[Added 11-16-2004 by L.L. No. 51-2004]
The intent of the Tourism/Resort Campus (TRC) Zoning Use District
is to provide opportunities for overnight accommodations and recreational
amenities in a campus setting with significant open space preserves.
In the TRC Zoning Use District, no building, structure, or premises
shall be used or arranged or designed to be used, and no building
or structure shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, or altered,
unless otherwise provided in this chapter, except for the following
permitted uses or specially permitted uses and their customary accessory
uses:
C.
Accessory uses. Accessory uses shall include those uses customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses or specially permitted
uses when located on the same lot. Specifically permitted are the
following:
(1)
Art galleries.
(2)
Retail stores and personal service shops, as accessory to a hotel
use and enclosed within the hotel building, and intended to serve
guests only. Such accessory shall not exceed 10% of the total floor
area of rooms provided.
(3)
Recreational facilities, including equestrian facilities, accessory
to and restricted to resort guests.
(4)
Catering halls and restaurants, when accessory to a hotel, not to
exceed a total of 300 seats.
(5)
Tavern, not to exceed 50 seats.
A.
No buildings shall be erected nor any lot or land area utilized unless
in conformity with the Zoning Schedule[1] incorporated into this chapter by reference and made a
part hereof with the same force and effect as if such requirements
were herein set forth in full as specified in said schedule, except
as may be hereafter specifically modified.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Schedule is included as an attachment to this chapter.
B.
In order to foster environmental conservation as well as preservation
of the Town's scenic and rural quality, all properties shall provide
a contiguous open space area equal to at least 70% of the lot area,
to be designed as follows:
(1)
At least 50% of such open space areas shall be planted with native
species or left in its undisturbed natural form in order to enhance
the appearance and function of the tidal wetlands and other native
habitats.
(2)
The remaining open space portion on the property shall be attractively
landscaped with lawns, shrubs, flowerbeds, or nonimpervious recreation
areas.
(3)
In conformance with the best management practices of the Comprehensive
Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) of the Peconic Estuary Program.
[Amended 5-5-2009 by L.L. No. 26-2009]
The design, buffer and parking standards listed in the provisions
below (Subsections A, B and C of this section) are intended as a guide
or measure for improvements in parcels in this zoning district, and
the word "shall" recited in the provisions below, with the exception
of Subsection C(1) of this section which requires adherence to the
Parking Schedule, is intended to obtain compliance with the provisions
to the extent practicable as determined by the Board responsible for
review.
A.
Design standards.
(1)
Driveway openings and curb cuts shall be aligned with the existing
curb cuts along major arterial roads in order to reduce the potential
addition of traffic lights and conflicting turning movements.
(2)
In order to protect the health of the waterways, the use of lawns
and other plantings which rely on fertilizers and herbicides is strongly
discouraged along areas bordering waterfronts.
(3)
Resort projects shall be set back at least 100 feet from all property
lines and waterfront areas.
B.
Buffering and transitions.
(1)
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened from view of streets, sidewalks, pedestrian pathways, and windows of residential buildings, pursuant to § 245-8.
(2)
Resort developments shall provide dense natural or landscaped buffers
a minimum of 100 feet along borders with other properties, railroad
easements, and roadways. Buffer planting is not required along waterfront
borders.
C.
Parking standards.
(1)
The number of off-street parking spaces in the Tourism/Resort Campus District shall be provided in accordance with § 301-231, Off-street parking, of this chapter.
(2)
Curb cuts to parking lots shall be minimized by sharing driveways
and consolidating entrances for access to adjacent parking lots.
(3)
Planted berms shall be used to screen the view of automobiles from
public roadways.
(4)
Off-street parking is prohibited within 50 feet of all property lines
for resort developments.
(5)
Driveways shall be set back at least 30 feet from side property lines
for resort developments.
(6)
In order to soften the appearance of parking lots, parking lots shall
be landscaped with ground cover, grasses, or low shrubs for at least
15% of their land area. This landscaping requirement is in addition
to the seventy-percent parcel-wide landscaping mentioned above.
(7)
Parking lots with 21 or more spaces shall have orchard planting for
shade: one tree per 10 off-street spaces. Such trees shall be spread
throughout the parking lot, rather than clustered only along the edges.
(8)
In order to provide groundwater recharge and minimize runoff, at
least one of the following stormwater management techniques shall
be used in parking lots where underlying soils support infiltration
of precipitation to the groundwater:
(a)
Entire parking areas shall be surfaced with gravel, rather than
pavement.
(b)
Where sanding and salting are not used in the winter, low-traffic
or seasonal parking overflow areas of the parking lot shall be surfaced
with porous pavement or gravel.
(c)
Landscaped areas of the parking lot shall be sited, planted,
and graded in a manner to provide infiltration and detention of runoff
from paved areas.
(9)
Large areas of surface parking shall be broken up by landscaped walkways
connecting sidewalks and parking areas to business entrances in order
to create parking fields of no more than 250 spaces each.
