SARATOGA — Even though a judge ruled against them, town officials proposed a work-around that would allow a controversial wedding venue to again host weddings.
After several residents spoke out against the plan, saying it was clearly written to accommodate S & S farm, the proposed law was tabled.
Jennifer Clayton, who lives about a half-mile away from S & S Saratoga Farm, was among those who spoke out.
“Route 29 is a very busy state road,” Clayton said on Tuesday. “It’s busy all the time. Obviously, the traffic is compounded when there is an event there. Cars are all over the place. And the noise reaches me a half-mile away. Last year, I was working in my garden and all I could hear was a thumping sound. It was loud. So I thought I would drive to see where the noise was coming from and it was at the venue.”
After she discovered the source of the noise, she stopped to talk to a neighbor, who lives behind the venue and brought the winning suit against the town. She said they had to shout to talk.
“It’s insanity,” Clayton said. “The common factor for all of us is we moved here for quality of life. We moved away from the very thing that is being pushed into our communities now. I’m strongly opposed to it. They want to amend the zoning laws in order to favor a business over the people who live here.”
Louis Farone was cautiously optimistic when he and his wife won the suit in January, in which Judge Richard Kupferman said the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals “misinterpreted the special use permit and irrationally concluded that it…
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