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CAPITAL REGION Leaders of small cities in the Capital Region suspect that politicians in Washington, D.C. at least some of them don’t really grasp what cities do.
“The thing I don’t think people in Washington realize is that it’s cities that provide the basic services for quality of life,” said Gloversville Mayor Vincent DeSantis. “Police, fire, water, if those services are compromised it really reduces the quality of people’s lives on a day-to-day basis. We’re on the front lines.”
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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council has unanimously rejected a request by solar developers to rezone portions of the former Pine Brook Golf Club property from residential to commercial to allow construction of a community solar farm at the center of the site. The rejection will not kill the project outright as developers may still apply to the Zoning Board of Appeals for a variance.
The Common Council on Tuesday finally issued a decision on the request by solar developers, Eden Renewables, to rezone from residential to commercial three subdivided parcels from the former Pine Brook Golf Club at 280 S. Main St.
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GLOVERSVILLE Organizers of a code blue shelter at the former YWCA on Bleecker Street plan to hand out blankets and socks on Saturday as a way to aid the homeless and community members in need while the emergency winter shelter remains unable to open so far this season.
Mike Shrader, who serves as the chair of the Center of Hope advisory board that is organizing the emergency shelter with the Gloversville Free Methodist Church, said Wednesday that shelter organizers came up with the idea to offer blankets and socks as a way to help community members in need get through the cold winter months after the Zoning Board of Appeals rejected their application to overturn Building Inspector David Fox’s determination that the shelter is not allowed under city zoning code.
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GLOVERSVILLE Members of the Common Council were noncommittal about a proposal from Mayor Vincent DeSantis to pursue possible state grant funds to address the Risedorph Tannery site that if secured would require a 10 percent match from the city.
DeSantis during the Dec. 8 Common Council meeting broached the subject of the former Risedorph tannery site on West Eighth Avenue which has reportedly come up while city officials gathered public input as part of the Local Waterfront Revitalization Program development process.
The same steering committee is working to develop both the city’s grant funded LWRP plan and citywide Brownfields Assessment, which respectively involve water and land use assessments to develop plans for the redevelopment of sites that once complete, open additional grant funding opportunities.