Public Hearing
March 12, 2019
Zoning
Eric Connolly attended the March 12, 2019 Public Hearing. Eric is running for Ballston Town Supervisor. Both Tim Szczepaniak and Eric Connolly will on the primary ballot for Town Supervisor on June 25, 2019.
Eric Connolly's comment to the board:
March 12, 2019
Zoning
Eric Connolly attended the March 12, 2019 Public Hearing. Eric is running for Ballston Town Supervisor. Both Tim Szczepaniak and Eric Connolly will on the primary ballot for Town Supervisor on June 25, 2019.
Eric Connolly's comment to the board:
I’ve spent the last five or six days studying TDR’s in particular, I’m familiar with PUDDS from living in the Stonebridge PUDD and having lots of issues with the Stonebridge PUDD.
It seems to me that these two zoning solutions are at odds with each other. That TDR’s, if set up right, and they’re not easily set up, and they probably do take a credentialed town planner to set them up properly. But if set up right, there’s a long track record clear across the country of them working really well to protect farm and Ag land. And according to our town Comprehensive Plan, that’s a major goal of ours. So, they tend to be farm and business friendly because you set up the senders, and then receiving zones can be very much pin-pointed where the town would like to see development occur.
So, by including PUDDS along Rt. 50 and along Rt. 67, really agricultural area, you’re basically circumventing and giving TDR’s no chance of success whatsoever. Because if I’m a developer, and I have a choice to purchase TDR rights or to work with the town to negotiate a PUDD, I’m coming to you guys all day. Why would I buy TDR rights when I can negotiate a very specific PUDD to meet my needs and not the town’s needs? So, that’s the major point that I want to make.
I did speak with Nan on the way over here, and she did firmly recommend to this board that we do not do PUDDS if we’re going TDR. That they will interfere with TDR’s being successful at preserving farm and agricultural land.
He received loud applause from residents in the room.
You can watch a video recording of the March 12, 2019 Public Hearing HERE.
He received loud applause from residents in the room.
You can watch a video recording of the March 12, 2019 Public Hearing HERE.
As a developer I would prefer to by rights that I know exactly what I'm entitled to, rather than be involved in a negotiation with a planning board and town board, where I have no real idea what I'm going to end up with or nothing approved at all. For the last time, developers do NOT see planning boards and town boards as being on their side. Often we see them as our opponents that deny many things we would like. Calling the town board, planning board etc.., idiots and suggesting they are plotting to take advantage of the town property owners is totally out of line and offensive and not what discourse is supposed to be about.
ReplyDeleteDear unknown, I don't understand your comment. I do not see any referral to what you are talking about in the comments Eric Connolly made
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