The hospital’s proposal would create additional lots at Harrison House and Bassett Hall.

Late last month, the board voted to accept the final environmental impact statement for the parking plan. Bassett’s plan was the only one for which the planning board required a draft environmental impact statement.

The environmental impact statement was the result of a positive declaration made by the planning board following its review of the proposal which the board said may have a significant adverse environmental impact.

The final environmental impact statement contains the questions and comments received from the public in response to the hospital’s draft environmental impact statement.

After accepting the final environmental impact statement, planning board chairwoman Teresa Drerup said the board now has three choices. It may approve the parking plan; approve it with conditions or reject the plan altogether.

Before the board could make its decision, the village was required to publish the resolution and notify any other interested agencies, including the Department of Environmental Conservation, Army Corps of Engineers and the village Zoning Board of Appeals.

The decision must be made no sooner than 10 days after the resolution was passed on May 31 and no later than 30 days, Drerup said.

The village planning board will also vote on an application from Jane Clark to demolish the house at 161 Spring Street.

On March 7, as the planning board was preparing to vote on the application, planning board chairwoman Teresa Drerup sent an email to zoning enforcement officer Al Keck in which she predicted the application would denied based on the opinion of Kathleen LaFrank, of the New York State Historic Preservation Field Services Bureau in which she stated, ``I have concluded that the property is individually eligible for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.’’

The house, she wrote, is an excellent example of a period and style not generally represented in the village and is the work of a noted modern architect.

``The residence is a significant addition to Cooperstown’s fine catalogue of historic architecture, and I hope that a way can be found to preserve it,’’ her letter stated.

But since that time, concerns have arisen about what criteria would be used to determine if the property was of historic significance.

Previously, the board had been using the Glimmerglass Historic District Property List which inventories structures in the village and lists them as contributing or non-contributing. It also considers all buildings constructed after 1949 to be non-contributing.

It is the same list used by the board in its decision to allow the demolition of a barn on Spring Street owned by Clark. The barn had been mistakenly omitted from the list because it did not have a 911 address.

Village attorney John Lambert advised Drerup that if the planning board determines the list incorrectly uses 1949 as the cut off date for historic significance and decides instead to interpret the date to be 50 years from the date of the application, the building could be considered a contributing resource.

But Lambert cautioned against using criteria different from what had been used in the past or if the board is unsure of the interpretation of the criteria.

``Thus, it would be my recommendation to the planning board to grant the relief requested by the applicant to demolish the building,’’ he wrote.

Lambert also recommended the planning board immediately adopt new criteria to be used when an application for demolition is submitted.

The board’s meeting is Tuesday, June 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the village meeting room.