Can you build an ADU in Otisville, NY?

Single-Family Residence - On a street with a right-of-way under fifty feet, the front yard is measured from the street's centre line and twenty-five feet is added to it. The Planning Board may require a larger lot where the use needs one to carry an adequate sewage treatment system.

• The 15 percent coverage cap counts the principal building only.
• On a corner lot a front yard is required on both street frontages.
• Accessory buildings in a required side or rear yard must be no more than fifteen feet high, at least five feet from any lot line and at least ten feet from the house.
• Accessory buildings and any swimming pool together may cover no more than thirty percent of a required yard, and none may stand nearer the street than the house.
• A Planned Unit Condominium Development or a Senior Housing or Assisted Living project follows its own standards and needs more than four acres and Planning Board approval.
• Orange County Health Department standards override any lesser lot figure.

Multiple-Family Residence - The figures shown are for a building of more than one dwelling unit, which is allowed only on approval of the Planning Board, with site plan approval. A one-family house is permitted here by right under a different set of figures.

• Each unit needs at least four hundred square feet of usable open space.
• Above two units, the land each unit consumes, not the lot minimum, sets how large the lot must be.
• On a street with a right-of-way under fifty feet, the front yard is measured from the street's centre line and twenty-five feet is added to it.
• On a corner lot a front yard is required on both street frontages.
• Accessory buildings in a required side or rear yard must be at most fifteen feet high, at least five feet from any lot line and ten from the house, and with any pool fill at most thirty percent of it.
• The Planning Board may require a larger lot for an adequate sewage treatment system, and Orange County Health Department standards override any lesser figure.

Suburban Density Residence - On a street with a right-of-way under fifty feet, the front yard is measured from the street's centre line and twenty-five feet is added to it. Uses are those of the single-family district, and the condominium and senior housing tracks do not reach this district.

• The 15 percent coverage cap counts the principal building only.
• The district is for land whose topography and steep slopes will not support higher density.
• On a corner lot a front yard is required on both street frontages.
• Accessory buildings in a required side or rear yard must be at most fifteen feet high, at least five feet from any lot line and ten from the house, and with any pool fill at most thirty percent of it.
• The Planning Board may require a larger lot for an adequate sewage treatment system, and Orange County Health Department standards override any lesser figure.

Central Commercial - Every use here, principal or accessory, needs site plan approval from the Planning Board. Along a residence district boundary the side yard must be at least thirty feet and the rear yard at least thirty feet.

• A dwelling is permitted only above a store, with at least six hundred square feet of livable floor area and off-street parking provided by the owner.
• A dwelling above a store also needs an environmental assessment of noise, fumes, exhaust, heat, lighting and appearance from the businesses around it.
• The five-foot side yard is for a detached building; an attached building takes no side yard.
• The coverage cap counts principal and accessory buildings together.
• No proposed commercial structure need set back further than the average setback of existing commercial structures within two hundred feet on either side.

General Commercial - Every use here needs site plan approval from the Planning Board, and along a residence district boundary the side yard must be at least forty feet and the rear yard at least forty feet. A motel or hotel must add fifteen hundred square feet of lot for every unit beyond the fourth.

• An automotive service station needs at least twenty thousand square feet and may not be built within five hundred feet of another station.
• This is the only district in the village where transient lodging is allowed.
• The twenty-foot side yard is the figure for a detached building.
• The coverage cap counts principal and accessory buildings together.
• No proposed commercial structure need set back further than the average setback of existing commercial structures within two hundred feet on either side.

Heavy Commercial and Light Industrial - No dwelling of any kind is permitted here, and every use, principal or accessory, needs site plan approval from the Planning Board. Along a residence district boundary the side yard must be at least sixty feet and the rear yard at least sixty feet.

• The fifty-foot side yards will not fit across the seventy-five-foot minimum width, so anything built here needs substantially more width than the minimum.
• Any use that is noxious by reason of odour, dust, vibration, noise, smoke, gas, fumes, glare or radiation is prohibited, whether or not it is listed.
• The coverage cap counts principal and accessory buildings together.
• No proposed commercial structure need set back further than the average setback of existing commercial structures within two hundred feet on either side.