The Board of Trustees may from time to time on its own motion,
on petition or on recommendation of the Planning Board amend, supplement
or repeal the regulations and provisions of this chapter.
A. Hearing. No such supplement or repeal of restrictions and the boundaries
of such districts shall become effective until after a public hearing.
At least ten-day notice of the time and place of such hearing shall
be published in the designated paper of the Village.
B. Additional requirements. The procedural requirements set forth herein
shall be in addition to the requirements of the provisions of §§ 239-l
and 239-m of the General Municipal Law relating to review by a county,
metropolitan or regional planning board, the provisions of the State
Environmental Quality Review Act under Article 8 of the Environmental
Conservation Law and its implementing regulations which are codified
in Title 6, Part 617, of the New York Codes. Rules and Regulations and any other general
laws relating to land use and any amendment relating thereto.
C. Filing. Every zoning law and every amendment (excluding any map incorporated
therein) adopted shall be entered in the minutes of the Village Board
and the copy, summary or abstract shall be published once in the official
newspaper and a copy of such local law or amendment, together with
a summary abstract of any map incorporated therein, shall be posted
conspicuously at or near the main entrance to the office of the Village
Clerk and affidavits of the publication and posting thereof shall
be filed with the Village Clerk. Such minutes shall describe and refer
to any map adopted in connection with such local law or amendment.
D. Effective date. Such local law shall take effect upon filing in the
office of the Secretary of State, but such local law or amendment
shall take effect from the date of its service as against a person
served personally with a copy thereof certified by the Village Clerk
and showing the date of its passage and entry into the minutes.
Every such proposed amendment or change, whether initiated by
the Board of Trustees or by petition, shall be referred to the Planning
Board for report thereon before the public hearing hereinafter provided
for. If the Planning Board shall fail to file such a report, it shall
be conclusively presumed that the Planning Board has approved the
proposed amendment, supplement or change.
The Board of Trustees, by resolution adopted at a stated meeting,
shall fix the time and place of a public hearing on the proposed amendments
and shall cause notice to be given as follows:
A. Public notice: by publishing a notice at least 10 days in advance
of such hearing in at least one newspaper of general circulation in
the Village of South Glens Falls. Such notice shall state the date,
time and place of such hearing, the general nature of the proposed
amendment in such reasonable detail as will give adequate notice to
its contents and shall name the place or places where copies of the
proposed amendment may be examined.
B. Personal notice:
(1) By mailing a copy of such notice to every association of residents
of the Village which shall have registered its name and address for
this purpose with the Village Clerk.
(2) A written notice of any proposed change or amendment affecting property
within 500 feet of the boundaries of the Town of Moreau shall be given
to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors at least 10 days prior to
the date of such hearing.
C. Opportunity to be heard at hearing. At the public hearing, full opportunity
to be heard shall be given to any citizen and all parties in interest.
In case of an adverse recommendation by the Planning Board against
any proposed amendment or in case of a protest signed by the owners
of 20% or more of the assessed valuation of the land included in such
proposed change; or the land immediately adjacent and extending 500
feet therefrom; or the land directly opposite thereto and extending
500 feet from the street, road or highway frontage of such opposite
land, such amendment shall not become effective except by favorable
vote of at least four members of the Board of Trustees.