If you would like to read Canaan's Zoning Law or Subdivision Regulations, you may visit the Town Clerk's office or Building Inspector/ZEO's office during office hours, or purchase a copy from the Town Clerk.

You may also download the zoning law via this Web site, in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Canaan's Telecommunications Law is available from the Town Clerk.

Subdivision road specifications, Local Law 1 from 1988, are also available from the Town Clerk.

For download: Zoning Law--one large PDF file
Note: The pagination of this downloadable document is not the same as the one you can get from the Town Clerk. Content is the same, page breaks are different.

For download: Subidvision Regulations
Note: Same page breaks.

Both approved August 1994

In 2004 this Web site will be expanded to include an online verison of the Zoning Law and Subdivision Regulations, which you can easily read and search through for items of interest to you.

PDFs can be read and printed with the free Acrobat Reader. Already have Acrobat Reader? To download either document to your computer for reading or printing, right-click with your mouse on the link below, then choose "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As" (Netscape) to start the download. Then just double-click on the downloaded file to open it with Acrobat Reader. (If your Web browser has the Acrobat Reader "plug-in" installed, you can also view the documents within your Web browser by clicking on the links.)