Seasonal parking rules restart
The Village of Schuylerville will restart revisions of the seasonal parking rules soon in order to have them ready for next winter, the village board announced at their meeting Wednesday Jan. 11.
The parking rules require that people shift sides of the street depending on the day. Village officials said last year this was mainly to aid in snow removal. Too many scofflaws now are just ignoring that parking rule, especially if there is no snow.
“We need community involvement,” said Village Trustee Dan Baker at Wednesday's meeting. He was officiating the meeting as Mayor Dan Carpenter was absent.
He said that the new law might not have cars towed, but ticketed instead. Both he and Village Treasurer Cory Heyman said that people waking after a snow storm to find their cars have been hauled away might be too draconian of a punishment.
“One plan is getting a [parking attendant],” he said. After the meeting he added that the village cannot afford a full police department, but paying to have a person trained as a parking enforcer and then paying them to issue tickets might be plausible.
The village will be reaching out to local citizens to help draft the law.
The village came close to revising the seasonal parking rules at this time last year until a typo was pointed out by FoothillsBusinessDaily.com, and the village board tabled the action.
The seasonal law is necessary, village leadership has said, to allow New York State Department of Transportation plows and village snow clearing equipment the room to maneuver safely and get the snow off village streets. The plowing also allows emergency vehicles access to homes and businesses.
Schuylerville’s planning board chair to step down
Bob Foster, the long-time planning board chair in Schuylerville, will step down in July. Village Trustee Dan Baker made the announcement at the Village Board meeting Tuesday Jan. 11.
Foster was on the board when it first started, he said in a quick interview Jan. 12.
“I’ve been the chairman for 16 years. I’m 82 years old. It’s time to slow down,” Foster said, adding that no one has stepped up yet to take his place as chair.
He will step down at the end of his term in July, giving the village time enough to find a replacement, he said. Currently, the board has no major projects in front of it.
In the year since the village approved its zoning ordinance, the planning board and Foster have come under more scrutiny regarding record keeping and the role of the planning board.
[Read more about the planning board here and here.]
The current planning board, as listed on the village’s website:
- Robert Foster
- Ronalee Myers
- Beth Woodard
- Sean Healy
Alternate
- Cassandra Wilusz