Conversation of Allowable Building Size Coming to a Close

HOW BIG DO YOU WANT THE NEW BUILDINGS ON RT. 50 AND RT 67? COMMENT TO THE BALLSTON TOWN BOARD NOW

THE TOWN BOARD IS CURRENTLY ASKING THE PUBLIC FOR OPINIONS ON THE PROPOSED BUILDING SIZES THAT WILL BE ALLOWED ON RT. 50 AND RT. 67. WRITE TO THEM BEFORE THE NEXT BOARD AGENDA MEETING. HERE ARE THEIR EMAILS. And please come to this meeting. kstewart@townofballstonny.org ccurtiss@townofballstonny.org tszczepaniak@townofballstonny.org jantoski@townofballstonny.org wgoslin@townofballstonny.org smarruso@townofballstonny.org If you do not want a Walmarts, etc., pay attention to this. Several developers currently are pressuring the town board to change the zoning for Rt. 50 and Rt. 67 so they can build. Read below the excerpt from the Town Board Agenda Meeting from 6./26/18 for insight into what the board is proposing. To give you an idea of how large a building is in sq. ft., the new CVS is 13,255 sq. ft. • Sophia moved on to the commercial area on Rt. 50. Sophia stated that business highway 1 is near Carpenters Acres, and said “The majority of conversations we had were focused on how to ensure that Rt. 50 doesn’t over-develop, one of the exercises I thought we should think about is the maximum building ________. Mixed use center north for example, allows for 90,000 sq ft footprint, and I’m suggesting that we revise that to 60,000 sq. ft. One of the things I did to look at this was I used aerial ______, I tried to ______ into what I thought were __________or most likely to be developed based on ______. I took those lots_____. I took the average of _____, and then took the average, took out the lowest and the highest, and then I came up with what the average acrage was for a lot that was _____in that zone . Then I use a ratio to figure out based on general suburban commercial development ratio 
 ____, how much land do you need to have ____for every building. Based on the average in these zones, what could be accommodated? So, that’s ___it doesn’t have. So we have development potential assessment. And that’s what you see there on those pages. Partial ID, affiliated frontage_____, and then what I figured out to be the average lot sizes, and then the possible building footprint. I know we need to be more specific, ________. So I can start out with the current, and then have recommendations for those changes. • Sophia said that south of highway 1, the draft code is at 60,000, she suggests knocking it down to 45,000 sq. ft. Highway 2 existing code allows 50,000 and our draft code is 10,000 which is restrictive. Mixed use center south (runs from Meer to the county property line) existing code is 60,000, she suggests 25,000. 
 • Mr. Goslin replied with “I’d like to suggest that we take these recommendations that you’ve come up with and just see if we can get a little comment on them, if people have some comments that they could share with the board that would be appropriate and we could tweek these if we need to or maybe not, maybe we’re good.” 
 • Szczepaniak replied, “I recommend those comments to be sent to the board, myself and/ or Sophia and we’ll send them to the board.”