GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Zoning Board of Appeals on March 4 approved a for-profit home-school resource center on the town border with Altamont.
On separate votes related to the proposal — an interpretation of the proposed use and approval of the project itself — the tally was 4 to 1, with James Zieno twice casting the dissenting vote.
Zieno’s vote was the only one Acton Albany could afford to lose because the Rural Guilderland Referral Committee — which has the ability to weigh in on town projects within 1,200 feet of the village boundary — was not in favor of the proposal, stating it was “not consistent and does not meet the criteria set forth in the previous” town-issued special-use permit…