A. 
On application or when supplementing an application to the Building Inspector for a zoning permit or a certificate of occupancy, the Planning Board may grant a permit for any use for which approval of the Board is required under this chapter. Included as part of the permit, shall be a schedule containing deadlines for the commencement and completion of the work involved based upon the Board's findings as to what time period would be reasonable therefor. The Board may also establish additional deadlines for the completion of a portion of the work when the Board, in its discretion, finds such additional deadlines to be reasonable and in the public interest. Failure of the permittee to meet any of the deadlines so established shall result in the automatic revocation of the permit, and no further action on such permit may be taken until the holder of the permit so revoked shall have reapplied for the permit in the same manner as is utilized for an original application. In addition, in granting such permit, the Board may specify appropriate conditions in harmony with the following standards.
(1) 
The use shall be of such location, size and character that it will be in harmony with the appropriate and orderly development of the district in which it is situated and will not be detrimental to the orderly development of adjacent districts.
(2) 
The location and size of the use, the nature and intensity of the operation involved or conducted in connection therewith, its site layout, including curb cuts, and its relation to streets giving access to it shall be such that traffic to and from the use and the assembly of persons in connection with it will not be hazardous or inconvenient to the neighborhood or conflict with the normal traffic of the neighborhood. In applying this standard, the Board shall consider, among other things, convenient routes of pedestrian traffic, particularly of children, relation to main traffic thoroughfares, and to street and road intersections and the general character and intensity of development of the neighborhood.
(3) 
The location and height of buildings, the location, nature and height of walls and fences and the nature and extent of landscaping on the site shall be such that the use shall not hinder or discourage the proper development and use of adjacent land and buildings or impair the value thereof.
(4) 
The location, intensity and nature of night lighting requirements.
B. 
The Board may deny permits if the proposed use fails to meet the specific standards. All provisions of this chapter relating to the Planning Board shall be strictly construed, provided that none of the provisions shall be deemed to limit any power of the Planning Board conferred by statute.
C. 
All uses that require a special use permit by the Planning Board shall also require site plan approval in accordance Article XVII of this chapter, and shall conform to the general objectives, requirements and procedures included herein. In addition, accessory uses or structures used in connection with a special use permit shall be subject to the same approval requirements as the principal structure or use.
D. 
Sufficient garage pickup areas must be provided and shall be located with a view both to convenience and to minimizing the detrimental effect on the aesthetic character of the building(s) and shall be enclosed and shielded from view by fencing, walls or shrubbery of at least six feet in height around the perimeter.
E. 
In residential uses, there shall be a minimum common storage area in each building and/or an accessory building for bicycles, perambulators and similar types of equipment, with a minimum height of six feet and a minimum area of 30 square feet per dwelling unit.
F. 
Other standards and conditions to the site plan and to curbing, driveways, parking areas, pedestrian walks, landscaping and plating not otherwise specified herein may be attached as conditions by the Planning Board as circumstances indicate they will further the purposes and intent of this chapter.
The Planning Board shall fix a time within 62 days from the day the Planning Board determines an application for a special permit to be complete, for a public hearing on the application for special permit approval. A public notice of such hearing shall be published in the City's official newspaper at least five calendar days' prior to the date thereof. In addition to the public notice of hearing, notice shall be given in writing to all property owners of land immediately adjacent extending 100 feet from and directly opposite thereto a property which has a special permit review pending before the Planning Board, at least five days in advance of the hearing. If the special permit application is located on a property that is within 500 feet of an adjacent municipality, the Board shall also give notice to the Clerk of the adjacent municipality at least 10 days before the hearing in accordance with General Municipal Law § 239-nn.
A. 
Referral to county. Any special use permit application affecting real property within 500 feet of the boundary of the City; or the boundary of any existing or proposed county or state park or other recreational area; or the right-of-way of any existing or proposed county or state roadway; or the boundary of any existing or proposed right-of-way for a stream or drainage channel owned by the county for which the county has established channel lines; or the boundary of any existing or proposed county or state-owned land on which a public building or institution is situated; or the boundary of a farm operation located in an agricultural district as defined by article twenty-five AA of the agriculture and markets law shall be referred to the Fulton County Planning Department before final action is taken pursuant to § 239-m of the General Municipal Law.
B. 
All actions taken by the Board shall comply with the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA") under Article 8 of the New York Environmental Conservation Law and its implementing regulations.
C. 
Time periods set forth in this section may be modified to coordinate with SEQRA review as provided in New York State City Law Town Law § 81-a.
D. 
Within 62 days after such public hearing, the Planning Board shall approve, approve with modifications or disapprove of the application for special permit approval. The Planning Board, in conjunction with its approval of any special permit application, may impose such requirements and conditions as are deemed necessary, including the restriction of land against further development of principal buildings, whether by deed restriction or restrictive covenants or other similar appropriate means. Failure of the Planning Board to act on an application within 62 days after a public hearing shall constitute approval of the application.
A. 
Filing of decision. The Planning Board shall prepare a written decision on the application for a special permit approval and shall have such decisions immediately filed in the office of the Planning Board Secretary and the Building Inspector and a copy thereof mailed to the applicant.
B. 
Commencement and completion of work.
(1) 
The applicant has six months from the date of the Planning Board decision to commence work on the approved special permit, unless otherwise stipulated by the Planning Board in the decision.
(2) 
All work on the approved special permit must be completed within one year of the date of the Planning Board decision, unless otherwise stipulated by the Planning Board in the decision.
C. 
Renewal and expiration of special use permit approval.
(1) 
The Planning Board may require in its resolution of approval that a special use permit by renewed periodically. Such renewal may be withheld only after public hearing and upon specific determination by the Planning Board that such conditions as may have been prescribed in conjunction with the issuance of the original permit have not been, or are no longer being, complied with. If the Building Inspector finds a violation of the special use permit, he or she may refer the application to the Planning Board for further proceedings. In such cases, a period of 60 calendar days shall be granted for full compliance by the applicant prior to revocation of the special use permit.
(2) 
A special use permit shall expire if the use or uses cease for more than one year for any reasons, if the applicant fails to obtain the necessary building permits, fails to comply with the conditions of the special use permit, or if the time limit imposed on certain special uses expires without renewal.
(3) 
A special use permit authorizes only the particular use or uses expressly specified in the resolution approving the special use and shall expire if the use permitted by the special use permit activity is not fully implemented within six calendar months of the date of the resolution approving the special use. Upon prior written request to the Planning Board, the time period to implement fully the special use activity in the special permit may be extended for a maximum period of one additional calendar year for a total of 18 months from the date of the resolution approving the special use, either through a single extension of one calendar year or the combination of two or more extensions. The Planning Board may hold a public hearing prior to granting any extensions.
A. 
The provisions of this article shall be administered and enforced by the Building Inspector, who shall have the power to make inspections of buildings or premises necessary to carry out his duties in the enforcement of this article.
B. 
No zoning permit or certificate of occupancy required hereunder shall be issued by the Building Inspector except after such special use permit has received Planning Board approval and a copy of the resolution to that effect has been presented to the Building Inspector.
C. 
No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any structure or use of land covered by this section until the structure is completed or the land developed in strict accordance with the Planning Board resolution of special permit approval and other applicable requirements of this chapter.