Section 283. Variances and amendments

1. The village board of any village
  or the town board of any town  in  which  one  or  more  residential  or
  residential  and  recreational  areas  have been established pursuant to
  this article may establish  rules,  regulations  and  procedures  by  or
  pursuant  to  which  such  board  may,  consistent with the purposes and
  objectives of this article as described in section  two  hundred  eighty
  hereof,  authorize  or  permit  a  necessary or desirable use of land or
  prevent unnecessary hardship in an individual or particular instance  by
  the  granting of a proper and appropriate variance from any ordinance or
  local law adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article.
    2. The village board of any village or the town board of any  town  in
  which  a  residential  or  residential  and  recreational  area has been
  established pursuant to this  article  on  petition  of  any  person  or
  corporation  aggrieved  thereby  or of one or more interested persons or
  corporations or on its own motion may, after a public  hearing  held  on
  notice  published  and  posted as provided in subdivision two of section
  two hundred eighty-one of this chapter, amend any ordinance or local law
  adopted pursuant to this article which prohibits, restricts,  regulates,
  controls and limits the use of buildings, structures or land within such
  area.
    3.  Each  such amendment shall be entered, published and posted, shall
  become effective and shall be reviewable by a proceeding  under  article
  seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules as provided in section
  two hundred eighty-two of this chapter.