HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-09-01 PLANNING BOARD
TOWN OF GROTON
PUBLIC HEARING #3
TUESDAY , SEPTEMBER 1 , 1992 @ 7 : 00 P . M .
Circuit Rider Meeting # 3 opened at 7 : 00 P . M . GEORGE
TOTMAN opened meeting with introductions and summary of Last
two hearings .
BOARD PUBLIC PRESENT
* George Totman , Chairman on attached sheet
* Monica Carey
* George VanSlyke
* Cecil Twigg
Sheldon Clark
Verl Rankin
( * present )
TOTMAN9 This is our third meeting . The purpose was to get the
people in the Town of Groton involved in the Planning
process ; let them know what is happening in Groton or
find out what they would like to see happen . Every
Town or Village has to have a Comprehensive Plan to
work on as to what to expect in the future . The Town
of Groton did this back in 1972 , got it approved , but
there has been no genera ]. update since that time . One
of the purposes of having these public hearings was to
get the consensus of the whole community . As times
change , people change in the community , businesses
change or expand , and the plans for the community there -
fore , changes . As the Planning Board hears these ideas
they make suggestions to the Town Board as to changes
that might or might not be needed . We have two young
ladies here with us tonight , if you ' haven. ' t been at the
other two meetings , their names are Jeannie Barrett and
Joan Jurkowich from the County Planning Department . We
have contracted with Tompkins County to provide
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TOTMAPI0 a Circuit Rider Program where they meet with us ,
listen to us , and take what we said and put it down
on paper . They did the bulk of the work as to putting
these meetings together and they are going to try to
promote questions and answers from the people in the
community .
JURKOWICH :
I thought I would spend two or three minutes going over
the results of the survey . The survey was mailed out
in the Spring . I am going to go over all of the numer -
ical responses and highlight them question by question
as to whether you agree or disagree . First question ,
on the survey asked the people to rate a series of issues
in terms of how important they were . The Economic
Development and the Agricultural. Businesses were the
topics of our first two hearings ,/meetings because they
were the two most important issues raised from the
survey . Environmental Protection , Visual Character of
the Town , and Affordable Housing were the other most
important issues of the people in the Town . Questions
3 and 4 were about Public Services . They asked them
to rate if they wanted to increase , decrease or maintain
the services that are here now . Basically . the residents
were for leaving things alone , or at least they didn ' t
want to pay more to get more services . There was one
exception with a service in the Village ; that is the
extending of the sewer and water services , sidewalks
and street lights . The fifth question identifies the
natural features and man - made features . It asks the
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JURKOWICH :
people to rate how important it was to protect those
features . General support for protection or the
majority rated resources as either critical. or very
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mportant with two exceptions , Historic Buildings
and Archaeological , Sites rated as being very low on
that scale . The items that, scored the highest were
drinking water , streams and rivers , farmland , and
forestland being the most critical . Question number
6 asked about what types of residential development
would be appropriate in the area where you live .
The majority answered large lots , single family
development and conventional type houses . Substantially ,
over 1 / 3 supported having modular homes , small. apart -
ment buildings , single family dwellings , as well as
elderly housing projects and granny flats . Next
several questionsea ) out where development might occur ,
and what kinds of industrial developments would be
appropriate . In terms of community development , the
majority thought within the Village center would be
the most appropriate place for offices and stores .
Industrial. Development was rated as the majority wanting
it along the major highways . Well over half thought
Light Industry would be the best type of Industrial
Development . We also asked a question on the area for
Industrial. Development , Rte . 222 rated the highest with
all. other highways being close to that score . We
asked where they thought it would be appropriate to
develop in a mixed use area , the majority rated near the
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JURKOWI CFI
Village . - Question number 10 asked , during the 1980 ' s
the Town of Groton averaged 15 homes per year , what .
do you think the 1990 ' s will show ? The majority
revealed 10 to 20 new homes per year . At the end of
the questionnaire survey , we asked for any comments on
any future developments , questions on the survey , or
on the preparation for the Groton Town Plan . There
were 15 pages of attached responses .
C . STEVELY :
Did you do any sorting. or looking at these by the
demographic responses ?
JURKOWI CFI
The only background questions we asked was what part
of the Town do you live in ? There was some significant
patterns between the people who live in the Village and
the people who live in the Town , outside the Village .
C . STEVELY :
Do you have any future plans on soliciting more
surveys ?
JURKOWI CFI
We will. be doing more public hearings to get reactions
from the people about what is going on but we haven ' t
really decided on another survey .
J . BARRETT .*
Last week , we had two meetings . . -, The first one was on
Economic Development . The speaker was Mike Stamm from
the Tompkins County Area of Development and the other
speaker was Fred Paris from NYSEG . The second meeting .,
was on Agricultural Growth . The speaker there was
Carl Crispell from the Cooperative Extension . These
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BARRETT0 ate some of the recommendations that came out of the
Economic Development Forum . First , Retain Existing Jobs
in the Town of Groton . Second , Develop some kind of
a Mission Statement on where you are , where do you
want to go , and what kind of businesses would you like
to have in the Town of Groton . Third , the need to
recognize what the strengths and weaknesses are in the
Town of Groton , for example : strengths could be the
quality of life , the rural work force and strong
enthusiasm in the Town . ` One of the weaknesses include
the perception of isolation . Another recommendation
could be to start targeting businesses . You could start
to look at your infrastructure : water , sewer , gas ,
and electricity . Perhaps by developing an Industrial
Park , Incubators , and perhaps support of the airport
extention , training programs , and high risk loan programs .
The second forum I mentioned was on Agriculture . Some
of the recommendations which came out of that meeting
were to educate the residents about farming operations
as to why some are timely and important to the farmer .
They need to outline the positive and negative aspects
of farming : for example , how the . 'smel. l of newly mowed
hay and the generation of CO2 are positive and the smell
of manure and the amount of dust is negative . As I
mentioned before , infrastructure . You should look at
your roads . to make sure that trucks and such can get to
and from the farms . Also , assess the positive issues :
the visual impacts of the farmer , implore the aesthetics
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BARRETT : of the farms to the Town and to the residents of the
Town . Finally , strengthen protection of those farms .
For example : transfer development rights that were
mentioned , as well as Agricultural. Districts . Those
are pretty much the highlights of these meetings .
Now will be time for questions and answers .
MARK
CRANCE . What are the points listed on the County Airport
Expansion ?
JURKOWICH :
I do not know the details . I know they want to build
a new passenger terminal . We have some questions
on the agenda that we thought maybe we could get some
ideas started , just to get some conversation going .
What needs to be improved in Groton ? What should we
leave alone as to what do you like or not like ?
MARK
CRANCE . When we moved here , I guess one of the strengths we ,
were looking for was the schools . Groton has a very
high quality school. district .
MARCY
CRANCE : I was very impressed with the Groton Old Home Days .
Maybe it could be bigger if extended longer or have
it more than once a year . Additional fund raisers
would help . A definite positive for the Town is the
School events .
MARK
CRANCE : It was very refreshing moving here to a small community
because we were from a large city .
JURKOWICFI :
Something mentioned last week which I thought was a
good idea is a Farmers Market . What are your views on
that ?
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TOTMANO Supposing we said we were going to re - district
Groton in one part of the Town and not the other .
Suppose we were going to tighten up all of the Zoning
and have all. five acre lots or suppose we are not going
to change the Master Plan because everybody likes it the
way it is . What we are looking for , is what do people
like or dislike about the Town . The ultimate goal is
changing the Zoning Ordinance . We want to get input
from people in the Town as to what they want : what they
Like or dislike . The purpose is not to tell you what
we want as a Board , but to have the people tell us
what they want .
MARK
CRANCE : My first impression was it appeared that there may be
concerns about the growth growing too fast . I think it
should be encouraged so long as it is within the scope
of what the Town wants . My first choice would be to have
a Mission Statement on where the Town wants to go . It
is nice to have meetings like this and get the input
from everybody , but you have to develop a plan from al. l.
this . We need to issue a check point and say this is
where we are going . Maybe in two or three years from now ,
we can say that the Town is the way we had strived for ,
made a goal of , in the past .
TOTMAPd : I think for that comment , it is one of the reasons why
we are doing this . Some people might say we like it just
the way it is , but if you don ' t do something , it won ' t
stay the, way it is . because it will deteriorate . We all
like it the way it is but we aren ' t going to be here
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TOTMAPd0 further whether because of job changes , a call from
beyond , or whatever . What we don ' t realize is that if
we don ' t have a Mission Statement for the Town ,
there is going to be more people moving in and many
of them will want to know what the Plan is for the Town ,
and do they have any program in the Town to maintain
what they got . It doesn ' t stay the way it is if you
don ' t have a plan to maintain or control. it
ED
NEUHAUSER :
flow do you see the number of houses that are going to
come into Groton as far as it effecting the demand in
services ? I mean the school system , water , sewer,; and
electricity . As we put more kids into the schools , all.
of a sudden we got to build a new school or water and
sewer, . plant . flow are you going to take that into account
in terms of increased development ?
'POTMAPd0 That is what we are looking for . We can ' t control the
number of houses coming into Groton . If that happens ,
we have to plan to control. them . Our goal is to see how
we can get around it or control it .
ED
NEUHAUSER
flow many more houses can Groton have before we ' ll have
to add onto the school. s ' or sewage plant ? Do you know
whether that is part of your planning process ?
TOTMANe No , we don ' t know . When we do make a plan , we work
with the school .
JURKOWICH :
Do you think the Town should say that they will allow
growth to occur until they reach a certain level in
their services and that is when they will stop ?
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MARK
CRAPJCE : There certainly should be some consideration in that .
If you don ' t want growth , all of a sudden a new sewage
treatment plant is needed , then what ? There aren ' t
that many funds available , especially on the last
minute , until. those homes are there to help support
the tax base . Most Town ' s experience growth which
exceeds the services . I believe there should be some
planning phases .
TOTMAPJ : There are also some people who don ' t want commercial
growth . Without commercial growth , the tax base doesn ' , t
balance out .
FLOYD
JEPJSEPJ : There was talk at one time of expanding the Village
limits . Was anything ever decided on or was that just
dropped ?
TOTMAPJ0 I think it must have been for a specific purpose or
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ndividual .
JEPJSEPJ : They were talking about expanding it South around the
time they were going to build a trailer park out there .
TOTMAPJ : Nothing has happened yet . The Town wasn ' t approached .
RAY
SAMSOPJ : We have mentioned alot about the schools . i think
there are people here who know as I do that the
High School is not in the best of shape . because of
the water problems . Is there anything that we aren ' t
aware of yet as to a new school ?
BARRETT : At this point , they are starting to look into a plan. ,
that is all we know .
SAMSOPJ : There was something printed referring to the water in
the basement . There was a question asked if there should
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SAMSON90 be_ �something done with the existing building or if
a new one should be built .
TOTMADIe I don ' t know . From what I heard , they solved the
problem .
SAMSONe From what I hear , each elementary class is getting
larger every year . When it, comes time for them to go
to the High School , is there going to be enough room ?
Shouldn ' t we get something going as:, far as planning
wise now before the problem occurs ?
TOTMMIO That is really a School Board problem . What I plan on
doing with the minutes of all. these meetings is to
send a copy to the School Board and to the Village .
Any public comments will become known so that they
are aware of the concerns .
SAMSOPd0 My concern would he where would they put a new school ?
LYLE
RAYMOND * The impact that the new housing will have depends
on what kind of people are building them and if they
are coming in with children . Another concern would
be the Sewage Treatment Plant . With all. of the homes
coming in , it is inevitable thiat new sewer systems will.
be needed .
MARK
CRAPdCE : One of the things that we should really take a look at
is what exactly is going to feel. the growth of Groton ?
Typically what you see is jobs . Jobs stimulate growth
in any area . Once we have decided on what type of
industry we can attract to this area and concentrate
on getting them here , then we need to develop more
services . Farming is the number one consideration .
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MARK
CRAPJCE : There will also be a fair number of retirees coming
into Groton .
TOTMAPJ0 In answer to your question about the average of 15
homes per year over the last ten years , the population
per child in the past 12 years went down 12 % .
RAYMOND : What we should look at is what does Groton have that
some of the other places don ' t have ?
BARRETT * Mike Stamm talked about most of the new businesses
which are likely to be attracted to Groton would be
entrepreneurs . They tend to be smal. l. to medium
businesses . I think that is what we are getting at
when we talk about retaining jobs .
SAMSOPJ : Clearly one of the advantages that Groton has is the
cost of electricity .
TOTMAPJ : The majority of the people who live in Groton do not
work in Groton , they work outside of the Town and
Village . We are truly a bedroom community . We are in
an area situation where we are primarily a residential.
area . What industries we do draw here are going to be
small. .
SCHEFFLER :
I think that is what everybody thinks . They want, small
businesses rather than major . You can ' t discount the
atmosphere of New York State . There are companies
leaving New York as well as coming to New York State .
New York is not very neighborly about it . Major com -
panies do not like New York State or Groton for that
matter .
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MARK
CRAPJCE : I agree along that line , but the Ordinance is still.
something that has to be addressed . I think we should
definitely be out there trying to attract businesseslf
or industry here .
TOTMAPJ : As you all know , the Smith Corona plan in Cortland
is going out of business , out of the State . The people
who work there will either be re - trained or just be
out looking for another job elsewhere . The companies
that depend on Smith Corona will. be hurting , so you know
that they won ' t be hiring . Basically , at the end
result , we are going to have to watch our tax base .
HALL : The training programs that the employees at Smith
Corona are going to get isn ' t going to help because
there aren ' t any jobs out there to work at . We can ' t
all be High - Tech Welders .
FLOYD
JEPJSEPJ : There isn ' t much of a job market out there :,anyway .
MARK
CRAPJCE : What might happen as it did in. Rochester , is that
alot of Cities will. be just Cities . - of Services . I
think we need to develop a Mission Statement in this
Town before something drastic happens .
RAYMOPJD : I think we should look at it and ask . what sort of
industry would like to be located here ? Why would
they like it here , what is here for them ? First of all
there is the airport . Second reason they might like it
here is because it is near a large University ; more than
one .
MARCY
CRAPJCE : I agree . Ithaca is a metropolitan area and we need to
get a piece of that pie .
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BARRETT : I think you need a key contact person who can work
with the Tompkins County Area of Development on this .
MARK
CRANCE : Any suggestions on who that could be ? Could it be
somebody of an official capacity ? or maybe somebody on
the Planning Board ?
MARCY
CRANCE : Do we want to give somebody the sole responsibility
or do we want that person to share the responsibility ?
TOTMAN : George , you slipped in a comment about the tax base ,
I think our Town Supervisor can answer where the taxes
are paid from , or where our tax base is .
TERESA
ROBINSON * Most of the tax base is on property in the Township ,
farming , houses and a few businesses .
TOTMAPI : The majority is residential now . It is generally
accepted throughout the Country that just residential.
does not hold up a tax base . There isn '_ t a proper
balance .
DAN
CERRETANI : Do you have any idea what the percentage is in terms
of residential vs . agriculture vs . businesses ?
JURKOWICH :
Just from my familiarity with the area , it is going to
be 90 ,/ 10 , 80 ,/ 20 . 90 being residential and 10 being
business .
TWIGG : Where do farmers fit in there ?
JURKOWICFi :
They would count in with the residential part .
SALLY
NEU11AUSER : Most of the taxes are not on the residential. , it is
on the commercial part .
JURKOWICH :
Usually they don ' t pay in taxes what they get in.
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services . They pay less taxes than they pay for services .
The general rule which is true also for Agriculture ,
is that they pay much property taxes than they get
services .
JURKOWICH0
What about changes you ' d like to see ? Any long range
changes needed ?
ROGER
GLEASON * There is a new law called the Comprehensive Farmland
Retention which one of the provisions talks about
protecting local farm lands . That might be something
you would like to take a look at .
MARK
CRANCE : Has Tompkins County and Groton seen an increase or
stability in farms ? Is Agriculture going under ?
JURKOWICH0
There has been a _ decrease .
MARK
CRAPICE0 What about per capita per farmer ?
TWIGG : It has been increasing , but the farming has been stable .
It has been pretty stable for 25 years . The cow numbers
are stable as in the past 25 years also . There are
fewer number of farms but there is as many number of
cows as in the past 25 years .
DAN
CERRANTI : We do have to take the Agricultural wealth into consider -
ation in the Planning process because it is certainly
in the area in the future . Agriculture brings money
into the community .
JURKOWICH :
What about any changes you would like to see in the
next 20 years in Groton ?
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SAMSON . I think the whole Town and outside of the Village
should be able to have the Village electric rates .
TOTMALN The Village people are luckier than the people in
the Town . The Village of Groton contracted with
the Power Authority for their power . The cost of
the Village power is half of what NYSEG charges .
Does anybody have any feelings on the lot sizes ?
We are the only Town in Tompkins County that requires
200 ft . of road frontage . Does anybody have any
thoughts on whether that is right or wrong ?
CAROLYN
STEVELY : I live in a mobile home and I think one way to keep
a proper , neat looking home is to have a large lot .
SCFIEFFLER
The lots I see around the area don ' t look very empty
to me . They look pretty filled up . I don ' t 'think
it is a very good idea to lower the road frontage .
If it were smaller , it would probably be practically
on your neighbors property .
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TOTMAPd : Suppose we put it a different way . The rule now ' says
you have to have 200 ft . of road frontage per dwelling
unit . Supposing your parents can ' t maintain their own
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home any more and dpon _ ti7want to go to a Nursing Home .
They would like to build a little house on your property
or add an apartment to your house . When you go to the
Zoning Officer he says you can ' t because you do not have
adequate enough road frontage to qualify for a building
permit . Do you think that is right ?
SCHEFFLER :
Isn ' t it illegal for there to be a rental , residence
in the Town of Groton ?
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MARK
CRANCE : What do you mean by separate dwell. ings ?
TOTMAPI : Lyle Raymond is on the Zoning Board of Appeals , we will
let him explain it .
RAYMOND : This is the hottest issue that the Zoning Board of
Appeals has had to deal with in the last year and a
half . The issues are the additional housing facilities
for older folks that people want to add onto their
existing lot . We had one that came to us where they
had an existing garage and they decided to sacrifice
some of that area that they had that garage , in the
back part and make it into a small. two or three room
apartment . It was right next to the house . It was
ideal from their viewpoint , but their plans afoul
with the Zoning Code . The second case also involved
a garage . They had adequate road frontage in this case
if � Ahey did want two dwellings , but they ran into pro -
blems because they wanted to convert the garage . It
was going to cost too much in order to build a full
SIZE size house of 840 square feet ; so , they said we would
just like to convert the garage . Again , they ran afoul.
with the Zoning Code . They came before the Board and
they had to have a lot minimum .
TOTMAN : Both cases involved in - laws .
RAYMOPdD : That ' s right . We do have , in the present Code , two
or three lines that talk about " detached rooms , " That
hasn ' t been used in the last 20 years . It does say
that if the additional rooms are considered to be
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RAYMOPdD0 detached but yet part of the main dwelling unit ,
therefore they are considered all one . We wondered
Of this meant it shared the septiceand water system .
It said yes , so , we made the determination that it
was a " detached room " and therefore they didn ' t need
a Variance . We then went to the Planning Board to
see if we could get more clarification and direction
to go on .
TOTMAN .e In the original Ordinance , you are required 200 ft *
road frontage for every dwelling unit . The rules
and regulations in the Ordinance which were there before
the last Ordinance was passed was Grandfathered . That
meant that it was there before and could not be changed ,
This is one of the reasons we need to get some more
input because the people do not know what kinds of
things that come lap at our Zoning and Planning Board
meetings .
DAN
CERRANTI : I think the Variance and the Ordinance should be
brought lap in the Mission Statement . What was the
rationale behind the 200 ft . road frontage ?
TWIGG : It was just a f giarei, brought out of the sky .
GhEASON .o 200 ft . came from the Health Department ' s requirement
for sewer and water .
TOTMAPI : Yes . The Health Department was requiring 200 ft . diameter
of useful land for septic and water . They have since
changed that to 150 ft .
TWIGG : What this road frontage does is it uses lap all the
road frontage . We are winding lap with houses around the
edge of the roadE1,<�
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TWIGG : The Town of Lansing discouraged large lots because
the people didn ' t maintain them . They would hide
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unk cars in the back . If you have a large lot ,
responsibility goes with it .
MARK
CRAPJCE : I think it is great to have a large lot so that the
neighbors aren ' t right on top of you . I think it would
also be nice to know that your neighbor isn ' t going
to build two or three more houses on his lot right
next to your property . I also like the idea of having
in - laws being able to find a place with their children .
`TANSLYKE : Flow many people feel that this is the aesthetics that
they want unchanged in the Town of Groton ? Do you want
to have the ability to have room or space around you
where your neighbor isn ' t really up on top of you ?
200 ft . of road frontage causes you to not worry about
the guy next to you being on your doorstep .
TWIGCs : It wouldn ' t matter any ways because unless you buy
more than 200 ft . , the guy on the other property can
build next to your line .
VANSLYKE : I am not going to build my house right next to the line .
That is what I am looking for is space .
'PWIGG : If people want open space , let them buy that space so
that they _ can _ control . i t .
TOTMAPJ : What we could do is suggest to the people to change
it so that they can have a large lot . Teresa wanted
me to ask the opinion of the people to see if they
would consider having the opportunity to have a flag lot .
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TOTMAN * There is always going to be someone who doesn ' t like
what we are going to suggest with the Zoning Ordinance .
DAN
CERRANTI : Could you describe what a flag lot is ?
TOTMAPd0 Yes . ( Jeannie Barrett drew a picture )
RAYMOPdD6 I have talked to some folks in the Town and they
told me very emphatically , that they were against
flag lots . People are afraid of others moving in
behind them and making junk yards out of their property .
TOTMAN .e My opinion is , if you don ' t want someone moving
in back of you , buy that land .
SCFIEFLER : People have already bought their homes knowing that
the Zoning is the way it is and now you are talking
about changing it .
TOTMAN * If we decide to change it , there will be a Public
Hearing .
BETSY
PETERSON .* If they want to develop thand in back , is there any
reason they can ' t build a road out to it ? Also , we
all have to make choices in our lives , if you want to
live your way , you still have to live by the rttl. es .
TOTMAN : The rule of thumb right now , is if you build a road
that is accepted by the Town , it is called a road
because it gives public access to a legal. highway .
VANSLYKE : When you start talking about building a public road
and developing it in an area in back , you are talking
about something different than a flag lot . A flag lot
is just a developed piece of land like an acre in back
where you have an access back to it .
GLEASONe One of the other things that should be considered is
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GLEASOPd : that 200 ft . road frontage causes al. ot of problems
in flag lots because you can get into areas where
%, there are curves in the road . I was wondering if
maybe there was a way to solve some of this by
trying to experimentally have some zone in which you
could have smaller lots and that it could be designated
as such . One of the problems with that is , why have
low cost housing ? You can ' t have low cost housing
because the lots of land are too big .
TOTMAPd : There is alot of talk all. over about creating low-
cost housing . One of the obstacles to overcome is
the cost of land per foot along the road . One other
thing we could look at is designating areas as other
Town ' s do for mobile Yiomes . ,. �
IIALL : When we were talking about low - income housing or
road costs for housing , are we talking about individual.
dwelling units or apartment houses ? It was in the survey .
JURKOWICfi : The survey was talking about low cost housing , low
income housing . What do you think would be appropriate
for Groton ? .
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HALI, : We already have low income houses in the village .
MARK
CRAPICE : No offense , but I do not want a junky trailer next
to my house . I, et people who can afford to build a
home move in there instead of a low income multiple
dwelling unit .
TWIGG : I think what he was saying was that he wanted to main -
tain the value of his house .
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TOTMAPJ : If you want to keep what you got , there has to be
rules and regulations .
MARK
CRAPJCE : Before we go , I think the last two questions on the
survey are pertinent to any plan that the Town would
make . Where would low income housing be appropriate ?
To me , the most sensible place would be in the Town .
The same goes for light industry . We need to find
out where it would go . Most likely it would be along
a major highway , but which one ?
DAN
CERRAPJTI : I think the low income housing should be near the
services . As for the light industry , I think they
should be where they want to be . We should see what
they are looking for .
MARK
CRAPJCE : I think an Industrial Park is also a good idea .
TOTMAPJ : Alot of people don ' t want to come into a Town and wait
for changes . They are going to fight over wh
SCFiEFFLER :
I think Rte . 222 is zoned for that type of industry .
TOTMAN .e Yes , it is zoned for that . It is commercial. .
JURKOWICH :
If anybody does come up with other ideas , send us
a note at the County Planning Department or give it
to the Planning Board .
TOTMAPJ : Remember , Planning Board Meetings are always open to
the Public . We are going to take all this information
and try to analyze it . It isn ' t going to be easy to
decide on issues in wriich the general public would
agree with . So , any help or input you might have
would be considered . All of the information from the
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T' OTMAN ** surveys , and the meetings are . going to be analyzed
and we will. come up with a new Comprehensive
Plan for the Town of Groton . We will. then have
another Public Hearing to discuss the outcome of our
analysis .
MARK
CRANCE : Is there some kind of a time schedule when this will
all. come about ?
TOTMAPd0 We will have it every five to ten years updated from
now on . Of course , we do not know who the future Board
members are going to be .
( Meeting closed at 10 * 05 P . M . )
I , SANDRA DEE DILLON , DO CERTIFY that I did take the
minutes of the September 1 , 1992 Public Hearing Mtg . # 3 . The
minutes of said hearing isf . a true and accurate copy to the best
of, my -- ability . c
A I k j , a 0 ..
SA DRA D . DILLON
TOWN OF. GROTON MASTER PLAN UPDATE
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