[Adopted 8-15-1983 by L.L. 5-1983]
This local law shall be known and may be cited
as a "Local Law Amending Local Law No. 2-1967 of the Town of Clifton
Park, Entitled 'Local Law Relating to Zoning for the Town of Clifton
Park,'[1] Providing for the Creation of Planned Development District
No. 23 To Be Known as 'Woodcliffe Estates.'"
Chapter 208, Zoning, of the Code of the Town of Clifton Park and the Zoning Map of the Town of Clifton Park as set forth therein and made a part thereof be and the same hereby are amended by changing from Residence District R-1 a portion thereof as hereinafter described and by creating within the boundaries of said newly described area a planned development district to be known as "Woodcliffe Estates."
The area of said Woodcliffe Estates consists
of 12.46 acres and is bounded and described as follows:
A.
All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate in
the Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York, comprising an
irregular lot lying easterly of Bruno Road and westerly of Plank Road
and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
B.
Beginning at a point, which point is the northwesterly
corner of the Woodcliffe Estates subdivision as shown on the map entitled
"Section No. 1, Part A, Woodcliffe Estates Lands of Clifford Down,"
dated January 10, 1980 and filed in the Saratoga County Clerk's Office,
and running thence along the southerly lines of the Lands now or formerly
of Willman, Guyer, Doherty, Schmeelke and Nisco, respectively, south
71 degrees 59 minutes 06 seconds east a distance of 1,492.43 feet
to a point; thence through the lands of Down the following eight courses:
(1)
South 30 degrees 29 minutes 40 seconds west
357.66 feet;
(2)
North 70 degrees 33 minutes 03 seconds west
314.81 feet;
(3)
South 55 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds west
160.52 feet;
(4)
North 34 degrees 40 minutes 00 seconds west
55.00 feet;
(5)
South 55 degrees 20 minutes 00 seconds west
230.97 feet;
(6)
North 36 degrees 03 minutes 51 seconds west
320.34 feet;
(7)
North 42 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds west
642.76 feet;
(8)
North 16 degrees 39 minutes 12 seconds west
111.17 feet to the point or place of beginning, comprising 12.46 acres,
more or less.
A.
The area of Woodcliffe Estates shall be divided into
44 building lots, each with an area of approximately 10,000 square
feet.
B.
On each such lot may be constructed a single-family
dwelling unit with one or two stories, with two or more bedrooms,
with natural wooden exteriors, with an attached one-car garage and
with a floor area of approximately 800 to 1,200 square feet.
Before construction of Woodcliffe Estates is
started or any building permit is issued relating thereto, final plans
and specifications shall be submitted to and approved by the Town
Planning Board and shall be filed with the Town Clerk.
There shall be two points of ingress to and
egress from Woodcliffe Estates from Plank Road. One of such points
shall meet the standard for street construction as contained in the
Town of Clifton Park Subdivision Regulations and Construction Standards.[1] The other of such points shall meet with the approval
of the Fire Commissioner of the Town of Clifton Park but need not
meet construction standards until such time as construction begins
on Woodbine Drive.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. A215, Subdivision Regulations.
The developer or its successors in interest
shall pay to the Town of Clifton Park a sum equal to $4,400 in lieu
of the transfer of title to the Town of Clifton Park of lands for
park purposes.
Potable water shall be supplied by a central
water supply system through facilities owned by the Country Knolls
Water Works, Inc., a private transportation corporation. Sanitary
sewer service shall be installed and connected to the sanitary sewer
lines of the Saratoga County Sewer District No. 1. Stormwater shall
be drained through storm sewers to a discharge point into a creek
located westerly of Woodcliffe Estates.
A.
All improvements shall be designed and constructed
pursuant to plans and specifications approved by a duly licensed engineer
or architect and by the Town Planning Board, and when completed and
prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, the duly licensed
architect or engineer shall certify to the Town of Clifton Park that
the improvements were constructed in compliance with the New York
State Building Code. The engineer or architect performing the work
herein described shall be employed by and at the sole expense of the
developer, and all construction, during performance thereof and upon
completion, shall be subject to the inspection and approval of the
Town Building Inspector.
B.
All roads and/or streets to be constructed pursuant to this local law, except for such point of ingress and egress as set forth in § A217-134 above, shall be constructed pursuant to specifications at that time in effect for the construction of Town highways of the Town of Clifton Park. Within 90 days after written demand is made therefor by the Town of Clifton Park, the developer, or the successor in interest of the developer, shall transfer and convey to the Town of Clifton Park by warranty deed with lien covenant free and clear of all liens and encumbrances any or all streets as may be demanded by the Town Board within the area herein described.
This amendment shall be deemed automatically
revoked and void and the previous regulations shall obtain if, within
12 months from the effective date of this local law, commencement
of the construction of dwelling units has not begun or, if after construction
has begun, unless substantial progress continues without undue interruption
thereafter. As to the area within which dwelling unit(s) have been
constructed pursuant to this local law, there shall he no voiding
of this amendment, and as to said area and dwelling unit(s), this
local law shall continue in full force and effect, and the area zoned
by this local law shall he the area within which said dwelling unit(s)
was (were) constructed pursuant to this local law, plus an additional
area of 50 feet of open space beyond the outside boundaries of each
constructed dwelling unit(s). For proper cause shown, the Town Board
may, under such terms and conditions as it deems proper, waive the
requirement that substantial progress continue without undue interruption.
