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TOWN of ROSENDALE DRAFT Comprehensive Plan TTOOWWNN OOFF RROOSSEENNDDAALLEE DRAFT Comprehensive Plan ENHANCING VALUE PRESERVING RESOURCES IMPROVINGIMPROVING CAPACITY January 2007 Town of Rosendale Trustees Robert Gallagher, Supervisor Kenneth Hassett Patrick McDonough Ken Cluen Manna Jo Greene Town of Rosendale Comprehensive Plan Committee Chairman-Rick Fritschler Frank Boccio Michael Montella Gary Schwartz Attilio Contini Ernest DeWitt Dietrich Werner Kelli Havranek Roberta Clements Lisa Kellogg Secretary-Fred Greitzer TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................1 GENERAL THEMES FOR ROSENDALE’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN........................................13 PRESERVING RESOURCES .............................................................................................................20 A. Goals for Sustainable Natural Resources-Based Land-Use Patterns .........................................20 Proposed Recommendations for Achieving Natural Resources-based Land-Use Patterns..............20 B. Goals for Open Space.................................................................................................................24 Recommendations for Preserving Open Space ................................................................................24 C. Goals for Water Resources.........................................................................................................26 Recommendations for Preserving Water Resources ........................................................................26 D. Goals for Natural resources/ecosystem protection.....................................................................29 Recommendations for Protection of Natural Resources/Ecosystems ..............................................29 E. Goals for Historic Features.........................................................................................................30 Recommendations for Preserving Significant Historic Features .....................................................31 ENHANCING VALUE: GOALS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, HAMLETS, HOUSING & NEIGHBORHOODS............................................................................................................................34 F. Goals for Types of Economic Development...............................................................................34 Recommendations for Promoting Economic Development.............................................................34 G. Goals for Siting Economic Development...................................................................................37 Recommendations for Siting Economic Development ....................................................................38 H. Goals for Hamlet Centers...........................................................................................................38 Recommendations for Enhancing Hamlet Centers ..........................................................................39 I. Goals for Housing........................................................................................................................41 Recommendations for Enhancing Housing......................................................................................41 J. Goals for Neighborhood Quality of Life .....................................................................................42 Recommendations for Enhancing Neighborhood Quality of Life ...................................................42 IMPROVING CAPACITY FOR EFFICIENCY & EFFECTIVENESS: GOALS FOR COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY SERVICES...............................................45 K. Goals for Community Infrastructure..........................................................................................45 Recommendations for Community Infrastructure............................................................................45 L. Goals for Community Services...................................................................................................48 Recommendations for Community Services....................................................................................48 GOALS FOR REGIONAL ISSUES ....................................................................................................53 PLAN IMPLEMENTATION...............................................................................................................54 PLAN APPENDICES ..........................................................................................................................61 Town of Rosendale Comprehensive Plan DRAFT January 2007 page i INTRODUCTION The Planning Process Rosendale last completed a comprehensive plan in 1969. The Village still existed as a separate unit of government. Nelson Rockefeller was governor of the State. Richard Nixon was in the first year of his presidency. IBM was the dominant employer in the region. The last vestiges of the once- booming cement industry were just disappearing from the Town. Over the last 35 years, IBM, like Rosendale’s cement companies, left Ulster County completely. Village government ceased to exist. Yet change in Rosendale has added as much as it has taken away. The personal computer and the Internet have transformed the way we work and create. Environmental protection has been formally incorporated into laws at the national, state and local levels. Rosendale has seen the birth of a new generation of enterprises and organizations, ranging from precision plastic molding to multi-media artists. In 2001, the Town of Rosendale appointed a committee to review and update the existing comprehensive plan. The committee compiled a variety of existing planning and planning-related information to guide their work. That year the committee also commissioned a community survey to serve as one of several means to secure public input to the planning process. The Committee created, administered and compiled a survey of residents in 2002. 1,138 surveys were returned. A full tabulation of all survey responses was prepared by Shuster Associates in October, 2002. An analysis of the responses to the survey (including the “open-ended” questions) is included in the basic studies for the plan in the appendix for “public outreach.” During 2003, two public outreach meetings were held during the month of June. At these meetings, those in attendance were asked to evaluate images representing issues related to quality of life, neighborhoods and development along the Route 32 corridor. In addition, participants were divided into groups and, using a map of the Town, were asked to identify thing in the Town to be protected as well as things to be promoted. The results of these exercises are also summarized in the basic studies for the plan in the appendix for “public outreach.” In September, 2003 by three public outreach meetings were held to garner public comment about draft goals for the comprehensive plan. The comments gathered at each of these meetings are tabulated in the basic studies for the plan in the appendix for “public outreach.” From October, 2003 to August, 2004, the master plan committee met monthly to review in detail the plan goals and recommendations and to solicit input from town organizations and agencies on these goals and recommendations. In the fall of 2004, the complete draft was reviewed by the committee, before being subject to at least one public hearing. Once the committee completed its public hearing(s), the draft was finalized and forwarded to the Town Planning Board and County Planning Board for review. Then it was presented to the Town Board for adoption, following a public hearing and completion of the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process required prior to adoption. Town of Rosendale Comprehensive Plan January 2007 page 1 The Context: Rosendale’s Legacy of History and Topography Rosendale was built on limestone. Literally, much of the Town is underlain by deposits of a very high quality limestone that was once mined extensively and used in an early type of cement. In another sense, as noted on the Town’s own website, Rosendale owes its existence in part to the presence of this resource: The discovery of cement during the building of the Delaware and Hudson Canal in 1825 led directly to the formation of the township of Rosendale in 1844. Taking lands that had been formerly in the towns of Hurley, Marbletown, and New Paltz, the state intended to place the booming cement industry under the control of one political body. At its peak, during the second half of the nineteenth century, the cement business involved the operation of at least 19 large companies and several smaller ventures and employed more than 5,000 men. Four million barrels of cement a year were produced which was 50 percent of the total production of natural cement in the United States. - courtesy of Ann Gilchrist: Rosendale Town Historian This is key to understanding the unique challenges and opportunities that face Rosendale. The Town was configured to include all of the cement industry sites, but—for the most part—only the cement industry sites. Consequently, Rosendale’s topography is distinct from its neighbors. As shown in Figure 1, Rosendale has only a few small patches of relatively level land, particularly when compared to Marbletown and New Paltz, where even areas of higher elevation are relatively flat. By contrast, Rosendale has a topography that seems almost corrugated in character. This is particularly true in the glaciated
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