This chapter is hereby adopted pursuant to the authority of Municipal Home Rule Law § 10, the Town Law, and in accordance with the Zoning Code of the Town of Lloyd, New York, Article
X, entitled "Amendments."
This chapter governs the use, development and protection of
all land and structures within the Town of Lloyd, New York. This chapter
shall not apply to or affect any structure or premises which shall
or may be erected, altered or used by the Town of Lloyd.
If any section or specific part or provision or standard of
this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance
be adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment
shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application
directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall
have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of
the remainder of this chapter or the application thereof to other
persons or circumstances, and the Town Board hereby declares that
it would have enacted this chapter or the remainder thereof had the
invalidity of such provision or application thereof been apparent.
If any zoning district boundary that may exist in the future is found
by a court to be invalid for any reason, the decision of the court
shall not affect the validity of any other section, provision, standard,
or district boundary of these regulations except the provision in
question. The other portions of these regulations not affected by
the decision of the court shall remain in full force and effect.
The Town Board hereby declares its legislative intent to supersede
any provision of any local law, rule, or regulation or provision of
the Town Law inconsistent with this chapter. The courts are directed
to take notice of this legislative intent and apply it in the event
the Town has failed to specify any provision of law that may require
supersession. The Town Board hereby declares that it would have enacted
this chapter and superseded such inconsistent provision had it been
apparent.
This chapter is enacted to promote and protect the public health,
safety, convenience, aesthetics, natural, agricultural, and cultural
resources, amenities and general welfare of the people. It is intended
to implement the Town's planning goals and objectives as expressed
in the Town of Lloyd Comprehensive Plan as follows:
A. Preserve the Town's rural character and enhance quality of life.
B. Maintain the Hamlet of Highland as the center of the Town of Lloyd.
C. Maintain agriculture as an important economic activity that contributes
to the community's character.
D. Enhance the efficiency and safety of the Town's transportation networks,
and preserve the scenic quality of rural roads.
E. Protect and enhance the quality of the Town's natural, cultural,
historic, and scenic resources.
F. Promote a diversity of housing types and increase the stock of moderately
priced housing located throughout the community in order to preserve
and promote an economically diverse population and to meet existing
and anticipated future employment and volunteer needs in the Town.
G. Encourage economic development, consistent with Lloyd's character,
to stabilize the tax base.
H. Protect the visual quality and aesthetic character of the Town and
preserve the value of land and buildings appropriate to the various
districts established by this chapter.