38 Maple St, Islip, NY 11751

Planned Landmark Preservation Overlay District

In accordance with Article 5, § 96-a of the General Municipal Law, this Planned Landmark Preservation Overlay District PLP is designed to provide regulations, special conditions and restrictions where necessary to protect, enhance, perpetuate and use places, districts, sites, scenic views, buildings, structures, works of art and other objects having a special character or special historical or aesthetic interest or value. More specifically, the general purpose of this overlay district includes, among others, the following specific purposes: ; To promote the education, culture, pleasure and economic and general welfare of the residents of the Town of Islip and of others employed in or visiting the Town.; To safeguard significant features of the Town of Islip's historic, aesthetic, scenic and cultural heritage so that they may provide continuity through physical evidence of the Town's evolution and historic beauty.; To foster civic pride in the legacy of achievements and beauty of the past.; To encourage the most desirable use of land and site design in the vicinity of such significant historic, aesthetic, scenic and cultural features through the application of appropriate and compatible standards of development and such other techniques or policies as will protect and upgrade their character and value.; To examine and recommend potential new and compatible uses of landmarks where they are unused or underused.; To strengthen the economy of the Town of Islip.; To stabilize and improve property values and thereby protect the Town's tax revenues.