Village of West Haverstraw, NY: zoning for new construction

One-Family Residence R-1 - Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.

• Any permitted use other than a house takes 0.9183 acres on 150 ft of width, with 50 ft in front and to the rear, 30 ft to each side and 70 ft for the pair.
• That row's caps are 30% building coverage and 40% impervious.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• In a residential district such as this one, a driveway must keep 5 feet from the side lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

One-Family Residence R-2 - Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.

• Any permitted use other than a house takes 0.9183 acres on 150 ft of width, with 50 ft in front and to the rear, 30 ft to each side, at 30% building and 40% impervious coverage.
• The side yards must total 25 feet, so 12 feet on each side falls a foot short.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• In a residential district such as this one, a driveway must keep 5 feet from the side lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

One- and Two-Family Residence - Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.

• A two-family house needs double the lot, 0.3444 acres, on 100 ft of width, with 15 ft to each side and 30 ft for the pair; the front and rear setbacks, height and coverage are unchanged.
• Any other permitted use takes 0.9183 acres on 150 ft of width, 50 ft in front and to the rear, 30 ft to each side and 70 ft for the pair, at 30% building and 40% impervious coverage.
• The side yards must total 25 feet, so 12 feet on each side falls a foot short.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• In a residential district such as this one, a driveway must keep 5 feet from the side lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

Residence R-4 - The figures shown are for a one-family dwelling; the multifamily development this district exists for follows a separate and very different set of requirements.

• Garden apartments, condominiums and townhouses need 0.9183 acres on 125 ft of width at 4,800 square feet per one-bedroom unit, with density capped at 8 units to the acre.
• The per-unit figures run four thousand square feet for an efficiency, six thousand for two bedrooms, and two thousand more for each additional bedroom.
• A development of more than 20 units is held to a larger set: 50 ft in front and to the rear and 30 ft to each side with 60 ft for the pair, against 35 ft and 20 ft otherwise.
• Building coverage limits the footprint and total coverage also counts driveways and every other hard surface: 30% and 60% for multifamily, 50% and 70% for any other use on 150 ft of width.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line, and a driveway must keep 5 feet from the side lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

Commercial - Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.

• A one-family house here needs only 0.1148 acres, the smallest lot anywhere in the village, on 50 ft of width, with 20 ft in front, 12 ft to each side and 25 ft for the pair, 25 ft to the rear.
• A two-family house takes 0.1722 acres on 70 ft of width with 15 ft to each side and 30 ft for the pair, and both it and the one-family row are capped at 35% building and 40% impervious coverage.
• The side yards must total 20 feet, so 8 feet on each side falls four feet short.
• Ministorage follows its own figures: twenty-five thousand square feet on 100 feet of width, fifty feet in front and to the rear, and thirty-five feet on each side.
• Any other permitted use needs thirty thousand square feet on a hundred and fifty feet of width, with forty feet in front.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line, and the use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements.

Light Industrial - Manufacturing and assembly is a special permit use here; a manufacturing building may reach forty-five feet but no more than two floors, while a separate business office building on the same site is held to the height shown.

• The side yards must total 70 feet, so 30 feet on each side falls ten feet short.
• Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

Planned Light Industrial - Where this district abuts a residential district, every required yard doubles and no development at all, including parking and storage, is permitted within fifty feet of the residential boundary.

• Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

Mixed Light Industrial - No front setback is required, so a building may sit on the street line.

• Two coverage caps apply: building coverage limits the footprint, and total coverage also counts driveways, parking and every other hard surface.
• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.

Open Space Conservation - The schedule sets only a minimum lot area here, with no lot width, setback, storey count, height or coverage. What may be built is set by § 250-15.2B(1) rather than by any dimension.

• No accessory building or use may stand in the front setback, or closer than 5 feet to any side or rear lot line.
• The use tables and the rest of Chapter 250 add further bulk requirements that must also be met.