PLANNING IN SCHODACK COMMITTEES FORMED TO ADVISE LAND USE.(Local)

Byline: Dean Betz Staff writer

The town is organizing four committees to follow up on land-use research done by a citizens task force.

The new committees, which include residents and members of the Planning Board, won't be merely repeating the research that was done by the task force, Supervisor John A. Nelson said.

"The recommendations made to the last Town Board were not in a form that could be acted on," Nelson said Monday.

He praised the work of the task force, but blamed the administration of former Supervisor Beth Morgan, whose term ended in January, for not taking action to turn its 14 recommendations into legislation.

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