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Town Hall, 1830 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
The Town Board is the governing, legislative, and policy making body of the Town. The Board is comprised of four Council members, who are elected for a four year term, and the Supervisor who is elected for a two year term. The Supervisor has the additional role of presiding over Town Board meetings.
When a proposed project does not comply with the Zoning Ordinance, an appeal may be filed with Danby’s Board of Zoning Appeals (the “BZA,” a.k.a. Zoning Board of Appeals, “ZBA”).
The purpose of CAC is to advise in the development, management, and protection of the Town’s natural resources.
The Planning Board receives and acts upon site plan approval requests, special permit requests, and subdivision applications.
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The Town of Danby sits on the traditional & ancestral land of the Gayogoho:no’ (Cayuga Nation), one of the five nations to first form the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794.