Pursuant to the authority conferred by Article 7 of the Village Law of the State of New York and for each of the purposes specified therein, the Village Board of the Village of North Collins, County of Erie and State of New York, has ordained and does hereby enact the following chapter, regulating and restricting the location, size and use of buildings and other structures and the use of land in the Village of North Collins.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Zoning Ordinance of the Village of North Collins."
A. 
Word usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the plural and words in the plural number include the singular. The word "person" includes a firm, partnership or corporation as well as an individual. The word "used" shall be interpreted to include the term "designed or intended to be used." The term "shall" is always mandatory.
B. 
Terms defined. For purposes of this chapter, certain terms are herewith defined:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
A subordinate building located on the same lot with the main building, occupied by or devoted to an accessory use. Where an "accessory building" is attached to the main building in a substantial manner, as by a wall or roof, such "accessory building" shall be considered part of the main building for yard determination.
ACCESSORY USE
A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the main use or building and located on the same lot therewith.
ALTERATION
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the exit facilities; or an enlargement, whether by extending on a side or by increasing in height; or the moving from one location or position to another.
BOARDINGHOUSE or ROOMING HOUSE
The furnishing of meals and/or living accommodations for five or more persons on a weekly or longer time basis, for compensation.
BUILDING COVERAGE
The horizontal area of a lot covered by all buildings, measured to the outside of walls.
BUILDING HEIGHT
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deckline of mansard roofs and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.
CAMPING GROUND
A lot used for overnight or longer occupancy by campers, tents or other movable or temporary dwelling or sleeping quarters for human beings, but not including such occupancy when accessory to a dwelling on the same lot and limited to seasonal use by members of the immediate family residing in said dwelling.
DWELLING
A building used as the living quarters for one or more families, but not including a boardinghouse or rooming house, hotel or lodging house or motel.
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY
A building or a group of buildings on one lot, containing three or more dwelling units.
DWELLING, ONE-FAMILY
A dwelling containing one dwelling unit.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY
A dwelling containing two dwelling units.
DWELLING UNIT
A structure or part of a structure containing a room or rooms designed for human occupancy by one family and including customary kitchen facilities.
FAMILY
One or more persons, related by birth, marriage or other domestic bond, occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit or a group of not more than four persons not necessarily related by blood or marriage.
FARM PRODUCTS STAND
A structure where products grown on the premises or elsewhere by the operator of the "farm products stand" may be sold and purchased. [1]
FENCE
A structure bounding an area of land, designed either to limit access to the area or to screen such area from view, or both.
FILLING STATION
An area of land, including structures thereon, used for the supply of motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, accessories and such service as washing, polishing and minor repairs but not major repairs, collision service or painting.
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
Liquids having a flash point below 200° F., closed cup tester. Class I flammable liquids (e.g., gasoline, ether, liquid petroleum gas) are those having a flash point below 25° F. Class II flammable liquids (e.g., alcohol, ethyl or methyl acetate) are those having a flash point below 70° F. but not below 25° F.
GARAGE, PRIVATE
An accessory building or portion of a main building used for the storage of self-propelled vehicles used by the occupants of the premises, including space for not more than one passenger vehicle used by others.
GASOLINE SERVICE STATION
A building and appurtenant facilities designed to serve motor vehicles, not including vehicle painting or body work, with all repair work conducted inside a building.
HOME OCCUPATION
Any customary, incidental business operated from the dwelling unit of the proprietor in a manner as to maintain the residential character of the lot, without outside employees, identifying signs or other evidence of business activity outside of the dwelling unit.
HOTEL or LODGING HOUSE
A building containing sleeping rooms for five or more persons, which rooms are available to the public for less than a week at a time for compensation, with no cooking or dining facilities except a general kitchen and public dining room.
JUNKYARD
As defined in Chapter 107, Junkyards.
KENNEL
Any premises used or maintained for the keeping, sheltering, care or raising of three or more dogs over four months of age.
LOT
A parcel of land considered as a unit, devoted to a certain use or occupied by a building or a group of buildings that are united by a common interest or use, and the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same. A "lot" within the meaning of this chapter may or may not be a lot as shown on a subdivision plat or assessment record.
LOT AREA
The net area contained within lot lines.
LOT LINES
The property lines bounding the lot. The front lot line shall be the right-of-way line of the street or highway giving access to the lot. In the case of a corner lot, the owner may designate either street lot line as the front lot line. The rear lot line shall be the lot line most distant from the front lot line.
LOT WIDTH
The least horizontal distance across the lot between side lot lines, measured at the front of a main building erected or to be erected on such lot or at a distance from the front lot line equal to the required depth of front yard.
MIGRATORY LABOR CAMP or LABOR CAMP
Any building, structure or trailer or group of buildings, structures or trailers, erected, used or maintained for the housing of migratory or transient laborers.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable single-family dwelling intended for permanent occupancy, office or place of assembly, contained in one unit or in two units designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for occupancy except for minor and inidental unpacking and assembly operations and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.[2]
MOBILE HOME COURT OR PARK
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned and improved for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use, consisting of two or more mobile home lots.[3]
MOTEL
A building or group of buildings used primarily as sleeping or living quarters for transient automobile travelers and providing for accessory off-street parking, but with no cooking facilities except in a restaurant or caretaker's unit. The term includes auto courts, cabin courts, motor lodges, tourist courts and similar appellations.
NONCONFORMING USE
Lawful occupancy of a structure or land by a use that does not conform to the regulations of the district in which it is situated.
NONRESIDENCE DISTRICT
Any district other than an R-1 One-Family Residence District, R-2 One-Family Residence District, R-3 Two-Family Residence District or RM Residential Mobile District.[4]
NURSERY SCHOOL
The use of a building or lot or part of a building or lot for nursery or other care of more than five children under six years of age not residing on the premises and conducted on a regularly scheduled basis.
NURSING HOME or CONVALESCENT HOME
The use of a building or part of a building for nursing care of two or more persons not related to the operator by family ties, and for compensation.
OFF-STREET LOADING SPACE
An unobstructed area having access to a street, suitable for the loading or unloading of motor transport vehicles, with minimum dimensions of 12 feet in height, eight feet in width and 30 feet in depth.
OFF-STREET PARKING SPACE
An unobstructed area having access to a street, suitable for the parking of passenger motor vehicles, with minimum dimensions of eight feet in width and 20 feet in depth.
PERSONAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT
An office, store or other place of business catering to the personal needs of a customer, such as normally conducted by a barber, beautician, tailor or dressmaker.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
When operated as a permitted accessory use in a residence district, a room or rooms on the same lot as the residence of a professional doctor, dentist, engineer, architect or other recognized professional and used as a place of business for such profession in a manner clearly accessory to the dwelling use of the lot.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A transportation structure, self-propelled or capable of being towed by a passenger car, station wagon or small pickup truck, of such size and weight as not to require any special highway movement permits and primarily designed or constructed to provide temporary movable living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use or to carry such equipment, but not for profit or commercial use. Included as "recreational vehicles," but not to the exclusion of any other types not mentioned in this definition, are trailers; trailer coaches; camping trailers; motor homes; pickup (slide-in) campers; chassis mounts; converted vans; chopped vans; mini-motor homes; fifth-wheel trailers of recreational vehicle construction, design and intent (as opposed to commercial fifth-wheel trailers); boat trailers, with or without boats mounted thereon; snowmobile trailers, with or without snowmobiles mounted thereon; and truck caps.
(1) 
TRAILERS, TRAILER COACHES and FIFTH-WHEEL TRAILERSRecreational vehicles constructed with integral wheels to make them mobile and intended to be towed by passenger cars, station wagons and/or light pickup or panel trucks and similar motor vehicles, but not including truck tractors of any type.
(2) 
CAMPING TRAILERA type of trailer or trailer coach, the walls of which are so constructed as to be collapsible and made out of either canvas or similar cloth or some form of rigid material such as fiberglass or plastic or metal. The walls are collapsed while the recreational vehicle is being towed and are raised or unfolded when the vehicle becomes temporary living quarters and is not being moved.
(3) 
PICKUP (SLIDE-IN) CAMPERS and TRUCK CAPSRecreational structures designed to be mounted temporarily or permanently in the beds of light trucks, with the trucks having either single or double rear wheels and with or without an assisting extra tag axle and wheels mounted either on the camper chassis or the truck chassis behind the truck's rear wheels. These campers can be readily demounted from the truck beds. When removed from their respective truck beds, "pickup (slide-in) campers" and "truck caps" are called "unmounted campers."
(4) 
CHASSIS MOUNTS, MOTOR HOMES and MINI-MOTOR HOMES- Recreational structures constructed integrally with a truck or motor-van chassis and incapable of being separated therefrom. The truck or motor-van chassis may have single or double rear wheels.
(5) 
CONVERTED AND CHOPPED VANSRecreational structures which are created by altering or changing an existing auto van to make it into a recreational vehicle meeting the requirements in the definition of "chassis mounts, motor homes and mini-motor homes" above. [5]
(6) 
BOAT OR SNOWMOBILE TRAILERA vehicle on which a boat or snowmobile may be transported and which is towable by a passenger car, station wagon, pickup truck or mobile recreational vehicle as above defined. When removed from the trailer, a boat or snowmobile, for purposes of this chapter, is termed an "unmounted boat or snowmobile."
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
An R-1 One-Family Residence District, R-2 One-Family Residence District, R-3 Two-Family Residence District or RM Residential Mobile District. [6]
SEASONAL BASIS
Conducting of a use for a period not exceeding eight months in any calendar year.
SETBACK
The least horizontal distance from any building to the nearest street or highway right-of-way.
SIGN
Any advertisement, announcement, direction or communication produced in whole or in part by the construction, erection, affixing or placing of a structure on any land or on any other structure or produced by painting or posting or placing any printed, lettered, pictured, figured or colored material on any structure or surface, but not including signs placed or erected by the Village of North Collins, the County of Erie or the State of New York for the purpose of showing street names, traffic directions or regulations or for other public purposes.
STORY
That portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between any floor and ceiling next above it. A basement shall be counted as a "story" for purposes of height measurement, if the ceiling is more than five feet above the average adjoining ground level or if used for business or dwelling purposes. A half-story is a story under a sloping roof, having a ceiling height of seven feet or more for not exceeding 1/2 the floor area of the uppermost full story in the building.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS
Any change in the supporting members of a building or other structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, foundations or foundation components. [7]
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected which requires permanent location on the ground or attachment to something having such location.
YARD, FRONT
An open space extending the full width of the lot between a main building and front lot line (the nearest street right-of-way line), unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, the depth of which shall be the least distance between the front lot line (the nearest street right-of-way line) and the front of such building. In cases where a lot is construed to include 1/2 of the abutting street, the front yard depths herein required may be measured from the center of the street right-of-way, provided that 1/2 the street width is added to such required front yard depth.
YARD, REAR
An open space extending the full width of a lot between the rearmost main building and the rear lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, except as hereinafter specified, the depth of which shall be the least distance between the rear lot line and the rear of such main building.
YARD, SIDE
An open space extending from the front yard to the rear yard between a main building and the side lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed by buildings or structures from the ground upward, except as hereinafter specified. The required width of a "side yard" shall be measured horizontally from the nearest point in the side lot line to the nearest building.
[1]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[2]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[3]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[4]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[5]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[6]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
[7]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.