BOH40.99
RESOLUTION APPROVING SEWAGE DISPOSAL VARIANCES FOR
HOWLAND CONSTRUCTION INC./DEAN HOWLAND, JR.
BOARD OF HEALTH RESOLUTION NO.: 40, 99
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Theodore Turner
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Richard Merrill
WHEREAS, Howland Construction, Inc./Dean Howland, Jr., previously filed an application
for three (3) variances from provisions of the Town of Queensbury On-Site Sewage Disposal
Ordinance, such application requesting that the Local Board of Health grant variances to allow:
1. A pumping station to be located thirty feet (30’) from Lake George rather than the
required fifty feet (50’) setback;
2. The leach field to be located five feet (5’) from the property line rather than the required
ten feet (10’) setback;
3. The vertical distance from the base of the leach field to the seasonal high groundwater
mark to be two feet (2’) rather than three feet (3’) as required;
on property owned by Steven and Cathie Schonwetter and located on Holiday Point Road,
Queensbury, and
WHEREAS, the Town Clerk’s Office published the Notice of Public Hearing in the Town’s
official newspaper and the Local Board of Health conducted a public hearing concerning the variance
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requests on August 16, 1999, and
WHEREAS, the Town Clerk advises that property owners within 500 feet of the subject
property have been duly notified,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED,
a) that due to the nature of the variances, it is felt that the variances would not be materially
detrimental to the purposes and objectives of this Ordinance or to other adjoining
properties or otherwise conflict with the purpose and objectives of any plan or policy of the
Town of Queensbury; and
b) that the Local Board of Health finds that the granting of the variances is necessary for the
reasonable use of the land and that the variances granted are the minimum variances which
would alleviate the specific unnecessary hardship found by the Local Board of Health to
affect the applicant; and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town of Queensbury Local Board of Health hereby approves the
application of Howland Construction Inc./Dean Howland, Jr., for three (3) variances from the Sewage
Disposal Ordinance to allow:
1. A pumping station to be located thirty feet (30’) from Lake George rather than the
required fifty feet (50’) setback;
2. The leach field to be located five feet (5’) from the property line rather than the required
ten feet (10’) setback;
3. The vertical distance from the base of the leach field to the seasonal high groundwater
mark to be two feet (2’) rather than three feet (3’) as required;
on property owned by Steven and Cathie Schonwetter and located on Holiday Point Road,
Queensbury, and bearing Tax Map No.: 16-1-24.1.
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Duly adopted this 16 day of August, 1999, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Turner, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Champagne
NOES : None
ABSENT: Mr. Irish