Town of Huron Planning Board Minutes - subject to approval.
Regular meeting - November 8, 2010
Call to Order: Larry Lockwood called the meeting to order at 7:30PM
Members present: Larry Lockwood, Jack McGuire and Chris Kenyon. Joe Snyder and Charles Boogaard were absent.
Other Officials present: Dave Buisch and Lois Buckalew- Town Council Members and Roger Gallant - Building Inspector
Guests: George Frantz
Correspondence
Larry reminded members that training would be taking place in Mt. Morris on November 19th and pre-registration is due by November 11th.
Approval of Minutes: Jack McGuire moved, seconded by Chris Kenyon to accept the minutes of October 4, 2010 as written.
Unfinished Business
1. Master Plan
Mr. Frantz handed out copies of the draft Goals and Objectives for the Master Plan. He said that he had gone through the priorities list worked on at the last meeting and tried to find either a goal statement or objective to match the list of priorities. He explained that generally goals are more visionary and not necessarily achievable; on the other hand, objectives should be something that is achievable and progress toward the objective is measurable.
The board members spent some time reading through the draft and then discussion was held.
Jack wondered if George was planning on ranking the objectives and putting a timeline on them.
George replied that after developing the goals and objectives, the plan recommendations would be made and then they could start prioritizing the actions and setting timeframes. He said that the recommendations could follow the section with the goals and objectives, or the recommendations could be listed in bullet-type fashion after each of the objectives.
Dave Buisch thought that it would be better to put the recommendations directly under the objective so the reader would know exactly what they were referring to. Lois Buckalew agreed, stating that she thought it would be clearer. George said that Fairport's Plan is done that way. He said he would email that plan to everyone to see if that format seems appropriate.
The board then discussed the various goals and objectives with Mr. Frantz. Some points discussed:
development in the area of Rtes 104 and 414 and at the West end of Wolcott at the Huron border
Mr. Franz sees a need for more small scale business development
Lois noted that the Lake is actually a hindrance to some development since putting a business in a centralized area moves most development farther to the south of 104
Mr. Franz suggested some parkway-type development along Rte 104 since it seems unlikely that it will change to a 4-lane highway
Lois noted that lack of municipal sewer and water has discouraged development of any manufactured home parks
Who would be responsible for identifying problems in the farm community to reduce nutrient loading from agricultural operations
The idea of adopting a right-to-farm law instead of the Town's current policy statement
After the discussion, Larry asked George what the next steps would be. George said that he would make revisions and get the revised versions back to the board. George also said that he could start working on recommendations to go with the objectives.
2. Recreational Trails
Chris did meet with Sharon Lilla regarding the grant that was discussed at the last meeting and she said that the town was not prepared to apply for this grant. Chris thought that if something is specified in the Master Plan, it might be easier for the town to apply for such grants. George thought that specific areas that the town would like to develop for the bike trails could be included in the Master Plan. This would allow them to also be considered by the County when they apply for their grant monies.
Nothing further will be done on the trail at the end of Dutch St with the DEC until the spring.
The clerk asked Chris about the estimate that had been given for improving the road to create a biking trail (discussed at the last meeting). Chris said that he had called the County and they had given him an estimate. Larry found the copy of the estimate which was approximately $27,000 per mile (2 ½ ft wide shoulder).
Dave and Lois thought that was too high for the town to consider putting in the budget.
New Business
County Planning Board
Larry said that the application from Richard Kowalski on Dutch St was ruled to have no County significance and had been returned to the town with some recommendations. He also discussed an item from Sodus Point which dealt with someone wanting to put in a dock that would be out 100ft. The County recommended that it be scaled back to be more in line with the existing area. He added that there was another new style of wind turbine that someone was putting up on their garage in Walworth.
Other
Mr. Franz noted that he and some students had taken some photos of a commercial wind farm and would email the photo. (This was in regards to the current issue of wind turbines possibly being erected offshore on Lake Ontario.)
Adjournment
Chris Kenyon moved, seconded by Jack McGuire to adjourn the meeting at 9:05PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Grandjean, clerk
Email communications
During the month of October, the following emails were received:
10/5/10 - from Charles regarding factory cow farming for fuel
