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273 – Official Map, Changes.

§ 273. Official map, changes. Such town board 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 town so as to lay out new streets, highways, drainage systems or parks, or to widen or close existing streets, […]

274-A – Site Plan Review.

§ 274-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 zoning ordinance or local law, which shows the arrangement, layout and design of the proposed use […]

274-B – Approval of Special Use Permits.

§ 274-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 […]

276 – Subdivision Review; Approval of Plats; Development of Filed Plats.

§ 276. Subdivision review; approval of plats; development of filed plats. 1. Purpose. For the purpose of providing for the future growth and development of the town and affording adequate facilities for the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, safety, health and welfare of its population, the town board may, by resolution, authorize and empower the […]

277 – Subdivision Review; Approval of Plats; Additional Requisites.

§ 277. 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 […]

278 – Subdivision Review; Approval of Cluster Development.

§ 278. 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, […]

279 – Subdivision Review; Record of Plats.

§ 279. 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 […]

280 – Permits for Buildings in Bed of Mapped Streets.

§ 280. Permits for buildings 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 […]

280-A – Permits for Buildings Not on Improved Mapped Streets.

§ 280-a. Permits for buildings not on improved mapped streets. 1. No permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street or highway giving access to such proposed structure has been duly placed on the official map or plan, or if there be no official map or plan, unless such street […]

281 – Municipal Improvements in Streets.

§ 281. Municipal improvements in streets. No public municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed by the town in any street or highway within that part of the town outside the limits of any incorporated city or village until it has become a public street or highway and is duly placed on the official […]

282 – Court Review.

§ 282. 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 town, may have the decision reviewed by a special term of the supreme court […]

283 – Issuance of Licenses and Permits in Certain Towns.

§ 283. Issuance of licenses and permits in certain towns. If, in any town of the first class at the time of the enactment of this chapter, there exists a building department, set up as an adjunct of the planning board, all licenses or permits, whenever and in the manner required by any building zone […]

283-A – Coordination With Agricultural Districts Program.

§ 283-a. Coordination with agricultural districts program. 1. Policy of local governments. Local governments shall exercise their powers to enact local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations that apply to farm operations in an agricultural district in a manner which does not unreasonably restrict or regulate farm operations in contravention of the purposes of article twenty-five-AA […]

284 – Intermunicipal Cooperation in Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation.

§ 284. Intermunicipal cooperation in comprehensive planning and land use regulation. 1. Legislative intent. This section is intended to illustrate the statutory authority that any municipal corporation has under article five-G of the general municipal law and place within land use law express statutory authority for cities, towns and villages to enter into agreements to […]

285 – Separability Clause.

§ 285. 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 […]