10 CHESTNUT NEIGHBORS OBJECTED Developer Withdraws Application For ‘Grove,’ 12-Apartment Project By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The developer of “The Grove,” Josh Edmonds, said today he has withdrawn his application for the 12-unit apartment house at 10 Chestnut St. “It didn’t seem productive to keep the application in progress at this moment,” said Edmonds, a partner in Simple Integrity, the contracting and construction company. The project, located between Chestnut Street and Pine Boulevard, a half-block up…
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Planning Board Meets On New Housing Plan COOPERSTOWN – The village Planning Board meets at 4:30 p.m. today to review a proposed housing plan seeking to create more apartment housing in Cooperstown. The issue of apartments brought a crowd to last month’s Village Board meeting to oppose The Grove, a 12-unit apartment house proposed on empty land between Chestnut Street and Pine Boulevard.…
Letter from RICHARD BLABEY The Grove Would Improve Site To the Editor: At the Cooperstown Village Board meeting Monday, June 24, many residents voiced concern regarding a proposed project to build a 12-unit apartment building at 10 Chestnut St. A core complaint was that this high-density residential project was too massive and not compatible with their neighborhood. The proposed planned development contains two properties. Construction is only being proposed for the larger of the two. It is 50 feet wide…
Letter from CHIP NORTHRUP Question Planners Should Ask: Is It Better Than What’s There? To the Editor: To implement the Village of Cooperstown Housing Committee’s recommendations, the Village might start by being a bit more receptive to the demolition of derelict buildings for new development. Since the village can’t grow outwards, it must grow upwards via infill redevelopment. The density of the village’s building stock has probably decreased slightly from its peak – as evidenced by archival photographs of hotels…
EDITORIAL Village Trustees: Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown A sitting-room-only-on-the-floor crowd Monday, June 24, at the Cooperstown Village Board’s monthly meeting had a point: Why put an apartment house in the middle of one of the village’s finest single-family-home neighborhoods? There it is. That said, who doesn’t have some mixed feelings, given that the developer, Josh Edmonds, intends to build a complex that is supremely energy efficient, as is his new home at 45 Delaware St., and to price it so young…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 27-28, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County’s Elderly Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef A Visit To Otsego County, Louisiana 12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors ‘It Couple’ As Wife, Husband Take Pulpits EDITORIAL Trustees, Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: How To Waste $400 Million SEWARD: New Law May Bankrupt Farms LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DOWNEY: Gas Best Way To Decarbonize AINSLIE FAMILY:…
12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The 12-unit The Grove apartment complex – unprecedented in Cooperstown – just surfaced, but neighbors packed the Village Board’s monthly meeting Monday, June 24, to denounce it. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the village would consider a 12-unit apartment complex within a block of primarily single-family homes,” said Sherrie Kingsley, co-owner of The Inn at Cooperstown with husband Marc. “Is there really…
VILLAGE TRUSTEES GET EARFUL Development Pressures Bring Out Worried Citizens Sherrie Kingsley, above, proprietor of The Inn at Cooperstown with her husband, Marc (seated to her right), reads a three-page letter to the Village Board this evening raising concerns about impacts of The Grove, a 12-unit apartment complex developer Josh Edmonds is proposing at 10 Chestnut St., next to single-family homes on lower Chestnut and Pine Boulevard. Several neighbors seconded Kingsley’s concerns. Others, including Bill Rigby, inset at right, opposed…
Trustees Will See Plan To Allow More Housing Within Village Limits NY Pizza Parking, The Grove Apartments Also On Village Board’s Agenda Tonight COOPERSTOWN – A proposed revision to the Zoning Law that will allow two-family and apartment houses throughout the Village of Cooperstown will be presented to trustees for the first time tonight. Also under discussion at the meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m at Village Hall, 22 Main St., will be a parking plan for New York Pizzeria…
EDMONDS BRIEFS TRUSTEES ON ‘THE GROVE’ 12 Net-Zero Apartments Planned On Chestnut St. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S & HOMETOWN, ON NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON…