McKownville Improvement Association
Documents Archive of the Association - 1981
scanned from documents preserved and provided by Don Reeb; all
document links are to scan image pdf files
1981-82 - McKownville Improvement Association officers list
1981-01-12 -
letter from K Felsen to McKownville Improvement Association -
effects of legal ruling that water district referendum vote was
unconstitutional
1981-01-23 -
McKownville Improvement Association announcement of zoning board
hearing - request to start florist business at residence 1255
Western Avenue
1981-02-20 -
letter from Concerned Citizens against Crossgates to McKownville
Improvement Association - request for funds
1981-03 - Concerned
Citizens against Crossgates newsletter
1981-03-02 -
letter from Attorney J Shea to NY DEC Commissioner - request for
continuation of adjudicatory hearing
1981-04-01 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - Town Board opposition to Crossgates
plan for widening of Western Avenue
1981-04-04 -
Knickerbocker News clip - requests to DEC Commissioner to reopen
Crossgates public hearing
1981-04-04 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - requests to DEC Commissioner to reopen
Crossgates public hearing; lack of economic benefit
1981-04-08 -
Knickerbocker News clip - State Supreme Court declines to hear
Town of Guilderland appeal of earlier decision on Water District
vote
1981-04-12 -
letter from D Reeb to NY DEC Commissioner - request for
continuation of adjudicatory hearing
1981-04-17 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Crossgates lawyers request to DEC
Commissioner not to reopen Crossgates public hearing
1981-04-18 -
Knickerbocker News clip - report on Town Planning Board agenda;
McKown Road (Woodscape) development
1981-04-18 -
Knickerbocker News clip - DEC finds Crossgates plan fails to meet
air quality standard [also Schenectady
Gazette clip]
1981-04-21 -
Knickerbocker News clip - report of Pyramid Crossgates promotional
brochure and sponsored bus trips to Holyoke Pyramid mall
1981-04-21 -
Times-Union clip - report of Democratic party forum; DEC letter to
Town Supervisor on Western Avenue plans [also
Schenectady Gazette clip]
1981-04-22 -
Knickerbocker News clip - report of Town Supervisor's views on DEC
letter and Western Avenue traffic plans
1981-04-24 -
Times-Union clip - report of Town Supervisor's views on DEC letter
and Western Avenue traffic plans
1981-04-26 -
Times-Union clip - traffic consultants (paid by Pyramid) tell
Commissioner Flacke air pollution unlikely, and to end public
hearing
1981-04-27 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - Pyramid lawyer claims no further
evidence required and no need for more public hearing
1981-04-28 -
Knickerbocker News clip - DEC Commissioner announces Crossgates
hearing not to be reopened; Pyramid agents seen in private meeting
at DEC
1981-04-28 -
Times-Union clip - DEC Commissioner announces Crossgates hearing
not to be reopened [also
Schenectady Gazette clip]
1981-04-29 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Pyramid to make minor changes to road
plans and adjust calculations to meet required air quality
standards
1981-04-29 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - DEC air quality memorandum recommends
Crossgates approval; Pyramid agents seen in private meetings at
DEC
1981-04-29 -
Times-Union clip - groups opposing Crossgates response to closure
of DEC hearing
1981-05-04 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Town Planning Board to consider final
approval for Woodscape development; Macdonald's rezoning
1981-05-14 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Pyramid to make "minor" adjustment to
calculations to meet required air quality standards [also
Times-Union clip]
1981-05-14 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - Crossgates traffic plans; air quality
computer model unable to match reality
1981-05-14 -
Schenectady Gazette, Knickerbocker News clips - T Mayer letter to
editors - claim of bias in DEC Commissioner's decisions
1981-05-15 -
Knickerbocker News clip - announcement of public hearing on
changes for shortening DEC public hearings and permit applications
1981-05-15 -
Knickerbocker News clip - evidence submitted to DEC by groups
opposing Crossgates
1981-05-18 -
Knickerbocker News clip - DEC memo approves Crossgates detention
ponds; downstream facilities cannot cope with peak discharges
1981-05-18 -
Times-Union clip - DEC memo approves Crossgates detention ponds
1981-05-19 -
Knickerbocker News clip - report of public hearing on proposed
regulation changes for shortening DEC public hearings and permit
applications
1981-05-19 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - DEC memo approves Crossgates detention
ponds; DEC corrected errors made in Pyramid submission
1981-05-20 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Town ZBA meeting; florist business in
residence at 1255 Western Avenue [also 1981-05-21 KN
clip]
1981-05-21 -
McKownville Improvement Association annual meeting announcement
1981-05-22 -
Knickerbocker News clip - report of McKownville Improvement
Association annual meeting; opposition to Crossgates
1981-05-21 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - surburban malls predicted to become
ghost towns
1981-05-24 -
Times-Union clip - Northway Mall has several closed stores
including Korvettes, well before vampire effect of Crossgates
1981-06-01 -
Knickerbocker News clip - long-serving Guilderland Town Supervisor
C Walters to retire
1981-06-01 -
Times-Union clip - K Moss to be Republican candidate for
Guilderland Town Supervisor
1981-06-04 -
Knickerbocker News clip - request to dismiss appeal of NY Supreme
Court judgement in McKownville Water District voting case
1981-06-17 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Town ZBA meeting to include variance
request for conversion of residence 1210 Western Ave to small
business
1981-06-19 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Town files opposing dismissal of appeal
of NY Supreme Court judgement in McKownville Water District voting
case
1981-06-24 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Industrial Revenue Bonds and the United
Bank purchase of 1450 Western Avenue
1981-06-26 -
Knickerbocker News clip - denial of DEC permits for Crossgates;
but developer allowed to resubmit revised plan [also Sch Gazette
clip]
1981-06-26 -
Knickerbocker News clip - summary of the Crossgates mall, DEC
hearings, and opposition to it over past 3 years
1981-06-26 -
Times-Union clip - editorial on Crossgates and permitting process
1981-06-29 -
Knickerbocker News clip - Pyramid Crossgates applies to Town ZBA
for special use permit and parking lot variances
1981-06-30 -
Schenectady Gazette clip - editorial on Crossgates and DEC
permitting process
1981-06-30 -
Times-Union clip - Pyramid Crossgates application to Town ZBA for
special use permit and parking lot variances [also Sch
Gazette clip]
1981-07-01 -
McKownville Improvement Association Treasurer's report
1981-07-01 -
McKownville Improvement Association meeting and other
announcements
1981-07-08 -
Concerned Citizens against Crossgates newsletter and ZBA public
hearing notice
1981-07-08 -
ZBA public hearing notice - special use permit and variance
request - Pyramid Crossgates
1981-07-19 -
Times Union clip - rearrangement proposal for Schoolhouse Road
intersection
1981-07-20 -
statement by D Reeb for ZBA public hearing continuation - Pyramid
Crossgates
1981-07-26 -
Economic analysis by D Reeb of proposed Pyramid Crossgates mall
1981-07-29 -
McKownville Improvement Association announcement for ZBA public
hearing continuation - Pyramid Crossgates
1981-07-29 -
Concerned Citizens against Crossgates notice and appeal for
attendance at ZBA public hearing
1981-08-20 -
letter from D Reeb as president of McKownville Improvement
Association to Town Zoning Board of Appeals
1981-08-26 -
Schenectady Gazette clips and McKownville Improvement Association
notice - Town Zoning Board of Appeals Pyramid Crossgates hearings
1981-08-27 -
letter from Town Planning/Zoning officer to McKownville
Improvement Association - speaking allocation
1981-08-31 -
letter from McKownville Improvement Association to Attorney J Shea
- request for representation
1981-09-29 -
letter from D Reeb to Town Zoning Board of Appeals - statement on
lack of validity of economic forecasts by Pyramid Crossgates
1981-09-29 -
letter from Attorney J Shea to Town Zoning Board of Appeals -
protest at failure to allow questioning of Applicant at ZBA
hearings
1981-10-02 -
Knickerbocker News clip - candidate for Town Supervisor K Moss
opposition to Crossgates
1981-10-25 -
McKownville Improvement Association meeting announcement and
statement on Crossgates
1981-11-08 -
McKownville Improvement Association Treasurer's report
1981-11-25 -
letter from Town recreation director to McKownville Improvement
Association - skating on McKownville Reservoir
1981-11-27 -
McKownville Improvement Association meeting announcement and
further information on Crossgates
1981-12-06 -
letter from D Reeb to Town Zoning Board of Appeals - objection to
decision to close hearing without advance notification
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