For the past three years, a small committee has been meeting at the Ledyard Town Hall to create a comprehensive plan for the Town of Ledyard. Most of the workers are also the good citizens who have stepped up to be planning board members for standard terms in office. Others have been volunteers who care greatly about the town and village of Aurora.
All have freely given their time and effort to create a document, which will be the underpinnings of a new, supremely important, zoning law.
I sat in on one of the final meetings, before the committee and the planning board bless the final draft, and send it on to the Ledyard Town Board for adoption or dismissal. The current draft is a synthesis of a needs and wants survey sent out to all tax parcel owners, citizen input from frequent public hearings, input from a consultant brought in to advise on handling the preservation of farmland within the town, and the invaluable expertise of Amy Deangelo, of the County Planning Department, whose resources were tapped extensively.
The final draft should go to the town board next month, and anyone from Ledyard or Aurora who worries about today and next week, and next year in our living space, should read the copy which will be available at the town hall.
Anyone who returned a questionnaire in the huge response received by the committee will be interested to see if their concerns and ideas are accurately included and addressed. It has been the charter of this committee to capture the heart and soul of the community, and its wishes for quality of life going forward. Success can only be judged by reading and understanding the document.
The influx of today's destination marketing in Aurora, and impacts from the outside world, such as heavy commercial trucking, are sure to bring economic growth and development, as well as negative aspects to the quality of life in our town.
The comprehensive plan, and its synthesis of who we are and what we want of our town, provides the basis for a zoning law that insures that development, either next year or long term, is orderly, and follows the script we laid out in the plan.
Stay tuned for further developments.
William Dugan is former supervisor for the town of Ledyard.
I sat in on one of the final meetings, before the committee and the planning board bless the final draft, and send it on to the Ledyard Town Board for adoption or dismissal. The current draft is a synthesis of a needs and wants survey sent out to all tax parcel owners, citizen input from frequent public hearings, input from a consultant brought in to advise on handling the preservation of farmland within the town, and the invaluable expertise of Amy Deangelo, of the County Planning Department, whose resources were tapped extensively.
The final draft should go to the town board next month, and anyone from Ledyard or Aurora who worries about today and next week, and next year in our living space, should read the copy which will be available at the town hall.
Anyone who returned a questionnaire in the huge response received by the committee will be interested to see if their concerns and ideas are accurately included and addressed. It has been the charter of this committee to capture the heart and soul of the community, and its wishes for quality of life going forward. Success can only be judged by reading and understanding the document.
The influx of today's destination marketing in Aurora, and impacts from the outside world, such as heavy commercial trucking, are sure to bring economic growth and development, as well as negative aspects to the quality of life in our town.
The comprehensive plan, and its synthesis of who we are and what we want of our town, provides the basis for a zoning law that insures that development, either next year or long term, is orderly, and follows the script we laid out in the plan.
Stay tuned for further developments.
William Dugan is former supervisor for the town of Ledyard.
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