SPECIAL PLANNING BOARD MEETING
CANAAN, NY 12029


OCTOBER 7, 2009


This meeting was called to order at 7:05pm and all Board members were present.

The Chairman stated there were only 2 things on the agenda. The first was a revised driveway for a previously approved subdivision for Paul Nowak. The second item was the finalization of the Telecommunications Tower at Berkshire Farm.

Revised driveway for Paul Nowak on Bradley’s Crossing Road. This property is owned by Jens & Spee Braun and Eric & Ellen Harris-Braun.

Mr. Harris-Braun brought in letters from his attorney allowing him to represent this application for his brother and sister-in-law since they are out of the country. Ms. Harris-Braun was in the audience. The Board said the letters were fine.

MOTION TO APPROVE THE RELOCATION OF THE DRIVEWAY-Ian Hooper
Second-Pierre Gontier All in Favor

Roll call Chairman Davis-yes
Ian Hooper-yes
Jennifer Mickle-yes
Pierre Gontier-yes adopted
Michael Belknap-yes

Finalization of the Telecommunications Tower on property owned by Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth located on Route 22.

Ron said the Certificate of Insurance for Verizon is now okay as well as the Certificate of Insurance for Berkshire Farm. Also, the Access Easement agreement has been signed and filed with the County.

Ron then said he had spoken to Louis Vitale about the legal fees and it has been worked out. $120.00 of fees were removed from the bill and a final bill was sent. Mr. Vitale told Ron that Chris Ciolfi was bringing a check for $5000.00 to cover the rest of legal fees with a small cushion. Ron said there would also be a check for the building permits. Mr. Ciolfi said the Supervisor told Mr. Vitale the fee for the building permit was to come out of the escrow account. Ron said he was not aware of that.

Mr. Ciolfi submitted new pages (C02) to replace those previously submitted and approved. These new pages show the actual antenna height, they are not above the tower.
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These pages will replace the old C02’s after they are stamped.

MOTION TO APPROVE THE SITE PLAN. ALL OUTSTANDING ITEMS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED AND ARE COMPLETE-Pierre Gontier
Second-Ian Hooper All in Favor

Roll call Chairman Davis-yes
Ian Hooper-yes
Jennifer Mickle-yes
Pierre Gontier-yes adopted
Michael Belknap-yes

In stamping the new pages, the Board realized Mr. Ciolfi had only submitted 3 large maps of page C02 and 5 small maps of C02 (the smaller version is for Verizon). Mr. Ciolfi will need to get 2 more copies to this Board for stamping. Note: The Board gave 3 newly stamped pages to Mr. Ciolfi and the Clerk kept 2 newly stamped page C02 as well as all 5 copies of the Verizon approval.

This concluded the Board’s business for the night.

MOTION TO ADJOURN-Ian Hooper Second-Pierre Gontier All in Favor

The meeting was adjourned at 7:37pm.



Respectfully submitted,


Tammy C. Flaherty
Planning Board Clerk

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