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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is the further intent of the Town Board to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Town of Babylon through the requirement that the exterior of all structures in the Town of Babylon be maintained in good repair.

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.

All natural landscaping, including trees, shrubbery, bushes and grass/sod, shall be maintained in a neat and orderly condition at all times.