The owner of an average single-family home in Guilderland will be paying roughly $150 more in school taxes this year while the owner of an average home in Knox will be paying roughly $200 less in Guilderland school taxes.
The conditional OK was given to Barth Meadows on Aug. 27, and “constitute[s] approval of the proposed subdivision as to the general character and intensity of development,” according to Guilderland Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik’s board memo.
This marks the fourth attempt since 2019 that developers have attempted to gain approval from the town to build multiple apartment buildings on the 16-acre Carman Road site.
During the Aug. 19 town board meeting, Supervisor Peter Barber said the board had “the goal of adopting the comp plan at a meeting in October.” He also said that residents would have another chance to comment on the proposed plan, at the board’s September meeting.
Black Creek Run, which has been in development in one iteration or another for a decade and a half, is now envisioned as a 46-unit Country Hamlet: eight twin townhouses, 24 single-family homes, and 14 senior apartments.
“The general project we’re looking to do is to build a filtration plant specifically for our three municipal wells that have high iron levels. As part of that, we are submitting a grant application to be able to fund the project,” Guilderland town engineer Jesse Fraine told board members on Aug. 19.
“There is evil in this world. We can’t change it,” Brian Wood says, so he puts in place preventive measures. That includes training people to use metal detectors at the Altamont Fair and for the first time using hostile vehicle mitigation barriers at the fair’s center entrance.
