For the purpose of this chapter, the following words, terms
and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section:
ACCESSORY FACILITIES
Accessory facilities provided for use only by occupants of
campsites within the campground, shall include but not be limited
to:
A.
Utility facilities such as electric, internet, and cable TV
service as well as central water and sewer infrastructure;
B.
Administrative facilities such as a registration/management
office as well as maintenance and storage buildings;
C.
Recreational facilities such as a community center, swimming
pool, and sport fields/courts;
D.
Sanitary facilities including toilets, urinals, bathrooms, showers,
and sewage disposal systems;
E.
Convenience facilities such as camp stores/markets and vendor
stands; and
APPLICANT
A person or persons, partnership, association, limited liability
or other company, entity or corporation, being the owner of a parcel
of land within the Town of Catskill or someone acting on behalf of
said owner, who is submitting an application to the Town of Catskill
to operate a campground.
CAMPGROUND
The development of a parcel of land or portion thereof, for
the purpose of providing campsites with or without accessory facilities,
for temporary overnight occupancy regardless of whether rights to
occupy a campsite are conveyed by lease, rent, membership or any other
acceptable means. This definition shall include where camping occurs
with no specific rights of occupation offered but the use is nonetheless
permitted by the land owner's direct or indirect action or lack
thereof.
CAMPGROUND MANAGER
A campground manager shall be a campground special use permit
holder or duly authorized representative of the campground special
use permit holder who may or may not reside within the campground
and who is charged with the primary responsibility of maintaining
the campground.
CAMPGROUND OPERATOR
A campground operator is the campground special use permit
holder who the applicant has duly authorized to operate the campground
in the event that the applicant is not the campground special use
permit holder.
CAMPGROUND SPECIAL USE PERMIT
A campground special use permit is a permit issued pursuant to the Catskill Town Code Chapter
160, Zoning, §
160-17 which grants permission to establish, operate, and maintain a campground within the Town of Catskill.
CAMPGROUND SPECIAL USE PERMIT HOLDER
The campground special use permit holder shall be the owner
of the campground or a duly authorized campground operator who has
complied with the requirements of this chapter and is issued a campground
special use permit.
CAMPING
The use of a camping unit on a campsite within a campground
for temporary overnight occupancy.
CAMPING UNIT
A tent, recreational vehicle (RV) or other type of portable
shelter intended, designed or used for temporary human occupancy.
The term "portable" shall be taken to mean readily moveable and if
on wheels, highway ready. A camping unit shall not include more permanent
temporary shelters such as yurts and cabins. In addition and although
on wheels, mobile homes as well as newer structures more appropriately
referred to as manufactured homes shall not be considered as a camping
unit.
CAMPSITE
A designated space within a campground with or without connections
to electric service, water supply, or sewage disposal systems, used
for camping and offered by the campground special use permit holder
through lease, rent, membership or any other acceptable means for
camping purposes, regardless of whether or not done for monetary gain.
COMMON USE AREAS
Designated areas within a campground used by campground guests
for open and/or enclosed recreational activities. Campsite areas,
required buffer strips, street/road rights-of-way, storage areas or
utility sites shall not be considered as included in this definition.
Common use areas set aside for indoor activities may include bingo
halls, meeting rooms, or arcades. Common use areas set aside for outdoor
activities may include hiking trails, bird watching venues, basketball/tennis/shuffleboard
courts, soccer/football/baseball fields, and swimming pools.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
An approved centralized sewage disposal system serving the
campsites having individual sewage connections, the community sewage
dumping station(s), and any centralized community sanitary facilities
including toilets, urinals, bathrooms, and showers. Depending on the
estimated sewage load to be treated, the community sewage disposal
system design must be approved by either the NYSDOH or NYSDEC, as
defined herein, and the Code Enforcement Officer.
COMMUNITY SEWAGE DUMPING STATION
A place within a campground where raw sewage (i.e., both
black water from toilets/urinals and grey water from sinks/showers),
either directly from a recreational vehicle's sewage holding
tank(s) or indirectly from the campground's scavenger equipment,
may be entered into a community sewage disposal system in a safe and
responsible way.
CONSTRUCTION TRAILER
A vehicular unit which either has its own motor power or
is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle and which is used or intended
to be used solely in connection with permitted campground construction
or development activities for the storage of construction materials,
tools or equipment or for construction office purposes. The term construction
trailer shall not include a dwelling, mobile home, manufactured home,
modular home, recreational vehicle or any other vehicle/shelter designed
or used as living or sleeping quarters.
DWELLING
A.
For the purposes of this chapter only, a dwelling is any building
designed for or used principally as the permanent living quarters
for one family:
(1)
For which a certificate of occupancy has been issued by the
Code Enforcement Office for use as a single-family dwelling; or
(2)
For which a certificate of occupancy has not been issued by
the Code Enforcement Office because the building's use as a single-family
dwelling predated the Town's requirement to obtain a certificate
of occupancy.
B.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a dwelling shall not include
a camping unit.
EMERGENCY ACCESS ROAD
An interior campground street/road that meets the requirements for private street design standards contained in Catskill Town Code Chapter
138, Streets and Sidewalks, with the exception of the bituminous surface treatment and 50-foot right-of-way (ROW) requirement. An emergency access road must extend to within 150 feet of all portions of all buildings and structures within the campground. Notwithstanding the requirements of Catskill Town Code Chapter
138, Streets and Sidewalks, emergency access roads shall be cleared, graded and improved to a twelve-foot minimum width for one-way traffic and a 16 foot minimum width for two-way traffic. In addition, the composition, horizontal/vertical curves, and grading of the emergency access road shall be designed and constructed such that emergency vehicles (e.g., fire apparatus, ambulances, etc.) can safely and easily access all campsites and shall include one or more approved turn-around areas.
MANUFACTURED HOME
For the purposes of this chapter only, a manufactured home
is a single-family dwelling factory-built according to the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Construction
and Safety Standards (commonly known as the HUD Code) which took effect
as of June 15, 1976. The HUD Code, unlike conventional building codes,
requires manufactured homes to be built on a permanent chassis to
ensure transportability.
MOBILE HOME
For the purposes of this chapter only, a mobile home is a
single-family dwelling factory-built on a permanent chassis before
June 15, 1976.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE OR RV
A vehicular camping unit primarily designed as temporary
living quarters for recreational camping or travel use, which either
has its own motor power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle.
As used herein, the term recreational vehicle or RV includes but is
not limited to, travel trailers (including "Tiny Homes" on wheels),
camping trailers, truck campers, fifth wheel trailers, park model
trailers, and motor homes.
SCAVENGER SERVICE
A campground-run service that utilizes a combination of portable
holding tanks, transfer pump or other waste transfer method, and watertight
hose connections to empty the contents of a recreational vehicle's
sewage (i.e., both black water from toilets/urinals and grey water
from sinks/showers) holding tank(s) into the portable holding tanks
for transport to an approved community sewage dumping station within
a campground.
The Code Enforcement Officer shall be allowed entry to a campground
at any time for the purposes of inspection.
No owner, user, or occupant of any land within the Town, shall use or allow the use of such land for camping unless a campground special use permit is issued pursuant to § 120-3 of this chapter and Catskill Town Code Chapter
160, Zoning, §
160-17. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following uses are permissible uses:
A. Camping by the owner of any tax lot as those lots appear on the Greene
County Tax Maps for the Town, or his/her invitees, on his/her own
real property, which real property does not contain a dwelling, is
permitted provided that:
(1) One of the following situations applies:
(a)
There are four or fewer campsites; or
(b)
There are five or more campsites occupied only by the property
owner or his/her immediate family; or
(c)
There are five or more campsites occupied for less than 60 hours
in any calendar year;
(2) There shall be permitted no more than one camping unit per campsite;
(3) A recreational vehicle must be inspected and registered with an appropriate
state agency in accordance with all vehicle and traffic laws and must
be maintained in an operable condition and highway ready at all times;
(4) A camping unit must be structurally sound and in good repair;
(5) The occupancy limits of § 120-5A are met allowing (with
conditions) up to 12 persons per campsite for overnight occupancy;
(6) Camping shall not occur more than 30 cumulative days in any calendar
year unless a recreational vehicle used for camping is connected to
a properly sized on-site water supply (e.g., well) and sewage disposal
system designed and/or certified by a New York State licensed professional
engineer and approved for use by the Code Enforcement Officer, in
which case camping shall not occur more than 180 cumulative days in
any calendar year; and
(7) Camping takes place in a screened portion of an unimproved lot, where
practicable.
B. Camping by the owner of any tax lot as those lots appear on the Greene
County Tax Maps for the Town, or his/her invitees, on his/her own
real property, which real property contains a dwelling, is permitted
provided that:
(1) One of the following situations applies:
(a)
There are four or fewer campsites; or
(b)
There are five or more campsites occupied only by the property
owner or his/her immediate family; or
(c)
There are five or more campsites occupied for less than 60 hours
in any calendar year;
(2) There shall be permitted no more than one camping unit per campsite;
(3) A recreational vehicle must be inspected and registered with an appropriate
state agency in accordance with all vehicle and traffic laws and must
be maintained in an operable condition and highway ready at all times;
(4) A camping unit must be structurally sound and in good repair;
(5) The occupancy limits of § 120-5A are met allowing (with
conditions) up to 12 persons per campsite for overnight occupancy;
(6) Camping shall not occur more than 180 cumulative days in any calendar
year; and
(7) Camping takes place in the side or rear yard of an improved lot.
C. Use as temporary shelter by owner.
(1) The use of recreational vehicle as a temporary shelter by the owner
of land which contains a permanent dwelling, shall be permitted provided
that:
(a)
The land is used as the principal residence of the owner and
his or her family or legal tenants;
(b)
The dwelling serving as the principal residence is no longer
habitable due to an event of force majeure;
(c)
The owner has received a building permit to repair or replace
the dwelling; and
(d)
The owner obtains a temporary certificate of occupancy for the
RV for use by persons displaced from the dwelling.
(2) A temporary certificate of occupancy issued by the Code Enforcement
Officer under this § 120-8C shall be limited to a maximum
term of one year without renewal.
(3) As used herein, the term "an event of force majeure" shall include
acts of God (such as storms, flooding, earthquake, volcanic eruption,
etc.), fire, wars, insurrections and/or any other cause beyond the
reasonable control of the owner and his or her family or legal tenants.
None of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to
the following:
A. The business of recreational vehicle sales operating pursuant to
applicable law;
B. Any mobile home park regulated under Catskill Town Code, Chapter
121, Mobile Home Parks;
C. A recreational vehicle or similar equipment not in use which may
be stored on premises containing a dwelling owned or leased by the
owner of such recreational vehicle or similar equipment; provided,
however, that the owner of such recreational vehicle or similar equipment
shall at all times comply with the Property Maintenance Code of New
York State, or any amendment thereof.
Should any section or provision of this chapter be declared
by any court to be unconstitutional or invalid, such declaration shall
not affect the validity of this chapter as a whole or any part thereof
other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
This chapter shall take effect upon its adoption and filing
with the Office of the Secretary of State.