Village of Lansing

MINUTES of a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lansing held on Monday, June 21, 1999, in the Village Office.

PRESENT: Mayor Don Hartill; Trustees Larry Fresinski and Lynn Leopold; Attorney Randall Marcus

Mayor Don Hartill called the meeting to order at 7:43 P.M. and asked for Public Comment. Gary Sloan presented the Board with a sketch of a possible one-way driveway between the proposed new McDonald’s property and Squeaky Clean Carwash. Gary stated that McDonald’s met with Ben and Ned Hickey last week and did not see a provision in the amendment of the Zoning Law concerning the relocation of McDonald’s that would allow for the connection of a commercial low traffic zone to a commercial high traffic zone. Gary feels the advantage of this driveway would be to alleviate traffic on Triphammer and his business would benefit. Gary stated that he didn’t want an answer now. He doesn’t want to go ahead any further if it isn’t even an option. Randy agreed with Gary that he was not aware of any provision in the Zoning Law that allows or doesn’t allow the connection between CHT and CLT. Randy asked Gary if there would be enough parking since this driveway would remove at least 4 parking spaces. Gary replied that with the 2-acre lot there would be plenty of parking for McDonald’s. Randy was also concerned with the possibility of cars getting stacked up and causing a traffic flow problem at McDonald’s. Randy also questioned Gary about the statement on the sketch that referred to Squeaky Clean using parking spots on McDonald’s property. Randy pointed out that this would violate the Zoning Law. Gary acknowledged that this was not permitted when the Zoning Law, but said it was a requirement of the lease to McDonald’s. Larry asked about people that don’t go through the carwash and turn left or go behind the building. Gary didn’t think this would happen because the driveway would be designed so the cars could only go into the carwash. Randy stated that this was really a question for the traffic engineer. The engineer would give the Planning Board feedback as to whether the installation of this proposed driveway would result in a positive or negative impact on traffic flow within the McDonald’s site and on North Triphammer Road. In summary the mayor stated that as long as the Planning Board approved it and the traffic engineer confirmed that there are no negative impacts and possible positive impacts then the Board of Trustees would have no objection to the driveway. Randy stated that Gary must take this question to the Planning Board as part of the Special Permit process for McDonald’s.

There was no further public comment.

Mayor Donald Hartill - Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Next on the agenda was the engineer’s report by Dave Putnam & Dave Herrick of TG Millers, PC. A preliminary map of Churchill Drive right-of-way showing the proposed property transfer has been completed and is being reviewed by the Goldberg’s and Attorney Marcus.

Bids were received June7, 1999 for the Airport Ground Tank painting and AMSTAR of Western, NY was the successful bidder. Their references report successful project completion. Dave Putnam went to look at their job in Cortland and said it looks really nice and recommends AMSTAR.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Dave Herrick stated that the color of the airport tank is presently a dark green and said we needed to decide if we wanted the same color. The mayor suggested we consult Majeroni of Cornell Real Estate and C-Bord to see what they would like.

Once the contract for painting the Airport Ground Tank is executed they will begin to prepare documents for the removal of the elevated tank.

The next topic was the Warren Road Signal. The Board was asked to authorize Jim Napoleon to start the design of the intersection and signal at Uptown Road.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Preliminary design for the upgrade of Uptown Road will begin.

Dave asked the Mayor of the status of easements required to construct the sidewalk on Sheraton Drive. This project needs to be completed this summer to qualify for payment with $100,000 Multi Modal Program Grant. The mayor stated that we are waiting on a response from Mr. Dan Homik. The Mayor asked if we could go ahead with the bidding process and Dave stated that we could only hold bids 30 days.

Lastly, Dave Herrick gave a report on recent developments with the DEC on the Regional Sewer Initiative. He stated that there has been some fast and interesting sewer movement in the last week. He has been going to engineer’s meetings for the region weekly. SJS is still dealing with internal issues. Sterns & Wheeler will develop an outline for a unified engineer’s report. This unified engineer’s report will go to the DEC. The Mayor of the City of Ithaca would like them to proceed with two other alternatives, partial use of or elimination of the Village of Cayuga Heights plant. The engineer’s got wind of this Thursday and Sterns & Wheeler were asked to price out these alternatives. Mayor Anderson may want out of the sewer business. The sticker price for these alternatives is enormous. The SEQR process would require the state being the lead agency and DEC would conduct the process and the municipalities would foot the bill ($20,000). The total price will be approximately $120,000 split six ways. Dave stated that the bond funding applications are due 8-18-99. Phase I & II were accepted. Phase III needs to be reapplied for and another application for extras needs to be submitted. We are the States flagship project for Regional Effort. Dave is very frustrated with the very slow process.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

At 8:55pm we went back to the Joint Water Proposal. Randy had some comments and suggested some language changes. The Mayor noted these changes to take back to the subcommittee. After this a revised draft will be forwarded to the City of Ithaca and to Cornell.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Lynn asked when we would see the next draft. The mayor thought that it would be in August.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

A copy of this resolution will be sent to the Tompkins County Planning Department and to Mike Lane with a cover letter.

In 1998 Brentwood and Arrowwood were acquired. Cornell did not complete paperwork on the water main right-of-way.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Motion- To Adjourn

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

The meeting adjourned at 10:02P.M after a short discussion of cable TV issues.

Jodi Dake

Village Clerk