HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-10-10Facilities Subcommittee of the Town (if Dryden R hcreawn Conunission
October 107 2000
Present: Alice Green, Robert SIaC1kTn, Dan KaHg
Dan Karr brought forth up the parlang 5ituali0n ,JI Iltc Rammond Hi State Forest area. He staid aLat it
seerns unclear whu is responsible for plrnvin; the parkin¢ lot. Amrding to Mr_ arig during the height of
the crass - country skiing sea son stveral hundred people use the J4WrkALoad Hill area. The parking lot is on
Cayuga Nature Center land and was put in with the cooperation of Lb e Town of Dryden and the New York
State Department of 'JIVIrQnIrLcIlt.7I Gonsmation_ There is no regular plowing 0 the lot in the winter, rt
was put in ivith the intention Of dismij raging people from parking on I•Ianunond Hill Road and Obstructing,
snow plows. Mr. Karr stud an Laac npt }eras made to put in another puking lot on Canaan Ro<<d but �vo,3 not
due to neighbors' objections, Mr, Karig said there is a possibility of putting in another p Li-kmg lot in the
Harmnond Hill. area but it is uncertain WIIM it would be.
Dan also brought up some more sources of information for the two Ithaca College interns to check out_
They were Mark Zubal, Senior Foreseer, of Ilrc DEC Rogional Office in Dryden_ He has responsibility for
the state lands in the Town of Dryden. There was also a TOTnpkirws County xreerlwVay Group in Clio MI d=
1990s according to Ilan. The members of that group besides Ilan ivere: Jim Hansen of Tompkins County
Planning, Jon 0urc wicr, Nancy Ostman of Cornell University, George Frantz, and Joaluie Cornish of the
pity of Ithaca Planning Department The giloup's goal was resource green space and open areas in
Tompkins County, Thov put this together in 1995 according to Ilan. Ruben Sl ocain was charged with
inFOrrning tine two Ithaca Collogo interns of I.hesc Sorrow,
WC talked about tl7e history of the Dryden Lake trail and tic bast Hill Recreation Way_ Alice mentioned
the usage of giisoline tax funds on non - highway uses such as the Dryden Lake trail_ Dan said that the past
Town Supervisor, .tames chug, was tr}�in4) to link 0 L two trails together and was not sure what carne of it.
We discussed the Youth. Consen+ation Corps and some of the wGrk that it had done on idol. We also talked
about the Outing Club which David I•Iall coordinates through the Toren of Dryden 'Youth Goinmissio n and
whether they could do any work on the lrailry It was agreed that the trail rnaller 9would be looked into,
Alice
said that a commitment ivas given by Janice
Johnson of Tompkins
County Youth Bureau conoming
tI CrI.S
T C This neap would be an illustrated map
of recreation facilities
in lho'I'own of orydm
The two I.C. interns rvill be pirsenling their work to the full commission on October 3&. The
subcommittee will r000nvcngc on November 6's at 5:00 P.M. at the Dryden Village Hall. Tho Lnceting wits
adjounied at 6 :00 P.M,