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Can Caroline, New York, resist the imposition of its first-ever zoning code?

Caroline has no zoning code. That makes it an extreme outlier in the United States.

In Caroline, New York, officials are trying to impose the city's first zoning code. These residents won't have it.

Fingerlakes1.com Menu A community in Tompkins County is working on bringing municipal broadband to town. It’s the town of Dryden and an undertaking that started in 2019 is continuing. The Tompkins Weekly reports that the goal, according to local officials, is to bring fiber optic broadband to each household in Dryden. The total cost of the project is approximately $14.5 million. There’s about $3 million in federal grants and funding from bonds that remains to be determined. Most of the town...