The owner is leasing the property and the leasee received a variance for a zoned mobile home park for 3 mobile homes for phase I. Neither the owner or the leasee have completed any infrastructure for the mobile home park since receiving their variance 5 years ago. In Nov 2011 the leasee (who doesn't live on the property) built a barn and paddock and brought in a horse very close to Pine Lake waters and has been seen spreading horse manure near the lake. It took until November 2012 to get the town to deny her variance to keep the horse and barn, but the leasee refuses to remove it and the town is not enforcing it. They are also not enforcing the Mobile Home Park laws that were developed after this property originally went to crap when it was previously a mobile home park over 8 years ago.

Pittstown Town Meeting tonight (1/7) at 7:00 p.m. Come and hear about how they aren't enforcing their rules.

This area is rural to say the least. I am guessing you live very close to this property. I think the smell would be an issue. If the town denied the variance than it should be a simple matter of going before the judge and having some sort of order issued to take the animal. They do this in Texas all the time. Maybe our animal control is not up to the task, but I think that is who should be addressing the issue and maybe the state police should be involved at some point.

The animal control officer goes to the Town Meetings. No one is doing their jobs... they have a code enforcer that hasn't done his job in 5 years, yet they changed his position to building inspector and hired a junk enforcer and now I'm not even sure who is suppose to enforce the other codes.... they don't have the money to help the local ambulance squad, but they can pay a person to not do his job and hire someone else to do a portion of what the code enforcers original job was. They also have a local town judge that the town officials could go to, but of course they aren't doing that either.

What about the media ? Have you called the local Tv and newspapers ? What about Community News ? They do stories like this.

I have reached out to all of the news stations recently, including the TU and The Record. A couple of them have reached out to me, and I think that they are in the investigative part of their reporting. I've provided everyone with pictures and documentation of everything from the trash and furniture burning, the DEC reports, the horse and barn, the roadways, the lack of street signs, you name it, I have documentation on it and I have copies of all the laws. This same town allowed this property to go without running water from Feb 2012 - September 2012 before they issued a DO NOT OCCUPY order, and then they didn't enforce it. They removed the signs a month later when the tenant brought their own water sample in for testing.

I am not familiar with Community News... what is that? I was actually working on doing a piece for The Advertiser, but I'm not sure they deliver papers to that area (I need to find out).

This is their trash and furniture burning that they were cited for by DEC ... and only fined $100 + 20 hours community service at the local volunteer fire department. The horse and barn are the tip of the iceburg.

Community News is in Saratoga County, not sure if they do RENN county, but they are located on Route 9 in Clifton Park if memory serves.

The picture of burning trash, that looks farmiliar. I saw a lot of that in Broome county and other places where the rules are not so tight.

It looks like these are country folk.

It is not just rural areas that get this. If you want to see something, Fellows Road in Halfmoon, which has those million dollar homes in the new Estates of Halfmoon, there is a property on the front side of that new developement, I think it is like 108 Fellows rd.

This guy has no less that 6 trailers in all states of falling down and the town has no problem with it, and a huge junk / trash pile.

Also, Old 146 from Fire road to Cemetery Rd has no less than 7 buildings that are falling down and if it were not for them being commercial property, they would have been condemd a long time ago.

There is also a trash pile, actually more like a dump, spread out over 300 feet long and about 10 feet high in back of 2 of those properties.

A real mess, and I contacted the town and the owners of the property and they both told me they did not care, so every town has this sort of thing.

I'm sure there is more to this than you know. Maybe someone knows someone.

Good Luck

Pittstown Removed all code enforcers code info from their website. This is the contact info:

Building Inspector - Hal Wiley 753-4222 or 727-2174
Junk Enforcement Officer - Doug Delurey 753-4627
Dog Control Officer 454-0396 or 727-2174

Pittstown Town Board meeting is actually Monday, January 14th @ 7:00

Pittstown did't remove their contacts... it just doesn't show up on my phone...sorry.

this issue is closed