This pit will also encompass the land in Cary along Route 31. This land is zoned commercial/retail. When the current zoning laws were put in place for the land that Meyer now owns, a complex of stores, multifamily and single family homes were envisioned. In fact, the village spent tax payer dollars to provide sewer and other utilities to the area. The hook-ups are there and would be destroyed if Meyer turns this land into a giant hole.
This pit will double the size of the current pit and will affect more than just Fox Trails:
- Greenfields and Cimarron will feel the presence of the pit in terms of dust and noise
- Those using Hoffman Park will not only hear the pit but will be breathing in dust and other particulates while walking, jogging or riding bikes along the path
- Kids will have easy access from Hoffman park to go "exploring" the pit
- Stores directly across from the pit on Route 31 will have to contend with dust, noise and trucks
- Pauly Toyota will have a new storefront located just north of the pit. Their new car-lots will be covered in a constant layer of dust
- Walmart customers will also be subjected to dust and noise when visiting the store located on Route 31 just north of the pit
- The village of Cary and, consequently all of Cary, will suffer as the sales revenue and the property tax revenue from homes and stores will not come in. We will be left with a giant hole in the ground--a worthless and dangerous eyesore
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What taxpayer money did the village spend to provide utilities to the pit area??? The village water and sewer lines do not extend past Fox Trails property lines and Cary has no utilities anywhere along route 31. Remember the residents of Trout Valley shot down Cary's efforts to extend the high-pressure sewer line along the river and up to Fox Trails??? Let us all know where these utilities are...
By the way, I hope this pit becomes a future lake within Hoffman Park. Would be a nice fishing area. Dig the Pit!
It was brought up at the last zoning board meeting that "we already provided sewer for the property years ago at taxpayers' expense so that we could have residential and commercial development. Now that's being cut off, don't need it anymore, no recapture fees, money lost."
Transcipt, June 14, 2007. Page 71 (lines 12-16). This was testimony by Dave Henry, former member of the Zoning Board
Actually if I remember correctly, the lines were brought to the end of Fox trails in anticipation of future development. However, if memory serves correct, the cost to bring the water and sewer to the 15 acres that will be donated to the village along Rt 31 will be passed onto the purchaser of the 15 acres. So water and sewer lines have not been run into a cornfield for no reason. They are just stubed at the end of the line near the end of the fox trails subdivision. The park district at one time was all for the mining because they knew the reclaimed mine would be donated to the park district and then they cold merge it with hoffman park.
My colleague was requiring 2012 NYC DoE Extended Use App this month and learned about a document management site with a searchable forms database . If people are looking for 2012 NYC DoE Extended Use App as well , here's the link: http://pdf.ac/7xDR3k
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