Town Planning Commission meeting tonight. Lately, we've only been reviewing permits and anyone who was building during the summer had already put in their requests during the winter and spring. The permits we had tonight were for a temporary logging road and for a house/garage. I bopped over to Bennor Road where the house/garage would be built. Looked like they were ready to begin. I then drove to .6 miles west from the end of Singer Road. A rough road already existed (made by a caterpillar from the tracks) and connected across the right-of-way to the town road. At the meeting we OK'd the house/garage permit but I put up a fuss about the logging road. Anyone should know that making any changes to a town road - like adding a driveway - needs an OK from the town ahead of time. Would it impede the town's brusher, grader (it's a gravel road), or snow plow? Would it cause flooding of the road (there was no culvert)? Would it cause a car tire to get caught in a rut? The other guys agreed. Turns out this logger has done it before and the town had warned him that time. We vetoed the logging road permit. Of course, we are all appointed - not elected. The commission sends permits on to the Town Board w/ our recommendation. It's the Board that will have to decide to put a chain across the access, impose a fine, or, once again, send a 'strongly worded' notice to the logger.
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