At the November 16 Town Planning Board meeting, neighbors on Simmons Drive in Saugerties described Rust Free Motors as a junkyard. Steve Michael King, one of the owners, said his business is repairing and restoring classic and antique cars, as well as less expensive used cars. None of the cars on his lot go to junkyards or are dismantled for parts sales.
After nearly a year of discussion, adjustment of plans and hearings, Catskill Terraces, a ten-lot subdivision on 88 acres has received conditional final approval from the Town of Saugerties Planning Board.
A self-service car wash in Saugerties that has no regular employees doesn’t need bathrooms, according to a developer who hopes to get approval and a zone change for his car wash.
Opinion was divided on a set of new regulations that make a provision for cannabis-related establishments amongst larger zoning changes that officials say will bring more continuity to zoning regulations across the Town of Saugerties.
The Saugerties Town Board voted unanimously to enact a controversial property maintenance law bringing to close a five-year process to create a law that gives the Town expanded power to deal with derelict and problem properties.
Taxes will rise an average of $65 next year in the Town of Saugerties after Town officials unanimously approved a 2022 budget that features a 4.6 percent spending increase going mainly to fund a third-fully staffed ambulance for Diaz Memorial Ambulance, which has seen calls skyrocket in recent years.
Saugerties Town officials decided to delay voting on a controversial property maintenance law after it appeared on last week’s meeting agenda.
A packed house of residents decried Saugerties Town officials’ proposed plan to override the state’s two percent tax cap at a recent public hearing regarding the Town’s 2022 budget and the tax cap override.
Saugerties could have as many as four dispensaries selling recreational marijuana within the next two years, depending on the responses of citizens and the identification of suitable locations, Supervisor Fred Costello said Monday, October 25 at a town hall-style meeting to discuss new state legislation allowing marijuana growing, production and sales.
The Saugerties Town Board recently approved an amendment to the Town zoning code setting new regulations regarding large solar facilities.