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November 4, 2025
Planning Board
Zoom Hybrid Meeting
Meeting Minutes
November 4, 2025
Approved: December 2, 2025
Board Members Present: Chair Karl Klankowski, Jeff McDonald, Bart Gragg, Mo Klein
Quorum Present yes
Applicants Present: None
Town Staff Present: Niels Tygesen, Rachel Kennedy
Proceedings
Chair Karl Klankowski called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM at Town Hall.
Approval of Agenda
Motion: M. Klein motioned to approve the agenda; J. Macdonald seconded.
Vote: Chair Klankowski, aye; McDonald, aye; Gragg, aye; Klein, aye.
Motion Carried.
Town Board Member Reports
none
Approval of Past Minutes
Motion: M. Klein motioned to approve the October 21 meeting minutes as written; B. Gragg seconded.
Vote: Chair Klankowski, aye; McDonald, aye; Gragg, aye; Klein, aye.
Motion Carried.
Privilege of the Floor
No members of the public addressed the Board during privilege of the floor.
Motion: M. Klein motioned to close privilege of the floor; J. MacDonald seconded.
Vote: Chair Klankowski, aye; McDonald, aye; Gragg, aye; Klein, aye.
Motion Carried.
Old Business Item
Review of Draft Land Use Chapter of the Comp Plan
General agreement that the document is worthwhile and the revision gives the planning board more to
work.
Discussion of how the plan can support or discourage certain patterns of development. Discussion of
housing density. Suggestion that language be added/developed around “medium density housing”- to
guide the planning board.
J. MacDonald appreciates that development can be encouraged where water infrastructure exists, and
acknowledges the plan is meant to accommodate different kinds of housing and a variety of
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November 4, 2025
affordability.
Remark that many concepts in the comp plan exist as ideals – and will get fleshed out in a revised zoning
code. The comp plan language generally encourages open space and preservation of farm land.
Suggestion that it might be useful for some areas to be flexible for commercial development, or light
industrial. Some additional development of this kind could result in fewer miles driven to Ithaca.
Discussion of how lake shore housing should be treated/considered in the plan. Niels comments that a
land use map is different from the zoning map-- for the purposes of the zoning map and development
regulations a trend is overlay district (eg. residential with conservation overlay.)
Short discussion of ADUs and manufactured homes.
Board Member Reports
none
Motion: M. Klein motioned to adjourn at 8:08pm; J. McDonald seconded.
Vote: Chair Klankowski, aye; McDonald, aye; Gragg, aye; Klein, aye.
Motion Carried.
Rachel Kennedy
Interim Planning Board Secretary