Hearings on map amendment requests
Compiled text through Sep 15, 2021
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Sep 15, 2021
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)Notice of hearings on map amendment requests shall be given not less than 15 days prior to the hearing by:
(1)publication of a copy of the notice at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the area;
(2)conspicuous posting on the land involved of a notice stating the time, place and statutory authority pursuant to which the hearing is held;
(3)sending a copy of the notice by certified mail to each owner of the land involved, to the extent discernible from the latest completed tax assessment roll;
(4)sending a copy of the notice by mail to:
(i)the chairman of the planning board, if any, and the clerk of each town and/or village wherein the land is located;
(ii)The chairman of the county planning agency, if any, and the clerk of each county wherein the land is located;
(iii)the chairman of the regional planning agency, if any, within whose jurisdiction the land is located;
(iv)the Adirondack Park local government review board;
(v)the clerk of each town and/or village within 500 feet of the land involved; and
(vi)owners of adjoining land, owners of land separated from the land in question by a public or private road, railroad, utility right-of-way, river or stream, and, in the case of applications involving shoreline or islands, owners of nearby islands or mainland, to the extent discernible from the latest completed tax assessment roll.
(b)Hearings shall be legislative in nature, and any person or public agency entitled to individual notice pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, as well as, at the discretion of the agency or its presiding officer, any other persons or public agencies, may participate.
(c)At the request of the applicant, or on its own initiative, the agency staff may present planning and natural resource information concerning the application of the land use area classification determinants to the land in question.
(d)The presiding officer shall have authority to prescribe the procedure for conducting the hearing.