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Town Code - Disposal Of Waste
REVISED DRAFT – JUNE
7, 2007
A Local Law
Amending the CORINTH
TOWN Code
RELATING TO DISPOSAL
OF WASTE
Be it enacted by the Corinth Town
Board as follows:
ARTICLE
1. PURPOSE - The Town recognizes that any
facility utilized for the disposal of waste material may present a hazard to
both the natural and man-made resources of the community. Accordingly, the
Town seeks to strictly regulate such facilities consistent with the
development objectives of the Town to mitigate these impacts to the maximum
extent possible.
ARTICLE
2. AMENDMENT OF TOWN CODE – The Code of the
Town of Corinth (“Town Code”) is hereby amended as follows:
A. Chapter 71 of the Town Code,
entitled “DUMPS AND DUMPING” is amended as follows:
(i) Section 71-1,
entitled “Declaration of policy”, is amended to read as follows:
It is hereby determined by the Town Board that the
establishment and/or operation of dumps for the disposal of garbage and
rubbish garbage, rubbish and waste materials of any nature are
likely to constitute a hazard and menace to health and safety of the
residents of the Town of Corinth, and it is therefore the intent of this
chapter to prohibit the establishment and/or operation of dumps other than
by the Town of Corinth for the disposal of garbage and rubbish in the
Town of Corinth pursuant to §130, Subdivisions 6 and 15 of the Town Law
of the State of New York.
(ii) The definition of
PERSON contained in Section 71-2, entitled “Definitions”, is amended
to read as follows:
PERSON -- Includes an individual,
firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
municipality or association of persons.
NATURAL – “Natural” shall mean
naturally found or created and not created through manmade processes.
ORGANIC – “Organic” shall mean
composed solely of animal or plant matter.
(iii) Section 71-3,
entitled “Restrictions”, is amended to read as follows:
The establishment and/or operation and/or maintenance of a
dump other than by the Town of Corinth for the disposal of garbage and
rubbish is hereby prohibited in the Town of Corinth.
(iv) Section 71-4,
entitled “Exceptions”, is amended to read as follows:
Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to prohibit any person from (a) disposing of noncommercial or
nonindustrial rubbish composed solely of natural organic materials,
waste materials and garbage on the property upon which such
rubbish, waste material and garbage is produced or (b) disposing
of paper sludge, or ashes produced by burning untreated wood, on the
property upon which such paper sludge or ashes are produced, provided such
paper sludge and/or ashes are deposited only in dump or landfill approved by
the Department of Environmental Conservation and in accordance with a valid
Department of Environmental Conservation permit.
(v)
Section 71-5, entitled “Variance”, is re-titled “Waiver” and
is amended to read as follows:
A person may apply to the Town Board for a waiver
from the provisions of this Chapter, except that no waiver may be granted
that would allow deposit or disposal of any waste material on property other
than that where it is created, generated or produced.
The applicant for such a waiver shall pay the costs of any
review by an engineer or other expert retained by the Town as part of the
Town’s review of the application. The procedure for review of a waiver
request shall be as follows:
(1) Application Form; SEQRA Form – The person seeking a
waiver shall complete an application form for the purpose and a SEQRA
environmental assessment form (EAF), both of which shall be available from
the Town’s Code Enforcement Officer.
(2) Submission of Application – The completed application
form, EAF and all supporting materials required in accordance with the
application form and these provisions shall be submitted to the Code
Enforcement Officer, who shall deliver them to the Town Board at its next
regular monthly meeting.
(3) Town Board Receipt of Application – The Town Board shall
receive the application form, EAF and supporting materials from the Code
Enforcement Officer. Within 31 days of the meeting at which the Town Board
receives them, the Town Board shall determine whether to engage the services
of an engineer(s) or other appropriately qualified consultant(s) for the
purpose of obtaining expert advice as to (1) whether additional information
is needed in order to prudently and appropriately evaluate the application,
and/or (2) whether the requested waiver would result in one or more
significant detrimental impacts to the health, safety or welfare of the Town
or its residents, including any likely environmental effects.
(4) Engagement of Engineer(s) or Other Consultant(s) – In the
event the Town Board decides that an engineer(s) or other expert(s) should
be engaged to review the application and supporting materials and provide
the Board with advice, the Town Board shall select and retain such an
expert(s) within 62 days of its decision to obtain expert advice.
(5) If the Town Board retains an engineer(s) or other
expert(s) in accordance with Paragraph 4, above, within 45 days thereafter
he or she shall report in writing to the Town Board as to whether any
additional information is needed, in addition to the forms and supporting
materials submitted by the applicant, in order for the Town’s expert(s) to
evaluate the application and render a professional opinion as to whether the
requested waiver, if granted, would have a significant detrimental impact on
the health, safety or welfare of the Town or its residents, including any
likely environmental effects. If the report of the engineer(s) or other
expert(s) advises that additional information is needed, the report shall
also specify what information is necessary. The report of the engineer(s) or
expert(s) shall be reviewed at the next regular meeting of the Town Board
after receipt of the report by the Town.
(6) The Town Board shall review the report of the engineer or
other expert and shall determine whether additional, or other, expert
assistance is needed in order to properly evaluate the applicant’s waiver
request. If the Town Board decides that additional or other expert is
necessary, the Board shall have 62 days within which to retain an
appropriate engineer or other expert, who shall advise the Board of the
estimated time reasonably necessary to provide a written report to the
Board, which report shall contain, if appropriate, any professional opinion
or conclusion as to whether the requested waiver would result in one or more
significant detrimental impacts to the health, safety or welfare of the Town
or its residents, including any likely environmental effects, together with
any other opinions, conclusions and/or professional recommendations of the
expert.
(7) If the Town Board seeks further or other expert advice in
accordance with Paragraph 6, above, the expert retained shall have a
reasonable length of time, consistent with his or her estimate of time
required, to deliver the report for which the expert was engaged by the
Board. In the event the expert needs additional time, beyond the period he
or she previously estimated to be necessary, to produce his or her report, a
reasonable amount of additional time shall be allowed.
(8) At the next regular Town Board meeting after the Town’s
receipt of reports from engineers and experts engaged to assist the Town
Board, the Board shall determine whether it has received the final reports
of all such engineers and experts. If the Board determines that all final
reports have been received, the Board shall have up to 62 days to review and
study the reports, during which time it may request written or verbal
answers to any questions posed collectively by the Board. Answers to any
such questions shall be provided within 31 days after such 62-day period,
except that the 31-day period may be extended by the Board for good reason.
At the Board’s next regularly scheduled meeting after the Town’s receipt of
answers from its expert(s), the Board shall determine whether all of its
questions have been satisfactorily answered. If so, within 62 days of that
determination the Board shall hold a Public Hearing on the waiver
application. Notice of the hearing shall be by publication in the Town’s
official newspaper(s) at least 10 days prior to the hearing and by posting
at Town Hall and by mailing notice to owners of property within 1,000 feet
of the property for which the waiver is being sought at least 10 days prior
to the date of the hearing. If any of the Board’s questions have not been
satisfactorily answered, the Board shall fix a reasonable period of time for
receipt of clarification of any such answers. Upon the Board’s
determination that all necessary clarification has been received, it shall
hold a Public Hearing within the following 62 days, with notice provided as
set forth above.
(9) The Public Hearing on applicant’s waiver request shall
not remain open longer than 45 days without the applicant’s consent, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(9) Within 31 days after the conclusion of the Public
Hearing, the Town Board shall begin its SEQRA review of the waiver
application, except that if coordinated SEQRA review will be conducted, the
Town Board may initiate such coordinated review at any time after it
receives the applicant’s EAF with Part 1 completed.
(10) Within 62 days after the Town Board’s issuance of a
Negative Declaration or, if applicable, within 62 days after the Town Board
issues its findings following the preparation of an environmental impact
statement, the Board shall render a decision as to whether to grant the
requested waiver, deny the waiver, or grant the waiver subject to
conditions. In making its decision, the Town Board shall consider the
application form, supporting material submitted by the applicant, spoken and
written comments from the Public Hearing, and all reports, opinions and
recommendations provided by experts retained by the Board. Considering all
of the evidence, the Board shall determine whether granting the requested
waiver would likely result in one or more significant detrimental impacts to
the health, safety or welfare of the Town or its residents, including any
likely detrimental environmental effects. If the Board finds there would
be, or would likely be, one or more such detrimental impacts which cannot be
prevented by the imposition of one or more reasonable conditions, it shall
deny the waiver request.
B. Chapter 87 of the Town Code,
entitled “JUNKYARDS, AUTOMOBILE” is amended as follows:
(i) The first sentence
of Section 87-1,
entitled “Legislative intent” is amended to read as follows:
By the adoption of this chapter,
the Town Board of the Town of Corinth declares its intent in so doing to be
to regulate, control and license the activities or businesses known as "auto
graveyards," "junkyards," and "secondhand parts collection areas" and the
processing of used metals for resale and the storage and/or disposal of
other used or secondhand property intended for resale dumping,
storage and disposal of waste, secondhand or used materials of whatever
composition.
(ii)
Section 87-3, entitled “License required”, is amended to read as
follows:
No person shall engage in or
conduct on real property within the Town of Corinth, either for himself or
for and on behalf of any other person, directly or indirectly as agent,
employee or otherwise, any activity or business, either for profit or
otherwise, at wholesale or retail, which involves the collection, storage,
dumping, disassembling, dismantling, salvaging, sorting or otherwise
handling or arranging for sale, resale, storing or disposal or otherwise of
bodies, engines, or other parts of autos or of any other secondhand
or used property, of whatever material it is composed, or any waste
material, whether composed of wood, paper, cloth, cardboard, plastics,
metals, stone, cement or otherwise, without first obtaining a license
therefor as hereinafter provided.
C. Chapter 89 of the Town Code,
entitled "LAND USE", is amended as follows:
(i) Section 89-56,
entitled “Planned Unit Development District Standards”, is amended by
deleting subparagraph (4) of paragraph B, entitled “Industrial PDD
standards”.
(ii) Appendix A entitled
“DEFINITIONS” is amended as follows:
(a) the definition of WASTE DISPOSAL AREA is deleted in its
entirety;
(b) the definition of INDUSTRY/MANUFACTURING is amended to
read as follows:
INDUSTRY, MANUFACTURING - Any
industrial process whereby the nature, size or shape of article is
changed into a product that generally shall be a finished product
for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning or
assembly of any product, commodity or article which is not considered Light
Industry; but not including (a) refineries, (b) cement manufacturing, (c)
slaughterhouses, (d) explosives manufacturing, (e) manufacture,
fabrication or assembly of nuclear weapons or components of nuclear
weapons, (f) any storage, transfer, use and/or processing of
toxic or hazardous wastes, including medical wastes, sewage sludge and
any materials containing pathogens (g) any manufacture, storage,
use and/or processing of extremely toxic chemicals, (h) any
manufacture, use, processing, generation and/or storage of corrosive,
highly toxic, oxidizing, pyrophoric, water-reactive, highly combustible,
flammable or explosive materials that constitute a high fire, explosion or
health hazard, including but not limited to loose, combustible
fibers, dust and unstable material, (j) any manufacture, storage,
transportation, processing and/or any other use of any substance
potentially dangerous to the public health, safety and welfare, including
generation of any such material as a by-product or waste product, or (j)
the burning, gasification or other combustion or chemical conversion, by any
process, of any fuel or material of any form or nature; whether solid,
liquid, gaseous, or other; which would result in the generation, creation or
release of heat, electricity or any other form of energy or fuel, whether
directly or indirectly
(iii) SCHEDULE 1 is
amended as follows:
(a) “Compost Facility” is deleted as a Special Permit
Use in the Industrial (I) District;
(b) “Manufacturing Industry” and “Industry, Light” are
deleted as Permitted Uses in the Industrial (I) District and added, with
their respective area and bulk regulations, as Special Permit Uses in the
Industrial (I) District.
ARTICLE 3. The invalidity of any
clause, sentence, paragraph or provision of this Local Law shall not
invalidate any other clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof.
ARTICLE 4. Neither all nor
any part of this Local Law shall have the effect of terminating or
preventing the extension of the Local Law entitled “A Local Law Establishing
a Moratorium on Waste Disposal Facilities in the Town of Corinth,” which was
approved by the Corinth Town Board on ________________ and filed in the New
York Secretary of State’s Office on _________________ as such Moratorium
applies to composting facilities and as such law has been extended and may
be further extended. During such Moratorium and its extensions, the Town
Board has been and is continuing to study composting and the potential
effects of composting on the health, safety and welfare of Town residents.
The Town Board plans to adopt a separate Local Law in the future to address
composting. All other Local Laws or ordinances or
parts of other Local Laws or ordinances in conflict with
Articles of this Local law are hereby repealed.
ARTICLE 5. This Local Law shall
take effect upon filing in the office of the New York State Secretary of
State.
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Saratoga County Animal Shelter
Saratoga County Animal Shelter
6010 County Farm Road
Ballston Spa 885-4113
HOURS: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday thru
Saturday
I’m sure by now most of you have heard that I
am back as Supervisor of the Shelter. I have been back for over a year now
and have seen many changes occur and some yet to come. I have a website that
is maintained by my staff. You can visit it at:
www.co.saratoga.ny.us/animalpics
This site should answer most questions you
have. You will find our fees, listing of animal control officers for the
Towns, Rabies clinics dates, listing of local rescues and shelters, and
friends of the shelter which is a listing of those who have donated to the
shelter (just to name a few of the items you will find on the site).
On this site, you can view pictures of the
animals that are here for adoption. I have a listing for cats, available
dogs turned in by their owners and strays. I started the strays page so if
someone has lost their dog they can look on the website to see if its here.
It’s always best to call the shelter if you have lost an animal. You may not
see it on the site but we may have it or it may get brought in.
Another exciting item I am pleased to write
about is the construction of a modern facility. The Board of Supervisors has
committed to building a new Animal Shelter. Right now we are in the planning
stage. If you click on New Shelter/Facility on my web page you will see a
report of what’s happened so far. As we proceed, I will keep this up to
date. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about this new
facility, you may contact me by clicking on my e-mail address, available on
that page, and send me your thoughts. I look forward to hearing what the
public thinks about this new facility.
Here are a couple of animals we have here
that would like to become pets! (People are in everyday to see what animals
are here, so call ahead to see if the animal that you would like to visit
with is still here.)
The cat’s name is Freckles and the dog’s
name is Terrance. Both of these animals have recently been neutered.
Freckles was dropped off here at the shelter. Terrance was a stray from the
City of Saratoga Springs. You can read about them on the website!
On my web page, you will also find a section
dedicated to memorials. This was set up for people who have adopted a pet
from the Animal Shelter and the pet has passed away. You may submit a
picture and a story and we will add it to this section.
I would like to tell you about a new
program that we are in the process of developing. It is called a “Senior to
Senior” program. In cooperation with the Saratoga County Office for the
Aging, a Senior Citizen will be able to adopt a senior animal from the
shelter at no cost to them. The cost will be paid for by the Office for the
Aging. So, if you are a senior and would like a pet to keep you company, you
can come to the Shelter and visit with a dog or a cat. You can even take a
dog for a walk if you’d like or cuddle with a cat.
On July 10th, this new
“Senior to Senior” program will be presented to the Public Safety Committee.
The presentation will be by Sandi Cross, Office for the Aging Director and
myself. With the support of Anita Daly, the Chair of the Social Programs
Committee and Jeff Trottier, Chairman of the Public Safety Committee, I
believe the Public Safety Committee and the full Board of Supervisors will
be in support of this program.
The 1stAnnual Busy Bone
500Walk for Animals was held this past May. This was a fundraiser organized
by a Saratoga County resident. Proceeds from this walk totaling $6,512 were
donated to the Shelter. The organizer of this event is going to be holding
this walk annually. Keep a watch in upcoming newsletters for the
announcement for the 2ndannual walk!
The Board of Supervisors set up a
trust account for donations to be deposited in, such as the funds raised by
the Busy Bone 500. The funds in this account will go specifically towards
the new building. This fund to date has over $48,000.
As you can see I have a lot of news
and am very excited to be back and to be involved in the new building
process.
If you have any questions, comments
or concerns you can call me any time during our open hours of operation at
885-4113 or e-mail me at sarpets@govt.co.saratoga.ny.us
Dan Butler, Supervisor, Saratoga County
Animal Shelter
September 11th - Remembering 9/11
Speech given by Supervisor Lucia
August 20th - Check Your 911 Number
June 18th Julia Mae
Wells Day - Official Proclamation
July 8th Celebration Agenda
Image Committee 2006 Agenda
Official Proclamation -
May 7, 2006
Town of Corinth Official Proclamation
May 7, 2006
Whereas: The Town Supervisor, of the Town of Corinth, County of
Saratoga, State of New York, Representing all 6,245 residents of our Town,
Do declare today, May 7, 2006 as “First Baptist Church “ Day in Corinth:
And whereas; the Congregation of the First Baptist Church, has diligently
and spiritually worked hard for this day for ten years,
And Whereas; Today is a day to celebrate God’s Goodness, as they dedicate
their new House of the Lord,
And whereas; from the prophet Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the thoughts that I
think towards you, saith the Lord, Thoughts of peace,
And not of evil, to give you an expected end.
And whereas; the Town of Corinth is proud to have the The First Baptist
Church as part of it’s Community, and extends our heartfelt congratulations
to all.
And whereas; this proclamation is presented to The First Baptist Church,
with the Official Seal of the Town of Corinth, Dated this 7th day
of May, 2006.
Richard B. Lucia Supervisor & Corinth Town Board: Councilmen, Brown, Major,
Byrnes & Saunders
Thank You - February 23, 2006
To the Residents of the
Town and
Village of
Corinth:
