The public hearing for the FBC application should be opened for comment in the beginning of the new year. The town traffic consultant has been formally retained for the traffic study. This is the last step before a public hearing. Interested parties will be receiving their certified mail notices shortly.
On another topic, I was at the Mohegan Lake Improvement District (MLID) meeting tonight. There are a lot of interesting issues that we should all concern ourselves with such as the budget (it's bigger than you might think--about 100K), lake health (blue-green algae sucks--but we can suppress it with an alum treatment), a permit from the DEC to get an permit to treat the lake with alum (very difficult, but possible), Canada goose egg addling (ooooh, sign me up), beavers, the blocked up Culvert under Mohegan Avenue that the beavers are stuffing with felled trees and branches, etc...
We have a beautiful lake but you and I maintain this lake; it's maintained solely by volunteers. If you live within the MLID special tax District (about 1,500 of us), then you pay taxes to MLID and can't change that; if you care about Mohegan Lake, may as well get involved, right?
We are rolling out a few social media platforms that will allow us to maximize community participation. You can actually already start following this facebook page that will feature all things MLID. A formal website for the MLID will be live by the new year as well.
In summary, Mohegan Lake needs you, so please get involved with the MLID. There are monthly meetings and a few, extremely dedicated people that do it all. I don't claim to be one of them, but I have been attending a few meetings and have helped out with Lake Day activities and try to pitch in whenever I can. They need your help.
Hope to see you soon.
-Evan
