Village of Kenmore, NY: zoning for new construction

Educational Use District - No height limit applies to a building here: the chapter's 30 ft limit reaches the residential districts only. Kenmore states no minimum lot area, no minimum lot width and no lot-coverage percentage, in this district or any other.

• Parking must sit at the rear of the lot only, screened and buffered, with direct access to a public street.

Restricted Business Use District - A parcel must have frontage on Delaware Avenue to be in this district, and no more than 200 ft of depth measured from that right-of-way may be used for a restricted business use. No building may exceed 5,000 sq ft of base floor area, two storeys or 30 ft.

• The code sets no side yard figure: the question goes to the state building code distance-separation requirements, so the answer turns on construction type rather than on zoning.
• The rear yard is ten feet or that same code separation, whichever is greater.
• Vinyl, aluminium, asphalt, plywood and painted masonry exteriors are prohibited outright.
• Kenmore states no minimum lot area, no minimum lot width and no lot-coverage percentage, in this district or any other.

General Business Use District - A parcel must front Elmwood Avenue or Kenmore Avenue to be in this district, and no more than 200 ft of depth measured from that right-of-way may be used for the business use. A building may reach 10,000 sq ft of base floor area, within two storeys and 30 ft.

• The code sets no side yard figure: the question goes to the state building code distance-separation requirements, so the answer turns on construction type rather than on zoning.
• The rear yard is ten feet or that same code separation, whichever is greater.
• Any use not on the district's own list is prohibited outright.
• Kenmore states no minimum lot area, no minimum lot width and no lot-coverage percentage, in this district or any other.

Industrial Use District - The building line on each street is six feet from the adjacent street line, except that on a corner lot the building may extend all the way to the side street line. There is no side yard, rear yard, lot area, lot width, coverage cap or height limit.

• Any use permitted in a residential, business or commercial district is permitted here, along with any industry the fire prevention code does not bar and that does not amount to a nuisance.

Professional Office Use District - The front setback must equal the average of all buildings for 300 ft on each side, and is never less than 25 ft. The side yard turns on how wide the lot is: 18 inches on a lot of 33 ft or less, two feet over 33 up to 38 ft, and three feet above that.

• No rear yard is stated for a principal building.
• The premises must be owned and occupied for practice by a licensed professional, or by a professional corporation at least half of whose shareholders practise there.
• At least a third of the first floor must be in actual professional use, and no more than ten people may be employed at any one premises.
• Store fronts are barred and windows may not cover more than 30% of a facing wall.

Planned Unit Development District - This district does not appear on the village zoning map until a designation is requested and a project is approved, and within it the regulations need not be uniform. Every dimensional standard is set in the local law that maps the district against an approved plan.