[Amended 5-10-1993 by L.L. No. 4-1993]
The Commissioner of Planning and Development shall:
(a)
Prepare and update periodically, in consultation with the advisory
Planning Board, a comprehensive master plan for the development of
Dutchess County, which shall include the highways, parks, parkways
and sites for public buildings or works, including subservice facilities,
in the acquisition, financing or construction of which the County
has participated or may be called upon to participate, acquire, finance
or construct. Such plan shall be submitted for approval to the County
Legislature in the manner provided by § 239-d(2) of the
General Municipal Law;
(b)
Collect and distribute, or cause to be collected and distributed,
information relative to metropolitan, regional and community planning
and zoning in Dutchess County;
(c)
Conduct research into business and industrial conditions in the County
and the municipal subdivisions thereof, and seek to cooperate with
official and unofficial bodies organized for such purposes;
(d)
Furnish the services of his/her department, when such services are
requested, to communities within the County in matters pertaining
to planning and zoning. The County Legislature may establish the charges
to be made for such services;
(e)
Make recommendations concerning site plans, special permits, variances,
adoption or amendment of zoning regulations, adoption or amendment
of comprehensive plans pursuant to town, village or city law, and
any other authorizations issued under provisions of a zoning or local
law, upon referral from municipalities pursuant to § 239-m
of the General Municipal Law; and
[Amended 10-10-2017 by L.L. No. 4-2017]
(f)
Prepare and submit to the County Executive annually, and on such
date and on such forms as the County Executive shall prescribe, the
information required by the County Executive in the preparation of
the tentative County budget and capital program, and assist all units
in the preparation of and development of information for their respective
capital project requests, where such assistance is requested.
[Amended 2-10-2020 by L.L. No. 2-2020; 9-14-2020 by L.L. No. 4-2020]
Each member of the County Planning Board shall continue to hold office for the balance of his/her respective term, at the conclusion of which the applicable appointive provisions of the Charter and this Code shall become effective. Members of the advisory Planning Board shall be appointed in the manner and for the term provided in § 12.03 of the Charter. The advisory Planning Board shall elect annually a Chair, Vice-Chair and a Secretary from among its members. The Board shall have at least four meetings in a calendar year. Vacancies occurring other than by expiration of term shall be filled for the balance of the term remaining in the same manner and by the same appointing authority as the original appointment.
[Added 4-8-2013 by L.L.
No. 4-2013]
The Commissioner of Planning and Development shall have the
authority to administer solid waste management for the County of Dutchess
and toward that end may delegate the following responsibilities to
the Deputy Commissioner for Solid Waste Management:
(a)
Responsibility for the development and implementation of the Local
Solid Waste Management Plan as adopted by the County of Dutchess as
the planning unit;
(b)
Supervision of the issuance of permits and licenses as may be required
of haulers and such other commercial enterprises engaged in the business
of the collection and sanitary disposal of solid waste, recycling
and composting within the County;
(c)
Have jurisdiction, administer, maintain, manage and exercise direction
and control over any solid waste management facilities which the County
may own, operate or manage;
(d)
Be responsible for regularly providing the County Executive with
an economic analysis of the cost to the County of the management of
solid waste, with appropriate recommendations regarding the same;
(e)
Supervise such employees as may be hired by the County to facilitate
the acceptance, hauling, processing and disposing of solid waste generated
within the County;
(f)
Recommend for adoption by the County Legislature such rules and regulations
for the handling, hauling and disposal of solid waste within the County
and affixing penalties for the violation thereof;
(g)
Be responsible for and have the duty of maintaining liaison with
all County, state and federal agencies and for the compliance with
all rules and regulations of such agencies in reference to the disposal
of solid waste within Dutchess County.
