> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://websterledger.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Webster's Town Board votes tonight on a moratorium exemption for the Dinks and Links project - URL: https://websterledger.com/webster-town-board-preview-august-6-2026/ - Published: 2026-08-06T13:16:14.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-07T19:25:55.000Z - Description: Item 8 would grant hardship relief from the town's development moratorium for a proposed recreation facility on Five Mile Line Road. The draft resolution is posted with the agenda. The applicant's submission is not. - Author: Morgan VanDerLeest - Tags: Government, Planning & development Correction (Aug. 7, 2026): This article originally said the Local Law #3 public hearing was the only item on the agenda that takes public comment. Every regular Webster Town Board meeting agenda also carries an Open to the Floor period, with the same five-minute limit, and the Aug. 6 agenda did. Residents did not need a public hearing to address the board. The article has been updated. The Webster Town Board meets tonight with a request for relief from the town's development moratorium on the agenda. Item 8 would grant a hardship exemption to the proposed Dinks and Links project, an indoor and outdoor recreation facility of about 39,100 square feet planned for 912 and 922 Five Mile Line Road, just west of the Lowe's store. The parcels sit in one of the six commercial and office districts [the moratorium covers](https://websterledger.com/what-the-moratorium-actually-froze/). To grant relief, the law requires an applicant to show by clear and convincing evidence, including dollars-and-cents proof, that the moratorium leaves no reasonable use of the property. The draft resolution granting the exemption is posted with the agenda. The applicant's submission is not. The resolution says dollars-and-cents proof was provided, but does not summarize it or give a figure. The project needs the exemption because it did not hold preliminary site plan approval, which is what the law exempts. [The Planning Board tabled it on June 2](https://websterledger.com/planning-board-june-2-2026-2/), two days before the Town Board adopted the moratorium. The town says the moratorium is active and runs through the end of 2026\. The Town Board decides this exemption on its own, and a vote tonight is final. ## The public hearing: Local Law #3 The meeting opens at 7:30 p.m. with a public hearing on Local Law #3, Vehicle and Traffic Regulations. Each speaker gets five minutes. Residents can also speak during Open to the Floor, which is on every regular Town Board meeting agenda and carries the same five-minute limit. The board [scheduled the hearing at its July 16 meeting](https://websterledger.com/town-board-recap-2026-07-16/), where Town Engineer Keith Mortimer had previewed what the law covers. ## Also up for a vote Item 6 would establish a policy on video and audio recording for the town's boards and committees, and on making those recordings public. It is a final decision tonight, and the draft resolution is posted with the agenda. Three items concern the wastewater treatment plant. The largest, Item 15, would shift the plant's asphalt paving from one contractor to another. The resolution recites a proposed paving cost of about $1.86 million from Navitas, the incoming contractor. That is a figure quoted in the resolution rather than an amount the board is approving. The rest of the night runs shorter. Item 5 opens environmental review on a town transportation project. Items 9, 10 and 11 staff up for a townwide reassessment in 2027, including temporary seats on the Board of Assessment Review. Item 12 moves a 24-hour take-home vehicle assignment to the Chief Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator. Item 16 clears six lots of Parks Department equipment for recycling. Items 1 through 4 are the consent block of minutes, bills, warrants and purchase orders. All 16 numbered items are up for a vote. ## Before the meeting: a budget workshop at 4:30 The board's second 2027 budget workshop starts at 4:30 p.m. Seven department heads present tentative budgets in slots running to 6:10 p.m. Workshops carry no resolutions and take no votes. ## If you want to be there The workshop starts at 4:30 p.m. today, Aug. 6, and the regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Both are in the Town Board Room, which is located behind the main Town Hall building next to the Justice Courts (building with the blue roof) at 1002 Ridge Road. ## Sign up for Webster Ledger Independent local journalism for Webster, NY. Subscribe Email sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. --- *AI tools were used in drafting and research.*