Special uses, as enumerated in §§ 108-8 through 108-12, shall be permitted only upon authorization by the Zoning Board of Appeals, provided that such uses shall comply with the following requirements and other applicable requirements as set forth in this chapter:
B.
That the use is so designed, located and proposed
to be operated that the public health, safety, welfare and convenience
of the citizens will be protected.
C.
That the use will not cause substantial injury to
the value of other property in the neighborhood where it is to be
located.
D.
That the use will be compatible with adjoining development
and the proposed character of the zone district in which it is to
be located.
E.
That adequate landscaping and screening is provided as required in § 108-18 and as otherwise provided herein.
F.
That adequate off-street parking and loading is provided
and ingress and egress is so designed as to cause minimum interference
with traffic on abutting streets.
The special uses enumerated below shall be governed
by the following specific requirements in addition to the ones presented
above.
A.
Motels, motor courts, motor hotels and similar uses
shall have a minimum area of 150 square feet rentable for each unit,
exclusive of bathroom facilities.
B.
Each rentable unit shall include a minimum of one
bedroom and a shower or bath room with toilet.
C.
Illuminated signs and other lights shall be directed
away from or shielded from surrounding residential properties in such
a way as not to disturb the occupants thereof.
A.
Location of exits and entrances. No gasoline filling
station or commercial parking areas or garage for 25 or more motor
vehicles shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within 200 feet
along the same side of a street on which is located a school, public
playground, church, hospital, public library or institution for dependents
or for children, except where such property is in another block or
on another street on which the lot does not abut. Such access shall
be not closer to the intersection of any two streets than 50 feet.
B.
Location of oil-drainage pits and hydraulic lifts.
No oil-drainage pit or hydraulic lift shall be located closer than
25 feet to any R District, except when such pit or lift is within
a building. Storage tanks are to be located underground.
C.
Work area. In any gasoline filling station or other
establishment where motor vehicles are serviced or repaired, all repair
operations shall be conducted within a building.
Requirements for community buildings, country
clubs, clubs, social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations and similar
uses shall be as follows:
All buildings related to hospitals and sanatoriums,
where permitted, shall be a minimum of 50 feet from the center line
of the road.
[Amended 6-27-1988 by L.L. No. 3-1988]
Mobile homes shall comply with any Mobile Home
Ordinance in the Town of Fort Edward.
Regulations governing planned development groups
shall be as follows:
A.
Under the standard provisions of this chapter, a separate
ground area must be designated, provided and continuously maintained
for each structure or use. Pursuant to the procedure hereinafter set
forth, two or more such structures may be erected and maintained on
the same lot. Also, several lots may be combined into one special
plan covering a planned development group. The procedure is intended
to permit diversification in the location of structures and to improve
circulation facilities and other site qualities while ensuring adequate
standards relating to public health, safety, welfare and convenience
in the use and occupancy of buildings and facilities in planned groups.
B.
In reviewing all applications for planned development
groups, the Planning Board shall consider a general development plan
of the proposed project. The development plan shall show the proposed
use or uses, dimensions and locations of proposed structures and of
areas to be reserved for vehicular and pedestrian circulation, parking,
public uses such as schools and playgrounds, landscaping and other
open spaces. The Board shall review architectural drawings and sketches
demonstrating the design and character of the proposed uses and the
physical relationship of the uses and such other pertinent information
as may be necessary.
Spacing between buildings and orientation in
multiple-dwelling structures shall be as follows:
A.
Walls containing main window exposures or main entrances
shall be so oriented as to ensure adequate light and air exposures.
B.
Such buildings shall be so arranged as to avoid undue
exposure to concentrated loading or parking facilities and shall be
so oriented as to preserve visual and audible privacy between adjacent
buildings.
C.
A building wall exposing both windows and an entranceway
shall be located no closer to another building than a distance equal
to the height of the taller building of the two, but in no case less
than 50 feet.
D.
A building wall exposing only windows or only an entranceway
shall be located no closer to another building than a distance equal
to the height of the taller building of the two, but in no case less
than 25 feet.
E.
A building group may not be so arranged that any temporary
or permanently inhabited building is inaccessible by emergency vehicles.
Spacing between buildings and orientation in
commercial building groups shall be as follows:
A.
There shall be an adequate, safe and convenient arrangement
of pedestrian circulation facilities, roadways, driveways, off-street
parking and loading space.
B.
There shall be an adequate amount in a suitable location
of pedestrian walks, malls and landscaped spaces to prevent pedestrian
use of vehicular ways and parking spaces and to separate pedestrian
walks, malls and public transportation loading places from general
vehicular circulation facilities.
C.
Buildings and vehicular circulation open spaces shall
be arranged so that pedestrians moving between buildings are not unnecessarily
exposed to vehicular traffic.
There shall be adequate design of grades, paving,
gutters, drainage and treatment of turf to handle stormwaters and
prevent erosion and formation of dust.
Signs and lighting devices shall be properly
arranged with respect to traffic control devices and adjacent residential
districts.
In residential building groups providing for
permanent family occupancy, play areas for children and other recreational
areas in safe locations and in an amount of not less than 10% of the
gross land area of the development shall be provided.
A.
Conversions in R-2 Districts. Conversions are permitted,
provided that:
(1)
There shall be not more than the maximum number of
dwelling units that are permitted in the respective districts.
(2)
Off-street parking shall be provided in an amount
of not less than one for each new dwelling unit added.
(3)
There shall be at least 500 square feet of habitable
dwelling space in each dwelling unit.
(4)
There shall be at least one bathroom in each dwelling
unit.
B.
Nondwelling structures. No commercial or manufacturing
structure, originally designed for other than residential use, shall
be converted to a dwelling structure; nor shall any such structure
which was so converted prior to the adoption of this chapter be further
converted to provide for additional dwellings.
Permitted home occupations may be conducted
in any dwelling unit only under the following conditions:
A.
Where permitted. A home occupation shall be permitted
within a single dwelling unit or accessory structures thereto only
by the person or persons residing therein. These home occupations
shall not provide employment for more than two nonresident employees.
B.
Evidence of use. It does not display or create outside
the building any evidence of the home occupation, except that one
unanimated, nonilluminated flat or window sign having an area of not
more than one square foot shall be permitted on each street front
of the lot on which the building is situated.
C.
Extent of use. It does not utilize more than 20% of
the floor area of the dwelling unit (except foster-family care).
[Amended 9-15-1971]
D.
Permitted home occupation. It includes not more than
one of the following uses on a lot: professional offices, rooming
houses and boardinghouses, tutoring, except excluding dance studios
and custom tailoring or dressmaking. Application may be made to the
Zoning Board of Appeals for any other uses not creating excessive
nuisances.
