Supervisor Peter Barber ran through a list of recommendations based on his reading of the plan, which ranged from updating data and photographs in a number of places to some larger issues on which the public had also commented: including a distinct section on town character, conserving the pine bush, encouraging affordable housing, and preserving Altamont.
Guilderland in its letter states “that the FEAF and Draft Concept Plan are deficient and incomplete, and do not allow for a proper consideration of the significant and permanent environmental impacts that would arise from the construction of a temporary 750-space parking lot.”
Site work is slated to begin soon on approximately 28 acres along Western Avenue to make way for Costco as well as a 105,000-square-foot regional cancer center between the price club and Hilton hotel.
“We are seeing significant declines in early elementary enrollment and future kindergarten projections,” Superintendent Marie Wiles told the school board. “If that holds true, that is going to work its way through the whole organization and it will be really important that the district, as hard as it is, right sizes staff as that happens.”
The $614 million facility sits on a 72.5 acre site and is part of the state and semiconductor industry’s $10 billion investment in semiconductor research at the University at Albany.
The town’s Republican committee is holding a meeting on March 12 to find leadership, according to Mark Grimm, a long-time Republican county legislator, who is organizing the event.
Jesse Fraine, the town’s engineer, went over the schedule and answered questions from board members. The idea, he said, was not to increase rates for low users while moving away from the antiquated unit-based system, which is now rarely used.
