The Comprehensive Plan...
Fiction and Facts about the plan

Know the issue
Don't take someone elses word for it!


The Original Comprehensive Plan read here
Created by the Comprehensive Plan Board developed over one year in the making

The revised Comprehensive Plan read here
Three long? days of work.
Summary
Team Talmage
on the Comprehensive Plan

• The plan prepared by the Comprehensive Plan Board (CPB)is a balanced plan

*It keeps Milan rural and protects the town we love

* It maintains a diversity of housing across the town

* It is realistic in the face of rapid growth and impending sprawl

• When elected, we will enact the plan as proposed by the CPB, with minor modifications

• We have and will continue to listen to the public

• The plan is built around current residents who want to stay in Milan

• The plan is a guide for the future that needs to be fleshed out with Milan citizens

• We believe in open government and citizen participation, not back room deals.

Team Talmage calls for postponing Comprehensive Plan Vote details

County comments on modified plan
cite lack of analysis, highlight need for preferred growth area, and oppose mining ban.
 Read their comments here.

Town Council candidate and former Comp. Plan Board Chair Ross Williams testify's at public hearings -- read his views on the Town Board's changes to modify the plan. Click here.

Team Talmage
the Truth about the Hamlets--------> here are the facts!

COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MUGGED
THE  OPPOSITION'S PLAN ENDANGERS MILAN'S RURAL FUTURE
See a markup of the Comprehensive Plan with ALL the deletions
click here

AFTER A YEAR'S WORK THE CITIZENS WHO PREPARED THE PLAN REJECT THE PLAN THREE BOARD MEMBERS PREPARED IN THREE DAY
Read the letter to the Town Board signed by ALL former Comprehensive Plan Board members click here

THE ABILITY TO PREVENT INDUSTRIAL MINING IS IN JEOPARDY without discussion of the Floating Light Industrial Zoning and mining in the plan.
Read the analysis and comments from the former Comprehensive Plan Board click here
Team Talmage on the Comprehensive Plan
in contrast...our opponents' method of operation click here

Team Talmage responds to the fiction distributed in the oppositions flyers click here

Overlay is something new and something old
 Other voices on the issue
The Register Herald September 8, 2
The details...
1)  We believe the Comprehensive Plan Board's May 3 report is a balanced plan that addresses issues and concerns raised by Milan citizens for many years.  The concepts in the plan provide the underpinning to develop new zoning that can provide real solutions to those issues and concerns, the central focus being to keep Milan a rural residential community. 

2)  We will, when elected, pass the plan as it was presented, although we reserve the right to make minor changes to reflect any new information, public input or Dutchess County Planning Dept. Recommendations, since the Comp. Plan Board completed their work.

3) We will sponsor public seminars with experts in their fields to ensure understanding of the hamlet growth options and we will conduct public workshops to ensure that any actions we initiate have the support of people in the hamlets and the wider town. (And when citizens talk at pubic hearings, we will listen and consider their views.)

4)  We believe the plan for Milan should be built around those who live here and plan to stay, not around those who want to sell their land and leave, selling out Milan's rural character in the process.

5)  While we believe it is important to move forward with the adoption of the plan, the plan is a guide that does not change our zoning laws. We remain flexible on the details of implementing the recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan.  For example, as candidates, we believe that it is the right thing to implement the rural space overlay zone on parcels over 20 acres, rather than the 10 acres preferred by the Comp. Plan Board.  It may also be appropriate to consider limited exceptions in some areas or safety valves for particular situations as the details are developed. We do not support the opposition proposal (to develop the first 30 acres of all parcels under existing zoning and apply the ten acres only above 30 acres) because it will, over time, permit a level of development that is inconsistent with residents' desires to keep Milan rural.
 
6)  We will involve the community in any and every proposal to implement the recommendations of the Comp. Plan., seeking input, listening to views, and trying to accomodate wide-spread concerns.
 
7)  We will make all decisions in the open and in the interest of the Town, not in back room deals made for political or personal benefit.