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Town of Babylon, NY
Suffolk County
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[Amended 7-7-1970; 11-17-2011 by L.L. No. 21-2011]
In any GB Industrial District, buildings and premises may be used for any use permitted in the G Industrial District and the E Business District, as amended, except for dwellings of all types and puppy stores.
[Amended 11-18-1975; 5-15-1990]
In a GB Industrial District, no building or structure hereafter erected or altered shall exceed 35 feet in height.
In a GB Industrial District, no building shall be erected or altered on a lot having an area of less than 20,000 square feet or upon a lot having a street frontage of less than 100 feet.
A. 
In a GB Industrial District, the required front yard depth shall not be less than 30 feet measured from the front property line (after the widening, if any, of the abutting street) to the front of the building, and it shall be suitably shrubbed, landscaped and neatly maintained. There shall be no parking permitted in said front yard, except for no more than four parking spaces located in front of the building for the first 100 feet of road frontage, and there may be, in addition, one additional parking space for each additional 25 feet of road frontage, all provided that the minimum landscaping requirements are met.
[Amended 7-9-1996 by L.L. No. 11-1996]
B. 
In the case of facade or facade-related improvements in Town Board designated commercial facade improvement areas, there shall be no minimum front yard setback requirement.
[Added 5-15-1984]
[Amended 8-6-1974]
In a GB Industrial District, in the case of double front lots, the front yard shall have a required depth of not less than 30 feet measured from the front property line (after widening, if any, of the abutting street) and conform to the requirements for front yards contained in § 213-184 and the yard abutting the other street shall have a required depth of not less than 30 feet measured from the property line abutting such street (after widening, if any, of the abutting street) and 18 feet from the property line abutting such street shall be suitably shrubbed, landscaped and neatly maintained, and there may be paved parking in remaining setback areas abutting such street.
In a GB Industrial District, corner lots shall have a front yard on each street as is provided for in § 213-198, one of which front yards may be included in the computation of available parking area. There need be no rear yard on such corner plot, but there shall be one side yard opposite the second front yard.
In a GB Industrial District, there shall be at least one side yard of a minimum of 19 feet, and the same may be used for driveway purposes, except that the portion thereof which may be paved between the front of the building and the front property line shall not be included in the computation of the required off-street parking area. When the said side yard or portion shall be used for driveway purposes, there shall be erected along the edge of said driveway and bordering the landscaped portion of the front yard, from the front of the building to the street curbline, an unbroken curb of dimensions and design approved by the Babylon Town Planning Board.
In a GB Industrial District, there shall be a rear yard having a minimum depth of 10 feet, except as otherwise provided herein.
[Amended 5-7-1985 by L.L. No. 1-1985]
In a GB Industrial District, notwithstanding any other provisions or ordinances, the total building area and outside storage area shall not exceed 40% of the total lot area.
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Editor's Note: Former § 213-204, Signs, was repealed 9-25-1990.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in these ordinances contained, in a GB Industrial District, there shall be at least 1,800 square feet for the first 100 feet of street frontage and 18 square feet for each additional foot of street frontage, suitably shrubbed and landscaped, and any amount of additional land in the front yard landscaped in excess of said minimum, but not exceeding nine square feet for each foot of street, shall be credited against any required parking area. All drainage, paving, landscaping and seeding shall be as required by the Planning Board.
In a GB Industrial District, outside storage of materials will be permitted only in the rear yard and in conjunction with and as accessory to the use of the main building or structure erected on the premises, and provided that the area used for that purpose shall be completely enclosed by a chain link fence at least six feet in height. Said outside storage area shall not occupy parking area.
In a GB Industrial District, all drainage, paving, landscaping and seeding shall be as required by the Planning Board.
In a GB Industrial District, there shall be erected upon the premises only one building, and no other building nor detached accessory building will be permitted.
[Amended 9-15-1981 by Res. No. 9]
Wherever a GB Industrial zoned parcel shall abut upon a residential zoned parcel or any parcel used for residential purposes (except for cemeteries) there shall be a buffer strip five feet wide erected, planted and thereafter maintained on the plot pursuant to Planning Board requirements, unless the Planning Board shall require a greater or larger buffer strip.
Notwithstanding any of the provisions contained within this article controlling a GB Industrial District, if a plot zoned GB Industrial is nevertheless built and used in accordance with all the provisions of Article XV, §§ 213-181 through 213-193, then, in that case, the provisions which apply to the Ga Industrial zone may be applied as though the subject premises were in fact zoned Ga and thereafter said Ga zoning shall apply to the parcel.
[Added 1-18-1977; amended 1-17-1978]
In a GB Industrial District, the outside storage and display of merchandise intended for retail sale and which is displayed for that purpose is hereby prohibited; however, a forty-five-day temporary permit may be issued in the discretion of the Chief Building Inspector.