In this installment of “Town Talk,” Village of Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh answers a few quick questions from General Manager/Senior Editor Darla M. Youngs to update readers on village business.…
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Within the NYF process, no project was proposed for 217 Main Street, the former Where it All Began Bat Company. The village has long been interested in that site’s potential for housing. However—because of the NYF process—a developer of housing became aware of the property. Vecino Group (https://www.vecinogroup.com) is a national company dedicated to the development of affordable and supportive housing.…
The final Priority Project Slate includes the Small Projects Fund, six public improvement initiatives and five private development/rehabilitation projects. Representatives from project lead Laberge Group guided LPC members through a final overview of the proposals under consideration, following which those proposals were identified as either “priority projects” or “pipeline projects”—those with potential but not quite ready yet—to be considered later in accordance with the NY Forward guidelines.…
The agenda for this meeting will be to select projects to be recommended for funding. All LPC meetings are open to the public and allow time for public comment.…
The agenda for this meeting includes a summary of public engagement results to date and discussion of proposed projects.…
The Village of Cooperstown will host its second New York Forward public workshop next week, including an overview of proposed projects.…
On August 11, the results of the Village of Cooperstown New York Forward Community Survey were released. The report, which can be found in its entirety on the village website, was prepared by Highland Planning. The online survey—intended to gauge community members’ perceptions of opportunities within the Village of Cooperstown in order to inform the $4.5 million funding investment by the NY Forward program—was hosted on Survey Monkey from June 19 to August 7 and received 162 responses.…
