The Town Board hereby makes the following statements
of intent and purpose:
A. To promote the health, safety and general welfare
of the Town of Cazenovia. A clean, wholesome, attractive environment
is important to the health and safety of the inhabitants of the Town
and essential to the maintenance and continued development of the
economy of the Town and the general welfare of its inhabitants.
B. To ensure the optimum overall conservation, protection,
preservation, development and use of the natural and man-related resources
of the Town by regulating land use activity within the Town through
review and approval of site plans. It is not the intent of this chapter
to prohibit per se any land use activity but to allow all land use
activities which will meet the standards set forth in this chapter
and other applicable laws.
C. To protect and enhance the natural, cultural, historic
and scenic attributes of the Town enjoyed by residents, business owners
and visitors.
D. To protect the rural agrarian character that has historically
influenced the Town.
E. To protect and manage quality open space throughout
the Town.
F. To facilitate the preservation of scenic views, vistas,
panoramic views and corridors that have been identified as scenic
resources of community significance.
G. To prevent the overcrowding of land, promote a coordinated
development of unbuilt areas and conserve and restore natural beauty
and other natural resources.
H. To encourage originality, flexibility and innovation
in site planning and development, including the architecture, landscaping
and graphic design of proposed developments in relation to surrounding
areas and in conjunction with the Town's Comprehensive Plan.
I. To discourage monotonous and inharmonious developments,
minimize discordant and unsightly surroundings and visual blight and
avoid inappropriate and poor quality design.
J. To promote orderly growth, protect and enhance property
values and other environmental and aesthetic considerations which
generally enhance rather than detract from standards and values of
the comfort and prosperity and the preservation of natural beauty
and other natural resources, which are the proper concern of local
government, and to promote and enhance construction and maintenance
practices that will tend to enhance environmental and aesthetic quality.
K. To aid in assuring that structures, signs and other
improvements are properly related to their sites and the surrounding
sites and structures, with due regard to the aesthetic qualities of
the natural terrain and landscaping and that proper attention is given
to exterior appearances of structures, signs and other improvements.
L. To protect and enhance the Town's pleasant environments
for living and working and to support, stimulate and promote the desirability
of investment and occupancy in business and other properties.
M. To stabilize and improve property values and prevent
blight to help provide an adequate tax base to the Town to enable
it to provide required services to its citizens.
N. To foster civic pride and community spirit by reason
of the Town's favorable environment and thus promote the peace, health
and welfare of the Town and its citizens.
O. To encourage designs and uses that discourage light
pollution and which will protect and preserve "dark skies" in the
Town.
P. To ensure compliance with the intent and requirements of the Cazenovia
Lakefront Development Guidelines, as last amended and adopted by the
Town Board of the Town of Cazenovia, as applicable to lakefront developments.
[Added 2-12-2018 by L.L.
No. 1-2018]
Pursuant to the provisions of § 274-a
of the Town Law, the Planning Board is hereby authorized to review
and approve, approve with modifications or disapprove site plans for
land uses within the Town as hereinafter designated pursuant to and
in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth in this
chapter.