The Village Board of Trustees hereby finds that
excessive uniformity or dissimilarity, inappropriateness and poor
quality of design and the improper placement or inadequate screening
of structures within the Village and along its shorelines adversely
affects the environment and community by creating a visual or ecological
detriment. These visual and ecological detriments impair the beneficial
use of real property in such areas, impair the stability and value
of both the improved and unimproved real property in such areas, prevent
the most appropriate development of such areas, produce a degeneration
of the property and aesthetic character of such areas and impair the
proper relationship between the taxable value of real property in
the community and the cost of municipal services provided therefor.
These detriments, singly and in combinations, result in a deterioration
of conditions affecting the health, safety, morals and general welfare
of the inhabitants of the community. It is the purpose of this article
to prevent these and other harmful effects by instituting a review
procedure for all building permit applications to the Village prior
to their review by the Building Inspector pursuant to the state building
code.
No building permit shall be issued by the Building
Inspector unless it first has been approved by the Site and Building
Permit Review Board.