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he leader of the optout movement in the and wants to see people who support Cooperstown Central the test-refusal movement and people School District expects Executive interested in considering faculty conPrincipal Lynn Strang, hired to cerns and faculty working-place enspearhead the successful implevironment,” said local opt-out leader mentation of the Common Core Kim Jastremski, “to help serve locally, will be gone at the end of Please See NEXT, B6 the school year. www.
“That is my understanding,” said Kim Jastremski, a leader of a group of eight that earlier this month presented a 200-signature petition to the administration Strang seeking Strang’s departure and the elimination of her job. “I don’t think they will tell you that. That Please See STRANG, B6
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he Village Board’s Fire Safety Committee is considering two steps after firefighters experienced hydrant problems fighting the April 8 Mohican Flowers blaze: • One, making long-handled vice grips part of standard equipment, in case operating nuts snap, said Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, who chairs the committee. • Two, color coding hydrants so firefighters immediately know how much water pressure will be delivered. HYDRANTS FLUSHED: Meanwhile, the six-month flushing of hydrants is underway in the village. FOR THE RECORD: Regarding the article in April 2 Freeman’s Journal headlined, “Ommegang To Go Completely Solar.” General Manager Bill Wetmore clarified that while there is on-going interest in using solar energy at the brewery to the degree feasible and intriguing possibilities are being explored, there are no concrete plans nor deadlines at this point in time to make such a transition.
John Sovocool luxuriates on the soft padding created by all the Tshirts and ribbons he’s collected in 92 marathons run around the world. This Saturday, the 25, he’ll be in Fly Creek. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
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alfway through the Lake Lowell Marathon April 11 in Nampa, Idaho, John Sovo-
cool stopped to pick up two pebbles. And at the finish line, he picked up two more. “They were mementos,” he said. Mementos, he said, of crossing the last finish line in his quest to run marathons in all 50 states. “It was pretty sweet when I crossed that fin-
ish line,” he said. “These things are not easy.” Sovocool ran his first marathon in 1985, when he was 29 years old. “It was the Marine Corps marathon in Washington D.C.,” he said. “Thirteen years later, I ran it again, my second marathon, and I qualified for
the Boston Marathon.” He had no plans to run in Boston, but his cousin changed his mind. “He told me, ‘You can’t qualify and not run’!” said Sovocool. “So in 1999, I ran the Boston marathon.” He ran a few more races before Please See SOVOCOOL, B6
Hotel Developer: Height Limits Deal Breaker By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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alet parking being proposed for a downtown hotel simply isn’t allowed under village The Freeman’s Journal law, the Planning Board concluded Planning Board chair Gene Tuesday, April 21, in the fourth reBerman listens intently to view so far of a proposed $4 million the hotel presentation.
downtown hotel. “I don’t think we have the legal authority to approve this,” said Planning Board chair Gene Berman. A motion by Paul Kuhn, seconded by Richard Sternberg, put that conclusion in the form of a motion to the Village Board, which must issue a “special permit” for any hotel in the downtown Business District. But Tom Lagan, one of the
partners in BTP Cooperstown, the development company, who was at the meeting, said afterwards that, if valet parking is rejected, the necessary parking spots will simply be leased off-site, as is allowed by village law under revisions approved by the Village Board earlier this year. However, if BTP fails to get a Please See HOTEL, A7
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MILFORD FAMILY’S HOME GONE FOREVER The chimney topples at Matt, Jenny and Noah Jahnke’s former home at the north end of the Village of Milford, where crews Monday, April 20, were removing the remains of the house destroyed in a March 12 blaze.
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In Itself, Deluxe Hotel Is Not A Bad Idea For Cooperstown Breakfast? Meet Us At The Bettiol
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ven in the summer, crowds thin out in downtown Cooperstown after 6 or so, as Dreams Park families and tourists generally head back to their rentals or hotel rooms, mostly outside the village. With all the touristrelated entertainment in Hartwick Seminary – the Cooperstown Fun Park, the burgeoning Redneck Bar-BQ and Maskot’s restaurants, the two dime stores, plus games at the youth baseball camps – you can be sure many don’t come back. More distressing to many 12-month residents is how store after downtown store is closing for one, two, three months or more over the winter. Don’t blame the merchants; they’ve simply found it unprofitable to stay open. This downtown slide accelerated when John Bullis took over for Polly Renckens as Chamber of Commerce executive director in 2007 and eliminated 30-some chamber activities – the Christmastime Victorian stroll was always a favorite, and “Holly Dollars” – as unprofitable. The idea wasn’t to make money
– Renckens had an uncanny ability to shake the money tree to cover any shortfalls – but to generate activity. Given that trend, a year‘round hotel in downtown Cooperstown is a good idea, and BTF Cooperstown, the partnership proposing it – Subway franchisee Bob Hurley, Tom Lagan and Perry Ferrara, who owns the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum – should be heralded. The hotel’s 30 rooms, boarding four guests each, would keep 120 people downtown after the throngs go back to Hartwick Seminary, keeping cash registers ringing. Shortterm, it’s a $4 million project. BTF has pledged, if possible, to buy all materials locally, hire local construction workers, and employ 25 local people to staff the hotel. • As with most things, the devil is in the details. Or, better perhaps, the detail is in the devil – Village Hall’s hellishly complicated approval process for any project, small and, even moreso, big. Right now, four boards and commissions are chew-
ing on this bone. • One, the Village Board, which must issue a “specialuse permit” for any hotel in the Business District. At their March 23 meeting, the trustees agreed to consider such and forwarded the application to the village Planning Board. At its April meeting on the 27th, the trustees are expected to set a public hearing on the permit. • Two, the Zoning Board of Appeals, which is considering whether to waive the 3½-story, 42-foot height requirement; the proposed hotel is four stories, 48-feet tall. The ZBA must schedule a public hearing, which it has for 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, its next meeting. • Three, the Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board has to ensure the project fits into the historic fabric of the neighborhood and, in this case, issue a demolition permit for the former T.J.’s which, built in 1986, isn’t considered a “contributing structure” to the historic district. After peppering its own chair, architect Teresa Drerup – halfway through the April 14 meeting, she walked across the room to
argue for BTP, her client – with questions on windows, materials and the like, the H-PARB unanimously rejected the application as incomplete. It will have to be resubmitted at H-PARB’s next meeting, May 12. • Four, the Planning Board, which met Tuesday, April 21, has to approve the site plan, including parking – BTP says it can fit 31 parking places behind the hotel, valet parking only; hmmm – storm-water runoff, lighting, a pool and bar planned on the roof, and a myriad of other factors. “This thing could be done by the first part of May if ZBA doesn’t grant the variance,” said Tavis Austin, the village zoning officer. “If any one of these boards says no, the current proposal cannot proceed.” Even if the Planning Board, ZBA and H-PARB say yes, the trustees can still decide not to issue a special permit. • In communities that are less development-averse, professional staff would review the initial application and, if the developers “by right” are allowed to do what they wish, the permits would be issued and the
he developers of Otsego County’s two premier youth baseball camps, Dreams Park’s Lou Presutti Jr. and Cooperstown All-Star Village’s Marty Patton have, by all indications, profited mightily. Why shouldn’t their host communities benefit, too, in substantial ways? If the proposed 30-room hotel in Cooperstown is one manifestation, Gene Bettiol’s exciting concept for the Town of Oneonta – two hotels, a shopping mall, a car dealer, a bank, etc., etc., just down Route 205 from All-Star Village – is even more ambitious and potentially transformative. (It is detailed in our Progress 2015 supplement, which may be viewed at www. allotsego.com) One Bettiol idea must have stopped many readers short: “We want a place where travelers can come in and get breakfast.” How many times did you go to breakfast at the beloved and mourned Neptune Diner and see Gene Bettiol seated in a booth, chatting with wife Betty or greeting friends? They were regulars indeed. Be still, fluttering hearts: Is he talking about building a new Neptune! The Bettiol Diner has a nice ring. “If anyone can get it done, it’s Gene,” said Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood. If so, three cheers for the baseball camps, indeed. project would go forward. But if this project were proposed in such a municipality, the height issue and parking plan would still require review. Still, in listing all the hurdles above, you have to conclude the Cooperstown village code was created to block anything substantial from happening. Is that really what the citizens want? Is that really good for the village? Anyone advising the developers might suggest that the height be reduced to 42 feet, and that off-site parking – now allowed under an ordinance trustees approved earlier this year – be found elsewhere to meet those requirements. If the numbers work, why trouble trouble?
Downtown hotels are community assets. The historical Bethlehem Hotel in Pennsylvania comes to mind. The Atherton Hotel in State College is modern, but fits in to the historic ambience. Both have parking decks on site. No problemo. Closer to home, the Hotel Saranac. The Cooperstown community is already blessed with first-rate accommodations – The Otesaga, the Cooper Inn, the Inn at Cooperstown, the Lakefront Hotel among them. And, yes, there are wrinkles that need to be ironed out on this plan But another deluxe operation, as the developers promise this hotel will be, and a multi-million investment, have to be a plus.
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t’s not that tougher Common Corealigned exams suddenly showed up. They landed in 2013. It’s not that test-prep is suddenly eating away at instruction. New York capped the time teachers can spend on what are often perceived as drill-and-kill sessions. What’s new is the arrival, thanks to Governor Cuomo, of a teacher evaluation system that might begin to distinguish between the best instructors and the worst, in part by using student test-score gains. That was, for the state’s teachers union, a declaration of war. To the barricades they went, rallying parents to tell Johnny and Janey to refuse to have their new skills measured. ... Sensibly, lower-income parents, who
have learned the hard way not to trust their schools, are looking for evidence of whether or not their kids are learning. Meantime, new evidence from the state shows that students who have top-rated teachers two years in a row are far likelier to raise their math proficiency than those with a lower-rated teachers two years in a row. And black and Hispanic students are far likelier to be stuck with teachers rated ineffective. Teachers are professionals. They deserve to be treated as such – and rated based on tests and supervisor observations. The opt-out wave may make that process politically harder, but this is a speedbump, not a roadblock.
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ake no mistake, the high number of students who played hooky from the first round of state tests reveal more than just a simple protest against standardized testing. Various constituencies joined the “opt out” movement, for myriad reasons. But a large, growing, diverse group of parents had their kids sit out the grade 3-8 ELA tests this week because they don’t like the smell of our governmentdriven educational policies. What are people opposed to or concerned about? Everything from the overheated rollout of the Common Core standards to the bizarre political battle over evaluating teachers to
the creeping loss of local school control to the teach-to-the-test mentality that they perceive as killing their kids’ love of learning. When 20, 30 or 40 percent of students in many districts are skipping state tests, the message is undeniable: Something has gone very wrong. Yet, state education leaders proceed full-steam ahead. It is time for the state Board of Regents and its staff in the state Education Department to acknowledge their critics. Their strategy of insisting, ad nauseam, that New York’s “reform agenda” is the only way to produce students who are career- and college-ready has failed. State officials need to rethink ... how they communicate with parents, administrators and teachers who actually know our students and schools.
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Editorial Attacks, Devalues Public School Teachers To the Editor: Last week’s editorial regarding the public school testing opt-out movement insists that identifying the problem is equal to implementing a solution. You further simplify the debate as a NYSUT-conjured argument. The opt-out effort is largely a grassroots phenomenon. It grew out of the disastrous implementation of Common Core, and only this year has NYSUT become a noticeably vocal supporter of it. In the first week of testing, more than 300,000 New York students opted out of the tests. This can hardly be construed as simply a labor/management (union/government) struggle. On the contrary, those numbers reflect that parents, students and teachers, from across the political spectrum, are disenchanted with a testing system
(implemented simultaneously with severe and inequitable state funding cuts) that forces teachers to “teach to the test” and forces schools to defund or reduce non-testing areas like visual and performing arts. Indeed, I am aware first hand that even recess has been limited in area elementary schools. The overall attitude of your editorial is what most concerns me. You begrudge New York teachers their relatively high salaries, even in the most expensive state. You imply that parents and teachers are less thoughtful than the government and its private sector partners, who are profiting off of these tests. You imply that parents and students who opt out are just following a teachers union’s best interests. You also imply that smaller school
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Steam Boats – The comfort, safety, facility and certainty, attending this mode of traveling, having been tested and proved in the United States by the experience of several years, has at length produced the natural effect of extending their usefulness. There has already been one launched in England, to ply between the “fast-anchored Isle” and the continent. There is now one building in Vergennes, Vermont to run from Whitehall to St. Johns, Upper Canada, and another is in contemplation to be built at the latter place. Not many years will elapse ere this will become the exclusive and only mode of conveying travelers over inland waters, bays and sounds. April 27, 1815
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Marriage is to a woman at once the happiest and saddest event of her life. It is the promise of future bliss, raised on the death of all present enjoyment. She quits her home, her parents, her companions, her occupations, and amusements – everything on which she has hitherto depended for comfort, for affection, for kindness, for pleasure. The parents by whose advice she has been guided, the sister by whom she has avowed to impart every embryo thought and feeling, the brother who has played with her – by turns, the counsellor and the counselled – all are to be forsaken at one fell stroke; and yet she flies with joy into the untrodden path before her. Buoyed up by the confidence of requited love, she bids a fond and graceful adieu to the life that is past and returns with excited hopes and joyous anticipation of the happiness to come. Then woe to the man who can blight such fair hope, who can treacherously lure such a heart from its peaceful enjoyment and the watchful protection at home – who can, coward-like, break the illusions that have won her, and destroy the confidence which love has inspired – woe to such a man. April 27, 1840
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Letter to the Editor – A large hotel, Mr. Editor, is the particular need of Cooperstown just now. In building a railroad, is it urged that it will bring a great deal of travel to our pleasant village? How are we to accommodate additional visitors? Is it not a fact that we cannot now accommodate one-half the number of people who desire to obtain board here in the summer? Hundreds of people are kept away from Cooperstown because it is well understood that “a
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under the guidance of Edward Martin, while the officials looked over the site of the new passenger station, it being the purpose of Architect Reynolds to get acquainted with the surrounding landscape in order to have the completed plans for the structure conform therewith. The Architect took photographs of several of the prominent buildings and old residences in the village as suggestions for the general design of the station. He seemed to be particularly interested in Pomeroy Place. April 28, 1915
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Hundreds of residents of Cooperstown and Otsego County over the weekend viewed with horror the wreckage of the crack New York Central train, the Lake Shore Limited, piled up Friday night of last week on a curve at Little April 25, 1990 Falls, where the locomotive jumped the track. Professor Harold W. Thompson of Albany, author of “Body, Boots & parlor and bedroom” are not to be had. The Seminary is a Britches,” who recently spoke in Cooperstown at a meeting fixed fact, I trust. I hope it will never be turned into a hotel. of the New York State Historical Association and Charles It would materially aid, as it would be aided by, a large S. Esterbrook, Jr., of Fayetteville, classmate of Robert C. well-appointed Summer Hotel. Are we never to have one? Tennant at Hamilton College, escaped serious injuries. What has become of the plan for a new house on the site of Investigations are in progress but the New York Central the old Otsego Hotel? Must we wait until some liberal and issued a statement that the engineer, in an effort to make up wealthy outsider, like Mr. Clinton, takes hold of the mattime, had exceeded the maximum speed allowed for this, ter; or will those who own the desirable locations, and who the worst curve on the system. have the means, make a move? April 24, 1940 April 28, 1865
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The Trustees of the Hospital see the need of reorganizing under an amended charter, and Judge Harris is preparing it for them. He says it can be legally done through the Courts. There will be six trustees hereafter. These will be voted for by life members – those who have at any time contributed $100 or more – and by those who are annual contributors to the amount of $5 or $10 each. It has not been fully decided on whether or not to commence work on the hospital this season. April 25, 1890
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A Delaware & Hudson party which came to town in the private car 200 on Friday included C.S. Sims, General Passenger Agent; A.T. Loree, Supt. of the Susquehanna Division, and Marcus T. Reynolds, Architect. The ladies of the party were shown about the village by automobile
50 YEARS AGO
Law Day in Otsego County will be observed at the opening of the County Court here on May 3 at 10 a.m. Many area schools have indicated their intention to send students to participate in the observance. Hector B. Giacobbe of Worcester, chairman, stated that this year, the theme of Law Day is to be “Uphold the Law – A Citizen’s First Duty in a Free Society.” April 28, 1965
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Karen Johannesen is moving back in with her mother – sort of. Johannesen’s Cooperstown Book Nook, which has been open at 1 Hoffman Lane for the past eight years is now located on Main Street. “For family reasons,” Johannesen said, the Book Nook recently took up residence in Louise Wood’s 50-year-old F.R. Wood’s baseball gift shop located in the front corner of the F.R. Woods store. April 29, 2005
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Human rights violations are committed against men as well as women, however the impact of these violations differ depending on the sex of the victim. Acts of aggression and violence against women and girls are known as gender-based violence. These can take many forms, and include ProtectioN of WomeN’s rape, incest, sexual harassment at work or at school, sexual against innovative Global Programs violence women refugees, OP_LTYPP^ Z] []T^ZYP]^ _]LQåNVTYR TY bZXPY LYO OZXP^_TN aTZWPYNP The presentation will explore gender-based violence as a human rights violation in diverse settings both domestically and globally, and will discuss innovative programs being implemented in these settings with local communities to prevent and respond to genderbased violence.
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Nancy Glass Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN A Professor and Associate Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins
School of Nursing, Dr. Glass is recognized internationally for research and scholarship focused on community-partnered interventions to reduce poor health outcomes and disparities for women and children survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). Dr. Glass is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. She is currently the Principal Investigator of six RO1s funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety at CDC. In addition to NIH/CDC funding, her team’s research is supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
For additional information, contact Rachel Stevenson, manager of special events, at 607-431-4022 or at stevensonr@hartwick.edu.
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Planning Board’s Only Role: Apply The Law To the Editor, The members of the Otsego Town Planning Board read with interest the letter from Town Supervisor Anne Geddes-Atwell printed in your April 10 edition. We wish to clarify the misinformation contained in that letter so that members of the public are fully aware of the roles of the Town Board and Planning Board. Ms. Geddes-Atwell alleges that the project that was proposed by a citizen of the Town could have caused “zoning change by default” without input from the citizens. However, this could not be further from the truth. As Planning Board members, we are charged with applying the existing Land Use Law of the town to any application brought before us. The Planning Board can neither change the law, nor change the zoning within the town. The application to which Ms. Geddes-Atwell refers was properly brought to the Planning Board and all Land Use Law requirements were followed, including the advertising, notice and holding of public hearings on the matter.
All citizens of the Town were given the opportunity to be heard at the public hearing, and in fact were heard. Thus, Ms. Geddes-Atwell’s claim that something may have been done without input from citizens on all sides of the issue was blatantly false. Ms. Geddes-Atwell further indicates that the Town had to act to prevent “zoning change by precedent.” At no time was there to be a zoning change on the subject project, or any other project before the Planning Board, either past, present, or future. The Planning Board may not change zoning, and only the Zoning Board of Appeals may issue zoning variances. To make such a blanket assertion, again, blatantly misstates the law, and most importantly, misstates the process that the Planning Board utilizes in all applications before it. Each time an application is before the Planning board, it is given much scrutiny, including the input from citizens of the town. One need only view the comprehensive minutes of the Planning Board posted on the
Town website to know that the Planning Board takes its responsibility to adhere to the Land Use Law seriously each and every time that it considers an application. In addition, Ms. GeddesAtwell’s assertion that a legal clarification was necessary to keep the zoning status quo until further review is totally false, as the Town Board actually changed the law, after many concerned citizens urged the board not to, thus changing the zoning status quo with one stroke of a pen. It is true that there are two members of the Town Board who are gathering ideas in an effort to make appropriate and necessary changes to the Land Use Law. This idea was discussed more than two years ago in an effort to update the law as a whole and not piecemeal. However, to date, the Town Board has only reviewed portions of the Land Use Law when there is a controversy surrounding a project, and has not looked at the law as a whole. The Planning Board, however, is fully familiar with the law as a whole, and always
allows public comment at its meetings in an effort to gauge public opinion on the law and projects within the town. Some applications may be controversial, but controversy does not necessarily mean that portions of the law need be changed immediately, or that a project is not appropriate; it merely means that the democratic process works. Finally, Ms. Geddes-Atwell asks that board members be treated in a respectful manner. However, she fails to treat members of the Planning Board in a respectful manner when they are attempting to report on projects in the town at a regularly scheduled Town Board meeting. She should practice what she is attempting to preach. DONNA BORGSTROM, chair JOSEPH POTRIKUS, vice chair ROSEMARY CRAIG, ED HOBIE, SCOTTIE BAKER, TOM HUNTSMAN, STEVE PURCELL, JOHN PHILLIPS, DARRYL SZARPA Members Town of Otsego Planning Board
GOP Jumps Democrats’ Claim On Sharing Bed Tax With All To the Editor: Let’s give credit where credit is due on your bed-tax redistribution story. Your story on the bed tax did not reflect the patience, and resolve of some of our public officials in fighting to get a bill to the floor. The Otsego County Democratic Party is extremely pleased that the county Board of Representatives seems poised, finally, to adopt a plan to return a portion of the bed tax” back to the towns and villages and the City of Oneonta. As noted in the news report in last week’s editions of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta, this is long overdue. But, let’s set the record straight. Your news report credits three Republican representatives with developing the plan. Nonsense. First, Democratic representatives have been pushing for return of a portion of the bed tax for the past several years and each time have been stymied by the Republican majority. Second, this plan is nearly a carbon copy of the plan put forward by county Rep. Ed
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Developer: Parking Spaces Can Be Found, But Height Limit Deal Breaker sought from the Zoning Board of Appeals. The hotel is proposed at the former T.J.’s Place, 124 Main St. Some of the parking spaces may be found as nearby as next door, 134 Main St., the former stables that was also purchased by BTP Cooperstown, said Lagan. “We intend to find the
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“How is one car over one drain illegal, but 31 cars over one drain is legal?” • Two, that the impact of the hotel on Main Street traffic be further studied. Kurt Ofer, Drerup’s partner/ spouse, said a “reputable” traffic expert, Jim Napoleon, a Syracuse University professor, had been contracted to do the study, and found the hotel would increase Main Street traffic by only 1 percent. Sternberg posited that the traffic in and out of the hotel would actually be double Napoleon’s conclusion. “Two percent,” said Drerup. Planning Board members also raised concerns about fire-truck access to the back of the hotel. But Zoning Officer Tavis Austin said fire inspectors must examine any plan before a building
permit is issued, and those concerns would be handled at that point. BTP first proposed the downtown hotel last September, but withdrew the plans for further review after recognizing the regulatory hurdles. It was reintroduced in March, and the Village Board at its meeting on the 23rd said it would handle the SEQRA, the state mandated environmental review, and forwarded the plans to the Planning Board. On Tuesday, April 7, the Zoning Board of Appeals, which would have to issue a height variance, set a public hearing on the project for its next meeting, 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. A hearing is required before the ZBA can act. On Tuesday, April 14, the H-PARB (the Historic Preservation & Architectural
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