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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Marlboro approves $19.5 million project Lloyd settles
Resolution goes to school district voters in May
zoning issues
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
After several months in discussion,
the Marlboro School Board last week
approved a $19,499,279 capital project,
named Vision 2020, aimed at maintaining
and upgrading the physical plants of the
three schools in the district. The vote,
however, was not unanimous, with board
member John Cantone voting no and
Susan Horton abstaining. The remaining
members of the board approved the
project – Frank Milazzo, Russell Conley,
James Kuha, John Marro and Antonio
Perugino.
During final deliberations Cantone
said while he respected all who worked
on compiling the data for this project,
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By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
The Lloyd Town Board opened last
week’s meeting with a public hearing that
accessory apartments must be situated
on two acre lots.
John Litts said the Town Board has
spoken about affordable housing, about
the town’s seniors and trying to keep
younger people from moving away.
“I think accessory apartments are a
very good tool for that and putting a two
acre on any zone is a mistake,” he said.
“My opinion is the law that’s in place now
is sufficient. I don’t think it puts very
much burden on the property that it’s on
for an accessory apartment. I hope you
take that into consideration.”
G. Daniel and Wendy Rosinski
submitted a letter to the Town Board,
dated March 19, stating their opposition to
raising the acreage requirement needed
for these apartments.
“I feel you are being biased to the
homeowners in the hamlet who have
detached garages and carriage houses
on less than two acre parcels, as most
of the homes in the hamlet are,” they
wrote. “The trend for smaller homes in
Highland is obvious with the development
of Trail View, High Bridge and the new
apartments behind Dollar General.
Accessory apartments over an existing
structure, which is probably already
served by municipal water and sewer,
makes sense.”
Fred Pizzuto, Chairman of the
Planning Board, also weighed in on this
issue in a March 20 letter to the Town
Board.
“I
recommend
tabling
those
resolutions and re-referring the subject
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