294.2007
RESOLUTION SETTING HEARING ON THE GREAT ESCAPE THEME
PARK’S APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE/WAIVER REQUEST FROM
SANITARY SEWER CONNECTION REQUIREMENT SET FORTH IN
TOWN CODE CHAPTER 136 – SEWERS AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL
RESOLUTION NO.: 294, 2007
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. John Strough
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Roger Boor
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 second 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 3,000 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 May 31, 2007
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, July 2, 2007 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 properties located at:
1.The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, 1172 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax
Map No.: 288.20-1-20);
2.The former Zoological Park, 1120 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax Map No.: 295.12-
1-4); and
3.Samoset Cabins, 1299 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax Map No.: 288-1-61);
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 18 day of June, 2007, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Stec, Mr. Boor, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None