POTSDAM — A request by the St. Lawrence Health System to decommission and purchase a section of Cottage Street will undergo more scrutiny after an assessment found the potential plan could have moderate to significant impact on traffic.

An initial short environmental assessment requested by the health system and completed by the village showed the request for the hospital to take ownership of a section of Cottage Street between Waverly and Leroy streets may have “moderate to large impacts on traffic within the community.” The village will now likely move to require SLHS to pay for the commission of an independent traffic engineer to study those potential impacts further.

Johnson Newspapers 7.1

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