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Home My WebLink About2011-05-11T13 5 -11 -11 • TOWN OF DRYDEN TOWN BOARD MEETING May 11, 2011 Present: Supervisor Mary Ann Sumner, Cl Stephen Stelick, Cl Joseph Solomon, Cl Jason Leifer, Cl David Makar Elected Officials: Bambi L. Avery, Town Clerk Other Town Staff: Brian Mcllroy, Bookkeepc;r Daniel Kwasnowski, Director of Planning Mahlon R. Perkins, Town Attorney Supv Sumner opened the board meeting at 7 ;40 p.m. finance reports and highway items for next: week's agenda were distribute(]. The community association program development grant awards will be voted on next week. Details will be provided to board members in next week's agenda packet. Cortland Road Water District - Supv Sumner said a group met with Randy Sterling and Ron Moore of the Village of Dryden about the general concept of providing water in the Cortland Road area. They seem to be supportive. The i-lealth Department has indicated they will allow the Village to continue selling water outside the Village with certain provisions. If there is at least an agreement to install a backflow preventer the Health Department will extend the deadline for cutoff. Cl Stelick and Cl Solomon are meeting with Paul Rachetta and Charlie Becker on Thursday. They hope to schedule a meeting with residents after that. TCCOG and Tompkins County have submitted a request to the DEC to extend the comment period on the sDGEIS. The town can also do so and Supv Sumner will send a letter on Friday. Gravel Mining Zoning - D Kwasnowski said because of the dimensional requirements in the proposed law, there is no need to have a minimum lot size. There is a 1,000 foot buffer between the activity and any residential area. There are few suitable lots in the southwest corner of town. It will be allowed in the conservation and rural ag zones, not necessarily in places where we know resources are located. Areas where we know people have an interest in mining are not excluded. There were some questions about the areas designed on the map and D Kwasnowski will provide more data to the board. Varna Community Study - D Kwasnowski reported a survey was mailed to Varna area residents and property owners and the responses are corning in. He has a meeting with the advisory group next. week and will be doing some field work in the hamlet. The transportation and planning consultants are coming down. Following that meeting there will be a meeting of commercial property owners and business owners. He expects to have a public workshop on June 21. Jane is entering the data from the surveys. Josh Bogdan and D Kwasnowski are developing a. model for the public workshop. The character assessment and reap on the website done by Jane Nicholson are very similar to what the community has proposed. Ci Makar said he attended the meeting in Varna and it. seems that people have a lot. of thoughts that they aren't vocalizing yet. He hopes there is a proper time and plane for them to do that. Traffic seems to be a basic concern, and that development will increase traffic. Page I of 5 TB 5 -11 -11 A budget: mod is necessary from contingence to cover a vacation payout and real property tax refund. Funds also need to be transferred for the expense of the Recreation Master Plan. RESOLUTION #94 (2011) - BUDGET MODIFICATION Cl Stelick offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the following budget modification: From Account To Account A 1990.4 A1430.1 A1990.4 A1930A A 1460.102 A7020.404 211,1 Cl Solomon Roll Call Vote Cl Stelick Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Makar Yes Cl Leifer Yes Amount $ 3,500.00 3,294.45 10,000.00 The Recreation Department has requested a budget mod because the amount due the Recreation Partnership is up due to increased participation. RESOLUTION #95 (2011) - BUDGET MODIFICATION Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the following budget modification: From Account To Account Amount A7330.4 A7330.401 $ 330.18 2iic1 CI Leifer Roll Call Vote C1 Stelick Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Makar Yes Cl heifer Yes The Planning Department has requested a budget mod to cover the 6 towns energy education program. There will be offsetting revenue when the grant funds are received. RESOLUTION #96 (2011) - BUDGET MODIFICATION Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED that this Town Board hereby approves the following budget. modification: From Account A8790.402 To Account A8970.406 Page 2 o1'5 Amount $14,000.00 211d CI Stelick Roll Call Vote Cl Stelick Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Makar Yes C1 L.eifer Yes 1*11 S -1 I -I1 The Planning Department. has requested a budget mod to replace funds for contracted engineering services that was exhausted when the reimbursable expenses for the Clarity Connect project were waived. RESOLUTION #97 (2011) - BUDGET MODIFICATION Cl Makar offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the following budget modification: From Account B1990,4 2...I Cl Stelick Roll Cell Vote To Account B3620.401 Cl Stelick Cl Solomon Supv Sumner Cl Makar Cl Leifer Amount $10,000.00 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Supv Sumner has started to draft a resolution officially establishing the Planning Department. She will ask Atty Perkins to review it and it will be on the agenda next week. Cl Solomon said next. week former postmasters from the Etna post office will come to the meeting and ask the board to send .a letter to the postal service requesting that the post office not: be closed. Town Clerk B Avery reported that she met with a group of dog breeders in town that would like some changes in the Tolvn's recently adopted dog law. She will forward a report: to the board. RESOLUTION #98 (2011) - APPROVE ABSTRACT #5 Cl Stelick offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves Abstract #5, as audited, vouchers #345 through #449, totaling $324,029.4.3. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Stelick Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Makar Yes Cl Leifer Yes Page 3 c)1'5 41,13 5 -I 1 -I Update on heavy industry ban - Atty Perkins said that while it is not a settled law either way, he thinks we can drift local legislation and make a reasonable argument that we have the authority to exclude those kinds of uses. There is some basis in the law for a good faith argument, but he cautioned that it is not a settled area yet, and will not be settled without litigation or action by the state legislature. There are policy issues to address first. Some of that will be done when they meet with Susan Brock and Mariette Caeldenhuys on Friday. The areas of responsibility and issues will be common to whoever tries to do this type of a ban. He will keep the board advised of their progress. CI Leifer shared with the board what Helen Slottje had prepared with respect to a ban. He said the core lays in the definitions and prohibited arses, and the board could consider doing this with the regular zoning once we are comfortable with the prohibited use list. There was some discussion about. the definitions used in the document. Atty Perkins said he has redefined agricultural use in the town's new zoning law so that it is consistent with stage law. lie said it: is premature to start altering things until the basic; local law is in place. Cl Leifer said he wanted to visualize how this document could be incorporated. The zoning law final draft is expected to be ready by the June Abstract: and Agenda meeting. It could be introduced in June and a public hearing held in July. Atty Perkins said this is mi optimistic timeline. Supv Sumner said she doesn't want to drop C1 heifer's document into the zoning law because it may hold up its passage, Atty, Perkins distributed several articles of the draft zoning law from the April 26 version that have been finally edited. He is still finding areas in the definitions (Article III) that need ® work. Article IV: Zoning Districts - No substantive changes intended. The language has been cleaned tip. Article V: Use Regulations - No substantive changes intended. The language has been cleaned up so that it is consistent with the local law and the definitions. Articles XIV: Zoning Board of Appeals and Article XV: Planning Board - Need comment from the board. Article XIV is a much abbreviated version. There is no need to repeat; state law and that language was removed. Section 1403 contains expanded reasons for appointment of alternate members that include recusal, absence, abstention or any other reason. Section 1406 is new and is essentially a "use it or lose it" provision. If the applicant doesn't act on the relief they got within a year, they lose it. Section 1407 to the end of the article merges existing local law with respect to minimum meeting attendance, training, removal procedure, and so forth, so that all the ZBA material is in tine article. A new article XV includes all of the Planning board provisions and also merges into one article the existing local laws and other provisions regarding the Planning Board. The rest of the document ha.s been renumbered. .Jurisdiction of the Planning Board at this point: extends to site plan review where no special use permit is required and matters referred by town board. When the subdivision law is done, they will have that responsibility. 0 Article XVii: Administrative provisions - No substantive changes are intended. I';ge 4 of 5 Article XVIII: Enforcement: and zoning law if you violate; a provision or article has been cleaned up. Article MX: Miscellaneous Prov law and those items were removed. It dealing with applicants. I'll 5 011 -11 Remedies - has been revised to make it a violation of term of any permit or approval. The language in t:he isions - Is new. Again, there is no need to repeat state is really an administrative thing that is handled when Atty Perkins asked the hoard to review the document and provide comment. He said he is substantially done with the definitions section. The sound standards section will have its own enforcement and will be in the special regulations. That is something that will be tit in at the end. Supv Sumner said that in July the board will have the updated critical environmental document from the Conservation Board. They started with the unique natural areas as defined by the county and expanded them with our knowledge of the environments and state and federal wetlands. She said it: amounts to about 57% of the land area of the town and is interesting because of the correspondence of the critical environmental areas to the conservation districts and the support it will provide for SPQR review and land use decisions. There being no further business, on notion rriade, seconded, and unanimously carried, the meeting was adjourned at 9:40 p.m. lly subn ' 'ted, t5amD1 I,. Avery Town Clerk F'aue 5 of 5 Dryden Town Board Meeting Dryden Town Hall 93 East Main Street Wednesday, May 11, 2011 � 7:30 PM AG=ENDA — REVISED 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Discussion Items a. Clarity Connect waiver request Jason/David b. Cortland Road Water progress Mary Ann c. Zoning review progress report Mahlon/Dan d. Request to DEC to extend sGEIS comment period Mary Ann e. Heavy industry ban research progress report Jason L f. Gravel mining zoning Dan K g. Varna Study/Moratorium Dan /Jason 4, Possible May 18 Agenda Items a. Planning Department Resolution Mary Ann b. 284 Agreement Jack c. Authorization to purchase from Countv lists Jack d. Intermunicipal shared Services Jack 5. Budget Modification a. Planning Department Brian b. Recreation Brian 6. Abstract approval The Next Abstract and Agenda Meeting will be Wednesday, June 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM Dryden Town Board Meeting Dryden Town Hall 93 east Main Street Wednesday, May 11, 2011 � 7:30 PM AGENDA — REVISED 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Discussion Items a. Clarity Connect waiver request Jason /David b. Cortland Road Water progress Mary Ann c. Zoning review progress report Mahlon/Dan d. Request to DEC to extend sGEIS comment period Mary Ann e. Heavy industry ban research progress report Jason L, f. Gravel mining zoning Dan K g. Varna Study /Moratorium Dan/Jason 4. Possible May 18 Agenda items a. Planning Department Resolution Mary Ann b. 284 Agreement Jack c. Authorization to purchase from County lists Jack d. Intermunicipal shared Services Jack 5. Budget Modification a. Plarming Department Brian b. Recreation Brian 6. Abstract approval The Next Abstract and Agenda Meeting will be Wednesday, June 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM