Clinton Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
Districts and Boundaries
§ 260-6 Establishment of districts.
The Village of Clinton is hereby divided into the following zoning districts:
R-1 | Residence District. |
R-2P | Planned Residence District. |
C-1 | Commercial District. |
C-2 | General Commercial District. |
WPOD | Wellhead Protection Overlay District |
The following general rules apply to all districts:
There is a limit of one residential or commercial building per building parcel unless the Village Board or the Zoning Board of Appeals has granted a variance after due process. Accessory buildings, such as garages, storage buildings, barns, etc., are exempt from this requirement.
A building permit is required for all construction including new construction, additions to existing buildings, removal/demolition of buildings or for any change in use of existing buildings. Applications for building permits will include plans of the proposed construction, information on location/siting on the property. A complete site plan review may be required.
All construction will comply with federal law, e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),[1] the State of New York Fire and Building Codes, including the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), and the Village of Clinton Codes & Ordinances, including Chapter 138, Historic District Preservation, of the Code of the Village of Clinton.
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Editor's Note: See 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.
All properties will be maintained in good repair. No owner or person with an interest in real property shall permit property to fall into a serious state of disrepair that affects the health, sanitation, structural integrity, general safety, or architectural character of the property.
Site plan review uses.
Those uses identified as site plan review uses are required to comply with the site plan review process and by recommendations made as a result thereof, set forth at § 260-16 herein. The Code Enforcement Officer shall refer all applications for such uses to the Planning Board. After compliance with the review process undertaken by the Planning Board, the application will be returned to the Code Enforcement Officer for appropriate action.
If a use is shown as both a site plan review use and special use, the Code Enforcement Officer shall refer the application first to the Planning Board for its review and action. The Zoning Board of Appeals shall take no action in such a case until the Planning Board has rendered a determination.
Provisions of this chapter shall be executed and enforced by the Village of Clinton Board of Trustees or duly appointed representative(s) as designated by delegation authority.
§ 260-7 Zoning Map.
The locations and boundaries of the zoning districts hereby established are shown on a map entitled "Village of Clinton, Oneida County, New York - Zoning Map." Said district Map accompanies this chapter[1] and it and all notations, references and other information shown thereon are hereby declared to be a part of this chapter. The Village Planning Board shall delineate on the Zoning Map all amendments to the district boundaries, which are authorized by law immediately upon the effective date of such law, indicating the title and date of the law.
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Editor's Note: The Zoning Map is on file in the Village offices.
§ 260-8 District boundaries.
Where uncertainty exists as to the location of any boundaries shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:
District boundary lines are intended to follow center lines of streets and alleys, rights-of-way, watercourses or lot lines, or be parallel or perpendicular thereto, unless such boundary lines are fixed by dimensions as shown on the Zoning Map.
Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following lot lines, such lot lines shall be construed to be such boundaries.
In unsubdivided land and where a district boundary divides a lot, the location of such boundary, unless the same is indicated by dimensions shown on the Zoning Map shall be determined by the use of the scale appearing on the respective Zoning Map.
If, after the application of the foregoing rules, uncertainty exists as to the exact location of a district boundary, the Board of Appeals shall determine and fix the location of said line.
Any territory hereafter annexed to the Village of Clinton shall be an R-1 Residence District until otherwise zoned.
Where the bounds of the Wellhead Protection Overlay District, as delineated on the Zoning Map, are in doubt or in dispute, the burden of proof shall be upon the owner(s) of the land in question or their official designee to show that the boundaries differ from those that are indicated. At the request of the owner(s) whose land has been designated as part of the Wellhead Protection Overlay District, the Village may engage a professional hydrogeologist or geologist to determine more accurately the location and extent of the wellhead protection area, an aquifer, or recharge area, and may charge the owner(s) for all or part of the cost of the investigation.