National Historic Landmarks District.

This pending designation would elevate the Twenty Mile Historic District to National Landmark status.

Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve.

This area includes the Tivoli Bays State Nature Preserve and Wildlife Management area, Tivoli South Bay, and a portion of the Tivoli South Bay shoreline. The area is one of four sites along the Hudson River Estuary that are federally-designated as long-term field sites and natural laboratories for research, monitoring, and public education about the Hudson river and its shoreline. Principal uses of the site are education, research, and passive recreation compatible with the protection of natural resources and ecosystem functions. The facility is operated by the New York State DEC.

Certified Agricultural District

A substantial land area within the Town of Red Hook has been designated as an "agricultural district" under the NYS Agricultural Districts Law (1971), legislation enacted to protect agricultural lands from urban and suburban development pressures. Benefits available to qualifying property owners within the "agricultural district" include special agricultural value assessments for the levy of real property taxes and certain restrictions on urban development uses (e.g. the exemption of agricultural district property from ad valorem assessments associated with municipal water or sewer districts or, in fact, the inclusion of agricultural district lands in such districts). Such inclusion would be deemed inconsistent with continuing agricultural use lands to non-farm purposes.

Scenic Roads and Corridors

Certain roads within the Town of Red Hook (Woods Road, Annandale/River Road, Santage Road and Stonybrook Street) have been previously recognized by NYSDEC as scenic roads under authority of the NYS Scenic Roads Law (1981--). The Master Plan Committee finds that additional locally-significant vistas and corridors should be recognized and that view protection regulations should be built into the Zoning Law to preserve their overall rural character, the setting of historic properties along these routes, and the irreplaceable scenic vistas which may be present. A "scenic areas overlay district" should be created and include, where appropriate, design review of structures and landscaping, visual assessment of proposed development on important scenic views, additional setbacks and the protection of existing natural vegetation and other important natural or man-made features.

Water District No.1 lies within the unincorporated are of the Town of Red Hook, generally to the west of Budd Corners Road and between NYS Route 199 and Whalesback Road. Within the District boundary, domestic water service is provided by the Town�s water supply, treatment and distribution system.

Floodway and associated areas subject to periodic inundation under the conditions of a 100-year storm event, have been mapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and are regulated under the Town's federally-mandated Flood Damage Prevention Law.

Designated freshwater wetlands (12.4 acres or greater in land area) throughout the Town of Red Hook have been mapped by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and are regulated in accordance with Article 24 of the Environmental Conservation Law and Title 6, Part 663 NYCRR. Permitting requirements under the Freshwater Wetlands Act apply to both the wetland and its "adjacent area", i.e. a 100-feet wide buffer.

Relatedly, the Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction over certain wetland areas under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.