[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Great Neck Plaza Art. I, 3-3-1993 as L.L. No. 2-1993; Art. II, 11-1-1995 as L.L. No. 6-1995. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 225.
[Adopted 3-3-1993 as L.L. No. 2-1993]
The Board of Trustees hereby determines that
it will further the public health, safety and welfare of the village
to require the registration of all new retail businesses within the
village's B Zoning District in order to ensure, inter alia, that necessary
information is available in cases of emergency and that all such new
retail businesses are aware and will comply with the village's regulations
in various areas affecting the village's residents.
The following terms, when used in this chapter,
shall mean the following:
Any business which provides goods or services to the public,
for sale, rent or otherwise, both profit and nonprofit, and which
commences operation in the village after the effective date of this
chapter. However, this term shall not include any residential, professional
or office use.
An individual, partnership, unincorporated association, corporation
or other entity.
The person that owns and operates a new retail business under
this chapter within the village's B Zoning District and that is registering
it under this chapter.
The Village of Great Neck Plaza.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a new
retail business within the village's B Zoning District without first
having made a registration in accordance with this chapter.
B.
All registrations for a new retail business shall
be made with the village's Department of Public Works.
C.
In connection with any registration of a new retail
business, a registrant shall complete and file a registration form,
which shall be verified under oath and which shall contain the following
information, as well as any other information specified by the Department
of Public Works:
(1)
The registrant's name and address.
(2)
If the registrant is a partnership, the name and address
of all partners.
(3)
If the registrant is a corporation, the name and address
of all person's having more than a ten-percent ownership interest
and the name and address of all officers and directors.
(4)
The nature of the new retail business.
(5)
The address where the new retail business will be
conducted;
(6)
The name and address of the landlord of said premises.
(7)
Whether the registrant has a written lease and, if
so, the term of said lease.
(8)
The name, address and telephone number of a representative
of the registrant who can be reached at all times during business
hours and non-business hours.
(9)
The name, address and telephone number of a representative
of the landlord who can be reached at all times during business hours
and non-business hours.
(10)
With respect to all fire insurance policies
covering the premises at which the new retail business shall be conducted,
the name of the insurance company, the policy number and the amount
of coverage.
(11)
With respect to all liability insurance policies
covering the premises at which the new retail business shall be conducted,
the name of the insurance company, the policy number and the amount
of coverage.
(12)
Whether the operation of the new retail business
will differ in any way from the immediate prior use of the premises
and, if so, how.
(13)
Whether the registrant intends to change any
of the signage on the premises.
(15)
A list of any pending administrative proceeding before a consumer protection agency or comparable agency which involves the registrant or any person described in Subsection C(2) or (3) and a list of any such completed administrative proceeding which resulted in a fine or other penalty, together with the name of the administrative agency, the nature of the penalty imposed and the date.
D.
No registration under this chapter shall be effective
or complete until the registrant shall first have attended a registration
conference with a representative of the Mayor and with the Commissioner
of Public Services at which the registrant shall be informed of the
village's local laws and requirements governing zoning, signage, parking,
street maintenance and garbage pickup.[1]
A.
Each owner of property in the village's B Zoning District
which contains premises at which a new retail business shall be operated
shall notify each new retail business which shall operate on its property
of the need to register under this chapter. Such notification shall
be made by the landlord by certified mail, return receipt requested,
within 10 days after the landlord enters into a written lease with
respect to the new retail business.
B.
Registration under this chapter shall be made prior
to the commencement of operation of new retail business in the village's
B Zoning District. In the event that a new retail business can demonstrate
that it was not informed by its landlord of the requirements of this
chapter prior to the commencement of operation, it shall register
within 10 days of the notification of such requirement by the village.
The fee for registration under this chapter
shall be $25.
Any offense against any provision of this chapter
shall be a violation of this chapter, which shall be punishable by
a fine of not more than $250 or by a period of imprisonment not exceeding
15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
[Adopted 11-1-1995 as L.L. No. 6-1995]
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Great
Neck Plaza hereby finds that it will serve the health, welfare and
safety of the village and its residents to regulate deliveries by
vehicle to and from high-volume retail stores where such stores and/or
their loading and service bays are contiguous with streets adjoining
residential buildings.
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
One- and two-family homes and all multiple dwellings used
for living purposes which contain three or more units.
Any building or a portion of a building devoted to a single
use occupancy used and/or rented for retail sales, services and other
similar activities, including restaurants, bars and food service businesses.
The use of any retail store which requires servicing by five
or more delivery vehicles on a daily basis.
Any commercial vehicle delivering or picking up goods from
a retail store.
All high-volume retail stores with a total floor
area in excess of 30,000 square feet where such stores and/or their
loading and service bays are contiguous with streets adjoining residential
buildings are required to regulate the deliveries and pickups by delivery
vehicles to assure that such streets are not used for the parking,
standing or unloading of delivery vehicles while said vehicles are
delivering or waiting to deliver to, or picking up or waiting to puck
up from, such retail stores. The following criteria shall apply for
all retail stores in this category:
A.
Sufficient space shall be provided in an off-street
loading bay area to accommodate the loading and unloading of all delivery
vehicles serving the premises. Included in this space shall be sufficient
stacking space to allow all delivery vehicles waiting to load or unload
to be accommodated within such off-street loading bay area.
B.
If sufficient stacking space cannot be provided within
the loading bay area, then sufficient off-street stacking space shall
be provided elsewhere on the property where the retail store is located
to accommodate all delivery vehicles waiting to deliver to or pick
up from the retail store. If it is required that delivery vehicles
must traverse public streets adjoining residential buildings in order
to travel from such stacking space to the loading bay, then the owner,
tenant or lessee shall provide uniformed personnel to monitor and
regulate the traffic of delivery vehicles between the stacking area
and the loading bays so as to assure that trucks and delivery vehicles
not park, stand or congregate on the public street while awaiting
their turn to load or unload at the loading bay. Uniformed personnel
shall be stationed at the stacking area and at the loading bay and
shall be equipped with two-way radios to maintain communication so
that delivered vehicles, trucks and vans can be individually directed
from the stacking area to the loading bays as they become available.