Town Board Approved – 10/28/2025
Filed with NYS – 11/03/2025	  

A Local Law to Amend the Code of the Town of Clarkson by Deleting
and Repealing Chapter 140 Thereof, Zoning, and Replacing it with a New Chapter 140
to be entitled "Zoning Law of the Town of Clarkson"

Local Law No. 5 of the year 2025

Title: Zoning Law of the Town of Clarkson.

Be it enacted by the Town Board of the Town of Clarkson.

Section 1.  Legislative Findings and Purpose.

The Town of Clarkson having adopted a comprehensive plan update and recognizing the relationship between the comprehensive plan and the zoning code, coupled with the fact that the zoning code itself has not undergone a comprehensive update in several years, has found it necessary to update and modernize its zoning code to address the current and changing needs of the community and to modify or eliminate obsolete or overly-complicated requirements and procedures and make the code more user friendly, and the Town also wishes to revise and streamline the procedural requirements for approvals, in order to make them clear and consistent.

The Town believes that this local law will protect the public interest and welfare of its citizens and will promote the health, safety and general welfare of the people of the Town of Clarkson.

Section 2. New Zoning Code.

The Town of Clarkson by this Local Law hereby enacts Chapter 140 entitled "Zoning Law of the Town of Clarkson" and adopts the new zoning map, both as annexed hereto, and incorporates said new Zoning Code and zoning map into the Code of the Town of Clarkson, to repeal and replace the existing Zoning Code and zoning map at Chapter 140 in its entirety.

Section 3.  Severability.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation, or circumstance, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of this local law or in its application to the person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order shall be rendered.

Section 4.	Effective date.

This local law shall be effective immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.