Checklist to guide you in preparing a Zoning Board of Appeals application

1. In submitting any payment, you may pay by check or cash, but checks are safer and more efficient for your town government to handle.
2. In preparing documents:
   • Electronic documents are always greatly appreciated and sometimes required. When the town makes referrals to Fulton County Planning Board, the Adirondack Park Agency, or other agencies, the town must convey documents electronically. This is one of the reasons why electronic documents are so important.
   • Never use pencil. Always use black or dark blue ink.
   • You may avoid submitting electronic documents only if your paper document meets these requirements:
     • The document is letter-size (8.5 inch by 11 inch).
     • The font size is 8 point or greater, so that it can be scanned.
     • Writing should not extend to the edge of the letter: there should be at least a quarter inch margin on all edges.
     • The document should be text or line drawing only.
   • If any document does not meet the above requirements for paper-only submission, it must be submitted both as paper and as an electronic document:
     • Survey, plat, site plan, architectural rendering, elevations, et cetera: vector PDF (not image PDF). This is the default for AutoCad but may not be the default for MicroStation.
     • Photograph: PDF, JPEG, TIFF
     • Hand drawing: PDF at sufficient resolution to be clearly readable, and oriented so text is upright.
     • Text file: DOCX, DOC, RTF
     • Spreadsheet: XLS, XLSX
   • One paper copy each for the Code Office and Town Clerk.
   • Paper copies may be required for ZBA (4) and Planning Board (7), though the board chairs may waive that requirement on a case-by-case basis. Enquire with each board’s clerk.
3. Zoning Board of Appeals Fee $100.00.
4. Application Form for Building or Use Permit.
5. Denial Notice from Code Enforcement Officer, including narrative.
6. Zoning Board of Appeal Application Form.
7. Scale Drawing; in black ink, not pencil, showing:
   1. Size of lot.
   2. Dimensions of all current and proposed structures on the property — scale 1 — 20.
   3. Neighbors well and septic if they are within 100 feet.
   4. Set back of adjacent house/camp.
   5. Specify if it is a Shoreline Property.
      1. Show shoreline setback of adjacent properties.
      2. Distance from mean high-water mark to closest point of structure.
   6. Building Elevations (all four views)
8. A short-form or long-form SEQR Environmental Assessment Form (EAF) with Part 1 fully completed by the applicant. A long-form EAF shall be required for all SEQRA Type 1 Actions, but the Board may require a long-form EAF for Unlisted Actions if the Board deems that the additional information contained on the long-form would be helpful and appropriate under the circumstances of the project proposal.
9. Deed showing your owner ship of the property.
10. A copy of the map showing your ownership of the property.
11. Clerk will compile a list of the mailing addresses of all property owners within 500 feet of property.
12. Optional — Photos of the property.

• Note: The Adirondack Park Agency has 30 days, once they receive the paperwork, to review decisions of the Planning and Zoning Board. No permits will be issued until the Town of Caroga receives notification from the APA.
• Importantly: If an application is for a project that is within 500 feet from the boundary of any town, or the boundary of any existing state park, or from the right of way of any existing county or state road or highway, the application is reviewed by the Fulton County Planning Board prior to being heard at the local level.