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Fwd: Spring Run Public/Private Nuisance et al
From : BRUCE COFFIN <brucecoffin@gmail.com> Tue, Jan 26, 2021 02:45 PM
Subject : Fwd: Spring Run Public/Private Nuisance et al
To :Jennifer Merriman <jennifer.merriman@saratoga-
springs.org>
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Jennifer
One more communique to forward to
Chairman Torpey and the Planning Board
please. Thank you .
Chair
Wanted to bring to your attention this email
from July 29 2020 relative to Excelsior Park
LLC.
Also re: water, runoff, infiltration etc. the
Spring Run stream has changed dramatically
since The Hamlet was built-especially during
significant rain.
I am not a hydrologist.
Thank you,
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Bruce
Forwarded message
From: BRUCE COFFIN <brucecoffin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 4:24 PM
Subject: Spring Run Public/Private Nuisance et al
To: <eileen.finneran@saratoga-springs.org>
Cc: BRUCE COFFIN <bruce.coffn@gmail.com>
Good afternoon Eileen
It has been a couple of weeks since we have
spoken . I realize you are involved in so many
community issues from demonstrations to
vandalism in Congress park which preempt
your attention.
Notwithstanding, Tuesday July 28 was not a
good night. Four to six skateboarders started
their almost daily trek at between 5 and 6p.m.
from the Spring Run trail to their
"encampment". . .all with mysteriously full
backpacks. Their camp can be reached by
taking a left halfway up the hill from the north
side of the boardwalk bridge and going about
50 yards into the woods or accessing from
near a transformer located near the 6th
streetlamp on Ormandy Drive. Pictures in
separate email of their "bunker" and environs.
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Screaming, skateboarding sounds back and
forth across bridge, flashlights blazing
commenced around 10 p. m. My wife went to
bed at 12 : 30 a. m. (2 1/2 hours past her
normal retiring) to the same noise and lights.
Unfortunately, I was admitted to Saratoga
Hospital earlier in the day; otherwise, I would
have called the police. My wife, fearing for her
personal safety, was reticent to call police.
Problems: 1 . These events are on N27 acres
of uninhabited private land (Excelsior LLC).
Regardless, a private nuisance is being held
continually on this private land .
2. Police state "no violation". . . as
skateboarding is neither posted nor against a
city ordinance. "Our hands are tied."
3. The police would have to dispatch three
cars/and or teams to trap and apprehend the
miscreants: one from Ormandy Drive going
into the woods south; one the top of the path
referenced above heading west into the
woods; one crossing the bridge from the
Spring Run.
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Does the City really have enough resources to
accomplish this?
4. How can a curfew enforced? If it can be
why isn't it?
5. Where are the parents of these people? Do
they care?
6. What are in these "de riguer" backpacks?
On July 17 at 12 : 30 a.m. I had to go to Malta
Medical in a pouring rain. Coming down
Eureka Avenue about 40 yards from the bridge
which crosses over the Spring Run Trail two
18-22 year old males were walking toward
same. They were surprised a car was leaving a
residence but they had no where to escape.
As I drove toward them they hesitated and
glanced furtively and in a suspicious manner. I
called the SSPD and asked for a car to
investigate as I left my wife alone in the
house. By my count this is the fourth
requested dispatch since June 22 2020.
I want to let you know this disturbing activity
has not abated but increased. There is no
"quiet enjoyment of life" when this occurs. Per
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recommendations from the SSPD I shall not
personally confront these people. Rather, at
SSPD's suggestion, I shall request dispatch
again, and again.
If you have and questions or require
clarification please let me know. I appreciate
your involvement.
Sincerely,
Bruce Coffin (signed electronically)
48 Eureka Avenue
Saratoga Springs NY 12866
518 527 1200
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