A. Use regulations. In the I-5 General Industry District, a building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

(1) Uses permitted in the I-1 Light Industry District.

(2) Municipal storage and repair garages, municipal animal shelters, municipal incinerators.

(3) Warehousing, wholesaling and storage yards, including lumberyards, building material and supply yards or contractors' equipment yards, provided that no storage or display of materials or goods shall be permitted in a required front yard nor within five (5) feet of any other property line or ten (10) feet of a residence district boundary. No storage shall extend above the height of the building nor shall it be greater than eight (8) feet in height when within twenty-five (25) feet of any residence district boundary. Storage containers shall provide the same setbacks as required for buildings pursuant to §§198-38 and 198-58F, whichever may be greater.

No storage of any kind shall be allowed within twenty-five (25) feet of a front property line that is across the street from residential uses, and a dense evergreen buffer shall be required along such a property line(s). Landscaping along all other property lines shall be required in accordance with the Subdivision Regulations and Site improvement Specifications, by the Planning Board, during site plan review and approval. [Amended 9-7-1999 by L.L. No. 14-1999]

(4) Retail business establishments where permitted as a special exception by the Board of Appeals on findings pursuant to §198-66.

(5) Public utility facilities and installations, but not including generating stations.

(6) Industrial uses not specifically mentioned elsewhere in this section, subject to the issuance of a special use permit by the Board of Appeals on findings pursuant to §198-66. Such uses may include generally the storage and distribution of goods and the manufacturing, compounding, processing or packaging of products from raw materials processed elsewhere, provided that no nuisance or hazard shall be exerted upon residential districts by reason of fire or explosion, toxic or corrosive fumes, gas, smoke, odor, radioactivity or offensive noise, vibration or effluent.

(7) Automobile wrecking and the baling, storage or processing of junk, scrap metal, paper and similar material where permitted as a special exception by the Board of Appeals upon findings by the Board pursuant to §198-66. No such activity shall be conducted within two hundred (200) feet of a residence district boundary and the entire premises devoted to such use shall be enclosed within a solid fence or planting screen not less than eight feet in height. AR baling and compressing shall be conducted indoors.

(8) Advertising signs as regulated in Article XIV.

(9) Accessory buildings and uses, including but not limited to storage buildings, identification signs as regulated in Article XIV, retail outlets accessory to a permitted industrial use, off-street parking and loading areas.

B. Off-street parking regulations for permitted uses. See Article VII. In addition, the following regulations shall apply:

(1) No parking area shall be located within twenty (20) feet of a residence district boundary.

C. Off-street loading regulations for permitted uses. 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 twenty (20) feet of a residence district boundary.

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

(1) A principal building may exceed forty-five (45) feet in height, provided that the depth of all required yards shall be increased two (2) feet for each foot of height in excess of forty-five (45) feet, but no building shall exceed seventy-five (75) feet in any case.

E. Supplementary use regulations and conditionally permitted uses. See Article XI.

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

G. Site development plan. Any and all building and site development plans for a proposed use shall be submitted to the Planning Board before an application for a building permit is made. The Planning Board shall review such plans and act thereon as specified and limited in Article XVII, and no building permit may be issued until the plans have been approved. [Added 12-4-1991 by Ord. No. 91-ZC- 266]

H. Security gates within the Huntington Village Business Improvement District. [Added 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 95-ZC-198]

(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.

A. Use regulations. In the I-6 Generating Station District, a building or premises shall be used only for the following purposes:

(1) Generation of electrical energy, including facilities and appurtenances for the transmission and distribution thereof in the Town of Huntington and to other places, by a corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission of the State of New York.

(2) Municipal uses and buildings.

(3) Accessory buildings and uses, including but not limited to the storage of fuel and dock facilities for the receiving and discharge thereof, off-street parking and loading areas. All accessory buildings and uses, including the storage of fuel and dock facilities for the receiving and discharge of fuel and off-street parking and loading areas, shall be solely for the use of the operator of the generating facility and for no other purpose. [Amended 3-7-1972 by Ord. No. 72-ZC-27]

(4) Marine biological laboratory for the propagation and cultivation of oysters and other shellfish, including pure and applied research and experimental production in the science of aquiculture. For the purpose of this section, a marine information center and museum operated in conjunction with the marine laboratory and in the same building, open to the public for a reasonable number of hours not less than six (6) days a week, of which no more than two (2) days shall be for group tours, shall be permitted as an accessory use.

(5) Athletic fields, including soccer, baseball, lacrosse fields, etc., where no paved surfaces are required. Sufficient area shall be provided for parking and it shall be located on a designated area that is not paved with an impervious surface. At a minimum, forty (40) parking spaces per playing field shall be required. Drainage shall take place naturally, without catch basins or curbing, provided that a grading plan can be provided that will ensure that runoff will not cause erosion or flooding. Spectator seating may also be provided; however, such seating may not be visible from any adjacent residential zoned district. Accessory structures, including but not limited to storage shed (containers), bathroom facilities, irrigation facilities, refuse storage facilities, etc. shall be permitted. All such activities may take place no closer than one hundred (100) feet or more from any residence district boundary. [Added 9-7-1999 by L.L. No. 15-1999]

B. Off-street parking and loading areas. Adequate off-street areas shall be provided for employee parking and for the loading and unloading of delivery and service vehicles, and such areas shall be paved and maintained at all times.

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

(1) Whenever a peripheral screening area or buffer strip shown on an approved site plan of a premises in a Generating Station District is zoned for residential purposes and such buffer strip is owned by a corporation described in the use regulations of this section or by the Town of Huntington or any other municipal corporation, body, agency, authority or special improvement district thereof, such buffer strip shall be included in computing the required yards and building setbacks.

(2) No building or premises shall be located within two hundred (200) feet of a property line or residence district boundary, except as provided in this section.

D. Supplementary use regulations. See Article XI.

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

F. 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 plans 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]

G. Security gates within the Huntington Village Business Improvement District. [Added 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 95-ZC-198]

(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.