Cheektowaga to hear businesses
They might want more areas where neighborhood businesses are mixed in with houses and apartments, or maybe they would like to see fewer industrial sites.
Business owners in Cheektowaga will get a chance to say how they would like the town to look in the next 20 years at a meeting at 10 a. m. Aug. 19 in Millennium Hotel Buffalo, 2040 Walden Ave.
“I’m sure they’re going to be looking at it from the economic development point of view,” said Debra S. Liegl, president and chief executive officer of the Cheektowaga Chamber of Commerce.
The town is in the beginning of an 18-month process to update its comprehensive plan, which guides future growth and development. It’s been nearly 15 years since the plan was last updated.
While business people are interested in economic development, they also are aware of the necessity for balancing the needs of residents and commercial and industrial interests, Liegl said.
The meeting is sponsored by the town and the Chamber of Commerce, but business representatives do not have to belong to the Chamber to attend. Meetings with other groups in town will be conducted in the coming months to collect input.
“It’s a long, arduous process of collecting data of where you have been and where you are,” said Zoning Inspector Daniel Ulatowski. Then the experts from Wendel Duchscherer, the town’s consultant, will go to work to mold suggestions into workable proposals.
“This is going to be a working document we hope will be a valuable resource for all our decision makers,” Ulatowski said.
