Town of Goshen, NY: zoning for new construction

Agricultural-Industrial - The lot minimum for a single-family dwelling is subject to the environmental control formula at § 97-18D, so a constrained parcel needs more land. A dwelling must stand at least a hundred feet from any lot line abutting a nonresidential use.

• Residential developers must accept a covenant acknowledging that spraying, dusting, noise and odour are ongoing and expected.
• Residential developers must also provide retention or detention ponds so that stormwater from a developed lot cannot drain into a black-dirt operation.
• A food processing or packaging plant needs at least five acres, and warehousing and wholesaling of farm products at least three acres.
• A trucking terminal over fifteen hundred square feet needs at least five acres, as does dormitory or multiple-unit housing for farm workers where it sits on its own lot.

Highway Commercial - A nonresidential building's footprint is capped at forty thousand square feet. Where the lot abuts a residential district, the side and rear setbacks are replaced by a setback of at least a hundred feet with a wooded buffer.

• On a county or state road the front setback is 35 feet instead of the town-road figure shown.
• Road frontage must be at least 200 feet on a town road and at least three hundred feet on a county or state road.
• The footprint cap excludes agricultural structures and anything already permitted before the chapter was adopted.
• Height is measured above average grade, with exceptions in § 97-40D.
• For residential uses only, the lot minimum is subject to the environmental control formula at § 97-18D.

Commercial - On a county or state road the front setback is 150 feet instead of the town-road figure shown. A nonresidential building's footprint is capped at two hundred thousand square feet.

• Where the lot abuts a residential district, the side and rear setbacks are replaced by a setback of at least a hundred feet with a wooded buffer.
• Road frontage must be at least 200 feet on a town road.
• Height is measured above average grade, with exceptions in § 97-40D.
• For residential uses only, the lot minimum is subject to the environmental control formula at § 97-18D.

Industrial - On a county or state road the front setback is 200 feet instead of the town-road figure shown. Where the lot abuts a residential district, the side and rear setbacks are replaced by a setback of at least a hundred feet with a wooded buffer.

• Road frontage must be at least 200 feet on a town road.
• Building footprint is not capped in this district.
• Height is measured above average grade, with exceptions in § 97-40D.

Hamlet Residential - The district's rules apply only where public sewer and public water are both available. Without them, the land is governed by the RU District regulations instead, including that district's use table (§ 97-15A).

• A two-family dwelling needs at least ten thousand square feet, a multifamily dwelling at least twelve thousand and an attached townhome at least two thousand five hundred.
• Constrained land does not count toward any lot minimum.
• A steep slope here means a contiguous run of at least fifteen hundred square feet with at least ten feet of continuous horizontal width perpendicular to the slope.
• At least thirty percent of the site must be protected as undeveloped open space, by conservation easement or dedication to the Town as parkland, and may not include wetlands or other constrained land.
• Areas developed before the land was zoned Hamlet Residential are exempt from the open space requirement.