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OUR CONCERNS REGARDING
HUDSON HIDEAWAY
TOURIST CABINS PROJECT
(CASTLEMORE HOLDINGS)
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  1. “SAFETY FIRST” – The message behind the ALLIANCE YARD SIGNS:
     2020 Fire Code of New York State Section D107 – Developments exceeding 30 shall be provided with two separate and approved fire access roads. NYS Building and Codes Department has confirmed these "said" cabins are in fact dwelling units and the code applies, regardless of the time frame they are occupied.
    • Pre-Submission Conference Notes (prior to the new Special Use Permit application for Summer Cottages, aka Tourist Cabins) by Bonnie Franson, Town Planning Board Consultant. She addressed Fire Code – see page 2, #5.
    • Town of Esopus Zoning  –  Chapter 77. Fire Prevention §77-2.  
  2. Environmental Board Report to Planning Board on Castlemore Cabins Development is very concerning (1/17/24).
  3. Ulster County Planning Board (UCPB) Advisory Comment Review Jan. 2024 states: "Typically special permitted commercial uses such as these commercial uses being proposed nearby or surrounded by a residential use include standards that require access occurring from a State or County Route which are more adequately able to handle commercial traffic while removing the impacts of traffic from local/residential streets." 
    • UCPB addresses the concern that Hudson Lane "measures 18' or less of pavement...", "with lack of shoulders." This proposes additional dangers to the community with additional traffic from 40 transient dwelling units, endangering families when they are out walking, riding their bicycles, etc. The school bus stop, for all children, is at the corner of Hudson Lane and River Road. 
  4. 1/17/24 Town of Esopus Environmental Board (TOEEB) "strongly disagrees" with Creighton Manning's submission and believes it will generate traffic of up to 3.4 trips per day/per site. 
  5. Dangerous Intersection at Rte. 9W and River Road with numerous accidents and a dangerous pitch when exiting Rte.9W to River Rd.  Vehicles and trailer tongues "bottom" out when entering and/or exiting River Rd. The gouges in the pavement, created from the road pitch, are visible at this intersection.
  6. Special Use Permit (SUP) – Hudson Lane is in an R-40 Residential District. Castlemore is asking for SUP to be able to develop their 39 acres property Commerically at 38 Hudson Ln.
    • 1/4/24 UC Planning Board Recommendations under "Community Character" stresses and quotes Town of Esopus Zoning 123-46 Special Use Permits (SUP):
    C Decisions and Findings (1) (c) "That the proposed use of such location, size and character that, in general, it will be in harmony with the appropriate and orderly development of the district in which it is proposed to be situated and will not be detrimental to the orderly development of adjacent properties in accordance with the zoning classification of such properties."  
    (e) [1] "The location and size of such use, the nature and intensity of operations involved in or conducted in connection therewith, its site layout and it relation to access streets shall be such that both pedestrian and vehicular traffic to and from the use and the assembly of the persons in connections therewith will not be hazardous, inconvenient or incongruous with said residential district or conflict wit the normal traffic of the neighborhood."
  7. High Density Cluster Dwellings, in a Low Density Zone – The project aims to squeeze a staggering 36 dwellings into a 39 acre parcel (with nearly 1/2 of the acreage undevelopable) by using a loophole in the zoning law and calling the structures “cabins”. Unfortunately the term “cabin” can be loosely interpreted.
  8. Negative Environmental Impact on the ​water table, wastewater, wildlife, flora, fauna & light pollution (See EB Review of Project above; #2 link).
  9. Fire Pit Smoke Pollution for neighbors and the endangered short-eared and Indiana bats. Each site will have a fire-pit.
  10. Noise Pollution for the neighbors bordering the building site, on all four sides of the property.
  11. NOT all Wetlands on the Property Flagged – Are contained within the proposed site contains, of which all have not been delineated, only the portions of the property that the owner requested. NEW DEC oversite/
    re-evaluation     coming.
  12. Water Runoff Problems – would be created by the proposed project for the neighbors.
  13. Town of Clay, NY – Juntao Yan along with a couple of partners, similar to Derek Leung in this project, tried to move in and change zoning to their benefit. Thankfully, for those residents, the Town was in favor of keeping the land zoned as it was initially intended.  The Town came up with similar, if not the same concerns, that we have been addressing with the proposed Hudson Hideaway project.
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Intersection of River Road and Hudson Lane. School buses will NOT come down road to pick up students. Too hazardous.

Hudson Lane "measures 18' or less of pavement...", , “with lack of shoulders” and limited site distance.
This proposes additional dangers to the community with additional traffic from an additional 38 dwelling units, endangering the safety of families when they are walking, riding their bicycles, etc. The school bus stop, for all children, is at the corner of Hudson Lane and River Road.  The Bus Company will not allow buses to drive down the road to pick up our children, due to the nature of the road.

IT'S DANGEROUS AND INCONGRUOUS!

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