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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-11-18TOWN OF DRYDEN PLANNING BOARD Tlarsday, November 19, 2004 MEMBERS PRESENT: Barbara Caldwell, Tom Hatfield, Jim Crawford, David Weinstein, Russell Beek ALSO PRESENT& Joan'Jurkov&h, Henry Slater, ,Debbie Gross AGENDA* Final Subdivision Hearing for Armitage property and Comprehensive Flan Discussion B, Caldwell Called meeting together at 7:30 and stated that Daniel Armitage has brought up a proposed a two-lot subdlvtsion on or about 110 and X 20 Wood Road- H- Slater Stated that section 281 hasn't been applied and has no reason to be put in place- B. Caldwell Asked what the status was about long driveways. i H. Slater Answered that there are no county laws but offly state laws that it must be clear for emergency vehicles but has already been passed by fire chief and him, D- Gross Told board that the storm water control will have to be one of the ;terns looked at for future projects of this nature due to some changes in DEC policy. B, Caldwell Asked for a motion to close hearing, Torn Tatfield second motion, and everyone voted to close hearing. D. Weinstein The SEAR was examined and everything was fine with both the board and Mr. Armitage's ideas. Then proposed to check the box indicating that the motion would not have any adverse effects on the environrnent; seconded by Torn Hatfield and approved by everyone. Negative Declaration. B- Caldwell Asked for a decision of the proposal as a whole. T- Hatfield Authorized the sub division as requested and Mr. Crawford second and had Mr- Weinstein and Mr, Hatfield in favor and no one opposed. Subdivision Approved. .rte 11� F �` B. Caldwell Announced that the Deputy Commissioner for county planning was there to talk about the county's comprehensive plan J. Jurkowich Stated that the county comprehensive plan was to be sent out done on November 19, 2004 and that everyone would be getting one soon. Continued with a brief over view and history. Stated that after going to every town and village and talking to people both in boards and citizens that there was some changes made_ Then took 61 action items that the legislature will hopefully adopt. Continued with explaining experiment of looking at town developments and putting in place the 61 new ideas and keeping the other the same then checking the transportation, environmental, and community impact of both. Also a fiscal analysis was done on the impact regarding schools and municipalities. This experiment showed them both turning out mostly the same, but slightly less sensitive habitat disturbed and reduced traffic impacts with the measures proposed by the plan. D. Weinstein Asked how many changes if any were made from April to now. J. Jurkowich Answered by saying that there was a new introduction that says what the impacts of the plan would be, added highlighted section about being a college town and the importance of Cayuga Lake, and added new section on existing housing stock in county. T. Hatfield Asked if this was a vision piece of the county and if the towns are being told to adapt to this. J. Jurkowich Answered by saying that she hopes this could be a piece to start conversation about issues and that the individual boards could work together with the county to make a over all plan. Continued to say that the county is interested in making a survey on commuters who work in Tompkins county but live outside to see why they do not live in Tompkins_ T. Hatfield Asked if the northeast corridor study is still being incorporated K r 4 • J. Jurkowich Said that some of them were and some were not but not all of the material was touched on in the plan. T. Hatfield Said that he would like the county to look at the outlook to business and the attitude to business in the county since it is hurting us in both sales and property tax. B. Caldwell Asked if there was anything in the county study on median housing costs and why ours is that much higher. J. Jurkowich Answered by saying that people want to come here so that pushes up pricing due to the low supply and that this area does not have enough high end housing in the county. T. Hatfield Stated that the starter home inventory is also very low and that it costs more to rent then to buy a home. Also brought up the point that people are not informed about the problems with housing and the relationship to the community J. Jurkowich Made the point that higher density housing should be looked at in areas where the water and sewer pipes are available so that new ones don't need to be put in. T. Hatfield Asked for some examples of issues that were not looked at by the local boards but were looked at by the county. J. Jurkowich Answered by talking about a town that looked only at land use and conservation issues and not at how land use affects the local community and economy. D. Weinstein Asked what was the purpose of the project to make an official county map. J. Jurkowich Responded with say that it was to protect state and county facilities including roads and to address cross border issues. J. Crawford Stated that he thinks that this plan should be give to high schools so that the youth can understand what happens in their own community. B. Caldwell Thanked Ms. Jurkowich for her appearance at the board meeting. 3 D. Gross Passed out an informal proposal from the agricultural community to revise the agricultural goals section of the comprehensive plan. R. Beck Stated that the agricultural community is seeing problems with changes suggested by the plan for land use and zoning of Dryden. D. Weinstein Asked when the agricultural group would be ready to make proposals since the Planning Board was looking to have a public hearing in the upcoming year. R_ Beck Answered that it is unknown when the group could put a proposal together. T. Hatfield Stated that he believes that the agriculture group needs to work to come together with the town and try to work it out. R Beck Stated his concern for conserving large tracks of ground without areas of residential housing. T. Hatfield Answered by saying that the comprehensive plan is looking at agriculture and that the group may be seeing what has been happening not what will happen. He went on to offer to make some suggestion to Mr. Beck to take to the agricultural group. R. Beck Questioned how much the community wants to protect agriculture by keeping housing developments out of agricultural land. T. Hatfield Expressed interest in attending an agricultural group meeting and clearing up misunderstandings between the groups. R. Beck Stated concern with a situation of retiring farmer selling off front lots but other local farmers not being able to compete with the land developers and buy that land. E