Service Coverage in Cicero, NY

The Town of Cicero Zoning and Planning Department publishes the clearest roofing position in the county: no permit for installing or replacing siding or roofing provided no more than two layers of roofing are to be covered. Read that against section R908.3.1.1, which does not permit a recover where the existing roof already carries two or more applications of any covering, and the two rules interlock. If the eave shows two layers, the exemption stops being useful, because the only compliant work left is a full tear-off. Permits are still required for structural changes, so a job that turns into rebuilding rafters or replacing a run of deck is no longer a re-cover and goes back to the town. The stock is on your side here: a median build year of 1980, the latest of any place in the county, and only 6.9 percent of homes predating 1940, so most Cicero roofs are on their second covering over plywood rather than their fourth over plank. Exposure is the local variable instead. The town runs up to the shore of Oneida Lake with the 4,991 acre Cicero Swamp open to its south, so there is little to break the wind, and fastening pattern, ridge and hip detailing and starter course are worth more attention here than on a sheltered city street.

Areas within Cicero: Brewerton, South Bay, Bridgeport, Route 11 corridor, Cicero Swamp margin