Whereas all the procedures, notices and hearings required by
law have been complied with, now therefore the Board of Trustees of
the Village of Honeoye Falls ordains, enacts and publishes the following
chapter establishing zoning regulations for the Village of Honeoye
Falls, New York, and providing for the enactment, administration and
amendment thereof pursuant to the provisions of New York State Village
Law, Article 7.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Zoning
Code of the Village of Honeoye Falls, New York." For convenience,
it is also referred to throughout this chapter as the "zoning law"
or "zoning code."
This chapter is adopted for the purpose of promoting the health,
safety, morals or the general welfare of the community of the Village
of Honeoye Falls and in furtherance of the following related and more
specific objectives:
A. To guide and regulate the orderly growth, development and redevelopment
of the municipality in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan and with
long-term objectives, principles and standards deemed beneficial to
the interests and welfare of the people.
B. To protect the established character and the social and economic
well-being of both private and public property.
C. To promote, in the public interest, the utilization of land for the
purpose for which it is most appropriate.
D. To secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers and to provide
adequate light, air and convenience of access.
E. To prevent overcrowding of land or buildings and to avoid undue concentration
of population.
F. To lessen and, where possible, to prevent traffic congestion on public
streets and highways.
G. To eliminate nonconforming uses gradually.
H. To conserve the value of buildings and to enhance the value of land
throughout the municipality.
I. To conserve and reasonably to protect the natural scenic beauty of
the municipality and its environs.
This chapter shall be in effect immediately upon adoption and
publication as provided by New York State law.
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
of this chapter is declared by any court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other portion
of this chapter. The Village Board hereby declares that it would have
adopted every section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause and
phrase of this chapter regardless of the fact that any other section,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase is declared invalid.