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Town of Hamburg, NY § 280-307 § 280-309 ARTICLE XLIV Site Plan Review § 280-307 Intent. The intent of site plan review within the Town of Hamburg is to ensure the efficient use of land, consideration of potential impacts on the community and the environment and their avoidance, wherever possible, and the promotion of high standards in the design, layout, landscaping and construction of development, to ensure development conforms to the Town of Hamburg Comprehensive Plan and provisions of this chapter. § 280-307.1 Authority; Enforcement. The Town Board of the Town of Hamburg, pursuant to the provisions of §274-a of Town Law, does hereby grant the Hamburg Planning Board the power and authority to review and approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove plans that require site plan approval under this chapter. § 280-307.2 Applicability. Unless otherwise provided and as regulated by the Subdivision Regulations of the Town of Hamburg, 1 site plan review and a site plan approval shall be required for all uses, buildings, and structures that require a building permit or a certificate of occupancy under this chapter and for which an application therefor has been made to the Town of Hamburg, except for a farm, residential decks, signs, fences, one- family dwelling or a two-family dwelling and their permitted accessory uses, buildings or structures, or similar uses as determined by the Supervising Code Enforcement Officer prior to the issuance of a building permit or certificate of occupancy. In general, this includes the following actions: 1. All new commercial, industrial, or institutional structures and uses. 2. All new multifamily housing. 3. Any exterior modification/or addition of existing commercial, industrial, institutional or multifamily buildings. 4. Any conversion of an existing residential structure to a nonresidential structure. 5. Any conversion of an existing nonresidential structure into a residential structure containing three or more dwelling units. 6. Any modification to an existing residential structure which increases the number of dwelling units in the building to three or more dwelling units. 7. Any conversion of an existing nonresidential building from one type of use specified in this chapter to another. 8. The removal of greenspace, significant revisions to landscaping, additions of impervious surface, and/or modifications which affect parking for commercial, industrial, or institutional structures and uses, or residential structures containing three or more dwelling units. Downloaded from https://ecode360.com/HA0055 on 2024-11-11 8