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TOWN BOARD MEETING . - -
JUNE 10 , 1986 • •
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_ PUBLIC HEARING # 1
SPECIAL PERMIT - Micky Roof - 1620 Hanshaw Rd
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Supv Cotterill read the notice that was published in the newspaper to consider
the application of Micky Roof _ for • a special. permit to . d_ esign and retail jewelry
in ' her home at 1620 Hanshaw Rd . I ;
H . QUESTIONSAND / OR . COMMENTS
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John ' Catei - present owner of 1620 Hanshaw Rd - ' -the • sale of the house is }
contingent upon being able: to - get approval for a jewerly shop in the house .
Micky Roof - designes .. and manufactures hem own product , which are of high
quali.tye A& the present time she . is renting a shop in Newfield and see needs
j' a .place where people cansee what her product looks like and to see her
presentation , . She: would like to buy the house and turn part of it into a retail
store and live in the other portion . She does not intend to change the house
in anyway- except to restore it because she feels that it is historically a
beautiful house . As far as running a business and traffic patterns , the traffic
• is not a busy one and will not change the property at all .
,. C1m Evans -. . wanted to know- how many retail customers on the average per day ?
Micky 'Roof - theAaverage would be about 5 clients .
Supv Cotterill - wanted to know if there would be other employees ?
Micky Roof - right now she has a master goldsmith . and a bookkeeper .
. Supv Cotterill - wanted to know- if this would be strictly within the house or
in any' of the . other buildings ?
Micky Roof - this will not involve any of the other buildings . •
Catherine Brown - she has since looked more clearly at the Zoning Ordinance and
a home occupation is allowed in the Zoning Ordinance by a special permit , ;ii: 1.
Retail business establishments which are clearly of a neighborhood or a local { ;
service nature , such. as but not limited to grocery stores , drug stores , etc , ! 1
Those are allowed by permit and there is a real question whether a jewerly I !
store is a local service in that area at all . In any case we have almost
all of the residents in that area including two people who are building
houses there who have signed the petition against it . She would like to have
the petition go on the record .
June 7 , 1986
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We the undersigned , as resident , homeowners in the 8 - Square School
area in the +anH end of the Town of Dryden ( the area south and west
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of Rt . 13 and qffietfr . of Fall Creek ) are opposed to any further erosion
of this residential neighborhood by the conversion of rural residen -
tial properties for commercial use . In particular , we are opposed
to the granting of a Special Permit , as sought by Mickey Roof at the
Public Hearing on June 10 , 1986 before the Dryden Town Board , which
would allow the conversion of the house and farm property offered
for sale by John Caren , at 1620 Hanshaw Rd . , to a commercial use as
a retail jewelry store . The establishment of such a retail outlet ,
with a show - room and salesperson ( s ) other than the resident owner ,
would go far beyond the intended meaning of " home occupation " as
defined in the zoning Ordinance and allowed by Special Permit in
this R - C area . •
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this is fine with her personally . If she moves and sells her property , now
that the precedent has been made as a business home , could someone else move
in and very easily make it look like a big business which would abuse the
neighborhood ?
Atty Perkins - it has been the policy of the Town Board not to have the special
permit transferable . .
Min Creasy - sometimes they have heard the comment , what do you care because
you have the SPCA and Ludgate Produce already . This bothers her because
every additional commercial enterprise will strenghthen that argument .
They ar. e worried that this kind of a sentiment eventually would grow rather
than dimmnsh .
Mr Levin , 1608 Hanshaw Rd - is in conflict about this , the principal of another
business in that area is distasteful to him . However , all he has heard about
the use of the house and the way the house will be kept seems attractive to him .
H e was concerned about the transferable use of the permit that it will not be
violated and should be made very clear .
Clm Evans - if he votes for the special permit it would only be that it is not
transferable . Since he has been on the Board all permits issued have been
-made nontransferable .
Mr Levin - should the owner rent or lease the property to another business ,
is this controlled in the permit ? .
Atty Perkins - this would also be the same . The special permit is personal to
the individual and not to the property .
Margaret Joyce , 505 Lower Creek Rd - has lived there since 1969 , and bought the
property because it was a nice residential area . Now they find that they are
being encroached upon more and more with all sorts of commercial businesses .
As far as she is concerned the neighborhood is becoming spoiled and she objects
to the jewerly store being opened on Hanshaw Rd . She felt that it is time to
give more consideration to the people who have bought homes in that area and
h ave lived there for years and intend to go on living there .
Ann Caren - owner of the property in question . She realizes that it is a residential
area , However , the SPCA is next door which is a big deterrent with the sale of
the house .
J udith. Healy , 1690 Hanshaw Rd - if the business is allowed and does grow what
would happen ?
Micky Roof 7- what she does is . unusual and does not demand a lot of space or
employees , She is a designer and makes her own product amd does not desire
to have anything that large ,.
Catherine Brown - under allowed uses in the Zoning Ordinance it states #E9 home
occupation is allowed without any ' permit , this is an allowed use in that area .
Allowed uses by a special permit , retail business establishments which are
clearly of a neighborhood or local service nature , this is not . If she just
-made the jewerly that would be different , but the retail sales aspect is what
't'ney worry a'bou't :" Laser Torewer sstarted-in- the old house across from NYSE& G
and then they outgrew the house and built a retail store right next door . This
is the kind of thing that they do not want to see happen_ in their neighborhood .
£ f by any chance that she should move , then someone coming in there could cite
this as a precedent , get another permit and make something totally different
that would be even more objectional .
Mr Levin - wanted to know what the sign would be like , parallel to Hanshaw Rd ,
on the fence , near the roads Or how conspicuous would it be ?
M !_ cky Roof - she really hasn ' t thought much about it .
1_itty Perkins - it rrillyµ isn ' t a retail business establishment , which is clearly
in the neighborhood of a local service nature , and not a home occupation . He
has .a bard time getting by the fact that it is an allowed use as a professional
ticdio finder tie id riaiiee afid questioned that this really should be a special
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hearing That it would be an allowed use as a matter of rights .
Ggtherihe Brown a it IS the retail sales aspect . and the employees that she is
1° eri dig fio as hot u ng ai1oived even under the permit .
'Pt=iA ;nR- a. . * t : + not an allowed use by a special permit then it would be
a variance and would be up to the ZBOA . He felt that this would be an allowed
use by rights or would be a variance .
Micky Roof she will not mask the fact that it is absolutely a retail place ,
She chose to Live near Ithaca because that is where most of her business is
and is a service to that community .
Atty Perkins - wanted to know how big the display area would be ?
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