Volunteers for Community Development Block Grant (CDBC) Project
The Town of Ancram is looking for volunteers to work with the Comprehensive Planning Committee on our Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) project.
The CDBG project will focus on hamlet revitalization, economic development and affordable housing.
The CDBG Project Team will meet once a month, starting late in July. The work should be done by the end of 2008.
The CDBG Project Team will work with the Town’s consultants and the Comp Plan Committee to insure a broad base of opinions and perspectives are represented, and residents of Ancram, Ancramdale and Boston Corners are able to participate in the effort.
For more information on the CDBG project, go to the Comp Plan section of the Ancram Town web site (http://www.townofancram.org), scroll down to Documents, go to Grant Applications, and look at the second and third documents in that section. Also read the 5/19 and 6/2 Ancram Comp Plan Committee minutes, also on the Town web site.
Anyone interested in joining the CDBG Project Team should contact Art Bassin at 329-0921 or at abassin@aol.com.
Public Hearing (Comprehensive Plan) – 8/31/2009
The Ancram Town Board will hold a Public Hearing on the Ancram Comprehensive Plan at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 31, 2009 at the Ancram Town Hall.
Public Hearing (Comprehensive Plan) – 6/22/2009
The Ancram Comprehensive Planning Committee will hold a second public hearing on Draft 10 of Ancram’s Comprehensive Plan on Monday, June 22 at 7 p.m. at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7. The purpose of the Public Hearing will be to solicit comments from Ancram residents and property owners on Draft 10 of the Ancram Comprehensive Plan, dated June 10, 2009. In addition to the public hearing comment period on June 22, the Comprehensive Plan Committee will accept written comments by mail (addressed to A. Bassin, Ancram Comprehensive Plan, Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7, Ancram, NY12502 and email (to abassin@aol.com) until Friday, July 3, 2009. Draft 10 of the Ancram Comprehensive Plan will be available for review by the public starting on Monday, June15, 2009, at the Ancram Town Hall, will be on the Town web site at www.townofancram.org, and will be emailed to people on the Comp Plan email update list and by request. For further information please contact Comp Plan Committee Chair Art Bassin at 329-0921 or at abassin@aol.com.
Public Hearing (Comprehensive Plan) – 4/25/2009
The Ancram Comprehensive Planning Committee will hold a public hearing on Ancram’s Draft Comprehensive Plan on Saturday, April 25 at 9:30 AM at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7. The purpose of the Public Hearing will be to solicit comments from Ancram residents and property owners on the Town’s Draft Comprehensive Plan. In addition to the public hearing comment period on April 25, the Comprehensive Plan Committee will accept written comments by mail (addressed to A. Bassin, Ancram Comprehensive Plan, Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7, Ancram NY 12502 and email (to abassin@aol.com) until Friday May 8, 2009. The Draft Comprehensive Plan will be available for review by the public starting on April 15, 2009, at the Ancram Town Hall, on the Town web site at www.townofancram.org, and will be emailed to people on the Comp Plan email update list and by request. For further information please contact Comp Plan committee Chair Art Bassin at 329-0921 or at abassin@aol.com.
Town Board Special Meeting – 4/13/2009
The Town Board of the Town of Ancram does hereby announce that a Special Meeting will be held on April 13, 2009, 6:00pm at the Matthews property on Roche Lane, Ancramdale NY. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the change of the property lines in reference to the parcel the town is considering for the proposed Highway Garage. This meeting will be followed by another Special Meeting at 7:00pm at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7 Ancram NY, The second meeting will be to discuss with the Comprehensive Plan Committee the proposed Comprehensive Plan and will give the Town Board the opportunity to ask the Comprehensive Plan Committee questions they may have .
Planning Board Public Hearing – 9/4/2008
Please note that the Planning Board of the Town of Ancram will hold a public hearing on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm at the Town Hall at 1416 County Route 7 to consider an application by Westfall LLC for a minor subdivision on Westfall Road in Ancram. Abutting property owners are Eric Benn, Eric Macaire, Jennifer Berne, Reno Dakota, Edward and Diana Lebar, Sharon E. and Michael J. Pearson, Jay Topkis, Donna Peck, and R. O. Blechman.
Comprehensive Plan Seeks New Members
Ancram Comprehensive Plan Committee Seeks New Members
· Ancram residents or landowners may apply
· Meet weekly, Monday 7 pm, some Saturdays
· May be asked to serve on Zoning Revision Committee
· Assume a 1 year commitment
· Interview with Committee
· Appointment by Ancram Town Board
Additional Information about the Comprehensive Planning Process is available on the town web site at www.townofancram.org
If Interested Contact Committee Chair Art Bassin at 329-0921 or abassin@aol.com.
Volunteers for Farmland Protection Plan (FPP) Project Team
The Town of Ancram is looking for volunteers to work with the Comp Plan Committee on the Town’s Farmland Protection Plan (FPP) Project Team.
The FPP Project Team will focus on strategies, tactics and programs for promoting agriculture and protecting farmland and will meet once a month.
The role of the Farmland Protection Plan Project Team will be to work with the Comp Plan Committee to provide information and monitor the consultants working on the FPP Project. We expect to get a draft “project plan” proposal and budget from our consultants by early October. This draft Plan will be circulated to the Project Team for review and revision. First meeting of the FPP Project Team will probably be late in October.
You can get a more detailed understanding of the Farmland Protection Plan project by looking at the Farmland Protection Plan Grant Application on the town web site (http://www.townofancram.org). Go to the Comp Plan section of the web site, scroll down to Documents, go to Grants and look at the first document that section.
Anyone interested in joining the Farmland Protection Plan Project Team should contact Art Bassin at 329-0921 or at abassin@aol.com.
Public Hearing – 6/19/2008
The June 19th Town Board meeting will be preceeded by a Public Hearing, starting at 6:30 pm, on the proposed change to the town’s noise ordinance law.
ZBA Public Hearing – 5/29/2008
Please take notice that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Ancram will hold a public hearing on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 7:30 pm at the Town Hall at 1416 County Route 7 to consider the following:
A continuation of the public hearing on an application from Double D Development Corporation for a new three year mining permit (Bryant Mine). Abutting property owners are: Luigi De Maio, Terry Bryant, Ancram Land Owners Assn., Keith Morey, William & Deborah Cohan, Scott Price, Robert Seymour, Thomas Miller, Millerhurst Farm Partnership, Thomas Leone, Mark Reed, Mark & Christine Aiken, Barbara Graham, Edward Cordina, Patricia Simone, Linda & Robert Blatney, Abram Kells, Karla Ryland, Gloria Kearney, John Lind and Leroy Mayhew.
An application from O&G Industries, Inc., requesting an area variance for the Route 22 mine to mine deeper than previously permitted; and an application for a new three year mining permit.
Abutting property owners are:
Palumbo Block Co., Inc., David VanDeBogart, Robert and Elinor Duprey, Saida Baxt, Vito Lamorte, Vanessa and Joseph Dioguardi, Millerbrook Construction Company, Arthur and Terry McNamara, Richard and Joan Scholz, Donald and Diann Weaver, Ralph and Hilda Sherman, Andrew Wilson and Joann Clifford, Bruce and Angela Darling, Michael and Mary Burch, Frank Altieri, Norman Osofsky, and Charles Wrobel.
