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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992-12-14 1 To Seneca Falls To Auburn „ rte ' ,:+ ` ' x TOWN of LANSING r ▪ r • $ rX �^ y . `F '• � ; K -. , " Home of Industry, Agriculture and Scenic Beauty " • -- ...\ .ova• r• e r r Y `1t ♦ -- `� \ � } v . K. , Town of Lansing \ -\ ` ORDINANCE ' DEPT. i , 's ll\ Box 186 Lansing, New York 14882 ‘ � 11% �l To Ithaca LANSING PLANNING BOARD MEETING D ate : December 14 , 1992 Time : 7 : 30 P . M . P lace : Lansing Town Hall Boardroom III 7 : 30 P . M . Open Meeting - General Business - Approve Minutes 8 : 00 P . M . PUBLIC HEARING - Richard & Flo Pinney Tax Map # 25 . - 1 - 7 . 5 8 : 15 P . M . Subdivision - Elizabeth Biss Prelim Plat Approval Tax Map # 44 . - 1 - 1 . 2 8 : 30 P . M . Revised Plan - Peter Duenkelsbuehler Tax Map # 12 . - 1 - 23 . 2 8 : 45 P . M . One Lot Subdivision - James Bingham Tax Map # 19 . - 1 - 2 9 : 00 P . M . Any other business to come before the Board . TOWN OF LANSING Planning Board Meeting Monday, December 14, 1992; 7:30 p.m. PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS *Denotes Present * Grace Haney * Larry Sharpsteen * Linda Hirvonen * Robert Todd * Viola Miller Al White * Cheryl Nickel * George Totman, Zoning and Code Enforcement * Larry Tvaroha, Town Councilman PUBLIC PRESENT James Bingham Florence Pinney Peter Duenkelsbuehler Richard Pinney Arno Finkeldey George Schlecht Jim Henry Roger Sovocool Terrence Kenny Chairperson Linda Hirvonen called the meeting to order at 7:34 p.m. GENERAL BUSINESS • Open Board Member Position Chairperson Linda Hirvonen appointed the following members to the Nominating Committee: Robert Todd as Chairperson, Grace Haney, and Viola Miller. Robert Todd stated that Lynn Davidson is interested in the position. He lives on Ridge Road near the county line. He works at Cornell and is a part-time farmer. Linda Hirvonen stated that Steve White is also interested in the position. He lives in the center of Lansing and is very interested. Viola Miller commented that from the surveys there were a couple of names of people that were interested. She listed Harry Keller from Fidlers Green. There were two names suggested at the last meeting. All of these names will be forwarded to the Town Board for recommendation. Grant Applications Cheryl Nickel has been working on two grant applications, and has spoken at two neighborhood meetings (Senior Citizen Council, and the group in Ludlowville). She presented the boards used at Lansing Days and seemed to get a favorable response. She also discussed implications for the way to know what type of growth is going to happen and where. She has found some experts in town. Steve Lowsen was one of the heads of parks and recreation in Orlando, Florida. He is willing to donate his time. Two architectural renderers are excited at working at the community meetings and helping people draw schemes of what their ideas are. The committees that she feels needs to be organized are town center, master plan, economic development, historic resources, publicity, and agricultural resources. She would like to see all members of the Planning Board involved in these committees. For the Town Center Town of Lansing Planning Board Page 2 Monday, December 14, 1992 • Committee, she recommends herself. For the Master Planning Committee, she recommends Linda Hirvonen. For the Economic Development Committee, she recommends Larry Sharpsteen. For the Street Trees and possibly Historic Resources Committees combined, she recommends Viola Miller. For the Parks and Recreation Committee, she is undecided. For the Agricultural Resources Committee, she recommends Robert Todd. For the Publicity Committee, she recommends Grace Haney. Cheryl is gathering people from the community meetings to work on a community design workshop, where they will actually have a large plan of the center of town and design it as a group. She is trying to get as many people involved as possible. The timetable for this is the end of January. She would like to do the first community design workshop and see how it goes, and a month later have a second one. Cheryl stated that she has another meeting scheduled with the Lyons Club on January 4, 1993. Another suggested group to get in touch with is Jeff Walters and the fire department. Larry Sharpsteen questioned Larry Tvaroha about the Town Board's plans to make any commitments for resources, re: building streets, sidewalks, curbs, etc. Larry Tvaroha felt that the Town Board is ready for that and would approach it with enthusiasm. Cheryl Nickel also stated that she applied for another grant from Cornell University in the Landscape Architecture Department — Faculty's In-service. She felt that there would be two possibilities to work with students; one with supervision to assist with the design of the 130 acre park. • Larry Tvaroha discussed the public hearing about two weeks ago by a landscape architecture class that did a study of the current town park. They broke it up into quadrants and each study group of three or four students went through and analyzed the usage of the park, the trees that are growing there, the kind of vegetation, what could be done, and each gave a 15 minute presentation. They came out with a five-year plan of how the Town could develop it over five years without making any major adjustments to the park Most of it was identifying trees that needed to be removed that were rotted, identifying various other bushes and shrubs that could be planted to give it a more pleasing look and longer season of colors. One of the major things they found out was that probably five years ago there was a number of red maples were planted, but that the soil was all wrong for planting that kind of tree. The Town will probably dig those trees up and relocate them to the new property if that soil is appropriate. Larry Sharpsteen added that he would like another study to be done on the property to the north of the park to see what could be done with that property. PUBLIC HEARING, Richard and Flo Pinney, Ridge Road, Tax Map #25.4-7.5 Linda Hirvonen read the public notice published in the Ithaca Journal, opened the public hearing at 8:00 p.m., and asked for any questions that the public present might have. Larry Tvaroha questioned the paper road extension to the north, which was shown on the most recent version of the map. He questioned whether it could go 60 feet towards the lake or whether there was a natural boundary such as a gorge that was there. Mrs. Pinney stated that as part of the agreement with the adjoining landowner, Mr. Finkeldey, he requested a ten-foot easement of land along the boundary. Larry Tvaroha also questioned the #16 • covenant as to its legality, whether an individual land owner could restrict hunting on the land where a municipality could not. No hunting could be a restriction stated in the deed when the new owners purchase the property. Mrs. Pinney defended her reasoning for the restriction on hunting as a safety concern for the adjoining and future land owners.