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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Common Council Meeting with Committee of the Whole Meeting February 4th, 2026

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Unidentified speaker 2:09:13
I live in senior housing. I live in Marino, it's 415 Bleecker Street. Um, Price Right is down the street. 501 Bleecker, that street across from the firehouse, um, has not been snowed in 2 years. It hasn't been shoveled. Um, as seniors, my fellow People that live, we have to walk with carts in the street. We have to, you know, some people 65 and 70 walking down the street because we cannot walk on the sidewalk. And I'm just concerned if there's anything we can do about it. I'm hearing that the owners has been fined. Obviously that's not doing anything. I was hoping that the city can shovel it. I see they come and shovel the park, Chancellor Park, why they just can't go across the street and just run through there one quick time to make a path for the seniors that live.
Unidentified speaker 2:10:13
Okay. And then you also have Chancellor Street. They have mixed seniors in there too, so we all go shopping there. Many seniors don't have vehicles where I live, so we have to walk there, and, um, it's dangerous to walk in that street, especially coming back from Price Right if you're on that side, because the cars are behind you. So I'm just here just to bring up the issue. I don't know what could be done. I don't know what the options is, but something needs to be done, even if we don't, you know, give somebody a contract to go and do these empty lots or something. But just to ignore it, somebody's going to get hurt. I can foresee it. Um, that's it. That's just what I have.
Unidentified speaker 1:23:22
Um, just for, um, clarification— not clarification, but, um, for the, um, council's, um, reference, there's 36 billboards that exist, um, within the city presently. Um, I do have some maps showing where they are. A majority of them are on the arterial, um, and Oriskany Street, um, but they are starting to pop up and people are getting variances, not just variances for their location but variances for their size and, um, dual, um, boards, boards. Um, so that's what we're seeing, um, essentially, um, right now they are permitted in a couple, um, they're permitted in the industrial and industrial mixed zones, um, by a special use permit. Mhm. Um, but, um, again, we think the total prohibition, um, will start to eliminate the billboards that we're seeing and the volume that we're seeing them pop up.