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Planning board backs application for Erie County funding to support townwide zoning rewrite

3237510 · May 9, 2025
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Summary

The Cheektowaga Planning Board voted to recommend that the town board seek Erie County funding to implement a comprehensive-plan action: a townwide zoning rewrite (or a smaller phased rewrite focused on the Galleria Thruway District) to update land-use standards and public outreach capacity.

The Cheektowaga Planning Board voted to recommend that the town board apply for Erie County funds to support implementation of a 2021 Comprehensive Plan action calling for a townwide zoning rewrite.

Dan Young, the town planner, read a letter before the board stating that town board members Brian Nowak and Anthony Flipsky seek to file an application for County of Erie funding to enact the comprehensive-plan action that calls for a zoning rewrite. Young said the funding, if awarded and leveraged as a local match, could be used to pursue…

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