Town of Holland - Land Uses

Accessory uses

A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the main use or building and located on the same lot therewith.

Amusement areas

Animal hospital

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use is allowed: M Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-2, R-A

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
A. All buildings and areas housing animals shall be set back from all lot lines at least 50 feet.
B. All provisions of Chapter 64: Dogs, herein shall apply where appropriate.

Animal kennel

Any pen, building, or other structure, but not including a building used for human habitation, in which four or more dogs are kept for the purpose of breeding, sale, training, boaarding, grooming, housing, or sporting purposes, with the exception of a pet shop.

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use is allowed: M Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-2, R-A

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
A. All buildings and areas housing animals shall be set back from all lot lines at least 50 feet.
B. All provisions of Chapter 64: Dogs, herein shall apply where appropriate.

Animal shelters for domestic house pets

Auditorium

Automotive repair garages

See defintion for "Commercial Garage" in § 120-3: Word usage; definitions.

Banking and financial offices

Barber shop

Beauty shop

Bed-and-breakfasts

The furnishing of meals and/or living accommodations for five or more persons on a daily, weekly or longer time basis for compensation.

Boarding- or rooming houses

The furnishing of meals and/or living accommodations for five or more persons on a daily, weekly or longer time basis for compensation.

Business offices

Cabin, hunting and fishing

A cabin, camp or lean-to or other similar structure designed and used only for occasional occupancy and primarily for hunting, fishing, and similar purposes that:
(1) Is a one-story structure but may include a sleeping loft;
(2) Is built on posts or piers and does not have a permanent foundation;
(3) Is served by a sanitary pit privy or chemical toilet and does not have a conventional, on-site wastewater treatment system;
(4) Does not have pressurized or indoor plumbing (this prohibition does not preclude a kitchen sink with appropriate grey water leach pit); and
(5) Is not connected to any public utilities (such as electric, phone, cable, water or sewer systems).

Camping grounds

Land used on a seasonal basis for the accommodation of tents, trailers or other nondwelling arrangements. This term does not include mobile home courts or permanent-type structures which penetrate ground by more than 10 inches.

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-2, R-A

Development Requirements:
Campgrounds may be permitted in the R-A District, provided that the following standards are observed:
A. No portion of the property for which a special use permit is sought is within 1,000 feet of any watercourse which is part of any water supply system.

B. All provisions of the Sanitary Code or such other regulations of the State Health Department pertaining to camps shall be complied with.

C. The number of persons to be accommodated shall not exceed one person per 10,000 square feet of area within such grounds.

D. No camp structure shall be located within 300 feet of any street or property line.

E. All requirements of Chapter 83: Mobile Homes, as amended from time to time on this subject, shall be met, and other standards and conditions may be promulgated by the Town Board in its sole discretion. Such discretion includes the total denial of a special permit application as determined by the sole and absolute discretion of the Town Board. All applications shall be in accordance with and governed by the procedures set forth in Chapter 83: Mobile Homes, then in effect.

Car showrooms and sales lots, new and used

Cemeteries

Churches

Clothing and personal sundry shops

Cluster residential developments

A development of residential lots, each containing less area than the minimum lot required for the zone within which such development occurs, but maintaining the density limitation imposed by said minimum lot area through the provision of open space as a part of the subdivision plan.

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-1, R-2, R-A

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
Cluster residential developments of one-family dwellings may be permitted in the R-A and R-1 Residential Districts of the Town, provided that the following conditions are observed:

A. The project shall encompass a minimum land area of 25 acres.

B. The developer shall dedicate all unsubdivided lands to permanent open space. In no case shall these lands be less than 25% of the total project area. All such lands shall be suitable, in the opinion of the Planning Board, for the intended use. Such lands shall be offered for dedication to the Town Board of the Town of Holland.

C. The developer shall have received the recommendations of the Planning Board of the design and arrangement of streets, lots, open areas and other elements of the project prior to filing the special use permit application.

D. The requirements of this chapter, insofar as density, minimum lot area, minimum lot width, minimum side and rear yard areas and maximum lot coverage are as specified in the schedule of this chapter. All other requirements of this chapter shall be adhered to.

See § 120-45: Cluster residential developments for complete, detailed information.

Commercial garages

Any building, structure or lot which is used for the repair, maintenance or equipment of motor vehicles. This definition shall apply to § 120-26: HB Highway Business District and § 120-27: M Manufacturing and Industrial District. For the purpose of lot and bulk requirements in the HB District, "commercial garages" shall be regulated under retail and service uses. For the purpose of the Schedule of Area, Lot and Bulk Requirements for the Manufacturing and Industrial District, special garages shall be in addition to those previously scheduled

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use is allowed: HB, M

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
A. Commercial garages may be permitted in Highway Business and Manufacturing Districts.

B. The following standards shall apply to all commercial garages located within the Town of Holland:

(1) No major repair work shall be conducted outside of the structure.

(2) All automobile parts and similar articles shall be stored within the structure.

(3) No more than two dismantled vehicles, vehicles under repair, vehicles awaiting repair or repaired vehicles awaiting pickup shall be left in the area between the building line or front wall of a building and the front property line for more than 72 hours. In the case of a corner lot, the property shall be considered to have two front main walls and two front property lines.

(4) A maximum number of vehicles as permitted under Subsection B(3), above, shall be six unless allowed as a condition of the special permit.

(5) The site shall be maintained so that vehicles using the facility shall not obstruct or become a hazard to users of the public sidewalks or highways on which the station or garage fronts.

Conservation projects

Contractor's yards exterior storage

Convents

County parks

County, state or federal recreation areas and buildings

Customary residential storage structures

Customary residential structures

Drive-in restaurants

Drugstores and pharmacies

Dry-cleaning and laundry establishments

Electric generator wind tower

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-A

Development Requirements:
In order to provide maximum flexibility in the establishment of private electric-generating systems, said systems will be allowed by special permit use, subject to the following conditions:

A. Construction, operation and maintenance must be in strict compliance with all requirements of the Public Service Commission and with the public utility contracted with.

B. All structures must meet applicable code rules and regulations and be certified by a licensed New York State engineer with respect to its compliance.

C. All structures must be built a distance from all other structures, a distance of at least twice the height of the structure.

D. The maximum height of the structure is 100 feet.

E. The owner and operator of generating station is responsible for interference with the use of adjoining and nearby properties, particularly in regard to electrical interference.

F. The appropriate government body retains the right to establish whatever safeguards and requirements it deems appropriate and necessary.

Excavation operations

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-A

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
Excavation operation, including the extraction of sand and gravel and processing or other operations for preparation of sand and gravel, may be permitted in districts of the Town, provided that the following conditions and standards are observed:

The minimum lot area for any such use shall be 10 acres; all buildings and excavation operations shall be located or shall occur not less than 100 feet from any street or property lines. The Town Board may require fencing or some similarly effective barrier six feet in height where excavations are to exceed a depth of four feet.

All buildings and structures used in such operations shall be dismantled and removed within 12 months following the termination of the operations, shall be made at the expense of the operator and shall be a condition of approval of the special use permit.

All buildings, structures and plants used for the processing of excavated materials shall be maintained so as to assure that such buildings, structures and plants shall not become dangerously dilapidated.

All equipment used for the excavation of sand and gravel and the processing thereof shall be constructed, maintained and operated in such a manner as to eliminate, as far as is practicable, noises and vibrations and dust conditions which are injurious or substantially annoying to all persons living in the vicinity; all operations shall be conducted between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. There will be no operations on Sundays, except in the case that public or private emergency repairs to equipment are required to be made.

All excavations must either be made to a water-producing depth or graded and backfilled.

Excavations made to a water-producing depth shall be properly sloped to the waterline, with banks sodded or surfaced with soil of an equal quality to adjacent land area topsoil; such topsoil required under this section shall be planted with trees, shrubs, legumes or grasses upon the parts of such areas where revegetation is possible.

See § 120-43: Excavation operations for complete, detailed information.

Fabrication of metal products

Fabrication of paper products

Fabrication of wood products

Farm animal operations and housing of farms

Districts Where Allowed Districts where use may be allowed with Special Use Permit: R-A

Vehicle Parking:
See § 120-53: Parking requirements for detailed information on parking.

Development Requirements:
Less than 10 acres and not less than three acres on one separate parcel of owned or rented land, together with all customary buildings and other structures necessary for the production and storage of the products of such pursuits, provided that no buildings, pens and runways for the confinement of livestock or poultry shall be within 50 feet of any lot line, and no manure or other dust-producing substances shall be stored within 100 feet of any lot line.

Farm buildings, customary

FARM BUILDING OR USE
Any use of land or buildings customarily a part of farm or agricultural pursuits, including the housing of farm animals, except fur-bearing animals, the repair of equipment used on the premises and the sale of farm products where such is clearly incidental to the overall use of the premises as a farm.

Farming

Town of Holland, NY

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