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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-05-29I Minutes Town of Dryden Conservation Board 3 Tuesday, 29 May 2012 d Dryden Town 111all 5 93 East rMain Street, Dryden, NY 113053 6 7 1. Cull to order (7;37 p.m.) - C. Smith 10 2. Completion of Record of Attendance by Members 11 -- Present: Beck, Munkenbeek, Richmond, Schutt, , Sherman, Smith 12 -- Absent: Bisscn, Prentigq, I1yan 13 -- elc officio: Kwasno ski, NIchoIson 14 -- liaison' Anderson (Planning Board), Sumner (Stipervisor. Town F3oaTd) 15 1 . Additirrns to agenda" 17 -- Cformspondence from Bruno Schickel (unsigned and undated), minted to CvEAs, � %?as circulated via 18 e -mail on 2.5 May 2412, to Conservation Board and Town Board rnernbers and duly noted (copy attached)- 19 - Entice nFSpecial Meeting on 5 .tune for all hoards; K�vasnowski explains that this meeting is to discuss zo nodal development in the villages and Varna near the route 36 1Route 13 intersection (NYSE G), 21 22 C Review and approval of minutes from 24 April 2012 Meeting 23 -- Edit on line 19 of minutes; should read `-Craig Schutt expressed interest in,., ". 24 -- Discussion of the 2500' fcct butter for amphibians. wasnowsk1 discusses the conversion 0 f0r6 25 kilometers or � 2500' that an amphibian can travel and the need to protect these areas through the C EA's. 96 -- Smiths d iscusses the need to know the regulations and precedent for 2500' buffer with StatelF=edera1 Wetlands. 28 - -K asnowski states that it's better to identify boundaries and suggest area around a C:EA rather than 29 change the CEA boundaries. 31) 3! -- Smith entertains a moeion to pats April minides- 32 -- Heick.secondF- 33 -- All approve. 34 35 5. Reports and Updates 36 a. Town Board — M. Sumner 37 -- Introduced C 2A'5 1,2,5 last week and scheduled pub 11r! hearings for Town Board Meeting on 21 39 June at 7m35- 19 -- Special Planning Board meeting on 5 June 40 -- Zoning/Subdivision Public InforinatiOn Session on 13 June 41 -- Zoning public hearing on 27 June 42 43 b. Town Planning Board - C:- Anderson 44 -- Dryden Farmer's Co rneet1ng, on Wednesday, 6 .tune, at 7:30 p.m. (and first Wednesday 45 each month thereafter) 46 47 c, Ad Hoc Agriculture Coin nnittee = N. M unkcnbctk, R. Ryan, Cf- Schutt 48 -- No report 49 0 d- Other Town Boards and Comnnissions - Jane Nlicho [so n 51 -- Overview of the Varna Community Development Plan. 52 53 6. Old business W5 a. CEAs - Progress and next steps 56 -- Review of the process and where we are going with the process. 57 -- Munkenbeck suggests that those who cannot attend the special meetings can review revised 58 CEAs at the Planning Department Office or on the Town web site. 59 -- Sumner recommends consistently sending CEAs to the Town Board for review. 60 61 b. Need for additional Special Meetings to review and discuss ChAs? 62 -- Kwasnowski reviews the timing in which the board will respond; schedule and progress by the 63 Planning Board. 64 -- Board consensus that not all board members can make it to all the special meetings, and all 65 members agree on the common, collective goal and trust the judgment of the Town Board and 66 Conservation Board to do the best job possible. 67 -- Kwasnowski confirms that all changes were made by J. Bogdan on the spot. Beck suggests that 68 any and all changes can be seen in Dropbox. Sumner noted that the Town Board made some 69 wording changes last month. Copies of revised CEA documentation, as they will be reviewed by 70 the Town Board, are on the Town web site. 71 -- Kwasnowski questioned the timing for adjournment of the last Special Meeting on 16 May; 72 Conservation Board members agreed to continue discussion until a later time in order to finish all 73 of the assigned LEA's at that meeting. 74 -- Special meetings for 12 June at 7:30PM, and regularly scheduled meeting for 26 June, 75 76 7. New business 77 W8 a. Open Space Planning Process and Procedures - Dan Kwasnowski . -- Kwasnowski provided an overview of the plan, where the Planning Department is at present, and 80 where the Department and Plan are going; the Open Space Plan (OSP) is derived from the Open 81 Space Inventory and is project oriented. The OSP will work in concert with the local laws that will 82 be adopted. The OSP will be a systematic approach that states what we want to do, how we will do 83 it, and the resources we have to do it. The plan is a strategic -type plan that includes agriculture, 84 conservation, and recreation. 85 86 -- Richmond and Prentiss prepared the recreation section in 2011.. with input from community 87 members, and that section provides a background for recreation and a list of needs. There was also 88 discussion of the agriculture section, although there remains a lack of input from the art Itoc 89 Agriculture Committee of the Conservation Board, because that Committee has not met since it 90 was formed in February 2012. 91 92 == Kwasnowski: The CFA's provided a critical background for the OSP. The plan itself should be 93 a plan and not the work itself. It should provide a list of plans and other projects and lay out the 94 foundation (strategic approach). This is an action plan where the CEA's will be well 95 accomplished; there is a model wetland law that can be incorporated. `fake the pieces that the 96 Conservation Board feels are important or identified in the conservation analysis and these are the 97 tools that can be used. The Conservation Board will need to evaluate to detennine if there are 98 policies, programs, outreach, etc. required. This will be in the plan and developed as action items. 99 100 -- Sumner states two Town Board priorities: 1) town acquisition of land, and 2) land donated to 0o1 town. f.)2 1f6 -- Anderson states that small farms feel the most development pressure, and that there are other 104 mechanisms to help protect them. It's crucial that there is some protection for small farms. 105 P07 P 6 b. Charge to Ad Hoc Agriculture Committee for Open Space Plan (see attached) ..,Smith reviewed the ad {roc Agriculture Committee guidelines. The committee is a charge of this 108 board; consensus of the group was that ad hoc committee would have something prepared for the 109 Open Space Plan by the 31 July 2012 (changed front 26 June 2012), for discussion at the August ►►o Conservation Board meeting. 111 112 8. Meeting adjourned at 9e30 p.m. 113 114 Minutes recorded and submitted by Jane Nicholson.