1968-02-02
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~ueenebury Town Office BUilding
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1968 at 7 :30 -!).Y.
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~reelding: George Kuehner
Present: Austin, Cushing, lCårch, 1;orton
Absent: Kirkpatrick, Sinnott
GUÐet: Jim Keller, Z.B" of A., .ire. SherDlan, 1~e"7sþaper Reporter,
Don .Ainsworth, Clayton .Martindale, Leslie Ry.D1kewlcz
1. Minutes of last meeting were àpproTed.
2. Cusbing reported on the book ., The f.>tructure of Urban Zoningll.'
This would be of more use for the 'I'own Attorney. Cushing made'
a motion to suggest that the Town Board purchase this book, Austin
E\econded,carried.
3. Kuehner reported a question from the Building Inøþect.or as' to
whether the pump ielands for Humble Oil on Corinth Road are a .
etrueture and theretora subJectt. the 50' setback. Karch will
inyestigate. -
4. Kuehner presented each member with & oopy of Niagara ~ohawk's
booklet on Renewal A8sistanoe in New York btate.
5. Kuehner reported onmeetinge of the Intermuniclpal group con...
eleting of the Chairman of' the Planning Boarda of the City of
Glens :'&'$112, Villages of ¡"art Edward, Hudson j'alle, ø.nd South
Glene FaIle· a.nd the Towne of 1!'ort Edward, Kingsbury, ¡¡oreau &;
Q,ueenebury. A ea.mple resolut.ion wae presented and. reTiewe"d.
A motionwa.s made by Austin, seconded by Cushing and oarried .
suggesting that the Town Boar.d participate in this iletropolitan_
Plannil18 Board by passing the. sample resolution wi ththe addi-
tion ot the name "Town of ~ueenebury" in the appropriate blanks.
6. Kuehner reported on & meeting, Febrµar,y 26th, 1968 at 7:30 at-
the Glens Falls City Hall with Planning Boarde of Glens Falls,
South GlenlSFal1e, &nd queen_bury to reTiew our Aaeter Plans
eepeciallY in regard to IIlghway planning.
"I. J'-.mee Houghton and At torney Vim. . Bacae . appeared in regard to _
Variance #023 for Garden Åp.artaenta at the corner of Cronin and
Meadowbrook Roads.. The application &lSk" tor a change of zone
which would be under tbeTowD. Board although they will acoept
a variance. KUlShner read the reaeon tor granting a uee Yarianoe
rather than an area zone change. This i8 where unneceeeary
hardship shows (a) that the land in 4uestion cannot proTide a
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reasonable r(~turn for 6.ny of t:he permitted uses in the
zone, (b) that the hardship is unique and not shared by
all properti,~s alike in the general area , and (c) that
th~ varia.nce granted· .will not change the general char-
acter of the district. Alsop the hardship (a)eannot be
self-created.. (b) shouldsbow tbat the variance is the
minimum necessary to grant relief and (c) that it will
not destroy ';;;'he intent of the comprehensi va plan. The
court.s have held that financial loss alone is not suffi-
cient ground¡s; for showing of unnecessary hardship. Bacas
and ao~ghton feel they had proceded in good faith before
Zoning was in effect and that the Planning Board had given
preliminary approval of a similar project to the present
one on this site but with questions of parking and sew-
age treatment.. Norton made a mf:rtion and Karch seconded
that tbis be referred to the Town Attorney for an opinion
as to whether this should be a use variance Ðr a zone
change, .carried 0
8. Jack McAndre\'\1s and Allen Jacobson appeared for Slinger-
lands Apartment Development on Glenwood Ave. The f'lann-
ing Board gð"ile preliminary approval for four (4) units on
this site in a different layout before zoningo Now asking
fQr 72 apartments. A motion \.¡asrnade by Cushing, seconded
by Austin# and carried that this also be referred to the
T~wn Attorney to determine if this should be a use variance
or zone chan.qß.
9. Bob Ruggles appeared regarding #7-65 Blind Rock Road
Estates owned by Northern Homes. He is considering pur-
chase of this but is concerned about it being surrounded
by a C-l DisJcrict. He will confer with the Owners of the
C-l property.
10" A special meeting will be held p'ebruary 14, 1968 at 7:30 .
to review the proposed sign ordinå.nce change:;.
II. It was felt we should look into the possibility of more
R-5 Districts in the Town.
12" Jerry Ardledge, Soil Scientist, presented slides showing
the use of soil studies.for subdivisions and planning. He
gave us a list ofpos$ibleanalysis tbat can be made and
weCOlld have school students, Scouts or similar groups
color maps to show these uses.
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13. Next meeting, Queensbury Town Office Building Wednesday,
February l4p 1968.
AdjourJ:?ed
J. Arthur Norton
Secretary