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Ulster County legislators postpone rail-with-trail policy vote after feasibility, noise and conflict concerns
Summary
Lawmakers voted 5-2 to postpone Resolution 275, which would amend county policy on a "rail with trail" along the Ulster & Delaware Railroad Corridor, and asked for planning and economic-development reports, a neutral engineering review, noise analysis, and consideration of a land swap for the Stony Hollow parcel.
Ulster County legislators voted to postpone consideration of Resolution 275, a proposed amendment to the county's rail-with-trail policy for the Ulster & Delaware Railroad Corridor, after extended debate over engineering feasibility, potential noise impacts and questions about process and conflicts of interest.
Legislator Larry Stewart, who asked that the matter be delayed, read a prepared statement detailing topographic constraints in the "undesignated" section of the corridor. Stewart said the corridor includes "the rock cut" that "varies in width" and a "2,700 feet of high fill section" that in places is "60 feet high," and added that those stretches are "far narrower than the 34 feet…
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