Alfred City Zoning Code
ARTICLE III
Official Zoning Map
§ 160-15 Zoning Map part of chapter; Map on file.
Districts are located and bounded as shown on the Official Zoning Map, which is made a part of this chapter. The Official Zoning Map is to be kept on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
§ 160-16 Zoning Districts.
[Amended 3-29-2005 STM by Art. 2; 3-11-2006 ATM by Art. 24; 3-28-2009 ATM by Art. 21; 2-6-2019 STM by Art. 2]
To implement the provisions of this chapter, the Town of Alfred is hereby divided into the following districts:
A.
Center Village District.
B.
Village District.
C.
Mixed Use District 1.
D.
Mixed Use District 2.
E.
Mixed Use District 3.
F.
Commercial District.
G.
Rural Residential District.
H.
Critical Rural District.
I.
Wellhead Protection District 1.
J.
Wellhead Protection District 2.
K.
Wellhead Protection District 3.
L.
Resource Protection District, pursuant to DEP Shoreland Zoning Guidelines.
M.
Shoreland Limited Residential District, pursuant to DEP Shoreland Zoning Guidelines.
N.
Stream Protection District, pursuant to DEP Shoreland Zoning Guidelines.
§ 160-17 Certification of Zoning Map, scale and legend.
[Amended 3-28-2009 ATM by Art. 21]
The Official Zoning Map shall be certified by the attested signature of the Town Clerk with the date of adoption or any amendment. Copies of this Map may be seen in the Office of the Selectmen. The Official Zoning Map shall be drawn at a scale of not less than: 1 inch = 2,000 feet. District boundaries shall be clearly delineated and a legend indicating the symbols for each district shall be placed on the Map.
§ 160-18 Changes to Map.
A.
If changes are made in the Zoning District boundaries or other matter portrayed on the Official Zoning Map by the action of Town Meeting, such changes must be made on the Map within 14 days after the amendment has been adopted. The change on the Official Zoning Map must include an entry on the Map as follows:
[Amended 3-28-2009 ATM by Art. 21]
"On (insert date) by action of the Town Meeting Warrant Article (insert number), the following change(s) was (were) made: (insert description of the change)." |
B.
The Town Clerk must sign the Map immediately beneath that entry.
§ 160-19 Replacement of Official Zoning Map.
In the event that the Official Zoning Map becomes damaged, destroyed, lost, or difficult to interpret because of the nature or number of changes and additions, the Town Meeting may adopt a new Official Zoning Map or any number of pages thereof, which supersede the prior Map. The new Map may correct drafting or other errors or omissions in the prior Map but this procedure may not be used to amend the Official Zoning Map. (The Official Zoning Map is only amended by the procedure in Article I.) The replacement map created by the procedure herein must be certified as the replacement of the Official Zoning Map by the Town Clerk. The prior Official Zoning Map must be retained on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
§ 160-20 Conflicts between Map and text.
If the Official Zoning Map conflicts with any metes and bounds descriptions of zoning district boundaries contained in this chapter, the metes and bounds descriptions control.
§ 160-21 Uncertainty of boundary location.
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of various districts as shown on the Official Zoning Map, the following rules apply:
A.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines of streets, lot lines, municipal limits, or railroad lines are to be construed as following such center lines, lot lines, municipal limits, or railroad lines;
B.
Boundaries indicated as following shorelines are to be construed as following such shorelines, and in the event of natural change in the shoreline are to be construed as moving with the actual shoreline; boundaries indicated as approximately following the center line of streams, rivers, lakes, or other bodies of water are to be construed as following such center lines;
C.
Boundaries indicated as being parallel to, or extensions of, features indicated above are to be so construed. Distances not specifically indicated on the Official Zoning Map are to be determined by the scale of the Map; and
D.
Where physical or cultural features existing on the ground are at variance with those shown on the Official Zoning Map, or in other circumstances not covered by Subsections A through C above, the Board of Appeals shall be the final authority as to location of the district boundaries. The Board of Appeals may employ appropriate consultants, in accordance with employment and/purchasing policy of the Town of Alfred, to assist it in its interpretation.
[Amended 3-28-2009 ATM by Art. 21]
§ 160-22 Division of lots by district boundaries.
Where a zoning district boundary line, other than the boundary line of the Resource Protection or Shoreland Districts, divides a lot or parcel of land which was in the same ownership of record at the time such line was originally established by adoption or amendment of this chapter or prior zoning ordinances, the regulations applicable to the less restricted portion of the lot may be extended up to, but not more than, 50 feet into the more restricted portion of the lot.