Some tidbits from the zoning law enacted by the Danby town board in February 2022, with minimal input from the town residents. You can find the full zoning law here: https://danby.ny.gov/docs/ll1-2022-zoning/
The town has passed a law that has highly restricted how you may use the property you own.
You are in the Rural 2 zone. The town board intends to regulate new development in this area to be in keeping with the rural character of the area.
The town board has allowed you to have the following rights with regards to the property you own:
- If you want to subdivide your land you can do it in 10 acre parcels and no less. There are specifications on how big yards have to be.
- You get to have agricultural buildings as long as they don’t produce any offensive odor within 25 feet of your property line (Note that in the low density residential, more subdivision-like zone, the odor rule is absent).
- You can have a one dwelling house on your property, or one building with two dwelling units. Your house can’t be more than 36 feet in height.
- You can have a roadside stand as long as it’s not more than 400 square feet. And you must only sell products you produce on your own land or produced on land within a 10 mile radius.
- You can have a home business in your existing building as long as there is no external evidence of such, except for a sign as long as it is not too big. Note that in the low density residential, more subdivision-like zone, the town allows home businesses where visible evidence does exist on the site.
- Any signs you display on your property must meet their requirements. You cannot display temporary signs for more than 30 days a year.
- You can have a garage, workshop, and storage shed as long as the combined area footage is less than 1200 square feet.
- You can have farm buildings for agricultural use.
- You can have a building mounted or small scale solar energy system.
If you want to do other things on your own property you have to get the town’s approval, for example:
- Building a multi dwelling house.
- Building a tourist home.
- Putting in a large scale solar energy system.
- Building a new structure for a business where there is external evidence of the business.
Danby Roots party: We want to do things for you, not to you.
- Kevin Feeney – for town supervisor
- Russel Nitchman – for town board
- Mauricio Medina – for town board