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Residents press board over proposed trails and contest warehouse FEIS and Staley Road safety
Summary
Several Grand Island residents used public comment time to oppose proposed recreational trails behind private homes, to press for better town communication and to call on the board to reject or require revisions to the FEIS for a proposed warehouse project; Staley Road safety and sidewalk funding also drew comments.
Multiple residents used the Town Board public-comment period on March 3 to press elected officials on proposed trail planning, raise road- and safety-related concerns on Staley Road, and to urge the town to treat the Quest warehouse environmental review skeptically.
Eli Hazan, a resident of Park Place, told the board he and neighbors oppose the idea of trails being placed behind homes in his neighborhood, saying the town did not adequately communicate plans to residents. “When I want to put a shed on my property, I’m told where I can put it and where I cannot put it,” Hazan said. “Yet the town wants to come put public trails behind our homes…Who’s gonna police these trails? Who’s gonna clean these trails? Who’s gonna groom these trails?” Hazan said he will attend meetings and pursue all available options to stop the trails from being installed behind his…
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