A. [Amended 8-13-1974 by Ord. No. 74-ZC-50] Use regulations. In a light industry district, no building or premises shall be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered to be used for any other than one of the following uses:

(1) Farming, floriculture, nurseries and greenhouses and dairies.

(2) Laboratories for scientific and industrial research, testing and development.

(3) Office buildings and banking institutions, provided that such banking institutions are located within or constitute a portion of the structure of an office building and do not occupy more than 20% of the gross floor space of such structure.

(4) Cold storage plant, pasteurizing plant or creamery.

(5) Warehousing and distributing plant, but not including the outdoor storage of goods or materials and not including the storage or sale of lumber, ice, coal, petroleum or petroleum products as a principal use.

(6) Light industrial uses in which the principal activity shall be the manufacture, intermediate processing or assembly of goods for consumer use as follows:

(a) Manufacture, storage or distribution of food products, including beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, candy manufacture, ice cream and dairy products, fruits and vegetables, but not including distillation of beverages or slaughtering and meat packing.

(b) Manufacture of cigars and cigarettes.

(c) Manufacture of textiles, leather goods and clothing.

(d) Publishing, printing, bookbinding.

(e) Manufacture or assembly of furniture and cabinets.

(f) Manufacture or assembly of toys, games, musical instruments, watches, clocks.

(g) Manufacture, assembly or repair of mechanical, optical, photographic, scientific, electrical or electronic instruments,

(h) Compounding of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. ,

(i) A light manufacturing use of the same general character as those specifically permitted in this section when authorized as a special exception by the Board of Appeals and upon a finding by the Board that such use is a light industrial use as defined in this chapter. In addition, the Board shall make findings pursuant to § 198-66 of this chapter.

(7) Municipal or town use permitted in a residence district. EN

(8) Uses clearly accessory and incidental to a permitted use, including but not limited to the following:

(a) Buildings for the storage of materials necessary to a permitted use.

(b) Retail sale of the products of a permitted use, provided such products are manufactured, assembled or produced on the premises.

(c) Employee cafeteria or restaurant.

(d) Signs as regulated in Article XIV.

(9) [Added 2-23-1993 by Ord. No. 93-ZC-300] Day-care centers, where said use occupies no less than 5,000 square feet and is in compliance with the Suffolk County Department of Health and Services and all applicable state and county laws and with the following:

(a) All outdoor areas shall be fenced. Such fencing shall not be within 10 feet of any parking area or driveway, nor within five feet of any property line nor within 10 feet of any residence district boundary.

(b) Adequate drop-off and pickup areas, as required by the Town Planning Board, and parking spaces, as required in § 198-47 for day care centers, must be provided.

(10) Business or trade schools. [Added 2-11-1997 by L. L. No. 6-1997]

(11) Radio, recording, television or motion-picture production studios and stations, provided that antenna towers shall be set back from all property lines a distance at least equal to the height of the tower plus 50 feet. [Added 2-11-1997 by L. L. No. 6-1997]

(12) Libraries, museums and art galleries. [Added 2-11-1997 by L. L. No. 6-1997]

B. Number and uses of warehouse occupants. A building or premises shall be used for not more than six occupants engaged principally in warehouse activities. Each separate warehouse occupant shall occupy no less than 5,000 square feet of building gross floor area. [Added 2-25-1975 by Ord. No. 75-ZC-52; amended 2-23-1992 by Ord. No. 93-ZC-300; 6-6-1995 by Ord. No. 95-ZC-4]

C. Off-street parking regulations. See Article VII. In addition, the following regulations shall apply:

(1) No parking area shall be located within 50 feet of a residence district boundary or within 25 feet of side and rear lot lines. [Amended 5-12-1970 by Ord. No. 70-ZC-95]

(2) No parking area shall be located within a required front yard, except that space for not more than 10 automobiles may be so located, provided that such space shall not be within 50 feet of a front lot line.

D. Off-street loading regulations. See Article VIII. In addition, the following regulations shall apply:

(1) No off-street loading area shall be located within a required front yard nor within 50 feet of a residence district boundary.

E. Height, area and bulk regulations. See Article IX. In addition, the following regulations shall apply:

(1) No building other than a detached accessory dwelling shall be located within 100 feet of a residence district boundary.

(2) Side and rear yards for detached accessory dwellings shall not be less than 25 feet.

(3) Notwithstanding the Town Code, Article IX, § 198-55, in order to make accommodations for heating, air-conditioning and ventilation systems, as well as the need for electrical wiring and computer network equipment and wiring between floors, the Planning Board may approve a building in the I-1 and I-2 Light Industry Districts with a maximum height of no more than fifty-eight (58) feet above the finished grade as measured from the base of the building. This provision shall accommodate no more than four (4) stories within the specified height and in no way increase the gross floor area or building lot coverage that could otherwise be achieved. Any building proposed to be greater than forty-five (45) feet in height, whether existing or new, must be one hundred fifty (150) feet or more from any and all residence district boundaries. [Added 10-7-1998 by L. L. No. 35-1998]

F. [Amended 2-11-1997 by L. L. No. 1-1997] Supplementary use regulations and conditionally permitted uses. See Article XI. In addition, the following may be allowed subject to the issuance of a special use permit by the Board so authorized pursuant to § 198-66 of this chapter.

(1) Concert halls and centers for the performing arts, provided that:

(a) The subject property shall have more than one street frontage.

(b) The subject property is neither adjacent to nor is it across the street from residentially zoned property.

(c) All required area, parking and building setbacks and height and bulk regulations enumerated elsewhere in this chapter shall be adhered to, with the further stipulation that building lot coverage shall not exceed 25%.

(2) Commercial athletic recreation and training facilities, including but not limited to bowling alleys; racquetball, tennis and handball courts; swimming and diving pools; skating rinks; velodromes; gymnastics arenas; and soccer, baseball, softball, climbing and handball facilities; but not to include miniature golf or golf facilities, game centers or other places of amusement or outdoor go-cart or similar outdoor mechanized sports tracks, provided that: [Amended 7-1-1999 by L.L. No. 12-1999; 10-26-2004 by L.L. No. 35-2004]

(a) The subject property is neither adjacent to or across the street from any residentially zoned property, except that the latter may be waived when all activities are conducted within the building and/or when the entire enterprise has no greater than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area.

(b) All required area, parking and building setback and bulk regulations shall be adhered to.

(c) Buildings shall be limited to two (2) stories in height, but may be erected to a height in excess of that permitted for the district, provided that all minimum yard requirements shall be increased one (1) foot for each foot of height in excess of the limit for the district, but no building shall exceed a height of seventy-five (75) feet.

(d) Any outdoor courts, playing fields or viewing areas shall be prohibited from locating in a required front yard and shall furthermore be subject to the same buffer requirements as required for parking areas in the I-1 District.

(e) Accessory sales of athletic equipment shall be limited to the equipment for the specific athletic activity and shall not utilize more than one percent (1%) of the gross floor area of the facility nor more than one thousand (1,000) square feet, whichever is the lesser. Any snack bar shall be subject to the same size limits; however, if a restaurant is a component of the facility, then it shall occupy no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area of the primary use or five thousand (5,000) square feet whichever is the lesser of the two.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subsection, F(2), has been amended as per Local Law No. 35-2004.

(3) Restaurants and food shops (but not to include drive-thru windows) ; personal service shops limited to hair cutting, nail salons, shoe repair, tailoring or dry-cleaning pickup stations; the retail sales of newspapers and magazines; card stores; candy (confectionery) stores; and health and racquet clubs, provided that: [Added 9-24-2002 by L. L. No. 48-2002; amended 11-19-2002 by L. L. No. 60-2002]

(a) Such accessory uses are located within office buildings containing no less than one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area and comprise in total, for all such accessory uses, no more than ten percent (10%) of the floor area of the building nor more than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area, whichever is the lesser.

(b) All eating establishments shall in no case, in aggregate, occupy more than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area.

(c) If adjacent to residentially zoned land, no portion of the building may be within two hundred (200) feet of such residentially zoned land.

(d) Signage shall be limited to that permitted by § 198-92D, and no variance from any of the requirements of the Sign Ordinance shall be permitted.

(e) No additional parking shall be required for such permitted accessory restaurant, personal service, retail or health club use, and all parking shall be provided at the rate required for the office use of the building. Any variance of required parking and/or required parking buffers and/or setbacks to allow the uses in this subsection, shall foreclose any and all such uses.

(4) Restaurants, but not to include drive-thru windows in industrial buildings, provided the following: [Added 9-24-2002 by L. L. No. 48-2002; amended 11-19-2002 by L. L. No. 60-2002]

(a) Such accessory restaurants are located within industrial buildings containing no less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) square feet of gross floor area and occupy no more than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet of gross floor area for all such establishments.

(b) Signage shall be limited to that which is permitted by § 198-92D, and no variance from any of the requirements of the Sign Ordinance shall be permitted.

(c) If adjacent to residentially zoned land, no portion of the building shall be within two hundred (200) feet of such residentially zoned land.

(d) No additional parking shall be required for the accessory restaurant use of a portion of the building, and all parking shall be provided at the rate required for the industrial use of the building. Any variance of required parking and/or required parking buffers and/or set-backs to allow the uses in this subsection, shall foreclose any and all such uses.

G. Supplementary height, area and bulk regulations. See Article IX.

H. Site development plan. Building and site development plans for a proposed use shall be submitted to the Planning Board at the Planning Department before an application for a building permit is made. The Planning Board shall review such plan and act thereon as specified and limited in Article XVII, and no building permit shall be issued until the plans have been approved. [Amended 7-10-1973 by Ord. No. 73-ZC-45]

I. Security gates within the Huntington Village Business Improvement District. [Added 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 95-ZC-98]

(1) The installation of exterior security gates on the front exterior of business storefronts, restaurants and offices, including both display windows and entrance doors, is prohibited in that area of the Town of Huntington within the Huntington Village Business Improvement District. Any exterior security gates legally installed prior to May 23, 1995, at any above-described premises must be removed immediately upon any change of ownership of said commercial premises or upon any change of tenancy at said commercial premises, whichever shall occur first.

(2) Interior security gates and security gates on garage doors and building loading entrances shall not be prohibited.

(3) Prohibited security gates may be appealed to the Zoning Board of Appeals but may only be granted on a finding by said Board of extreme financial and/or security hardship caused to the owner and/or tenant of the premises by the lack of said gates at said premises.

**Webmasters Note: The previous section has been amended as per Local Law No. 60-2002.