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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGries, David- Comprehensive Plan.PDF1 Users / gnies/Work/Home/Sp nu c e Saved: 28a2.7.9 5:45:56 PH Lane/...ge doings/l2juL09 Boand Meeting.txt Page 1 of L Printed For: David Gnies t 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 t@ TL t2 t3 t4 1_5 t5 17 L8 t9 20 2t 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31_ 32 33 34 I am David Gries. I live with my wife, Elaine, at 23 Spruce Lane, a short walk fnom hene. I am Professor Emenitus in Computen Science at Connell. We necently leanned of the Dnaft of the Compnehensive Plan fon Cayuga Heights. We appneciate the work the Planning Board on this oven the years. We know this is all voluntary wonk, taking a gneat deal of time, by people who believe they have the Village's intenest at heant. we are aghast at some of the necommendations, as is almost everyone we talk The plan suggests nezoning thnee lange spaces as Medium Residential: an anea east of Tniphammen, an anea east of Pleasant Gnove, and the Kenda1 field. This will pnoduce more traffic congestion, destnoying oun quality of life and changing the chanacten of the neighbonhood. I don't want Tniphammen to look mone and mone like Highway 13 at Seneca Stneet, but that is what the pnoposed change is aiming toward. But to. In 1993, the it would not nesidential values. ViIIage agneed to the Kendal- sale and laten development because bunden oun schools and (2) it would genenate less tnaffic than developments. Today, the Planning Boand m to have the (1) othen same And with all the talk in the Draft about the need for open space and necreation aneas and fon pnesenving the quality of life, how can the Board propose destroying a lange, open, public-senvice area, the Kendal fields, which is used by so many people? We ane we ane a1l willing to wonk with the Planning Boand in developing a good plan, and glad that the time fon public input is neaning. But the finst sten fl,removqnthe aneas fnom nezoning. sL'J u o rGY\1e