The Bureau of Engineering shall be the custodian of the Official
City Map. It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to maintain the
City Map and to register thereon all changes resulting from action
authorized by law. The City Map shall be filed in the office of the
City Engineer and certified copies thereof and of all changes thereto
shall be filed in the office of the Planning Commission.
A.
The Commission shall review and make recommendation to the City Council
on the adoption of a proposed Comprehensive Plan or amendment thereto.
Such Comprehensive Plan shall show desirable streets, public places,
bridges and approaches thereto, viaducts, parks, public reservations,
boulevards, parkways, playgrounds, roadways in parks, public buildings
and structures, pierhead and bulkhead lines, docks and wharves, waterways,
routes of railroads and omnibuses, locations of drainage systems,
sewers, sewage treatment plants, incinerators, water conduits and
other public utilities privately or publicly owned, zoning districts,
aviation fields, public parking spaces, and also the removal, relocation,
widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, change of use or extension
of any of the foregoing features of the plan. Such Comprehensive Plan
shall also show the general layout of neighborhood units and community
centers therein and the replanning of blighted areas and such other
features as will provide for the improvement of the City and its further
growth, protection and development and will afford adequate facilities
for the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience,
health, safety and general welfare of its population. Such Comprehensive
Plan may also show any of the above features in relation to areas
outside the City's limits and within the County of Rensselaer.
B.
Before the Comprehensive Plan or any part thereof relating to the
area within the City is adopted, the Commission shall hold a public
hearing or hearings. Before a modification of any part of the Comprehensive
Plan is adopted, the Commission may hold a public hearing or hearings.
At least 10 days' notice shall be given prior to the holding of such
hearing by publication in the official newspaper or newspapers of
the City.
C.
The various plans comprising the Comprehensive Plan, and all modifications
thereof when adopted, shall be filed in the office of the Commission.
D.
The recommendation of the Plan, and any part, amendment, extension,
or addition thereof, shall be by resolution of the Commission, carried
by the affirmative votes of not less than three members.
A.
Pursuant to § 30 of the General City Law,[1] the Council shall refer to the Commission all proposals
concerning or affecting the following:
(1)
Any proposed addition to or change in the Official Map not initiated
by the Commission.
(2)
Any proposed amendment to zoning regulations of the City or any proposed
zoning regulations to replace zoning regulations existing at the time
such proposal is made, if such proposed amendment or zoning regulations
are not submitted by the Commission.
B.
After the Commission receives any such proposal, it may hold a public
hearing thereon, notice of which shall be published in the official
newspaper or newspapers of the City at least 10 days prior thereto.
If the Commission fails to act on such proposal within 62 days after
the Council submits it to the Commission, such failure to act shall
be deemed an approval. However, at the time of submission of such
proposal to the Commission, the Council may specify a longer period,
not exceeding 60 days, within which the Commission may take action
thereon. If the Commission fails to act within such longer period,
it shall be deemed to approve such proposal.
No plat of a subdivision of land partly or wholly within the
City shall be filed with the County Clerk until it shall have been
approved by the Planning Commission and the approval thereof entered
on the plat by the Secretary thereof. Every plat approved by the City
Planning Commission shall, by virtue of such approval, be deemed to
be an amendment of or an addition to or detail of the Comprehensive
Plan and part thereof, if a Comprehensive Plan shall have been adopted
prior to such approval. If a Comprehensive Plan or part thereof shall
not have been adopted prior to such approval, then such plat so approved
shall be incorporated in and made a part of any Comprehensive Plan
thereafter adopted. Approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute
or affect an acceptance by the public of any street or other open
space shown upon the plat; however, the filing of an approved plat
shall constitute an irrevocable offer of dedication by the owner of
the land to the City of Troy of streets, roads or highways shown on
said plat and of land shown thereon as widened areas of existing streets,
roads or highways, and provided further that where such an approved
plat so filed shall amend or supersede in whole or in part the layout
of streets, roads, or highways shown on a previously filed plat, such
offer of dedication as to streets, roads or highways or widened areas
thereof shown on such superseded plat and not shown on such amending
plat shall be deemed withdrawn. Such Commission shall have all the
powers and be subject to all the duties of Article 3 of the General
City Law in relation to such plats. It shall be the duty of the Secretary
of that Commission to file with the County Clerk a certificate stating
that the Commission has been so authorized to approve plots. Such
certificate shall state also that the Secretary of the Commission
shall issue the certificate of the City on its failure to take action
on a plat whenever it is necessary to issue such a certificate, pursuant
to § 32 of the General City Law.
