are comprehensive plans law
Zoning  Town Law § 263 reads: Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan.. Section 263 applies to legislative, as opposed to administrative, actions. Planning Boards are administrative bodies and Zoning Boards are quasi-judicial neither has the authority to enact regulations. Agenda  Comprehensive Planning 101  Linking the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning  Case Studies  Implementing Comprehensive Plan recommendations in zoning  Case Study #1: Sand Lake, NY  Case Study #2: Southport, NY  Questions and comments. According to William I. Goodman, a well-known author on the subject of comprehensive planning, the key principle in the concept of the comprehensive plan is that it is an instrument to be used by community leaders who establish the policies and make the decisions regarding physical development. The local comprehensive plans must be consistent with the Statewide Planning Goals. Plans are reviewed for such consistency by the state´s Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC). When LCDC officially approves a local government´s plan, the plan is said to be acknowledged. It then becomes the controlling document for land use in the area covered by that plan. In many cases, comprehensive plans are prepared to address compatibility issues between various uses of land, management and preservation of natural resources, identification and preservation of historically significant lands and structures, and adequate planning for infrastructure needs. A comprehensive plan should be a vision of what a community is to be in the future. The process of developing this plan should be a community-wide effort. All interest groups should play a part in delineating this vision. Specific goals and objectives should be developed along with a time frame for implementation. Statewide Planning Goals. Since 1973, Oregon has maintained a strong statewide program for land use planning. The foundation of that program is a set of 19 Statewide Planning Goals. The goals express the state's policies on land use and related topics, such as citizen involvement, housing, and natural resources. Most of the goals are accompanied by guidelines, which are suggestions about how a goal may be applied. As noted in Goal 2, guidelines are not mandatory. – Town Board failed to make proposed comprehensive plan public for ten (10) days prior to the public hearing. – Special Board failed to adopt a resolution recommending the proposed plan to the Town Board. – Town of Nassau incorrectly argued that the applicable Section 272‐a provisions are “advisory” and not mandatory. Comprehensive planning is an attempt to establish guidelines for the future growth of a community. As the term “comprehensive” suggests, this is an all-inclusive approach to addressing the issue of a community’s future growth. A comprehensive plan is the formal document produced through this process. The document is official in nature, meaning that it is designed to be adopted into law by some form of local government. The document should then serve as a policy guide to decisions about community development. What is mandated is that there be comprehensiveness of planning, rather than special interest, irrational ad hocery. The obligation is support of comprehensive planning, not slavish servitude to any particular comprehensive plan. Indeed sound planning inherently calls for recognition of the dynamics of change.
Yes