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Gardiner mulls delay of short-term rental law until finishing town’s new master plan

by Frances Marion Platt
April 22, 2021
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In a surprise move at the April 13 Gardiner Town Board meeting, following many months of heated public input over proposed legislation to regulate short-term rentals (STRs) in the township, supervisor Marybeth Majestic broached the possibility of holding off on adopting the new law until after a full update of Gardiner’s Comprehensive Plan has been completed toward the end of the year. Citing the heavy workload before the board this summer as it reviews the plan adopted in 2004, she suggested “maybe just simple licensing for now,” with a return to consideration of such controversial details as limits on eligibility, days per year and number of rooms for STRs after the language of the Comprehensive Plan has been modernized to reflect current trends in vacation housing.

The supervisor expressed concern about the fact that public hearings on the proposed STR law have been heavily dominated by STR operators and employees, noting that the comprehensive plan update process will include a series of public forums as well as outreach to diverse stakeholder groups. “While we’re working on the Comp Plan, we can get input from the community,” she said. “We’ve heard a lot from STR owners, but we haven’t heard much from people outside that.” She also reminded the board the Ulster County is currently developing a Housing Action Plan that may impact the shape of the final STR legislation.

Majestic’s suggestion of a phased “stopgap” approach to STR regulation elicited a mixed response from the Town Board. Councilman David Dukler asked that a proposal he had submitted that “goes in a different direction” be given consideration. “Let’s look at both,” said councilman Franco Carucci. “We can have a discussion at the May meeting.”

A timeline developed by Majestic and deputy supervisor Laura Walls for the overhaul of the Comprehensive Plan projects an initial public engagement phase running through the end of June, drafting of new plan language by the board in July and August, forums for public reaction in September and October and SEQR review in November. The topic “will be on every agenda between now and December 14, when hopefully we will adopt a Comprehensive Plan,” said Walls.

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Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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