[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Crawford 1-8-1962.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 4-9-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987]
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law
of the State of New York, as amended, a Planning Board of five members shall
be appointed for the Town of Crawford, Orange County, New York. The first
members shall be appointed for terms of one, two, three, four and five years,
respectively, with the first Chairman at the Planning Board to be designated
by the Town Board.
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law of the State
of New York, the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford, Orange County, New
York, hereby appointed, shall have full power and authority to prepare a Master
Plan; to make such investigations, maps and reports and recommendations in
connection therewith relating to the planning and development of the Town
as it deems desirable; and to report upon matters referred to it by the Town
Board or as required by Article 16, as amended; and it shall have the authority
to employ experts and to pay for their services and such other expenses as
may be necessary and proper, provided that the total expenditures of said
Board shall not exceed the appropriations for its expenses.
Pursuant to the provisions of § 276, as amended, of the Town
Law of the State of New York, the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford,
Orange County, New York, hereby appointed, is authorized and empowered to
approve plats showing lots, blocks or sites, with or without streets or highways,
in the Town of Crawford, Orange County, New York.
Pursuant to the provisions of § 276, as amended, of the Town
Law of the State of New York, the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford,
Orange County, New York, hereby appointed, is authorized and empowered to
pass and approve the development of plats already filed in the office of the
Clerk of the county in which such plat is located if such plats are entirely
or partially undeveloped.
Pursuant to the provisions of § 281, as amended, of the Town
Law of the State of New York, the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford,
Orange County, New York, is authorized, simultaneously with the approval of
any plat, either to conform to the zoning regulations of the land so platted
as shown on the Zoning Map of the Town of Crawford or to make any reasonable
change therein.[1]
The Clerk of the Town of Crawford, Orange County, New York, is directed
to forthwith file, with the Clerk of the County of Orange, a certificate showing
that the Town Board of the Town of Crawford, Orange County, New York, has
authorized its Planning Board to approve plats within the Town of Crawford,
Orange County, New York, pursuant to the provisions of § 276 of
the Town Law of the State of New York, and that said Clerk is requested to
write to the County Clerk of Orange County and request such Clerk, pursuant
to the provisions of § 278 of the Town Law of the State of New York,
to refuse to file or record in his office any plat of a subdivision of land
until it has approval by the Planning Board of the Town of Crawford, Orange
County, New York.
