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Vol. 16, No. 31
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Your guide to local
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JULY 31 - AUGUST 6, 2019
Traffic is the current focus concerning
a project called The Views at Highland
that has been proposed for 3715-3725
Route 9W in the area of Chapel Hill Road,
South Chapel Hill Road and Mayer Drive.
The proposed project consists of two,
three story mixed use buildings that have
retail and office space on the ground
floors and 22 apartments in the upper two
floors of each building.
Land Use attorney Taylor M. Palmer,
of Cuddy & Feder, acknowledged that
traffic is the “big issue” surrounding this
proposed project. A new supplemental
document was submitted to the board
with an updated traffic report containing
draft mitigation measures. He said the
project, as proposed, is an “as of right use
and a very limited one at that, based on
how the zoning is for this district.”
Andrew
Villari,
of
Stonefield
Engineering & Design, touched upon the
amount of traffic the project will generate
and how they will deal with it.
Villari pointed out that traffic coming
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Traffic entangles The Views project
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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into the site from the north is a right in,
right out via Route 9W. Traffic arriving
from the south would have to go left
on Chapel Hill Road, then right onto
South Gate Road, another right onto
Mayer Drive and finally a left into the
project site. He said they are proposing
instead for the town to change South
Chapel Hill Road from a one-way south
to two way, allowing cars to come up to
Mayer Drive and go left and then right
into the proposed Views site. He said
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Reviewing stand
Battery
storage
facility
eyed for
Highland
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Mark Reynolds
The reviewing stand with Mike DePaola (center) and Grand Marshal Steve DiLorenzo (in helmet) announce each of the fire companies as they
pass by, during Saturday’s Ulster County Fire Parade in Highland. Story, photos begin on page 3.
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GlidePath Power Solutions has
proposed a one-story, 30,000 sq/ft
lithium-ion battery storage facility in
Highland behind the NYS Department
of Transportation building at the
intersection of Routes 9W and 299. About
2.7 acres will be disturbed of a 100 acre
site, it will be a fenced in and alarmed lot,
with ingress and egress to the south via
Lumen Lane.
Erin Hazen, Director of Development
for GlidePath, described the details
of the proposed storage facility to the
Lloyd Planning Board at last week’s
meeting. She said the project is for a
20 megawatt battery storage facility
that can run 4 hours when needed. The
number of on-site batteries has not yet
been determined but said this is not a
generating facility but one designed only
for storage.
Hazen said the batteries inside
the building will be kept in a climate
controlled environment and configured
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