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General News: Memo Explains Role of LDC
February 25, 2010
With the closing of the DPW garage on Shore Road in Cornwall-on-Hudson for an investigation of possible structural problems, village residents are asking questions about how the garage came to be relocated at that site in the first place.
In a memorandum to the village board in 2007, then village attorney Howard Protter explained the role of Local Development Corporation (LDC) in the deal. Protter wrote that in 2004, following complaints of neighbors regarding the emergency generators and back-up alarms on DPW, he, the village mayor and the DPW superintendent began to look at relocating the garage. After eliminating several alternatives, he wrote, they settled on the village-owned property at the riverfront and decided to re-constitute the LDC to oversee the project, a step that would make the project more affordable.
In the document, Protter explains how the village was able to contract with the LDC to carry out services on its behalf. The LDC, for example, was able to contract for the construction of the new DPW garage without going through the complex bidding requirements that a municipality would have to do. He also describes in detail how the LDC came to sell the site of the old garage to the Burns and Whalen contractors, who paid $300,000 for the property, and who then built the new garage on Shore Road.
Following the completion of the garage, the LDC began to consider another project involving the building owned by the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley, located on Hudson Street. Attorney Protter writes, however, that a new state law passed in 2006 put so many requirements on an LDC that it was no longer practical for the LDC to exist because it had no staff or budget that would be needed to fulfill state law. The LDC was officially dissolved by a vote of the village trustees in January 2008.
Download the complete memorandum below.
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Thank you for posting the LDC Memo. It answered many questions I'm sure many had.
One thing. No one should disparage the messenger, the village inspector, as he was doing his job and , I believe properly.
I've inspected many building in NYC in my day and the very first thing you would seek out would be the Certificate of Occupancy. It is supposed to be promenently displayed on entry for examination. So now the question still remains where is or has there ever been a C of O.?
posted by P W on 02/25/10 at 3:04 PM
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thanks for the memo
posted by J Buescher on 02/25/10 at 7:25 PM
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Burns and Whalen have always done quality work. If something is structurally unsound, it must be the engineer who designed the building.
posted by Elisabeth Hellwege on 02/27/10 at 8:08 AM
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isn't a memo supposed to be short, and to the point?
posted by Kate Benson on 02/27/10 at 7:34 PM
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