Local Laws and Ordinances

* Exhibit A is on file with the Village Clerk, Village of Shoreham, Shoreham, N.Y. 11786

The following actions are Type 1 if they are to be directly undertaken, funded, or approved by an agency:

1. the adoption of changes in the allowable uses within any zoning district, affecting 5 or more acres.

2. the granting of a zoning change, at the request of an applicant, for an action that meets or exceeds one or more of the thresholds given elsewhere in this list;

3. activities, other than the construction of residential facilities, which meet or exceed any of the following thresholds; or the expansion of existing nonresidential facilities by more than 50 percent of any of the following thresholds;
   1. a project or action which involves the physical alteration of 1 acre or more

4. any construction, alteration or clearing of brush, trees or land within 50 feet of the landward direction of the top of a bluff line, or within 200 feet of the mean low tide mark.

5. any Unlisted action, which exceeds 25 percent of any threshold in this section, occurring wholly or partially within or substantially contiguous to any publicly owned or operated parkland, recreation area, or designated open space.

6. any Unlisted action which exceeds a Type I threshold established by an involved agency pursuant to section 617.4 of part 617, 6 NYCRR: or

7. any Unlisted action which takes place wholly or partially within or substantially contiguous to any critical environmental area designed by a local or state agency pursuant to section 617 4 (h) of Part 617, 6 NYCRR.

The following actions are Type II actions:

1. replacement of a facility, in kind, on the same site, unless such facility meets or exceeds any of the thresholds in action 617 12 of Part 617. 6 NYCRR:

2. the granting of individual setback and lot line variances;

3. repaving of existing highways not involving the addition of new travel lanes;

4. streets openings for the purpose of repair or maintenance of existing utility facilities;

5. installation of traffic control devices on existing streets, roads and highways;

6. public or private forest management practices, other than the removal of trees or the application of herbicides or pesticides;

7. construction or placement of minor structures accessory or appurtenant to existing facilities, including garages, carports, patios, home swimming pools, fences, barns or other buildings not changing land use or density, including upgrading of buildings to meet building or fire codes;

8. maintenance of existing landscaping or natural growth;

9. mapping of existing roads, streets, highways, uses and ownership patterns;

10. purchase or sale of furnishings, equipment or supplies, including surplus government property, other than land, radioactive material, pesticides, herbicides, or other hazardous materials;

11. routine or continuing agency administration and management, not including new programs or major reordering or priorities;

12. license, lease and permit renewals, or transfers of ownership thereof, where there will be no material change in permit conditions for the scope of permitted activities;

13. routine activities of educational institutions not involving capital construction, including school closings, but not changes in use related to such closings.

14. information collection including basic data collection and research, water quality and pollution studies, traffic counts, engineering studies, surveys, subsurficial investigations and soils studies that do not commit the agency to undertake, fund or approve any Type I or Unlisted action;

15. minor temporary uses of land having negligible or no permanent effects on the environment;

16. the extension of utility distribution facilities to serve new or altered single or two-family residential structures or to render service in approved subdivisions; and

17. promulgation of regulations, policies, procedures and legislative decisions in connection with any Type II action.