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Regular Meeting 24 May 14, 2026 Karen McCoy Cook Road I own the property next door to the proposed facility. I’m going to go back to something that Kellys husband said the last meeting. You had brought up about why this house? Here’s the thing with all these meetings and you see that every direct neighbor to that property does not want this, so why are you pushing this on us? There are plenty of available properties in Western New York for something like this the would be better apt for it whether it is security, whether it’s jobs or whatever, but why do you keep pressing on when it’s obvious that every single direct neighbor, now not everybody in Marilla is against it but every neighbor on the street is? Why would you want to put a facility in with people that are against it and don’t want it are aren’t welcome? Resident Debbie Zimmerman of Townline Road and you all probably know me, I’m on the Planning Board. I was there the very first meeting that this organization when you came to the Town Board. It was January or February, and we asked them what their names were and they refused. They would not say their name the organization nothing. To me that is not being transparent from day one. They weren’t transparent or they didn’t want to give us any direction what this was about, and we have been going on all these months trying to find out. Chris Welch of Stolle Road I have been to a few of these and it’s interesting as I stand here, we don’t need a Special Use permit because by our definition this is ok. By their own omission if this was a family they would have not had to go for re-zoning because the ruling of the Board loop hole that they got into only applies to new family members, so you can’t sit here and say you need to give us variance on zoning to have ten people in here that are not a family member, but were family. So, it’s very odd to me that you want to stand here now and say we need the definition of family. We’re good to go we don’t need your Special Use permit, but we also needed your Zoning Board to give us a Variance because we are more than four unrelated family members to protect us. And the reasons that is because when you go above four you can’t legally discriminate on who stays there, so if they meet the definition of a Rooming Boarding for ten people legally I can apply to stay there because they are no longer under Murphys Law where you can discriminate who can stay there. So it went in our favor, you don’t meet the definition in any way, shape or form of a family. Two, one of the main reasons to deny a Special Use Permit is for objectionable aspects. If you look up the definition of objectionable aspects and I’ll read it because the law if very precise, all these behaviors are concepts that are offensive, unacceptable or highly unpleasant causing disapproval opposition or discomfort. I think we have seen every single one of them. So, the definition of a Special Use Permit we have objectionable aspects. The main concern for me to is that we just did a moratorium on Motorcross Parks we have found Motorcross Parks to be such a concern to this community that we are going to put a one-year moratorium on them, but we didn’t do a moratorium on a housing unit for Domestic Violence, so motorbikes are a bigger concern than Domestic Violence and the issues that have come up. Whatever this facility is, is less concerning than this other. Two, we are sitting here talking about allocating space and resources to a Historical Society when it’s not the base of what the history of what Marilla is. One my way to driving to my house on Stolle Road just across the line I get to a sign that says Welcome to Marilla, which is this beautiful farm community with all these people and the first thing I see on Stolle Road is a fabulous new Solar project eating up farm land and further down Stolle Road was a Bed & Breakfast there that was a community asset to people that were coming to Marilla to enjoy the things Marilla is known for sense of community, little country stores, farms that you can drive by with horses and things to look at and now we are going to a loop hole that I believe our Zoning Board made a classic mistake in because they didn’t know that they were getting back doored. The Zoning Board was working in good faith all the while getting I think loop holed. They were putting the facility there that doesn’t meet the character of that neighborhood. The very big pressing issue to is if I were another facility of some other type Marilla just signaled that we are open for business because by allowing the Special Use permit you have agreed to new zoning area, you have set a precedent because if you deny the next place, you’re going to get sued. You know what you made a good point about land values; I better sell mine now and the best place I can sell it to is another facility. If Mr. McCoy decides to sell his property to somebody wants to build a facility for some other ten unit lets say because we are going to be an alarmist. Your giving a lot of leeway to a definition that they don’t meet. It needs to go back to the Zoning Board, there needs to be a moratorium, and we need to define what a Rooming Board is and what a Shelter is within the Zoning long before this other moves forward.