Town of Alexandria Drops Proposed Moratorium on Corridors

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The Alexandria Town Board says that it is listening when the public speaks, even if they may not agree with them.

The town was considering a moratorium on access corridors in the town, including state routes 12 and 26 and county route 192.

The moratorium would have provided a 6-month stay on business dealings or proposed projects on these roads, allowing the town to re-write what it said was antiquated zoning laws.

Town Supervisor Martha Millett said that the board was frustrated that the zoning laws did not have any teeth and did not allow the board any power over what was being built on the entrance roads into Alexandria Bay.

“It’s a quality of life issue for Alexandria,” she said at the meeting.

Ms. Millett believed that the moratorium would not have the detrimental effect on currently established businesses most thought.

However, business owners disagreed, saying that a 6-month moratorium was a lifetime in the current economy.

“I was extremely upset because I have property up here and I wanted to enlarge or grow or sell…the building moratorium would have stopped us from doing anything,” said Richard Congel, who owns a business on route 12 in the town.

The town board decided to drop the proposed moratorium, but will continue to re-write its zoning laws.

The laws are over 30 years old, according to Supervisor Millett, and have to be done, moratorium or not.

“We just need to bring (the laws) up-to-date.”

Alexandra Field reports:

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