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Town of Danby Plannin Board.
DecPmbPr 18, 19 -45
MpmbPrs Presents Nancy Weitzel, Donald Graham, Joel Gagnon, Walter
ScZPDRnski Members Absents Gerald Catlin, Carol Benjamin
Others Presents Ric Dietrich, Dorothy Roberts, Donald Burdick, a.nd
Judy ^a);liavento, ( all of the Town Board.) and Carol Sczenn.nskl. Others
Absents Judd Lpona.rd.
The meet in,g was called to order a.t 7#32 P. M e
Minutes of the November maPtin -Terp a.nol ovpd. a.s submlttad.
Chair. ` sreoo.r';
Donald. jrq.ha.m (Pl -.nnin Bo, -ra. ".,:a.ir) renortpl that action 10.4 tn�
3o�,.rd. on t'-P annli ^q.tion for ch,.n<Te 1 -n the P1'a.nnc?'j. Develonrnpn Oi.S^
1 "iC t r ° <'Ula.tiOriS On tnF ?.7 t Oi 1TL, , which wi: `ql sent on to 11.11
il OT'n BOa.rd.� na.d. been })O.S':? One'.''- tA!ltil_ Su^h 'imp as ITL red.re.sSeS thF
buil.din._; code violations for whic %� it had beecz cited earlier in i9�5.
ITL a.�rraFd. to comply wit' `he ";ode v., it was granted the rla.nnea
Develonn!Pnt District,
The Town Board. voted at its Dr-c!-•mb °r meating to take bil.s for the demo-
? 1tion of a house in :;esr Dar:`- ov np=l by Margaret AJa.ms. 'this q.ction
followed upon the failure of Mrs. Adams to isell the n.roperty by a dead.line
agreed to between her lawyer a�:d the Board of Zoning Apnea.ls. A Lien
will be plact:�d. gcrainst `he prover' ;- for the cost of the demolition_,
,s provided for in the Zoning 0-rd1.na.ncp.,
In summarizin;- County ha.onPnin�.s, Din rF.Dortp' that he l,. d. been elr'ct•Ad
Chair of the Count>> Plannin Board, Iran Wright is on the. Ti•a.ns-
nortati on Comraitt?P.. N survey �,T Tomtran (it was more pol_1 than sur�rA r)
w.a.s sent to 100 people who h,.d. nPtitioned. "'omtran for service in Danby, it
rpsui_te.j' in 35 ret'Jrns. Since e,.ch q.s a.skAd. to send. back 3 reSponses
by asking O' llc?1' neOnl_e, they aCtUally got back 05 responses. Cf these,
310;6 s�.id- they nea.dP.d at.d. �f+ould. u.sIz :'omtran buses at least time �
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week. Thp 35 households were sDrPa.ri throughout the ''own. Tomtran thou r'nt
that was enou;h interest to justify a second ra.nd.om. survey in the fu-
ture.
ne:rular Agenda
i.'his part of the meetin. gr consisted. of a Joint mePtino between the Town
Board and the Planning Board.. ThP subject was Zoning. It wa.s held. at the
request; of the Planning Board so that we might reach a.n understandin7
vrit.h t II Town Board rF:zardin -; Zonin and the future direction of the
PlanningBoard.
Donald_ uraha.m began the mpetI.ng by reviewing the. recent '.History of the
Plannin-; Board.'s involvement in zoning ordinance revisions. The current
zoning; ordinance has not• been revised since 1977. It, has not been
r,ificantl,y revised since much earlier, since the '77 revision consisted,
in merely adding Slate- mandated sections requiring environmental re-
view. Both the Town Board and. the Planning Board have known for years
that there are serious
ambiguities of language
and confusing to ad.minister.
problems
which
with the ordinance
make some sections
The Town Board
- particularly
difficult to
requested. a- tightened
enforce
un
r.
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yRdl5A�rifiPd ordinance from the Planning Board and were given one
No action has been taken on that submission, with the result
that the Planning Board. didn't know 'now next to proceed. In January
1984 there was a. joint meet ink; between the Planning; Board. and the Town
Board at which the Town Board agreed to Rgr.vrPssively enforce tha zoning
ordinance, while at the same time ChRrgin--r the Pla.nnin ;fi Board to come
up with a. "revised ord.inancP. This was to bP done in sect-,ions, with
review by the Town Board as we went along so as to avoid coming ut, with
a. finished nocurn(N.nt not at all to the Boar-1-'s liking. We have been
working off and on as time nc�rmitted since then on that charge, iusinT
a model ordinance provi(I Pd "to us by Gary 7va.ns, of the County Pla.nninr
Department,
Donald Burdick, the new "own Supervisor, wa.s incr.ad.ulous that no action
had- Pver been `a.kFn on the 1930 revision and kept comin:� hack to that=
central `q.ct J rin< the course of ti he. 'J.1scUssion 1e7C1iCh f011Owed. 1 "r°
.era nam .S sum(ttar,y °
here U.ia.s some discus. ion Of whether it is possible{ once zoning is
:i.do:�t;insJ to r!�?)Pal it, lon Graham said. that a.r ord -i.n?; t. r) ^ran!s I t 'ot,r;
(�o,znty P1= i.n,ning Director) this wq.s in ',act 1)o.9F,I'h f bvt t-hgt: wI- 1- ''.nOil
zonin,,g ,hare could be no land. usA rex;tzla.t i +�n. Joel �)oinfie.i. our ha. t;
even in tt P COmpi?te absence of zonin:r thrsre wa consl4F'rable land
use re-.1,11ation, "'he County has a. subdivision or;'ina.nce which anolips
t0 1 1.1 '.OltinS t nd gealth 7?2)artmF? ^t IOnS :C T °1 , I-0, C 1 ZF S ?.n,
thP, in q-, mcsn o well a.nd septic systems, :4hi cs 70nin or Ia,r PS
can bF t0 regulate land use, and, that i.� in fa.Ct t�r,ir 7rim?ry
rune Lion D`a.nbv's orlinar l;e rms va§ tt-1
, Z :`t0 r„ 1.1 ,_.
dPn:sitti Of Jevplol)ment ovP.r almost t'�!. F i1'� iO itl, jn %1' S o)inionp
';ha on'Lv t!nin?T zoning ha.s done or Da.nby tc thF, Irfflux Of
mob iic '1omPs a;,d inhibited businesses from Io(-t q,tin: In iJ .nby, Beyond.
i` has mostly �got1
-.en in the 1nTF�y, limi .in. 1)eOn 1P's fi_pxii)il it��
in the usf? of t}leir ')r0;)erty, Don Grnhn.;, r)rOtP.Str 1 {nPin, O
no instances Where any business had_ aver been rFl ii.sPd a" 1Oca.tion
within the To-wTn, JoPI Sall: that in his riln. °or Town
GupFrvi or ,P had. sr,OkPn to !na.!zv nf,opl_A q; /j found. ;,-o, Nr lttt':_e su >>t,Or�
fOi: %Oniti a.rOl ScZPr�a.nski resric'nd - °a. '. ,J ea'?i n t`.lhA tL )U %1`
tha.i nf?on1P TNTPr.e mostly unsPt at uneven o:' non- Pnforcemer,t Of
WOUl s1lnpOrt it i it 1iG1 P p1 f , i . S t° oointP t OLIt
{''here h.: -id hPen a poll of t1'1P V Prc ��• ^'t: i` '7g ir? ^OnjLln(7,1, OY
with a.n Pa.rliPr bid. to r.evi.sP the zonin_?; ord.ina.ncP 3_n T'1ic'n a. ma jorittT
�!nrP in favor of zonin,° This came as sl:rnr. isc 1/0 some of those
nrPscsn,':;Q who WPrP 'ender t n iTri- Jr?sSion t'la.t l,onin ha. 'd. :1PvP1" bPnn nut
t0 a. )i)':ll^ VCte. JOPI c0!1CUrr °l T' 14-1�1 ''�.r0', t;h`a.t, �lC tip 1j d�%On °Yl`s a?^i +�.
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Un. Bis 1. L {r ci.a.tr:i Y. �1=i t; 'y�j <.' n,l vPA. `i=i. j%F' -. '1 t ) .. rte C'i ' ?'li F� rim.:' o `,J i,'�"1 (�
' rP`r L ;LOCI OnC° more a.nd 1).:'0n0 P'1. 1a ' 11 + )a 4P -'1. �. �. �_
:.JOard. a.c t•10n }-,rn7 �rl i Y
Boar- j o hatrP .'na' rro-oo = acted upon, taha.t than of the or-
dinance the Planning Board. is currPnt;ly wor'..( ort`? D n n !Jraham note 3.
that � hero arcs mane advantages to the format o? the current 'oro1)Osal
over the 180 revision, and he urged. Don Burdick to talk to "rank Lio-ou-
ri about how those could. be incornorated into a Danby Ordinance,
Joel accused those assemblPd of .avoiding the overriding, question of
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whether or not there should be zoning at all. Don Burdick summed. un
the majority opinion by saying that that question had been addressed
adequately in '78 and that he saw no reason to deal with it again.
Rather, he thou =;ht our efforts should. be directed to me'-�inp; the zoning
that we do hn.ve work. The issue havincT been thus resolved, the Plannin?
Board -oled.ged to work with the Town Hoard to help make it hannen.
Initial efforts will focus on the '80 revision.
Meeting; adjourned a!: 9:5t'D P.M0
submitted by Joel Ga;non
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