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Home My WebLink AboutPB Minutes 1969-03-06 f d dl l < . . ! � .Y L r TOWN OF ITHACA ' PLANNING BOARD Zoning Ordinance Subcommittee • March 61 1969 Committee : Elmer S . Phillips ; Chairman Arnold Albrecht James Boodley . We are recording the rough ideas that we have as a purpose for the zoning ordinance - in each of ( the sections so that we may have something to discuss in the full Planning Board Meeting . Preamble to the Total Ordinance The original intent of those -- who drafted the ordinance was to retain the general development characteristic of the town that was heavily influenced by : 1 , a high percentage of professional and related services in the area and ' 2 . ' . its heavy dependence upon the educational institutions of the area . It was early believed by ' the framers of the ordinance . that the Town of Ithaca would continue to be heavily residential with a likely increase in the development of the business and multiple residence districts . Thus , the general tenor of the ordinance is to provide the orderly development of the town and make provision for future change as it seems necessary . In addition to making a climate for future residential develop - ment , the Planning Board would be charged with the responsibility 0. ill with providing adequate road development for the traffic that would be generated in the future . It should be pointed out -to those who read this ordinance that it has been plannea on the basis of a permissive rather than a restrictive ordinance . This means that those things that are either . sanctioned or denied in the ordinance are specifically spelled out for future development . That which is not specifically indicated in the ordinance is automatically denied by the. ordinance . This is done on the basis that a permissive ordinance automatically denies new development in the community until the Planning Board has had an opportunity of surveying its impact on the area . As soon as that survey of the impact has been made , then it must be either sanctioned or continued to be denied by the ordinance itself . . RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT R9 Preamble of Intent ., f The character of $9 ,mu hst remain predominantly residential . The 11 intent is to provide hig ` - continuity residential areas meeting high concentrations of persons - and land values , it should be composed of i , .y ... ..s _ .a w-..+moi .2.. . . • . . .. . . .. . individual homes ' with provision for a subsidiary attached dwelling , unit or apartment smaller than the primary unit ; it is intended to be relatively quiet , composed ,of modest cost dwellings , provide a transition from high density city and in many instances may also be a transition to a retail commercial district it is predicated on : - .. having water and sewer primarily because of the tight soil in the Town & of Ithaca . To these ends , retail activity is sharply limited ., ,. and this district is protected against encroachment of general commercial or industrial uses while the regulations permit high density development consistent with .the high concentration of persons and land value . Certain additional uses in the R9 area are listed in the ordinance proper . RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT R15 f Preamble of Intent This district is composed of certain quiet , medium density resi - dential areas of the town . The regulations for this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district , to promote and encourage a suitable environment fore family life where children are members of most families . To these ends , development is limited to a relatively low concentration and permitted uses are limited basically to single unit dwellings with provisions for a subsidiary attached dwelling unit or apartment smaller than the primary unit , thus providing homes for the residents plus certain additional uses such as schools , parks , churches and certain public facilities which serve the residents of the district . RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT R30 , + Preamble of Intent In general , the ., R30 district is very similar to the R15 . The J to words of medium density might be changed to low density and a paragrph • added that would indicate that the lot size had been predicated on a total absence of municipally provided water and , sewer . This committee gottas far as the multiple residence zone and the hour became so late . that it became impossible to make a recon - ciliation in this area . The chairman of this group would like to again point to the September -October 1968 issue of Planning News and on page 4 a statement is made that many of our neighborhoods should not deteriorate as rapidly as they do . Here one cure mightZ. :i be an � ncrease4in community spirit within the neighborhood by greater continuity of occupancy , an objective which might be achieved by providing' a planned mixture of housing tees so - that the young can find apartments in which to beg n Veir married I LP careers without moving away and retirees can find housing suited to their needs without leaving the neighborhood . r. On page 8 , ` I mayrtake this out ' of context , but some of the objection that has -been een taken to multiple housing seems to fit these comments . " " First , . the attempt to keep ' them out in the past was ` { .. probably a mistake - given the proper control over exterior impact the interior use is irrelevant . Second , the economic drive to locate new uses in the area can be channeled ly a creative review process to provide landscaping and facilities not otherwise provided except { by the public - which has neither the time nor the resources for such amenities . " III draw the conclusion for this general article " . , on the ABCs of Zoning that a mixture of certain compatible types is more . likely the direction that planning in the future may take . Therefore , it would seem that multiple housing must provide high •- - density living of an essentially residential character and that ' it .. would be best to integrate relatively small multiple housing areas . within the framework of the current residential districts rather than to concentrate them in but ' a few places in the Town of Ithaca itself . This is pure Phillips and not necessarily an opinion of the committee as a whole . - >4r 44 f l 4 M It -I l •, , - > .- -, hr f IV r •f t ,, . - - - It c_ - r i k• I iI t / + - _ -