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Town of Ulysses Planning Board and Town Board
Zoning Work Session , February 9, 2000
Present : Rick Geiger, Lorren Hammond, Rose Hilbert, Paula Horrigan, George Kennedy,
Sue Poelvoorde, Budd Stover, Dave Tyler, zoning officer Alex Rachun, Tompkins
County Planning Karen Flores, and Karen Carlisle .
Recording minutes : Deb Austic
The meeting began at 7 : 35 p . m . The Boards discussed the wording of section 106
and whether the new ordinance would repeal previous zoning or incorporate it. There was
some discussion of creating a package of land use laws of which the zoning ordinance
would be part.
The Board discussed the cottage industry definition and the intention of the
comprehensive plan to rehabilitate old barns . It was decided to take cottage industry out
of the definitions and to incorporate adaptive reuse of a barn in the operationalized
definitions.
Karen F . handed out some research she had collected for review and asked that
the Boards return to consideration of recreation facilities, museums & theaters,
commercial, and industrial at a later date . Alex shared the NYS building code definitions
for mobile home and factory-manufactured home and the Boards agreed to use those
definitions with the addition of the HUD/DHCR certification.
The discussion moved to the possibility for numerous residential zones and how
they would be defined. These included Rl (rural residential) with 5 - 10 acre minimum lot,
R2 (medium residential) with 1 -5 acre minimum lot, and R3 (high density residential)
with less than 1 acre lot in areas adjacent to municipal service or the lakefront. Paula
suggested giving builders incentives to keep road frontage clear by offering a higher
density if a development was a farther off the road . The Boards agreed to begin work on
mapping the residential areas at the next meeting February 24`h. Karen F . agreed to be
present for the discussion. The meeting adjourned at 9 : 50 p . m .