HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2025-032 Game Farm Rd Field Hockey Sewer Exemption Request AuthorizationMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
March 24, 2025
TB Resolution 2025-032: Authorization for the Town Engineer to issue a Sewer Exemption for TMP 62.-2-6; New Cornell Field Hockey Facilities
Whereas the Town Engineer received a request for a Sewer Exemption from the owner(s) of TMP 62.-2-6; Cornell University,stating the financial difficulty to connect to municipal sewer
due to the nearest sewer main(s) being approximately 3700+/- feet awayfrom the proposed project and the need for upgrades of the downstream receiving sewer system.The applicant provided
multiple cost estimates for various options identifying financial hardship, and
Whereas the Public Works Committee discussed the request at its March18, 2025 meeting and recommended the exemption be brought to the Town Board for consideration, now therefore be it
Resolved, that pursuant to Town Code Section 214-6, the Town Board hereby finds that the applicant has shown unusual and extreme practical difficulties in connecting its proposed Field
Hockey facilities with the public sewers for the reasons detailed in Cornell University’s request to the Town dated March 7, 2025, and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board authorizes the Town Engineer to issue an exemption from the Town Code Section 214-5 public sewer connection requirement for TMP62.-2-6for the installation
of a new, onsite wastewater treatment system associated with the new field hockey field facilities to be constructed on the properties, subject to the consent of the Tompkins County
Health Department to this exemption.
Moved: Pamla BleiwasSeconded:Rod Howe
Vote:ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Bleiwas, Levin, Johnson, Gutenberger and Rosen