The Village Board hereby finds that inappropriateness or poor quality
of design in the exterior appearance of buildings or land developments adversely
affects the desirability of the immediate area and neighboring areas and,
by so doing, impairs the stability and value of both improved and unimproved
real property in such areas, retards the most appropriate development of such
areas, produces degeneration of property in such areas with attendant deterioration
of conditions affecting the general welfare of the inhabitants thereof, and
creates an improper relationship between the taxable value of real property
in such areas and the cost of municipal services provided therefor. It is
the purpose of this chapter to prevent these and other harmful effects of
such exterior appearance of buildings and land developments and thus to promote
and protect the health, safety and general welfare of the community.
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Piermont hereby creates a commission
which shall be known as the "Architectural Review Commission."
The Commission shall base its recommendations on the following criteria: No building or structure or land development shall be so detrimental to the desirability, property values or development of the surrounding area as to provoke one or more of the harmful effects set forth in §
4-1 by reason of:
A. The repeated and adjacent use of identical or nearly
identical facades or structures arranged without respect to natural features
of terrain or other existing structures.
B. Inappropriateness of a structure or land development
in relation to any other structure or land development existing or for which
a permit has been issued or to any other structure or land development included
in the same application with respect to one or more of the following features:
(3) Height of building or height of roof.
(4) Other significant design features such as material or quality of architectural design, roof structures, chimneys, exposed mechanical equipment and service, service and storage enclosures, signs, landscaping, retaining walls, parking areas, service and loading docks, dividing walls, fences and lighting posts, provided that a finding of inappropriateness existed to provoke beyond reasonable doubt one or more of the harmful effects set forth in §
4-1.