The COVID 19 pandemic has thwarted the Town of Balston’s newly elected official’s efforts to fulfill their most popular election promise - a yearlong moratorium on large building projects. Supervisor Connolly said the proposed moratorium would have halted the construction of major subdivisions, commercial and industrial developments, senior living facilities, and planned unit development districts. Nevertheless, while moving deftly toward a moratorium, the supervisor noted that the Town is in a holding pattern because our attorneys are arguing that due to the Town’s inability to assure everyone can join a teleconference to let their opinions be heard, Town attorneys are arguing that teleconference public hearings may not hold up in a court of law if someone argued ‘I could not get connected to the teleconference through a Zoom call’. Therefore, public hearings are being delayed until the Town "can do it right”.

During the COVID 19 imposed moratorium delay, the Balston Town Board has directed MJ Engineering and Land Surveying to complete an updated comprehensive plan and will also commission a generic environmental impact study and traffic study to professionally set up the Town to deal with growth