Village of Bloomingburg, NY: zoning for new construction

Single Family Residential District - A home in the R-1 District needs 0.5 acre on a lot 80 feet wide and 100 feet deep where there is a private well and a public sewer system, set back 30 feet at the front, 15 feet at each side and 30 feet at the rear, no taller than 35 feet and covering no more than 20% of the lot.

• Where there are no public utilities, or only public water, the minimum lot area is 0.75 acre on a lot 100 feet wide and 120 feet deep.
• A one-family or two-family dwelling has a habitable floor area of at least 900 square feet per dwelling unit, and an efficiency apartment at least 500 square feet.
• A manufactured housing park is a special use in any district on at least 3 acres, with 8,000 square feet per home site and every home 50 feet from a street right-of-way line or property line.
• A permitted accessory building may stand in a required side or rear yard if it is no taller than 15 feet, 15 feet from any lot line and 10 feet from the main building.
• A corner lot takes a front yard on both street frontages, and one of the remaining yards counts as the rear yard and the other as the side yard.
• An on-site sewage disposal system stands at least 100 feet from the high water line of any water body, measured from the water rather than from a lot line.

Neighborhood Business District - A building in the NBD District needs 0.5 acre on a lot 80 feet wide and 100 feet deep, set back at least 15 feet and no more than 20 feet at the front, 15 feet at each side and 30 feet at the rear, no taller than 35 feet and covering no more than 35% of the lot.

• The 20 foot front figure is a maximum front yard, a limit on how far back a building may stand, and not a setback it has to meet.
• No use is permitted by right here, so every use needs site plan approval.
• A one-family or two-family dwelling has a habitable floor area of at least 900 square feet per dwelling unit, and an efficiency apartment at least 500 square feet.
• A manufactured housing park is a special use in any district on at least 3 acres, with 8,000 square feet per home site and every home 50 feet from a street right-of-way line or property line.
• A permitted accessory building may stand in a required side or rear yard if it is no taller than 15 feet, 15 feet from any lot line and 10 feet from the main building.
• A corner lot takes a front yard on both street frontages, and one of the remaining yards counts as the rear yard and the other as the side yard.

Planned Unit Development Residential - A planned unit development in the PUDR District needs 5 contiguous acres on a site 300 feet wide and 300 feet deep, no taller than 35 feet and covering no more than 20% of the lot, with vegetated buffers 15 feet wide at the side and rear.

• No front yard figure is published here, and the front yard setback follows the underlying district instead.
• The side and rear figures are vegetated buffers 15 feet wide around the side and rear property lines of the entire development.
• Setbacks for individual buildings are detailed in the site plan and approved during site plan review.
• The district floats and can be located in the R-1 or NBD districts, and it is approved only by resolution of the Village Board.
• Not less than 30% of the gross area is common open space in perpetuity, and all uses are served by central water and sewer systems.
• The base number of dwelling units comes from the gross acreage and the dwelling units per acre of the underlying R-1 or NBD district, and a well designed site plan may exceed it.

Planned Unit Development Commercial - A planned unit development in the PUDC District needs 3 contiguous acres on a site 300 feet wide and 150 feet deep, no taller than 35 feet and covering no more than 35% of the lot, with vegetated buffers 15 feet wide at the side and rear.

• No front yard figure is published here.
• The side and rear figures are vegetated buffers 15 feet wide around the side and rear property lines of the entire development.
• Setbacks for individual buildings are detailed in the site plan and approved during site plan review.
• The district floats and applies to the Neighborhood Business District, replacing its use, area, bulk and density figures, and it is approved only by resolution of the Village Board.
• Common open space of not less than 10% of the tract is provided in perpetuity.
• A permitted accessory building may stand in a required side or rear yard if it is no taller than 15 feet, 15 feet from any lot line and 10 feet from the main building.