The Town Board hereby finds that excessive uniformity, dissimilarity,
or inappropriateness with respect to existing neighborhood character
and/or context or poor quality of design in the exterior appearance
of buildings erected in any area in the Town adversely affects the
desirability of the immediate area and the neighboring areas for residential
and business purpose or other purposes and, by so doing, impairs neighborhood
character, impairs the benefits of occupancy of existing property
in such areas, impairs the stability and value of both improved and
unimproved real property in such areas with attendant deterioration
of conditions affecting the health, safety and general welfare of
the community and destroys a proper relationship between the taxable
value of real property in such areas and the cost of the municipal
services provided therefor. It is the purpose of this article to prevent
these and other harmful effects of such exterior appearance of buildings
erected or altered in any area in the Town and thus to promote the
health, safety and general welfare of the community, conserve the
value of buildings and encourage the most appropriate use of land
with the Town.
The Design Review and Historic Preservation Board shall approve,
approve conditionally or disapprove any application for design review
within 90 days of the date of filing such application.
Any person aggrieved by the action of the Design Review and
Historic Preservation Board in disapproving a building permit application
and of the Code Enforcement Officer in denying such permit because
of such disapproval may take an appeal therefrom to the Zoning Board
of Appeals.