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Cooperstown Trustees Retreat On Dorm Zoning

VOTE ON CODE DELAYED A MONTH Cooperstown Trustees Retreat On Dorm Zoning By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Dormitories are out. Facing citizen pushback, the Cooperstown Village Board voted Monday, Oct. 28 to remove the dormitories – defined as six or more bedrooms that share a common kitchen and living spaces – from “special use” consideration in residential districts, and moved from permitted to special use in commercial districts. The change came at the end of 40 minutes…
October 30, 2019
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Revised Zoning Law Would Allow Dorms

2014 CONTROVERSY RECALLED Revised Zoning Law Would Allow Dorms By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “I haven’t heard anything about a dorm?” said attorney Linden Summers, who lives at 1 Elk St., a half-block from Bassett Hospital, as this evening’s hour-long presentation and discussion on the village’s proposed revised zoning code neared an end. He recalled that five years ago, the Village Board’s effort to adopt a “hospital zone” to give Bassett flexibility collapsed over whether the…
August 19, 2019

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