Planning board fits in meeting before impending snow storm on Feb. 27

Planning Board closes public hearing on Cherries

Amber Kelly BSP Reporter

The Planning Board meeting on Feb. 27 in the Marbletown town hall had a quorum despite the impending snow storm. Chair Max Stratton, secretary Shawn Marks, board member Dave Cobb, board member Harry Hansen and alternate Ilan Bachrach were present. The meeting was live-streamed on Facebook.

Stratton said, “Our first application this evening is the Sindt and Buffet lot line adjustment. This is an application we approved last month, and since then they have done a small tweak on it, just changing the lot line slightly. The parcel sizes remain the same as the previously approved decision. We’ll just go over this real quick. Stacy, will you just walk us through this?”

Sindt pointed to the slight lot line shift on the map projected on the screen. She said it would to allow for a septic reserve. The board reviewed the revised determination and then voted to accept the revised proposal. The new map was then signed by the board.

“We are on to Cherries now,” Stratton

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Kira had read through Local Law B and saw a problem with the provision prohibiting housing in the same building as a cannabis business. “If we go through with this, we would be very interested in putting up housing for the people who’d be working with us. It’s very expensive, very difficult to find [housing for workers], so I’m just asking that you guys look at that part of what you’re legislating. When you look said. (Cherries special use modification proposal at 4162-4166 Route 209, Stone Ridge.) “The public hearing is still open. We have no new information from them. We have nobody representing the application here.”

Looking toward the one audience member, Stratton said, “Are you here to talk about Cherries?”

“Yes,” said Bill Terpening, a neighbor of the establishment. “You may have considered this already, but town code 200-54 and 200-56 for nonconforming buildings and uses. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the date of adoption of the chapter, a nonconforming business and/or industrial use in a residential zone around the state, any dispensary that’s in a bigger town or city, it’s in a building that has residential units above it.”

Baden replied that putting up housing for employees was not at issue under this law. “I don’t know if farmers can sell directly to consumers or not under the new [NYS] code," he said.

Another attendee at the meeting clarified what Kira was talking about: a proposed regulation on the state level that would allow the licensing of microbusinesses, limited in scale, that would allow farmers to process and sell the cannabis they grow, sort of like a farmstand. This may expand or increase the extent of such use, provided that: With respect to buildings located upon lands owned by the holder of such nonconforming use on the date of this chapter, and the date of this chapter is 1989, said owner may enlarge, increase or extend the size and areas of such buildings by no more than 50% of their present size and area.”

“Thank you very much for your comments,” Stratton said. “I would like to make a motion to close the public hearing on Cherries, as that is all we can do for Cherries this evening.” begs the question of whether the town would allow cannabis sales at any farm's particular location.

The motion was seconded and passed.

The public hearing was held open for another session, at a time to be determined. The board will take comments into consideration. People interested in reading proposed Local Law B-23 can find it on the town's website under Codes and Ordinances, subhead "Legislation."

Note: The BSP was unable to obtain all the names of commenters at the hearing from the town records.