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1992-12-04 SHELDON CUTLER LEONARD KLEIN ARTHUR L GELLERT STEPHEN E. EHLERS PAUL J. GOLDSTEIN- JOHN A. GEOGHEGAN ALBERT P ROBERTS LILLIAN SWEIGERT CARL P BARONE STEPHEN E. DIAMOND.. RAINA E MAISSEL' DAVID R WISE-' EMANUEL F SARIS TERRY D HORNER 75 WASHINGTON STREET t:l\..t r,u?~ , "ii.:-.. JOSEPH HCELLERT (1907 -1989) GELLERT 8 CUTLER... P.C. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601 (914) 454.3250 FAX, 914-454-4652 RECEfVEQESTCH::R OFFICE DEe 0 7 1992 35 PURCHASE STREET RYE, NEW YORK 10580 SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE (914) 967-6200 TOWN OF WAPPINGER FAX 914 967-6236 December 4, 1992 LONG ISLAND OFFICE . ADMITTED IN NY 8 FL .. ADMITTED IN NY, FL 8 MA . ADMITTED IN NY 8 ENGLAND , , ADMITTED IN NY 8 CT 2001 MARCUS AVENUE. SUITE W95 LAKE SUCCESS, NEW YORK 11042 (516) 355-0905 Mr. Raymond Arnold 3465 Curry Street Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 VIA FAX & REGULAR MAIL Re: Planning Board Matters Dear Ray: By chance I happened to be at Town Hall for a late morning meeting today, and I was told by the clerk's office that there was a considerable amount of mail for me in my mail bin where I found several reports from you dated December 2 and December 3 ~ for matters pertaining to Monday night's agenda. Pursuant to the most recently adopted internal procedures, you are to have all of your reports in ten days before the meeting so that your reports can be mailed, distributed and reviewed at least one week in advance of the scheduled meeting. I spoke to Don Keller, and he did not know that your reports were available. As you know, I have many duties other than the Planning Board, and I will be unable to review these matters before Monday's meeting. On behalf of all parties concerned, I request that you adhere to the previously approved timetable for submitting your memos and reports. I happened to be editing the zoning law and noticed that water and sewer systems are special permit uses subject to Town Board approval in a shopping center district. With specific respect to Alpine, the Planning Board has approved the site plan with the GELLERT &3 CUTLER, P.C. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW - Page 2 - requisite approval of the Town Board for the water and sewer systems. Please review the zoning law as well as local law 2 of 1974 (sewer) and local law 2 of 1967 (water). I think that this matter should be immediately addressed by the Planning Board. Very truly yours, GELLERT & CUTLER, P.C. ALBERT P. ROBERTS APR/aml cc: Donald Keller, Planning Board Chairman Herbert Levenson (via fax) Hon. Constance O. Smith Joseph E. paggi, Jr., P.E. Cc. I, ,^,,- .,.,,.. GELLERT &3 CUTLER, P C. ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW rr r.: I' SHELDON CUTLER LEONARD KLEIN ARTHUR L GELLERT STEPHEN E EHLERS PAUL J. GOLDSTEIN' JOHN A GEOGHEGAN ALBERT P. ROBERTS LILLIAN S. WEIGERT CARL P BARONE STEPHEN E. DIAMOND" RAINA E MAl SSE V DAVID R WISP + EMANUEL F SARIS TERRY D HORNER 75 WASHINGTON STREET POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601 JOSEPH HGELLERT (1907-1989) (914) 454-3250 FAX, 914-454-4652 WESTCHESTER OFFICE 35 PURCHASE STREET RYE, NEW YORK 10580 (914) 967-6200 FAX 914 967-6236 LONG ISLAND OFFICE December 2, 1992 2001 MARCUS AVENUE, SUITE W95 LAKE SUCCESS, NEW YORK 11042 (516) 355-0905 . ADMITTED IN NY 8 FL .. ADMITTED IN NY, FL 8 MA . ADMITTED IN NY 8 ENGLAND .. ADMITTED IN NY 8 CT Hon. Constance O. Smith Town Supervisor Town Hall Town of Wappinger 20 Middlebush Road Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 RECEIVED Dfe 0 3 1992 SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE TOWN OF WAPPINGER Re: Town of Wappinger - General Town Board Matters Our File No. 5456.2526 Dear Connie: Attached for your information is an interesting article pertaining to criticism of municipalities for low-density residential construction. The article appeared in the October 19, 1992 issue of the Hudson Valley Business Journal. Best regards. Very truly yours, GELLERT & CUTLER, P.C. ,-- ->-~ EMANUEL F. SARIS EFS/aja Ene. cc: Mr. Herbert J. Levenson (w/enc.) Lundine briefly review~cd problems i~ New York, where, he said, construction, manu- facturing and retail businesses are all suf- fering from the cool climate experienced in the past "two or three difficult years" when New York State lost 400,000 jobs. Lundine's talk concentrated on areas where New York State is fighting to im- prove this economic climate. The lieutenant governor recalled and earlier meeting with the New York Em- ployee Ownership Association of New t,bl r bIlKJll, llIlan~co In pan Dy a vcry small federal agency, Defense Advance Research Products Authority (DARPA). He said he hoped that "Now that we are celebrating the end of the Cold War, we will not eliminate DARPA, but rather convert it to help private businesses." Lundine pointing to the education sys- tem, said if New York State is to offer quality opportunities, we must have the most highly skilled and best organized See: LUDINE, Page 2 , expenditure in 1991 was $7,647, compared to a national average of $4,847, according to Wilmers. Returning to his theme of too many state employees, he said that in 1985 the ratio of non-teaching school em- ployees to pupils was 80 to 1; by 1989, it was 15 to 1. Medicaid costs represent 12 percent of all the dollars spent by state and local governments and are expected to increase by 17 percent annually in the coming years. The $12 billion spent on Medicaid .t.aClll~ue carnes tile same leatures topics important to business people aJ basic state and regional news, "ith a Sf cial focus on specific local news in ea edition. The popular Newsmakers, Da Base and highly localized features run or in the edition for the county it covers. The changing editions give readen highly localized publication, plus all 1. news of the Hudson Valley. The Hudsj Valley Business Journal is the definiti source of local business news. Studies criticize municipalities for low-density zoning policies By JOHN DUVOLl A study by Cornell Cooperative Exten- sion confIrms that low density residential construction is the worst possible deal for taxpayers. These conclusions are also supported by separate studies by the Ulster County- based Catsk.ill Center for Conservation and Development and Poughkeepsie-headquar- tered Scenic Hudson. A Cornell analysis of two diverse Or- ange County communities, WallkiIl and Minisink, confIrm fIndings fIrst contained in a Cornell Dutchess County study, as well as research by other agencies, con- ducted throughout the Northeast and in mid-Atlantic states. The Cornell research was undertaken largely to underscore the fact that agricul- tural lands consume far fewer tax dollars than other types of activity. The study encourages municipalities to undertake more detailed bookkeeping to de- . termine cost-benefIt ratios of various types of zoning. And it promotes Cluster devel- opment. _ Generally, the cost of government ser- vices goes down when housing, retail and jobs are in concentrated areas, the research concludes. It also reduces vehicular pollu- tion. Environmental planner Simon Gruber, who helped prepare the study, said large lot residential zoning is a bad idea that still finds favor due to an erroneous as- sumption that clustered development is ac- tually a code word for low income hous- ing. The Dutchess report concluded that lo- cal government service expenditures to agricultural lands amounted to as little as 21 cents for every dollar received. In con- trast, residential areas received up to $1.36 in services for every tax dollar. Similar re- sults were contained in an unrelated report from Scenic Hudson, which studied Ame- nia, Fishkill and Red Hook. Cornell's Lucy Joyce said that benefit- to-cost breakdowns were not included] the Orange County study, because muni( ipalities used in the case studies did nl provide detailed comparisons of how ~ dollars are spread out among commercia residential and agricultural properties. Joyce expects that a breakdown ( comparative costs, if available, woul roughly parallel the conclusions of oth( studies. Joyce and Gruber said planning boare often embrace large lot zoning withOl understanding the sometimes devastatin impact it has on taxes. Joyce said thi while wake-up calls are gradually bein See: STUDIES, Page 20 , SS3HOlna I .j. 2':661= '61= JaqoPO "'lfNHnOr SS3NISna A8I1eA' uospnH - 017 a2ed :. jnkeepsie. S~~tl MalleI. .. q :. Cooling, 34 Sucich Place, ,s Falls. Kenneth Patrick. IOU, 15 Fulton SI., Wappingers Falls. ,a Glover. J. C. General Contractors, 34 Skyvie,^ Orlve, Poughkeepsie. David Coluccio. Jtuds Cleaning Service, 135 B Vassar Rd., Poughkeepsie. Dina Yarusso. Smith & Smith Enterprises, 32 Fallkill Rd., Hyde Park. Danny Smith. to Business ing 101. · ch business people in ess, Orange and Ulster. les at low cost ;oring the "Business Monday" will increase your profits you decide to take on COlTlpetitors? John Steffanci ) 471-2300 ::471-2683 - ... ... ,-- r 1450 AM 96.9 Flit. Studies criticize municipalities for low-density zoning policies Continued from Page One heeded, they arc long overdue. A study by the Catskill Center con- cludes that "there arc strong and complex relationships between taxes and land use" which arc not recognized in "common public policy practice. "Communities with significant com- mercial uses and growth are (often) found to have tax tills Ii valing or exceeding communities with a low commercial base or growth." Also, "large lot residential style subur- ban communities have tax bills exceeding nearby communities with less growth," the study concluded. The Center urged "more careful atten- tion to the relationships between land use and laX policy." While aHland uses create some demand for services and impact on taxes, clustering is seen as a preferred al- ternative. The report emphasized that "the lesson may be that well planned balanced com- munity growth policy" is "healthy for many reasons." The Center report added that "in a pe- riod of weak economy, there can be no greater government purpose than the more efficient provision of neeessary public ser- vices." Cornell urges municipal cost of com- JUnCIlUIT. '...11"".'....._ A.2 Personal Ser~ices, RR2, Box wu, l~ Bowe Lane, LaGrangeville. Laurance Salay. Lafayette Video, RD 2, Box 270, RI. 199, Red Hook. Henry Kastler. Spiegel PT Co., E. Village Rd., Tuxedo. Richard Soieae!. "'-Cane" HYde' 1"""". T', FICANJithholding; Federal Unemployement. Corporate Graphics Group Inc., 220 Lime Kiln Rd., Hopewell Junction. $23,924. FICANJilhholdinq. munity services studies that specifically compare and separate disbursement of ser- vices according to commercial, residential and agricultural land use. To streamline the record keeping pro- cess, studies could focus only on those services that are responsible for most pub. lie expenditures, typically schools, high- ways and police. The Most recent Cornell report also urges agriculture advocates to take a more pro-active stance in educating the commu- nity at large on the role that farmlands play in bolstering the local economy and tax base. Joyce saicl the business community often does not appreciate the role of agri- culturalists, clue to a stereotypical image, held by the its leaders, of the rural, unedu- cated farmer. The fact the region hosts di- verse types of agriculture also works against successful image building, she noled. Yet, according to 1987 census figures, 787 farms generated a total market value of $73.7 million in products in Orange County alone. Cornell will distribute its survey re- sults to government, civic and business officials. Joyce added that a series of work- shops on these topics will be held, begin- ning next spring. Business Council official shares agenda Vi APPINGERS FALLS - Assemblyman Donald McMillen hosted a presentation Oct. 29 of a "Vision for New York's Future" by Daniel Walsh, president of the Busi- ness Council of New York State. Walsh shared the council's goals for a better business environment with business and community leaders. Walsh's presentation is part of a council effort to promote change in the way New York treats business. The Business Council of New York's agenda to enhance the business climate fo- cuses on private sector job growth, improved schools, and reduced growth of govern- " , ' ment spending and taXation. Ii : I T' ~ -;" ~ ~ ,; " :l "t ,., .., 'i' " :.: ~ :t ,t: :.: .... ., It: '" ."'. ~ ~a / II l To a~nce the science and art of good land and water u.. .woridwide (}tV/it / (l//,p {')l:t ...~. 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