New York Laws
Title 1 - Long Island Pine Barrens Maritime Reserve Act
57-0107 - Definitions.

(a) a change in type of use of a structure or land or, if the
ordinance or rule divides uses into classes, a change from one class of
use designated in an ordinance or rule to a use in another class so
designated;
(b) a material increase in the intensity of use of land or
environmental impacts as a result thereof;
(c) commencement of mining, excavation or material alteration of grade
or vegetation on a parcel of land excluding environmental restoration
activities;
(d) material alteration of a shore, bank or flood plain of a river,
stream, lake, pond, or artificial body of water;
(e) re-establishment of a use which has been abandoned for one year;
(f) departure from the normal use for which development permission has
been granted, or material failure to comply with the conditions of an
ordinance, rule or order granting the development permission under which
the development was commenced or is continued.
The following operations or uses do not constitute development for the
purposes of this title:
(i) public improvements undertaken for the health, safety or welfare
of the public. Such public improvements shall be consistent with the
goals and objectives of this title, and shall include, but not be
limited to, maintenance of an existing road or railroad track;
(ii) work by any utility not involving substantial engineering
redesign for the purpose of inspection, maintenance or renewal on
established utility rights-of-way or the likes, and any work pertaining
to water supply for the residents of Suffolk county;
(iii) work for the maintenance, renewal, replacement, reconstruction,
improvement, or alteration of any existing structure or additions to an
existing residence or residential property owned by an association
formed for the common interest in real property;
(iv) the use of any structure or land devoted to dwelling uses for any
purposes customarily incidental and otherwise lawful;
(v) the use of any land for the purpose of agriculture or
horticulture;
(vi) work by a utility performed for the purpose of public health,
safety, or welfare and consistent with the goals and objectives of this
title;
(vii) existing or expanded recreational use consistent with the
purposes of this title including scouting activities, the maintenance or
expansion of facilities associated with or necessary for such scouting
activities including, but not limited to, the addition, modification,
expansion or replacement of structures necessary for such activities and
such clearing as may be reasonably required for the maintenance or
expansion of scouting activities;
(viii) a change in use of land or structure from a use within a class
specified in an ordinance or rule to another use in the same class;
(ix) residential development on any subdivision, residential clustered
development, land division or site plan which has received preliminary
or final approval on or before June first, nineteen hundred
ninety-three, providing the lots to be built upon conform to the lot
area requirements of the current zoning, are subject to the three year
exemption contained in section two hundred sixty-five-a of the town law,
or are subject to an exemption from an upzoning adopted by a town board;
(x) in the core preservation area, construction of one single family
home and customary accessory uses thereto on those parcels identified in
the comprehensive land use plan adopted by the commission in June of
nineteen hundred ninety-five and as amended on February twenty-first,
two thousand one;
(xi) in the compatible growth area, construction of single family
homes and customary accessory uses thereto on any lot held on June 1,
1993 in ownership singly and separately from adjacent lots;
(xii) in the compatible growth area, continuation of existing
non-conforming uses, and activities permitted by special permit or
special exception, including renewals of said special permits or
exceptions;
(xiii) in the compatible growth area, land divisions or subdivisions
in the compatible growth area consisting of five or fewer residential
lots which conform to the lot area requirement of the existing zoning
for the subject parcel;
(xiv) in the compatible growth area, renovations, reconstructions,
additions or extensions to existing commercial or industrial uses
providing the addition or extension conforms to the uses permitted in
the zoning district in which said parcel is located and which does not
increase existing square footage by more than twenty-five percent; or
(xv) in the core preservation area, the state or public corporation
projects on parcels identified in the comprehensive land use plan
adopted by the commission in June of nineteen hundred ninety-five, as
amended on February twenty-first, two thousand one and October
twentieth, two thousand four.
Development as designated in an ordinance, rule, or development permit
includes all other development customarily associated with it unless
otherwise specified.
14. "Agriculture" or "horticulture" shall mean any production of
plants or animals useful to man, including but not limited to: forage or
sod crops; grains and feed crops; dairy animals and dairy products;
poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep,
swine, horses, ponies, mules or goats, and including the breeding and
grazing of any or all of such animals; bees and apiary products; fur
animals; trees and forest products; fruits of all kinds including
wineries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse
products and farmstands for selling products raised or produced on site
and other associated structures required for their production.