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Vol. 16, No. 4
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JANUARY 23 - 29, 2019
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Lloyd adopts power plant moratorium
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week the Lloyd Town Board adopted a 6 month
Lloyd gets
advice on
affordable
housing
moratorium that will, “temporarily suspend a land
owner’s or applicant’s ability to obtain approvals for
the construction, installation or use of fossil fuel Power
Plants within the town while the town considers and
adopts changes to its land use regulations to address
new circumstances not addressed by the town’s current
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Marlboro
looks to
save energy
All-time great
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week Guy Kempe, VP of
Community Development for the Rural
Ulster County Preservation Company
[RUPCO], addressed the Lloyd Town
Board on what steps they need to take to
meet the provisions of their Affordable
Housing Code.
Kempe worked with the town in 2009
to develop the code that was based on
data gleaned from a 2009 Tri-County
housing study.
“It was prepared by an economist
and adopted by the County of Ulster
and it drills down to a series of to be
built targets in both home ownership and
rental housing for each municipality in
Orange, Dutchess and Ulster counties,”
he said.
The Town Code requires developers
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As the Marlboro School district
considers a plan to maintain the physical
plants in the district, they are also looking
at ways to save on the amount of energy
they use.
The district has recently sent
our Requests For Proposals [RFP]
that contractors must respond to by
February 7 at 2 p.m. The district laid
out its objective at the beginning of the
document, stating the purpose of, “this
RFP is to solicit proposals for an energy
project to assist the District to become
as energy efficient as possible through
installation of energy conservation
measures and implementation of optimal
operation and maintenance procedures.
The District wishes to implement the
proposed comprehensive energy project
on an energy performance contract
basis.”
Bill Tangney, of the Siemens Industry
Inc., recently gave a presentation before
the school board and the administration
on the process of making energy
improvements within the district,
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