If they are going to be sold as units then there will be additional tax base. If they are rentals that may pose a different set of issues. I would like to see the unfinished structure removed and landscaped so it has curb appeal. perhaps that could be a compromise to any change in age restriction.

I think you may be thinking of Canterbury Green, located on Quaker Avenue. That has its own set of problems, but I am referring to the proposed Cornwall Commons development which would lie along 9W across from NYMA.

I too am against this proposed change. If the builder had originally set forth a plan to build and sell these to just anyone, his request would have been denied. Bottom line, he made an investment in a business, the business did not succeed - happens all the time, tough luck. If the planning board okays this, then maybe they'll consider refunding some of our losses we had in the market; after all it was just a bad investment!

We Americans have shown a cultural and institutional bias toward speculative growth at the expense of our most reliable economic engine; the residential tax base, at our own peril. There's a limit to how many snake oil salesmen we can support. A lawyered-up, chameleon-like developer knows well that his only hurdle is the town board. At the end of the day, taxpaying residents will be made to shoulder the economic fallout of poorly made decisions that fail to fully account for the ramifications of a developer's power play.