10-11-2007
Plan board wants to know what’s done
Staff Report
HARTWICK _ Attorney Gar Gozigan represented the Cooperstown Dreams Park at last week’s monthly planning board meeting in an effort to get approval for a request to make changes to the park’s most recent site plan.
Planning board members said they would continue to review the project, but wanted to have some sort of proof of what has and has not been done since the last site plan was approved in August 2005 before allowing any more work to begin.
In order to get verification, the board decided it will send a letter to the Dreams Park asking to see what has been done since the last project was approved. If a project has not been completed, then the letter will ask Dreams Park officials to let the planning board know when they expect each unfinished project to be completed.
The board was specifically concerned about changes to the lighting of fields to help control spillage. Lighting was one of the requirements included in the approval for the last site plan.
``They promised that things would be done, but nothing has been done,’’ said planning board member Paul Ingalls. ``They ordered poles (for the lights), but they have been laying there for a long time.’’
Ingalls said he believed if the lighting was not finished, then the board should not allow Dreams Park to work on another project.
Gozigan felt differently, however. He said he did not see what one thing had to do with the other and said they were two separate issues.
The letter will also specifically ask about problems with signs and banners that were addressed in a letter sent to the Dreams Park.
In other business, the board:
tabled the Brockman Weekly Apartment Rentals development project.
approved Larry Bard’s request for a simple split boundary change.
decided Wildwood Gift Emporium would not need a site plan review in order to rent out rooms. The building itself would stay unchanged and the owner would continue to offer painting classes at the building. Parking would also stay the same.
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