The Town of Seneca Falls, New York incorporates the site plan
review process adopted on August 2, 2005, as a tool for the Planning
Board to review commercial, industrial, institutional and multiple
dwelling residential uses in all zoning districts. For the purposes
of this article, "multiple dwelling residential" shall mean a building
containing five or more dwelling units. The intent of this site plan
review article is to allow for the Town Planning Board to have power
of discretion in reviewing commercial, industrial, institutional and
multiple dwelling residential site plans pertaining to project design
and landscaping requirements. As an integral component of site plan
review, the Town Board has determined that poor quality of design,
poor location of buildings and structures (including signs and accessory
buildings) adversely affects the desirability of the immediate neighborhood
and impairs the benefits, stability and value of improved and unimproved
property in such areas. Therefore, it is the intent of this article
to grant to the Planning Board the review discretion necessary to
avoid such conditions and to ensure that the location and design of
buildings, structures and open spaces in the Town aid in creating
a balanced and harmonious composition of the whole as well as the
relationship of its parts. As such, all applications requiring site
plan review will be subject to a general architectural review and
will be evaluated with respect to the context of, and compatibility
with, their surrounding environs.
The site plan review process shall apply to all uses, whether
designated "permitted" or otherwise, in those portions of all zoning
districts located within the Town except the following: one-family
dwellings, two-family dwellings, farms. Such uses shall be termed
"site plan review uses."