2015 New York Laws
VIL - Village
Article 7 - (Village) BUILDING ZONES
7-708 - Changes.

NY Vill L § 7-708 (2015) What's This?

7-708 Changes. Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from time to time be amended. An amendment shall be effected by a simple majority vote of the board of trustees, except that an amendment shall require the approval of at least two-thirds of the members of the board of trustees in villages having three members on such board, and three-fourths of the members of the board of trustees in all the other villages in the event such amendment is the subject of a written protest, presented to the board and signed by:

1. the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land included in such proposed change; or

2. the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land immediately adjacent to that land included in such proposed change, extending one hundred feet therefrom; or

3. the owners of twenty percent or more of the area of land directly opposite thereto, extending one hundred feet from the street frontage of such opposite land.

The provisions of the previous section relative to public hearings shall apply equally to all proposed amendments.


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