[Added 7-3-1984]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
FLOATING HOME - Any vessel designed or, in fact, used or occupied as a dwelling unit, living and sleeping quarters, business office or source of any occupation or for any private or social club of whatsoever nature, including but not limited to a structure constructed upon a barge primarily immobile -and out of navigation or which functions substantially as a land structure while the same is moored or docked, whether such vessel is self-propelled or not.
A. Floating homes moored or erected over public lands underwater shall be prohibited from all zone districts.
B. Floating homes moored or erected over private lands underwater shall be prohibited from all zone districts except the FHP. Floating Home District.
In FHP. Floating Home District, no floating home shall be hereafter moored or altered, unless otherwise provided by this chapter, except for the following uses.
In the FHP. Floating Home District, the use of a floating home for a business or profession shall be prohibited.
In the FHP. Floating Home District, no floating homes hereafter moored or altered shall be more than twenty-one (21) feet high, as measured from the waterline.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, no floating home shall be moored or altered on or over an underwater lot having an area of less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, the total area of a floating home shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the underwater lot area.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, there shall be a distance of five (5) feet between the pier or bulkhead line and front wall of a floating home.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, where two (2) or more floating homes are moored together, there shall be ten (10) feet of open water space between the side walls or floats of adjacent floating homes.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, no floating home shall be moored or constructed unless provided with electricity, municipal water service and municipal sewage disposal facilities.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, two (2) paved off-street parking spaces shall be provided for each floating home.
In the F.H. Floating Home District, all floating homes shall be subject to the provisions of the State Building Construction Code and the Building Construction Code of the Town of Babylon.
In the F.H. Flating Home District, every application for the creation of a floating home district shall be subject to the review of the Planning Board of the Town of Babylon.
Each applicant shall be required to prepare an environmental assessment [similar to that required by the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA)] and to file this assessment with the Planning Board, and it shall accompany the site plan application.
