New Hotel’s SEQRA Application Review By Village Board Tonight COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board meets at 5:30 this evening at 22 Main (enter through Fair Street side) to review the SEQRA application on a 22-room hotel proposed for 28 Railroad Ave. SEQRA, the state Environmental Quality Review Act, requires the trustees to review a checklist of environmental, traffic and other possible impacts of the project, proposed by Perry Ferrara, owner of the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum.…
Village Trustees Plan Public Hearing On Hotel In Downtown Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Every other likely board and agency stepped back, so the Village Board this afternoon agreed to be the lead agency under SEQRA on the 22-unit, four-story hotel proposed for the former TJ’s Restaurant, 124 Main St. Given the more narrow focus of the Planning Board, H-PARB or ZBA, Mayor Jeff Katz observed at a special 5 p.m. meeting, “There’s no choice; but it’s a good no choice.” SEQRA is the state Environmental Quality Review Act, which “requires all state and local government agencies…
Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper
Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.
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