Town of Warwick, NY: zoning for new construction

Agricultural Industry - The figures shown are for a one-family dwelling; the district's agricultural and industrial uses have their own standards. Each dwelling unit also needs at least sixty-five thousand three hundred and forty square feet of land, a density control separate from the lot minimum.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Rural - Each dwelling unit needs at least a hundred and seventy-four thousand two hundred and forty square feet of land, a density control separate from the lot minimum. Where the lot adjoins a special area the setback rises to two hundred feet, or a hundred feet in certain cases.

• A cluster subdivision of a lot of record of ten acres or more that offers community amenities can reach a three-acre density bonus (§ 164-41.1D(1)).
• Special areas are active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands with their adjacent areas.
• The figures shown are those for a one-family dwelling; the district's other uses take different standards.

Mountain - Each dwelling unit needs at least two hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred square feet of land, a density control separate from the lot minimum. Where the lot adjoins a special area the setback rises to two hundred feet.

• A cluster subdivision of a lot of record of ten acres or more that offers community amenities can reach a four-acre density bonus (§ 164-41.1D(1)).
• Special areas are active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands with their adjacent areas.
• The figures shown are those for a one-family dwelling; the district's other uses take different standards.

Conservation - Each dwelling unit needs at least two hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and sixty square feet of land, a density control separate from the lot minimum. Deeper setbacks apply where the lot adjoins a special area.

• A cluster subdivision of a lot of record of ten acres or more that offers community amenities can reach a five-acre density bonus (§ 164-41.1D(1)).
• Special areas are active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands with their adjacent areas.
• The figures shown are those for a one-family dwelling; the district's other uses take different standards.

Suburban Residential Low-Density - Each dwelling unit needs at least a hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and eighty square feet of land, a density control separate from the lot minimum.

• A cluster subdivision of a lot of record of ten acres or more that offers community amenities can reach a two-acre density bonus at fifteen percent coverage (§ 164-41.1D(1)).
• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.
• The figures shown are those for a one-family dwelling; the district's other uses take different standards.

Suburban Residential Medium-Density - Each dwelling unit needs at least 21,780 square feet of land, so a half-acre lot carries exactly one dwelling.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Traditional Neighborhood Overlay - TN-O is an overlay, so a parcel here remains subject to the district beneath it. Its standards vary by use: each use is assigned a lettered use group, and each group carries its own bulk standards under § 164-40.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Office and Industrial Park, Community Business - Standards here vary by use: each use is assigned a lettered use group, and each group carries its own bulk standards under § 164-40, so confirm the figures for the specific use proposed.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Local Hamlet Business - Standards here vary by use: a one-family dwelling takes one use group, while the district's business uses take others, each with its own bulk standards under § 164-40. Confirm the figures for the specific use proposed.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Designed Shopping - DS is a base district for community-scale commercial uses that rely heavily on automobile and truck access. Lot and yard standards depend on the use proposed: each use is assigned a lettered use group with its own bulk standards under § 164-40.

• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.

Senior Housing Floating - This is a floating district the Town Board creates for a senior housing development on application. The lot may be no smaller than forty acres and no larger than two hundred acres.

• On a county road the front setback is sixty feet, and on a state road eighty feet, instead of the town-road figure shown.
• Road frontage must be at least four hundred feet, a standard separate from lot width.
• The forty percent figure is maximum site development, counting all buildings, structures, walks, parking areas, landscaped areas, driveways and roads.
• The distance between buildings is set at site plan approval by the Planning Board.
• The Town Board may vary these requirements to follow traditional neighborhood patterns, except the lot size, the building coverage and the site development cap (§ 164-49.1D(2)).

Land Conservation - A one-family dwelling here needs at least six acres, or five acres under the cluster subdivision density bonus. The district's other uses take other use groups, each with its own bulk standards under § 164-40.

• The district is for permanent open space and limited development on land owned or controlled by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission and the National Park Service.
• Deeper setbacks apply next to special areas: active agricultural land, Town-designated protection areas, federal jurisdictional wetlands and state-protected freshwater wetlands and adjacent areas.