Black Diamond Trail

Ulysses Public Input Meeting

Here’s another good opportunity to make your views known to the decision-makers –

July 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Franziska Racker Center
(or with a written comment if you can’t attend).

This meeting is especially important to Ulysses residents, yes, but ALL VOICES are welcome since whatever the Town of Ulysses decides will affect all of us who want to use the Black Diamond Trail. The BDT will certainly be a topic of discussion at this meeting, but to make it a BIG topic, we need to speak up.
Please read on — this announcement was sent to BDTEN by Liz Thomas, Ulysses Town Board member. Note the address at the bottom of her message, telling you where to send a written comment if you cannot attend. –Jan

Press Release

Public Input Meeting — Planning for the Future of Ulysses

The Town of Ulysses Comprehensive Plan Committee and consultant Bergmann Associates will hold a public input meeting to help inform the development of a Town Comprehensive Plan on Thursday, July 10, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Franziska Racker Center at 3226 Wilkins Road.
The Town’s Comprehensive Plan Committee was appointed by the Town Board and has been meeting for over a year now to update the Town’s Comprehensive Plan. The Plan will be the culmination of a community process undertaken to define a vision for what we want our community to look like in 20 years, and lay out a roadmap for how to get there.
The committee has reached out to residents in the Town through a town-wide survey last year and a series of public workshops this past spring to gain input from a wide variety of community members. As a result of this input the committee identified five overarching policy areas for the Plan. In each policy area, objectives and actions were drafted to support the policy areas. The five policy areas are:
- Environment and Natural Resources
- Sustainable Land Use and Development  – Local Economy
- Community Services
- Community Identity
The Plan will also include a Future Land Use Plan. This is a map that very broadly identifies the kinds of development that would be appropriate and desirable in various areas of the Town. It will serve as a blueprint to guide future land use planning decisions and could inform zoning changes.
Community members are invited to attend the Public Input Meeting to review the Draft Future Land Use Plan that was developed from input at public workshops held in the spring, talk about what it means, and how it could guide future development regulations.
The results of a community character survey that summarizes what kind of development residents already said they like and what they don’t like about Ulysses will also be presented and discussed. The policy areas, objectives and actions for the Plan will also be available at the meeting.
We encourage your input and involvement in this stage of the process.
Current drafts of all the Comprehensive Plan documents are available at the Ulysses Town Hall, the Ulysses Philomathic Library, and on the Town’s web site at www.ulysses.ny.us (under “document downloads”). If you cannot attend the meeting and you’d still like to make comments e-mail them to us at ulyssesCP2008@gmail.com.