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		<title>Wetlands Hearing Rescheduled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Town Board has rescheduled the Wetlands Hearing from September 23rd.  The new meeting date is Wednesday, September 29th, and will be at the Millbrook Fire House beginning at 7:30 PM.
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		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=216</link>
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		<title>WETLANDS &amp; WATERCOURSE LEGISLATION PUBLIC HEARING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Town Board has scheduled a special meeting on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010, at the Millbrook Fire House.  The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM.  This hearing is to allow the public to make cooments on the proposed Wetlands and Watercourse Legislation. 
You may view the proposed legislation at the town website at http://washingtonny.org/propsed.html
If you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=207</link>
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		<title>May 22nd Public Input on Comprehensive Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Residents are able to view the Public Input provided at the May 22nd Comprehensive Meeting, held at teh Dutchess County Farm and Home Center.   These are the notes from the breakout sessions held on various topics.
Click below for the link to the information.
Action Planning Session Notes 6-7-2010
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		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=199</link>
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		<title>Cooling Off at the Town Pool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the heat is upon us, residents are able to cool off at the Town of Washington Town Pool in Mabbettsville.  The Park is now open on a daily basis from noon &#8211; 7:00 PM through August 22nd.  Season passes are available, as well as day passes, which may be purchased at the lifeguard booth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Comprehensive Plan Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 22nd, the Comprehensive Plan Committee hosted an information gathering meeting at the Dutchess County Farm and Home Center.  A synopsis of the comments are available at the Town website www.washingtonny.org on the Master Plan page.  Residents are always welcome to submit comments regarding the Comprehensive Plan by sending an email to Supervisor@washingtonny.org or at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=184</link>
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		<title>WETLANDS AND WATERCOURSES LAW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the June 10th meeting of the Town of Washington, the Town Board introduced and scheduled two separate Public Hearings for the public to weigh in and offer their opinion.
After listening to the public input and taking into account revisions in state regulations, the Town has proposed a revised Wetlands and Watercourses Law.  The Public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Annual Transfer Station Permits Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Transfer Station permits are now available for sale for the upcoming year.  The fees have remained the same as last year:    Resident &#8211; $75.00, Senior Citizen (62 and older) &#8211; $45.00, Additional car in household $20.00, Contractor &#8211; $355.00. , Bag Tickets 10 bags &#8211; $40.00 and 5 bags &#8211; $20.00.
The permits are available at the Town [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Comprehensive Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 22nd, the Town of Washington held another public input session to provide the Master Plan Revision Committee insights and suggestions for what residents envision for the future of their town.  Over 100 people attended this interesting, informative meeting and the Planning Committee gained valuable information to assist them in putting together a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Comprehensive Plan DRAFT Vision Statement &#8211; Call for Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author : Howard Schuman Comment: 
It is inappropriate at this time to be asking for comments about your draft visioning statement, which was supposed to be the original topic of the May 22 public meeting but was never discussed in open forum.  Regarding the content and wording, you are for all practical purposes asking the general public to operate in a vacuum, without any explanation by yourselves as to what you believe the statement implies.

Are you suggesting by your language in the comment form that if people do not respond to it in one of the several ways that you suggested, that it signals their tacit acceptance of your draft visioning statement and there will be no "revisions to the statement as appropriate" and that there will be no future, widely advertised, public meetings, similar to the May 22 meeting in order to discuss it?

The vision statement should reflect the general consensus of the community at large.  Housing issues and increased business and commercial development as well as creation of additional hamlets have placed at the bottom of community priorities.  The final vision statement should reflect that.

Regarding the May 22 meeting, the term "diversity of housing" had been added to the previously published list of goals without prior notice being given to the public.  This along with the Comprehensive Plan Committee's failure to define what they mean by the term makes it a difficult item for people to comment on effectively.

Furthermore, there is a difference between what a community envisions for itself and a list of items that may be looked at at some point as part of the comprehensive plan process.  It is clear that diversity of housing is not a widely held community vision. While it may be something that is looked at in some point as part of the overall process it does not belong in the vision statement.  It should be removed.


Howard Schuman

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		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Welcome to our &#8220;New&#8221; NEWS System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Town of Washington has added a NEWS system to the Town&#8217;s website so we may keep you more informed about:

General Town News
The Comprehensive Plan Update
Recreation Department News
Press Releases
Requests for Proposals
Other News

The system allows website users to subscribe to email updates of all town news.You can subscribe to updates on our website home page or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.washingtonny.org/news/?p=26</link>
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