Town of Catskill, NY: zoning for new construction

Rural Residential/Agriculture - The figures shown are for a lot with no public water or sewer. With either service the minimum lot is 1.00 acre with a 50 ft rear yard, and with both it is 0.50 acre on 100 ft of width with a 30 ft rear yard. Maximum lot coverage rises to 40% on both serviced rows.

• The 50 ft front yard and the 30 ft side yard are the same whichever services the lot has.
• Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway.
• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.
• Up to two single-family or two-family dwellings are allowed on one lot where each would meet the district's area and bulk regulations as if it had a lot of its own.

Moderate Density Residential - Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway, so the buildable area can be smaller than the deeded acreage suggests.

• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.
• Up to two single-family or two-family dwellings are allowed on one lot where each would meet the district's area and bulk regulations as if it had a lot of its own.

High Density Residential - Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway, so the buildable area can be smaller than the deeded acreage suggests.

• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.
• Up to two single-family or two-family dwellings are allowed on one lot where each would meet the district's area and bulk regulations as if it had a lot of its own.
• More than one multiple-family dwelling is allowed on a parcel in districts where multiple-family dwellings are allowed.

General Commercial - The maximum lot coverage column reads None for this district, so no cap on lot coverage is published. Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway.

• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.

Highway Commercial - Maximum height here is given as five stories, with no figure in feet. The maximum lot coverage column reads None, so no cap on lot coverage is published, and minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway.

• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.

Industrial - Maximum height here is given as five stories, with no figure in feet, and the maximum lot coverage column reads None, so no cap on lot coverage is published. The 200 ft front yard is deeper than the 100 ft side yard and the 40 ft rear yard.

• Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway.
• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• Uses here are held to performance standards for noise, vibration, glare, odor, air pollution, fire and explosion hazards and electrical disturbance (§ 160-18).
• The Planning Board must find each use reasonably necessary, well located and served, adequately parked, safe for traffic, properly drained, suitably lit and signed, and screened from adjacent homes.

Conservation - The side yard of 200 ft is deeper than the 100 ft front and rear yards here. Minimum lot size does not include any portion of a lot beneath a public or private roadway, so the buildable area can be smaller than the deeded acreage suggests.

• Lot width is the average distance between the side lot lines, taken at the front yard or building line and measured at right angles to them.
• The front property line is the one crossed to gain access to the parcel from a public road or an approved private road.
• Townhouse common walls are exempt from the setbacks, and homeowners association land serving the complex counts with the townhouse footprints as one lot for coverage and minimum lot size.