Oyster Bay, NY Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

9 splits Downtown Hicksville into three subdistricts: HD-I Core, HD-II Gateway Transition, and HD-III Residential, replacing the former Central Business (CB) district entirely. The Town Board created the district after Hicksville won $10 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding in 2017, following a community planning process that produced the Hicksville Downtown Revitalization Initiative Strategic Investment Plan. The zoning provisions work together with a companion document, the Hicksville Downtown Design Guidelines and Development Standards, which is kept on file with the Department of Planning and Development and is reproduced as Attachment 28 to Chapter 246.

That document governs building styles, architectural features and site design intended to produce a walkable, transit-oriented mixed-use area near the Hicksville train station, which handles roughly 22,000 LIRR commuters a day. 2 lets the Town Board amend the Design Guidelines by local law under Article I of the Town Code, meaning the guidelines can change without a full zoning-map amendment. 3, needs an area variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals rather than automatic denial. Subdistrict boundaries appear on the Town's official Zoning Map, Attachment 29, and the Town Board, Zoning Board of Appeals, Planning Advisory Board and Department of Planning and Development are all directed to apply both the Code and the Design Guidelines when reviewing land-use applications inside Downtown Hicksville.