The Clay Town Board rewrote a noise ordinance for the second time in three months on Feb. 3 — this time to fix a numbering mistake — and left no end date on how long the town's Industrial 2 zone, home to the Micron chip-fab project, can run without the noise restrictions the rest of the town's code imposes. Supervisor Damian Ulatowski told the board and a room of residents that the version of the law passed at the end of 2024 had mistakenly cited a section of the town code, 154-4 H, that does not exist, and that the board was re-doing it to correct that transposition error. The correct citation, he said, is Section 152-4 H, the town's Prohibited Noises section. The substance carries over from the earlier version: it exempts construction and demolition noise in Industrial 2 districts from the noise code entirely, rather than confining that work to the daytime and weekend hours the code otherwise requires. Ulatowski said the town's engineers determined that code sections written for smaller projects could not accommodate a manufacturing project of Micron's scale, and that based on input from Micron representatives and federal officials, the board anticipates construction will run for several years. He said the I-2 zone is small and largely confined to the White Pines Industrial Park, and that the exemption covers construction only — daily operations would still have to meet standard I-2 noise limits, a point Councilor Deborah Magaro-Dolan asked him to confirm. Neither the law nor Ulatowski's remarks put a number of years on the exemption. Mike LaPointe, who told the board he lives in Cherry Heights, said the construction phase could run 10 to 20 years and asked whether crews would be working through the night. He asked about sound barrier walls. Councilor Ryan Pleskach said he supports barriers and has approached the state Department of Transportation about placing them along Routes 481 and 31, though he said the state has so far been resistant. Resident Janet Rathburn asked whether the exemption was open-ended in time or in noise level, and another resident asked about construction traffic. Ulatowski said he did not know when construction would begin, and that the board was open to restricting activity if work proved noncompliant and to installing sound barriers. Magaro-Dolan, Pleskach and Capria said the issue would be reviewed on an ongoing basis; Councilor Joseph Bick said he saw no reason to delay the law. LaPointe suggested the board hold off adopting the law until it settled on sound barriers and a way to oversee compliance. The Supervisor closed the hearing after that exchange, and the minutes do not record a vote adopting the law at this meeting; written comments opposing it were emailed to the Town Clerk and are on file. The noise-law hearing was one of two land-use items that drew debate Feb. 3. The board also voted 7-0 that a proposed Summit Federal Credit Union branch at 5047 West Taft Road would have no significant effect on the environment — then denied, 6-0 with Councilor Edward Wisnowski abstaining, the zone change needed to build it. Councilors cited the project's proximity to residential property, a lack of buffer, traffic at the unsignalized Cedar Post intersection, and the potential for hazardous conditions in the neighboring Wegmans parking lot. The board also swore in Wisnowski to the Town Board seat vacated by Luella Miller, then later appointed Vivian Mason to the Zoning Board of Appeals chair Wisnowski had vacated. It scheduled a March 3 hearing on the Laurel Springs senior-housing zone change on West Taft Road — a project the board rejected under a different case number in August 2024 — and adjourned, at the applicant's request, two Mirabito Energy Projects drive-thru hearings on Route 31 to the same date. Separately, the board approved a $285,000 wheel loader and $685,000 in plow trucks for the Highway Department, and signed off on two new fire hydrants on Devitt Circle, to be paid for by developer Dan Bargabos.