Monroe County

Village of Scottsville, NY: zoning for new construction

5 districts Min residential lot 0.1377–0.3673 ac RG&E

Residential lots in the Village of Scottsville run from a 0.1377-acre minimum in One-Family Residential 6 (R1-6) — 6,000 sf for a one-family detached dwelling with 60 ft of lot width, front yard 30 ft, side yard 10 ft, rear yard 30 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 35%. This is the village's traditional small-lot fabric district and the ONLY residential district whose front yard is not 50 ft — at 30 ft it produces a much tighter streetwall than R1-16 or R1-12. R1-6 IS THE ONLY DISTRICT IN SCOTTSVILLE PERMITTING A TWO-FAMILY DWELLING, AND IT PERMITS IT ON THE SAME 6,000 SF AS A ONE-FAMILY — so the second unit costs no additional land whatever, which is the most permissive two-family treatment found in any Monroe village. The one-family attached and multifamily rows are not available here. NONRESIDENTIAL USES TAKE DOUBLE THE LOT: 12,000 sf against the residential 6,000, with a 50 ft front yard against the residential 30 — the only district where the residential and nonresidential front yards differ. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap; there is no garage setback requirement here, unlike R1-16 and R1-12. Minimum residential floor area is 800 sf of ground floor for a one-storey dwelling, 650 sf of ground floor for a two-storey and 1,000 sf in total for anything over one storey. Every dimension carries the 'or the most common on the block' alternative — see the entry's `source` — which matters more in this district than any other, since R1-6 covers the oldest and most irregular part of the village where the block average is likeliest to differ from the schedule. up to 0.3673 acres in One-Family Residential 16 (R1-16) — 16,000 sf for a one-family detached dwelling with 100 ft of lot width, front yard 50 ft, side yard 12 ft, rear yard 35 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 25%. The village's largest-lot and lowest-coverage district. THE MINIMUM LOT AREA MORE THAN DOUBLES WITHOUT PUBLIC SEWER: table note 3 sets 40,000 SQUARE FEET for lots without access to public sewers, against the 16,000 sf recorded here. Scottsville is an incorporated village on public sewer so the serviced figure is the right default, but the 40,000 sf case is a real alternative on any unserviced edge parcel and note 1 adds a general performance backstop — where public sewerage is not available, no lot may be built upon that has insufficient space for a private sanitary waste disposal system as determined by the Monroe County Department of Health, which can defeat the stated minimum on poor soils regardless of acreage. EVERY DIMENSION IN THIS DISTRICT IS CONTEXTUAL — see the entry's `source` — because table notes 2, 4 and 5 and the bulk table's notes 1 and 2 each add 'or the most common lot area / lot width / yard / building height / lot coverage on the block in which the lot is located'. The recorded figures are the stated defaults; on a built-up Scottsville street the block may govern instead. NONRESIDENTIAL USES TAKE THE SAME 16,000 SF AND 100 FT here, unusually, with a 15 ft side yard against the residential 12. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap. MINIMUM RESIDENTIAL FLOOR AREA IS THE LARGEST IN THE VILLAGE AND IS A REAL COST FLOOR: 1,300 sf of ground floor for a one-storey dwelling, 800 sf of ground floor for a two-storey, and 1,600 sf in total for anything over one storey. A GARAGE SETBACK OF 10 FT measured from the front building line applies to all dwelling units in this district and in R1-12 only., across 5 zoning districts in all. No local short-term-rental law on record - which is not the same as permission. Power here is RG&E territory. The district table below has the setbacks, height limits and coverage - confirm the specifics with the building department at (585) 889-6050 before you rely on a figure.

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Zoning districts

District	Min lot	Setbacks F / S / R	Max height	ADU
One-Family Residential 16 (R1-16) — 16,000 sf (0.37 acres) for a one-family detached dwelling with 100 ft of lot width, front yard 50 ft, side yard 12 ft, rear yard 35 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 25%. The village's largest-lot and lowest-coverage district. THE MINIMUM LOT AREA MORE THAN DOUBLES WITHOUT PUBLIC SEWER: table note 3 sets 40,000 SQUARE FEET for lots without access to public sewers, against the 16,000 sf recorded here. Scottsville is an incorporated village on public sewer so the serviced figure is the right default, but the 40,000 sf case is a real alternative on any unserviced edge parcel and note 1 adds a general performance backstop — where public sewerage is not available, no lot may be built upon that has insufficient space for a private sanitary waste disposal system as determined by the Monroe County Department of Health, which can defeat the stated minimum on poor soils regardless of acreage. EVERY DIMENSION IN THIS DISTRICT IS CONTEXTUAL — see the entry's `source` — because table notes 2, 4 and 5 and the bulk table's notes 1 and 2 each add 'or the most common lot area / lot width / yard / building height / lot coverage on the block in which the lot is located'. The recorded figures are the stated defaults; on a built-up Scottsville street the block may govern instead. NONRESIDENTIAL USES TAKE THE SAME 16,000 SF AND 100 FT here, unusually, with a 15 ft side yard against the residential 12. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap. MINIMUM RESIDENTIAL FLOOR AREA IS THE LARGEST IN THE VILLAGE AND IS A REAL COST FLOOR: 1,300 sf of ground floor for a one-storey dwelling, 800 sf of ground floor for a two-storey, and 1,600 sf in total for anything over one storey. A GARAGE SETBACK OF 10 FT measured from the front building line applies to all dwelling units in this district and in R1-12 only.	0.3673 ac	50 / 12 / 35 ft	35 ft	Special permit
One-Family Residential 12 (R1-12) — 12,000 sf (0.28 acres) for a one-family detached dwelling with 80 ft of lot width, front yard 50 ft, side yard 10 ft, rear yard 30 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 30%. The front yard is unchanged from R1-16's 50 ft — Scottsville holds a 50 ft front across every residential district except R1-6 — so the step down from R1-16 buys a narrower, shallower lot rather than a shallower setback. Every dimension carries the 'or the most common on the block' alternative described in the entry's `source`; the recorded figures are the stated defaults. Nonresidential uses take the same 12,000 sf and 80 ft with a 15 ft side yard and a 35 ft rear. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap. MINIMUM RESIDENTIAL FLOOR AREA drops sharply from R1-16's: 800 sf of ground floor for a one-storey dwelling (against 1,300), 650 sf of ground floor for a two-storey, and 1,000 sf in total for anything over one storey (against 1,600). THAT 500 SF DIFFERENCE IN THE TOTAL FLOOR MINIMUM IS THE SHARPEST DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO LARGEST DISTRICTS and matters more to build cost than the 4,000 sf of extra land does. R1-12 shares with R1-16 the 10 ft GARAGE SETBACK measured from the front building line, which the smaller districts do not carry. Note that R1-12 permits only a one-family detached dwelling — the attached, two-family and multifamily rows are all N/A or blank for this district.	0.2755 ac	50 / 10 / 30 ft	35 ft	Special permit
One-Family Residential 6 (R1-6) — 6,000 sf (0.14 acres) for a one-family detached dwelling with 60 ft of lot width, front yard 30 ft, side yard 10 ft, rear yard 30 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 35%. This is the village's traditional small-lot fabric district and the ONLY residential district whose front yard is not 50 ft — at 30 ft it produces a much tighter streetwall than R1-16 or R1-12. R1-6 IS THE ONLY DISTRICT IN SCOTTSVILLE PERMITTING A TWO-FAMILY DWELLING, AND IT PERMITS IT ON THE SAME 6,000 SF AS A ONE-FAMILY — so the second unit costs no additional land whatever, which is the most permissive two-family treatment found in any Monroe village. The one-family attached and multifamily rows are not available here. NONRESIDENTIAL USES TAKE DOUBLE THE LOT: 12,000 sf against the residential 6,000, with a 50 ft front yard against the residential 30 — the only district where the residential and nonresidential front yards differ. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap; there is no garage setback requirement here, unlike R1-16 and R1-12. Minimum residential floor area is 800 sf of ground floor for a one-storey dwelling, 650 sf of ground floor for a two-storey and 1,000 sf in total for anything over one storey. Every dimension carries the 'or the most common on the block' alternative — see the entry's `source` — which matters more in this district than any other, since R1-6 covers the oldest and most irregular part of the village where the block average is likeliest to differ from the schedule.	0.1377 ac	30 / 10 / 30 ft	35 ft	Special permit
Residential Attached 1-4 (RA1-4) — 4,000 sf (0.09 acres) with just 26 FEET OF LOT WIDTH AND A ZERO SIDE YARD, maximum lot coverage 35% and maximum height 35 ft. THIS IS A FEE-SIMPLE ROWHOUSE DISTRICT AND IT IS ONE OF ONLY TWO IN MONROE COUNTY, alongside Fairport's RTN — a 4,000 sf lot at 26 ft of width with no side yard is an attached-dwelling parcel and nothing else. The dimensional table confirms it directly: RA1-4 is the ONLY district in the village where the 'one-family, ATTACHED' row carries a figure (4,000 sf), and its one-family DETACHED row carries the same 4,000 sf, so a detached house on a 26 ft lot is nominally permitted but geometrically implausible. THE ZERO SIDE YARD IS THE POINT — party walls are contemplated, and it is the only zero side yard recorded in this county's residential districts. A SEPARATE CHAPTER-WIDE RULE CONFIRMS THE DISTRICT'S SPECIAL STATUS AND IS EASY TO MISS: § 170-17 sets a minimum lot frontage at the street line of 40 ft in ALL districts EXCEPT RA1-4, where it drops to 22 FEET. So RA1-4 gets its own frontage rule as well as its own width, and 22 ft is the narrowest street frontage permitted anywhere in the village. THE FRONT AND REAR YARDS DO NOT RELAX TO MATCH: the front yard stays at 50 ft, the same as R1-16 and R1-12 and well above R1-6's 30 ft, and the rear yard is 30 ft — so a 26 ft wide lot must still hold 80 ft of combined front and rear yard, which is what makes the district's lots deep and narrow. Nonresidential uses take 12,000 sf and a 15 ft side yard. Accessory structures take 5 ft side and 10 ft rear yards and a 20 ft height cap. Minimum residential floor area is 800 sf of ground floor for a one-storey, 650 sf for a two-storey and 1,000 sf in total above one storey.	0.0918 ac	50 / 0 / 30 ft	35 ft	No
Residential Multifamily (RM) — 12,000 sf (0.28 acres) for a one-family detached dwelling but 16,000 SF FOR A MULTIFAMILY DWELLING, with 100 ft of lot width, front yard 50 ft, rear yard 30 ft, maximum height 35 ft and maximum lot coverage 25%. The recorded minLotSize is the one-family figure, consistent with every other district in this entry; A MULTIFAMILY SCHEME NEEDS THE LARGER 16,000 SF FLOOR, and note that the table states a flat minimum rather than a per-unit density, so unlike Churchville, Honeoye Falls and Rush there is no square-feet-per-dwelling-unit figure to work from — the unit count in RM is presumably controlled by coverage, height and the supplemental regulations rather than by a density ratio, and that should be confirmed before sizing a scheme. RM IS THE ONLY DISTRICT IN SCOTTSVILLE PERMITTING MULTIFAMILY, and its 25% coverage cap is the joint-lowest in the village alongside R1-16 — so the district that permits the most units also permits the least building footprint, which is a real constraint on a multi-unit scheme and pushes it toward height, except that height is capped at the same 35 ft as everywhere else. THE SIDE YARD IS 30 FEET, BY FAR THE LARGEST IN THE VILLAGE — two and a half times R1-16's 12 ft — and applies to residential and nonresidential uses alike, which is the code's way of buffering multifamily form from its neighbours. Accessory structures take a 15 ft side yard here against 5 ft in every other district, and a 10 ft rear yard and 20 ft height cap. Minimum residential floor area is 800 sf of ground floor for a one-storey, 650 sf for a two-storey and 1,000 sf in total above one storey. Every dimension carries the 'or the most common on the block' alternative described in the entry's `source`.	0.2755 ac	50 / 30 / 30 ft	35 ft	No

Short-term rentals

No local short-term-rental law on record - which is not the same as permission. NO SHORT-TERM RENTAL PROVISION EXISTS IN SCOTTSVILLE, AND THIS IS NOW SETTLED AGAINST THE USE TABLE ITSELF RATHER THAN INFERRED. Table 170-11.1 Residential District Use Regulations (chapter Attachment 1, SC1216-170a, dated 05-01-2018) was pulled and read in full on 2026-08-13: it scores every land use P, SP or em dash across all five residential districts and CONTAINS NO SHORT-TERM RENTAL ROW. Article V Supplemental Use and District Regulations likewise returns nothing for 'short-term rental' or 'tourist home', and all 45 chapters of the Village Code were enumerated and swept for a rental, lodging, licensing, registration or occupancy chapter — none exists. That whole-code step is mandatory in this county: Mendon hides a full STR operating-permit regime in Ch. 208, Gates in Ch. 148, and the Village of Pittsford requires BOTH a zoning permission under its Article 29 and a separate Ch. 154 rental property permit. Scottsville's negative is therefore tested at both levels. The earlier entry stated the village had no bed-and-breakfast or lodging use of any kind, inferred from the supplemental-regulations article because Attachment 1 had not been pulled. THAT WAS WRONG. Table 170-11.1 lists a BED-AND-BREAKFAST as SPECIALLY PERMITTED (SP) in R1-16, R1-12 AND R1-6, and prohibited only in RA1-4 and RM. So Scottsville sits with Churchville, Honeoye Falls, Brockport and the Village of Pittsford, not with Riga and Wheatland. A bed-and-breakfast is an owner-present lodging use on a special permit and is NOT a whole-house short-term rental, so it does not change strStatus — but the claim that the village permits no lodging at all is retracted. The bed-and-breakfast carries an asterisk in the table, meaning it is a Special Use subject to the additional regulations of ARTICLE IX. THE USE TABLE IS A CLOSED MATRIX — its own notes define P as Permitted, SP as Specially Permitted and an em dash as PROHIBITED — so an unlisted whole-house short-term rental is affirmatively prohibited rather than merely unaddressed. strStatus is recorded 'unknown' rather than 'prohibited' only because that reading has not been confirmed with the Village. New York State's 2025 statewide short-term rental registry (Ch. 99 of the Laws of 2025) obliges every host to register regardless of local law. Confirm with Code Enforcement at (585) 889-6050.

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Building dept(585) 889-6050
Last reviewed2026-08-13

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Zoning figures for Village of Scottsville are compiled from the municipal code (last reviewed 2026-08-13) and provided for decision-support only - not legal, engineering, or architectural advice. Setback and dimensional standards often carry conditions and exceptions; verify with the building department at (585) 889-6050 before relying on any number. Source: Offsite / Aldo zoning dataset, municipalData.js.