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Minutes of the March 7, 1985 Meeting
Members present: Myron Martin -Chairman, Jim Culbreth, Hilda Brody, Calvin Ashley,
Evelyn Poole -Kober, Tarleton Davis, Bob Rose, Robert Murphy, Barbara Page and Nancy
Goodwin. -
Others: Hugh Irby, Edna Ellis, Lola Dixon, Nat Ellis, Robert Scholar, Rick
Cannity, Manley Palmer, J.R. Combs, Al Mustian, Vic Knight, Wm. C. Gordon,
Jeff Laming, Dorothy Holloway, Clifton and Lennix Cotton, Bruce Wagner, and Juanita
Wilson, and Horace Johnson.
The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. Items 7 through 9 were added to the
agenda.
Page made a motion to approve the minutes of the February 7, 1985 meeting. Rose
seconded the motion which passed unanimously.
Item 1 regarding the Wm. Gordon rezoning request was reviewed. Lola Dixon presented
a list that property owners on her street had signed yesterday opposed to the rezoning.
The Zoning Officer noted that petitions after the public hearing were not to be
considered by the Planning Board.
Johnson said that he had talked with the Assistant Water Superintendent, Jones,
who said that Irby and others who had complained of poor water pressure were
not connected to the six inch water line on Holiday Park Road but to the older
two inch line. Johnson said that three or four six inch lines converge at Lake-
shore and Highway 70 intersection. Johnson said that he was asking that people
be connected into the new larger water lines.
Rose made a motion that the Planning Board recommend to the Town Board that the
rezoning be denied because the area would not be better served by downzoning.
Murphy seconded the motion.
Ashley said that it was clear that the citizens of this Town are not going to sit
back and take this development. Citizens are concerned about downgrading property
to lower value.
Page noted that the area had problems with drainage and traffic. The existing
community is 20,000 square foot lots. I see no reason to disrupt the property.
Poole -Kober noted that drainage problems for the area should be solved and existing
residents should be taken care of with water service before more water lines are
put in to serve new development.
Brody said that she was proud of the citizens for taking an active role in the
discussion of rezoning. The Town should listen to them more closely.
The motion to recommend denial of the rezoning was passed unanimously.
Item 2- Cannity asked the Board to reconsider the recommendation to the Orange County
from R-4 to R-3 for the Scholar property. The engineer for the project has a plan
that he believes will solve the problem of water pressure. He asked the Board to
reconsider their density recommendation. Zoning Officer read the letter from the
Town regarding the water and sewer for the Scholar and Weng developments.
Cannity said that part of the solution would be to provide interconnecting links
for water lines. Poole -Kober said that she did not know how the interconnecting
links could solve the water problem in the area.
Goodwin said that there were more problems with density than with water pressure.
Good*•yin said that the density consideration is not related to the water -sewer
provision.
Ellis said that she was concerned that the developer wants a letter that he has
water available when the Town engineer has recommended a water tower be built
before any further development is put out there. It could be 1 1/2 to 3 years
before adequate water pressure is available out there.
Goodwin said that the density question hasn't changed.
Poole -Kober asked who would maintain the interconnecting lines?
Martin said that the water issue would have to be settled by the Town Board, Orange
County and the developers.
Poole -Kober felt that part of the Board's consideration should be the water -sewer
issues.
Rose said that none of the other things have changed for the area regarding traffic
and density concerns, -so he made a motion that the Board maintain the stand taken
previously. Ashley seconded the motion which passed
Martin said that the water and sewer issues should be dealt with by the Water
and Sewer Commissioner before the Planning Board meetings regarding subdivisions
or rezonings. The motion to maintain the earlier stand was passed unanimously.
Item 3- Committee Reports: Goodwin said that the committee was making a final
proof reading. The Board agreed that when finished, there would need to be a
public hearing set up.
Poole -Kober reported that the Turnip Patch was improved by the Town.
Knight asked about an old commercial building and the new setbacks in the Ordinance
for multi -family. Goodwin said that the building must meet the new setbacks in
order to be granted a conditional use permit under the new ordinance after that
ordinance is approved.
Item 6- Lennix Cotton asked for a subdivision review of a lot on the corner of
Hassel and Union St. This lot was over an acre and had been approved for subdivision
by the Board of .Adjustment even though the lot had part of a road easement misplaced
onto the lot. Paved road and water and sewer are available to the lot. The Board
approved the subdivision request.
Item 7- Edna Ellis made a request for approximately 33 acres to be rezoned along
Revere Road, Highway 70, Nash St. on the west and Corbin St. on the south. A
petition and a map were submitted. The request was to be from R-20 to R-10. She
was assure
Goodwin made a motion to approve the change from R-10 to R-20 on the proposed zoning
map. Poole - Kober seconded the motion. Rose suggested that Kenion be asked if he
would allow 2.2 acres to be rezoned to add to make the zoning more solid. (He was
asked and agreed to have it R-20, by telephone on March 8, 1985 to Zoning Officer.)
The motion was passed unanimously.
Brody said that in view of the innuAdation of development pressures and unsettled
problems with water pressure and density, she would make a motion that the Board
recommend to the Town Board a moratorium until such problems are solved,• the
moratorium would be on creating smaller lots or downzoning.
Goodwin seconded the motion which passed unanimously.
Violations were discussed: King and Nash Mobile Home skirting, Lakeshore Landfill,
S. Churton items on the right of way, Mobile home park without permit.
The meeting was adjourned.