By: DarlaY
03/24/2023 12:04 pm
Letter from Jim Howarth
Last week, the Cooperstown Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously turned down a special use permit for the owners of 40 Lake Street to allow short-term rental tenants. I am writing to thank the ZBA for their decision.
While one cannot know the motivation for the board’s decision, it seems obvious that the regulation that such rentals must be an “incidental use” to the property played a part. Their proposal would have made 80 percent of the residence available for short-term rentals. That’s a primary use of the property—not incidental.
By: DarlaY
03/24/2023 12:04 pm
Letter from Chip Northrup
We greatly appreciate the Zoning Board’s unanimous rejection of the absentee owner’s attempt to turn 40 Lake Street into a transient rooming house. Transient housing would have ruined the neighbors’ quiet enjoyment of their homes. Susan Snell has proven to be an excellent chairman of the zoning board.
By: DarlaY
03/16/2023 8:04 am
By CASPAR EWIG
COOPERSTOWN
Last Tuesday, March 7, 2023—in front of an overflow, standing-room-only crowd—the Village of Cooperstown Zoning Board of Appeals considered and ultimately denied an application by Mark and Margaret Curley, the owners of 40 Lake Street, to permit four of the residence’s five bedrooms to be used for short-term rentals.
Prior to the hearing, the ZBA had received 24 letters and/or e-mails, all of which expressed the writers’ objection to the application. The same was true of comments made at the hearing: the residents who spoke all opposed the application. The owners, who had purchased the house also known as Averill Cottage four months earlier, were not present. Although a family member did attend and was given the opportunity to be heard, he declined.
By: Jim Kevlin
12/05/2018 5:41 pm
By PATRICK WAGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – The Village Planning Board extended a short-term rental permit and granted a new one last evening at its December meeting.
The new permit went to 25 Chestnut St., owned by Cooperstown Eagles LLC, and a three-year renewal to 44 Susquehanna Ave., owned by Alice Gavaria.
