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Planning director outlines tight housing-study timeline and ARPA-funded aerial flight
Summary
Allegany County planning director Kier Durham told the March 19 committee the county will hold multiple stakeholder meetings and two public sessions on a housing study due in June, and that an ARPA-funded Eagle View aerial flight will run as soon as ground conditions allow.
Kier Durham, Allegany County director of planning, told the Planning & Economic Development Committee on March 19 that the county has scheduled four stakeholder housing-study meetings and two public information sessions to gather input ahead of a June deadline for the study. The public sessions are set for March 24 at 6:00 p.m. at the Town of Elma municipal building and March 25 at 6:00 p.m. at the Palmer Opera House in Cuba.
"This is the primary chance for people to talk," Durham said, noting the study began in January and has a short timeline to completion. He asked residents who have not received outreach to contact the planning office and emphasized limited additional sessions may be possible but are not guaranteed.
Durham also described a county aerial-imagery program funded by ARPA that will include a third Eagle View flight. He said the flight will be scheduled "as soon as the snow cuts out" to capture images in the narrow window between snow and leaf-out, and that the county currently supports about 100 users of the imagery platform across assessors, emergency management and other offices. Durham said future flights would require either new grant funds or a local budget allocation to continue beyond the current ARPA-funded work.
Committee members asked about a prior GIS study; Durham said that study was completed more than a year ago and that the county is consolidating individual GIS licenses under one county license and working to centralize data so more departments can view, and in some cases edit, information.
The exchange underscored two near-term items for county planners: the compressed schedule for the housing study and completing the next aerial flight before leaf-out. The committee did not record a formal vote on the housing study schedule in the provided segments; Durham encouraged public participation at the scheduled meetings.
