Rasco decision delayed; More evidence weighed

October 21, 2010

By Antonia Shoumatoff

The Dover Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) listened to Michael Liguori, the ZBA’s attorney, describe and read from 100 new documents about previous uses on the Mid-Hudson Recycling Industrial Park at the October 20 meeting which had been thought to be the date of a final decision. He painstakingly read the documents that had been discovered on microfiche over the course of three hours, getting through less than half of them.

- See article in The Millbrook Independent, October 21, 2010

Will Dover Evade its own Zoning Law?

October 14, 2010

By Stephen Kaye and Tonia Shoumatoff

The Dover Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) is weighing a decision on whether a pre-existing use for processing solid waste was abandoned or whether that use is entitled to continue by a different company under a grandfathering doctrine. If the decision favors the grandfathering interpretation, the Dover Planning Board could be pre-empted from having to review the application which would also mean that the town would never have reviewed the site properly for the processing of hazardous materials.

- See article in The Millbrook Independent, October 14, 2010

Dover Zoning Board Meeting October 6, 2010

October 6, 2010

- Read Dover Zoning Board Meeting Minutes, October 6, 2010