The Planning Board shall have the power and
authority to employ experts and a staff and to pay for their services
and such other expenses as may be necessary and proper, not exceeding,
in all, the appropriations that may be made for such Board. The Planning
Board may adopt rules and regulations in respect to procedure before
it and in respect to any subject matter over which it has jurisdiction
under this resolution or any statute, after public hearing by the
Planning Board and subject to the approval of the Town Board.
The Planning Board shall have and exercise powers
and duties with respect to the entire area of the Town of New Hartford
outside the limits of the Villages of New Hartford and New York Mills
as follows:
A. To prepare and change a Comprehensive Master Plan
for the development of such entire area of the Town of New Hartford.
B. To make investigations, maps and reports and recommendations
in connection therewith relating to the planning and development of
the town and its future growth and affording adequate facilities for
the housing, transportation, distribution, comfort, convenience, safety,
health and general welfare of its population.
C. To approve or disapprove changes in the lines of existing
streets, highways or public areas shown on subdivision plats or maps
filed in the County Clerk's office.
D. To approve or disapprove the laying out of, closing
off or abandonment of streets, highways or public areas, under and
subject to the provisions of the Town Law and the Highway Law.
E. To approve all plats showing lots, blocks or sites,
with or without streets or highways, and to pass and approve the development
of plats already filed in the County Clerk's office, if such plats
are entirely or partially undeveloped, and to control subdivisions.
F. Simultaneously with the approval of any such plat,
to confirm and make changes in the zoning regulations applicable to
the land included in any such plat, in accordance with the provisions
of § 281 of the Town Law and amendments thereto.
G. The Planning Board shall also exercise all other powers
conferred upon it by the provisions of the Town Law and shall pass
upon all matters which may be referred to it from time to time by
resolution of the Town Board. It shall conduct hearings and perform
its duties in accordance with such procedure as provided in §§ 272
to 281, inclusive, of the Town Law and acts amendatory thereof.
The Town Clerk of the Town of New Hartford shall
file with the Clerk of the County of Oneida a certificate, in the
form herewith attached, certifying that the Planning Board of the Town of New
Hartford has been authorized to approve plats showing lots, blocks
or sites, with or without streets or highways, and to pass and approve
the entire or partial development of plats already filed in the office
of the Clerk of such county, in accordance with the provisions of
§ 276, as amended, of the Town Law.
[Adopted 11-20-1996 by L.L. No. 7-1996]
[Amended 5-11-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
A. The purpose of this article is to create a Town-Wide
Planning Board for the benefit of the whole Town of New Hartford.
B. The Town Board of New Hartford does by this article
create a Town-Wide Planning Board for the whole Town of New Hartford
with a membership of seven members.
The adoption of this article is made pursuant
to § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law and § 271
of the Town Law of the State of New York.