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ROTTERDAM
Yuille back at helm of town’s planners
Former chairman reappointed to job
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Rotterdam’s first Planning Commission meeting of the New Year was led by a familiar face.
    Tom Yuille, a longtime member and former chairman, returned to the gavel Tuesday after a year-long hiatus from the commission. He replaces former commission member Dan Brudos and is taking over the chairmanship from Lawrence DiLallo, who was appointed vice chairman during the Town Board’s organizational meeting last week.
    DiLallo said he approved of the appointment and his new position on the commission. He credited Yuille for being an asset in the planning process.
    “Tom’s a good man,” he said. “We’ll work well together as a group.”
    Yuille was first appointed chairman of the commission in January 2003. His appointment as chairman was supported by the Town Board but stirred grumbles from then-Town Board member Steve Tommasone, who questioned why a more experienced member of the commission wasn’t stepping forward.
    Yuille served as chairman until Tommasone was elected supervisor in 2005. He was then replaced by DiLallo and served as a member until January 2009, when he was replaced by John Denny.
    Since leaving his post, Yuille has been a vocal opponent of the Golub Corp.’s project to relocate a 900-foot stretch of Dunnsville Road. He owns a home in the Dolan Drive neighborhood, several hundred feet from where the company has proposed building up to 408,000 square feet of warehouse space.
    The project has already received a positive recommendation from the commission and is now scheduled to be presented to the Town Board for a zoning change. DiLallo said the commission will eventually revisit the project for site plan approval, but Yuille will need to recuse himself from any vote. ................>>>>.............>>>>...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00903&AppName=1

This is just wonderful.  Now Golub can get jerked around some more.  He'll recuse himself all right from a vote.  This is the same guy who owns a high-end condo in Putnam Village.  Remember that beautiful area that was destroyed by environmentally-challenged George Amedore's company.  Recharge for the aquifer destroyed all for a buck to be made.  Rotterdam's planning vision, there's a spot let's build on it.  It's why we can't even find 25 continguous acres for a ball field.  Wonderful!

Dan Brudos was one of the few intelligent, issue-oriented, non-political appointments to the Planning Commission.  And who can we thank for this screw up in his reappointment??  The outgoing administration!  Nice work!  They should have reapointed Dan early in December and this wouldn't have happened.

Dan also represented to rural part of Rotterdam. Yes, some of it is still privately-held and preserved as open space.  Despite the non-homestead tax factor, some of us will hold on to this land until our last breath.  

This is why Rotterdam IS NOT kosher politics but spaghetti and meatball politics as usual.......