ZBA Meeting 11/2/2000 Report.

Frank Hogg

Subject: Receiving the documents regarding the second appeal to the buffer zone for Flying J.

The first thing the board addressed was standing. Do the three appellants have standing? Both Stan Kogut and Elinor Currie were given standing just like the first buffer zone appeal. Joe Oliver was not given standing the first time, but he reapplied, because he was given standing in another issue, where he was less impacted than in this case. Ironically the board used Flying J's maps, created by Resource Associates. They were supposed to show that the appellants did NOT have standing. Instead they showed the ZBA that Joe Oliver DOES have standing. Don't you just love it?

After the standing issue was resolved with a five to one 'sort of' vote they moved on to Flying J's use of the buffer zone. Again, Flying J documents created by Resource Associates, were used to show that the structure in question, was indeed a structure, because it was so marked on the drawing. Somebody is going to be in hot water on Friday when Flying J sees this... Again a five to one 'sort of' vote to uphold Preble's laws and deny FlyingJShaferLawFirmResourceAssociatesDougStaleyTownBoard's use of the buffer zone for their sewer system.

HOORAY!

Kudos to the ZBA for hanging tough in light of the pressure from the Town Board. Nobody changed his or her vote from last time. That took guts, but I think that they knew they had the support from the people. The last Town Board Special meeting showed clearly that the Town Board had no support.

The actual vote takes place at 7 PM on the 13^th of November just before the Town Board meeting at 8 PM.

Written in a rush, late at night.. as usual.  This is just the high points; there was more detail that I'm showing here. I may go into it more over the weekend.