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What is on the schedule?
Upcoming: March 19, 2025 Board meeting
A full schedule of meetings, past, present and future:
News from the January Public Hearing
The 90% number
Don Roberts reported that “probably 90 percent of the information [in the proposed new law] is currently existing or law is still there today.”
Don is wrong. In fact, a whopping 75 sections (66%) of the proposed new law are either totally new or changed so substantially as they might as well be brand new. Take a look for yourself. The analysis is HERE.
The side-by-side analysis of changes
Dave DiMatteo reported “I don’t think we did that [a document that shows what has been changed from the existing law]. … I think you need to look at it from your own perspective.”
Dave is wrong. In fact, there is a 17-page section-by-section comparison of the existing law with the proposed law showing exactly what has been changed. The document is HERE.
What kinds of things are “new?”
An analysis shows the proposed new law adds 27 new categories of things to be regulated in the Low Density District – including orchards, tennis courts, and picnic groves; 34 new categories regulated in the two new business districts; and 20 new categories in the Light Industrial District. The documents are HERE.
The 80 proposed new property maintenance offenses are listed HERE.
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO TURNED OUT FOR THE JANUARY, 2025 PUBLIC MEETING!
The overflow crowd had lots of questions about the proposed new zoning law that Supervisor Brian Becker is sponsoring. Examples:
- What is wrong with our current zoning law?
- Why hasn’t there been any notice or involvement for our ordinary citizens in the Town about this new law?
- Why should we add more expensive restrictions on ourselves with this new law?
- What’s the rush about this?
PUBLIC MEETING CUT SHORT
Supervisor Becker cut the public meeting short without allowing everyone to speak.
He announced that written comments would be received by the Town Board for the next 21 days (to Tuesday, February 4, 2025) before the Board’s next regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 7 pm at the Town Hall.
HERE’S WHAT IS GOING ON:
- The Town’s Zoning Officer drafted a PROPOSED REPLACEMENT ZONING LAW which you can read HERE.
- The Town’s Planning Board considered what the Zoning Officer wanted to do and sent the proposed replacement law ahead to the Town Board for its decision.
- You can read the Town’s current zoning law HERE.
- HOW MIGHT THE NEW LAW AFFECT YOU? See examples HERE.