The Town Board of the Town of New Paltz finds
that it is in the best interests of Town residents to provide a means
and procedure by which river-oriented recreational facilities may
be located and developed in the Town.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE
A vehicular structure built on a chassis primarily designed
as temporary living quarters for recreational camping or travel use,
which either has its own mode of power or is mounted on or drawn by
another vehicle. Typical entities include (but are not limited to)
a travel trailer, camping trailer, pop-up camper, motor home and recreational
vehicle.
RECREATIONAL VILLAGE (aka CAMPGROUND or RV PARK)
A parcel of land developed for the purpose of providing sites
for tents, recreational vehicles or similar accommodations for temporary
residence use. Campgrounds, RV parks, primitive camping facilities
and other similar facilities shall fall under this definition. A recreational
village may be either publicly or privately operated, offering sites
for tent and recreational vehicle occupancy on a temporary residence
basis. Such sites are generally rented on a daily or weekly basis
and may be accompanied by the usual accessory recreational and service
facilities, such as boat launch/docks, court and field game facilities
and a consumer convenience goods store, primarily serving users of
the recreational village. This definition is not, however, intended
to cover second-home communities of single-family dwellings, labor
camps, mobile homes or RV parks where sites are owned individually
by deed conveyance or leased on a monthly basis or on a longer basis.
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE
A property consisting of a tract of land and any tents, vehicles,
buildings, rooms, camping sites or other structures and installations,
temporary or permanent, pertaining thereto, any part of which is used
or maintained primarily for overnight occupancy by people, with or
without stipulated agreement as to the duration of their stay, who
are provided at least some portion of the use of the property's facilities
with the consent or implied permission of the owner, operator or lessee
thereof.
WATERCRAFT
Any vessel used for water transportation, including but not
limited to boats, canoes, rafts, personal watercraft or other similar
vessels.
Establishment of a Wallkill River Recreation
Overlay District may be granted, subject to conditions, including
but not limited to the following:
A. The use of the site and any buildings, structures
and improvements thereto outside of the recreational village district
development area, may include those allowed in the underlying zoning
district in accordance with the Code of the Town of New Paltz.
B. The following additional use(s): recreational village.
C. The following site design and development requirements:
(1) Design of sanitary systems and water supply shall
be in accordance with the requirements of the Ulster County Health
Department and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
and approval of the Town of New Paltz Engineer. Compliance shall be
determined by the Town Engineer and any other consultant as may be
required by the Town Board; provided, however, that no sanitary system
shall be located within the Floodplain (F) Zoning District.
(2) Development shall be limited to a maximum of 100 CR/V
sites for a combination of self-propelled recreational vehicles and
vehicle-drawn trailer/pop-up units (and tents). Recreational vehicles
shall not exceed 25% of the total sites.
(3) A soil erosion and sediment control plan shall be
prepared in accordance with the New York Guidelines for Urban Erosion
and Sedimentation Control, latest edition.
(4) Design of an individual CR/V site shall provide a
minimum of 3,000 square feet of area in a configuration which accommodates
the proposed use, including parking which shall be 360 square feet
per CR/V site, complete with an improved access driveway to the designated
parking area, and must be located outside of the boundaries of any
floodplain (F) Zoning District.
(5) Any proposed on-site convenience goods store shall
consist of a maximum of 1,000 square feet in gross floor area and
shall be serviced by a parking area consisting of not more than 1,500
square feet containing not more than four parking spaces for temporary
use and by designated pedestrian walkways. Such on-site convenience
goods store shall be open only during the seasonal operation of the
recreational village.
(6) Roadways.
(a)
The entrance roadway from any road from which access is required pursuant to §
140-83 shall be paved and built to Town of New Paltz Town road standards.
(b)
All interior circulation roadways shall be constructed
with minimum twelve-inch-thick compacted shale, gravel or crushed
stone.
(c)
Parking areas and access driveways for CR/V
sites shall be constructed with a minimum eight-inch-thick compacted
shale, gravel or crushed stone.
(7) A minimum setback of 150 feet from any NYS/Ulster
County/Town of New Paltz highway, or road, shall be provided for the
purpose of minimizing the visual impact of any proposed development.
Such buffer areas are to be densely landscaped for visual screening
and noise abatement purposes.
(8) A buffer area of at least a setback of 150 feet from
any proposed development and from all other property lines and from
interior streams and watercourses shall be provided. Such buffer areas
are to be densely landscaped for visual screening and noise abatement
purposes.
(9) No development of the site shall occur within 200
feet of any stream or watercourse, except as designated and approved
for access to such stream or watercourse. Such two-hundred-foot buffer
area shall be densely landscaped for visual screening and noise abatement
purposes.
(10)
On-site presence of the owner or designated
site manager is required at all times during business operation. One
permanent residence may be included for this use.
(11)
Seasonal operation extends two weeks prior to
Memorial Day through two weeks after Columbus Day.
(12)
Permitted lighting shall be noninvasive, low
voltage and shall be limited to those areas, buildings or structures
as designated by the Planning Board as part of its site plan review
process.
(13)
All site electrical primary distribution and
individual services shall be underground.
(14)
Disposal of trash shall be in covered dumpsters
secured in fenced areas central to CR/V sites. The open storage of
trash and/or food at individual sites is prohibited.
(15)
Natural landscape features shall be incorporated
into the site plan so as to maintain natural screening and buffering.
D. Site access. Primary site and development access shall be designated to directly connect to one of the roads identified in §
140-83 of this chapter. Consideration for connected interior access roadways (looped roadway connections) and additional primary access locations for emergency vehicle access shall be provided when required by the Planning Board.
E. River access.
(1) Access to the Wallkill River may be provided as part
of the development plan for the site even where such access crosses
the F Floodplain District.
(2) Where appropriate, boat access and docking may be
constructed in accordance with the following:
(a)
Compliance with all applicable permit provisions
required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
(DEC) and any site plan or special use conditions imposed by the Planning
Board.
(b)
Docking shall be limited to one single-lane
dock per recreational village, appropriate in size to accommodate
small trailer-type or other small boats.
(c)
Docks shall be sited on the site plan so as
to minimize the impact to neighboring residents.
F. Permitted recreational uses in floodplain. Uses such as ball fields, trails, picnic areas, open pavilions and other such nonpermanent uses and structures shall be permitted within the F (floodplain) areas, provided that any use and/or structure complies in all respects to the construction standards in effect as specified by the National Flood Insurance Program and subject to the requirements of Chapter
82 of the Town Code, entitled "Flood Damage Prevention."
G. Restrictions on campfires. Campfire restrictions shall
be posted at the registration area and distributed to all users at
registration.
(1) Fires are restricted to designated campsites.
(2) There shall be not more than one designated open-air
campfire area per site, adequately protected against fire spread through
use of a fireplace, fire ring or similar device.
(3) There shall be no unattended fires.
(4) There shall be no cutting of trees, brush, bushes
or other vegetation. Any on-site taking of firewood shall be limited
to fallen, horizontal wood.
(5) The use of portable camp cooking stoves shall be encouraged.
(6) Campfires are prohibited during periods of drought
upon order of the appropriate federal, state or local governmental
official or other authority having jurisdiction.
H. Prohibited uses and facilities. Notice of all prohibited
or restricted uses and facilities shall be posted at the registration
area and distributed to all users upon registration.
(2) Docking and/or launching of fossil fuel motorized
boats or fossil fuel motorized personal watercraft.
(3) The discharge of firearms except by law enforcement
personnel actually engaged in the course of their official duties.
(5) Firearms for target, skeet or similar shooting purposes.
(6) All-terrain vehicles (commonly referred to as ATV's,
three-wheelers or four-wheelers or similar vehicles) and off-road
type motorcycles except for use as maintenance vehicles by the site
owner, site manager or site employees.
(7) Paved surfaces shall be kept to a minimum. There shall
be no paved surfaces except as expressly permitted by the Planning
Board as, for example, to service any convenience goods camp store,
dump stations or dumpsters.
(8) There shall be no exterior lighting except as permitted pursuant to §
140-86 of this chapter.
(9) Concerts and other nonrelated public functions.
(10)
Except in the case of emergency, the use of
loudspeakers, public address systems or similar sound amplification
devices is prohibited.
(11)
There shall be no storage of vehicles beginning
two weeks after Columbus Day through two weeks before Memorial Day.
(12)
Any and all uses not specifically permitted
on the site plan shall be prohibited.
If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause
or provision of this article shall be adjudged as invalid, such adjudication
shall apply to the section, paragraph, subdivision, clause or provision
so adjudicated and the remainder of this article shall be deemed valid
and effective.
This article shall be effective immediately
upon filing pursuant to the Municipal Home Rule Law.