If Clarence enacted its zoning code as a local law I don't think they can change it or "explain" it by resolution. Don't they have to amend the local law? Wonder what their attorney says? Oh wait...he's a refugee from NFTA. Enough said there!
Clarence Town Board votes to clarify zoning code
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-regi...-code-20140723
The Clarence Town Board voted Wednesday evening to clarify the town zoning code’s definition of how density in multi-family residential developments can be calculated. But it was not without some dissent.
“Is that a clarification or a change?” developer David Huck asked Councilman Bernard J. Kolber, who proposed the measure, when he spoke during the public comment period.
“We passed an interpretation of the law,” Kolber said.
“It seems to me,” Huck said, “that you’re changing it. With all the attention it got at the last hearing and to slide through things here, that seems very deceptive to me. ... It’s an important topic for a lot of people and here it’s just been blown through.”
Kolber said after the meeting that the code’s multi-family maximum of eight dwelling units per acre had become a point of contention. If developers had a 10-acre tract and made eight acres of it commercial, he said, they felt they should be able to build up to 80 housing units on the remaining two acres.
“The Planning Board told us, ‘We can’t interpret this. This law is too ambiguous.’ So we’re saying that it’s eight units per acre [on the residential part of the parcel],” he said.
IMO, that was a good move by the town board because when you give the developers an inch they take a mile.
Georgia L Schlager
If Clarence enacted its zoning code as a local law I don't think they can change it or "explain" it by resolution. Don't they have to amend the local law? Wonder what their attorney says? Oh wait...he's a refugee from NFTA. Enough said there!
Georgia L Schlager
My point is that you can't "clarify" a law in that manner. You have to amend the law so it says what you want it to say. There has to be an amendment to the law, enacted after a public hearing, just like the zoning code was enacted. Personally, I don't give a sh*t what Clarence does with it's zoning code nor do I care if their board follows the law. That's their problem.
If what they did was against the law, surely the developers will attempt to prove it
Georgia L Schlager
As we see all too often developers use legal loop wholes to exploit every development they can - its what they do. They find land - and max out how many buildings they can squeeze in = Profits.
They don't care about the green space, they don't care about environmental issues - they care about return for square inch.
So why are people surprised the Towns Officials have to explain things in a way a fifth grader could/should understand ?
Now if Planning Board Officials and Town Board Officials could just learn to say "No" to zoning variances and exceptions !
Good job Clarence.
#Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !
It would seem then that many local Town Boards have been doing Illegal Local Law changes !
Can you site what law states "Local laws cant be changed by the Local Town Board"? Thanks
#Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !
OK sorry I was just trying to see your point - But you already stated you don't care what they do - so why you spitin ?
#Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !
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