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Draft Meeting Minutes of Town of Essex Planning Board Public Hearing and Regular Monthly Meeting – March 20, 2014

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DRAFT

Town of Essex Planning Board

MINUTES

Public Hearing Meeting

March 20, 2014

Essex Town Hall

7:00 p.m.

Call to Order

Acting Chairman Olive Alexander called the Public Hearing Meeting of the Planning Board to order at 7:00PM and led the attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.

Attendance

Present:  Acting Chairman Olive Alexander, Mark Walker, Janellen Fortune, Thomas Stransky, H. Nicholas Muller III,  Derrick Wrisley, Nancy Dougal, Catherine DeWolff, Secretary

Absent:  Chairman James Van Hoven and David Hislop

Also present:  Franklin Renkoff, David Sayre, Sharon Boisen, Susan Britain, Sean Kullman, Gary Heurich, Janice Koenig, Lynn Drover, Gert Thorn, and Lauren Murphy, the Town Code Enforcement Officer

Mrs. Alexander asked that all cell phones be turned off or put on vibrate for the duration of the meeting.

Mr. Muller asked the Acting Chairman if there was anyone in the audience who was recording our meeting.  Mrs. Alexander responded in the affirmative that Sharon Boisen was recording the meeting with her, Mrs. Alexander’s, recorder and that the only time it needs to be made public is if it is a video recording.  Mr. Muller responded that he didn’t have a problem with it except that he thought the public should know who besides the Town is recording the meeting.

Public Hearing

Tax Map #40.73-5-8.000   Pataki – 312 School Street, Essex, NY  12936

Site Plan Review/Special Use Permit to restore existing enclosed front porch to 1880’s Victorian era open porch, remove wooden deck on south side and face same with stone.  Office will have outside entrance only.

Acting Chairman Alexander asked the public if there were any comments on the Pataki application with no response. 

On a motion to close the Pataki Public Hearing by Mr. Stransky, seconded by Mrs. Fortune, the vote to close the Pataki Public Hearing is Aye – 7    No-0.  Motion to close the hearing at 7:03 p.m. is carried.

Tax Map #49.7-4-5.000   Thorn – Wildacre Way, adjacent to 87 Wildacre Way, Essex, NY12936

Minor Subdivision:  Four acre lot divided into two 2 acre lots just north of the Crater Club.

Acting Chairman Alexander asked the public if there were any comments on the Thorn application.  Mr. Renkoff, a neighbor, responded.  Mr. Renkoff was concerned about whether the lots went north and south or east and west and further about the drainage situation if two homes are built there.  There was a question as well about the view corridor.  Mr. Thorn responded to Mr. Renkoff’s questions satisfactorily.  Mr. Muller questioned Mr. Thorn as to making the easements part of the condition of the permit.  Mr. Thorn declined.  Mrs. Alexander asked the Codes Officer, Lauren Murphy, if the new law includes this action as shoreline overlay.  Ms. Murphy responded yes.  Mrs. Alexander asks the Board for a condition.  Mr. Muller responded that the view easements as described in Mr. Thorn’s narrative be a condition of the permit.  Mr. Thorn agreed to the conditions as written in his application narrative be added to the permit.

On a motion to close the Thorn Public Hearing by Mr. Muller, seconded by Mr. Stransky, the motion to close the public hearing carried, Aye-7   No-0.  The Thorn Public Hearing is closed at 7:19 p.m.

Adjournment

The Public Hearing meeting is closed at 7:19 p.m.

Catherine DeWolff, Secretary

About Olive Alexander

Although I grew up in Essex on my grandparents’ farm and developed strong ties to farming, I wanted to see more of the world and experience the differences in cultures and people. I spent nearly fifty years in England, New Hampshire, Texas and New Jersey with trips to almost all of the fifty states and Singapore, an incomparable learning experience. I now live on property that has been in our family for three generations and still love the fields, the farms and the animals.