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§ 174-8.4. BV Business Village District.

A. Permitted uses are as follows:

(1) All uses permitted in the residential districts (RA and RB).

(2) A mobile home or travel trailer used as a dwelling or business quarters for thirty (30) days or fewer in a year.

B. Permitted uses up to two thousand (2,000) square feet are as follows:

(1) Retail sales and services which do not involve manufacturing on the premises.

(2) Newspaper, job printing and publishing.

(3) Office, bank, office building.

(4) Hotel or motel, restaurant (excluding drive-through food service establishments).

(5) Clinic or medical testing laboratory.

(6) Dwelling on the premises for a night watchman or janitor.

(7) Cafeteria on the premises for use by employees and not the general public.

C. Permitted uses by special permit from the Planning Board are as follows:

(1) All uses listed in Subsection B that are greater than two thousand (2,000) square feet.

(2) Major residential development.

(3) Multifamily dwellings if within a major residential development.

(4) Hospital, nursing home, home for the aged.

(5) Private school, nursery or kindergarten.

(6) Veterinarian, animal hospital, dog kennel.

(7) Multifamily housing for the elderly, owned by a public or a nonprofit community organization.

(8) Private garage or parking for more than three (3) cars or more than one (1) truck or other commercial vehicle.

(9) Indoor recreation, athletic or exercise facility.

(10) Sale or storage of fuel, lumber, building materials and equipment, contractor's yard.

(11) Retail sales and services involving manufacturing of products, the majority of which will be sold on the premises to consumers, with not more than four (4) persons engaged in manufacturing operations.

(12) Automotive service, gasoline station or repair garage, automotive sales.

D. Uses by special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals are as follows:

(1) Accessory Apartment.

(2) Boat livery, cemetery, children's camp, golf course, private nonprofit membership club, public utility, riding stable, ski tow.

(3) Conversion of a one-family house in existence for two (2) years or longer to a two-family dwelling, on a lot with a minimum of fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet.

(4) A mobile home or travel trailer used as a dwelling or business quarters for more than thirty (30) days in a year.

E. Prohibited uses. All uses which are not listed above, legally nonconforming or otherwise allowable by the provisions of the zoning regulations are prohibited.

F. Development standards (Note: Also refer to § 174-10.1, Village Business District plan review.) are as follows:

(1) Minimum lot area: ten thousand (10,000) square feet.

(2) Minimum frontage: sixty (60) feet.

(3) Minimum setbacks:

(a) Front: ten (10) feet; twenty-five (25) feet if on Route 9.

(b) Rear: thirty-five (35) feet.


(c) Side: ten (10) feet; twenty-five (25) feet if adjacent to a residential district.

(d) Other street: ten (10) feet; twenty-five (25) feet if on Route 9.

(4) Maximum height: thirty-five (35) feet, three (3) stories.

(5) Residential dwellings. Residential dwellings in the Business Village District must comply with RB District standards.