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BACKGROUND PREFERRED LAND USE LOCATIONS Launch Date: November 23, 2023 Open for 2 months Responses: +200
Highly Rated: Fire Protection, Refuse Disposal, Water Service, Sanitary Sewer Service, & Emergency Services.
Good - Average: Streets, Parks, Parks & Recreation, Building Code Enforcement, Storm Sewer/Drainage, Senior Citizen Services Needs Improvement: Sidewalks, Trails, Public Transportation, Alternative Transportation
Community support for design standards, protection of historic/ natural resources, & sidewalks/public transportation.
Route 31 traffic conditions are highly unacceptable, but traffic conditions on other roads are generally acceptable.
Respondents believe large-scale apartments have a very negative impact on the Town.
Respondents believe mixed-use, walkable development has a very positive impact on the Town
The Town of Clay will continue to be a community of choice in Central New York, with a high quality of life, by leveraging and managing future growth to benefit both existing and new residents and businesses while maintaining high-quality public services. Appropriately scaled residential development will be complemented and integrated with natural, cultural, and recreational resources to maintain and enhance livable neighborhoods. New mixed-use centers will provide opportunities for compact & walkable community destinations complemented by well-designed buildings to create a sense of place and identity for the Town.
A. Preserve the Town’s quality of life by leveraging future growth to benefit existing and future residents and businesses, including maintenance of exceptional public services, promotion of livable neighborhoods, and improved development standards. B. Preserve and enhance the Town as a community of choice for low to medium scale residential neighborhoods and housing development.
C. Establish attractive pedestrian-oriented mixed-use centers, including a Town Center, to create a sense of place and identity while providing additional opportunities for high- er density residential and commercial development.
D. Increase opportunities for alternative transportation throughout the Town, including sidewalks, trails, bike lanes, and public transportation.
E. Limit the sprawl of general commercial and industrial development throughout the Town.
F. Enhance and protect the Town’s natural, cultural, and recreational amenities. G. Promote managed growth and development that is fiscally responsible.
The Future Land Use Map provides a framework for future zoning changes and development standards.
The Land Use Plan provides recommended future land use strategies and a future land use map to provide direction for future zoning changes. This plan is not a regulatory document, but the zoning document is a legal document that will ensure the land use concepts presented in this document are implemented. Moreover, the land use plan will provide the Town with a framework for any future changes to the zoning document or development regulations.
• Encourage or require parking behind the building, or at a minimum to the side of the building and minimize any front yard parking. • Encourage shared parking in commercial and mixed-use developments • Review parking minimums in commercial districts to understand if too much is required. Too much parking increases developer costs and increases stormwater runoff.
• Consider implementing design standards for commercial and mixed-use development • Discourage blank walls along roadways and encourage windows and doors on facades facing roadways. • Establish a commercial setback maximum to eliminate large front setbacks along roadways.
• When feasible require that streets are connected within and between developments to reduce congestion on collectors and arterials, and to improve emergency responses. Minimize cul-de-sac developments.
• Require sidewalks in all new commercial and residential developments as the community survey indicated a strong preference for sidewalks. • Implement access management in commercial and mixed-use areas to limit exits and entrances onto major roadways
• Preserving trees in residential development whenever feasible to protect habitat, improve aesthetics, and reduce stormwater infiltration. • Protect, preserve and incorporate habitats and other environmentally sensitive areas into all new development. • Require street trees in all new residential subdivisions and incorporate street trees into mixed use and commercial developments. • Provide landscape buffers between incompatible uses such as industrial and residential
• Implement and encourage cluster development, especially in areas with sensitive environmental conditions. Cluster development would allow smaller lots in exchange for preserving open space.
• Integrate open space and environmental features into new development, including: • Central gathering spaces in mixed use developments • Park or open space set asides for new development proposals • Connect greenways – especially along the Town’s waterways and canal – to new development and ensure land or right of ways are set aside for future connections. • Require street trees, which received overwhelming support in the Visual Preference Survey. • Consider establishing Environmental Protection Overlay Districts (EPODs) to protect environmentally sensitive areas.
• Establishing a mixed-use, walkable Town Center and including a community square or park along with well-designed buildings and streets. • Improving and celebrating gateways into the Town through signage, landscaping, and street design. • Recognize community survey desires to protect and maintain low to medium scale residential neighborhoods with buildings of no more than 35-40 feet. • Leveraging history • Create a smaller neighborhood mixed use center at Three Rivers Point • Consider a historic preservation ordinance to protect key historic sites and districts • Create connections to park areas around the Erie Canal • Create and implement building and site design requirements in mixed use centers, and especially for the Town Center.
• Identify and acquire land for the anticipated growth in public needs including park space, trails, schools, utilities, and Town government operations. • Develop a Capital Improvement Plan (including working with regional utility partners), based on anticipated growth, to identify and estimate costs for water, sewer, storm, and road improvements. Use the data to make changes to billing to ensure the future growth also pays for the infrastructure improvements. • Consider public transit and alternative transportation options to reduce the need for auto travel.
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