General News: Village Master Plan Update
February 26, 2009
The village of Cornwall-on-Hudson master comprehensive plan is back in the hands of the Orange County Planning office. Mayor Joseph Gross said that he gave the document to planner Attitcus Lanigan to “streamline” the document by re-arranging the text to turn the goals and objectives into action steps.
At Monday’s board meeting, trustee Mark Edsall said he objected to the county getting involved in a re-write before the village board had reviewed it. “We have a very capable committee,” Edsall told the mayor, “and we haven’t even gone over it yet.”
Mayor Gross assured Edsall that the content will remain the same, just re-arranged. The County Planning Department signed off on the master comprehensive plan last year.
The trustees expect to have a meeting with the village planning and zoning boards to review the document. The chairman of the village planning board, Jeffrey Small, wrote a letter to Mayor Gross stating that his board members agree that the master plan is important for the village’s future and suggesting areas that need more work, including parking and sustainability.
In a separate letter, planning board member Lee Murphy objected to Small’s statement that a majority of the board favors keeping the fire siren the way it is. “Though the fire siren has caught the public’s attention,” Murphy wrote, “there are many more important matters in the Plan.” He suggests that the inclusion of this minor issue at the expense of weightier ones could be seen as a way of enhancing “the candidacies of the two board members currently running for office.” Planning board members Andrew Argenio and Maryanne O’Dell Rose are both running for a seat on the board of trustees.
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