Center for Hope files lawsuit against Gloversville | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE The Free Methodist Church of Gloversville has filed an Article 78 lawsuit in Fulton County Supreme Court seeking to annul the city’s denial of a permanent certificate of occupancy for a Code Blue homeless shelter at the former YWCA at 33 Bleecker St.
Named in the lawsuit are the Gloversville Zoning Board of Appeals, city building inspector David Fox and the city itself.
The suit was filed by attorney Benjamin McGuire of the Gloversville-based law firm Wood Seward, McGuire & Sacco, on behalf of Rev. Richard Wilkinson, leader of the Free Methodist Church of Gloversville, which owns 33 Bleecker St.
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Gloversville Council to mull allowing shelter, but not at YWCA | The Daily Gazette
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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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