Greece, NY Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

Section 211-15 of Greece's Zoning Code establishes the CHC Central Health Care District, a use-specific zone built around hospitals and integrated health-care campuses that requires at least 100 contiguous acres, waivable by the Town Board. Subsection C(1)(b) sets the district's core dimensional rule: no structure or other improvement can be placed closer than 100 feet to the CHC District's boundary line. That baseline grows for taller buildings, since the code adds one additional foot of setback for every foot a building's height exceeds 30 feet, meaning a 60-foot building would need a 130-foot setback from the boundary.

The code exempts utilities, landscaping, earthen berms, and pavement that provides direct access to public streets from the 100-foot minimum, so a driveway connection or a berm can sit closer to the line than a hospital wing could. Everything else on a CHC-district lot, including parking, fencing and signage, is governed separately under the parking, fence and sign articles referenced in § 211-15C(2) (Articles V, VI and VII of Chapter 211), rather than under this boundary setback. Because the CHC District is reserved for hospitals and related uses such as day-care centers, senior facilities, hospices, laboratories and administrative offices tied to a health-care complex, this 100-foot rule functions as the buffer between a health campus and whatever neighboring district or use sits across the boundary line.

Note: Greece's general R1 and RS residential district setbacks are set in Table I/Table II bulk schedules kept as separate chapter attachments rather than in the article text, so they are not quoted here.