[Added 10-12-2004 by L.L. No. 36-2004]
The intent of the Industrial A (Ind A) Zoning Use District is to allow industrial and warehousing uses in defined areas, primarily located north and west of the terminus of the Long Island Expressway. The Ind A Zoning Use District is intended to allow heavier uses than the Industrial C (Ind C) Zoning Use District.
In the Ind A 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:
A. 
Permitted uses:
(1) 
Vocational schools.
(2) 
Warehouses.
(3) 
Lumberyards.
(4) 
Automobile body and fender repair shops.
(5) 
Agricultural production.
(6) 
All industrial uses are permitted in the Ind A Zoning Use District, with the exception of the following uses, which shall be prohibited:
Abattoirs
Acetylene gas manufacture
Ammonia manufacture
Asphalt manufacture
Bituminous paving material manufacture
Blast furnaces
Bleaching powder manufacture
Boiler-making
Brick, tile, terra-cotta manufacture
Carbon or lampblack manufacture
Celluloid manufacture
Chlorine gas or hydrochloric, nitric, picric, or sulfuric acid manufacture
Coal distillation, manufacture, or treatment
Curing or tanning of rawhides or skins
Disinfectant or insecticide manufacture
Distillation of bones
Dumps
Dyestuffs manufacture
Excelsior manufacture
Explosives or ammunition manufacture
Fat rendering or manufacture of greases or oils
Feed manufacture
Felt manufacture
Fertilizer manufacture
Fireworks manufacture
Garbage disposal dumps, landfills, incinerators, or transfer stations
Gas manufacture from coal, coke, or petroleum
Glue, size, or gelatin manufacture, where the process includes refining or recovering products from fish or animal refuse or offal
Grain drying
Junkyards, wrecking, or salvage yards
Linoleum or oilcloth manufacture
Linseed oil or turpentine manufacture
Match manufacture
Motor vehicles, dismantling, wrecking, or compacting
Offal or dead animal reduction
Oxygen gas manufacture
Paint, shellac, stain, or varnish manufacture
Paper, building board, cardboard, or pulp manufacture
Petroleum or kerosene distillation, refining, or derivation of by-products
Plaster, lime, cement, or plaster of Paris manufacture
Plastics manufacture
Rubber or synthetic rubber refining and manufacture
Rubber products manufacture
Sand and gravel quarrying and mining
Scrap metal yards
Shoe polish or stove polish manufacture
Smelting of copper, iron, lead, tin, or zinc
Soap manufacture
Soil or mineral removal, including sand mining, gravel and mining operations, asphalt and concrete plants
Steel furnaces, blooming, or rolling mills
Storage of noncontainerized combustible materials
Tar distillation
Vinegar or sauerkraut manufacture
Warehousing, storage, wholesaling, or sale of hazardous, dangerous, and explosive materials such as acids, gases, ammunition, fireworks, and explosives
(7) 
Building trade shops.
[Added 11-5-2008 by L.L. No. 44-2008]
B. 
Special permit uses:
(1) 
Gas stations, on parcels with frontage on a highway or major arterial street.
(2) 
Wholesale businesses.
(3) 
Dog and horse training and boarding facilities.
(4) 
Storage and distribution facilities of nontoxic gases, as defined in § 301-3.
[Added 9-17-2007 by L.L. No. 27-2007]
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) 
Outdoor storage, limited to 30% of the parcel area or two acres, whichever is less, suitably screened pursuant to Article XLV, Supplementary Use Regulations, of this chapter.
A. 
No buildings shall be erected nor any lot or land area utilized unless in conformity with the Zoning Schedule 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]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Schedule is included as an attachment to this chapter.
B. 
In order to preserve the Town's scenic and rural quality, properties shall provide attractively landscaped contiguous open space area(s) equal to at least 15% of the lot area. Preference is given to preservation of existing habitat (such as meadows or forests) rather than clearance and creation of new habitat. The open space should serve to provide on-site stormwater management.
C. 
The following minimum required nondisturbed transitional yards and screening shall be provided within nonresidential districts in order to assure orderly and compatible relationships along certain boundary lines:
[Added 10-16-2013 by L.L. No. 18-2013]
(1) 
Adjoining residential districts and uses.
(a) 
The minimum required nondisturbed transitional side and rear yards shall be 50 feet. When buildings are less than 5,000 square feet in size, the required side and rear transition yards shall be 25 feet adjacent to the residential district.
(b) 
The minimum required screening within such nondisturbed transitional side and rear yards shall be a six-foot-high stockade-type fence or equal and landscape plantings to be erected and maintained by the nonresidential property owner along the side and rear property lines; provided, however, that the Planning Board may modify these requirements for screening where the same screening effect is accomplished by the natural terrain or foliage.
(c) 
The minimum required nondisturbed transitional side and rear yards provided for in this section may be modified by the Planning Board as part of site plan review where the subject premises is a single lot which lies across district boundaries or where natural, physical or other existing features are present and the goals of this section will be accomplished.
(d) 
Where a site does not have existing vegetation within the required nondisturbed transitional yard sufficient to screen the proposed development from the adjacent residential zone or use, a landscaping plan shall be submitted to the Planning Board. In addition to the existing vegetation in the required nondisturbed transitional yard, the landscaping plan shall include plantings, berms and/or fencing in this area to visually screen and reduce noise impacts of the proposed development.
[Amended 5-5-2009 by L.L. No. 16-2009]
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) 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) 
Continuous sidewalks, off-street transit stops (where routes exist or are planned) and bike racks close to business entrances shall be provided for properties fronting Route 25 or other major arterial street.
(2) 
Signage shall be provided in accordance with Article XLVIII, Signs, of this chapter.
B. 
Buffering and transitions.
(1) 
Trash/dumpster areas shall be screened by wood fences or landscaping, or a combination thereof.
(2) 
Along borders with public streets, buffer plantings of a minimum twenty-foot depth shall be provided. Along other property lines, buffer plantings of a minimum ten-foot depth shall be provided. Buffer plantings shall minimize views of paving and buildings from public streets, adjoining residential uses or zones, and agricultural protection zones.
C. 
Parking standards.
(1) 
The number of off-street parking spaces in the Ind A Zoning Use District shall be provided in accordance with § 301-231, Off-street parking, of this chapter.
(2) 
Off-street parking is prohibited within 30 feet of the front property line.
(3) 
Where site grading and topography result in parking areas being located at higher elevation than and visible from the adjacent roadway, planted berms shall be used to screen the view of automobiles from public roadways.
(4) 
In order to soften the appearance of parking lots, large areas of surface parking should be broken up by rows of landscaping no less than 10 feet in width, in order to create parking fields of no more than 50 spaces each. Landscaping shall include ground cover, ornamental grasses, or low shrubs. This landscaping requirement is in addition to the fifteen-percent parcel-wide landscaping mentioned above.
(5) 
In order to provide recharge of the groundwater basin 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) 
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.
(b) 
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.