In General Business Use Districts B, buildings or land may be
used and buildings and other structures may be built, altered or erected
for any of the following purposes upon approval of site and construction
plans by the Planning Board. Nothing shall prohibit the combination
of any permitted use upon one property as long as such combination
is housed within one structure or connected structures so as to prevent
the effective development of apparently separate and distinguishable
uses upon one parcel.
A. Animal hospital, veterinary clinic or kennel, provided that any structures
or area used for such purposes, including pens or exercise runnings,
shall be at least 200 feet distance from any property line.
E. Bowling alley or similar recreational establishment entirely enclosed
within a building.
F. Building material sales, including lumberyards.
H. Commercial greenhouses and plant nurseries, including offices and
sales yards, provided that no building for any such use shall have
a heating plant, ventilating flue or other opening except stationary
windows within 50 feet of any residence district.
I. Sales and/or rentals of cargo and/or camping trailers.
K. Funeral home or mortuary.
M. Ice storage and vending (three tons' or less capacity).
O. Motel or motor court conforming to the provisions of §
250-68.
P. Motor vehicle service station conforming to the provisions of §
250-71.
R. Places of amusement or assembly.
S. Public motor vehicle repair and public parking and storage garages conforming to the provisions of §
250-71.
U. Retail businesses or retail service.
V. Sales room or shop of a builder, contractor or artisan, provided
that no equipment is stored out of doors unless enclosed and screened
from view by fences.
X. Theaters other than drive-in.
Y. Accessory use and buildings customarily incidental to the above permitted
uses.
Z. Other uses as provided by §
250-72 (Signs) and §
250-74 (Temporary uses and structures).
AA. Light assembly or manufacturing, limited to manufacturing, processing
or assembly activities, including wholesale and warehousing activities
and related supportive activities which will not constitute a fire
hazard or result in glare, odor, dust or other airborne fumes or irritants
or noise, and which use shall not result in any unreasonably adverse
impacts on surrounding land uses.
BB. Nursery schools, preschools, and educational institutions.
CC. The following uses permitted by special use permit, subject to the procedures and criteria in §
250-65:
(1)
Drive-in businesses, including drive-in outdoor theaters: subject to the requirements of §
250-82.
(2)
The storage of alcohol, gasoline, crude oil, liquefied petroleum, gas or other highly flammable substances, subject to the requirements of §
250-83; provided, however, that neither this Subsection
CC(2) of §
250-26, nor anything in §
250-83 of this chapter, shall be construed to authorize or allow within the Town natural gas and/or petroleum extraction activities, natural gas and/or petroleum exploration, extraction or production wastes disposal/storage facilities, a natural gas and/or petroleum exploration, extraction or production wastes dump, a natural gas compression facility, a natural gas processing facility, or any other explicitly prohibited uses.
[Amended 4-3-2014 by L.L. No. 2-2014]
[Amended 4-3-2014 by L.L. No. 2-2014]
Explicitly prohibited uses, and any use not specifically set forth in §
250-26 above as a permitted use (as of right, accessory, or upon special permit, as the context may admit), shall be prohibited within General Business Use Districts B.
In addition to the specific restrictions established in connection with permitted uses listed in §
250-26 and the requirements listed in Article
XI, the following regulations apply to all other uses permitted in B Districts.
A. Area and lot dimensions. The minimum net land area per establishment
shall be one acre, and the minimum width of lot at the front building
line shall be 150 feet. However, it shall be allowable to construct
a group of establishments in accordance with an integrated site and
architectural plan approved by the Planning Board, and the minimum
land area for such a group shall be five acres with a minimum width
of 400 feet at the front building line.
B. For purposes of calculation of the area of land required, reference is made to the definitions contained in Article
III of this chapter, and specifically to the definitions of "area, land"; "building line, front"; "lot, corner"; "lot depth"; "lot of record"; "street line" and "setback, front," which said definitions are to be deemed to be incorporated in this section and subsections, and as such definitions may be amended from time to time.
C. Front setbacks. There shall be a minimum front setback of 50 feet,
into which space there shall be no encroachment of structures other
than a fence, wall or sign not larger than 20 square feet and no encroachment
of commercial usage other than parking space for not more than 10
cars.
D. Side setbacks. No building shall be placed closer to a side property
line than 30 feet, and no automobile parking space shall extend nearer
to a side property line than 15 feet.
E. Rear setbacks. No building shall be placed closer to a rear property
line than 50 feet if the adjacent district is an agricultural use
district or a residence use district or a Q District or closer to
a rear property line than 20 feet if the adjacent district is any
other class of district.
F. Height. There shall be no limit on the height of buildings except,
for each foot the height of a building exceeds 35 feet, the offset
from the side and rear property lines shall be increased by two feet.
G. Building size. No building used or intended for use for retail purposes
shall exceed 40,000 square feet in gross floor area.
There shall not be more than one entrance and one exit per establishment on any individual public street, and the distance between the entrance and exit center lines, if separate, shall not be less than 100 feet, and the exit shall not intersect any street line less than 40 feet from the intersection of any two street lines. The location of driveways along Routes 5 and 20 or Route 15A shall conform to the access management requirements of §
250-117.
All properties shall be appropriately landscaped, particularly
at the front. Properties abutting residence districts shall be planted
with trees and shrubs for a width of not less than 15 feet on all
property lines abutting residence districts.
The application for a permit to construct a building or buildings
or to establish a use in a General Business Use District B shall be
accompanied by a plan, in duplicate, drawn to scale and showing property
lines and the location of proposed building or buildings, entrances
and exits, parking spaces, landscape treatment, signs and other improvements,
and such plan shall become a part of the record.
Approval of site and construction plans by the Planning Board in accordance with the procedures set forth in Article
XV hereof shall be required in each instance of establishment of a new and otherwise permitted use and in each instance of expansion of an existing permitted use.