[Added 11-29-1988 by L.L. No. 6-1988]
There is hereby established a Housing Commission
for the Village of Southampton, which shall be advisory to the Village
Board, the Planning Board, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Architectural
Board of Review. The Commission shall also be advisory to the Building
Inspector and Building Department.
A.
The Housing Commission shall consist of five members,
one of whom shall be appointed Chairperson and another, Deputy Chairperson,
who shall act in the absence or inability of the Chairperson, and
a Secretary.
B.
Members of the Commission shall be appointed for a
term of three years. The first appointment of members thereto shall
be for terms so that, of the initial appointment, two members shall
be appointed for three years, two members shall be appointed for two
years, and one member shall be appointed for one year. Upon the expiration
of the initial appointments of the terms of the initial appointees,
the subsequent appointments shall be for three years each. Members
shall be required to be residents of the Village. No person who is
a member of the Village Board of Trustees shall be eligible for membership
on the Housing Commission. Any member of the Commission may be removed
by the Mayor for cause and after public hearing.
C.
Meetings shall be held at the call of the Chairperson
and at such other times as the Commission may determine. Meetings
of the Commission shall be open to the public to the extent provided
in Article 7 of the Public Officers Law. The Commission shall keep
minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon each
question or, if a member is absent or fails to vote, indicating such
fact, and shall keep records of its actions.
Appointment of members to the Commission shall
be made by the Mayor, with the approval of a majority of the Village
Board of Trustees.
If a vacancy shall occur otherwise than by expiration
of a member's term, it shall be filled by an interim appointment for
the remainder of the former member's unexpired term.
The Commission shall adopt rules of procedure
as may be necessary to the proper exercise of its responsibilities
with respect to the foregoing purposes of its establishment.
Each decision of the Commission shall be by
resolution. It shall be approved by a majority of the Commission.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of
applications for a renewal of a special exception use relating to
accessory apartments, where the recommendation of the Commission shall
be requested or required, such requests shall be reviewed by a committee
of one member of the Commission, designated by the Chairman, to determine
whether or not consideration by the full Commission shall be appropriate.
Except for extraordinary circumstances, the report and recommendation
of the Commission shall be given by such committee of one member.
In making a recommendation for referral of such a case to the full
Commission, such committee of one member shall set forth in such recommendation
the reason either for or against referral of the request to the full
Commission in addition to the recommendation by such member. The report
and recommendation of the Commission shall set forth its findings
and conclusions.
In the event that the committee or the full
Commission shall fail to issue a recommendation with regard to an
application within 30 days after the same shall have been referred
to the Commission, the recommendation of the Commission shall be deemed
to have been a recommendation in favor of the subject application.
Such thirty-day period may be extended for good cause by a majority
of the Commission with the consent of the applicant.
No extension of a special exception use relating
to an accessory apartment shall be granted by the Zoning Board of
Appeals unless the same shall have first been referred to the Housing
Commission.
