§ 26. Official map, establishment. Every city by ordinance, local law or resolution of the legislative body which has the authority to lay out, adopt and establish streets, highways and parks may establish an official map of the city showing the streets, highways and parks theretofore laid out, adopted and established by law. Drainage systems […]
§ 27. Planning board, creation and appointment. 1. Authorization. The legislative body of each city, except a city having a population of more than one million, is hereby authorized by local law or ordinance to create a planning board consisting of five or seven members. Members and the chairperson of such planning board shall be […]
§ 27-a. Site plan review. 1. Definition of site plan. As used in this section the term “site plan” shall mean a rendering, drawing, or sketch prepared to specifications and containing necessary elements, as set forth in the applicable ordinance or local law, which shows the arrangement, layout and design of the proposed use of […]
§ 27-b. Approval of special use permits. 1. Definition of special use permit. As used in this section the term “special use permit” shall mean an authorization of a particular land use which is permitted in a zoning ordinance or local law, subject to requirements imposed by such zoning ordinance or local law to assure […]
§ 28-a. City comprehensive plan. 1. Application. This section shall not apply in a city having a population of more than one million. 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds and determines that: (a) Significant decisions and actions affecting the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the state and its […]
§ 29. Official map, changes. Such legislative body is authorized and empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it for the public interest, to change or add to the official map of the city so as to lay out new streets, highways or parks, or to widen or close existing streets, highways or […]
§ 31. Planning board, general reports. The planning board shall have full power and authority to make such investigations, maps and reports and recommendations in connection therewith relating to the planning and development of the city as to it seems desirable providing the total expenditures of said board shall not exceed the appropriation for its […]
§ 32. Subdivision review; approval of plats; development of filed plats. 1. Purpose. For the purpose of providing for the future growth and development of the city and affording adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its population, the legislative body of the city may by resolution, authorize […]
§ 33. Subdivision review; approval of plats; additional requisites. 1. Purpose. Before the approval by the planning board of a plat showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways, or the approval of a plat already filed in the office of the clerk of the county wherein such plat is situated if […]
§ 34. Subdivision review; record of plats. 1. Filing of plat with county clerk or register. (a) No plat of a subdivision of land showing lots, blocks or sites shall be filed or recorded in the office of the county clerk or register until it has been approved by a planning board which has been […]
§ 35. Permits for building in bed of mapped streets. For the purpose of preserving the integrity of such official map or plan no permit shall hereafter be issued for any building in the bed of any street or highway shown or laid out on such map or plan, provided, however, that if the land […]
§ 35-a. Limitation of time for revocation of permit. An action or proceeding to revoke a building permit on the ground that the building erected pursuant thereto stands wholly or partly within the bed of any street or highway shown on the official map or plan of a city must be commenced within fifteen years […]
§ 36. Municipal improvements in streets, buildings not on mapped streets. 1. A city having a population of less than one million. No public municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by any city having a population of less than one million in any street or highway until it has become a public street […]
§ 37. Subdivision review; approval of cluster development. 1. Definitions. As used in this section: (a) “cluster development” shall mean a subdivision plat or plats, approved pursuant to this article, in which the applicable zoning ordinance or local law is modified to provide an alternative permitted method for the layout, configuration and design of lots, […]
§ 38. Court review. Any person or persons, jointly or severally aggrieved by any decision of the planning board concerning such plat or the changing of the zoning regulations of such land, or any officer, department, board or bureau of the city, may obtain a review in the manner provided by the civil practice law […]
§ 38-a. Removal of walls encroaching on streets. 1. If the front or other exterior wall of any building erected on or before the first day of January, nineteen hundred sixty, in any city encroaches not more than six inches upon any street or highway, no action or proceeding to compel the removal of such […]
§ 39. Separability clause. If any part or provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have […]
