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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009-03-19TOWN OF DRYDEN Planning Board OMarch Y9, 2409 Members Present: Barbara Caldwell, Chair; David Weinstein; Joseph Laquatra, Jr.; Joseph Lalley; Martin Hatch; Tom Hatfield. Excused: Megan Whitman. Staff Present: Dan Kwasnowski, Pnvirorunental Planner; Mary Ann Sumner, Town Supervisor; Joe Solomon, Town Board Liaison; Patty Millard, Recording Secretary; Meeting called to order at 7:10. The Town of Lansing is offering a training at the Lansing Town Hall on April 13, 2009, at 6:30 pm. Scott Chatfield, from the New York State Planning federation, will be providing the training. This will count as 2 hours towards our annual requirement. Discussed other possible Training offerings. There is a new feature to the Dryden website. Josh 1- information to the website. The current Zoning map by Behan Planning. Go to wANr%v.daden.nLs, click at the bottom of the column; click on KML Tiles. If is a link to download and install it there. as used Google Earth to add a wealth of is up there as well as the new one proposed on Environmental Planning, then on the right you don't have Google Earth installed, there • Minutes Joe Laquatra made a motion to approve the Minutes for February 4, 2009. Marty Hatch seconded the motion. All voted in favor. Motion passed. From the Town Sujervisor M Sumner — The Park Foundation asked her to apply for a grant for a sustainability coordinator. The County sent out report — progress towards comprehensive plan — last year. Are there action items in our comp plan to work on? Cornell has a sustainability coordinator. This contact may help with more information to help M Sumner in her research. Gay Nicholson — Sustainable Tompkins, also a good contact. Would this bind the town to keep this position permanently? One of the places that received a three -year grant saved so much money in the first year, they hired the person permanently without the grant. NYSERDA may also help with this type of a position. BIG PICTURE ITEMS TO REVIEW Mobile Homes/ Manufactured Housing Approach to Mobile Homes: For units built prior to 1976, mobile home is the correct terminology. After that, manufactured housing is the correct term. Modular Homes are not Manufactured Homes. They are both factory built homes, but are not the same thing. There is a perception that having a mobile or manufactured home next to their stick built home lowers their value. There is no statistical con-elation to that. With Modular homes, there is a very tight process with how these are installed. With Manufactured homes, the process is not so tight. If we can't tell the difference between a manufactured home and a modular home, they would be more acceptable. a %0I PR 03 -19 -2009 Page 2 of 3 Mranufactured Housing (mobile homes) on single lots — discussion. Aesthetics, stability, value after 10 years or 20 years- Mobile Home Parks — Expand existing? Allow new? Same concerns as long as infrastructure is adequate for the density. Expansion; as long as infrastructure is available and existing infrastructure issues are handled, and the architectural (aesthetic) standards are net (for iviH in general), this should be ace eptahIaI Ne i% could be handled under Cluster Subdivision, Joe Laquatra will look at what other some towns have done and come back with some information to look at regarding MH on single lots and Mobile Home Parks. Existing ordinance allows singlewide manufactured homes only where. they already exist. If new MH are coming in; we need to rnake sure they are installed to existing standards- Mellow Barg water district is meeting here at the Town Hall next week. ubdi vision Every lot split can be reviewed Some can be administrative and some by the Board Hoke many lots and what time period can determine whether it goes to the Zoning Office or the Plaruiing Board Other than the amoant of time it takes, what is the down side to having the PB review ever} one? Health Dept, isn't going to do a S apt] e ,study if it isn't a Realty Subdivision. Developer would have. to pay for a perk study in order to meet the requirements. If we don't review every split, the example we looked on at during sessions could happen. if splits are looked at right from the beginning, we can by to help make sure the property is being planned out well and not just lopped up into little pieces- If they come in with a Development Plan, we can approve that, When it gets to the point where it would trigger subdivision approval, it would come back to the Planning Board. In the interim, lot splits that fit the Development Plan that the PB reviewed, these splits could be approved administratively. This would be less intensive for the developer than doing a subdivision right offthe bat, would allow Planning Board to look at it from tlhe. beginning, and allow some smaller splits with less overhead since after the initial look it is an administrative process until it gets to the subdivision trigger. There is a diel1y'rence betweern selling off a piece of land because they need to pay taxes ari d wanting to develop a property- There may be, but we could still help guide them in the process so that they can get the most out Of their property, This sounds like the way we want to go. The PB is invoIved at the beginning with a Development Plan when even only one lot is spl.k. They show maybe the first 4 lots they avant to PB 03 -19 -2009 Page 3of3 isV do and the PB says, ok, you can do all those — only one is done now. Administratively, the next 3 get approved and once those 4 are done, they would have to come back to the PB. That way they aren't paying for subdivision approval when the first couple of lots are done but the PB still has the ability to review the whole plan initially. Parent Parcel — subsequent owner of a lot split — can they split further? Does it come from original parent parcel allocation of road frontage- and density? Yes. Unless the parent parcel owner puts deed restrictions on the lot that was split off, the new lot owner could subdivide further and affect the parent parcel's allocations. Nancy Munkenbeek arrived at 8:40. Paperless Office Would like to get as paperless as possible. Patty and Joy are working on a table to come up with a list of who wants everything in paper, in electronic format, in both, just plans in paper and the rest in electronic format, etc. Meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm. Respectfully submitted, Patty Millard Recording Secretary