Supervisor Becker supports the proposed new zoning law as it was presented to the Town Board and discussed at the January public hearing.  He called out the following as unfair to his support for the proposed law.

Supervisor Becker pointed to the statement that the 157 pages of the proposed new  law is a lot for the public to digest in a short time. Supervisor Becker said that the proposed new law was not “longer than” the existing Town zoning law.  He said that if one put the text of the new law into the same font that was used for the current law, the new law was several pages shorter.

Supervisor Becker pointed to the “anti-windmill” bias of the author of the information postcards about the proposed new zoning law sent to residents of the Town.  He criticized the statement about the new law providing a pathway for the giant windmills that Invenergy now is building.  That statement pointed to the failure to include any of the provisions in the proposed new law that would protect the Town in this regard. 

Supervisor Becker suggested that the statement that the Planning Board never voted on any provision of the proposed new law was wrong and misleading.  The Town Clerk has now posted all of the minutes of Planning Board meetings in 2024.  There was never any vote on any provision of the proposed new law as explained in a letter dated April 15, 2025.  The only vote that the Planning Board took on the proposed new zoning law was to refer it to the Town Board for review.  That vote did not commit any member of the Planning Board to support the proposed new law or any particular provision of that law.