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Resident urges board to align notice radius for site plan mailings with city noise ordinance
Summary
A resident told the Ithaca City Planning and Development Board that the board’s 250-foot certified-mail notice for site-plan applications does not match the city’s 500-foot noise-impacted area under Local Law 240-4 and asked the board to seek Common Council action to align the mailing requirement.
Meg Pritchard, a nearby resident, told the Ithaca City Planning and Development Board on March 25 that the board’s current 250-foot certified-mail notice requirement for site-plan applicants excludes some neighbors who would fall within the city’s 500-foot consideration in the noise ordinance, Local Law 240-4.
Pritchard said she was outside the board’s 250-foot notification zone for a project that gained final approval in December 2022 and asked whether the board intends to amend its application mailing requirement to match the 500-foot radius described in the noise ordinance.
The board chair, Emily Petrino, and…
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