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[TOWN OF GREENBURGH CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING TO BE HELD VIA ZOOM-ENABLED VIDEO CONFERENCE THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021 - 6:30 P.M.]
EVERYONE TO TONIGHT'S C A C MEETING.UM, JUST A QUICK UPDATE BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE, UH, FOR OUR SOON TO BE APPROVED MEMBERS.
AS OF, UH, LAST NIGHT, WHAT WAS INDICATED IS THAT AT THE SPECIAL BOARD MEETING THAT THEY'RE HOLDING, I GUESS THEY HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF TO GO THROUGH.
YOU GUYS WILL BE APPOINTED ON TUESDAY NIGHT UNLESS SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS NOW.
AND I SUSPECT LAUREN, THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET AHOLD OF YOU TO DO AN INTERVIEW.
SO IF YOU, I GOT AN, UH, EMAIL THIS MORNING, SO, AND I RESPONDED TO IT.
SO THAT IS GOING TO BE ON THE 29TH.
SO THEY'LL INTERVIEW YOU BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DO THE INTERVIEW BEFORE THEY DO THE APPOINTMENTS AND THEY'RE SHARING.
SO THE PHONE, OR I COULD LOG ON.
I WAS TRYING TO RESPOND TO YOU.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M HAVING, UM, TECHNICAL.
BUT YES, I DID GET THE, I DID GET THE MESSAGE.
I GOT AN EMAIL THIS MORNING AND I DID RESPOND THAT ON TUESDAY.
UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, BEFORE YOUR INTERVIEW, LAUREN, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS YOU WANNA ASK? UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN TO SEVERAL MEETINGS.
UH, THIS MAY BE YOUR THIRD MEETING, I THINK.
ANY QUESTIONS YOU WANNA ASK BEFORE YOU GO TO YOUR INTERVIEW? N WELL, I SEE THAT WE, I I JUST, MY ONLY CONCERN IS MY LEARNING CURVE HERE, BECAUSE IT'S SUSPECT THAT IT GETS EVEN BUSIER.
YOUR LEARNING CURVE IS TWO YEARS.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? WELL, HE NOTED THAT THE RICH, WE'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO, SOMEONE'S GOTTA HIT THAT BUTTON AT ALL.
BUT LAUREN, THE NORMAL LEARNING CURVE IS ABOUT TWO YEARS.
SO DON'T, DON'T FEEL, DON'T FEEL THAT YOU'RE DIFFERENT.
AND I DON'T FEEL, AND I DON'T FEEL, I DON'T FEEL BAD.
IT WAS LIKE, OH MY GOODNESS, I THOUGHT I WAS A LITTLE SMARTER THAN THIS.
MAYBE I NEED TO LEARN SOME MORE STUFF, BUT NO, NO.
THIS IS, UM, I'M JUST GONNA READ DOCUMENTS AS I GET THEM AS YOU.
AND WE'LL PROBABLY BE SWITCHING TO LIVE MEETINGS SHORTLY.
AND IT'S GONNA BE MUCH EASIER TO EXPLAIN THINGS WHEN WE'RE IN PERSON TO PERSON.
BUT YOU CAN POINT TO SOMETHING AND SAY, THIS IS, THIS IS, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THIS.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? OR WHAT, OKAY, WHAT'S THIS PAPER FOR? AND WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT.
I MEAN, IT'S BEEN VERY HARD FOR, FOR YOU NEW FOLKS IN TERMS OF PACKETS HAVE ARRIVED AND YOU REALLY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT KIND OF INTERPLAY.
YOU HAVE WHEN IT'S PERSON TO PERSON.
YOU KNOW, WE SORT OF, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? WE'RE RUNNING A MEETING.
YOU LOOK AROUND THE ROOM AND YOU LOOK, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE, SOMEONE ISN'T WITH YOU AND YOU SAY, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH ZOOM, THAT'S REALLY HARD TO DO.
NEXT PIECE OF BUSINESS, UH, DONNA AND DONNA'S VOLUNTEERED TO HOLD THE TUTORIAL FOR ALL OF US, UH, ONCE WE GET BACK TO LIVE MEETINGS.
AND WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL SCHEDULE A MEETING.
IT WON'T, THE ONLY AGENDA WILL BE, UH, UH, A TUTORIAL AND DONNA WILL, UH, HELP ALL OF US, UM, UM, UH, BECAUSE OF OUR EXPERTISE WITH, UH, UM, UH, SINCE HE'S A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, IT'LL BE GOOD FOR ALL OF US.
THE NEXT PIECE OF BUSINESS IS THE MINUTES TO NEED TO BE APPROVED.
UM, MIKE HAD MADE A FEW SUGGESTED CORRECTIONS BASED ON THAT VERSION.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES? UH, DONNA, YOU GOT THEM? I DID.
I AGREED WITH THEM AND I'LL DEFINITELY INCORPORATE THEM.
DONNA, DONNA, UM, MADE THE MOTION.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I SECOND.
SO WE'RE GONNA FLIP A LITTLE BIT 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO, UH, START WITH THE APPLICANT AND MIKE DOES HAVE TO LEAVE THE MEETING.
AND WE HAD, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF QUORUM PROBLEMS TONIGHT BECAUSE FORTUNATELY SHARON'S GONNA BE ON, 'CAUSE MARGARET HAS TO REUSE HERSELF.
YOU KNOW, SHE'S GONNA BE LISTING IN LY AND, UH, WE HAVE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT WHO WILL BE PARTICIPATING AND LISTENING, BUT ARE NOT OFFICIALLY MEMBERS, I GUESS, UNTIL THE 29TH.
SO A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT PROCEDURE THAN NORMAL.
SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS JUST GIVE EVERYONE AN UPDATE ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BEST FLOOR.
UH, I THINK WE CIRCULATED THE DOCUMENT.
I WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR INPUT.
I THINK EVERYONE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS DOCUMENT TO MAKE IT A REALLY GOOD DOCUMENT.
UM, WE THINK THAT THERE ARE THINGS THERE, OBVIOUSLY,
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AS WE PUT IN THE NOTE AS A, A GROUP NOTE THAT WE THINK NEED FURTHER STUDY AND ENHANCEMENT.AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE REASON WHY THEY HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS AND WE MAKE DOCUMENTS TO COMMENT, IS TO REACH A CONSENSUS IN THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE SOMETHING THAT REALLY WORKS FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, TAKE SOMETHING AT FACE VALUE AND NEVER LOOK AT IT BECAUSE, UM, JUST THE WAY WE WROTE OUR DOCUMENT AND WE KEPT EDITING IT, THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW WITH THIS LAW.
SO I THINK THERE'LL BE SOME MORE CHANGES AS WE GO FORWARD.
I KNOW GARRETT HAS COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH THEM AND HE'S SHARING THE DOCUMENTS.
UM, DOREEN LIPSON MADE A VERY GOOD POINT THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS REALLY GOOD WITH APPLICATIONS OF EVERYBODY'S COMMENTS CAN BE POSTED SO EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY CAN SEE THEM BECAUSE IT IMPACTS YOUR THINKING WHEN YOU SEE WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS.
IT MAY CONVINCE YOU THAT YOU'RE REALLY MORE RIGHT THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE.
OR IT CAN MAKE YOU TAKE A SECOND BREATH AND SAY, MAYBE NOW THAT I READ WHAT, UM, FRED WROTE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MY POSITION NEEDS A LITTLE EDITING TOO.
SO IT'S REALLY GONNA BE A HELPFUL THING.
WE DID HAVE A DOCUMENT WE CIRCULATED AND EVERYONE WORKED ON, AND WE SENT IT TO THE TOWN BOARD.
AND AT THE LAST MEETING WE, MIKE AND I WERE KIND OF AUTHORIZED TO START THE WRITING AND THEN IT WENT AROUND AND IT WAS CONTRIBUTED.
BUT WE THOUGHT, UM, SINCE WE WERE AUTHORIZED AT THAT MEETING, IT'S USUALLY WHERE OUR PROCEDURE, THIS IS NEW FOCUS, IS THAT WHEN WE SEND OUT SOMETHING THAT THE C A C DIDN'T VOTE ON COMPLETELY, BUT RATHER AUTHORIZED THE WRITING OF AND CONTRIBUTED TO AT THE NEXT MEETING, THIS BEING THE ONE SINCE IT WAS SENT, WE RATIFY IT.
SO I WOULD ASK SOMEONE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT THE C A C RATIFIED THE JUNE 22 REPORT TO THE TOWN BOARD REGARDING THE BEST LAW.
UH, DON DONNA, DID YOU GET THE THING I SENT YOU ON THE RATIFICATION? YES.
OKAY, WELL, LEMME READ IT TO YOU.
HERE'S, HERE'S WHAT I SUGGEST WE DO, UH, WITH REFERENCE TO THE AUTHORIZATION GIVEN AT THE JUNE 10TH MEETING, THE C A C RATIFIES, THE REPORT SENT TO THE TOWN BOARD REGARDING THE DRAFT BEST LAW.
THIS JUST, JUST AS A FORMALIZATION OF WHAT TERRY JUST EXPLAINED.
SO CAN YOU SAY THAT AGAIN, MIKE? OR DID YOU SAY YOU EMAILED THAT TO ME? I DON'T THINK I SAW HE EMAILED THAT TO YOU.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, I'LL JUST EMAIL IT TO YOU AGAIN.
DON'T, HE SENT IT TO YOU AT 1148.
SO THAT, THAT'S, ARE YOU MAKING, MAKING THE MOTION WITH REFERENCE TO THE AUTHORIZATION GIVEN AT THE JUNE 10TH MEETING? THAT'S WHAT TERRY REFERRED TO.
I I DID SEE CAC, YOU SAID THE CAC C RATIFIES, THE REPORT SENT THE TOWN BOARD REGARDING THE DRAFT VESSEL.
SO THAT'S THE MO ARE YOU MAKING THE MOTION, MIKE? YES.
I'LL MAKE THE MOTION MAKING THE, IS SOMEONE TO SECOND IT? I SECOND MARGARET.
SO WE, UH, WE GOT THAT DONE BE BEFORE, BEFORE WE MOVE OFF THIS, UH, UH, UM, JUST WITH GARRETT, YOU SAID YOU WERE POSTING ALL THE THINGS YOU GOT, YOU'RE GONNA POST THE, THE C A C REPORT TOO? YES.
AND, AND I, WE, I SAW THE FIRE FIRE DISTRICT REPORT.
IT HAD SOME GOOD THINGS IN THERE.
UH, HAS ANYTHING ELSE COME IN? UH, NO.
BOTH GREENVILLE AND HARTSDALE FIRED DISTRICT OF COMMENTED.
I MIGHT GET A SECOND FROM THE GREENVILLE FIRE DISTRICT.
I, I ONLY GOT, I ONLY SAW ONE, I ONLY SAW HARTSDALE.
THERE'S ONE FROM GREENVILLE TOO.
I, I'LL I'LL BE SURE TO PULL THAT OFF.
UH, AND DID, DID, WAS DOREEN ABLE TO SEND YOU ELLA'S COMMENTS? 'CAUSE SHE HAD I THINK SOME, SOME VALID THINGS THAT WE JUST, UM, WE NEED TO LOOK AT IN TERMS OF THE ZONING DISTRICTS? YES, I RECEIVED THOSE.
AND YOU'LL POST THOSE TOO? SURE.
SHOULD I INCLUDE THAT? SHOULD I ATTACH THE REPORT TO MY MINUTES PLEASE? YES, PLEASE DO.
THAT'S WHAT WE NORMALLY DO, PLEASE.
SO ELWOOD, UM, ONE THE THINGS, SO WHAT'S HAPPENED IS, I, I I, I DIDN'T GET HOME TO VERY LATE LAST NIGHT, BUT WHAT I'VE HEARD IS, WHAT IS THAT THE, UH, SO I DIDN'T WATCH THE TOWN BOARD MEETING, BUT UM, WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS IT'S BEEN ADJOURNED TO JUNE 21.
SO THERE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A MONTH THERE THAT, TO WORK TOGETHER TO GET IT WHERE WE WANT IT.
SO ALAN WOOD, I THINK WE'VE ALL COMMENTED ON THAT.
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IS GARRETT STILL WITH US GARRETT? YES, I'M HERE.UM, HAS ANYTHING HAPPENED THERE IN TERMS OF THE WE REQUEST THAT HAVE BEEN COMING IN, THAT WE START A NEW D E I S PROCESS FOR THIS VERY RADICAL CHANGE IN, IN A PROPOSAL OR ALSO THE REQUEST THAT WE COULD SEE WHAT THE, UM, ANSWERS THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THE QUESTIONS TO THE ORIGINAL D E I S TO BE SURE THAT THEY'VE BEEN ANSWERED CORRECTLY AND ALSO THE REQUEST THAT THE THERE ABSOLUTELY BE THE INCLUSION OF THE, UM, AS OF RIGHT ZONED CASE? YEAH, I THINK THE UPDATE I WANNA GIVE RIGHT NOW IS THAT THE D O T, WE SENT THE COVER LETTER, UH, AND, AND INFORMATION OF THE APPLICANT, UM, I BELIEVE DATED MAY 20TH FROM J M C.
WE SENT THAT TO D O T D O T INDICATED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO PROVIDE, UH, WRITTEN COMMENTS.
SO, UM, WE EXPECT THOSE COMMENTS SOON, COULD BE TOMORROW.
AND, UM, WE GET THOSE COMMENTS, WE CAN POST THEM TO THE TOWN WEBSITE.
HAS IT BEEN SENT TO THE COUNTY? YES.
THAT WA WA WAS SENT TO THE COUNTY YES.
COUNTY AND, UM, SCHOOL DISTRICTS? YES.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE NEW PROPOSAL, RIGHT.
AND ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A D E I S OR, OR SUPPLEMENTAL D E I S REGARDING THE NEW PROPOSAL? GARRETT? UH, WE'D HAVE TO CHECK IN WITH THE TOWN BOARD ON THAT.
AND IS THE C A'S REQUEST TO MEET WITH THE, UM, UM, TOWN CONSULTANT? UH, GOING TO BE, UH, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE PERMITTED TO MEET WITH THE TOWN CONSULTANT AND GO OVER THE GI DRAFT FINAL.
UH, I CAN, I'LL RAISE THAT REQUEST AND, UM, CHECK BACK WITH THE C I C.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, UM, HAVE THEY INCLUDED NOW THE, AS OF RIGHT BILLED CASE FOR THE 119 HOUSES WITH, WITH THE LAND GOING TO THE TOWN, UM, THAT QUESTION WAS POSED BY, UH, NUMEROUS ENTITIES, I BELIEVE THE C A C, UH, PARKS DEPARTMENT.
SO THAT WILL BE FORTH, THAT INFORMATION WILL BE FORTHCOMING FROM THE APPLICANT, UH, AS PART OF THEIR, UH, RESPONSE TO THE D E I S BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE CANNOT DO A FAIR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ANYTHING.
WELL, WELL, I DON'T THINK I FULLY UNDERSTOOD THAT ANSWER YET.
IT'S GONNA BE FORTHCOMING FROM THE APPLICANT, BUT THE TOWN IT, THE FINALS, THE TOWNS DOCKET.
SO I THINK THE QUESTION WAS, UM, WILL ANY DOCUMENTATION REFLECT PARKLAND DONATION ASSOCIATED WITH SINGLE FAMILY, UH, PROPOSAL? YEAH.
THE HUNDRED FOR, FOR THE SINGLE FAMILY 119 ALTERNATIVE.
AND UH, WHAT I SAID WAS THAT THAT VERY QUESTION WAS POSED BY NUMEROUS ENTITIES, I BELIEVE THE C A C AND THE PARKS AND RECREATION, UH, ADVISORY BOARD OR SLASH COMMISSIONER.
AND THE APPLICANT, YOU KNOW, IN THEIR D E I F E I S RESPONSE WILL, UM, REACT TO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE REQUIRED, IT WAS POSED AS A QUESTION AND THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO REACT TO AND ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
UM, WELL, I I, I THINK, I THINK IT'S, IT GOES DEEPER THAN THAT, GARRETT.
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THE TOWN BOARD COULD POSSIBLY MAKE A, MAKE A DECISION WITHOUT THAT INFORMATION AND THAT INFORMATION BEING ACCURATE BECAUSE THERE IS AN ECONOMIC FACTOR IN THIS FOR THE TOWN, AND YOU CANNOT COMPARE THE ECONOMICS WITHOUT HAVING DONE THAT BASED ON SIMILAR R 20 AND R 30 DEVELOPMENT RECENTLY IN THAT AREA.
AND I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE YOU STATED AS SUCH IN YOUR RECENT MEMO.
SO WE, WE THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT POINT.
BUT YEAH, YEAH, JUST, I'M NOT TRYING TO PARSE WORDS, BUT THE WAY I, I HEARD YOU, MY, I TRY, YOU SAID THE APPLICANT HAD THE RIGHT TO REACT.
THAT'S NOT EX WHICH IS TRUE, OF COURSE.
BUT I THINK WHAT TERRY IS SAYING IS THE CA IS SAYING THAT IN ORDER FOR THE TOWN DOCUMENT TO BE AN ACCURATE AND COMPLETE TOWN DOCUMENT, WHICH IS THE REQUIREMENT THAT'D BE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE IN ORDER FOR THE TOWN DOCUMENT, WHICH IS THE FINAL TO BE ACCURATE AND COMPLETE, IT'S GOTTA BE IN THERE.
AND THE NUMBERS HAVE GOTTA BE RIGHT.
IT'S A LITTLE MORE, IT'S ANOTHER LAYER.
I UNDERSTAND THE APPLICANT PREPARED A DRAFT RESPONSE AND HE HAS THE RIGHT, THE APPLICANT, UH, HAS THE RIGHT TO REACT.
WHAT I THINK TERRY IS SAYING, THE C A C THINKS THAT WITHOUT THAT, AND I ALSO
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HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE PLANNING BOARD BELIEVES THIS WITHOUT THAT BASELINE.THE WHOLE THING IS, IS, IS GOT A HUGE FOUNDATIONAL FLAW.
AND I THINK YOU, YOU'VE, YOU'VE MADE THAT POINT IN YOUR MEMOS AND DEFINITELY CHAZEN HAS THEM.
SO THEY'RE, THOSE COMMENTS ARE APPRECIATED.
NOT, I DON'T SINGULARLY I DON'T SINGULARLY, UH, PREDICT AND TELL EVERY ASPECT OF WHAT THE PROCESS WILL UNFOLD BEFORE IT UNFOLDS.
I AM A TOWN EMPLOYEE, UH, THE TOWN BOARD'S, THE LEAD AGENCY.
SO I, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
THEY'VE BEEN SENT TO THE TOWN BOARD.
CHAZEN HAS THEM, THE APPLICANT HAS THEM.
SO, UM, WELL, OKAY, WELL THAT PROCESS AHEAD OF US AND YOUR COMMENTS, I'M SURE WILL, WILL BE FACTORED INTO THEM.
I HOPE, GARY, YOU ALL CONVEY TO CHASE AND THE TOWN BOARD HOW SERIOUS C A C THINKS THAT PARTICULAR COMMENT.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ALL COMMENTS ARE NOT E ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL.
HOW SERIOUS, UH, THE C A C THAT THINKS THAT COMMENT IS? NO, I THINK, I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH THOUGHT AND AND EFFORT YOU PUT INTO THESE REVIEWS AND, AND IT'S APPRECIATED.
AND, AND I KNOW THE TOWN BOARD FEELS THAT WAY AND, AND, AND I FEEL JASON FEELS THAT WAY.
UH, I THINK, UH, DID THE COUNTY INDICATE THEY WOULD GET BACK TO YOU? UH, I'D HAVE TO CHECK.
I, I, I DON'T, YEAH, I'D HAVE TO CHECK MY EMAILS.
WE, WE, WE SENT THEM THE DOCUMENTATION FROM J M C AND, UH, I'D HAVE TO CHECK MY EMAILS.
WELL, UM, LISTEN GUYS, I, I DISAPPEAR IN FIVE MINUTES.
DOES ANYBODY WANNA DO ANYTHING THAT I SHOULD BE AROUND FOR? I DON'T THINK SO.
I THINK, OH, I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR, AND THAT'S NOT GONNA WORK.
WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE WEBPAGE, BUT I THINK THAT CAN WAIT ANOTHER, ANOTHER MEETING BECAUSE THAT'S, DOES ANYONE HAVE WEBPAGE EX EXPERTISE? GEORGE, YOU DON'T.
UH, NANCY, ARE YOU A WEB, A WEBPAGE GURU? NO.
WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE LIZ WON THE ELECTION.
WARREN'S GONNA GET THE SHORT STRAW.
THAT'S THE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE THEM PICK FOR WHO BECOMES SECRETARY.
SO POOR DONNA CAN, CAN CEASE TO BE SECRETARY.
NOW THAT WE'VE WROTE YOU ALL IN, THERE'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD TELL YOU.
USUALLY THE LAST PERSON ON GETS TO, TO MAKE, TO DO THE MINUTES.
AND DONNA HAS BEEN FILLING IN FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
SO I THINK THE ONLY FAIR WAY TO DO IT WHEN EVERYONE GETS APPROVED IS REALLY TO PUT THE NAMES IN THE HAND, LET SOMEONE COME UP DOING IT, AND THEN MAYBE WE'LL DO IT FOR SIX MONTHS AND ROTATE TO SOMEBODY ELSE TO COME UP WITH A FAIR WAY OF DOING IT.
UM, MINUTES ARE ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THE WAY DONNA DOES THEM, SHE USES BASICALLY THE AGENDA AS A, AN OUTLINE AND THEN FILLS IN AS GO THROUGH MEETING, WHICH IS PART, PROBABLY THE EASIEST WAY TO DO IT.
AND OUR PHILOSOPHY OF MINUTES IS WE DO NOT DO WORD FOR WORD BECAUSE YOU CANNOT DO WORD FOR WORD UNLESS YOU'RE, UH, A STENOGRAPHER TYPING AWAY AT A MACHINE.
SO IT'S MUCH BETTER TO JUST GET THE IMPORTANT POINTS DOWN, A BROAD STROKE.
SO RATHER THAN GOING INTO, UH, DETAILS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAID, IT LANDS UP BEING SOMETHING IN THE ORDER OF, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT SETTING UP A, A WEBPAGE ON THE TOWN WEBSITE AND, AND THAT TENDS TO COVER IT.
SO THE ONLY PLACE WHERE WE GET INTO DETAILS IS SOMETIMES THE DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATIONS, WHICH TENDS TO MIRROR WHAT WE SEND TO THE PLANNING BOARD IN, IN TERMS OF TEXT.
AND OF COURSE WE GET INTO AND CUT IN, AND OF COURSE THE RESOLUTIONS HAVE TO BE PUT IN THERE, RESOLUTIONS.
BUT, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, YEAH, WE, WE TRY AND KEEP, WE TRY AND NOT OVERRIDE BECAUSE IT'S REALLY HARD TO GET THINGS EXACT.
AND WITH THAT, I THINK, MIKE, YOU CAN GO
AND JUST BEFORE THE APPLICANTS COME IN WITH, UH, THE C A C MEMBERS, SINCE SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN THROUGH THIS PROCESS BEFORE, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT THIS APPLICANT HAS BEEN BEFORE US BEFORE WITH A SIMILAR APPLICATION AND THEY REDESIGNED IT.
SO THAT IS JUST, THEY MAY REFER TO THAT, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY WILL COME UP IN DISCUSSION.
THE OTHER THING IS, SINCE THEY WERE IN THE LAST TIME, THE TOWN HAS ADOPTED ITS, UM, PRE MAINTENANCE TREE, COMMUNITY TREE.
UM, IT WAS, THEY ALWAYS MESS UP ON THIS COMMUNITY TREE.
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TREE? UM, TREE MAINTENANCE.NO, IT ISN'T MAINTENANCE, BUT WE HAVE A TREE LORE.
IT IS THE ACTUAL, IS IT MANAGEMENT? MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT, TREE MANAGEMENT, COMMUNITY TREE MANAGEMENT.
SO THAT LORE COMES INTO PLAY, UM, TO, IN WAYS THAT IT SETS LIMITS ON WHAT THEY HAVE TO REPLACE, BUT ALSO WHAT WE CAN REQUEST.
SHARON, UNMUTE YOURSELF, SHARON.
SHARON, UNMUTE YOURSELF PLEASE.
I, I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE MISSED SOMETHING WITH THIS LATEST APPLICATION, BUT I'D LIKE TO ASK THEM WHAT THEY HAVE DONE THAT WE, WE PERMITTED THEM TO DO, UH, ON THE PREVIOUS APPLICATION.
THAT, THAT IS ONE OF MY WRITTEN QUESTIONS.
THEY MAY START OUT BY TELLING US THAT, SO I THINK YEAH, BUT I JUST FIGURED IT THEY STARTED IN WITH THAT WITHOUT THE BACKGROUND THAT THEY'VE BEEN BEFORE US BEFORE WITH A SIMILAR APPLICATION.
SO WITH THAT, GARRETT, ARE YOU THERE? YOU CAN, I THINK WE CAN START THE, UM, UH, APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION.
UM, THANKS FOR THE INTRO AND FOR, FOR THE, UH, NEWER C A C MEMBERS OR SOON TO BE MEMBERS, I'M GARY DAIN, I'M THE PLANNING COMMISSIONER, AND I JUST DO WANT TO, UM, LET YOU KNOW THAT IT'S AN OPEN INVITE FOR MY, FROM MYSELF, UH, AARON SCHMIDT AND MATT BRITTON.
SO IF YOU EVER HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UM, ON ANY OF THESE APPLICATIONS OR JUST, UH, THE PROCESS IN GENERAL, UH, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JUST REACH OUT, CALL US, AND WE WILL ASSIST YOU.
SO, UH, AT PRESENT WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR, UH, A PRESENTATION FROM, UH, REPRESENTATIVES OF REGENERON.
SO I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO THEM IN A MOMENT.
AND I BELIEVE, UH, JANET W WOULD, WOULD YOU, UH, BE THE TEAM MEMBER THERE TO START FOR REGENERON? LISTEN, I, I'D JUST LIKE THE GROUP TO KNOW I'M HAVING SOME INTERNET PROBLEMS HERE, SO IF I GET LOST, IT'S, UH, UH, UM, I I I'LL JUST BE LOST BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET.
JUST IF YOU, IF YOU SEE ME GO UN UNANNOUNCED, YOU'LL KNOW.
ALL RIGHT, MS. GARRIS, ARE YOU ALL SET TO BEGIN? YES.
UM, SO, SO GOOD EVENING CHAIRWOMAN MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
UH, FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JANET GARRIS.
I'M A PARTNER WITH DELBELLO DANELLE AND WEINGART AND WEISMAN WHITAKER.
I'M HERE THIS EVENING ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT IN THIS INSTANCE.
WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY TWO DIFFERENT APPLICANTS, BUT BOTH ARE SUBSIDIARIES OF, UH, REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS.
AND, UH, SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I'M, I'M PRIVILEGED TO BE HERE THIS EVENING ON BEHALF OF REGENERON.
I'M JOINED BY A VERY TALENTED GROUP OF REGENERON EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS CONSULTANTS.
UM, AND WE ARE BEFORE YOU, AS I MENTIONED, IN CONNECTION WITH TWO DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS.
UH, AND THEY ARE INTERRELATED.
SO WE HAVE APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE TOWN BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD FOR, UH, AMENDED SITE PLAN APPROVAL, UH, AND TREE REMOVAL PERMIT WITH THE TOWN BOARD, AND, UH, AMENDED STEEP SLOPES AND WETLAND PERMIT APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD, WHICH IS HOW WE GOT TO YOU, THE WETLAND PERMIT APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPERTY THAT'S LOCATED AT 7 7 7 OLD SAWMILL RIVER ROAD.
THAT IS, UH, REGENERON, UH, HEADQUARTERS CAMPUS.
THAT'S ON, UM, THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAWMILL, OLD SAWMILL RIVER ROAD IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT, UM, BECAUSE A FEW YEARS BACK, AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY OF THE SAME FACES WHO ARE ON THE BOARD.
UM, WE'RE HERE IN CONNECTION WITH THE PREVIOUS APPROVAL FOR THIS PROPERTY.
UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE PROPERTY, IT CONSISTS OF APPROXIMATELY 65 ACRES.
UM, AND IT IS LOCATED IN THE OB DISTRICT OF THE TOWN.
AND AS I MENTIONED, UH, IT IS CURRENTLY REGENERON CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, AND THERE ARE MULTIPLE BUILDINGS ON THAT CAMPUS.
AND THIS IS WHAT I WAS JUST ABOUT TO, UH, REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION ABOUT IN 2014, WE WERE, UH, REGENERON PREDECESSOR AND INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WAS BEFORE YOU, UM, BEFORE THE TOWN FOR APPROVALS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW R AND D BUILDING ON THE PROPERTY THAT WAS REFERRED TO AS, UH, WE CALL IT PARCEL D.
UM, IT'S REFERRED TO AS PARCEL D BECAUSE IT IS THE FOURTH BUILD TO SUIT BUILDING FOR REGENERON ON THAT PROPERTY.
SO IT WAS BUILDING D ON THAT PORTION OF THE SITE, WHICH WAS REFERRED TO AS PARCEL D.
UM, THAT BUILDING AT THE TIME WAS FOUR STORIES.
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WAS APPROXIMATELY 108, 128,000 SQUARE FEET, AGAIN, AN R AND D BUILDING, UH, AND ALSO ASSOCIATED, UH, PARKING A THREE LEVEL PARKING STRUCTURE WITH APPROXIMATELY 870 SPACES.UM, A FEW YEARS LATER, REGENERON ACTUALLY ACQUIRED THAT PROPERTY, AND AS THEY'VE CONTINUED THEIR GROWTH, UM, THEY'VE BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING THEIR LONG-TERM SPACE NEEDS, UM, AS THERE HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE REMAINING TENANTS ON THE PROPERTY THAT ARE IN THE PROCESS OF VACATING.
AND THEY DETERMINED RECENTLY THAT THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PROJECT ON PARCEL D NO LONGER MET ITS NEEDS.
SO, UH, THEY'VE GONE BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND THEY HAVE REDESIGNED THE BUILDING.
AND WE'VE, AS I MENTIONED, APPLIED TO THE TOWN BOARD FOR AMENDED SITE PLAN APPROVAL AND A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT, UM, IN LIEU OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PROJECT.
AND WE ARE SEEKING NOW APPROVALS TO CONSTRUCT A NEW TWO STORY BUILDING, UM, WHICH IS INTENDED TO BE UTILIZED BY REGENERON, PRIMARILY FOR WHAT THEY REFER TO AS PRECLINICAL MANUFACTURING AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT.
SO WE REFER TO THIS AS THE P M P D BUILDING, AND THIS IS PLAN.
CAN I, CAN I JUST ASK YOU A QUESTION AT THIS POINT? I, I HATE TO INTERRUPT.
I KNOW IT'S AWFUL TO INTERRUPT IN THE PRESENTATION.
BUT, BUT IT'S A QUESTION BOTH I AND SOMEONE ELSE HAD.
UH, WAS ANYTHING AT ALL BUILT OR DONE THAT WAS AUTHORIZED IN THE PRIOR OR, OR, UM, APPLICATION? NO.
SO IN CONNECTION WITH THE 2014 APPROVAL, THAT BUILDING WAS NOT CONSTRUCTED, NOR WERE ANY OF THE SITE IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THAT APPROVAL CONSTRUCTED IN TERMS, SO THERE WERE NO TREE REMOVALS THAT, THAT CAME OUT OF THAT, UM, APPLICATION.
NOTHING WAS DONE UNDER THAT, NO.
'CAUSE I GUESS I HAVE IT AT A LATER DATE, I THINK.
I JUST WANNA BE SURE BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH THERE.
UH, BUT YES, IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, FILED IN 16, I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY.
SO THAT'S A, I'LL GET TO THAT IN A MOMENT.
UM, BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY, THAT'S ACTUALLY THE A HUNDRED ACRES THAT IS TO THE SOUTH OF THIS PROPERTY THAT WE REFER TO AS I MENTIONED, PARCEL D.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE BACK BEFORE THE, THE TOWN BOARD FOR AMENDED SITE PLAN APPROVAL FOR THIS NEW P M P D BUILDING IN LIEU OF THE FOUR STORY BUILDING.
THIS IS A TWO STORY BUILDING, UM, TOGETHER WITH A PARKING STRUCTURE THAT IS A SEVEN LEVEL PARKING STRUCTURE CONTAINING A 1,189 PARKING SPACES.
UM, AND, UH, SO THAT AMENDED APPROVAL, UH, THAT AMENDED APPLICATION ALSO, AS I MENTIONED, INCLUDES APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDED STEEP SLOPES AND WETLAND PERMIT APPROVALS.
SO WHEN WE WERE BEFORE YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, BACK SIX YEARS AGO OR SEVEN YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A, UM, DISTURBANCE OF WETLAND BUFFER, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PLAN.
SIMILAR AMOUNT OF WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PLAN.
AND OUR, UH, OUR CONSULTANT, BETH EVANS IS HERE, AND SHE'LL BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
BUT I JUST WANNA FINISH A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW WITH YOU.
UM, SO THAT IS THE APPLICATION THAT'S BEFORE THE TOWN BOARD, AGAIN, AMENDED WETLAND PERMIT APPLICATION BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD, ALONG WITH STEEP SLOPES.
THE WETLAND PERMIT PIECE OF THAT IS WITHIN YOUR JURISDICTION, UM, IN TERMS OF A RECOMMENDATION BACK TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAVE A CORRESPONDING APPLICATION ALSO TO THE TOWN BOARD AND PLANNING BOARD FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL, UH, STEEP SLOPES PERMIT, AND, UH, WETLAND PERMIT IN CONNECTION WITH A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION AREA FOR THE PROPOSED TRAILERS, UM, AND CONSTRUCTION, UM, UH, UH, ASPECTS OF, OF THIS PROJECT.
SO, UH, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING ARE TO MAKE SOME TEMPORARY IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH WOULD BE, UH, UH, A CROSS LOOP ROAD ON THE PROPERTY THAT'S REFERRED TO AS WHAT WE CALL THE LOOP ROAD PROPERTY.
AND ITS STREET ADDRESS IS ACTUALLY, UH, 5 5 5, UH, 5 5 5 SAWMILL RIVER ROAD, THAT PROPERTY.
UH, AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, AND AS YOU SAID, UM, MADAM CHAIR, JUST TO REFRESH YOUR RECOLLECTION ABOUT THAT, UM, IN 2017, WE RECEIVED SITE PLAN APPROVAL FROM THE TOWN BOARD AND SUBDIVISION APPROVALS, STEEP SLOPES, WETLANDS PERMITS, TREE REMOVAL PERMIT FROM THE TOWN BOARD IN CONNECTION WITH, UM, THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CAMPUS IN NINE BUILDINGS WITH RELATED PARKING AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON THAT PROPERTY, WHICH
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IS REFERRED TO AS FIVE FIVE FIVE, AND WHICH WE CALL LOOP ROAD.AND IT'S APPROXIMATELY A HUNDRED ACRES, THAT'S JUST TO THE SOUTH.
IT'S ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE LOOP ROAD.
UM, THAT IS, THAT HAS NOT BEEN CONSTRUCTED, UH, YET.
UH, SO IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AMENDED APPLICATION FOR THE P M P D BUILDING ON PARCEL D, WE HAVE FILED, AS I MENTIONED, AN APPLICATION WITH THE TOWN BOARD.
UM, AND THAT IS TO ALLOW SOME TEMPORARY IMPROVEMENTS, AS I MENTIONED, WHICH WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR, UH, ACCOMMODATING TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION TRAILERS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EMPLOYEE PARKING AREA.
SO BECAUSE THAT APPLICATION ALSO AFFECTS, UH, SOME WETLAND BUFFER AREA, WE HAVE AN APPLICATION TO THE PLANNING BOARD FOR A WETLAND PERMIT.
AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA TALK TO YOU THIS EVENING, UH, ABOUT THIS EVENING.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH REGENERON.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY LOVES THEIR SUCCESS STORY.
WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL THAT THEY ARE, UM, HERE AND VERY GRATEFUL THAT THEY'VE CHOSEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, TO, UH, TO DO THEIR EXPANSION.
THEY ARE, AS YOU KNOW, A LEADING SCIENCE-BASED, UH, BIOPHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY.
THEY'VE, UH, THEY'VE GOT, I THINK IT'S, I THINK THEY'RE UP TO NINE F D A APPROVED MEDICINES, UM, THAT INCLUDE TREATMENTS FOR BLIND BLINDNESS CAUSING DISEASES.
UM, I, I HAVE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR ME IT'S, IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT HITS HOME PERSONALLY.
MY MOTHER HAS AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION.
SHE'S DONE EXTREMELY WELL ON A REGENERON PRODUCT, SO WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT.
UM, BUT IN ADDITION TO, UH, BEING CONSISTENTLY RECOGNIZED, NOT ONLY FOR THEIR INNOVATION AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO SCIENCE, BUT ALSO TO THEIR EMPLOYEES AND TO, TO THEIR CULTURE, BUT THEY'VE ALSO BEEN REALLY GREAT STEWARDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO, UM, OF THE BUILDINGS THAT THEY'VE CONSTRUCTED ON THEIR PROPERTY, THEY HAVE, UH, CONSTRUCTED I THINK TWO BUILDINGS THAT ARE LEAD CERTIFIED GOLD, ONE BUILDING THAT IS LEED CERTIFIED SILVER.
UM, WE ARE LOOKING, THIS P M P D BUILDING HAS ALSO BEEN DESIGNED TO MEET LEED CERTIFICATION STANDARDS.
I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR LEED SILVER CERTIFICATION IN THIS BUILDING.
UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THOSE THINGS, UM, ABOUT REGENERON BEFORE WE GOT STARTED WITH, UM, THE, THE DETAILS OF THE APPLICATION.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S AN OVERVIEW JUST TO GET YOU STARTED AS TO WHERE WE ARE.
UM, WE HAVE BEGUN THE, UH, REVIEW PROCESS WITH THE TOWN BOARD.
UH, AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT REMEMBER, THE TOWN BOARD IS REQUIRED TO REFER THE APPLICATIONS FOR SITE PLAN APPROVAL, UM, TO THE PLANNING BOARD FOR THE PLANNING BOARD'S REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION.
AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE GOT THE WETLAND PERMIT APPLICATIONS, WHICH ARE BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD, AND THEY HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO YOU FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION.
UM, AND SO WE'VE BEGUN PROCESSES, AS I MENTIONED, BOTH WITH THE TOWN BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD, AND NOW WE'RE BEFORE YOU AND STEVE SPINA WITH J M C, UH, HE IS OUR PROJECT ENGINEER.
HE'S GOING TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ARE AND, UH, HOW THE, HOW THIS PROJECT, PROPOSED PROJECT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PROJECT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, BETH EVANS, WHO IS OUR WETLANDS SCIENTIST, OUR WETLAND CONSULTANT, WILL TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE WETLANDS AND THE PROPOSED, UH, MITIGATION AND WHAT'S BEING, UH, WHAT'S BEING DONE THERE.
UH, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE A VERY TALENTED GROUP OF FOLKS HERE FROM REGENERON, UH, UH, BEN SUZUKI, KIM MARTIN, MIKE ZARO.
WE ALSO HAVE OUR VERY TALENTED ARCHITECTS HERE, UM, JAVIER AND, UH, HIS FOLKS AS WELL.
SO EVERYBODY'S HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, BUT I DON'T WANNA TAKE UP MORE TIME.
I WANNA INTRODUCE STEVE SO THAT HE CAN WALK YOU THROUGH, UM, THE ACTUAL PROJECT.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE ONE COMMENT, AND, AND IT IS SORT OF A LEVEL SET THING, IS THAT YOU, YOU ARE BEFORE US BECAUSE OF THE WETLANDS, BUT THE MISSION OF THE C A C IS NOT LIMITED TO JUST JUST COMMENTING ON WETLANDS.
SO ANYTHING THAT WE THINK AFFECTS THE ENVIRONMENT, UH, PARTICULARLY TREE REMOVALS AND SUCH AND, AND IMPACTS ON THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTALLY, IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CHARTER OF THE LAW FROM THE TOWN TO COMMENT ON.
SO IF I DIDN'T WANT, I WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE IN CASE THERE WAS A QUESTION THAT HAD TO DO WITH OTHER THAN THE WETLANDS, BUT IT'S ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS WITHIN OUR REP, UH, RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AWARE OF AND COMMENT ON.
BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE PRESENTATION.
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OKAY.STEVE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA START TALKING ABOUT THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO.
SO THIS, THIS IS STEVE SPINA FROM J M C.
I'LL, I'LL MOVE THROUGH, UM, SOME OF THE SLIDES, UH, THAT WE HAD TO, TO DISCUSS, BUT JANET KIND OF TOUCHED ON THEM.
I I WASN'T SURE IF I SHOULD CONTINUE FORWARD.
SO, UM, THIS IS JUST DESCRIBING THE DIFFERENT PARCELS THAT JANET WENT THROUGH IN DIFFERENT COLORS HERE.
UH, LOOP ROAD IS PINK AND GREEN AND THE SOUTH CAMPUS IN YELLOW.
AND, UH, I'LL JUST QUICKLY GO THROUGH TO KIND OF CATCH US UP.
THIS WAS AN AERIAL PHOTO THAT WE PREPARED TO ILLUSTRATE THE EXISTING CAMPUS WITH THE PROPOSED INFORMATION.
OVERLAID ON TOP PROPERTY LINE IS IN GREEN.
UH, STEVE, WASN'T THERE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE 40, 40 ACRES OR SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE DEVELOPED ON THIS PARCEL? THAT, THAT, THAT'S IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOOP ROAD.
UM, AND THERE IS A PIECE ON THAT 100 ACRES THAT IS, UH, INTENDED TO REMAIN IN ITS NATURAL VEGETATIVE STATE.
UH, SO THIS IS JUST, UH, ZOOMING IN ON THE AREA HERE WHERE YOU CAN SEE, UH, EXISTING BUILDINGS IN THE AERIAL PHOTO THAT, UM, AND PARKING AREAS, PROPERTY LINING GREEN.
AND THEN THERE'S, UH, SOME EXISTING WETLANDS HERE.
AND, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING THE NEW BUILDING AND PARKING STRUCTURE SHOWN IN COLOR SUPERIMPOSED OVER THIS.
UH, WE'LL, WE'LL GET A LITTLE MORE INTO THE PLANS.
UM, THIS IS JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, THE, THE, THE PRECLINICAL MANUFACTURING AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT BUILDING, UH, REGEN, UH, UM, AND, AND WHAT, WHAT REGENERON IS, IS DOING THERE.
AND, AND JANET ALREADY SORT OF TOUCHED ON THAT.
AND SHE, SHE ALSO WENT THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP, UM, UH, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOME OF THE AWARDS THAT THEY'VE WON AND, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR LEAD CERTIFICATION GOALS.
SO WE JUST HAD A FEW SLIDES HERE ON THAT.
AND, UM, SO THIS KIND OF TAKES US INTO THE COMPARISON IN TWO PROJECTS.
SO IN 2014, UH, THE APPROVED DESIGN, UH, FOR THE PREVIOUS OWNER, UM, UH, WAS NOT, WAS NOT A DEFINED USE, IT WAS EITHER R AND D OR OFFICE.
UM, AND, AND NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, A, A PROGRAM HAS BEEN VALIDATED AND REGENERON HAS REALLY STUDIED WHAT EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED HERE, UM, WE'RE DESIGNING IT FOR A VERY SPECIFIC R AND D USE.
UM, BUT IN TERMS OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING HEIGHT AND STORIES WE'RE PROPOSING NOW ON, ON THE RIGHT SIDE HERE, THE CURRENT DESIGN, IT WENT FROM A FOUR STORY TO A TWO STORY.
UM, BUT THE FOOTPRINT IS LARGER.
UM, IT'S JUST A FUNCTION OF, OF HOW THE SPACE NEEDS TO BE ALLOCATED FOR THIS VERY SPECIFIC USE.
BOTH BUILDINGS ARE, YOU KNOW, WERE THE, THE APPROVED IN A NEW BUILDING.
BOTH HAVE MECHANICAL PENTHOUSES ON TOP, UM, SQUARE FOOTAGE.
YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE THERE.
UM, MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR THIS BOARD, YOU KNOW, BOTH THE APPROVED DESIGN AND THE CURRENT DESIGN INVOLVE WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE, STEEP SLOPE DISTURBANCE, VERY SIMILAR AMOUNTS.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, THE CURRENT DESIGN INCLUDES A FUTURE BRIDGE PROPOSED TO ONE OF THE, FROM ONE OF THE EXISTING BUILDINGS TO THE FUTURE LOOP ROAD HOLDING SITE TO THE SOUTH.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL SHOW A LITTLE BIT, UH, ABOUT THAT AND SOME OF THE UPCOMING SLIDES.
SO THIS JUST IS A QUICK ILLUSTRATION OF THE APPROVED PLAN.
SO THE WETLANDS ARE IN RED AND THE BUFFER IS IN BLUE, AND THE, THE APPROVED BUILDING IS IN THAT LIGHT BROWN COLOR.
AND THEN THE DARKER BROWN WAS THE APPROVED PARKING STRUCTURE.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, IMPROVEMENTS WERE PRO PROPOSED ESSENTIALLY UP TO THE WETLANDS THEMSELVES AND, YOU KNOW, QUITE A BIT WITHIN THE WETLAND BUFFER.
AND THEN AS A COMPARISON, THIS IS THE CURRENT PROPOSED SITE PLAN, WHICH HAS WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE, BUT, BUT IT'S FARTHER AWAY FROM THE WETLANDS.
UH, WE TRY TO RESPECT THAT AND, AND IT, AND IT STILL INVOLVES WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE, BUT, UM, UH, A SLIGHT INCREASE TO THAT.
AND THE REASON, THE REASON IS THIS, THIS CURRENT SITE PLAN INCLUDES WIDENING OF THE EXISTING LOOP ROAD HERE THAT IS APPROVED AND PART OF THE LOOP ROAD PROJECT TO THE SOUTH OVER HERE.
BUT, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO CONSTRUCT THAT NOW AT LEAST THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS WITH THE PARCEL D PROJECT.
UM, WE THINK LOGISTICALLY IT MAKES SENSE.
AND, UM, JUST A FEW OTHER THINGS TO HIGHLIGHT ON THIS NEW PLAN IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUSLY THIS WAS A, IT'S CURRENTLY
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A PARKING AREA BETWEEN THIS EXISTING BUILDING ON THE LEFT AND THE NEW BUILDING.UM, AND THAT THE, THE PREVIOUS DESIGN HAD IT AS A, A PARKING AREA.
UH, WE'RE ESSENTIALLY GOING TO PROPOSE TO CLOSE THAT OFF AND, AND, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING A REALLY NICE PLAZA SPACE AND AMENITY SPACE BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS.
AND, UM, WE HAVE SOME PHOTOS OF THAT THAT WE CAN SHOW YOU IN SOME OF THE NEXT FEW SLIDES.
WE'LL ALSO HAVE A PROPOSED RECREATIONAL AREA, SOME SPORTS COURTS, UH, NORTH OF THE PARKING GARAGE.
JUST A FEW NICE FEATURES THAT, UM, THAT THE PREVIOUS DESIGN DIDN'T HAVE.
AND THIS IS JUST A, A, A PLAN SHOWING, UM, THE OVERLAP A, A WETLAND BUFFER COMPARISON.
SO THE GREEN IS WHAT IS THE GREEN REPRESENTS WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE THAT, UH, WAS, WAS PROPOSED FOR BOTH THE APPROVED PLAN AND THE CURRENT PLAN.
THE YELLOW IS, IS THE WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE THAT WAS APPROVED THAT WE ARE NO LONGER PROPOSING.
SO ESSENTIALLY OUR, OUR DISTURBANCE IS MOVING AWAY FROM THE WETLAND BOUNDARY ITSELF.
UM, AS YOU, AS YOU COULD SEE, WE WOULDN'T, WE WOULDN'T BE PROPOSING THE YELLOW AREAS.
NOW THE, AND THEN THE BLUE IS THE ADDED DISTURBANCE, WHICH THE MAJORITY OF YOU COULD SEE IS BECAUSE OF THE WIDENING OF THIS LOOP ROAD THAT IS APPROVED AND IS REALLY PART, IT WAS APPROVED AS PART OF THE LOOP ROAD PROJECT AND APPROVED IN TERMS OF WETLAND BUFFER DISTURBANCE.
AS PART OF THAT PROJECT, WE'D LIKE TO CONSTRUCT THIS PORTION OF THE ROADWAY NOW, UM, BECAUSE ACCESS WOULD BE NEEDED TO GET TO THE SOUTH, SOUTH END OF THIS PROPOSED BUILDING, UM, WE WOULD PROVIDE SIDEWALK.
AND THEN, UH, IT WOULD ALSO, UH, IT, IT MAKES SENSE FOR SOME OF THE OTHER CONSTRUCTION AND WE'LL, WE'LL GO THROUGH LATER THAT, UH, SUCH AS THE TEMPORARY PARKING LOT AND, UH, TRAILER AREA THAT JANET DESCRIBED.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR? OKAY.
SO THESE ARE JUST SOME REALLY NICE RENDERINGS THAT, UH, FLAD HAS PREPARED THE PROJECT ARCHITECT.
AND, UM, THE, THE ONE, THE, THE IMAGE ON YOUR LEFT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOOKING, UM, IF YOU KIND OF LOOK AT THE AERIAL VIEW ON YOUR LOWER RIGHT, THE IMAGE ON THE, THE LARGE IMAGE ON THE LEFT HERE IS, IS STANDING SOMEWHERE BACK HERE AND KIND LOOKING SOUTH.
AND YOU SEE THE, THE BRIDGE CONNECTING THE EXISTING BUILDING HERE ON THE LEFT TO THE NEW BUILDING ON THE RIGHT, RIGHT HERE.
SO YOU'RE LOOKING SOUTH, UM, JUST A, YOU KNOW, BEAUTIFUL SHOT OF THE, THE ENTRYWAY TO THE BUILDING HERE AND, AND THE PLAZA WITH ALL THE AMENITY SPACE THAT I PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, WHICH IS CURRENTLY A PARKING LOT RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND THEN THIS, THIS UPPER RIGHT VIEW IS JUST ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF STANDING MORE OVER HERE TO THE LEFT, KIND OF LOOKING DIRECTLY SOUTH AT THAT BRIDGE AGAIN.
SO, UH, JUST WANTED TO KIND OF GIVE THE BOARD A LITTLE, UM, UH, REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THIS, UH, WHAT THE PLANNED LOOK IS HERE.
AND THEN THIS IS THAT FUTURE LOOP ROAD BRIDGE THAT I HAD MENTIONED TO CONNECT THE EXISTING BUILDINGS ON SOUTH CAMPUS.
SO THESE ARE THE EXISTING BUILDINGS HERE IN THE UPPER LEFT IMAGE AND LOOP ROAD WOULD BE TO THE LEFT, SORT OF OUT OF THE VIEW.
AND THERE'S A BRIDGE PROPOSED TO CONNECT THEM.
THIS IS THAT ROADWAY WE, THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WIDENING THAT IS, UH, APPROVED AS PART OF THE LOOP ROAD PROJECT.
UM, AND THESE ARE JUST TWO VIEWS.
SO EAST VIEW, KIND OF LOOKING TO YOUR LEFT, IF YOU'RE STANDING ON THE ROADWAY HERE, LOOKING AT THE BRIDGE.
AND THEN THIS WEST VIEW DOWN ON LOWER RIGHT WOULD BE IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE STANDING SORT OF IN THIS PARKING LOT BACK HERE BEHIND THE BRIDGE LOOKING, UH, YOU KNOW, OUT AT THE BRIDGE.
UM, SO JUST SOME, SOME NICE RENDERINGS THAT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST REALLY SHOWS THE, THE BEAUTY OF THE PROJECT AND, AND, AND WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE HERE.
UM, AND THEN, AND THEN LEADING INTO THE TEMPORARY PARKING.
SO AS JANET MENTIONED, THERE'S, THERE'S THAT APPLICATION BEFORE YOU AS WELL.
AND, UM, AS, AS THE PROJECT PLANNING BEGAN FOR THE, FOR THE PARCEL D UH, PROJECT SHOWN HERE ON, IN THIS AREA, YOU KNOW, THE PROJECT TEAM REALIZED THE NEED FOR PARKING DURING CONSTRUCTION BASED ON, UH, A STUDY AND ANALYSIS THAT WE DID.
AND BASICALLY WHAT WHAT HAPPENS IS, IN ORDER TO BUILD THIS PARCEL D BUILDING AND THE PARKING GARAGE, THESE AREAS IN BLUE REPRESENT EXISTING PARKING SPACES THAT WILL BE DISPLACED, THAT WILL, THAT WILL BE LOST TO, TO, TO CONSTRUCT THESE IMPROVEMENTS.
AND IT TOTALS TO BE ABOUT 500 SPACES.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THE IMPACTS OF THE LOSS OF THESE EXISTING PARKING SPACES, PLUS ADDING CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TO COME
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AND BUILD THE PROJECT, PLUS REGENERON GROWTH, THAT HAS HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, SINCE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THEIR EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN WORKING AT HOME THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC AND, AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY ALL THE GREAT THINGS THEY'VE BEEN DOING, THEY'VE BEEN HIRING MORE PEOPLE.SO, YOU KNOW, YOU FACTOR ALL THESE THINGS IN AND THERE'S, WE ARRIVED THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A, A NEED FOR PARKING ON THE CAMPUS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH SEVERAL OPTIONS TO, TO, TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS, YOU KNOW, SUCH AS VALET PARKING, SHUTTLING BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, THE DIFFERENT CAMPUSES THEY HAVE, UH, EVEN EVEN VERTICAL VEHICLE STACKERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO WE'RE NOT JUST, SORRY, WE'RE NOT JUST PROPOSING SURFACE LOTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY TRYING A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS HERE.
UM, BUT BEFORE YOU, ON THE UPPER RIGHT HERE, UH, CIRCLE, UH, KIND OF OUTLINED IN RED, UH, THE UPPER, THE UPPER SQUARE IS A, IS A PROPOSED TEMPORARY TRAILER, UH, AREA THAT, THAT THE CONTRACTORS WOULD HAVE THEIR TRAILERS, SOME STAGING OF MATERIALS, SOME PARKING, AND THEN THE, THE, THE LOWER RED RECTANGLE HERE IS A TEMPORARY PARKING LOT THAT WOULD BE USED FOR, UH, FOR EMPLOYEES AS WELL AS SOME CONTRACTORS, UM, DURING CONSTRUCTION.
AND THOSE, THOSE, THIS PARKING LOT HERE DOES INVOLVE STEEP SLOPES, DISTURBANCE, AS WELL AS SOME SLIGHT DISTURBANCE INTO THE WETLAND BUFFER.
UH, SO ON THE NEXT SLIDE HERE, THIS REALLY ZOOMS IN ON THAT AREA.
SO THESE ARE THE TWO, UH, TEMPORARY, UH, AREAS I WAS TALKING ABOUT.
AND DOWN ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN IS IN BLUE IS THE WETLAND BUFFERS.
UM, SO WE'RE NOT PROPOSING ANYTHING, UH, ANY, UH, IMPERVIOUS AREAS OR IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE BUFFER THEMSELVES, BUT THERE'S SOME GRADING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN THE WETLAND B IN THE WETLAND BUFFERS.
AND, UH, AS PART OF THAT, WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING TO RESTORE THE AREA OF THE WETLAND BUFFERS WITH, UH, NEW TREES AND LANDSCAPING AS WELL AS, UH, UH, WE'VE SUBMITTED A FULL, UH, RESTORATION PLAN FOR THIS AREA.
JUST KIND OF ILLUSTRATING HOW IT WOULD BE REGRADED TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT, WHEN IT'S REMOVED, IT WOULD BE REGRADED TO ITS NATURAL SLOPE, UM, AND, AND ALSO PLANTED WITH SEVERAL TREES.
HOW WILL THE DRAINAGE BE HANDLED ON THE PARKING LOT? UM, WILL YOU BE HAVING IT GOING INTO SKIMS TO CLEAN IT UP BEFORE IT GETS SENT ON? YES.
SO, SO WE, WE ARE PROPOSING TWO UNDERGROUND INFILTRATION SYSTEMS WITHIN THE PARKING LOT.
AND SO ONE SORT OF HERE IN THIS PARKING LOT ON THE LEFT SIDE IS IT NATURALLY KIND OF DRAINS TO THE LEFT AND THEN ONE ON THIS UPPER, UH, CORNER OF THIS TRAILER AREA BECAUSE ITS TOPOGRAPHY SORT OF DRAINS STRAIGHT UP.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS NEW IMPERVIOUS AREA WOULD BE CAPTURED WITH, WITH, UH, DRAIN INLETS AND TREATED AND INFILTRATED BY THESE SYSTEMS. YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY, UH, YOU KNOW, HIGH FLOWS FROM, FROM STORMS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, AFTER TREATMENT, UM, AND INFILTRATION WOULD BE THEN, UH, DISCHARGED.
UH, THERE'S, UH, THE DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN THE ROADWAY HERE, OLD SAWMILL RIVER ROAD, AND THEN THIS WOULD OVERFLOW TO THE WETLANDS.
SO THE WETLANDS, WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS THAT THE WATER FROM THE PARKING LOTS WILL EVENTUALLY GO TO THE WETLANDS.
AM I UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY THIS LOWER PARKING LOT? YES.
AND THE UPPER PARKING LOT, SOME OF IT, SOME, SOME OF SOME OF IT, YEAH.
SO YEAH, SHORT ANSWER SOME OF IT, AND IT WILL BE CAPTURED, TREATED, INFILTRATED.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE FOLLOWING TOWN CODE NEW YORK STATE CODE, UH, FOR ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, YOU KNOW, AS IF WE WERE BUILDING A PERMANENT, YOU KNOW, PARKING LOT, JUST LIKE YOU WOULD DESIGN ANY PARKING LOT, UM, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS TEMPORARY.
UM, AND WITH THAT, THAT'S BASICALLY CONCLUDES THE OVERVIEW.
I, I WANTED TO TURN IT OVER TO BETH EVANS FROM EVANS ASSOCIATES, WHO, WHO IS THE, UH, PROJECT WETLAND EXPERT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE WETLANDS AND, AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THEM.
BETH? BETH, ARE YOU ON MUTED, BETH? IS BETH THERE? I SAW HER EARLIER.
SHE WAS DEFINITELY THERE EARLIER.
BETH DID, BETH, BETH DID SUCCESSFULLY UNMUTE HERSELF, BUT, UM, SHE'S NOT CONNECTED, UH, TO THE AUDIO.
I, WELL, I CAN, I CAN TAKE US THROUGH IT, UM, IF, IF, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, OR WE COULD WAIT A MINUTE.
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WE CAN SEE YOU, BETH, AND YOU APPEAR NOT TO BE MUTED, BUT THE ONLY TROUBLESHOOT ADVICE I HAVE WOULD BE TO HIT THAT ARROW BY THE MICROPHONE, AND, UM, PERHAPS YOU DON'T HAVE THE HEADSET ENACTED.IS THAT BETTER? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, YES, WE CAN.
I NEVER KNOW WHICH ONE TO HIT.
UM, AS YOU KNOW ON THE BOARD, I HAVE, UH, BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROPERTY FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
I'M NOT GOING TO SAY HOW MANY, BECAUSE THIS IS BEING RECORDED, BUT, UH, IN TERMS OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED TONIGHT, UH, WITH THIS NEW BUILDING AND THE NEW PARKING GARAGE, I THINK THE COMMISSION REMEMBERS, BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE NEW, THE WETLANDS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THIS CASE ARE ACTUALLY STORMWATER BASINS, STORMWATER BASINS THAT WERE, UH, CONSTRUCTED AS PART OF VARIOUS STAGES OF THE LANDMARK, UH, DEVELOPMENT OVER THE YEARS.
BUT, UH, BASED ON THE TOWN'S CODE, THEY ARE DEFINED AS WETLANDS, AND THEY ARE GIVEN THE FULL 100 FOOT BUFFER THAT WETLANDS, UH, DESERVE AND HAVE IN THE TOWN.
SO THE WETLAND BUFFER IMPACTS THAT STEVE WAS DESCRIBING FOR THE, THE PROPOSED PROJECT ARE ACTUALLY, UH, DISTURBANCES TO STORMWATER BASIN, UH, BUFFERS.
AND, UH, THEY ARE IN, IN A SENSE, THEY WERE ANTICIPATED AS PART OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE STORMWATER BASINS.
WE KNEW THAT THE STORMWATER BASINS, UH, OR THERE, WE HAVE DELINEATED THEM AND WE HAVE GIVEN RECOMMENDATIONS OVER THE YEARS ON WHAT CAN BE DONE TO IMPROVE THOSE BASINS.
AND SOME OF THE, UH, PROPOSED MITIGATION, UH, THAT WAS APPROVED BACK IN 2014 WERE THINGS LIKE ENHANCEMENT OF SOME OF THE AREAS WITH NATIVE WETLAND SEED MIX, SOME ADDITIONAL TREES, SOME ADDITIONAL NATIVE SHRUBS.
SO, UH, JUST SO THE, THE COMMISSION IS, IS AWARE, UH, WE HAVE PAID ATTENTION TO THESE BASINS AS THOUGH THEY WERE NATURAL WETLANDS.
UH, BUT IN THIS CASE, THEY'RE REALLY, UM, STORMWATER BASINS THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE ENHANCED AS THE PROJECT IS BUILT OUT IN TERMS OF THE TEMPORARY PARKING AREAS.
UM, THOSE WETLANDS ARE, UH, PART OF THE, THE, UH, LOOP ROAD HOLDINGS PROPERTY, THE HUNDRED, THE HUNDRED ACRE PROPERTY.
AND THOSE WETLANDS, AGAIN, ARE, UH, CURRENTLY IN A PRETTY DISTURBED STATE.
BUT AGAIN, WE ARE PROPOSING TO RESTORE THEM, TO REPLANT THEM WITH NATIVE SPECIES AND TO, UH, TRY TO BRING THEM INTO A MORE NATURAL PART OF THE, OF THE CAMPUS.
ARE THOSE WETLANDS NATURALLY OCCURRING? UM, SO AS YOU KNOW, THERESA, UH, WETLANDS CHANGE OVER THE YEARS.
THEY ARE PARTLY NATURALLY OCCURRING.
THEY HAVE BEEN MODIFIED OVER THE YEARS, UM, BY, UH, DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE LOOP ROAD, AND ALSO BY IMPROVEMENTS ON THE, UH, 40 ACRE SITE THAT YOU WERE REFERRING TO.
UH, THERE'S A, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING IT WAS A HORSE SWIMMING POOL THAT WAS BUILT ON THAT.
SO THERE, THERE ARE MANY FEATURES OF THESE WETLANDS THAT I WOULD, UH, PROPOSE ARE NOT NATURAL WETLANDS, BUT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED AND FUNCTIONED AS WETLANDS OVER THE YEARS.
SO WE'RE PROTECTING THEM AS WETLANDS, UH, AS THEY'RE REGULATED IN THE TOWN.
UM, STEVE, UNLESS THERE ARE QUESTIONS BY ANY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, WHICH I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER.
UH, SO THIS IS THE RESTORATION PLAN AND WHAT'S PROPOSED IN THOSE WETLAND BUFFERS FOR THE, FOR THE TWO WETLANDS THAT ARE, UH, PART OF THE LOOP ROAD, UH, WETLAND SYSTEM.
NEITHER OF THESE WETLANDS, I WILL SAY, DRAINED DIRECTLY TO, UH, THE SAW MILL OR THE LARGER WETLAND SYSTEM IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THIS SITE.
SO IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, I'LL TURN IT BACK TO STEVE TO TALK ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE PROPOSALS.
'CAUSE I WAS, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON THE TREE CHOICES AND THE, AND THE SCHEDULE FOR REPLANTING TREES.
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WITH REGARD TO THIS SECTION HERE, COULD YOU JUST BRIEFLY, UM, GO OVER SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS THAT MAYBE IN EARLIER VERSIONS YOU THOUGHT, UM, WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING AT TEMPORARY PARKING, UM, AND UNLESS THIS WAS THE ONLY ONE YOU CHOSE, BUT IF YOU LOOKED AT OTHER VERSIONS AND WHY YOU DECIDED THAT THIS WAS THE OPTIMAL, UH, LOCATION, YOU KNOW, BESIDES THE OBVIOUS THAT IT'S PROXIMATE TO THE CONSTRUCTION, BUT JUST ON AN ENVIRONMENTAL LEVEL, DID YOU LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, FOR INSTANCE, PLACING IT FURTHER TO THE EAST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT AT ANY TIME AND MADE A DETERMINATION THAT THAT WAS, UM, PERHAPS MORE IMPACTS TO, TO THE NATURAL AREA? UH, WE, WE, WE HAVE, WE, WE ESSENTIALLY, WE SCOURED THE CAMPUS FOR SPACE TO LOCATE TEMPORARY PARKING, UM, IN ADDITION TO, YOU KNOW, ANALYZING OFFSITE PROPERTIES AND, AND, AND TRYING TO FIND, YOU KNOW, UH, EXISTING PARKING LOTS THAT WE COULD UTILIZE, UH, THE SHUTTLING, THE VALET, THE CAR STACKERS.I MEAN, WE, WE'VE, IT, THERE'S, THERE'S A PRETTY IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE AND, AND THIS AREA WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE IT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, VERY CLOSE TO THE, TO THE PROJECT SITE, AND IT'S VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THE TRAILER AREA ABOVE IT IS.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE, WE THOUGHT WAS, WAS VERY GOOD AS WELL IN TERMS OF BEING CLOSE TO THE ROADWAY, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR ACCESS.
SO WE THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD BE GOOD TO CONNECT THE TWO.
UM, AND THERE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND AS I WAS SAYING, THERE ARE OTHER AREAS OF, OF THE, OF THE CAMPUS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WERE, UH, THAT WERE STUDIED FOR TEMPORARY PARKING.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THIS AREA WAS KIND OF A, A, UH, AN AREA WHERE, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME OLD FOUNDATION REMAINS IN THERE FROM A BUILDING THAT WAS THERE.
AND I GUESS AS BETH ALLUDED TO WITH THE HORSES, I THINK THERE, THERE USED TO BE HORSE STABLES OVER HERE.
SO THERE'S, YOU KNOW, SOME GRAVEL AREAS AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND CONCRETE PADS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE, ARE KIND OF BURIED UNDER BRUSH AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, UH, IT'S KIND OF AN AREA THAT, THAT ONE TO WE, YOU KNOW, WANTED TO CLEAN UP ANYWAY.
SO IF I COULD JUST, AND IT'S AN AREA THAT'S BEEN PREVIOUSLY DISTURBED AND IN AN AREA WHERE HAVING THIS KIND OF TEMPORARY USE WOULD PROVIDE THE LEAST IMPACT ON THE SITE.
IT'S NOT ONE OF THE FORESTED AREAS OR THE NATURALLY, UH, WOODED AREAS THAT ARE FURTHER SOUTH ON THE, ON THE LOOP ROAD PARCEL.
SO, UM, THIS AREA, IF YOU LOOKED AT IT TODAY, YOU COULD TELL IT HAD BEEN DISTURBED PREVIOUSLY.
I, I MAY HAVE MISSED THIS BEFORE, BUT THERE'S AN AREA, IT, IT, IT MAY BE THIS THING HERE THAT'S BLUE, IT'S NOT ONE OF THE WATER, UH, WATERCOURSE OR THE WETLANDS.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THAT IS? IT'S RECTANGULAR, LOOKS LIKE A WINDOW, UH, ON, ON THIS, ON THIS SLIDE HERE, OR, OR ANOTHER SLIDE.
WELL, I, I HAVE, I MISSED SOME OF THE SLIDES, BUT ON THE, UH, PLAN, IT MAY HAVE BEEN A PRIOR SLIDE.
UH, STEVEN, THIS, MAYBE THIS, THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, THIS ONE HERE, I DON'T SEE IT ON THERE.
IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE LOCATED RIGHT ABOVE THE PARKING AREA FOR THE CONTRACTORS.
THE STAGING AREA OF, OKAY, LET ME GO BACK.
IS IT ON ONE OF THESE SLIDES? OH, I THINK I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.
WAS IT THE EXISTING TENNIS COURTS? OH, IS THAT WHAT IT IS? IT WAS IN BLUE ON THE, UH, ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE TOWN.
OH NO, THE TENNIS COURTS ARE NOT ABOVE THE PARKING.
PARKING ON THIS SLIDE IS UP IN THE TOP.
SO YOU, YOU SAID THE, THE BLUE, UH, RECTANGLE WAS ABOVE THE PARKING.
SO THEN WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TENNIS COURTS, THE PROPOSED RIGHT, RIGHT.
BUT THEY LOOK LIKE IT, BUT THEY'RE NOT BLUE.
YOU, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THE, WAS IT, WAS IT THIS SLIDE HERE WITH THE BLUE AREA WE WERE TALKING ABOUT? I MEAN, I, I'M TRYING, I DON'T, I'M NOT SURE WE HAD TOO MANY BLUE.
I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS EVEN ON A SLIDE.
I'M REFERRING TO THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE REPORT FROM THE STAFF.
IT'S ON ONE OF THE, OH, THAT MAY BE, UM, FROM STAFF, UH, GENERATED REPORT REGARDING, UM,
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FLOODPLAIN IN THE AREA, UM, THAT MAY BE CLOSER TO THE SAW MILL.UM, IF, IF THAT'S THE, THE QUESTION PERHAPS, UM, STEVE, SHARON, WAS IT A FLOODPLAIN, UM, IDENTIFIED ON THAT SHEET THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, I HAVE TO GET UP INSIDE IT.
THERE'S QUITE A FEW PIECES OF PAPER HERE.
UH, I GUESS MAYBE JUST ONE THING THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL, STEVEN, IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT SHOWED THE OVERALL CAMPUS WITH THE VARIOUS, UH, POLYGONS AND MAYBE JUST POINT OUT THE SAWMILL RIVER AND JUST GIVE US A SENSE OF WHERE THAT IS PROXIMATE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND, UH, TO THE EXTENT YOU'RE AWARE OF.
MAYBE IT'S NOT ZOOMED OUT ENOUGH.
UH, WAS IT THE PRIOR SLIDE? THE PRIOR ONE IS ZOOMED IN EVEN MORE.
UM, I CAN, THIS IS THE ONE TOO.
THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE BLUE, THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE BLUE.
SO THOSE ARE THE EXISTING TENNIS COURTS, OR, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'RE MULTIPURPOSE.
I THINK THERE'S BASKETBALLS, IT'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, MIXED IN AS WELL.
PROBABLY HAVE A PHOTO OF THEM.
IS THAT THE ONE YOU WERE REFERRING TO, SHARON? UH, THAT LOOKS MORE LIKE IT, BUT I SOMEHOW IN THE, IN THE STAFF REPORT THERE, THE BLUE, THIS, THE WETLANDS ARE INDICATED IN BLUE, BUT THEN ALSO THE TENNIS COURTS ARE INDICATED IN BLUE, WHICH IS
SORRY, THAT'S SOMETHING THE APPLICANT DOESN'T HAVE.
THAT WAS, UH, SOMETHING GENERATED BY AARON.
I'M SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION TOO.
I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO JUST PUT MY HAND ON IT.
SO NOW WITH THE LANDSCAPING, GOING BACK TO THE LANDSCAPING, UM, ARE YOU GOING TO PROCEED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOUR IS BEING, BEING TAKEN OUT AND WHAT'S GOING TO BE PLANTED IN PLACE? OKAY, SO, RIGHT.
SO, SO THE, SO REGARDING THE LANDSCAPING, UM, WHAT I FIRST WANTED TO TOUCH ON, I GUESS IS THE, UH, THE DESIGN GOALS OF THE PROJECT.
UH, YOU KNOW, WHICH, YOU KNOW, ARE LISTED HERE ON THE LEFT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE, UH, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY REGENERON HAS IMAGE EXPECTATIONS AND THEY'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE THEIR CAMPUS AS NICE AS POSSIBLE.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, A LOT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, NICE MATERIALS PROPOSED.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING TO MINIMIZE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, DISRUPTION TO, YOU KNOW, UNDISTURBED AREAS AND WETLAND BUFFERS AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S QUITE A DIVERSITY OF LANDSCAPING AND, UH, YOU KNOW, HARDINESS THAT WAS CHOSEN.
AND, UH, SO WE JUST WANNA ILLUSTRATE THAT, YOU KNOW, IN, IN A, IN A LIST HERE AND THEN SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE, UH, UH, REQUIREMENTS THAT WERE USED, UH, USED TO CREATE THE PLANT SELECTION AND DESIGN HERE ON THE RIGHT.
AND THEN I'LL SHOW YOU THE NEXT SLIDE IS, UM, UH, GET, GETS A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO THE DESIGN AND, AND PLANT SELECTION ITSELF.
SO, UH, THE DARKER GREEN, UH, CIRCLES ON, ON THE PLANT OVER HERE ON THE RIGHT, UH, REPRESENT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE NATIVE PLANT SPECIES, UH, THAT ARE PROPOSED.
AND THEN THERE'S LIGHT GREEN CIRCLES THAT ARE ADAPTED NON-INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES.
UM, SO THE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THERE'S A QUITE A LARGE PLANT SELECTION SCHEDULE ON THE LEFT HERE, WHICH, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, BASICALLY HAS 90% NATIVE AND ADAPTED PLANTINGS, UM, WITH 10% NON-NATIVE, NON-INVASIVE ORNAMENTAL TYPE SPECIES, UM, YOU KNOW, PREDOMINANTLY, UH, PERENNIALS AND EVERGREEN SHRUBS.
UH, I, I GUESS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR YOU AND, AND IS A CONCERN OF MINE HAS TO DO WITH THE TREE CANOPY.
UM, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE LIST OF THE TREES THAT WERE COMING OUT, IT WAS VERY DIVERSE AND IT INCLUDED VARIOUS TREES THAT EITHER HAD BERRIES ON THEM, YOU KNOW, CHERRIES OR NUTS.
AND NONE OF THE PROPOSED REPLACEMENT TREES ARE ONES THAT EITHER BEAR FRUIT IN ANY, IN, IN THE FORM OF CHERRIES OR IN THE FORM OF NUTS.
AND THAT CONCERNS ME BECAUSE THAT'S FOOD FOR THE ANIMALS, PARTICULARLY THE BIRDS.
AND I WOULD, IS THERE, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY IF THEY'RE CLOSE TO THE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR ATRIUM, I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU MIGHT NOT WANT, UH, A BLACK CHERRY TREE OR WILD CHERRY TREE THERE, BUT CONVERSELY, WHEN WE GET AWAY FROM THE BUILDINGS, UM, COULD THERE BE MORE CONSIDERATION FOR REPLACING THE DIVERSITY THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS IN THE TREE STOCK? YES.
WE, WE, WE CAN CERTAINLY REVIEW THAT AND, UM, AND PROVIDE MORE OF THOSE TYPE OF SPECIES.
WE CAN TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT TRYING TO MATCH, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S COMING OUT BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE FAST DISAPPEARING AND WE'RE GETTING INTO SORT OF A, UM, CITYSCAPE, EVEN IN AN AREA
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THAT STILL HAS A GOOD DEAL OF OPEN SPACE THERE.AND, AND IT IS DIMINISHING BOTH THE, UH, THE VARIETY WE HAVE AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE BIRDS IN THE AREA, WE'RE BASICALLY REMOVING THEIR FOOD SUPPLY.
WE WILL, WE WILL, UH, WE WILL LOOK FURTHER INTO THAT AND, AND, UH, AND, AND OUR GOAL WILL BE TO MATCH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, THE SAME AMOUNT OF TREES IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE YEAH, BECAUSE THE TYPES THEY ARE TOO.
THERE JUST SEEMS TO BE SO MANY ON THE, UH, ONES COMING DOWN IN TERMS OF VARIETY AND SO LITTLE ON WHAT'S COMING BACK IN.
WE WILL, WE WILL, UH, WE WILL ADDRESS THAT.
AND THEN, UH, THE NE THE LAST TOPIC WE WANTED TO TOUCH ON WAS ON STORM STORMWATER, WHICH WE KIND OF ALREADY DISCUSSED A LITTLE BIT.
UH, SO THIS, THIS FIRST SLIDE SHOWS THE SURFACE PRACTICES THAT EXIST OR, AND OR ARE PROPOSED.
SO IN GREEN, ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN THERE, YOU SEE THE, THE TWO EXISTING, UH, WETLANDS AS, WHICH IS BETH INDICATED WERE, YOU KNOW, UH, ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO BE STORMWATER BASINS, UH, WHICH WE ARE PROPOSING TO UTILIZE AND ENHANCE.
AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE, ON THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER, WE'RE PROPOSING BUYER RETENTION AREAS TO RECEIVE THE RUNOFF FROM THE PROPOSED PARKING GARAGE.
THIS NEXT SLIDE JUST SHOWS, UH, YOU KNOW, A TYPICAL PHOTO OF BIO RETENTION LANDSCAPING AREA, AND THEN THE, THE, THE TYPICAL DETAIL, UH, THE ONE ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE IS KIND OF, UH, ZOOMED IN A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS THE INTENT HERE FOR THOSE PROPOSED BIO RETENTION AREAS.
UH, THIS NEXT SLIDE, UH, OH, I GUESS, CAN WE GO BACK TO THE BIORETENTION AREA FOR A MINUTE? UM, THAT WATER IS COMING INTO THE BIORETENTION AREA.
IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING TREATMENT FOR THE, THE RUNOFF FROM THE PARKING LOT? YES.
IN THE PARKING LOT ITSELF IS GOING TO BE ASPHALT, I'M ASSUMING? YES.
WELL, THE, IT'LL BE A CONCRETE, UH, THE, IT'S A PARKING GARAGE.
SO THE, THE, THE AREAS THAT THEY WOULD TREAT WOULD BE THE, THE PRECAST CONCRETE.
SO THE WATER COMES OFF AT ANY POINT, DOES THE WATER GO INTO ANY PLACE WHERE THERE IS, WHERE THE WATER AND THE PETROLEUM PRODUCTS ARE SEPARATED? YES.
SO BEFORE, UH, LET ME JUST SHOW YOU THE NEXT SLIDE.
UH, SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING, UH, BEFORE, BEFORE THE STORM STORMWATER ENTERS, THOSE TWO BUYER RETENTION AREAS ARE WATER QUALITY TREATMENT STRUCTURES, UH, FOR EACH DISCHARGE LOCATION, AND THEN, AND PRIOR TO EACH BUYER RETENTION.
SO THOSE WOULD PROVIDE THE PRE-TREATMENT TO SEPARATE, UH, SEDIMENT FLOATABLES, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THOSE WOULD BE A PRE-TREATMENT.
AND THEN AFTER, AFTER THE WATER FLOWS THROUGH THOSE STRUCTURES, THEN IT WOULD FLOW INTO THE BIO RETENTION BASINS, WHICH WOULD THEN FILTER THROUGH THE MEDIA AND THEN BE CONVEYED OUT, UH, THROUGH THE STORMWATER CONVEYANCE SYSTEM, WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN HERE.
SO THEN IS THERE, IS THERE THEN A SCHEDULE FOR, UM, REMOVING OR MAINTAINING THOSE UM, DEVICES? ABSOLUTELY, YES.
EVERY SINGLE PRACTICE WE'LL HAVE, UH, AND DOES HAVE AS PART OF THE STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN THAT WE PREPARED, UH, A FULL MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE, YOU KNOW, EVERY MONTH YOU DO THIS EVERY SIX MONTHS, EVERY YEAR.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS POST-CONSTRUCTION STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, UH, REGENERON WILL BE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW.
SO THE BUYER RETENTION BASINS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ARE ACTUALLY THE EXISTING STORMWATER BASINS? UH, NO.
SO THE, I DON'T, I, OH, THERE, THERE THEY ARE.
SO THERE'S TWO AREAS HERE THAT ARE NEW, AND THEN THESE WERE, YOU KNOW, THESE WERE JUST EXISTING, BUT, AND WE'RE, WE'RE UTILIZING THEM.
THERE'S CAPACITY, YES, BUT, YOU KNOW, NOT ENOUGH TO BY THEMSELVES.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE PROPOSING THE BUYER RETENTION HERE, WHICH WILL TREAT AND PROVIDE SOME INFILTRATION AND, AND, YOU KNOW, PEAK RATE, YOU KNOW, UH, RUNOFF REDUCTION.
AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH I WANTED TO SHOW, UM, IS THE SUBSURFACE.
SO ON THE LEFT SIDE HERE, YOU'LL SEE THE LARGE GREEN BOX IS, UH,
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AN UNDERGROUND STORM WATER DETENTION SYSTEM, AND UPSTREAM OF THAT IS ANOTHER ONE OF THESE WATER QUALITY STRUCTURES.SO, UH, THE STORM WATER THAT COMES FROM THE, UH, LEFT SIDE OF THE CAMPUS HERE AND THIS PLAZA, UM, IT, IT, IT CANNOT BE DRAINED TO THE WETLAND, UH, STORM WATER PONDS BECAUSE OF ELEVATION DIFFERENCES.
SO WE ARE, UM, WE ARE TREATING IT, DETAINING IT, AND THEN RELEASING IT DOWNSTREAM HERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE VARIOUS PRACTICES IN COMBINATION, UH, ARE SUFFICIENT TO, UH, MEET WATER QUALITY TREATMENT AND, UH, RUNOFF REDUCTION VOLUME, AS WELL AS, UH, PEAK RATE ATTENUATION REQUIREMENTS.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS ON THE DRAINAGE? OKAY, THAT, THAT, THAT, UH, CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.
UH, I KNOW WE TOOK SOME QUESTIONS ALONG THE WAY, BUT, UH, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, UM, OR DISCUSSION, UH, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE.
JUST, JUST JUST TO BE, TO BE CLEAR SO THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE UNDERSTANDING THE MATERIALS.
WE BASICALLY HAVE TWO SEPARATE APPLICATIONS IN FRONT OF THE ONE FOR THE TEMPORARY PARKING IS NEW.
THE ONE OTHER ONE HAS TO DO WITH THE CONSTRUCTION FURTHER DOWN, BUT THE ORIGINAL, UH, LOOP ROAD REQUEST FOR BUILDING THE ROAD THAT GOES BACK TO 20 16, 20 14 IS STILL ACTIVE, BUT HAS NOT BEEN BUILT.
SO THAT'S THE ACT ACTUALLY THAT IS THE 2017 APPROVAL.
UH, FOR THAT A HUNDRED ACRES ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF LOOP ROAD, THAT WAS AN APPROVAL THAT WAS GRANTED FOR A 10 YEAR PERIOD IN 2017.
AND IN CONNECTION WITH THAT, THE, UH, DISTURBANCE THAT STEVE SHOWED ON THAT SLIDE, UH, WHICH WAS IN BLUE ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THAT LOOP ROAD, WAS APPROVED AS PART OF THE LOOP ROAD, BUT WE'D LIKE TO DO IT NOW INSTEAD.
AND SO IT INCLUDED IT AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION.
SO IT'S ALREADY BEEN APPROVED.
BUT THE REST OF THE LOOP ROAD THAT WAS APPROVED AT THAT TIME HAS NOT BEEN BUILT? NO, NO, I, THE LOOP ROAD EXISTS.
THE WIDENING THAT'S PROPOSED AS PART OF IT HAS NOT YET BEEN DONE.
I GUESS WHEN THAT APPLICATION CAME IN, THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF, UM, TREE REMOVALS ASSOCIATED WITH IT AND MOVEMENT OF LAND, AND THERE WERE GONNA BE METAL MEADOWS DEVELOPED AND REPLANTING OF TREES BECAUSE I BELIEVE I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, UM, THE ISSUE WAS TO BUILD, TO BUILD IT OUT, YOU REALLY NEEDED TO DO A GREAT DEAL OF MOVEMENT OF EARTH AND IT SEEMED TO MAKE MORE SENSE TO TAKE EVERYTHING OUT, MOVE THE EARTH AND MOVE IT TO WHERE YOU NEEDED IT ON THE PROPERTY, VERSUS CARTING IT OUT AND THEN CARTING IT BACK IN AND, AND TOWARDS THE END OF THE 10 YEARS.
SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WAS THAT EVER DONE, OR HOW MUCH OF THAT ORIGINAL
NOTHING HAS, NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE YET.
ANYONE ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? I REALLY WANNA THANK YOU FOR COMING.
UM, WE WILL BE DELAYED IN, IN THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE PLANNING BOARD BECAUSE OF, UM, THE FAILURE TO HAVE PEOPLE CONFIRMED AS ACTUAL MEMBERS.
WE HAVE PEOPLE HERE WHO ARE LISTENING AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE, HAVE LOOKED AT THE MATERIALS, BUT TO FORMALLY DO THIS, I APOLOGIZE TO YOU FOLKS, BUT, UM, IT WAS SOMETHING BEYOND OUR CONTROL.
UH, WE WE'RE DEPENDENT UPON THE BUREAUCRACY OF THE TOWN.
AND BUREAUCRACY, AS WE ALL KNOW, CAN BE QUITE FRUSTRATING AT TIMES.
AND, UM, WE WOULD NORMALLY HAVE A QUORUM, BUT ONE OF OUR MEMBERS TONIGHT HAS TO RECUSE HERSELF BECAUSE SHE DOES BUSINESS WITH REGENERON.
SO
I THINK BETH HAS WORKED WITH US ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT WE NORMALLY GET THESE OUT PRETTY MUCH TO AARON BY THE MONDAY AFTER, BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN ON THIS ONE.
I JUST SIMPLY AM UNABLE TO DO IT.
SO WE WILL BE DEFINITELY SENDING SOMETHING, UM, AFTER THAT BE YOUR JULY 8TH MEETING.
I, AND I APOLOGIZE, BUT THERE'S NO WAY I CAN WORK AROUND
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IT.NO, WE UNDERSTAND ATORY, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S TOTALLY, UH, UNDERSTANDABLE AND THAT WILL BE BENEFICIAL BECAUSE IT WILL PROCEED THE TOWN BOARD PUBLIC HEARING, SO WE'LL HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING IN.
DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE FOLKS GO? I ACTUALLY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY ONE THING.
UM, I THINK THE GRAPHICS WERE, WERE WELL DONE.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE COLORS REALLY HELPED.
I THINK YOU DID A GOOD JOB EXPLAINING IT.
THERE WERE A LOT OF HOURS THAT WENT INTO THAT, AND STEVE, AND AS I MENTIONED, THE REALLY TALENTED FOLKS AT REGENERON AND FLAT AND J M C ARE REALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.
WELL, WE REALLY, WE, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN SOMEWHERE IT'S REALLY BEEN HARD SOMETIMES TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE POINTING ON THE SCREEN AND WE'RE LIKE, WHAT THE HECK ARE THEY POINTING AT
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL IN PERSON SOMETIME SOON.
THERE GO PERHAPS, PERHAPS ON JULY 8TH.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO THE, THE, THE WAY IT'S COME DOWN, AND I GUESS THIS IS GONNA BE THE MAYOR
THE THOUGHT IS THAT I THINK THE DIRECTIVE FROM THE STATE IS THAT AFTER STARTING TOMORROW, ALL MEETINGS HAVE TO BE IN PERSON.
WE WERE ALL KIND OF HOPING THAT LET US DO HYBRID MEETINGS NOW THAT WE FIGURED OUT ZOOM WORKS BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE THINGS LIKE GETTING A QUORUM TOGETHER EASIER IF SOMEONE COULD FOLLOW YOU.
BUT, SO WE'LL BE SEEING YOU IN THE FUTURE AT TOWN HALL.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND YOUR TIME.
I THINK DOREEN'S HERE TONIGHT.
UM, DOREEN, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANTED FROM US? AND YOU'RE MUTED BY THE WAY.
I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE DOING, LIKE YOU SAID, OR AS, AS DONNA HAD SAID, WHEN THE APPLICANT COMES IN, YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
'CAUSE I DON'T EVEN USE A POINTER.
THEY JUST SAY OPEN THE UPPER HAND, LEFT CORNER ON THE SOUTH SIDE, THE WEST SIDE.
AND, BUT THIS WAS REALLY WELL DONE.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THEM COME INTO OUR TOWN.
UH, SO JUST I THINK IF WE LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE, WE PRETTY MUCH HAVE COVERED EVERYTHING FOR TONIGHT.
UM, DID ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THEY WANTED TO ASK OR DISCUSS TONIGHT? IF NOT, I THINK WE COULD END THE MEETING AND WE'LL GO EAT OUR DINNER.
SO I THANK YOU ALL AND I THANK YOU GARRETT, FOR HAVING TO DO ANOTHER MEETING TONIGHT.
AND SHE WAS UP LATE LAST NIGHT WITH THE MEETINGS.
YOU'RE HAPPY TO SEE ANYONE GO TO LIVE MEETINGS.
AND THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL YOUR TIME AND EFFORT HERE ON THE C A C.