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            A resident posed a question regarding the need to provide the Garden Apartments at the site of the Rotterdam Little League when Long Pond was only 50% occupancy rate.  Andy Brick vehemently defended tha need for this housing.  So Rotterdam could only fill 6 of the 8 buildings to a 50% occupancy, and yet we need another 248 units!  Oh yes, and on the agenda for Wed. 9/8/10, we have a request for a rezone to R-3 for a parcel on Feuz Rd. for 5 multi family units.  And of course the potential location for the County Nursing Home at Curry Road Shopping Plaza with "zero" tax base to the Town.

           Yes ladies and gentlemen, bring us your poor and your weary and Rotterdam will house them!

WHAT A JOKE!
                        like Bumblethru says "Get out of Rotterdam!" . . . . and Schenectady, and New York
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ROTTERDAM
Firm suing over Sync land zoning
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    A Galesi Group subsidiary has filed a lawsuit against Rotterdam and Sync Realty, claiming that town officials engaged in spot zoning when they approved a rezone of the former military housing complex off Duanesburg Road.
    Rotterdam Ventures claims the Town Board changed the Sync-owned property’s zoning from industrial to multi-family residential without conducting any of the necessary studies prescribed under state law. In addition, the company alleges the zone change contradicts the town’s comprehensive plan and doesn’t fit with the character of the surrounding area.
    “The comprehensive plan has consistently designated the area for light industrial uses and the rezoning is inconsistent with and contrary to decades of consistent planning and zoning designed to preserve the industrial character of the neighborhood surrounding the property,” attorney Jeffrey Baker stated in the 22-page challenge fi led in Schenectady County Supreme Court last month. “The zoning change was not calculated to benefit the community as a whole but adopted solely for the benefit of Sync without regard for any consideration proper to the Town Board’s exercise of its delegated zoning power.”
    Board members approved the rezoning of the eight-acre property in mid-April, despite the Schenectady County Planning Board, the Rotterdam Planning Commission and the town’s Comprehensive Plan Committee all recommending against the change. Prior to the approval, an attorney from the Galesi Group indicated the company would bring legal action if the zone change were granted for the property, which includes six apartment buildings, a two-story duplex townhouse and a singlefamily ranch-style residence.
    Andrew Brick, an attorney representing Sync in the case, scoffed at the lawsuit. He questioned why Rotterdam Ventures would claim the property is not suitable for multi-family residential uses when there are roughly a half-dozen occupied homes located on the Galesi-owned Rotterdam Corporate Park property at the end of Westcott Road.
    “It’s the most hypocritical lawsuit I’ve ever seen,” he said. “[The lawsuit] also fails to take into account that the property was never analyzed for comprehensive plan purposes because it was government-owned at the time.”
    Town Attorney Michael Godlewski said he’ll work with Sync’s attorneys to defend the case. He referred all other comments to Brick.
    “We will coordinate with our co-counsel to make sure a viable defense is put forth,” he said.
    David Buicko, Galesi’s chief operating officer, declined to comment.
    If the legal challenge is successful, Sync would be back where the company was in July 2008. For nearly two years, Sync rented apartments at the complex illegally, since it wasn’t zoned for residential uses.
    Sync outbid Galesi to purchase the property at auction for $1.92 million in April 2008. The purchase was followed by pair of unsucessful lawsuits Sync waged agains Galesi and the town.
    The first lawsuit was aimed at preventing Galesi from shutting off a sanitary sewer pipe running from the complex to the corporate park. In June 2009, the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in favor of Galesi. The complex is now connected to the town’s sanitary sewer.
    Sync filed another lawsuit against the town challenging the Zoning Board of Appeals’ decision that the military’s residential use of the property did not carry over when it was purchased at auction. A county Supreme Court judge upheld that decision during a ruling in October 2009, which compelled Sync to fi nally file a zone change application for the property later in the month.
    But the zone change application remained “dormant” from the time it was filed until February, according to the lawsuit. When a new Town Board took office, the application was revived and then hurried through the approval process without any environmental impact studies, the suit says. ....................>>>>.......................>>>>.....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01102&AppName=1

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ROTTERDAM
Shopping center site eyed for Glendale Home
Officials want to put vacant Curry Road property to use
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.

    Schenectady County offi cials are eyeing the dilapidated Curry Road Shopping Center property as a possible site for the future Glendale Home nursing facility.
    Spokesman Joe McQueen said county officials approached the Rotterdam Industrial Development Agency about the mostly empty plaza last month. Also under consideration is the vacant fi eld running between Airport Road and the Schenectady County Ice Rink in Glenville.
    “Those are the two that are being looked at,” he confi rmed this week.
    McQueen said the Glenville and Rotterdam sites are two prominent locations identified for the home, but the search for other properties continues. He said county-contracted engineers will have to look at both sites and others to determine if they are suitable for home.
    “We don’t know what the time frame is going to be,” he said.
    Rotterdam IDA chairman Robert Mallozzi said his board was approached about the property and reacted favorably to the notion of using it for the nursing facility. He said board members seemed amenable to the prospect of bringing roughly 200 jobs to the town.
    “There’s definitely positive interest on the board to at least hear more about the project and the concept,” he said. “But obviously there are more questions that need to be answered.”
    The 10-acre shopping center is a highly visible eyesore in the town that has eluded redevelopment efforts since it was ceded to the town by the Golub Corporation more than seven years ago. The property was transferred to the Rotterdam IDA by the outgoing all-Republican Town Board in late-December, only two days before five new members were sworn in.
    The incoming board under the administration of Supervisor Frank Del Gallo sacked the entire IDA and installed a new board during their first day in office. Town offi cials also tried to halt a transfer of the property but were unsuccessful.
    Since that time, the effort to redevelop the shopping center has plodded on. For more than a year now, the IDA has been working with developers from the Clifton Park-based Forum Industries to build 184 units of affordable senior housing on the site.
    Ray Gillen, the chairman of the Metroplex Development Authority, which handles administrative issues for the IDA, said the interest expressed by the county wouldn’t slow progress in redeveloping the site. He said a comprehensive environmental study of the property continues and Forum Industries remains interested in bringing the senior housing project to fruition.
    “We’re still pursuing that project,” he said, “We’re not going to stop.” .......................>>>>........................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01801&AppName=1

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ROTTERDAM
DAV to acquire Draper School
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    The Disabled American Veterans is ready to purchase the former Draper School building and could close the property within the next week, an official with the organization said Monday.
    Thomas Reiter, the Disabled American Veterans’ state representative and the junior vice commander of the department in New York, said First Niagara has accepted his organization’s offer and is moving toward completing the deal. He said the bank will soon foreclose on the property still owned by the defunct International Charter School of Schenectady and then flip it to his organization moments later.
    “They did take our offer,” he said. “We were told to write up the paperwork.”
    Reiter declined to discuss the purchase price in advance of the closing. However, he said his organization has already invested roughly $50,000 into securing the property and is determined to move forward with a project to convert it into roughly 150 apartments for disabled combat veterans over the age of 55.
    “It will put Rotterdam on the map because it will be the fi rst one in the nation,” he said.
    The deal also includes all of the items remaining inside the former charter school building. Reiter anticipates his organization will host an auction after the closing to sell some of the remaining items and raise money to maintain the building until construction is complete. .......................>>>>......................>>>>........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01001&AppName=1

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