This chapter is adopted to limit and restrict
to specified districts or zones and to regulate therein buildings
and structures according to their construction and the nature and
extent of their use and the nature and uses of land in the Town of
Marlborough, in the County of Ulster, and to provide for the administration
and enforcement of provisions herein contained and to fix penalties
for violations thereof.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Marlborough, New York."
This intent of this chapter is to establish
a precise and detailed plan for the use of land in the Town of Marlborough
based on the Comprehensive Plan, as it may be amended, and other studies
and findings. This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Town Law of
the State of New York, Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Laws, Article
16, to protect and promote public health, safety, morals, comfort
and convenience and the general welfare of the people.
Such regulations are deemed necessary to further
the advancement of the Town as a social, economic and political unit,
to promote the general welfare and to achieve the following purposes:
A.
Promote orderly development: to protect the character
and maintain the stability of residential, business and agricultural
areas and to secure and protect open space and recreation areas within
the Town and to promote the orderly and beneficial development of
the Town.
B.
Limit congestion on streets: to limit congestion in
the public streets and to protect the public health, safety and convenience
and the general welfare by providing for off-street parking of motor
vehicles and for the loading and unloading of commercial vehicles.
C.
Protect against hazards: to provide protection against
fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of
the public health, safety and comfort and the general welfare.
D.
Regulate intensity of use: to regulate the intensity
of use of zoning lots, to determine the area of open spaces surrounding
buildings, which spaces shall be necessary to provide adequate light
and air, privacy, convenience and access to property, and to protect
the public health.
E.
Regulate location of buildings: to establish building
lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, commercial,
manufacturing or other uses within such lines.
F.
Establish standards of development and encourage good
aesthetics: to fix reasonable standards to which buildings or structures
shall conform and to encourage the highest standards of aesthetics
within the Town.
G.
Prohibit incompatible uses: to prohibit uses, buildings
or structures which are incompatible with the character of development
or the permitted uses within specified zoning districts.
H.
Regulate alterations of existing buildings: to prevent
such additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings
or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations
imposed hereunder.
I.
Conserve taxable value of land: to conserve the taxable
value of land and buildings throughout the Town.
