Intent and purpose. It is the intent of the Town of Fishkill to provide
guidelines, regulations and incentives for the development of moderately
priced dwelling units for persons of low or moderate income levels.
The Town concludes that the extent to which new residential land development
proposals include, or fail to include, affordable housing components
may yield relative socioeconomic impacts, either favorable or unfavorable,
upon community character. Legislative or administrative actions on
such proposals by the Town Board, or administrative actions by the
Planning Board, should take into consideration, for purposes of exercising
discretion in the context of local land use regulation and for purposes
of reviews under the State Environmental Quality Review Act, the extent
to which those impacts may exist, whether they are potentially adverse,
and, if so, the extent to which, and the manner in which, such impacts
are proposed to be mitigated to levels falling short of genuine significance,
if at all, by the project sponsor(s) during the course of project
reviews.