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March 23 , 1976
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To : Town of Lansing Town Board
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From : Town of Lansing Planning Board
Monday night , March 22 , 1976 , Norm Stanton , as your emmisary ,
5a ., requested input regarding some language changes in the "Junk Yard
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we Ordinance : and as a result , the Planning Board wishes to address
some comments to the issue .
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First , and probably primarily , the Planning Board feels that
the "Junk Yard Ordinance " is philosophically oriented towards
removing or toning down the unsightliness of abandoned , damaged ,
• soi and useless products of our society . At the same time , no one
wishes to impose hardship on the entrepreneur or the businessman ,
whom we hope would take the responsibility of consideration for the
sensibilities of their fellow townspeople .
% With this in mind , we would like to encourage the Town Board
: ` i to consider less exceptions to the Ordinance . There is , for in -
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stance , a garage that has 20 or so junk cars in back which are
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clearly there for the sole purpose of providing parts for sale .
ryti Another garage is engaged in the business of towing cars from the
scene of wrecks , and of course they have to be stored pending
insurance investigation . Legally , both of these businesses are
U. within their rights to display the units , but wouldn ' t the town
be a more pleasant place if in these two cases a screen of pine
trees or some other suitable shield were to bluntthe starkness
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Please don ' t feel that we on the Planning Board wish to
cause trouble , and please don ' t feel that these two businesses
were singled out for any other reason than that they were the
only examples everyone on the Planning Board was familiar with .
So much , however , can be accomplished with relatively little
effort if we are interested in abiding by the spirit of the Ord -
inance rather than the legal word only . No one is so naive as
to think that the written law is not needed , but when changes
are made and especially when changes in exceptions are contem-
plated , we would request that you consider the spirit in which
• the Ordinance was conceived and let that be your guide wherever
possible .
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Lansing Planning Board
• Post Office Box No. 60
4 South Lansing, New York
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We are sending this to you at home as we very much wish to
=', ; respond as you requested , but we do not feel that it is necessary
n or desireable to place this on public record
#% ' Sincerely Yours ,
Town of Lansing Planning Board
Viola Miller , Chairman
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IDavid Hardie , Vice Chairman
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, Bill Bement , Secretary
Sam Baughman , Treasurer
Lola Winter
Fred Edmondson
Lou Roscoe
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