Saratoga County

Village of Round Lake, NY: zoning for new construction

4 districts Min residential lot 0.32–10 ac National Grid

Residential lots in the Village of Round Lake run from a 0.32-acre minimum in RV-1 Residential. Customary agricultural operations are permitted, but raising poultry or livestock needs a special permit. ACCESSORY ITEMS HAVE THEIR OWN, MUCH TIGHTER ENVELOPE: 40 ft front, 7 ft side, 10 ft rear and A 12 FT HEIGHT CAP. THE TABLE CARRIES A 'MINIMUM AVAILABLE BUILDING AREA' COLUMN, WHICH IS A FLOOR RATHER THAN A CEILING AND IS UNUSUAL ENOUGH TO CONFIRM BEFORE RELYING ON: the phrase is not defined in § 180-3, and it reads either as a minimum building size or as a minimum contiguous buildable area remaining on the lot after setbacks. Either way it is a MINIMUM, so it works against small structures rather than large ones. Get the Building Department's reading at (518) 899-2800 before designing to it. Short-term rentals and bed-and-breakfasts require a special use permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals under § 180-27.1 and the Board of Trustees may cap their number in this zone by resolution — see strNotes. No accessory apartment or ADU provision exists anywhere in Ch. 180.) up to 10 acres in LCV Land Conservation, golf and country clubs, and small accessory buildings serving those uses. Underwrite LCV as open space. ), across 4 zoning districts in all. Short-term rentals allowed with local rules. Power here is National Grid territory. The district table below has the setbacks, height limits and coverage - confirm the specifics with the building department at (518) 899-2800 before you rely on a figure.

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Zoning districts

District	Min lot	Setbacks F / S / R	Max height	ADU
RV-1 Residential (the Village's larger-lot residential district: a 14,000 SQ FT minimum lot, 100 ft of frontage width, 40 ft front, 20 ft side and 50 FT REAR yards for a principal structure, 35 ft of height, a 1,000 sq ft minimum available building area — and A MAXIMUM LOT COVERAGE OF ONLY 15%. SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS ONLY — RV-1 does not permit two-family dwellings, unlike RV-2 — and THE VILLAGE'S ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS MUST BE MET FOR ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THIS ZONE, a design-review layer on top of the dimensional one (and themselves amended by L.L. No. 2-2026, adopted 4-15-2026 and not yet codified, so read the local law). Customary agricultural operations are permitted, but raising poultry or livestock needs a special permit. ACCESSORY ITEMS HAVE THEIR OWN, MUCH TIGHTER ENVELOPE: 40 ft front, 7 ft side, 10 ft rear and A 12 FT HEIGHT CAP. THE TABLE CARRIES A 'MINIMUM AVAILABLE BUILDING AREA' COLUMN, WHICH IS A FLOOR RATHER THAN A CEILING AND IS UNUSUAL ENOUGH TO CONFIRM BEFORE RELYING ON: the phrase is not defined in § 180-3, and it reads either as a minimum building size or as a minimum contiguous buildable area remaining on the lot after setbacks. Either way it is a MINIMUM, so it works against small structures rather than large ones. Get the Building Department's reading at (518) 899-2800 before designing to it. Short-term rentals and bed-and-breakfasts require a special use permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals under § 180-27.1 and the Board of Trustees may cap their number in this zone by resolution — see strNotes. No accessory apartment or ADU provision exists anywhere in Ch. 180.)	0.32 ac	40 / 20 / 50 ft	35 ft	No
RV-2 Residential (the Village's denser residential district and the ONLY ONE THAT PERMITS TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS: a 7,000 SQ FT minimum lot — HALF of RV-1's and the smallest in the Village — 70 ft of frontage width, 20 ft front, 10 ft side and 30 ft rear yards, a 30 ft height, a 900 sq ft minimum available building area and a 20% maximum lot coverage. Professional offices — physician, dentist, lawyer, engineer, architect, accountant — are permitted WITHIN A DWELLING OCCUPIED BY THE SAME PERSON, with off-street parking for clients: a live-work allowance tied to occupancy, not a general office use. THE ACCESSORY ENVELOPE IS THE TIGHTEST IN THE VILLAGE: 20 ft front, 3 FT side, 3 FT rear and AN 8 FT HEIGHT CAP — three feet from the line and eight feet tall, which rules out most detached garages as of right. THE TABLE CARRIES A 'MINIMUM AVAILABLE BUILDING AREA' COLUMN, WHICH IS A FLOOR RATHER THAN A CEILING AND IS UNUSUAL ENOUGH TO CONFIRM BEFORE RELYING ON: the phrase is not defined in § 180-3, and it reads either as a minimum building size or as a minimum contiguous buildable area remaining on the lot after setbacks. Either way it is a MINIMUM, so it works against small structures rather than large ones. Get the Building Department's reading at (518) 899-2800 before designing to it. Short-term rentals and bed-and-breakfasts require a special use permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals under § 180-27.1 and the Board of Trustees may cap their number in this zone by resolution — see strNotes. No accessory apartment or ADU provision exists anywhere in Ch. 180; the two-family dwelling is the route to a second unit here.)	0.16 ac	20 / 10 / 30 ft	30 ft	No
CV-1 Commercial (a 30,000 SQ FT minimum lot — the largest developed-district lot in the Village, more than TWICE RV-1's and over four times RV-2's — with 150 ft of frontage width, 40 ft front, 30 ft side and 30 ft rear yards, a 35 ft height, a 1,200 sq ft minimum available building area and a 15% maximum lot coverage. Accessory items get 40 ft front, 10 ft side, 15 ft rear and a 12 ft height cap. THE TABLE CARRIES A 'MINIMUM AVAILABLE BUILDING AREA' COLUMN, WHICH IS A FLOOR RATHER THAN A CEILING AND IS UNUSUAL ENOUGH TO CONFIRM BEFORE RELYING ON: the phrase is not defined in § 180-3, and it reads either as a minimum building size or as a minimum contiguous buildable area remaining on the lot after setbacks. Either way it is a MINIMUM, so it works against small structures rather than large ones. Get the Building Department's reading at (518) 899-2800 before designing to it. No accessory apartment or ADU provision exists anywhere in Ch. 180.)	0.69 ac	40 / 30 / 30 ft	35 ft	No
LCV Land Conservation (undeveloped land, with A 10-ACRE MINIMUM LOT FOR A PRINCIPAL STRUCTURE and accessory structures BY SPECIAL PERMIT ONLY. The 10-acre figure is qualified by table note 3, which points at 'large structures as defined in § 180-16B' — so the 10-acre minimum attaches to the large-structure case rather than to every conceivable use, and § 180-16 should be read before applying it. PERMITTED USES ARE NARROW AND ARE NOT HOUSING: customary agricultural operations (with raising poultry or livestock requiring a special permit, and sale of produce grown on the premises permitted), golf and country clubs, and small accessory buildings serving those uses. Underwrite LCV as open space. )	10 ac	—	—	No

Short-term rentals

Short-term rentals allowed with local rules. THE STATED PURPOSE IS EXPLICITLY ANTI-ABSENTEE: the Board of Trustees found that these uses benefit owners and visitors and make for a more diverse residential and recreational landscape, but that 'the operation of a bed-and-breakfast or a short-term rental BY ABSENTEE OWNERS is a business use which may be inappropriate for residential neighborhoods and may lead to less interest by such owners in the good will of their neighbors and the condition of their properties. Business goals and residential goals are different.' Read that before assuming an investor-owned STR is viable here. THERE IS A SATURATION TEST AND A CAPPING POWER, WHICH TOGETHER MAKE THIS A SUPPLY-LIMITED MARKET: the ZBA may refuse a permit where the area would be 'saturated by the proposed use', with the code's own example being THREE RENTAL ROOMS WITHIN THE SURROUNDING 150 FEET; and § 180-27.1D empowers the BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ESTABLISH, BY RESOLUTION, A CAP ON THE NUMBER OF SHORT-TERM RENTALS FOR SPECIFIC ZONES (the code names RV-1, RV-2 and planned development districts as examples), provided the resolution sets out a factual finding justifying the cap. THE CAP LIVES IN A TRUSTEES' RESOLUTION, NOT IN THE ZONING CHAPTER, SO IT WILL NOT APPEAR ON eCODE360 — call the Village office at (518) 899-2800 and ask whether a cap resolution is in force for the zone in question and how many permits are outstanding. Separately, New York State has required every short-term-rental host to register the unit with the State through the county registry since 2025 regardless of what the municipality allows, and Saratoga County HAS adopted a county-level short-term-rental programme: a 3% occupancy tax and a MANDATORY county registry, covering any room or space in a dwelling let for under 30 consecutive days. Registration runs two years, an unregistered host faces fines of up to $500, and the booking platform is separately liable for processing an unregistered listing — so Airbnb and Vrbo will delist. The City of Saratoga Springs runs its own registry alongside it.

Good to know

UtilityNational Grid territory.
Building dept(518) 899-2800
Last reviewed2026-08-02

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