GENERAL ORDINANCE __ 2024
BY MINORITY LEADER BREEN:
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A GENERAL ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 43-8 "DEFINITION OF TERMS" OF ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 43 PART V OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF YONKERS.
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The City Council of the City of Yonkers, in City Council convened, does herby ordain and enact as follows:
Section 1. Recitals
In order to allow for the Building Department to more effectively enforce the Yonkers Zoning Code to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City of Yonkers the Yonkers City Council deems it necessary to enact the following amendment to the definition of the term "Family" as contained in the Yonkers Zoning Code.
Section 2. Amendment.
General Ordinance No. 4-2000 also known as Chapter 43 of the Code of the City of Yonkers, and more commonly known as the Zoning Code of the City of Yonkers, is hereby amended, as follows:
Chapter 43. Zoning
Article II. Definitions
? 43-8. Definition of Terms.
FAMILY shall mean:
(1) A group of individuals not necessarily related by blood, marriage, adoption or guardianship living together in a dwelling unit and managed as a single housekeeping unit in an intentionally structured relationship providing organization and stability.
(2) It shall be presumptive evidence that four or more persons living in a single dwelling unit who are not related by blood, marriage adoption or guardianship do not constitute a family as defined herein.
(3) In determining whether individuals are living together as a family as defined herein, the Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Buildings shall have the discretion to determine if said persons constitute a family and, in doing so, shall consider the following factors as to whether:
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The group is one which in theory, size, appearance, structure and function resembles a family unit.
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The occupants must share the entire dwelling unit and live and cook together as a single housekeeping unit. A unit in whic...
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