I copied this from NextDoor. Jane-Marie Law was the author. " <https://nextdoor.com/profile/01pjBSJ_LssJhKtgB/?is=feed_author> [image: Profile photo] Jane-Marie Law <https://nextdoor.com/profile/01pjBSJ_LssJhKtgB/?is=feed_author> [image: Profile photo] Northeast Cigarette Alley <https://nextdoor.com/neighborhood/necigarettealley--ithaca--ny/?source=neighborhood_name> • 1 hr ago •
175 Family Development Being Proposed for end of Taryeton Drive Concerning the proposed "Taryeton Drive Multi-Family Complex" proposed for the end of Taryeton. I have received a proposed map from the Town of Ithaca Planning Department which was prepared by Marathon Engineering in Rochester to get an assessment of the water plan. . According to Becky Jordan, this is in its conceptual phases, which means this is a very good time to weigh in. But the developer, Dakota, is already putting some significant investment into this so this is not in just "gee, let's think about this" phse. For some reason I am unable to post a copy of the map here but am happy to share it. It does appear that the traffic would be routed through Arrowood Drive but it requires removing a lot of that forest and actually affecting the wetlands that are directly contiguous with the Lab of Ornithology. I would like to ask everyone who is interested in taking a very active supervisory role in this to drop your e-mail in a message to me and I will create a group and share the map and anyone can then share info on this. We DO need affordable housing. We DO need to plan for density. We DO need to be sensitive to scale and sudden impacts and neighborhood walkability and the ecological sustainability of large projects like this. We Do need to demand that Cornell is transparent about the original bequest that allowed it to get the land adjacent to the LAb of Ornithology. We DO need to demand that with a project like this which will have a huge impact on traffic, roads, schools, walkability adn ecology that Cornell pay its fair share of taxes. (Kind of a separate issue and kind of not.) If you are in the cigarette streets, please start spreading the word. We need full transparency and we need to be informed and organized. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
