The Town Board has officially rescinded the approval for the slaughterhouse on Dubois Road. This outcome brings a necessary sense of relief to our neighborhood and restores the integrity of our local planning laws. We will remain attentive as the site undergoes future review to ensure that all residents stay …
June 5, 2018
Final supporters
The Town of Hammond planning board recently approved the construction of a slaughterhouse on 54 Dubois Road directly adjacent to 2 residential properties. This decision was made without due consideration of application errors nor amendments contained in the 1992 Hammond Site Plan and Subdivision Review Law. As a direct consequence, property owners, the environment, and quality of life have been placed in jeopardy. The interest of every citizen should be protected and no one should be jeopardized as a consequence of a benefit to another
Specifically we contend that:
Due to the recent approval by the Hammond Planning Board of a Slaughterhouse in the middle of a previously considered “Residential Neighborhood," we the undersigned, as property owners and individuals with legal standing in the Town of Hammond, do herein make the following requests by petition in accordance with Article I, Section 1.6 - Amendments of the 1992 Hammond Site Plan and Subdivision Review Law and seek immediate action by the Hammond Town Board and Hammond Planning Board for protections as follows:
- Identify all residential properties and group them into a set of “neighborhoods” based on defined boundaries for the neighborhoods.
- Implement adequate and reasonable land use regulations, including setbacks, as allowed by NY State Law, to protect adjoining residential properties, year-round homes, seasonal homes, and neighborhoods. Such regulations shall protect the neighborhood's residents from non-residential use, flooding, erosion, traffic congestion, extreme unsightly design, noise, odor, exterior lighting, signage, air pollution, water pollution, and the erosion of the identified neighborhoods predominate characteristics and land values.
- Develop and empower a Community-involved residential Site Plan Review mechanism to allow affected adjacent propriety owners a voice in any planned or proposed deviation from Residential Property use.
- Implement an immediate moratorium on all non-residential site plan evaluations, building permits, and new non-residential construction in the Town of Hammond, until such time as the Town has instituted adequate and reasonable Residential Property protections. Such protections should: a) anticipate, for example, future requests for activities such as a pig farm, sawmill, slaughterhouse, junkyard, hazardous chemical storage, etc., and b) consider the impacts of non-residential development on each residential neighborhood’s quality of life, well water, and other environmental conditions.
Please express your support of the above protections by signing this petition. Also, please share this petition with others who are town of Hammond property owners or voters. If you would like to comment about the above action, please feel free.
Updates
May 3, 2018
Seeing this level of engagement confirms that our community expects clarity and fairness regarding the development on Dubois Road. This momentum suggests a shared commitment to protecting the residential character of our neighborhoods and ensuring the planning board adheres to established laws.
Reached 100 supporters
May 3, 2018
61 Comments
A slaughter house operation should be located in an industrial park not an existing residential neighborhood. If the project on Dubois Road goes into operation the Town of Hammond could be considered, by developers, "wide open" for any type of development in residential areas.
Lack of proper sewage treatment is a environmental problem waiting to happen. The septic run off from this operation will create a pollution mess for the lowland areas below the ridge and in time the adjacent portion of Chippewa Bay and the river front properties.
I own the property adjacent to 54 Dubois Road and this use will have an adverse effect on my property value in the coming years. Who wants to live right next to a Rendering Plant / Slaughter House. This is truly a commercial use and should not be right next to residential housing. Thank You
Hard to believe a slaughterhouse would even be considered on such a narrow rock ledge in a residential area. My sons home is only 460 ft from this site and all the recommendations I have read for the setback from a slaughterhouse to a residence is 1500 ft. I am sure there is a good reason for this
Please be aware that allowing the slaughterhouse to be built in this area so close to the highway, residential dwellings and seasonal camps will impact tourism and property values in a negative way. This will hurt, not help, the Town of Hammond.
I oppose the ideal ..With this ideal replace our country roads instead of a smelly slaughter place
Not the right use for this residential and riverside property. Summer resident and Hammond voter.
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The Town Board has officially rescinded the approval for the slaughterhouse on Dubois Road. This outcome brings a necessary sense of relief to our neighborhood and restores the integrity of our local planning laws. We will remain attentive as the site undergoes future review to ensure that all residents stay …
June 5, 2018
Final supporters
The Town of Hammond planning board recently approved the construction of a slaughterhouse on 54 Dubois Road directly adjacent to 2 residential properties. This decision was made without due consideration of application errors nor amendments contained in the 1992 Hammond Site Plan and Subdivision Review Law. As a direct consequence, property owners, the environment, and quality of life have been placed in jeopardy. The interest of every citizen should be protected and no one should be jeopardized as a consequence of a benefit to another
Specifically we contend that:
Due to the recent approval by the Hammond Planning Board of a Slaughterhouse in the middle of a previously considered “Residential Neighborhood," we the undersigned, as property owners and individuals with legal standing in the Town of Hammond, do herein make the following requests by petition in accordance with Article I, Section 1.6 - Amendments of the 1992 Hammond Site Plan and Subdivision Review Law and seek immediate action by the Hammond Town Board and Hammond Planning Board for protections as follows:
- Identify all residential properties and group them into a set of “neighborhoods” based on defined boundaries for the neighborhoods.
- Implement adequate and reasonable land use regulations, including setbacks, as allowed by NY State Law, to protect adjoining residential properties, year-round homes, seasonal homes, and neighborhoods. Such regulations shall protect the neighborhood's residents from non-residential use, flooding, erosion, traffic congestion, extreme unsightly design, noise, odor, exterior lighting, signage, air pollution, water pollution, and the erosion of the identified neighborhoods predominate characteristics and land values.
- Develop and empower a Community-involved residential Site Plan Review mechanism to allow affected adjacent propriety owners a voice in any planned or proposed deviation from Residential Property use.
- Implement an immediate moratorium on all non-residential site plan evaluations, building permits, and new non-residential construction in the Town of Hammond, until such time as the Town has instituted adequate and reasonable Residential Property protections. Such protections should: a) anticipate, for example, future requests for activities such as a pig farm, sawmill, slaughterhouse, junkyard, hazardous chemical storage, etc., and b) consider the impacts of non-residential development on each residential neighborhood’s quality of life, well water, and other environmental conditions.
Please express your support of the above protections by signing this petition. Also, please share this petition with others who are town of Hammond property owners or voters. If you would like to comment about the above action, please feel free.
Updates
May 3, 2018
Seeing this level of engagement confirms that our community expects clarity and fairness regarding the development on Dubois Road. This momentum suggests a shared commitment to protecting the residential character of our neighborhoods and ensuring the planning board adheres to established laws.
Reached 100 supporters
May 3, 2018
61 Comments
I am a property owner in Hammond and strongly support the proposal to immediately implement land use regulations under the Site Plan and Review Law. I am appalled the slaughterhouse was approved; that decision should be rescinded pending implementation of rational protections like most other reasonable communities use.
A slaughter house operation should be located in an industrial park not an existing residential neighborhood. If the project on Dubois Road goes into operation the Town of Hammond could be considered, by developers, "wide open" for any type of development in residential areas.
Lack of proper sewage treatment is a environmental problem waiting to happen. The septic run off from this operation will create a pollution mess for the lowland areas below the ridge and in time the adjacent portion of Chippewa Bay and the river front properties.
I own the property adjacent to 54 Dubois Road and this use will have an adverse effect on my property value in the coming years. Who wants to live right next to a Rendering Plant / Slaughter House. This is truly a commercial use and should not be right next to residential housing. Thank You
Hard to believe a slaughterhouse would even be considered on such a narrow rock ledge in a residential area. My sons home is only 460 ft from this site and all the recommendations I have read for the setback from a slaughterhouse to a residence is 1500 ft. I am sure there is a good reason for this
Please be aware that allowing the slaughterhouse to be built in this area so close to the highway, residential dwellings and seasonal camps will impact tourism and property values in a negative way. This will hurt, not help, the Town of Hammond.
I oppose the ideal ..With this ideal replace our country roads instead of a smelly slaughter place
Not the right use for this residential and riverside property. Summer resident and Hammond voter.
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I am a property owner in Hammond and strongly support the proposal to immediately implement land use regulations under the Site Plan and Review Law. I am appalled the slaughterhouse was approved; that decision should be rescinded pending implementation of rational protections like most other reasonable communities use.