Nobody seems to realize that the land in question will be rezoned by the Town Board into a zone called Commerce,Business Park-- which will incorporate a variety of uses----including the right to build houses. It is a use now allowed in Light Industry, although you need 3 acres per house. Now add Shapiro property (68 acres)plus town land (19 acres), you get 87 acres. divide by 3 you have 29 building lots. Considering we already have many sites available to develop for light industry -(Camarda himself has 17 lots behind Danbury Pharmacal which he is trying to reduce to 8 lots, plus there's a for sale sign on route 6 near the Town property for 13 acres)& we're surely not seeing masses of businesses trying to get into the Carmel hamlet---Camarda could use the 87 acres for lot count for his 100 Luxury Town Houses he would love to build on the Centennial Golf Course-- 100 acres on the golf course are zoned residential, they adjoin the Shapiro property, but the 100 acres contain wetland, thereby not allowing 100 houses to be built there-- but if he had the adjoining property, he could use it as lot count. And he has already submitted his plans to build houses to the Carmel Planning Board, at one acre per house, a Plan he submitted 3 days before the Town Board voted on a building moratorium, (the moratorium is in place while the Town is going through the mechanism to upzone home building lots to 3 acres throughout the Town)--- so, since Camarda is not a commercial developer, but rather does subdivions of land for houses, I'd say that in 3 years, he will scream "HARDSHIP", and say sorry, couldn't get the hotel, couldn't get light industry, but I really could use the land in order to build my 100 Townhouses. He won't need a zone change. Are we forgetting also that a commercial, industrial venture thinking about coming into Carmel would 1st ask about the tax picture here? Do you think the taxes in the hamlet are inviting? And oh, the folks saying that development anywhere in the hamlet will reduce the sewer taxes on the existing properties are very wrong--- that land is already paying the exact amount of sewer taxes it will be paying when and if it would be all built up--- the capital tax for the sewer is based on the amount of land you have, and 20 vacant acres is paying the same capital tax it would pay if the 20 acres had buildings on it. Then there's the use tax-- there's a cost to run the plant, purify the effluent, take away the sludge etc. The more you flow into the plant, the more it costs to treat-- folks now are paying to treat etc approximately 550,000 gallons per day. If you have to treat 800,000 gallons per day, you pay more--- the new users contributions to the cost will be a wash-- they will make it cost more to run, they will pay the additional cost, --- so how does that save existing homes money???
I want a YMCA, our property would be perfect. Far more perfect than the hill Camarda wants to give us in exchange, with a stream running through it-- why can't we just keep our road front property for something that would benefit our Town-- OR just sell him part of it so he could get to his land. THE Present Mythical Hotel is not proposed to be built on our property, but on the Shapiro property, so we don't need to sell 100% of our land. If this contract is voted down, it doesn't mean we don't get a "HOTEL", it means we get a much better deal. Read the COntract, it's at TOWN HALL--- Did you also know he could back out or of the deal in 360 days and we don't get a cent??
Bottom line, I firmly believe my position on this sale is the only one that shows some concern for the entire TOWN of CARMEL. (Mahopac folks, the would be no School tax going to the Mahopac School district, it all goes to The Carmel School district, so we'll be helping out the folks in Kent, Patterson, Stormville, - they'll be very happy)--- and until someone can convince the County to share the sales tax with us, we don't see that either.)

Doris Stahl-the lone Town Board NO vote.