BY ANDY GARDNER

North Country This Week

MASSENA -- The Village Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on a proposed metal storage container regulation at their December meeting.

It will be Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 5:30 p.m. The village streams their meetings online via Zoom. People who want to make comments can contact the Village Clerk's Office to get the link and agenda prior to the meeting.

If passed, the law would allow a container to be on a residential property for 90 days out of a calendar year, and they can’t be in a village right of way.

Aaron Hardy, the Massena Fire Department foreman and chief code officer, told the village board in October that he thinks 90 days is “a fair number for someone doing a major project or some other renovation on their property.”

“With the shipping containers being stuck in the village right of way in somebody’s front yard and the DPW having to go in and dig something up … that can cause quite an issue,” he said at the time.

He said the Code Office would work with residents who may need a container beyond the 90 days.

“We’re always open to working with somebody … People run into delays all the time,” Hardy said in October. “We’re constantly working with homeowners to get the project complete, obviously as timely as possible but we’re always willing to work with homeowners.”

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