This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Zoning
Code of the Village of Sag Harbor."
This chapter is adopted for the purpose of promoting the health,
safety, morals or the general welfare of the Village of Sag Harbor
and in the furtherance of the following related and more specific
objectives:
A. To guide and regulate the orderly growth, development and redevelopment
of the Village in accordance with a comprehensive plan and with the
more long-range objectives, principles and standards expressed in
the legislative findings and determinations which are deemed to be
beneficial to the interests and welfare of the people.
B. To protect the established character and the social and economic
well-being or both private and public property.
C. To promote, in the public interest, the utilization of land for the
purposes for which it is most appropriate.
D. To promote, in the public interest, the preservation of natural areas.
E. To secure the maximum recharge of the Village's fresh groundwater
reservoir to assure both the maintenance of the natural environment
and the ecosystems essential to its continued well-being and the optimum
groundwater resource for the human community through the protection
of such features of the watersheds as the woodlands, streams and ponds,
and to so regulate the ultimate land use and consequent freshwater
consumption that the potential demand for freshwater shall not exceed
the reasonable safe yield of that fresh groundwater reservoir.
F. To protect and promote the fisheries and the resort industries of
the Village by preserving a healthful biological and chemical balance
in the adjacent bays, estuaries and all tributary watercourses and
drainage lines.
G. To secure safety from fire, panic, flood, storm and other dangers;
to provide adequate light and air and convenience of access; and to
prevent environmental pollution.
H. To prevent overcrowding of land or buildings, avoid undue concentration
of population, and provide privacy for families.
I. To conserve the value of buildings, and to enhance the value of land
throughout the Village.
J. To provide affordable housing sites for residents of the community
compatible with their economic means.
K. To lessen and, where possible, to prevent traffic congestion on public
streets and highways.
L. To eliminate nonconforming uses gradually.
M. To facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage,
schools, parks and other public requirements.
N. To conserve and reasonably protect the natural scenic beauty and
cultural and historic resources of the Village and its environs.
O. To ensure that the distinctive and historical character of the Historic
District of the Village shall not be injuriously affected, that the
value to the Village of these structures having architectural and
historical worth shall not be impaired, and that said Historic District
shall be maintained and preserved to promote its use for the education,
pleasure and welfare of the citizens of the Village and others.
P. To guide land and water use and development in accordance with the
policies, purposes and projects set forth in the local waterfront
revitalization program.
Q. To protect against changes in the character of the commercial district
which would threaten the local identity of this area of commerce,
including unexpected changes in the type and size of uses present.