Marbletown City Zoning Code
ARTICLE I
Title and Scope
§ 200-1 Scope.
This chapter is adopted for the protection of the residents and property owners of Marbletown, by means of regulating and restricting the location, construction, alteration, occupancy and use of buildings and structures and the use of land in the Town of Marbletown and for said purposes division of the Town into zoning districts.
§ 200-2 Title.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Zoning Law of the Town of Marbletown, New York."
§ 200-3 Authority; purpose.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York to protect and promote public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, economy, Town aesthetics, and the general welfare, and for the following additional purposes:
A.
To promote and effectuate the orderly physical development of the Town of Marbletown;
B.
To encourage the most appropriate use of land in the community in order to conserve and enhance the value of property;
C.
To provide adequate and suitably located commercial facilities;
D.
To protect and enhance existing wooded areas, scenic areas, and waterways and to preserve, where appropriate, the essentially rural character of the Town;
E.
To regulate building densities in order to assure access of light and circulation of air, in order to facilitate the prevention and fighting of fires, in order to prevent undue concentration of population, and in order to lessen congestion on streets and highways, and in order to provide efficient municipal utility services;
F.
To improve transportation facilities and traffic circulation, and to provide adequate off-street parking and loading facilities;
G.
To realize a development plan properly designed to conserve the use of land and the cost of municipal services;
H.
To assure privacy for residences and freedom from nuisances and things harmful to the senses, including air pollution;
I.
To protect the community against unsightly, obtrusive, and noisome land uses and operations; and
J.
To enhance the aesthetic aspects throughout the entire community and maintain its present natural beauty.
§ 200-3.1 Severability.
[Added 8-20-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013]
If any word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or other portion of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or to any circumstance, is adjudged or declared invalid or unenforceable by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction, then, and in such event, such judgment or declaration shall be confined in its interpretation and operation only to the provision of this chapter that is directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or declaration is rendered, and such judgment or declaration of invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect or impair the validity or enforceability of the remainder of this chapter or the application hereof to any other persons or circumstances. If necessary as to such person or circumstances, such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be and be deemed severed herefrom, and the Town Board hereby declares that it would have enacted this chapter, or the remainder thereof, even if, as to particular provisions and persons or circumstances, a portion hereof is severed or declared invalid or unenforceable.