November 22,1989
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November 22, 1989 9C)00 11/04/9!) SM Cl3 Vol. XXXIV, No. 48 PE::-r ~-·IL..Fy!··JE:h F'UD;_ I l~ L J: PH{~f\~\ ... ,q.~:::; t i)i::::L.(JL,;P·rh~L (·t'v'r~·. f-,j'y" .·he weekly newspaper serving the towns of •• Bethlehem and New Scotland· NORTH BETHLEHEM Bypass defeat sets back plans By Mark Stuart Thevoters' defeatoftheproposed South em Bypass in the Town of Guilderland will hav.e a direct effect on the county's traffic plans in North Bethlehem, accord ing to County Engineer Paul Cooney. However, he said the decision will not affect the county's timetable for a generic environmental impact study of the .Krumkill Road area, which includes parts of Guilderland, North Bethlehem and New Scotland. The study requires the approval of all three town boards.. New Scotland has already approved the plans while Bethle hem and Guilderland have tabled the issue. One of the county's funding plans for the study involves lot fees charged for new building projects. The builder would then be allowed to use information gath ered in the GElS for his own project in lieu of an individual draft environmental im pact statement. (Turn to Page 11) 2~Tall Timbers impact: "aquifer unaffected By Bob Hagyard Water wells proposed for the Tall Timbers site will not draw down or other New Scotland wise affect the aquifer underneath the proposed single-family development. Orchard Park. According to state De That's the major finding of the draft partment of Environmental Conservation environmental impact statement filed by officials, well water in that area is con the Galesi Group on the project. Plans taminated by salt leached into the ground call for 170 single-family homes along from the state Department of Transpor Hilton Road east of Voorheesville, 60 tation storage facility in Voorheesville. percent fewer than the 430 proposed two Major threats to the aquifer would years ago. arise off the site - by chemical spills Accordingly, the expected impacts fromtheDelawareandHudsonlinesouth have been reduced, the developer's state of the well sites. At least two trains per ment ·concluded. The Town Board will day include tankers containing toxic hear comments on the document at a materials, the report stated. Any threat to public hearing on Dec. 6 at Town Hall. the aquifer would be minimal, the report continued, because trains tend to be run . Town of New Scotland officials see the at slow speeds through this area and the wells as the supply source for a proposed location of the wells is about 9,400 feet water district, serving 67 homes in Or north of the rail line. chard Park across the tracks as well as the 170 in Tall Timbers. The system to be A drumlin on the site - an oval, built is designed to handle "only the units smoothly rounded hill of unstratified proposed for Tall Timbers and existing glacial drift - is the focus of concerns Orchard Park units," the statement re about possible soil erosion. Cutting into it ports. for roadways would create that potential, That, presumably, would leave the the report stated. 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OPEN EVENINGS 11U 439-9212 8:30 Monday -Friday NEXT To Community Health Plan PAGE 2-November 22, 1989- The Spotlight Joyce: Let's let CDTArun the airport Assessing improvements that have to be The coneern that airport cus- would have to be $43,013,537, impact of Albany County made to cope with future airport tomers would suffer from a private making an 88.6 percent increase needs. operation also was noted by Si- since last year and a 163 percent policy shift Private management has the moni. His Saratoga County Board increasesincetwoyearsago",Ross disadvantage of having to be a of Supervisors is slated to decide said. By Patricia Dumas (Originally, the CDTAhad offered profit-making interest, Joyce said. at its Dec. 7 meeting whether or Deputies arres·t 2 for Albany County Executive James to buy the airport for $25,250,000 HesaidhealsoconsidersCDTA nottosupporttheCDTAasopera- DWI ]. Coyne's 1988 plan to have the under a spread-out payment plan.) operationasanadvantagebecause tor. Capital District Transportation itprobablywould be acceptable to Morris said the county has now . Albany County sheriff'.s depu Authority run the county airport is The Alblll,ly airport has a his- the FAA, which has yet to rule on lost "any negotiating position we ties arrested two motonsts for being revived ina new version with tory of being eyed as a way to bail whether the county could use might have had in terms of having misdemeanor driving while into xi a new promoter. government out of financial diffi- revenues raised through a private a valuable property because the cated last week. This time the plan calls for leas culties. The City of Albany initially enterprise ownership. county is now in a desperate finan- At 11:30 p.m. Friday, deputies ing, instead of selling the airportto owned the airport but in 1960, Kenneth C. Wagner, director of cia! position." stopped Faythe Allport of Selkirk the CDTA, and the promoter is needing money, sold it to the the Center for Economic Growth, He pointed out that Robert G. for alleged failure to keep right on Harold L.Joyce, majority leader of county. Earlier, in 1949, the city which is affiliated with the Albany Lyman, chairman of the CDTA is Elm Avenue, Delmar. After giving the county legislature. had tried to sell the airport to New Colonie Chamber of Commerce, the former Albany County attor- a field sobriety test, the driver was ney. arrested for DWl and issued traf- And as with previous shifts in York City in order to raise money last August outlined a $390 million the airport sale scenario, many of to ease its financial woes. airport redevelopment plan and "There is no reason to believe fie tickets returnable to Bethle the players are lining up with new Coyne's plan to balance the made it clear that the center fa that now as chairman of the CDTA hem Town Court on Dec. 12. positions. county budget by using revenues vored·CDTA as the loi;cal choice Mr. Lyman would run the county . On Nov. 1.4 at about 11 p.m., from a British American/Lock- to be airport operator. airport any better than he did as MichaeiDenung,45,ofEastBerne Coyne last spring backed away the power behind Albany County was stopped on Route 85 in New from supporting the CDTA as the heed-lease/sale arrangement - Wagner last week pointed out when the airport was run as a dis- Scotland after he was buyer and subsequently an and Joyce's plan to have the CDTA -that as a commuter-based airport obse~ved provide money through some sort with costs per mile relatively high, aster," Morris claimed. backing onto the the state high- nounced that he favored a pr() way. He was arrested for DWl and posal from British American/Lock released on tickets pending a reap heed Air Terminal to acquire and pearance in New Scotland Town · run the airport in a first-ever pri Court on Nov. 30. vate takeover of a commercial air The Albany airport has a history ofbeing eyed as a way port. The partnership offer would to bail government out of financial difficulties. Police will increase give the county $25.5 million in a down payment, with installment DWipatrols payments over a 40.year span. Bethlehem town police will put Coyne's choice of the partner of a lease last week brought these from a business point of view the Nforris also critici7;ed Gov. more eyes on the road in search of ship arrangement was spelled out reactions: airlines can't afford to.payforair- Mar10Cuomofornothavmgmade drivers under the influence this indollarslastmonthwhenhelisted • w. Gordon Morris, Jr., the port expansion. appoin~ents to fill two vacancies Thanksgiving Day holiday. county legislature's Republican "There is only so much elastic- on the mnemember, all-Democrat It' · t f th . $17 million from the anticipated · · 1 d · h CDTA board s par o e po 1Ice down payment as revenue to be mmonty ea er, questioned t e ityinabudgetandwhenyoustretch . • · department'sstepped-upeffortsto counted on in his proposed 1990 wisdomofturningtheairportover it too far, something is going to I would have thought that the curb driving while intoXicated in Albany County budget.