LLOYD, N.Y. – A controversial application for a pet cremation facility next to an elementary school has been withdrawn.

Town zoning code changes are still expected, however, even with the Aug. 3 withdrawal of an application for the Heavenly Heart Pet Cremation facility, the town supervisor said.

Supervisor David Plavchak, who said the code is expected to become even more stringent than is currently proposed, provided the update on Monday, Aug. 11, during a telephone interview.

“We were going to just throw it into Light Industrial (zoning) and then we learned a couple things … both from the public and from our own research,” he said.

“What we’ve decided now is probably to just withdraw that (draft) zoning code and then…what we’ll do is kind of restrict crematoriums from being in town,”

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