Town of Amherst, NY
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 203 Zoning
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Design Advisory Board
- Ch 6 Arts and Culture in Public Places Board
- Ch 7 Amherst Central Park Task Force
- Ch 8 Citizens' Advisory Committees
- Ch 9 Clerk
- Ch 10 Compensation
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Employee Suggestion Program
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 14A Disabilities, Committee on
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employees' Rights of Organization
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Freedom of Information
- Ch 25 Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board
- Ch 28 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 32 Minority- and Women-Owned Business Utilization Commitment
- Ch 36 Open Burning
- Ch 39 Police Assistance, Power to Grant
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 42 Property, Lease or Sale
- Ch 43 Licensing of Property Managers
- Ch 44 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 45 Residency Requirements
- Ch 52 Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 54 Supervisor
- Ch 55 Term Limits
- Ch 56 Tax Bill Enclosures
- Ch 56A Town Board
- Ch 57 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 58 Adjudicatory Proceedings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 65 Alarms
- Ch 68 Amusements
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Bingo
- Ch 78 Blasting and Explosives
- Ch 79 Boats
- Ch 83 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 87 Cable Television
- Ch 89 (Reserved)
- Ch 92 Conservation Easements
- Ch 95 Curb Cuts
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Animals
- Ch 103 Emergency Responder Radio Coverage
- Ch 104 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 106 Excavations
- Ch 108 Expert Fees, Reimbursement of
- Ch 110 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 Games of Chance
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 118 Gasoline
- Ch 119 Geodetic Control Point Network
- Ch 120 Highways, Controlled-Access
- Ch 121 Historic Preservation
- Ch 122 House Trailers
- Ch 125 Improvements, Construction of Public
- Ch 126 Industrial Cost Recovery System
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Junkyards
- Ch 130 Landscapers
- Ch 132 Lighting
- Ch 138 Noise
- Ch 139 Notification of Defects
- Ch 140 Mailbox Setback
- Ch 143 Parking for Handicapped
- Ch 144 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 145 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 148 Peddling, Soliciting, Transient Businesses and Mobile Food Vending
- Ch 149 Picketing
- Ch 151 Property Maintenance
- Ch 152 Public Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 153 Municipal Opioid Cost Recovery and Public Nuisance
- Ch 155 Recreation and Open Space
- Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 158 Sewer Rates
- Ch 160 Sewers
- Ch 163 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 166 Snowplowing
- Ch 167 Social Host Liability
- Ch 169 Solid Waste
- Ch 172 Stormwater and Erosion Control; Illicit Discharges
- Ch 175 Taxation
- Ch 177 Taxicabs
- Ch 179 Trees
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 186 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 189 Vehicles, Removal and Storage of
- Ch 191 Vending Machines
- Ch 194 (Reserved)
- Ch 198 Weapons
- Ch 199 Wild Waterfowl
- Ch 200 Wetlands
- Ch 203 Zoning
- Ch 203 Pt 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 203-1-1 Title
- § 203-1-2 Purpose
- § 203-1-3 Interpretation
- § 203-1-4 Authority
- § 203-1-5 Conflict with Other Laws
- § 203-1-6 Jurisdiction
- § 203-1-7 Subsurface Rights
- § 203-1-8 Relationship to Comprehensive Plan
- § 203-1-9 Effective Date
- § 203-1-10 Severability
- § 203-1-11 Establishment of Zoning Districts and Map
- § 203-1-12 Transitional Provisions
- Ch 203 Pt 2 DEFINITIONS AND MEASUREMENTS
- § 203-2-1 Definition of Terms
- § 203-2-2 Abbreviations
- § 203-2-3 General Terms
- § 203-2-4 Specific Terms
- § 203-2-5 Measurements and Exceptions
- Ch 203 Pt 3 RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- § 203-3-1 General
- § 203-3-2 Rural Residential District (R-R)
- § 203-3-3 Suburban Agricultural District (S-A)
- § 203-3-4 Residential District One (R-1)
- § 203-3-5 Residential District Two (R-2)
- § 203-3-6 Residential District Three (R-3)
- § 203-3-7 Cluster Residential District Three-A (CR-3A)
- § 203-3-8 Traditional Single-Family Residential District (TR-3)
- § 203-3-9 Residential District Four (R-4)
- § 203-3-10 Multifamily Residential District Four-A (MFR-4A)
- § 203-3-11 Multifamily Residential District Five (MFR-5)
- § 203-3-12 Multifamily Residential District Six (MFR-6)
- § 203-3-13 Multifamily Residential District Seven (MFR-7)
- § 203-3-14 Manufactured Home Residential District Eight (MHR-8)
- § 203-3-15 Supplemental Residential District Design Standards
- Ch 203 Pt 4 NONRESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
- § 203-4-1 General
- § 203-4-2 Office Building District (OB)
- § 203-4-3 Neighborhood Business District (NB)
- § 203-4-4 General Business District (GB)
- § 203-4-5 Commercial Service District (CS)
- § 203-4-6 Motor Service District (MS)
- § 203-4-7 Shopping Center District (SC)
- § 203-4-8 Supplemental Business District Design Standards
- § 203-4-9 Research and Development District (RD)
- § 203-4-10 Science Technology District (ST)
- § 203-4-11 General Industrial District (GI)
- § 203-4-12 Supplemental Industrial District Design Standards
- Ch 203 Pt 5 SPECIAL PURPOSE AND OVERLAY DISTRICTS
- § 203-5-1 Agricultural (AG)
- § 203-5-2 New Community District (NCD)
- § 203-5-3 Planned Residential District (PRD)
- § 203-5-4 Planned Development District (PDD)
- § 203-5-5 Community Facilities District (CF)
- § 203-5-6 Traditional Neighborhood Development District (TND)
- § 203-5-7 Traditional Neighborhood Business Overlay District (TNB).
- § 203-5-8 Live-Work District 1 (LW-1)
- § 203-5-9 Recreation Conservation District (RC)
- Ch 203 Pt 6 USE REGULATIONS
- § 203-6-1 Open Use Standards
- § 203-6-2 Residential Use Standards
- § 203-6-3 Public and Civic Use Standards
- § 203-6-4 Commercial Use Standards
- § 203-6-5 Industrial Use Standards
- § 203-6-6 Standards for Sexually Oriented Businesses
- § 203-6-7 Telecommunication Facility Standards
- § 203-6-8 Accessory Uses and Structures
- § 203-6-9 Planned Unit Development Process (PUD).
- § 203-6-10 Solar Energy.
- § 203-6-11 New and Substantially Modified Small Cell Personal Wireless Services Facilities Standards in the Public Rights-of-Way.
- Ch 203 Pt 7 GENERAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
- § 203-7-1 Off-Street Parking, Loading and Stacking
- § 203-7-2 Landscaping, Buffers and Screening
- § 203-7-3 Site Lighting
- § 203-7-4 Outdoor Storage and Display
- § 203-7-5 Fences and Walls
- § 203-7-6 Access and Circulation
- § 203-7-7 Provisions for Flood Hazard Reduction
- § 203-7-8 Sign Regulations
- § 203-7-9 Performance Standards
- § 203-7-10 Bulk Storage of Combustible or Flammable Liquids
- Ch 203 Pt 8 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
- § 203-8-1 Development Review Bodies
- § 203-8-2 Common Development Review Procedures
- § 203-8-3 Zoning Map Amendment (Rezoning)
- § 203-8-4 Planned District Rezoning and Planned Unit Development (PUD) Process Application.
- § 203-8-5 Text Amendment
- § 203-8-6 Special Use Permit
- § 203-8-7 Site Plan Review
- § 203-8-8 Temporary Use Permit
- § 203-8-9 Certificate of Occupancy or Compliance
- § 203-8-10 Building Permit For Signs
- § 203-8-11 Coordinated Sign Plan Review
- § 203-8-12 Written Interpretation
- § 203-8-13 Variance
- § 203-8-14 Administrative Appeal
- § 203-8-15 New Community District (NCD)
- § 203-8-16 Enforcement
- Ch 203 Pt 9 NONCONFORMITIES
- § 203-9-1 Purpose
- § 203-9-2 Nonconforming Uses
- § 203-9-3 Nonconforming Structures
- § 203-9-4 Nonconforming Sites
- § 203-9-5 Nonconforming Lots of Record
- § 203-9-6 Nonconforming Signs
- Ch 204 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 205 Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (Lwrp)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Amherst 5-1-2006 by L.L. No.
6-2006. Amendments noted where applicable. For additional
information regarding 2010, 2011 and 2012 state local law numbers,
refer to the Disposition List at the end of this volume.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction administration — See Ch. 83.
Numbering of buildings — See Ch. 85.
Conservation easements — See Ch. 92.
Curb cuts — See Ch. 95.
Environmental quality review — See Ch. 104.
Excavations — See Ch. 106.
Reimbursement of expert fees — See Ch. 108.
Geodetic control point network — See Ch. 119.
Controlled-access highways — See Ch. 120.
Historic preservation — See Ch. 121.
House trailers — See Ch. 122.
Construction of public improvements — See Ch. 125.
Junkyards — See Ch. 129.
Off-street parking — See Ch. 144.
Property maintenance — See Ch. 151.
Recreation and open space — See Ch. 155.
Stormwater management — See Ch. 172.
Subdivision of land — See Ch. 204.
