About 100 community members from the towns of Otsego and Springfield and surrounding neighborhoods assembled in the Pierstown Grange in Cooperstown Sunday, Sept. 7 to discuss a proposed major subdivision.

Leaders from the Otsego County Conservation Association, the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station and Otsego 2000 spearheaded a conversation regarding the proposal, dubbed the Manocherian Subdivision Proposal. It would affect more than 1,525 acres of farmland, slopes and wetlands west of Otsego Lake in Otsego and Springfield.

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