With this, I think that they would need to rip down the current store in order to put in the new lane. There is no space between this building and it's neighbor, unless they were going to have the drivethrough lane at the end of the building as people are pulling around to exit. There simply isn't the area needed to do something like this even if they DID allow drivethroughs in town. By the way, if they don't allow drivethroughs, didn't the McDonald's that closed down a few years ago have a drivethrough? How did that get approved? I guess they, and every bank in town, could get those permits rather easily, but now they try to stifle business. Where's Ray Gillen when you need him? I mean really, why not take and move the business out of town on the taxpayers dime? We can then see how another town/village likes it.
The McDonald's restaurant was there for a number of years ... decades ... it is possible that it was built at a time when drive-thrus were allowed.
As for the Dunkin Donuts, I have always thought that was a particularly poor place to build. It is very difficult to get in and out.
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SCOTIA Board votes to demolish antique shop, bill owner for expense BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Michael Goot at 395-3105 or mgoot@dailygazette.net.
Village officials are taking steps to demolish a former antique shop after the owner did not comply with a request to remove the unsafe building. The Board of Trustees has voted to raze the structure at 302 Mohawk Ave. and bill owner Robert Williams for the expense. It has hired McDonald Engineering to prepare the specifications to put the project out to bid within a month. The fi rm will supervise the work at a cost not to exceed $4,500. Mayor Kris Kastberg does not know the cost of the demolition. “I’m making the assumption that the property owner is going to refuse to pay,” he said. If unpaid, the bill for the demolition would then become a lien on Williams’ taxes. The detached three-story row building dates back to at least 1915, according to county property tax records. The former retail and apartment house building is assessed at $94,000. .................>>>>...................>>>>..............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01104&AppName=1
GLENVILLE After delay, development moves ahead BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter
The developers of a proposed mixed-use commercial and residential project behind the Glenville Municipal Center are fi nally ready to seek town approvals after years of delay because of the sluggish economy and efforts to build a new connecting road. New York Development Group wants to build a hotel, multi-family housing and commercial space on a 40-acre parcel off Glenridge Road. The project had been delayed pending approval of the Federal Aviation Administration to construct a 2,500-foot-long road that connects to Rudy Chase Drive. FAA review was needed because about 1,700 feet of the road will cross over the Schenectady County Airport property. Developer Geoffrey Booth told the Town Board recently that the developers are completing the fi nal plans with the county to build the road this summer. The developers had to submit environmental and air quality studies to the FAA. “It’s been a much lengthier process than we had ever imagined,” he said. This new road, which will be deeded to the county when completed, would take some of the traffic off of Route 50, according to Booth. It would go through a portion of the town’s municipal center parking lot, so the preliminary concept is to relocate parking on the other side of the building. Ray Gillen, director of economic development and planning for the county, said the Schenectady County Legislature will have to sign off on the final plans for the road. He anticipated that would happen sometime in May or June. This new road will help spur development in that whole area, according to Gillen ........................>>>>.........................>>>>............................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01100&AppName=1
SCOTIA Mohawk Avenue shop to be razed Demolition of former antiques shop to cost $168K BY MICHAEL GOOT Gazette Reporter
A four-year effort by the village to remove a dilapidated former antique shop on Mohawk Avenue may finally be completed next month. Scotia officials have hired KEK Excavating of Palatine Bridge at a cost of $168,000 to demolish the building at 302 Mohawk Ave, which the village has said is a fi re hazard and in danger of collapse. Owner Robert Williams, however, said it is a politically motivated attack on his property. The case started in 2007 when the village cited Williams’ building for code violations because it was filled to the brim with furniture. It took him to court to clean up the property, but the end result was a fine and little was done to improve the structure. In December, the village Board of Trustees voted to condemn the building after the fi re department found that parts of the fl oor and ceiling had already collapsed when fi refighters entered the structure to respond to an odor of gas. Williams did not comply with a deadline to demolish the structure himself. The razing would take not more than three weeks and start sometime in June, according to village offi cials. “The plan is to have it down and gone by July,” said Building Inspector Luis Aguero. Mayor Kris Kastberg said the reason why the cost is so high is it has to be treated as an asbestos demolition because there could be hazardous material inside. “It’s too dangerous to go in and assess it,” he said. Aguero said there is probably a very small amount of asbestos but the village had to err on the side of caution. Williams will be billed for the cost of demolition. If he does not pay the cost, it will become a lien on his taxes. Kastberg said he is happy that the project will move forward. The property is actually larger than it looks from Mohawk Avenue, Kastberg said, with a lot area of more than 17,000 square feet. The three-story building is assessed at $85,000, according to county tax records. “It’ll be nice when it’s a buildable lot,” Kastberg said. Williams said the problem dates back to when the village would not let him make a simple repair to his building. He had a bad header on a stairwell and said village offi cials would not allow him to fix it without hiring an architect. Williams objected because it was not new construction but just a repair. “Every regime needs a cause and my building seems to be this regime’s cause,” he said. Williams said people have approached him about purchasing the building, on which he owes at least two years worth of taxes. However, the prospective buyers were turned off by what he said was the negativity at village hall with the former building inspector insisting that the building be torn down because it would not pass inspection. “Obviously, nobody is going to buy a building when they say nobody is going to approve anything,” he said. Williams claims that the odor of gas was a false pretense to enter the building. “There was no gas on in the building,” he said. “Obviously, they didn’t find any gas.” ...................>>>>............................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01101&AppName=1
It costs me $5,000 to tear a building down plus the $1,000 environmental assessment cost. When a municipality does it, it costs $168,000. That is the wonder, greatness and efficiency of the public sector.
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