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Gloversville will pay $25k to establish homeless shelter | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council voted 7-0 Tuesday night to contribute $25,000 toward the establishment of a Code Blue temporary homeless shelter to operate between Jan. 15 and April 30 at 144 E. Fulton St. Tuesday’s council vote came after months of wrangling over the issue of where a homeless shelter should be established in Gloversville. “We’ve been working very hard on finding an alternative location that would be acceptable for the Code Blue shelter, other than the 33 Bleecker St. site,” Mayor Vince DeSantis told the council. “This is enabled by virtue of the change in the zoning law that we effectuated Jan. 1, which allowed Code Blue shelters in the commercial zone.” ....
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Gloversville Council to mull allowing shelter, but not at YWCA | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 GLOVERSVILLE – The Common Council is set Tuesday to consider a change to the city’s zoning ordinance that would allow for a temporary Code Blue homeless shelter to be established at a location somewhere other than the former YWCA building. Mayor Vince DeSantis said he believes the city needs a temporary Code Blue shelter, but not where the nonprofit organization Center for Hope wants to operate it. The city is expected to set a public hearing to discuss the proposal. “This ordinance change would list a Code Blue shelter as a permitted use in the commercial zone with a special use permit, however, it does not permit it in the form-based overlay,” DeSantis said. “The form-based overlay covers the center of the business district. The former YWCA is right in the middle of town, inside the form-based overlay.” ....
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Center of Hope in Gloversville will apply for use variance | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS ERICA MILLER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The Center of Hope Code Blue shelter at 33 Bleecker St. in Gloversville is pictured on Monday. Shares0 GLOVERSVILLE The advisory board of a downtown Code Blue homeless shelter on Thursday voted to apply for a “use variance” to continue to operate the shelter at the former YWCA on Bleecker Street after the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to reject the group’s application for permanent certificate of occupancy on Wednesday. Rev Rich Wilkinson of the Gloversville Free Methodist Church, which operates the Center of Hope shelter, participated in Wednesday’s ZBA public hearing. Wilkinson’s church owns the YWCA building and operated the shelter under a temporary certificate of occupancy from February to mid-April. Because the temporary permit expired, the shelter has not been able to reopen when temperatures drop b ....