A revised Village of Northport zoning ordinance and three amendments were adopted unanimously by the village council at its regular meeting July 11.
According to Northport Village Council Manager Jim Dyer’s report, the current zoning ordinance was adopted 18 years ago, and the planning commission has been considering revisions to the ordinance since 2014, however, work to completely revise it began in 2018. After numerous planning commission meetings and public hearings regarding zoning in the village, the council took action to approve the revised ordinance.
The revised version does not contain any changes to the zoning map and only revisions to the text were considered. In Dyer’s report, he said the major revision is “to switch to a form based approach to zoning regulation that is intended to permit a wide variety of building types so long as they are consistent with the type of building forms pictured in the ordinance.”
