included at the end of this chapter.
E.
Offices on a second floor within the VB District are permitted.
F.
Any construction of a new building, including construction of a replacement
building, shall require a landscaped area not less than 20% of the
lot area.
