Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The GOP controlled the Town Board for 6 years and did NOTHING to adopt a revised
comprehensive plan.  

Not entirely true.  Exit 25A & Burdeck St. Corridor Study adopted by the GOP Board:

http://www.cdtcmpo.org/linkage/burdeck/report.pdf

Also, public hearings were conducted on Comp Plan recommendations by Clough Harbor for both Rotterdam Junction and the Hamburg Street areas.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The GOP controlled the Town Board for 6 years and did NOTHING to adopt a revised
comprehensive plan.  

I'm not bending over backwards or patting them on their backs.  If you have been coming to the board meetings back then, you would know that there was many things that I had to debate with how they were doing things also.  Much of the MFRH that is in this town is due to them, also.  While I am registered with one party (currently the Conservative Party, but changing to the Republican Party after this November), I don't drink the Kool-Aid.  I listen to both sides of an argument and figure out which one sounds like it would be the better option and follow through with that idea.  I am also open to changing my ideas when I get new information.  Joann even reminded me recently how we met, a topic that I have since changed my mind on... The West Side Wal-Mart at Triangle 13.  

That being said, we HAVE a current Comprehensive Plan, but I don't think anybody's actually looked at it or are concerned with actually following it.

I have been going to town board meetings for over 6 years -- I was on the 25A/Burdeck St Study Group
and the rezoning that the GOP board did back then was NOT what the Study Group recommended.

Furthermore, the Study Group had come up with revised zoning language which was ignored -- and it
is the revised zoning language which is the last part of the revised comprehensive plan .. and it has
been ignored for 5 years.

Like cicero said.........neither party wants to give up the option to SPOT ZONE!!! They all have friends.  

Quoted from bumblethru

Like cicero said.........neither party wants to give up the option to SPOT ZONE!!! They all have friends.  

Well - regardless - I believe Sync will win this lawsuit.

Quoted from bumblethru

Like cicero said.........neither party wants to give up the option to SPOT ZONE!!! They all have friends.  

TRU-DAT....CHAN-CHING......

that's why in Rotterdam IT DOESN'T MATTER WHICH PARTY IS IN.....they are all cousins/sisters/wives/brothers/in laws/exes etc etc....

pathetic......as they die off the silent majority will finally have a vote that counts.....these current folks ARE WAY TOO SHORTSIGHTED
AND SELFISH AND CHEAP.......as long as the nicknames (back from highschool) and the butt patting keep going they dont care
about the future foundation....I say retire pack up and leave already.......

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ROTTERDAM
Judge sides with town on rezoning
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

    A state Supreme Court Judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Rotterdam Town Board’s decision to rezone the former military housing complex off Duanesburg Road for residential use.
    Justice Barry Kramer dismissed Rotterdam Ventures’ challenge to the decision, which allowed Sync Realty to legally rent out apartments at the complex. The Galesi Group subsidiary had claimed that the town unlawfully changed the property’s zoning from industrial to multifamily residential without conducting any of the necessary studies prescribed under state law or complying with Rotterdam’s comprehensive plan.
    But in dismissing the case Friday, Kramer sided with the town and Sync. Andrew Brick, an attorney representing Sync, said the judge didn’t seemed convinced by Rotterdam Ventures’ argument that Town Board members had engaged in spot zoning when they changed the property’s classification in April.
    “[The judge] basically said it was a residential use in a residential area,” Brick explained. “He didn’t agree with any of the arguments made by the other side.”
    David Buicko, Galesi’s chief operating officer, said he hadn’t learned of Kramer’s ruling Friday afternoon and was unprepared to comment on it. He said it’s too soon to tell whether his company will appeal the decision. ..................>>>>.......................>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01802&AppName=1

What CAN we do with style in Rotterdam??????

thank god

finally we can get passed this racist foolishness and move on

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ROTTERDAM
Court: Sync plot OK for housing Military complex had been rezoned
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Town Board members were justified in their decision to rezone the former military housing complex off Duanesburg Road for residential use, justices with the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division have ruled.
    In a four-page decision, the justices determined board members followed the proper process under the state Environmental Quality Review Act before voting in favor of the rezoning last year. They also sided with the town’s contention that its actions did not constitute unlawful spot zoning, as Rotterdam Ventures, a subsidiary of the Galesi Group, argued in court.
    “Here, although the property abuts a portion of [Rotterdam Ventures’] industrial park, it also projects into an area of predominantly residential use,” Justice Robert Rose wrote in the ruling released Thursday. “The Town, including its senior planner, concluded that rezoning the property so as to permit its continued use for residential purposes would benefi t the community by retaining a transitional area between residential/ commercial and industrial zones, whereas industrial use of the property would create an incongruity with the character of the existing neighborhood.”
    Sync purchased the industrially-zoned property for $1.92 million in March 2008, following a surplus auction conducted by the U.S. General Services Administration. The New Jersey-based realty company outbid Galesi to secure the property, which included six apartment buildings, a two-story duplex townhouse and a singlefamily ranch-style residence.
    Sync began moving people in July 2008 without any approvals from the town or bringing the property’s zoning into compliance. The company argued the once federally owned property didn’t require a zone change because it had con- tinually been used for residential purposes....................>>>>...................>>>>.....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00901&AppName=1

Section 8 how nice......you guys are all correct this town doesn't need sprucing just keep up the good work.....keep those tax dollars coming in, who wouldn't want live here! !