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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-01-15Minutes Town of Danby Planning Board January 15, 1986 Members Present. Nancy Weitzel, Carol Benjamin, Donald Graham (Chairman), Walter Sczepanski, Gerald Catlin, Joel Gagnon (Secretary)'. Others Present: Carol Sczepanski, Donald Burdick Others Absent: Judd Leonard The meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM. Minutes of the December meeting were approved. Chairman's Report was presented. Regular Agenda The Chairman proposed that we turn our attention once zoning ordinance revision. Carol Benjamin citing her growing conviction that Ordinance which would encompass some Currently most of the Town is R1, Gunderman Road as well as the least some activities and facilities which which would not be appropriate in the expressed again to the reluctance to a new zone needs to be added proposed do that, to the of the less built -up areas of the Town. including fairly settled areas like developed areas. Carol says there are would be fine in a less populated area more built -up areas. Walt added that he thought a special district or districts should be considered for places like West Danby, where a lot of the housing is currently non - conforming because of lot size or setback violations. Don Graham said he thought that problem could better be addressed with a change in wording which would make it easier to expand non - conforming structures if the change didn't increase the degree of non - conformance (by adding on in back, for instance, which is theoretically prohibited at present for non - conforming buildings). While agreeing that these issues needed to be addressed, we decided to finish covering the section we were involved in first. We covered another 4 pages. To cover more ground, we scheduled a work session for Wednesday, January 29 (later cancelled). Meeting adjourned at 10:24 P.M. Minutes Town of Danby Planning Board January 15, 1986 Members Presents Nancy Weitzel, Carol Benjamin, Donald Graham, Walter Sczepanski, Gerald Catlin, Joel Gagnon Others Present: Carol SczeDanski, Donald Burdick Others Absent= Judd Leonard The meeting was called to order at 700 P.M. Minutes of the December meeting were. approved,5 to 1 aArt� S7czeipanski d enting);following their being read l-etz y oel (copies of the. complete minutes not yet bein A7 lable). Walt thought the December minutes should have —stat orthrightl,y the name of the town whose zoning ordinance w P.%- 'Using as a basis for the revision of the Danby ordina The rest of us-,disagreed, noting that the working copy we are u g is a composite of previous - versions of the Danby Ordinance. with ditions of potentially attractive fe.aturiis.f- rom_.se.veral other t so Chair's Report Dbrr�G�t-ham,re R6 Dted that Judd Leonard (Zoning Officer) had reported at the Danby TownBbia7rd meeting that he collected $2000 in permit .tes In 185, as compared to the 100 collected iA '84. Perms ere issued for $900,000 of construction, The Town Board had eld (upon the Su- 9ervisor's recommendation) to red'u ;c,(z, he Town pervisor's salary to 4000 a year. The Town Board aldo pass�, resolution authorizing a purchase offer on property owned b R'�ck`Dkobson. The offer was to total X35,000, consisting of present Town rn and property suDDle- manted with $12,000 addi al. The Co munity Cbuncil got permission to use the Town Hall show movies on Saturday afternoons to interested youth. At the C ty level, Don said that the County�Justice System feels an acu t. need for more space, and that that need will no doubt be. presse once a decision on the location 6f the Department of Social Service has been made. The February 12 meeting of the County Planning Boar (which Don now Chairs) was to discuss the County solid waste dis- po al problem. The State Department of Environmental Conservatto:n nts to close the Landstrom landfill in a couple of ,years. N Regular Agenda Don Graham proposed that we turn our attention once again to the pro- posed zoning ordinance revision. Joel said he thought we were going to go back to the 1980 revision first. On further inquiry, it became clear that as a result of discussions between Don Burdick and Don Graham It had been agreed to use the '00 revision as a reference only and to resume working on the more recent draft where the Planning Board left off in November. Carol Benjamin expressed reluctance to do that, citing her growing conviction that a new zone needs to be added to the Ordinance which would encompass some of the less built -uD areas of the Town. Currently most of the Town Is R19 including fairly settled ar as like Gunderman Road as welli_as the least developed areas. Carol .i there are some activities and facilities which would be fine in a less poD- ulated area which would not be appropriate in the more built -up areas. Walt added that he thought a special district or districts should be 2 considered for places like West Danby, where a lot of the housing is currently non- conforming because of lot size or setback violations. Don Graham said he thought that problem could better be addressed with a change in wording which would make it easier to Pxpand non - conforming structures if the change didn't, increase the degree of non - conformance (by adding on in back, for instance, which is theoretically prohibited at present for non - conforming buildings). While agreeing that these Issues needed to be addressed, we decided to finish covering the section we were involved in first. We covered smother 4 pages. To cover more ground, we scheduled a work session for Wednesday, January 29 (later cancelled). Meeting adjourned at 10 :24 P.M. Submitted by Joel Gagnon