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Home My WebLink About2014-02-12 TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION/SPECIAL MEETING FEBRUARY 12, 2014 TOWN HALL BOARD ROOM, 29 AUBURN RD,LANSING,NY PLEASE NOTE: The primary purpose of the Town Board Work Session is to be informational/educational for the benefit of the Board Members. Public comment will be taken at the regular meetings when the items are scheduled on the agenda. Meeting Time: 6:03 pm— 8:50 pm Town Board Members Present: Kathy Miller, Supervisor Robert Cree, Councilperson Doug Dake, Councilperson Ruth Hopkins, Councilperson Edward LaVigne, Councilperson Absent: None Also Present: Sharon Bowman, Deputy Supervisor(left at 7:40 p.m.), Guy Krogh, Town Attorney, Jack French, Highway Superintendent, Judy Drake, Town of Ithaca, Steve Estes, Tompkins County Personnel, Ted Laux, Lynn Day, and Marcy Rosenkrantz Topics of Discussion: 1. Steve Estes, Deputy Commissioner of Personnel, Tompkins County Personnel and Judy Drake, Human Resources Manager, Town of Ithaca a) Advertising for Planner position 2. Jack French, Highway Superintendent a) Pick-up of old appliances 3. Proposed Sign Law a) Discussed changes ENTER SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING Councilperson Robert Cree moved to enter a SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING TO DISCUSS SCHEDULING A SECOND PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED SIGN LAW at 8:48 pm, Councilperson Doug Dake, seconded the motion. All In Favor—5 Opposed—0 CONSIDER RESOLUTION SCHEDULING A SECOND PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW#1 OF 2014 (SIGN LAW) RESOLUTION 14-51 RESOLUTION SCHEDULING SECOND PUBLIC HEARING UPON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW#1 OF 2014, TO REGULATE CERTAIN SIGNS IN THE TOWN OF LANSING The following Resolution was duly presented for consideration by the Town Board: WHEREAS, the Town had directed its Ordinance Committee to develop, with input from the Town Board, the Planning Board, and the public, proposed regulations for certain signs within the Town of Lansing, in part due to the need to replace an ordinance that had been repealed and to update and modernize the regulatory scheme for signage within the Town, taking into due account the purposes of zoning and the Town's Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, among other things, the said Local Law under consideration proposes to: (i) regulate but permit the identification of businesses and important local facilities and buildings, while preserving and enhancing the visual quality of the Town and the safety of vehicular and pedestrian traffic; (ii) define certain terms, such as types of sign districts, February 12,2014 types of signs, planned sign areas, the scope of review for certain signs, and permit and variance processes and procedures for sign emplacement; (iii) to provide for categories of exempt signs that require neither a permit nor review; (iv) to provide general rules of applicability for all signs; (v) to set forth particular maximum signage limits for residential, commercial, and agricultural areas within the Town; (vi) to provide for flexibility through planned sign areas; (vii) to address lawful pre-existing non- conforming signs and allow their continuance and provide for their discontinuance in certain circumstances; (viii) to delineate the processes and procedures for issuance of sign permits, site plan approvals, and the enforcement of such Local Law; (ix) to set forth sign maintenance requirements; (x) to provide a process for the interpretation and application of the Local Law, including rights of appeal and the right to seek variances; (xi) and to specify an immediate effective date for such Local Law; and WHEREAS, a Public Hearing was held upon January 15, 2014, at the Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing,New York, being in the Town of Lansing, and as a result of public comments received, the Town Board decided to reconsider some of the terms and procedures of such Local Law; and WHEREAS, an amended Local Law has been created that has some changes, including changes to certain sign requirements in certain locations, ensuring that certain large billboards as now exist acquire grandfathering rights akin to other non-conforming signs, changing permitted hours of illumination for lighted signs, adding a maximum intensity measurement for illuminated signs, and making minor adjustments in terms to conform language to definitions; and WHEREAS, the Town Board, as lead agency for environmental review pursuant to SEQRA, has determined that such changes are not material and do not cause any increase in the likelihood of occurrence or the intensity of any potential impacts and, in fact, reduce overall environmental impacts, such that no supplemental SEQRA review is mandated or required; and WHEREAS, the changes, in total, are minor and do not create or foster conditions whereby any negative county wide inter-municipal impacts would or could occur, such that no further GML Section 239 review is mandated or required; and WHEREAS, and however, the changes are material enough to trigger a further Public Hearing under the Municipal Home Rule Law as they are, taken in toto, not de minimus or immaterial; and WHEREAS, upon due consideration thereupon, the Town Board of the Town of Lansing has hereby RESOLVED, that a Public Hearing will be held at the Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing, New York, being in the Town of Lansing, on the 26th day of February, 2014, at 6:05 pm, to consider the adoption of proposed Local Law#1 of 2014, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof, and to take such action thereon as is required or permitted by law; and it is further RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk of the Town of Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, is hereby authorized and directed to cause a Notice of Public Hearing to be published in the official newspaper of the Town of Lansing, and also to post a copy thereof on the Town signboard maintained by the Town Clerk, in accord with law. The question of the adoption of such proposed Resolution was duly motioned by Councilperson Robert Cree, duly seconded by Supervisor Kathy Miller, and put to a roll call vote with the following results: Councilperson Robert Cree -Aye Councilperson Doug Dake - Aye Councilperson Ruth Hopkins - Aye Councilperson Edward LaVigne -Aye Supervisor Kathy Miller-Aye Accordingly, the foregoing Resolution was approved, carried, and duly adopted on February 12, 2014. February 12,2014 EXIT SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING Councilperson Ruth Hopkins moved to EXIT THE SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING at 8:49 PM, Councilperson Robert Cree seconded the motion. All In Favor—5 Opposed- 0 With no further business to discuss the meeting ended at 8:50 pm. Notes were taken by Supervisor Kathy Miller, and executed by the Deputy Town Clerk. Respectfully submitted, Darlene Marshall February 12,2014