Good for you Frank Del Gallo. Stand your ground!

I understand the worryabount buying land from some owners on Duanesburg Road, but if I were in his position, I would be more worried about the residents in Dolan Drive than the slivers of land on Duanesburg Road.

Hey....at least FDG has finally been quoted in the paper saying 'something'!

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Golub project
to Town Board
for vote tonight
    ROTTERDAM — The Golub Corporation has extended signed offers to four property owners along Duanesburg Road that will be affected by the proposed relocation of Dunnsville Road.
    Supervisor Frank Del Gallo said the signed commitments resolve the last hurdle the project was facing before going to the Town Board for a vote. He said the project will remain on the agenda for the board’s meeting at 7 p.m. today in Town Hall .
    “That’s pretty much clears everything up,” he said.
    Price Chopper Spokeswoman Mona Golub confirmed the commitment. She said the offers were all contingent upon the town approving the project, which would move about 900 feet of Dunnsville Road and widen a segment of Duanesburg Road to make way for future warehouse space.
    “It’s now a written confirmation,” she said of Golub’s offer to the residents.
    The project has been hotly contested by residents of the nearby Dolan Drive, a neighborhood with about 32 homes. Many feel the future warehouse will bring truck traffic within 200 feet of their property lines, cause noise, increase air pollution and lower their property values.
    Board members are expected to vote on a zone change and amendment to the town’s comprehensive plan this evening.

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01400&AppName=1

I boycotted Price Chopper (and Stewart's) ever since I heard they donate to Planned Parenthood. Are they trying to kill their future customers?

We never shopped at Price Chopper much anyway, because their prices are too high, except for a few things to lure you into the store.

Quoted from Sunnie57

I boycotted Price Chopper (and Stewart's) ever since I heard they donate to Planned Parenthood. Are they trying to kill their future customers?

We never shopped at Price Chopper much anyway, because their prices are too high, except for a few things to lure you into the store.

It's either a donation to Planned Parenthood or welfare/my baby's mommy/grandma/daddy.......then therapy for a messed up childhood......it's all the same.....

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ROTTERDAM
Board passes Golub zoning change
Move allows relocation of road, warehouse expansion
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    After a chaotic spate of lastminute wrangling, members of the Town Board on Wednesday passed a zone change that paves the way for the Golub Corp.’s massive warehouse expansion.
    Board members approved an amendment to Rotterdam’s comprehensive plan and rezoned roughly 15 acres of Golub’s property along Duanesburg Road. The change will allow Price Chopper’s parent company to move a 900-foot stretch of Dunnsville Road and relocate its intersection with Duanesburg Road about a quartermile west of its present location.
    Board members Matt Martin and Robert Godlewski joined Supervisor Frank Del Gallo in approving the resolution during the lengthy meeting. Board member Gerard Parisi, an attorney whose firm represents Golub, abstained, and board member Nicola DiLeva cast the lone dissenting vote after a failed attempt at tabling the resolution.
    DiLeva wanted to delay the vote for two weeks after a pair of residents raised concerns over whether Golub had fulfilled its promise to buy a cluster of Duanesburg Road properties that will be drastically affected by the project.
    Del Gallo threatened to pull the zone change from the agenda this week until receiving a verbal assurance from the company that it would honor the agreements. The company on Wednesday said it would honor the agreements, but several residents on Thursday said they still hadn’t received signed contracts from Price Chopper, and they questioned the company’s sincerity.
    “There’s FedEx,” said resident Michelle Guilbeau.
    Instead, an attorney representing Price Chopper presented copies of the agreement to Town Attorney Joseph Liccardi prior to the vote. The property owners attending the meeting never had a chance to review the documents.
    “You guys are looking at contracts we haven’t even seen,” Guilbeau said. “Our attorneys haven’t even seen them.”
    Some of the homeowners in the Dolan Drive neighborhood — an area within close proximity of the proposed path of Dunnsville Road — attended the meeting without speaking. The resolution to approve the zone change followed a contentious public hearing on a separate project that lasted more than two hours and involved more than three dozen speakers. ................>>>>........................>>>>...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01300&AppName=1

So everyone lived happily ever after...

The representative from golub....whatever her name was.....was obnoxious. she gave some the impression that her job depended on the zone passage last night!

Well, since this conveniently came at the beginning of spring, when do you think Golub starts construction on the new road?  If they're leaving the old Dunnsville Road, will there now be 2 lights in this area, one for each Dunnsville Road?

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It's either a donation to Planned Parenthood or welfare/my baby's mommy/grandma/daddy.......then therapy for a messed up childhood......it's all the same.....

I might need therapy over this Obamacare, but they might send me to reeducation camp instead.

So is it safe to say that this vote would have been tabled had GP not abstained?

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So is it safe to say that this vote would have been tabled had GP not abstained?

No, they would have needed a third vote.  It seems as though Matt Martin doesn't say much and goes right along with Del Gallo / Godlewski.  Anything that needs a 3/2 vote to pass has to be approved by the dual Supervisors.

It appeared to me from the few Youtube clips in the 3/24 board meeting thread that Matt Martin did vote for the topic to be tabled.  And then when he was forced to vote on the Golub issue he voted in favor, the direction that he was planning to vote.

Quoted from Kevin March

No, they would have needed a third vote.  It seems as though Matt Martin doesn't say much and goes right along with Del Gallo / Godlewski.  Anything that needs a 3/2 vote to pass has to be approved by the dual Supervisors.

Martin seconded DiLeva's motion. GP would have been the third vote. It's a shame that a board member has to abstain from a vote because of a conflict of interest. So is GP going to abstain from all votes concerning Rems and Golub? Doesn't that concern you?