327.2005
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.: 327, 2005
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. John Strough
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 variance/waiver from 136-44, as the Great Escape has requested an extension
of time until May 2007 (2007 Season) 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 is presently
undergoing 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 8,000 feet of collection sewer
to serve approximately 60 separate facilities, as more fully set delineated in Jarrett-Martin Engineers,
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PLLC’s June 1, 2005 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 August 1, 2005 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 former Zoological Park, 1120 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax Map No.: 295.12-
1-4);
2.Samoset Cabins, 1299 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax Map No.: 288-1-61);
3.Martha’s Ice Cream & Motel, 1133 State Route 9, Queensbury (Tax Map No.:
295.12-1-3); and
4.The Great Escape Theme Park, LLC, 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 11 day of July, 2005, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Turner, Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec, Mr. Boor
NOES : None
ABSENT: None