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General News: NYMA Plans for Subdivision Presented
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| A close-up of the plans for developing part of the NYMA property. |
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| Councilmember Mary Beth Greene Krafft listens to Ray Yannone's description of development plans for NYMA. |
September 09, 2011
A plan for developing homes and creating a new subdivision at New York Military Academy was presented to the Cornwall town board on Monday by Ray Yannone, a contractor working with the academy to sell-off part of its 121-acre property.
In the plan, 10 building lots would be created alongside eleven houses that already line Faculty Road. The soccer fields to the west of the road would not be disturbed and Yannone said the school would like to enter into a joint use agreement with the town for the fields. A maintenance building at the bottom of the field could be turned into a concession stand, he said.
The presentation of the plans comes after the town board voted in August to extend for another six months a moratorium on new building permits for large projects. The moratorium was enacted a year ago to give the town time to review its comprehensive plan that is designed to create a framework for future development. Anyone wishing to get a permit during the moratorium is required to ask for an exemption from the town board, a move that has not been taken yet by NYMA.
At Monday’s meeting, town councilman Randy Clark asked if the council’s special land use attorney had seen the plans from NYMA for the subdivision. The Nixon Peabody law firm was hired by the town last year to give legal guidance regarding the development of NYMA. Clark struck a nerve with the town supervisor, Kevin Quigley, who said that if you like the plan, why waste the money on more lawyers.
Clark reminded the board that Nixon Peabody had been hired because of their expertise and that the board had agreed to keep it in the loop on NYMA. He also noted the town Comprehensive Plan Review Committee had not yet reviewed the subdivision plan.
By the meeting’s end, everyone agreed that both Nixon Peabody and the review committee would get copies of the plans before the town entered into a developer’s agreement with NYMA.
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While I understand the need to do this to save the school for the long run. I only wish it didn't need to happen at all. I lived at NYMA from 1964 to 1971 and then graduated in 1977. Just sorry to see these home go private.
posted by Bill Toon on 09/12/11 at 1:26 PM
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