City of Port Jervis, NY: zoning for new construction

Low-Density Residence - A two-family house is a conditional use here and needs a lot of at least twelve thousand square feet.

• With a ten-foot side yard on one side, the other side must be at least fifteen feet to make up the twenty-five-foot pair.
• A place of worship, nonprofit membership club, school or nursery school needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet and a hundred feet of width, and may reach forty-five feet of height.
• Those uses also need yards of at least thirty-five feet to the front line and forty to the rear.
• A convenience retail store or a railroad or public utility right-of-way needs a lot of at least six thousand square feet and sixty feet of width.

Medium-Density Residence - A place of worship, school, adult care facility or nursery school needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet and may reach forty-five feet of height.

• A convenience retail store or a railroad or public utility right-of-way takes the same lot as a house.

Mountain Conservation - A place of worship needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet on at least a hundred feet of width, and may reach forty-five feet of height.

• Camping and lodging, railroads and public utility structures are conditional uses.

Neighborhood Mixed-Use - The figures shown are for a one-family house or a business or professional office; a retail establishment, business service, restaurant, bank or personal service shop has no minimums prescribed and may cover the whole lot at up to seventy-four feet.

• A trade shop, job printing shop or health and fitness centre also has no minimums prescribed, at up to sixty-five feet and sixty percent coverage.
• A motor vehicle sales, service, filling or repair use needs a lot of at least thirty thousand square feet and a hundred feet of width, with no yards except at least twenty feet to the rear.
• A motor vehicle laundry needs a lot of at least twenty thousand square feet, twenty-five feet of width and eighty of depth.
• A preschool, day care or school needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet, with coverage up to thirty percent.
• A hospital, sanitarium, nursing home or school needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet and may reach forty-five feet of height.

Central Business - No minimum lot area, width, depth or yard is prescribed, so a building may be built to all four lot lines on a lot of any size.

Waterfront Mixed-Use - No minimum lot area, width or depth is set here, and one-family and two-family detached dwellings, restaurants, take-out food and trade shops all share the yards, height and coverage shown.

• Apartments, tourist accommodations and bed-and-breakfasts are accessory uses.
• The requirement to obtain Common Council approvals is suspended for a property owner who suffers a loss in this district through an act of God.

Light Industrial - The figures shown apply to trade shops, research, design and development laboratories, job and commercial printing, wholesale storage and warehousing, light manufacturing, retail establishments and nurseries.

• A place of worship or shopping centre needs a lot of at least twenty-five thousand square feet and a hundred feet of width, and may reach forty-five feet of height at up to thirty percent coverage.
• Those uses need at least thirty-five feet to the front line, fifteen to one side and thirty for the pair, and forty to the rear.

Tri-State Commerce - The figures shown apply to hotels, motels, shopping centres, research and development, building supply, indoor recreation, motor vehicle sales, service and repair, manufacturing and wholesale storage; a hotel needs no rear yard either.

• A retail establishment, restaurant, microbrewery, bank or health and fitness centre has no minimums prescribed and may cover the whole lot at up to seventy-four feet.
• A place of worship, general hospital, nonprofit membership club or indoor theatre needs at least twenty-five thousand square feet and may reach forty-five feet at up to thirty percent coverage.
• A business or professional office needs a lot of at least seven thousand five hundred square feet and seventy-five feet of width.
• A convenience retail store needs a lot of at least six thousand square feet and sixty feet of width, with a height limit of thirty feet.
• A railroad or public utility right-of-way needs a lot of at least twelve thousand square feet and sixty feet of width.