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Town Board of the Town of Hamburg April 27, 2026 Meeting 4.3. Non-CFA Zoning Code Site Plan Review Referral and Public Hearing Resolution Whereas, the Hamburg Town Code contains and specifies the local laws and ordinances of the Town of Hamburg; and Whereas, the Town of Hamburg, over a three-year process, completed and adopted a new Comprehensive Plan for the Town; and Whereas, zoning must be in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan and the Town wants to continue the process of bringing the Town’s Zoning Code and Zoning map into conformance with the Town’s new 2022 Comprehensive Plan; and Whereas, the Town formed a Comprehensive Plan Implementation Committee (CPIC) who, in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan and having completed other studies and reports on land use issues in the Town, has recommended that the Town Board pursue numerous code amendments; and Whereas, the Town of Hamburg directed the Town Planner to work with the CPIC and a special zoning code committee to develop other priority zoning code updates that were not included in a CFA grant that was received by the Town; and Whereas, the Town CPIC, special zoning code committee, and the Town Planner have developed specific Code amendments to improve, consolidate, and modernize the existing site plan review regulations in the Town; and Whereas, pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law, the Town Board is proposing to enact a local law as follows: Be it enacted by the Town Board of the Town of Hamburg, New York, that the Hamburg Town Board amends the Hamburg Town Code as follows (full copies attached): Amend Chapter 280 (Zoning) “Article XLIV Site Plan Review” in its entirety; and 6