Town of Colonie, NY
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2023-11-30
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 177 Trees
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 4 Whistle-Blower Protection
- Ch 9 (Reserved)
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Contracts
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Officers and Employees
- Ch 17 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 20 Fire Services Division and Acceptance of Standards
- Ch 22 Fiscal Policy
- Ch 24 General Services Department
- Ch 29 Officers and Employees
- Ch 32 Planning Board
- Ch 33 Planning and Economic Development, Department of
- Ch 34 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 36 Reserve Fund for Judgments and Claims
- Ch 37 Reserve Fund for Tort Liability
- Ch 38 Retirement Incentive Program
- Ch 40 Salaries and Compensation
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 45 Adoption of Municipal Facilities
- Ch 46 Alarm Systems
- Ch 48 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 51 Assemblies, Public
- Ch 59 Bingo
- Ch 62 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 62A Cannabis
- Ch 63 Clothing Bins, Donation Bins and Recycling Bins
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 79 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 85 Electrical Code
- Ch 86 Emergency Access Systems
- Ch 88 Entertainment, Public
- Ch 90 Environmental Compliance
- Ch 93 (Reserved)
- Ch 96 Fireworks Displays
- Ch 97 Fire Lanes
- Ch 100 Fire Prevention
- Ch 103 (Reserved)
- Ch 108 Games of Chance
- Ch 112 Solid Waste
- Ch 118 Historic Places, Preservation of
- Ch 119 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 120 Illicit Connections to Storm Sewer System
- Ch 122 (Reserved)
- Ch 127 Massage Parlors
- Ch 129 (Reserved)
- Ch 135 Noise Control
- Ch 137 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 140 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 145 (Reserved)
- Ch 147 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 155 Sewers
- Ch 157 (Reserved)
- Ch 160 (Reserved)
- Ch 162 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 166 (Reserved)
- Ch 171 Taxation
- Ch 173 Telecommunications Franchising and Use of Town Rights-Of-Way
- Ch 175 (Reserved)
- Ch 177 Trees
- § 177-1 Findings.
- § 177-2 Development plan requirements.
- § 177-3 Restrictions on cutting and removal.
- Ch 181 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 188 Water
- Ch 189 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Siting
- Ch 189A Small Cell Wireless Facilities
- Ch 190 Zoning and Land Use
- Ch 191 First Prize Center Redevelopment Overlay Zoning District
- Ch 192 (Reserved)
- Ch 195 (Reserved)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Colonie 6-25-1970 by L.L. No. 6-1970. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning and land use — See Ch. 190.
The Town Board of the Town of Colonie hereby
finds that excessive cutting of trees upon large tracts of land has
resulted in creating increased surface drainage and increased soil
erosion, thereby causing increased municipal costs to control drainage
within the Town and impairing the benefits of occupancy of existing
residential and commercial property in such areas and impairing the
stability and value of both improved and unimproved real property
in such areas with attendant deterioration of conditions affecting
health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Town.
It is hereby enacted by the Town Board of the
Town of Colonie that in presenting plans of developments for approval
by the Planning Board, either residential or commercial developments,
that the applicants must, in addition to existing requirements, show
the area from which trees will be removed.
The Planning Board of the Town of Colonie is
empowered to require that trees will be left standing in areas upon
the plat or subdivision, and no live tree exceeding three inches in
diameter may be cut down in such areas without expressed consent of
the Planning Board, to be indicated upon the approved plan. The Planning
Board may also require that trees shall not be cut down on or removed
from any building plot on the subdivision unless the area is to be
occupied by the building thereon. In such instance trees may be cut
down in area to be occupied by buildings or driveways and within a
distance of 10 feet around the perimeter of such buildings or driveways.
