This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Zoning Ordinance of the Village of Briarcliff Manor, New York."

Statement of legislative purpose for Ordinance 111. This amending ordinance recognizes among the matters with which it is concerned, that various neighborhoods and areas in the Village of Briarcliff Manor have been developed in the past with lots in excess of the 40,000 square foot minimum lot area required in the R40A and R40B Districts, and other neighborhoods and areas have been developed with lots in excess of the 20,000 square foot minimum lot area required in the R20A and R20B Districts, and that said development has occurred in accordance with the highest and best available use of the land, or by reason of the fact that certain tracts of land, either because of propinquity to such neighborhoods or areas or as a result of difficult terrain or for other reasons, are not appropriate for development with lots of 40,000 square feet minimum or 20,000 square feet minimum as the case may be. Acting on the basis of the recent experience of the Village of Briarcliff Manor during the last five or more years with respect to its development and growth, and intending to exercise to the fullest extent the legislative power granted to it in accordance with the legislative purposes set forth in § 7-704 of the Village Law, and particularly the purposes of lessening congestion in the streets, preventing overcrowding of land, avoiding undue concentration of population, facilitating the adequate provision of transportation, water sewerage, schools, and other public requirements, and generally promoting the public health and general welfare, it is accordingly deemed necessary to orderly residential development and to the general welfare of the Village of Briarcliff Manor that the Zoning Chapter be amended to make provision for a new single-family residence district, requiring lots with a minimum area of 60,000 square feet, and with other appropriate regulations; and that certain tracts of land be transferred to this new zoning district; and that certain other tracts of land be transferred from R20A and R20B Districts to R30A, R40A or R40B Districts, or corrections being deemed necessary and proper to be made at the same time.