Bethel cleanup continues

Posted 8/21/12

WHITE LAKE, NY — Bethel Supervisor Dan Sturm ticked off a few of the projects the town has been working on that may have helped the town win the highest pride at this year’s Sullivan Renaissance …

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Bethel cleanup continues

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WHITE LAKE, NY — Bethel Supervisor Dan Sturm ticked off a few of the projects the town has been working on that may have helped the town win the highest pride at this year’s Sullivan Renaissance awards ceremony.

He said the town planted and maintained flowers and landscaping at all of the town’s public spaces, there were “enhanced gateway projects” at the justice court and the town barn, the litter-pluck crew worked overtime to make the town roads “the cleanest in Sullivan County” and the building department and town board worked on the removal and clean-up of five dilapidated and unsafe structures. Nine more are in the process of being addressed. The town also expanded opportunities for exercise and outdoor activities.

The work of cleaning up the town continued at the meeting on August 10, as two representatives for a property owner turned out to address a property on Route 55 across from town hall. An engineer, Wes Illing, said he had been hired to address the issue of some foundations that had been poured 10 years ago, but had since been abandoned. He and a contractor said they were going to address the board’s concerns regarding the derelict property.

Other derelict properties were also addressed in a series of five public hearings, and most of the buildings on those properties will soon be removed.

One property on Route 17B, known as the boathouse, is currently involved in a bankruptcy procedure, and town attorney Rob McEwan said the town can’t move forward with the possible removal of unsafe structures on that parcel because of the bankruptcy.

On a different matter, council member Dawn Ryder introduced a resolution for the town to change its zoning with regard to daycare facilities. Currently, daycare facilities are allowed in only one district, and a local couple is seeking to open a daycare facility in another district. Board members generally agreed there is a need for more such facilities in the town, and the board asked McEwan to draw up language for a zoning change that the board will consider at a future meeting.

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