[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Williamson as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-11-1992 by L.L No. 1-1992]
[Amended 12-30-2008 by L.L. No. 1-2008]
A.
The Planning Board shall consist of five members.
B.
The positions of alternate members of the Town of
Williamson Zoning Board of Appeals and the Town of Williamson Planning
Board are hereby established. There shall be two such alternate members
for the Board of Appeals and two such alternate members for the Planning
Board.
The alternate members of the Board of Appeals
and the Planning Board shall serve in the absence, unavailability
or inability of a regular member of such Boards to serve. Copies of
notices sent to regular members of the Board of Appeals and the Planning
Board shall be sent to the respective alternate members. When a meeting
of the Board of Appeals or Planning Board shall be duly noticed and
called for discussion, if it shall become apparent that a regular
member(s) of the Board will be unable to hear and deliberate upon
an application, then the alternate member(s) of the Board, at the
call of the Chairman or Clerk of the Board, shall be duly authorized
to hear any application, to deliberate and to vote with the full force
and effect as if duly appointed a regular member of the Board.
The alternate members of the Board of Appeals
and the Planning Board shall be appointed for the same term and in
the same manner as regularly appointed members.
[Adopted 5-8-2007]
Town Law §§ 267 and 271 provide
that, effective January 1, 2007, all planning board and zoning board
of appeals members in New York State, as well as alternate members
of those boards, must complete a minimum of four hours of training
each year. The above sections of state law provide that a planning
board or zoning board of appeals member shall not be eligible for
reappointment to such board if they have not completed the training
required by law. The above sections of state law provide that the
legislative body of the Town specifies which activities qualify as
training to satisfy the state requirements.
A.
The following list of agencies, commissions, associations,
universities, and other organizations are approved to provide training
to meet the state requirements when the training they provide pertains
to municipal planning, zoning, community design, environmental issues,
economic development, and local government functions and practices:
(1)
The NYS Department of State; Department of Agriculture
and Markets; Office of the State Comptroller; Department of Health;
Department of Transportation; Department of Environmental Conservation;
Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; Hudson River
Valley Greenway; and
(2)
The New York State Association of Towns, the New York
Conference of Mayors, the New York State Association of Counties,
the New York Planning Federation, the American Planning Association,
the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association
and its sections, and the Metro New York Chapter of the American Planning
Association and its sections; and
(3)
The Capital District Regional Planning Commission,
Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board, Herkimer-Oneida
Counties Comprehensive Planning Program, Lake Champlain-Lake George
Regional Planning Board, Long Island Regional Planning Board, Southern
Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board, South Tier East
Regional Planning Development Board, South Tier West Regional Planning
and Development Board, Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council,
Hudson Valley Regional Council, Tug Hill Commission, and Adirondack
Park Agency, and the Genesee Transportation Council; and
(4)
The Wayne County Planning Department; and the Wayne
County Soil and Water Conservation District; and
(5)
The Albany Law School Governmental Law Center and
Institute for Legal Studies, Pace Law School, Cornell University and
its cooperative extension; and
(6)
On-line planning and zoning training programs offered
by the New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal, Pace University and
Land Use Law Center, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Use Policy.
B.
Other training activities may be approved on a case-by-case
basis by the Town Board upon the request of a Planning Board or Zoning
Board of Appeals member.
Any new member appointed to fill the last six
months of a term shall not be required to have attended training to
be reappointed to a first full term, but must thereafter comply with
the Town's training policy as provided elsewhere herein, and
Training received by a Planning Board member
or Zoning Board of Appeals member in excess of four hours in any one
year may be carried over by the member into succeeding years.
The Williamson Town Clerk shall create and maintain
a system of tracking the training individual members complete annually,
and such information shall be presented to the appointing authority
prior to considering a member for reappointment.
