This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Zoning Law of the Town of Stanford, Dutchess County, New York." By integration within the Code of the Town of Stanford, this chapter shall also be known and may be cited as "Chapter 164 of the Code of the Town of Stanford, Dutchess County, New York."
This chapter regulates the location, construction,
alteration and use of buildings and structures and the development
and use of land within the Town of Stanford and for said purposes
divides the Town into zoning districts.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the Town
Law of the State of New York, Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Laws,
Article 16, and Articles 2 and 3 of the Municipal Home Rule Law to
protect and promote the public health, safety, comfort, convenience,
economy, aesthetics and general welfare within the Town of Stanford
and in furtherance of the following related and more specific objectives:
A.
To guide and regulate the orderly development of the
Town in accordance with a comprehensive plan.
B.
To protect the established character and the social
and economic well-being of both private and public property.
C.
To promote, in the public interest, the utilization
of land for the purposes for which it is most appropriate.
D.
To secure that maximum recharge of the Town's fresh
groundwater reserve to assure both the maintenance of the natural
environment and the ecosystems essential to its continued well-being
and the optimum groundwater resource for the human community through
the protection of such features of the watershed areas as the woodlands,
streams, ponds, lakes and aquifer recharge zones and to regulate the
ultimate land use and consequent fresh water consumption so that the
potential demand for fresh water shall not exceed the reasonably determined
safe yield of that fresh groundwater reservoir.
E.
To secure safety from fire, panic, flood, storm and
other dangers, to provide adequate light, air and convenience of access
and to prevent environmental pollution.
F.
To prevent overcrowding of land or building and to
avoid undue concentration of population.
G.
To conserve the values of buildings and to enhance
the value of land throughout the Town.
H.
To provide housing sites for residents of the community
compatible with their economic means.
I.
To conserve and to protect the natural scenic beauty
and cultural and historic resources of the Town.
J.
To accommodate and promote agricultural activity within
the Town.
