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The Lansing Town Board unanimously approved a new law Wednesday adopting a Planned Development Area (PDA) for the Warren Road Business Park on Dutch Mill Road in Lansing.  The business park is home to several office and light manufacturing businesses including Transonic Systems, Envisage, and United Parcel Service.  What makes the new law unusual is that the PDA was approved in 1988.

"Decades ago the Town approved the Warren Road Business Park.  It is light office and manufacturing uses," explained Town Attorney Guy Krogh.  "The regulations exist in terms of the approved PDA platt, and even though some of the regulations were set forth in restrictions and covenants that were filed common to the entire parcel.  Because a PDA is technically a zoning change it has always needed a local law to define and describe it as a stand-alone zone.  We're getting around to that now."

Krogh explained the new law doesn't change the law so much as it records what already exists on the ground.  The business park is virtually full, and a 30,000 square foot addition to Transonic Systems' manufacturing facility  was the main catalyst for the Warren Road sewer project in 2012.

Krogh noted that the Town had rejected a county recommendation to allow for public or commercial power generation because it was already incorporated in the proposed law.  No one said anything at a public hearing before the Board voted the resolution into law.  The law will have no impact on the business park.

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