If an action is not exempt as defined in §
119-5 of this chapter, determination will be made by the Town Planning Board as to whether the action may have a significant effect upon the environment.
A. Contemporaneous or subsequent actions. For the purpose of determining whether an action will cause one of the consequences included in Article
XI of this chapter, the action shall be deemed to include other contemporaneous or subsequent actions specified as follows:
(1) Contemporaneous or subsequent actions which are included
in any long-range comprehensive integrated plan of which the action
under consideration is a part.
(2) Contemporaneous or subsequent actions which are likely
to be undertaken as a result of the action under consideration.
(3) Contemporaneous or subsequent actions which are dependent
upon the action under consideration.
B. Significance of consequence. The significance of a likely consequence as enumerated in §
119-6A and Article
XI (i.e., whether it is material, substantial, large, important, etc.) should be assessed in connection with its setting (i.e., urban or rural), its probability of occurring, its duration, its irreversibility, its controllability, its geographic scope and its magnitude.
The Planning Board, upon determining whether
an action proposed to the Planning Board, either by the Town or an
applicant, may or will not have a significant effect upon the environment,
shall immediately file such a determination as follows:
A. One copy with the appropriate regional office of the
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
B. One copy with the Commissioner of the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation.
C. One copy with the office of the Town Clerk.