Current Town Projects
We are always trying to enrich the lives of New Lebanon’s residents. Here are some of our current projects. These are often handled by short-term ad-hoc committees.
Walkable Downtown
Additional Sidewalk Funding Awarded!
New Lebanon was selected for the second Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant award we applied for! This will allow us to extend the project scope from the high school to Shatford Park as well as install concrete sidewalks instead of crusher run and still narrow the lanes and upgrade the drainage and lane infrastructure.
In the grant award it lists $969,920 as the local match with the providers of that local match being Town of New Lebanon and NYSDOT. The Town was clear in our grant application that the Town share could not exceed the $499,830 already committed by the Town, so we are working on confirming that the other $470,090 is coming from NYSDOT. The Town will only proceed with accepting the new TAP grant award when we have written confirmation from NYSDOT that they are providing the remainder of the local match and the Town share will not increase at all from the current town share already approved by the voters via the referendum.
For the $499,830 already committed by Town and approved by the voters, we currently have a $90,000 Bond Anticipation Note (BAN) that expires in March of 2027. In the tentative 2027 budget, we have legal fees budgeted to extend that BAN another year to get us through the engineering phase. In 2028 and once construction is ready to begin, the $90,000 BAN will roll into a bond for $499,830 at which time annual payments will be scheduled starting in 2029. We can handle these future payments within our normal operating budget, much like the past bond used to build the new wing of the Town Hall.
About
The walkable downtown committee is an advisory committee to the Town Board. This committee holds no decision making power nor is it subject to NYS Open Meetings Law. Meetings are held online with just committee members on the fourth Tuesday of each month. To keep the public informed of the committees work, minutes of the meetings will be posted on the town website within 2 weeks of each meeting and distributed in the monthly committee report that goes out with the town board agenda and supporting documents. Any decisions made on this project will be made at an open meeting, by the Town Board and any recommendations made by this committee to the Town Board for consideration will be included in the minutes and the monthly committee report.
Background
The Town is considering a project to slow down the traffic on 20/22 and make our downtown more friendly to safe walking and biking. There was a special election on January 21, 2025, to determine whether or not the Town should carry out this project and have the option of issuing a bond. Constructions would start in 2027. The resolution passed.
A Public Information session was held on January 11, 2025, at the New Lebanon Community Center. You can see it at: https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=138&id=65010
A Public Information session was held on December 30, 2024 at Town Hall. You can see it livestreamed at:
https://www.townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=138&id=64570
Some History:
We had a great first public input session on March 20, 2023. A huge thank you to Creighton Manning for leading the session and to all who took the time to attend or to watch online. If you could not make or watch the meeting live, please feel free to watch the meeting recording here: https://townhallstreams.
Please see here for the Power Point on the survey results of the public input session on a Walkable Downtown.
There was a second public input session held on June 5, 2023 at the New Lebanon Jr/Sr High school. There were about 70 residents who attended to voice their opinions and preferences for the Walkable Downtown options presented by Creighton Manning. If you could not attend the meeting live, please feel free to watch the meeting recording here: https://townhallstreams.com/stream.php?location_id=138&id=53399
You can also see the slideshow that was presented here.
Meeting Notes
Project FAQs
Updated fact sheet: pdf
Power Point as pdf for Informational Meeting: pdf
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Can details of the $2.5 million estimate be provided?
YES! See attached budget summary worksheet - pdf
2. Consider a connection from the High School to Shatford memorial Park?
This connection will be considered - a direct connection parallel to NYS Route 22 is approximately 1000 feet, and would cost approximately $400,000
3. Maintenance costs have been revised to include anticipated inflation on future costs. What are those?
Snow removal budget: $7k per year, path maintenance budget: $12.4k per year
4, Can I see a State DOT owned right of way map?
YES - see attached pdf
5. Can I see the cost estimates comparing stonedust ro asphalt and concrete?
YES - see attached pdf
Walkable Downtown Committee Members
Tistrya Houghtling
Michael Deegan
Nancy Eos
Tara Jacobson
Josh Young
Tony Murad
Corey Stall
Ingrid Benson
Don Adams
Jared Anderson
Shatford Park
Playground Design Committee - finished as of summer 2026
Paul McCreary, Town Engineer, Chair
Tistrya Houghtling, Town Supervisor, Minutes Taker - supervisor@townofnewlebanonny.gov
There are no Town emails assigned to this temporary committee.
Stacey Breads
Beth LaGrange
Hannah DeLisle-Stall
Courtney Potter
Peter McCagg
Joanne Amlaw, Town Board Member - jamlaw@townofnewlebanonny.gov
Playground Design Committee Meeting Minutes
2026
2026-06-29-PDC-meeting-minutes
2026-06-06-PDC-meeting-minutes
2026-04-08-PDC-meeting-minutes
2025
2025-08-08-PDC-meeting-minutes
2025-06-12-PDC-meeting-minutes
2025-05-06-PDC-meeting-minutes
2025-02-04-PDC-meeting-minutes
2025-01-07-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024
2024-12-03-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-10-01-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-09-03-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-06-04-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-05-07-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-04-02-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-03-19-PDC-meeting-minutes
2024-03-04-PDC-meeting-minutes
Shatford Park Master Plan
Public meeting to review the Master Park Plan designed by Barton and Loguidice was held on June 22, 2022.
View the Master Park Plan
Sewer District
Background & Documents
Feasibility Study
SEQRA and Engineering Info
PDF of packet handed to Town Board members by Lamont Engineers at 5/12/2026 meeting: BP-70C31_20260513_100516
Maps
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Main Street Redesign
Background and Guide
A New York Main Street Technical Assistance grant was awarded to New Lebanon to develop a downtown design guidelines. This document was created to outline best practices for creating attractive, thriving commercial spaces within the downtown of New Lebanon. To better illustrate the ideas and concepts within the Downtown Design Guide, several properties were selected to be studied as examples of the many principles and concepts within the document.
Committee Members
Gregg Carroll
Elizabeth Brutsch
Ted Salem
Hazard Mitigation Plan
Download or read the plan
These are links to a dropbox folder:
Columbia County HMP Volume 1 Final Draft 06.19.25
Columbia County HMP Volume 2 Final Draft 08.01.25
Resolution to adopt this plan
Pilot Program: Room Enough for Both
2026 - Final Report
2026-03-26-NL Room Enough FINAL presentation to the public
2026-Final Report-New Lebanon Room Enough for Both
Panel Discussion May 19, 2026
Public Input Session December 2025
Video from the meeting: Link
Public Input Session May 22, 2025
On May 22, 2025, the Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing & Conservation hosted a community conversation in the Town of New Lebanon for a special pilot project to help the town integrate its planning for housing and conservation. The project is called “Room Enough for Both: Planning for Affordable Housing and Conservation Together.” Residents of New Lebanon participated in small group discussions about places they love and want to preserve in their town, their housing needs, and opportunities for both housing and conservation. The conversation was led by planning experts from Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, the Pace University Land Use Law Center, and the Hudson River Estuary Program.
Slide show: NL HVAHC Public Meeting 1 5 22 25
Video from the meeting: Video of the meeting
Recap of the meeting: pdf
Discussion with Housing Developers in November 2025
The Room Enough for Both committee had a really interesting and thoughtful discussion with three housing developers last week. Each of them was very different – nonprofit and for-profit, different scales, difference experiences. They provided us with some great insight into policies, zoning, land-use review processes, and other factors affect buildability in communities.
The team will summarize their input for the final report.
A video of the meeting can be found here: https://youtu.be/iwYVQoQnt7k?si=KqP1a9JiWvSEpNYO