HomeMy WebLinkAboutPage 1 of the Comprehensive Plan.PDFPage I ofthe plan:
The process of developing the comprehensive Plan has involved a wide range of interests,
individuals and groups including Mayor Kate Supron, former Mayor Jim Gilmore, the Board of
Trustees, the Zoning Board of Appeals, Village departmental staff, Tompkins County planning
Department staff, and students from cornell university's Department of City and Regional
Planning. lt has also involved significant inpUt from Village residents, including a public forum
held in the early stages at the Kendal at lthaca retirement community.
It is striking that Village residents come last in this list. so it might come as no surprise that the existence
of this plan wa$ news to everyone on spruce Lane'- bnd to everyone else that residents here have
spoken with' Some of this news was in fact extremely disturbing, including but not limited to theproposed re-zoning of the wooded meadow and wetland area that lies in between Kendal a.nd the
Spruce Lane neighborhood - perhaps the largest such open space in the Village and part of the original
"Planned Development District" for Kendal. The plan calls for this to be re-zoned as medium density
housing' Exactly which Village residents were asked to provide input on the proposed re-zoning of this
area, that along North Triphammer Road, and the area proposed for high density low income housing incommunity corners? My own investigations suggest that no one with a clear potential for being
negatively impacted by the increased noise, traffic and even crime that such high density housing
developments might bring was consulted. Indeed, not even the Kendal board appears to be aware of theproposed plan.