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Home My WebLink About2009-04-23 - TB Town of Ulysses Special Town Board Meeting April 23 , 2009 PRESENT : Supervisor Douglas Austic ; Council, David Kerness and Elizabeth Thomas ; Rod Ferrentino and Lucia Tyler absent; Town Clerk Marsha L. Georgia; Deputy Supervisor Richard Coogan; Alex Rachun Code Enforcement Officer: SEAR for Comprehensive Plan Mr. Austic asked what the Board wanted to do with the SEQR application for the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Coogan reported that the 79 acres of disturbed property mentioned in the SEGR application for The Comprehensive plan was arrived by Bergman from the information given to them from Tompkins County. Mr. Coogan spoke to Ed Marx, Commissioner of Planning, concerning the SEQRA process and the discrepancies in figures between the Bergmann and our Part 1 for SEQRA. Tompkins County is using LIDAR (Imaging Radar) and produced Methodology Report for classifying land use. Mr. Marx said that they have noticed differences in acreage with the change in technology but feels that the new methodology is the way to go . Also in the new methodology are many more land use/cover categories and this is where "disturbed" comes in. As Mr. Marx explained it, this is not the same as "disturbing" in that the SEQRA for a Comprehensive Plan is not a project in the sense that land disturbance is not occurring and as such "disturbed" would not trigger an Environmental Impact Study (EIS ) when it is greater than 5 acres. Mr. Coogan said that after talking with Mr. Marx, Mr. Rachun and he decided that the more reasonable course would be to use the SEQRA prepared by Bergmann using the current methodology of the County. Bergmann's SEQRA should be corrected to show that only part of Cayuga Lake is in the Town by acres not the entire 42 ,956 acres (ref 16 . b) . The Board continued discussing the 79 acres in the SEQR application. It was decided that Mr. Coogan goes back to the County and get a definite answer to what the 79 acres represents . The Board discussed the filing of Article 239 l&m with the County and the SEQR application has to be done for this . The other item that is being held up is the "lead agency" letters . Another item that was discussed is the draft copy that is being reviewed. The Board most definitely wants a true final draft copy with all the changes included. Ms . Thomas asked if everyone was in agreement that ounce the 79 acres was resolved that Mr. Rachun could go ahead and send out the letters for the "lead agency". Mr. Austic and Mr. Kerness agreed with that. Mr. Rachun would like to wait until he has a completed package to send them out ; completed to Mr. Rachun is the SEQR and the final Draft Comprehensive Plan. The Board discussed getting ten final draft copies from Bergman. Local Law #1 - 2009 "Increase Supervisor Salary" The Town Board held a duly published public hearing on April 14th, 2009 . No comments were heard from the public . Ms . Thomas moved, seconded by Mr. Kerness the following : - BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses approves Local Law # 1 -2009 subject to a permissive resolution. Special Town. Board 2 04/23/2009 Mr. Austic aye Mr. Kerness aye Ms . Thomas aye Adopted Web Site Design Ms . Thomas received three bids for the design of the Ulysses web page ranging from $ 1000 to around $4000 that she shared with the Board members . Ms . Thomas would like to review them further and talk to the applicants and feels at this time the bid for the lesser amount would be fine. Ms . Thomas moved, seconded by Mr. Kerness the following : BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses approve that Ms . Thomas complete the review and accept the bid from Andrew Pushlar up to $2000 for the design of the Ulysses Web-page. Mr. Austic aye Mr. Kerness aye Ms . Thomas aye Adopted Review of the Draft Comprehensive Plan * * For full discussion the tapes are available for review. Mr. Kerness said Ms . Poelvoorde gave them a document with the final changes to the Comprehensive Plan and it is very difficult to follow and ad these changes to the draft copy that they all have for review dated January 2009 . Ms. Thomas will get back with Ms. Poelvoorde to define the change sheets . Mr. Austic questioned some words or phrases he felt needed explanation such as "small scale", "historical" and "appropriated level" were some he mentioned . Who determines these things like appropriate level? Ms. Thomas said she would suggest that if there is a word or phrase come up with a replacement and see if everyone agrees on it and move through it . Mr. Kerness also said the word "appropriate" is used throughout the document and he does not know what it means . Mr. Rachun said that the zoning will become the appropriate. Mr. Austic said that the Comprehensive Plan is the direction for the zoning so you have to understand what it means . Ms . Thomas said that a document like this must be somewhat vague . Ms . Thomas asked for bigger issues now that can be talked about. Mr. Austic brought up some things he had read like : • Only building two-story houses in Jacksonville • Use historical farming practices in the Conservation Zone — and he does not know what that means • Does not allow for mixed use in Jacksonville Mr. Kerness said his problem is going through the document and some things jump out and other things are okay. • Special Town Board 3 04/23/2009 Mr. Rachun said one of his big issues and the Board may have gotten his emails on it and that is the large moderate density zone on the south end of town and his feeling is that there is prime soil down there and a lot of good farms. Mr. Rachun does not see moderate density being in that location. Ms. Thomas said that was changed . Mr. Rachun said that he feels that the Hamlet of Jacksonville should be a really diversified hamlet and his opinion it should have single, two-story, multi story buildings, store fronts, get some vibrant development and be a walk able community. Ms . Thomas said that the committee had that intent and if the wording needs to be revisited and change the language. The Broad discussed the category of "Office and Technology Mixed Use" in the Krums Corners location. Mr. Austic said he did not like this location because of the dangerous intersection. Mr. Coogan said that the County Planning would have rather not seen that area made this but you also have to look at what has happened there and is likely to continue happening there. The following are the changes that the Board made to the draft Comprehensive Plan after much discussion : Table 1 — Summary of Future Land Use Plan Categories (pages 36 & 37) • Mixed Use Hamlet Center — added in — small scale transitional commercial and entertainment facilities • Transitional Commercial - removed - small scale before grocery store Mr. Kerness brought it up that none of the blue, brown or pink districts are included on the Future Land Use Plan that is on the Zoning Map, which are the Business Districts, the Planned Unit Developments and the Mobile Home Parks . Mr. Rachun said that these areas would them become grandfather in and he is not comfortable with the grandfather clause because these areas would forever have to stay what they are now and would not be able to enlarge and could become unusable. Mr. Kerness and Mr. Austic both felt the better approach would have these districts on the Comprehensive plan for the future. After all they are the businesses in the Town of Ulysses and should be protected. The next meeting was scheduled for April 30th, 2009 at 4pm till 6pm. Hearing no further discussion the meeting adjourned at 9 : 30 pm . Respectfully submitted, Marsha L. Georgia Ulysses Town Clerk MLG: mlg C