Article Courtesy of the Publisher of the Lake Country Echo, Robert Delena CONESUS — In a written decision on May 7, 2018, Judge John Ark of the New York State Supreme Court ruled that the Town of Conesus Legacy Law of 2017 was “illegal, null and void, invalid, and unconstitutional.” The ruling by State Supreme Court Judge John Ark came about as the result of a lawsuit filed by Tom and Trish Bruckel, Robert Siracusa and Sally Hirth last fall … [Read more...]
EMAIL TO THE EDITOR: Conesus ZBA Members Acted Appropriately on Myers Inn
CONESUS – The following is an email submitted by Conesus Town Councilman Don Wester to the GeneseeSun.com for publication. The attitudes and ideas expressed below should not be interpreted as the opinion of the GeneseeSun.com. On July 25th, 2017 Judge Ark ruled on the CME project (formally the Conesus Inn). The Conesus Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) was by court order to render a decision whether to grant a Special Use Permit to allow the CME … [Read more...]
SUN EXCLUSIVE: Donohue’s Disaster: Conesus Self-Destructs Over Myers Inn
CONESUS – The Conesus Town government is eating itself from within over the Myer's Inn construction project. Wednesday night, the Town Board considered spending taxpayer money to help Carl Myers Inc. sue the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) for allegedly failing to follow procedure. As several flabbergasted members of the public pointed out, this essentially means that the Town considered 'intervening' or joining in, a lawsuit against itself, and … [Read more...]
Conesus Board Might Take ZBA to Court Over Myers Inn Hearing
CONESUS – The Town Board will hold a special meeting Wednesday night to decide whether to take their own planning board to court 'with regard to a determination at the ZBA's most recent meeting. The Town Board meets Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at their town hall, 6210 Rte. 15 (South Livonia Road) in Conesus. A notice posted to the Town of Conesus website says that the Board will 'consider whether the Conesus Town Board should move forward with … [Read more...]
ZBA Denies Myers Inn Rebuild
CONESUS – The Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) voted against the Myers Inn's application for a Conditional Use Permit for a Lake-Oriented Business. Marge DeLena, Charlotte Siepka, and Mari deWit voted against granting the permit. ZBA Chairwoman Patricia Rodman and Tim Lasch voted for it. The conditional use permit was the last permit required for the project to come back into full compliance and move forward. The case will now go back … [Read more...]
Meltdown Meeting Ends with More Gridlock on Myers Inn
CONESUS – A Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA)'s public hearing ended anticlimactically late Monday night with the board not voting on a Conditional Use Permit for a Lake-Oriented Business but voting to keep the public hearing open for another month. Over 100 members of the public sat through over two and a half hours of heated public comment for and against the Myers Inn as the ZBA opened the public comment section, closed the public comment … [Read more...]
Inn Controversy Postpones Conesus Zoning Law Vote
CONESUS – Tuesday night's heated, two-hour public comment session ended with the Town Board continuing their public hearing on a controversial zoning law change instead of voting on it. The currently proposed change would amend the definition of ‘Legacy Business’ to a ‘business that existed before Zoning was adopted in the Town,’ (1960) and extending the period of discontinuance of a nonconforming use from one year to five years.’ As in the … [Read more...]
County Planning Again Indicates Disfavor of Conesus’ Proposed Legacy Business Law
CONESUS – The litigants in the case against the Town of Conesus for allegedly railroading the oversized Myers Inn project updated the media on the status of the Town's newly rewritten proposed zoning change that would allow longstanding businesses to expand indefinitely. According to a press release from Tom Bruckel, Trish Bruckel, Robert Siracusa and Sally Hirth, on Thursday July 13, the Livingston County Planning Board cast an unofficial … [Read more...]
Conesus Board Member: ‘The Timing Sucks’ for Controversial Zoning Change
CONESUS – One Town Board member says he needs more information before voting in favor of a controversial change to the definition of 'legacy business' that would allow five businesses that do not conform with their zoning districts to expand, including, as the public has pointed out on numerous occasions, the Myers Inn. At Tuesday night's Town Board meeting, Town Council member Don Wester made it abundantly clear that he is not opposed to the … [Read more...]
Over 100 Watch Locals Chew Out Town of Conesus on Proposed Zoning Changes
CONESUS – Town residents took the Town Board to task for what they feel is an obvious attempt to push the court-halted Myers Inn project forward, which the Town denies. It was a full house and then some at Tuesday night's Town Board meeting, packed to capacity at 99 with over a dozen others waiting outside. The meeting included a public hearing for modifying the definition of ‘legacy business’ and ‘discontinuance’ in the Town Code. The … [Read more...]