BOH35.2002
RESOLUTION DECLARING A HEALTH HAZARD AND SETTING
HEARING CONCERNING PROPERTY OWNED BY BURT
QUACKENBUSH LOCATED AT 9 OHIO AVENUE
(TAX MAP NO.: 309.13-1-64)
BOARD OF HEALTH RESOLUTION NO. : 35, 2002
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Roger Boor
WHO MOVED FOR ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Theodore Turner
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury’s Director of Building and Codes Enforcement
(Director) has advised the Town’s Local Board of Health that he has received a complaint about a
large amount of garbage and rubbish about the property owned by Burt Quackenbush located at 9
Ohio Avenue in the Town of Queensbury (Tax Map No.: 309.13-1-64), and
WHEREAS, the Director has investigated and inspected the property and has advised that
there is a large amount of garbage, junk and debris around the property and therefore, in his opinion,
the property and mobile home constitute a health hazard and nuisance to the neighborhood and are
unsafe to the general public and therefore the Director strongly recommends that the Board of Health
take action if the property owner fails to clean-up the property and mobile home as more specifically
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set forth in the Director’s letter dated May 23, 2002, and
WHEREAS, Robert L. Evans, D.O., the Town’s Public Health Officer, has advised the Town
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by letter dated May 29, 2002 that in his opinion the property and mobile home constitute a public
health nuisance and therefore has recommended that the property be cleaned up and the garbage and
debris removed immediately,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that after reviewing all of the evidence presented at this time, the Town of
Queensbury Local Board of Health is of the opinion that the property owned by Burt Quackenbush
bearing Tax Map No.: 309.13-1-64 and located at 9 Ohio Avenue, Queensbury appears to be a
potential object of attraction to rodents and animals, a nuisance, health hazard, unsafe and dangerous
and therefore the garbage, junk and debris should be removed from the property, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the property owner shall immediately commence cleaning-up the property
unless good cause is shown by Mr. Quackenbush or other interested persons whereupon the Town
Board shall consider a time extension, and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that the Town of Queensbury Local Board of Health shall conduct a hearing
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concerning the property on June 17, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. in the Queensbury Activities Center, 742 Bay
Road, Queensbury, and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby authorizes and directs the Director of Building and
Codes Enforcement to serve a notice setting forth its determinations upon the property owner or his
executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees, or any person having a vested or contingent interest in
the property, the contents, service and filing of the notice to be in accordance with the New York
Public Health Law.
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Duly adopted this 3 day of June, 2002 by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Brower, Mr. Boor, Mr. Turner, Mr. Brewer
NOES : None
ABSENT : Mr. Stec