Cooperstown, Otsego Approve Annexation
By DARLA M. YOUNGS
COOPERSTOWN
The Cooperstown Village Board of Trustees and the Otsego Town Board unanimously approved annexation of just over 13 acres located in the Town of Otsego to jurisdiction of the Village on Wednesday, April 10.
Officials met at the Cooperstown Central School on March 22, 2023 to review the proposed Village of Cooperstown Southern Boundary Extension/Annexation, comprised of four parcels of land, all of which are uninhabited and tax exempt. Those properties and their owners are:
- County of Otsego (3.9332 acres; Tax Map No. 131.00-1-25.00 Hwy Dept.)
- Village of Cooperstown (6.5207 acres; Tax Map Nos. 131.-1-20.00 Hwy Dept.; 131.00-1-18.00 Blue Lot; no known tax number, Linden Avenue from Blue Lot to NYS Route 28)
- Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society, Inc. (2.7226 acres; Tax Map No. 131.00-1-13.00—section from Village line to southern end of Blue Lot)
Improved public safety is the impetus for the annexation which, put simply, “is the incorporation of one territory into the territory of another.”
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