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Data Archive
- Section-by-Section Analysis, Existing Law and New Law
- Table A-1, compare existing Ag and RR Districts with proposed Low Density District
- Table A-2, compare existing Hamlet and Business Districts with Hamlet Com'l and Gen. Com'l Districts
- Table A-3, compare existing Industrial District with proposed Light Industrial District
News Archive
News from the February 19 Town Board meeting
The Town approved a contract with the County for Zoning services for another year. No other candidates were considered.
Supervisor Becker is getting ready to pursue discussions with Invenergy about revenue from the existing 75 windmills in the Town. The existing 20-year contract with Invenergy will run out in the near future. Supervisor Becker announced again that he has no information on any plan by Invenergy to build more windmills in the Town. The Town Clerk announced that Invenergy has been soliciting in the Town for a year without a permit. A representative of Invenergy recently applied for a permit. The Town Clerk issued the permit. No penalty for soliciting without a permit. More
News from the February 5 Planning Board meeting
This meeting was attended by Attorney David DiMatteo who summarized the discussion in a letter to the Town Board. The Planning Board never voted on any provision of the proposed new law. Their only vote, at the October 9, 2024 meeting, was to “refer the proposed zoning law to the Town Board for review.” All members were present at that meeting and all voted in favor of the referral. More
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.