http://www.fishkill-ny.gov/pdfs/TownBoardAgendas/2012%20Agendas/04-04-2012%20TB%20Agenda.pdf
There were 2 Public Hearings
1. The board by a 5-0 margin. Passed Local Law #4 of 2012 to override tax levy cap established in the General Municipal Law 3-c.
2. The board by a 5-0 margin to repeal the "Apprenticeship Law."
A court action was taken, involving the PBA and the town over demotions and promotions. It appears that a stay was granted.
Fireworks at Dutchess Stadium are to end at 10 pm on weekdays and 10:30 on weekends.
K-fest is to end at 8 pm.
The towns Comptroller was replaced without resolution or reason.
The board also affirmed it's desire to obtain waterfront land from a developer. For the purpose of the town applying for a grant to build a bridge to access such property. This will be taxpayer dollars being used to make the developers money.
In the 4/5/2012 issue of the Poughkeepsie Journal. They did the following story on a waterfront developer and here are some of the comments.
ReplyDeleteBy John Davis
Poughkeepsie Journal
Before moving the project forward another step, Poughkeepsie city officials may ask the developer of a key waterfront parcel to modify the design of the proposed 384 townhomes and condominiums.
The City of Poughkeepsie Common Council is considering the developer’s request to rezone the former A.C. Dutton Lumberyard site to permit construction of the project, One Dutchess Avenue. It will include more than 12,000 square feet of commercial space and a public waterfront park.
The 14-acre site is north of Walkway Over the Hudson and considered a crucial link to Marist College and Quiet Cove Park to the north.
Planning Board Chairman Thomas O’Neill has urged the Common Council to hold off on the rezoning until the developer, the O’Neill Group-Dutton, LLC, comes up with architectural designs more grandiose in scope that what is being proposed.
“This city has only one waterfront,” he said. “We should require whatever is built is grand, is magnificent, and not vanilla. We are not there yet.” Once the Common Council grants the rezoning of the 10.52-acre parcel, Planning Board review of the project begins. Poughkeepsie Town Board is considering rezoning an adjacent 3.8 acres of the project in the town for 84 of the units.
Louis Kaufman, project manager of One Dutchess Avenue, said he is willing to meet with O'Neill and consider his design ideas.
"We intend to sit down with Mr. O'Neill and get some of his thoughts and incorporate them into the design," he said. "We want it to be a dynamic and grand project." Common Council Chairwoman Gwen Johnson, D-7th Ward, said before acting on the rezoning she plans to meet with O'Neill, Mayor John Tkazyik and other city officials to consider what modification to the project design are needed. She expressed a desire to see the project on the former industrial site come to fruition.
"We will take whatever they say into consideration and move forward," Johnson said.
Tkazyik, however, said O'Neill's design concerns can best be ad dressed during the planning board review.
He said the project manager has already shown a willingness to accommodate the concerns of city officials and residents in scaling back the original plan several years ago to construct over 700 units in three large buildings.
"This project has had a thorough review where several concessions have been made over a period of time," Tkazyik said. "I see this project moving forward." Emmett Woods, owner of Mahoney's Irish Pub and Steakhouse on Main Street, urged the city council to grant the rezoning for the condominium complex.
"I think One Dutchess Avenue will be a big improvement for the City of Poughkeepsie," he said.
"I think it's badly needed," he added.
John Davis: jpdavis@poughkeepsiejournal.com, 845-437-4807, Twitter:@JohnDavisPJ
Please note, on this 14 acre site. The developer wants to put up 384 homes.
How many homes do you think the developer will put in Fishkill with access to 100 acres?
If you go to PJ check out the pictures and you will see how they filled in the river. That's what will happen in Fishkill to a grander scale.