368.2008
RESOLUTION SETTING HEARING ON GREAT ESCAPE THEME PARK’S
APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE/WAIVER REQUEST FROM SANITARY
SEWER CONNECTION REQUIREMENT CONCERNING GREAT ESCAPE
THEME PARK’S PROPERTY
LOCATED AT 1772 STATE ROUTE 9
RESOLUTION NO.: 368, 2008
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. John Strough
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Ronald Montesi
WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board is authorized by Town Code Chapter 136 to issue
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variances from 136-44 “Connection to sewers required” which requires Town property owners
situated within a sewer district and located within 250’ of a public sanitary sewer of the sewer district
to connect to the public sewer facilities within one (1) year from the date of notice, and
WHEREAS, the Great Escape Theme Park, LLC (Great Escape) has applied to the Local
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Board of Health for a third variance/waiver from 136-44, as the Great Escape has requested an
extension of time in which to complete the connection of Great Escape owned properties to the Town
of Queensbury’s Route 9 Sewer District, as the Great Escape continues to undergo a multi-phased
installation of on-site sanitary collection sewers to connect the properties to the Route 9 Sewer District
and a majority of the new sewer installation involves routing new sewer collection main around,
through and between existing buildings, facilities, buried utilities and sensitive natural features, with
such sewering requiring construction in excess of 800± additional feet of collection sewer to connect
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its remaining facilities, as more fully set delineated in Jarrett-Martin Engineers, PLLC’s July 18, 2008
letter and application presented at this meeting,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Local Board of Health for the Town of Queensbury will hold a hearing
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on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Queensbury Activities Center, 742 Bay Road,
Queensbury, to consider the Great Escape’s sewer connection variance/waiver application concerning
its property located at the Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, 1172 State Route 9, Queensbury
(Tax Map No.: 288.20-1-20), and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Local Board of Health authorizes and directs the Queensbury Town
Clerk to send the Notice of Hearing presented at this meeting to the Great Escape as required by law.
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Duly adopted this 4 day of August, 2008, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Metivier, Mr. Montesi, Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec
NOES: None
ABSENT:None