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Town of Danby Planning Board
January 15, 1935
Members Presents Nancy Weitzel, Carol Benjamin, Donald Graham,
Jim Hovanec, Joel Gagnon Absent: Walt Sczepanski
Others Present: Gary Wood, Ed Roberts Absents. Pamela Clermont,
Judd Leonard
The Meeting was called to order at 7s4O P.M.
Minutes of the December meeting were approved as amended.
Privilege of the floor: Carol suggested that zoning procedures
should be writ-,ten up in the Danby Area News to cut down on confusion.
She said she had people talking to her about zoning problems which
should have been taken to the Town Board, Zoning Officer, or BZA.
Jim expressed concern that the Town Board had hired a salaried building
inspector instead of paying the inspector a piece rate. He asked Gary
Wood, the building inspector for Dryded, Lansing, and Groton,to come
to this meeting to give us dome insight into the job.
Gary reviewed his job
for us, tolling us
how
he came to it, and
some
of
the interesting aspects.
One item he
mentioned
as taking up
a. lot
of
time which he had
not forseen was the
code
requirement for a
building
insbection
following
any fire in which there
by
is structural damage, and
of
chimneys after all
chimney fires. Chimneys
proposed and
following chimney
fires
are
not supposed to be
used until inspected
and
declared safe.
Gary
said
this is just one
example of how the
job
is full of surprises.
It
is
still so new that
no one'reall.y knows
how
much time is going
to be
sp�nt.and
'now it will
be proportioned.
Zoning Officer non - attendance at
Planning Board
meetings
was
again
brought, up.
Don and Walt talked
to the Town
Supervisor
about
it, but
could not
report that any action
had been taken.
4Ie
again agreed
that non- attendance
hampers our
work. Attendance
by
the Town
Attorney
would also
be desirable. It was
proposed and
accepted.
that
in the
future the
minutes would indicate
the absence
of these
officials
as
well as of
any non - attending Planning
Board members,
and that
both the
Zoning Officer
and Town Attorney
would get conies.
Regular agenda: Don reported that at the January Town Board meeting
he had been reappointed Chair for another year. Judd Leonard had been
reappointed Zoning Officer and had been appointed the Building Official,
whose job it will be to keep records of building inspections as well
as supervise the Building Inspector. Ed Hughes was appointed Building
inspector. Don also reported that the Town had adopted the National
Electrical Code as its own and named the Electrical. Underwriters i'ne
official electrical inspectors for the Town.
.Ed Roberts said the BZA needs members and said that at one time there
was a policy of pulling them from the Blanning Board. We pointed out
that that would not be in the interests of continuity or competence,
since the Planning Board is already short one member. Several people
volunteered to serve on the BZA at the hearing on the junk law, and
Ed s.31d he would pursue that now that he knows we are content to let
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others -.go there.
Don reported that a committee was looking at possible sites for a
new Town Barn. Land across from the Town Hall on the main road has
been offered for sale to the Town by Rick Dobson. The Town would
prefer a site on a Town road.Mfchigan Hollow was mentioned as a. pos-
sibility. Anyone who wants to be part of this process should contact
Ric Dietrich.
There was a discussion of the future thrust of the Board. After review -
ing the last year and discussing our options, it was agreed to base
the process of revising the Zoning Ordinance on a draft document which
Gary Evans of the County Planning Office is willing to prepare for us.
This document would be based on the current ordinance, but with as many
of the problems worked out as possible. We will then modify that
Insofar as we can agree to.
Meeting adjourned 10:20 P.M.
submitted by Joel Gagnon
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