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General News: Comprehensive Plan Cmte. Starts Its Work
October 18, 2010
The newly-appointed Cornwall comprehensive plan review committee held its first meeting on Thursday night and the members got a briefing on three broad issues they are being asked to review in the months ahead.
The Cornwall town board approved the scope of the review last month, which includes how to improve the curb appeal of the Main Street business district. “The board thought the assumptions and plans for Main Street needed to be re-examine,” attorney Steven Gaba explained to the committee. “Things like new parking areas, benches, signage design, and a rehabilitation program for residential and commercial spaces.”
Committee chair Kerry McGuiness said he would begin by contacting the business owners to get their input on this perennial problem about how to improve the business district.
Fix Up Main Street and Consider Other Commercial Development
Commercial development in other areas, such as areas on Route 32 and 94, will also require review, Gaba told the committee members. Committee members will have to decide if big-box stores or strip malls are desirable for residents in those areas, he said.
Gaba told the committee that the most complicated area they will have to review is housing. He emphasized that the committee’s goal should be to create a balanced cohesive community that will make equitable use of available municipal land for all socio-economic walks of life. They will be considering, he said, issues of workforce housing, accessibility of services and lot sizes, among others.
Town Facilities and Moodna Erosion Also Part of the Review
The availability of space for public facilities, such as the highway garage and town hall iself, will also be considered by the committee, as will the erosion of the Moodna creek bed that has occurred since the last comprehensive plan was adopted in 2003.
Leslie Dotson, the planner for the town of Cornwall, also briefed the committee on a dozen small and large developments that are at different stages in the approval and construction process, from Cornwall Commons that is seeking final approval to build 490 units to a five-lot subdivision on Mine Hill Road. She also encouraged the committee to consider how agricultural uses can play a larger part in the town’s future.
More Committee Meetings Set
Committee member Lorraine Bennett, who served on the last comprehensive plan during its prior stage, asked Dotson if she could provide a report of the percentage of land held in conservation in the town, a figure that she thought could be as high as 48 percent, including Black Rock Forest.
The committee agreed to meet on November 11, December 9 and January 13 to begin to tackle the work that goes into the plan review.
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"Leslie Dotson, the planner for the town of Cornwall, also briefed the committee on a dozen small and large developments that are at different stages in the approval and construction process, from Cornwall Commons that is seeking final approval to build 490 units to a five-lot subdivision on Mine Hill Road."
May want to correct this typo. I freaked out for a split-second and thought 490 houses were going to be built on Mine Hill Rd.
Now that's what I call dense residential
posted by Ted Warren on 10/18/10 at 5:04 PM
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