A business plans to build a self-storage operation along Route 11 near Polkville.
T&E Law Properties LLC proposes a 268-unit storage complex, to be built in four buildings, at Route 11 and Buck Drive. Cortlandville Town Board members talked with business representatives during a board meeting Wednesday.
Town Attorney Fran Casullo led board members, with help from a business representative, to answer questions about lighting of the grounds, and effect on plant and animal life once the board agreed to act as lead agency under the state’s Environmental Quality Review Act.
Casullo recommended that paperwork the town would complete to comply with SEQRA would generally report that the business would have little negative effect on the area. The proposed storage business would be among a string of businesses and industries that include Suit-Kote, Intertek Testing Services NA, a farm-equipment business and several gas stations and convenience stores.
There was no discussion of when construction was planned.
The town also approved spending $35,000 to $40,000, Supervisor Gregory Leach said, to go out to bid on a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system to be added to a concession building at the Gutchess Lumber Sports Complex off Route 13 in South Cortland.
Resident Pam Jenkins had asked the board “for the entire Gutchess Lumber Sport Complex plan.” said Jenkins Wednesday night: “We have only been ignored.”
The board generally does not speak to comments that members of the public make to the board, and did not answer Jenkins’ request.
But the board did address an issue raised by a man who operates a business in the town. John Demody, who owns an Allstate Insurance agency on The Park off Route 13, raised questions about why his business had received a third-quarter bill of $366.66 for sewer service and $272.60 for water.
“My bill is usually $50,” he said.
Deputy Supervisor Jeffrey D. Guido suggested Demody be required to pay only the sewer charge – an expense the town must pay to the city of Cortland, whose wastewater-treatment plant the town uses.
But board member Sunday M. Earle said the full charge would have to be paid – as the town’s water-sewer superintendent had recommended. Earle said the next person who believes the bill is too high will want a similar discount.
Board members David J. Donlick, Glenn D. Reisweber and Leach agreed with her.
