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Home My WebLink AboutGFR Public Comments 4.15.25 PB MeetingFrom: To: Subject: Sent: Jill Kellner Town Of Ithaca Planning arﬁcial turf 3/24/2025 5:54:48 PM **WARNING** This email comes from an outside source. Please verify the from address, any URL links, and/or attachments. Any questions please contact the IT department Just received this today in my inbox....https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/forever-chemicals-drinking-water- increased-cancer-risk-rtk/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender&utm_id=20250324 How can you have the arrogance to vote against having an environmental impact study on the effects of synthetic turf proposed at Cornell? You live in this community. A lot of you probably have children. Your vote was absolutely unconscionable. I'm appalled at all of you. How could you possibly think it is OK to go ahead with those fields? You obviously have your reasons which are not for the people of the area...what are your reasons? When your children or you get cancers, you can blame yourselves! Sincerely Jill Kellner 1321 Ellis Hollow Road From: To: Subject: Sent: Louise Myga Town Of Ithaca Planning Request to Upload Unposted Public Comments from March 16-18 4/4/2025 12:55:46 PM **WARNING** This email comes from an outside source. Please verify the from address, any URL links, and/or attachments. Any questions please contact the IT department To the Town of Ithaca Planning Board, I am writing to bring to your attention a serious oversight: the majority of the public comments submitted on March 16 and 18 have not been uploaded to the Town Planning Board website: https://lfweb.tompkins-co.org/WebLink/Browse.aspx? id=357756&dbid=9&repo=TownOfIthaca&cr=1 As you know, public participation and transparency are essential to the integrity of the planning process. Many individuals and organizations took the time to prepare and submit comments in good faith, expecting that their voices would be part of the public record. It is concerning that these materials have not been made available alongside other public input. We respectfully request that all public comments submitted on March 17 and 18 be promptly uploaded and reflected on the website in full. Please confirm that this issue will be addressed and let us know when the missing comments will be published. Sincerely, Dr. Louise Mygatt From: To: Subject: Sent: **WARNING** This email comes from an outside source. Please verify the from address, any URL links, and/or attachments. Any questions please contact the IT department JOSEPH MIKE Town Of Ithaca Planning Revised comment on the Cornell Game Farm Rd Project - Typos corrected (new version) 3/21/2025 2:12:35 PM Dear Planning Board, Please disregard my earlier comments I submitted this morning, as I noticed some typographical errors. Below is the corrected version of my comments I would like to submit to the Ithaca Planning Board regarding the Cornell Game Farm Road Project. There appears to have been presented a somewhat one-sided negative view of the use of artificial turf, as compared to natural grass. Those speakers presenting their opposition to synthetic playing fields fail to mention some of the negatives associated with maintaining natural grass fields. First, there is a great amount of water required for the purpose of irrigation on the natural grass playing fields, especially in the hot and dry summer periods. Additionally, in order to maintain the growing of natural grass in their optimum growing conditions, it requires the use of chemicals for both fertilization and weed control. Those chemicals in runoff are one of the main source of contributors to algae bloom in Cayuga, more than any microplastics would ever contribute, as has been claimed by those opponents. These same chemicals are used for maintaining growing fields by farmers, and runoff from their use is a major contributing factor to algae bloom. Lastly, apart from the lack of playability on natural grass fields during the winter non-growing period, these natural grass playing fields have to be shutdown and are unplayable during those periods of irrigation use, and when chemicals have been applied, further reducing the actual playing time use of these fields as compared to an artificial grass playing surface. My late uncle, John Mike, was the head groundskeeper for the Cornell University Athletic Department, from the 1960s through the late 1970s, overseeing all of Cornell’s athletic fields. I know for a fact the statements I provided above regarding the maintenance of natural grass playing fields to be correct, based on my experience in working with my late uncle on those Cornell athletic fields. Thank you for the consideration of my comments. Joseph P. Mike Begin forwarded message: From: Town Of Ithaca Planning <planning@townithacany.gov> Subject: RE: Game Farm Rd Project Date: March 21, 2025 at 11:12:47 AM EDT To: JOSEPH MIKE <jpmkam@aol.com> Thank you for your comment. There next meeting is cancelled so this comment will go to the Board for their 4/15/2025 meeting. -----Original Message----- From: JOSEPH MIKE <jpmkam@aol.com> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 10:20 AM To: Town Of Ithaca Planning <planning@townithacany.gov> Subject: Game Farm Rd Project Dear Planning Board, I would like to know why the people presenting their opposition to synthetic playing fields never mention the downside to maintaining natural grass fields. First, there is the a great amount of water needed for the irrigation of the grass fields, especially in the hot and dry summer periods. Additionally, in order to maintain the natural grass in optimum growing conditions, it requires chemicals for fertilization and weed control. These chemicals in runoff are the contributors to algae bloom, as these same chemicals are used for maintaining growing fields by farmers. My late uncle, John Mike, was the head groundskeeper at Cornell University, from the 1960s through the late 1970s, for all of Cornell’s athletic fields. I know for a fact the statement I provided above regarding the maintenance of natural grass playing fields to be correct, based on my experience in working with my late uncle on the Cornell athletic fields. Thank you for consideration of my comments. Joseph P. Mike