Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, along with Sue Ellen Holmes, manager of the Milton Meadows apartment complex (located on 42 Auburn Road), met with the Lansing Town Council on March 17 to hold a Q&A with residents on public safety issues in the community.
The decision to host such a session was made based on the recent incident that involved two vehicles chasing and shooting at one another before crashing on Auburn Road on March 13.
There were a variety of thoughts and concerns shared by members of the public at the meeting. Local resident Jessica MacDonald asked because the sheriffâs department has a limited amount of deputies patrolling the county at a given time â Osborne said there are three or four deputies per shift patrolling the county (27 in total) â if it would be worth exploring the establishment of a town police force.
The Lansing Town Council held a special meeting on March 3 to discuss the feasibility and legality of implementing a moratorium on development in the town following the recent concern expressed by the public over the proposals submitted to the planning board by Mirabito, Dandy and Dollar General.
Town Attorney Guy Krogh were both in attendance this past Wednesday and shared his input on the possibility of a moratorium. Krogh said in general municipalities tend to go with a one-year moratorium, though it depends on the broadness of the subject of the moratorium, and even then there is a possibility of it either ending before one year or lasting long past.