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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-11-30 - MP / 7 ` TOWN OF ULYSSES MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE MEETING N OVEMBER 30 , 1993 TOWN HALL PRESENT : SUE POELVOORDE , RUTH KAHN AND DAVID TYLER ; SECRETARY : ROXANNE SMITH The meeting came to order at 7 : 10 PM . Joanne Molino was sick ; Catherine Stover had another meeting to attend ; Gary Myers had a deadline at work to meet . Sue reported that Joanne had received the map from the DEC on streams . Each stream is coded and they will have to be looked up for classification numbers . ( The library has that information . ) Sue and Joanne went up to the USGS ( United States Geological Services ) o ffices at Community Corners . Sue spoke to Bill Kappel and he suggested that they speak to area drillers about sub - surface water levels . Sue would like to look at the Town map and be able to get a general idea on well depths and yield for this area . Bill Kappel o ffered his services and suggested that they contact Brayton Foster. in Covert also ( local geologist ) . David gave his report on the study from Manfield University t hat covered the labor force , market area , commuting and migration patterns in nine counties ( six in New York , including Tompkins , three in Pennslyvania ) . Tompkins pulls a significant number of workers from o utside its ' borders . The two counties with the heaviest draw are Tioga and Schuyler . Between 1980 - 1990 , the six county region ( in this study ) lost 28 , 000 potential workers in the age group 25 - 34 . Tompkins lost 71 % of its 30 - 34 year olds . The study counted the students . Tompkins gains in the college age level obviously though . The Tompkins County population remains stable when generally the surrounding counties were losing people . There are roughly 11 , 000 who commute into Tompkins County per day and 3 , 700 who commute out . The net in - flow is 7 , 600 per day ( 2 , 500 from Tioga , 1 , 750 from Cortland and 1 , 642 from Schuyler ) . ( In 1980 the net in - flow was 4 , 100 . ) David then focused on the Ithaca labor market . Ulysses is less dependent on Ithaca . In the Ulysses township 64 % of the population work in Ithaca ( about 1 , 500 people ) ; 79 % for Enfield , 79 % for Newfield , 73 % for Lansing , 77 % for Danby , 75 % for Carolyn ; only Dryden is lower than Ulysses at 62 % . Ruth wondered about the changes in the O ctopus and whether that would encourage people to settle to the west o f it after the work is complete . Trumansburg functions as a complete community said Ruth . Employment elsewhere is limited said David . If Cornell has to retrench that ' s going to have a major economic impact o n this county said David . Ruth asked if there were statistics on the n umber of retired persons in the Town of Ulysses . The school district feels we ' re a wealthy community she said . Taking all this information into account , what do you think our future planning should be asked David ? Ruth responded that it would be good to think of ways to employ our young people who are leaving . Our largest group is 30 - 50 though responded Sue . The kids may be leaving ( for college , etc . ) but they are returning . David said that the Master Plan may want to keep things pretty level ( if there is a down turn in education and with the Octopus opening u p ) . Bolton Point has an excess capacity of water and they would love t o provide it providing the public pays for the infrastructure . Water is the great impetus to development . The Village system needs to be u pgraded rather than have water come up Route 96 from Jacksonville w hich would encourage strip development . Do we want to dovetail the SE section of the Town of. Ulysses with the NW section of the Town of Ithaca ; encourage Residential there and more business growth closer t o the Village ? The parking requirement is way out of whack ( parking ' a / 71 TOWN OF ULYSSES 2 MASTER PLAN COMMITTEE MEETING NOVEMBER 30 , 1993 TOWN HALL ✓ atio to square footage ) . Planning for peak is such a mistake said Ruth . The Pyramid Mall should not be building for Christmas said S ue . As a society we should be more tolerant of inconvenience said Ruth . 111 Sue said that the group is ready to meet as a whole . They ' ve got t he basic information . The introduction will have the historical perspective included . David asked Sue how the inlet trail was progressing . She stated that it is budgeted into the 1994 - 95 Master. Plan . The adja - cent property owners ( to the railroad beds ) are very negative . There is a lot of work that needs to be done . NYSEG is interested in sell - ing their right of way . The state is looking for money . All the infrastructure ( providing it ' s in good shape ) will be used . The park pick - up truck is probably the heaviest vehicle that would go o ver it . The big thing is the acquisition said Sue . David said that he thought the group would be more productive if they met every week for shorter. meetings . Sue agreed that the commitment needed to be made . We would spend less time re - hashing e verything said David . Brainstorming has been a good method said Sue . It would be nice to start the year, all organized said David . The next meeting will be Monday , December 13 , 1993 , at the Town Hall at 7 : 30 PM . ( Note changes of day and hour . )