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Mar
23
2007
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by Hugh Bahar
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
 According to the March 20, 2007 Ithaca Journal, the Town of Lansing is attempting to get a 38 year sewer loan from the USDA Rural Utilities Service. They state that the purpose of the sewer project is to “eliminate ground and surface water pollution that is currently caused by inadequate on-site sewage disposal systems.” The stated purpose of the funding request contradicts the Town’s own empirical evidence. Town testing of Ladoga Park septic systems revealed NO septic systems failures. The Town keeps digging for an environmental excuse to build this sewer, and time after time they come up empty handed. However, the Town won’t bow to logic when they have developers, lakefront property owners and a bank president on the Sewer Committee. |
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Mar
23
2007
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by Connie Wilcox
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
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I am writing this to Mr. Hugh Bahar in response to his editorial last week in the Lansing Star. Dear Mr. Bahar: If you really want to be informed of the true facts, why not attend the sewer meetings? They are open to the public and always have been. The next three are scheduled for March 28, April 11 and April 25 at 5 PM. Then when you write editorials to the Lansing Star and Ithaca Journal you might at least have some of the facts right. I am not a member of the sewer committee, but am concerned with affordable housing in Lansing and chair our Affordable Housing Committee, so I chose to attend the meetings. |
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Mar
23
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
 When you drive into the village center in Cayuga Heights you know you are in a village. Buildings are grouped attractively. The police station is nestled among stores, and there is plenty of free parking. It has the look and feel of a village square, attractive and welcoming. The Lansings don't have that kind of visual cohesiveness, and it is interesting to hear Town and Village officials talk about how to define their municipalities' identities.
In the Village, the Triphammer Road project has gone a long way toward defining an identity. While it is still a long business strip, the sidewalks, bicycle paths, charming street lights and planned foliage and signage give what is arguably a village center focus. Village officials are pleased that the new sidewalks are being used regularly. A walking community certainly makes a center... well... a center.
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Mar
16
2007
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by Hugh Bahar
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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I wish to explain some of the intent of the FOIL law in New York, and address some of the comments from Town Attorney Guy Krogh and Deputy Town Supervisor Bud Shattuck in the March 9, 2007 Lansing Star Online regarding my FOIL request for information regarding the proposed Sewer Project. First, I have submitted the FOIL request-which can be found on www.NoLansingSewers.com by clicking the “In The News” button on the Welcome page, in-part to make public, or to “sunshine” the decision making processes used to permanently hire the new Town Environmental Planner, an Engineer, and two Water & Sewer Positions. The latter two taxpayer-funded permanent Town of Lansing positions are especially presumptive, as we currently have no Town Sewer. |
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Mar
16
2007
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by Dan Veaner
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
There has been a lot of talk over the past year or more about property taxes being out of control. Some people have been very outspoken, others have gone on the offensive, and voters have defeated initiatives and threatened to defeat others. People are concerned about fiscal irresponsibility and what they say are unnecessary projects proposed at taxpayers' expense.
For a time it wasn't clear whether the Board Of Education was getting this message. Last year they proposed a budget that would have increased the school tax 7.73%. The voters said no. They came back with a budget that represented an increase of 6.79%. This was reluctantly passed. But was it enough?
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