This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Land Use
Law of the Town of Stockport, Columbia County, New York."
This chapter regulates the location, construction, alteration,
and use of buildings and structures, and the development and use of
land within the Town of Stockport and, for said purposes, divides
the Town into land use districts.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to Article 16, § 261,
of the Town Law of the State of New York, and Article 2, § 10,
of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, to protect
and promote public health, safety, comfort, convenience, economy,
aesthetics and general welfare, and for the following additional purposes:
A.
To promote and effectuate the orderly physical development of the
Town of Stockport.
B.
To encourage the most appropriate use of land in the community in
order to conserve and enhance the value of property.
C.
To provide for adequate and suitably located commercial facilities.
D.
To create a suitable system of open spaces and to protect and enhance
existing wooded areas, scenic areas and waterways.
E.
To preserve the present rural agricultural character of the Town
and to encourage the continuation of commercial agricultural activity
to the extent practicable.
F.
To regulate building and development densities in order to assure
access of light and circulation of air, in order to facilitate the
prevention and fighting of fires, in order to prevent undue concentration
of population, to lessen congestion on the streets and highways and
to facilitate the adequate provision of water supply and sewage disposal
facilities.
G.
To improve transportation facilities and traffic circulation and
to provide adequate off-street parking and loading facilities.
H.
To realize a development plan properly designed to conserve the use
of land and provide opportunity for affordable municipal services.
I.
To protect environmentally critical or highly suitable open space
from incompatible development while also encouraging conservation
practices and uses throughout the community.
J.
To assure privacy for residences and freedom from nuisances.
K.
To protect the community against unsightly, obtrusive and noisome
land uses and operations.
L.
To enhance community aesthetics throughout the Town in stewardship
of the Town's natural beauty and fragile environment.
