Town of Babylon, NY
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2023-12-20
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 213 Zoning
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Article XXIX Building and Landscape Maintenance
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Assessor, Department of
- Ch 6 Attorney, Department of
- Ch 10 Clerk, Department of
- Ch 13 Comptroller, Department of
- Ch 15 Department of Public Safety Enforcement
- Ch 18 Environmental Conservation Commission
- Ch 20 Environmental Control, Department of
- Ch 22 Escrow Account, Town Attorney
- Ch 23 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 25 Fire Districts
- Ch 27 General Services, Department of
- Ch 31 Human Services, Department of
- Ch 35 Meetings
- Ch 37 (Reserved)
- Ch 42 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 44 Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Department of
- Ch 47 Personnel Policies
- Ch 48 Civil Service, Department of
- Ch 49 Planning and Development, Department of
- Ch 50 Abolishment of Office of Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 51 Public Works, Department of
- Ch 53 Receiver of Taxes, Department of
- Ch 57 Sanitation Commission
- Ch 59 Streets, Procedure for Abandonment of
- Ch 60 Town Board, Office of
- Ch 61 Ward Districts
- Ch 65 Town Supervisor, Department of
- Ch 66 Administrative Adjudication, Bureau of
- Ch 67 Carlls River Botanical Garden Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 74 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 76 Amusement Devices
- Ch 78 Anti-Bias Task Force and Hispanic/Latino Advisory Committee
- Ch 79 Bazaars and Fairs
- Ch 81 Beaches and Recreational Areas
- Ch 82 Bidding Preferences
- Ch 84 Bingo
- Ch 85 Block Parties; Public Assembly Permits; Use of Sound Equipment
- Ch 86 Boats
- Ch 89 Building Construction
- Ch 92 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 93 Board of Grievances and Appeals
- Ch 94 Cabarets and Dance Halls
- Ch 97 Civil Service Examinations
- Ch 99 Coastal Erosion Hazard Areas
- Ch 101 Consumer Protection
- Ch 106 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 107 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 108 Dredging
- Ch 112 Electrical Standards
- Ch 114 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 117 Excavations
- Ch 118 Expeditors
- Ch 121 Firearms
- Ch 123 Fire Prevention
- Ch 125 Flood Damage Control
- Ch 128 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 130 Games of Chance
- Ch 133 Solid Waste Management
- Ch 136 Graffiti
- Ch 137 Historic Areas, Preservation of
- Ch 138 Housing Standards
- Ch 141 Ice Cream Vending
- Ch 143 (Reserved)
- Ch 144 Landscapers
- Ch 145 Bamboo
- Ch 146 Littering
- Ch 148 Massage Establishments
- Ch 149 Memorial and Independence Day Sales
- Ch 153 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 156 Noise
- Ch 157 Notice and Certificates of Assessment
- Ch 158 Notification of Defects
- Ch 161 Party Houses
- Ch 162 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 165 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 166 Personal Property, Sale of
- Ch 167 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 170 Plumbing
- Ch 173 Public Assembly Places
- Ch 176 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 178 Retail Establishments
- Ch 180 Taxicabs and Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 181 Sewers
- Ch 183 Shellfish
- Ch 186 Site Plan Review
- Ch 189 Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 190 Storm Sewers: Illicit Discharges, Activities and Connections
- Ch 191 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 195 Taxation
- Ch 198 Towing
- Ch 200 Trailer Camps
- Ch 202 (Reserved)
- Ch 204 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 205 (Reserved)
- Ch 207 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 209 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 210 (Reserved)
- Ch 211 Water
- Ch 213 Zoning
- Ch 213 Art XXIX Building and Landscape Maintenance
- § 213-365 Intent.
- § 213-366 Definitions.
- § 213-367 Property maintenance.
- § 213-368 (Reserved)
- Ch 215 Land Use Regulations, Adoption of
- Appendix
- Ch A217 Recreational Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Traffic Code
- Part I: The Traffic Law
- Ch TC-1 General Provisions
- Ch TC-2 Traffic Regulations
- Ch TC-3 Parking Regulations
- Ch TC-4 Off-Street Parking Areas
- Ch TC-5 Commercial Vehicles; Weight Limits
- Ch TC-6 Removal and Storage of Vehicles
- Ch TC-7 Counterfeit Beach Pass
- Part II: The Schedule
- Sch A Traffic Control Signals
- Sch B Prohibited Turns
- Sch C U-Turns
- Sch D One-Way Streets
- Sch E Parking Area Exits and Entrances
- Sch F Lane Use Designations
- Sch G No Passing Zones
- Sch H Stop and Yield Intersections
- Sch I Exceptions to General Speed Limit
- Sch J School Speed Limits
- Sch K Parking, Standing and Stopping Restrictions
- Sch L Private Parking Fields
- Sch M Town Parking Fields
- Sch N Truck Exclusions
- Sch O Bridges and Elevated Structures
- Sch P School District Parking Fields
- Sch Q Special Truck Exclusions
- Traffic Code Disposition List
- Ch TC-DL Disposition List
[Added 10-6-1987]
A.Â
The Town Board and Planning Board of the Town of Babylon
have targeted the creation of business, industrial and multiple residence
zoned areas with visual qualities which may be characterized as verdant
and park-like and to provide quality development, landscaping and
attractive streetscapes as an overall objective in the Town of Babylon.
B.Â
The Town of Babylon has taken numerous measures as
part of this overall comprehensive strategy to implement both through
regulations of private land use and by the public improvements made
in each community.
C.Â
The Town Board has determined that landscaping, natural
plantings. buffer zones, screening, including buffer fencing, grass/sod
and the like, which are not maintained in good order and condition,
can create hazardous, unsanitary or visual blight offensive to those
who reside, work, travel and do business in the Town and can have
a negative economic, visual and aesthetic impact upon surrounding
properties.
D.Â
It is the intent of this legislation to promote the
conservation of property values by implementing a Town-Wide Building
and Landscape Maintenance Code in all business, industrial and multiple
residence zones, so that all required building structures and landscaping
is maintained in good order and condition.
E.Â
It is the further intent of the Town Board by this
legislation to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the
residents of the Town of Babylon through the establishment of standards,
guidelines and enforcement mechanisms whereby all landscaped areas
required by the Planning Board shall be maintained in good order and
condition in accordance with all requirements of this Code.
Unless otherwise stated expressly, the following
words and expressions, where used in this chapter shall have meanings
as follows:
A building used or occupied for the transaction of business,
for the rendering of professional services, for the display, sale
or storage of goods, wares or merchandise, for the supplying of food,
drink or other bodily needs or comforts or for the performance of
work or labor, including but not limited to office buildings, stores,
markets, restaurants, factories, workshops and laboratories.
Required natural landscaping, shrubbery, trees, buffer zone
area, screening and planting trips and grass/sod.
The land and all buildings and structures.
A.Â
Each owner, lessee, tenant or other person having
the management or control of or occupying any lot or plot of land
in the Town of Babylon located within a business, light or heavy industrial,
multiple residence or senior citizens multiple residence district
shall keep the premises, buildings, structures, signs, fences and
natural landscaping and landscaped areas in a safe, sanitary, clean,
neat and wholesome condition and shall comply with all requirements
and regulations under this Code or adopted by the Planning Board.
Each owner, lessee, tenant or other person having management or control
of or occupying any lot or plot of land in the Town of Babylon shall
remove, at his own expense, any garbage, rubbish, refuse, trash, litter
or any other type of debris which may accumulate on the premises and
shall keep all landscaped areas, including paved parking areas, neat
and well maintained.
B.Â
All natural landscaping, including trees, shrubbery,
bushes and grass/sod, shall be maintained in a neat and orderly condition
at all times.
