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The Sullivan County Department of Planning currently has agreements in place with the 21 municipalities of the County which allow for certain actions deemed to have no countywide or inter-community impacts to be exempt from review by the Planning Department under General Municipal Law Sections 239l, m &n. These agreements are set to expire and new agreements must be put into place. There is no cost associated with the actions of this resolution.
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RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY THE PLANNING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE TO AUTHORIZE INTERMUNICIPAL AGREEMENTS TO EXEMPT CERTAIN REFERRALS MANDATED BY GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW SECTION 239
WHEREAS, General Municipal Law Sections 239-l, m, and n ("GML 239") require that certain planning and zoning actions be referred to the Sullivan County Department of Planning ("County Planning") before any action is taken by the municipality having jurisdiction, and
WHEREAS, GML 239 further requires County Planning to assess all such implications as to whether the requested action would have "countywide" or "inter-community" impact and to comment on same; and
WHEREAS, the current referral process results in the ongoing processing and review of applications from Sullivan County's 21 municipalities, a portion of which have neither countywide or inter-community impact; and
WHEREAS, General Municipal Law Section 239-m-3-c authorizes Sullivan County to enter into agreements with local municipalities in order to exempt actions deemed to be of strictly local concern from mandatory referral; and
WHEREAS, other counties in New York State have found such exemption agreements to benefit them and their constituent municipalities by streamlining the development review process, and by ena...
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