By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- A proposal to build a 227-unit trailer park in Massena has been pulled from consideration by the county Planning Office and Massena Village Zoning Board.

Michael Wachs, who owns Harte Haven Plaza, can opt to resubmit his plan in the future, according to Jason Pfotenhauer, deputy director of the St. Lawrence County Planning Office.

Avis Hazelton, secretary for the Massena Building Department, said she was notified by Wachs’s architect that he was pulling the plan.

Wachs’s plans were up for review by the county on Dec. 8 and the village on Dec. 19, but that is no longer happening.

“He’s looking at doing something else with it, but I’m not completely sure what. He wants to do something with that property,” Hazelton said.

Wachs was applying to get a zoning and use variance for the trailer park. He wanted to build off East Hatfield Street behind Riverdale Apartments, and have other units on the opposite side of East Hatfield. It isn’t zoned for a trailer park, Hazelton said. Wachs also wanted to build lots that measured 100-feet by 30-feet, and the village code says trailer lots need to be 100-by-60.

“The village has regulations for a reason,” Pfotenhauer said.

Hazelton said earlier in December that the fire department was concerned because Wachs was proposing a single entrance, which would have been an obstacle should a fire truck need to get to back there.

Pfotenhauer said there would have also been a sewage disposal issue “due to limited capacity of infrastructure.”

“All that is irrelevant because the project is no more,” Pfotenhauer said. “We’ll have to wait and see on what comes back, if he decides to re-submit.”

Hazelton said the proposal ruffled feathers among Massena landlords.

“Landlords are up in arms if he even tries to do anything residential,” she said. “There are a lot of houses for sale and a lot of rental property vacant.”