[Amended 10-27-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999]
This chapter has been prepared and adopted,
with amendments from time to time, to provide and maintain a Comprehensive
Plan for the use and development of property in the Village of North
Hills. This chapter is intended to provide for the regulation of location,
construction and utilization of land and buildings by dividing the
land within the Village into districts and prescribing regulations
for the use of land and buildings in such districts.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the Village
Law of the State of New York, for the protection and promotion of
the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the Village
in the following objectives:
A.Â
To protect and preserve the character of the Village's
environmental areas and the quality and viability of the districts
by assuring that future development will be in harmony therewith.
B.Â
To conserve the value of property.
C.Â
To provide a guiding pattern of land use and population
density which represents the most appropriate use of land within the
Village, preserves the existing environmental and ecological assets
of the land and recognizes current trends in land use planning and
building design.
D.Â
To aid in establishing the most efficient relationship
between the use of land and buildings and the movement and circulation
of traffic.
E.Â
To provide for adequate light, air and other amenities.
F.Â
To provide a guide for the effective provision of
municipal facilities and services.
G.Â
To protect social and economic stability and thus
encourage orderly and beneficial development.
H.Â
To protect present and future property values and
the tax base by promoting harmonious and enduring neighborhoods, by
preventing the construction of inappropriately large or inappropriately
small structures in established districts, by preventing monotonous
and unsightly uniformity of building development or unsightly structures
of incongruous or inappropriate form that might tend to depress surrounding
property values, all of which purposes are hereby declared to be legitimate
and proper public objectives clearly in the public interest and in
harmony with the broad purposes enumerated in the Village Law.
