By Jason Klaiber
Staff Writer
The Village of Fayetteville has been looking into the idea of purchasing a piece of land in the community amounting to more than a dozen acres.
The 16-acre parcel under consideration, extending from Cashin Drive to Brookside Lane, contours along Bishops Brook.
The village will continue negotiating with the landowners with respect to the purchase of the on-the-market estate, according to the village board.
If the deal goes through, the village plans to pay $35,000 with closing costs for the land, according to Mayor Mark Olson.
“I just think it’s an opportunity that we need to look at,” Olson said. “It’s a want, not a need, so we always look at that a little differently and make sure that we can afford it. If we can, we’re going to do it.”
Olson said that if the purchase is finalized, he does not want any developers to become involved in the outcome of the land.
He said he would prefer to create a park at the location or keep the land secured as green space for the village.
Meeting notes
At the New York Conference of Mayors (NYCOM) meeting that took place from Feb. 9 to 11, Olson said he and leaders of other municipalities throughout the state talked with the legislature about discovery laws, suggesting a bump of somewhere between 30 and 60 days for the procurement and disclosure of evidence during case proceedings—particularly those relating to motor vehicle traffic and code enforcement violations—instead of the recently effected acceleration to the deadline of 15 days after arraignment.
The Village of Fayetteville website has also been given a new layout with help on the information technology end from OCM BOCES.
“It was time to refresh it again,” Olson said. “We wanted to make it a little bit more interactive and a little more user-friendly.”
The mayor said the website will be easier to navigate on mobile devices than it had been beforehand.
