* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:02] SO I THINK WE'LL, UH, GET STARTED. [ TOWN OF GREENBURGH PLANNING BOARD AGENDA WEDNESDAY, January 21, 2026 – 7:00 P.M. Meetings of the Planning Board will be adjourned at 10:00 p.m. ] ALL RIGHT. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. WELCOME TO THE, UH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 2026. PLANNING BOARD MEETING. UH, HAPPY NEW YEAR. UH, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, WILL YOU, UH, CONDUCT THE ROLE CHAIRPERSON PINE HERE. MR. WEINSTEIN HERE. OUR ALTERNATE MS. ANDERSON HERE WILL BE A FULL VOTING MEMBER THIS EVENING. AND ON ZOOM, MS. MOYER HERE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UM, DID EVERYONE GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE DECEMBER 3RD MINUTES? YES. WERE THERE ANY EDITS OR FEEDBACK? NOT FOR ME. I JUST DOUBLE CHECK. I DON'T BELIEVE I HAVE ANY. ALRIGHT, THEN I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DECEMBER 3RD, 20, 25 MINUTES. SO MOVED. UH, MR. WEINBERG SECONDED. SECOND, UH, UH, EMILY. MS. ANDERSON? MS. ANDERSON. THANK YOU. UH, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. GREAT MINUTES ARE APPROVED. UM, WE HAVE ONE PIECE OF CORRESPONDENCE, UH, CASE PB 2110 PARAIS. UH, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, CAN YOU, UH, PROVIDE US SOME CONTEXT? YES. SO THIS PROJECT AT 23 SPRINGWOOD AVENUE, PO ARDSLEY, UH, INVOLVED A, UH, PROPOSAL TO CONSTRUCT A GARAGE AND INVOLVED, UH, PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT APPROVAL. THAT APPROVAL WAS GRANTED. UM, THERE WAS A FIRST EXTENSION REQUEST GRANTED BY THE BOARD. UH, THE APPLICANT SUBMITTED A LETTER BY EMAIL, WHICH WE TRANSMITTED, INDICATING THAT, UH, SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL APPROVAL, THEY'VE HAD TO HIRE A NEW CIVIL ENGINEER TO MEET CERTAIN REQUESTS. AND THEY'VE SUBMITTED THEIR PERMITS TO THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING, WHICH ARE CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW. UH, BUT THEY LOST SOME TIME DUE TO THIS AND THEY LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING, UH, FORWARD SWIFTLY. ALRIGHT. UH, WERE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE PIECE OF CORRESPONDENCE? AND AGAIN, JUST, JUST TO CONFIRM, UH, STAFF FEELS THAT THE APPLICANT IS MAKING, UH, ADEQUATE EFFORT TO, TO MOVE THIS ALONG? THAT'S CORRECT. GREAT. HOW LONG IS EXTENSION FOR? SO TYPICALLY, UH, IT'S A TWO YEAR EXTENSION. THE APPLICANT DID SPECIFICALLY REQUEST THAT PERIOD OF TIME, UH, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS REQUEST. MM-HMM . ALRIGHT. UH, THEN I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, UH, ISSUE A SECOND EXTENSION OF THE STEEP SLOPE PERMIT VALID THROUGH JANUARY 21ST, UH, 2028. DO I HEAR A MOTION? SO MOVED, MR. WEINBERG. SECOND. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? UH, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. ALRIGHT, MOTION CARRIES. AND THE EXTENSION IS APPROVED. THANK YOU. UH, WE HAVE FOUR PIECES OF ALL BUSINESS, UH, FOR OUR WORK SESSION THIS EVENING. UH, THE FIRST IS CASE NUMBER PB 2203, UH, WHERE WE HAVE A SITE PLAN, UH, A PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT, AND A WETLAND WATERCOURSE PERMIT. UH, WOULD THE APPLICANT LIKE TO SPEAK OR IS THE APPLICANT WITH US THIS EVENING? THE APPLICANT IS, UM, IF THEY WISH TO SPEAK, THEY ABSOLUTELY MAY. HOWEVER, UM, THE PLANNING BOARD HELD A PUBLIC HEARING AND CLOSED THAT PUBLIC HEARING. NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED DURING, DURING THE OPEN WRITTEN RECORD PERIOD. SO, UM, STAFF PREPARED THIS DRAFT DECISION. THERE ARE MULTIPLE VOTES ON THIS EVENING. I CAN WALK THE BOARD THROUGH THAT. IN TERMS OF SPECIAL OR SITE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS RELATED TO THIS PROJECT, UH, WE DID INDICATE IN SECTION FOUR ON PAGE NINE, CONDITION 4.1, THAT ALL PROPOSED EXTERIOR LIGHTING MUST BE DARK SKY COMPLIANT AND MUST BE DOWNCAST AND CONSTRUCTED AND OR RETROFITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER TWO 40 SIGN AND ILLUMINATION LAW. AND AS DEPICTED ON THE PLANS LISTED IN SECTION ONE OF THIS DECISION AS WELL, 4.2 INDICATING PRIOR TO ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT, THE APPLICANT SHALL OBTAIN APPROVALS FROM THE CITY OF YONKERS FOR THE SUBDIVISION OF THE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF YONKERS INTO NO MORE THAN FOUR LOTS, UH, EXCLUSIVE OF EXCLUSIVE OF THE CUL-DE-SAC FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NO MORE THAN FOUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES. ALRIGHT, WERE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE DRAFT DECISIONS THAT WERE DISTRIBUTED? I, I HAD A COUPLE OF, UH, COMMENTS. [00:05:01] ALRIGHT, PLEASE GO AHEAD. SO ON, ON THE FIRST PAGE, THE DATES, UH, NEED TO BE REVISED WAS THEY WERE BASED OFF OF, UH, THE MEETING THAT HAD TO BE POSTPONED, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO. YES. UH, I THOUGHT ON, UH, PAGE FOUR IN THE SECOND FULL PARAGRAPH NEAR THE END, THE NEXT TO LAST LINE, I THINK, UH, AFTER THE WORD WORK, IT SHOULD SAY AS REQUIRED, SORT OF MATCHES WITH WHAT'S AT THE END, THE BEGINNING OF THE PRECEDING SENTENCE, ALL WORK AS REQUIRED. RIGHT. AND COVERED UNDER THIS PERMIT SHALL COMPLY. THAT WOULD BE FINE. UM, AND THEN, LET'S SEE, AND I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT ON FIVE 12, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE BONDING ISSUE. SHOULD THERE BE A SIMILAR BONDING ISSUE? 'CAUSE I'VE SEEN IT IN, YOU KNOW, OTHER APPROVALS WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, FOR TREES AND LANDSCAPING THAT COMES UP IN EIGHT POINT 17. USUALLY THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY, I KNOW THIS IS A SMALL PROJECT AND BUT THE QUALIFICATION, IT IT'S ALWAYS MAY. YES. GENERALLY IT'S MAY BECAUSE IT'LL DEPEND UPON THE PROJECT. YEAH. BUT IN EIGHT 17, YOU DON'T HAVE A COMPARABLE PROVISION THAT, YOU KNOW, CONTEMPLATES A POSSIBLE BOND. WHEN YOU SAY EIGHT 17, WELL, LET ME SEE. MAYBE I HAVE, UH, EIGHT. OFTEN THERE'S, IT'S REPETITIVE BECAUSE IT'S UNDER DIFFERENT SECTIONS. SO ONE MIGHT BE STORM WATER, ANOTHER MIGHT BE TREES AND LANDSCAPING. RIGHT. LIKE FOR INSTANCE, ON 10.12 ON PAGE 14, IT INDICATES THE PLANNING BOARD MAY REQUIRE, AND, UH, OH, MAYBE IT'S AT FIVE 12. WE DON'T HAVE THAT. THE LANGUAGE THAT SAYS YOU CAN BE DRAWN UPON BY THE TOWN, LIKE WE HAVE IN, AND YOU CAN EDIT. IT'S, IT'S QUITE OFTEN IN THE DOCUMENTS THAT ALLOW US TO DRAW, IT'LL SAY THE TOWN. PARDON? SO QUITE OFTEN IT'S IN THE SECURITY DOCUMENTS THAT WE RECEIVE. SO IT'LL SAY TOWN MAY DRAW UPON, YOU KNOW, IN SPECIFIC INSTANCES AND INDICATE HOW NOTICES PROVIDED. OKAY. HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT THAT LANGUAGE ADDED TO BE CLEAR IN THE CONDITION WHERE WE CAN DO THAT, I, I'M OKAY. LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK YOU TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY, UM, NOT ONLY FOR COMPLETION OF THE WORK, BUT POTENTIALLY FOR LIKE REFORESTING AN AREA THAT WAS ABANDONED. SO IF YOU WANT SOMETHING SPECIFIC LIKE THAT, WE CAN ADD THAT AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. IF IT'S HELPFUL, I'LL TALK TO YOU AFTER. UH OKAY. MAYBE WE'RE HAPPY TO ADD IT. YEAH. OKAY. ALRIGHT. DID ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS ON THE DRAFT DECISIONS AS DISTRIBUTED? AND DID YOU WANNA, OTHER, OTHER THAN UPDATING THE DATES, DID YOU WANNA MAKE ANY CHANGES FOR THIS DRAFT OR WE'LL JUST CONSIDER CHANGES FOR FUTURE TEMPLATES? WELL, FOR WHATEVER WE DISCUSSED, WHICH ARE FAIRLY MINOR, WE'LL DO IN THE FINAL. OKAY. LET'S DO THAT. OKAY, GREAT. YEAH. ALRIGHT THEN, UH, I WILL, UH, FIRST ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION FOR THE SITE PLAN APPLICATION. SO, MOVED, UH, MOVED MR. WEINBERG AS AMENDED. AS AMENDED. THANK YOU. I SECONDED. SECOND, MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. UH, NEXT UP, UH, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION, UH, AS AMENDED FOR THE STEEP SLOPE PERMIT. DO I HEAR A MOTION? SO MOVED. UH, MOVE MR. WEINBERG. SECOND. SECONDED MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. UH, CHAIR VOTES. AYE. AND THEN, UH, LASTLY I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION FOR THE WETLAND WATER COURSE PERMIT APPLICATION AS AMENDED. SO MOVED. UH, MOTION MR. WEINBERG. SECOND. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES? AYE. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU EVERYONE. UH, NEXT UP WE HAVE CASE NUMBER PV 25 25 SULTANA. UM, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, DO YOU WANNA WALK US THROUGH THE, UH, SITE PLAN? THE, THE SITE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR THIS PROJECT? YES. SO CASE NUMBER PB 25 25 SULTANA AT 7 42 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE SOUTH PO. [00:10:01] SCARSDALE. UH, THIS RELATES TO A, AN APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT, UH, FOR INCIDENTAL DINING ASSOCIATED WITH PLACING, UH, UP TO EIGHT SEATS AT FOUR TABLES WITHIN A RETAIL BAKERY SPACE. FOLLOWING CLOSURE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING STAFF PREPARED THE DRAFT DECISION FOR THE BOARD'S CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING. WE OUTLINED HOW THE PROJECT MEETS THE GENERAL AND SPECIFIC STANDARDS FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR INCIDENTAL DINING. UM, WITH RESPECT TO CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL, THESE TYPES OF DECISIONS ARE LAID OUT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN OUR TYPICAL SITE PLAN AND SUBDIVISION DECISIONS, BUT THEY ARE LISTED ON PAGE THREE. THERE ARE 11 CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL. UM, FIRST AND FOREMOST, UH, CONDITION NUMBER ONE, THE EXISTING PARKING LOT TO THE REAR OF THE BUILDING ACCESS FROM MOUNT JOY AVENUE MUST BE REPAVED AND ALL PARKING SPACES MUST BE STRIPED OR PAINTED PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF A FINAL CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND OR COMPLETION TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE BUILDING INSPECTOR. UM, THE ONLY OTHER CONDITION I'D BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION IS, UH, CONDITION THREE, WHICH INDICATES WHETHER SITUATED INDOORS OR OUTDOORS. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SEATS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT SHALL NOT EXCEED EIGHT SEATS UNLESS A RESTAURANT SPECIAL USE PERMIT AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE APPROVALS ARE OBTAINED. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. IS UH, IS ANYONE FROM REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT HERE AT THE MEETING? WE DO HAVE KELLY FERNANDEZ. OH, YES. YES. ALRIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON, UH, THE DRAFT DECISION OR ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? DO WE KNOW WHETHER, UH, THE LANDLORD HAS AGREED TO THE REPAVING? RIGHT. SO WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE THIS AFTERNOON WHO INDICATED THAT THEY DID OBTAIN A VERBAL, UM, SIGN OFF FROM THE LANDLORD AND THAT IT WILL BE REPAVED. I CHECKED IN WITH OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR'S OFFICE AND THEY INDICATED THAT THE BUILDING PERMIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT WOULD NOT BE GRANTED UNTIL, UH, THE PAVEMENT, THE PA THE LOT IS PAVED. ALRIGHT. AND JUST A QUESTION AND STRIPED, IS THERE A HANDICAPPED, UH, BATHROOM? IS IT A HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE? YOU KNOW, WE CAN ASK MS. FERNANDEZ QUESTION RELATED TO HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE BATHROOM. I CAN TRY AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE PLANS. 'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THIS THERE, THERE WEREN'T ANY, THERE WASN'T ANY SEATING, SO I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WAS REQUIRED. SO I TOOK A QUICK LOOK AT THE PLANS AND THEY DO INDICATE THAT THE BATHROOM WILL BE HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE. YES. OKAY, GREAT. I CAN SHARE THAT. THANKS AS WELL. AND, AND IS THERE A MARKED, UH, HANDICAP SPOT IN THE PARKING PLAN? I DON'T BELIEVE SO. SO JUST TO BRING UP THE PLANS, YOU CAN SEE NEW A DA RESTROOM. SO THAT'S INDICATED HERE AT THE REAR OF THE SITE THAT THERE IS NOT AN INDICATED A DA ACCESSIBLE SPACE. AND, AND WOULD, WOULD THAT, IS THERE A REASON WHY IT'S NOT REQUIRED IN THIS INSTANCE? IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF SPACES. I'M NOT SURE. I'D HAVE TO ASK. WE CAN CHECK IN WITH THE, IT ALSO BE THE TIMING. LIKE IF IT PREDATES, UM, THE REQUIREMENTS. I BELIEVE THAT THIS, UH, CAME UP, UH, WHEN THIS PRO PARTICULAR PROPERTY WAS BEFORE THE BOARD FOR A SHARED PARKING REDUCTION MM-HMM . AND THE ANSWER THAT I WAS GIVEN, UH, FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT WAS THAT BECAUSE THIS IS A, A REUSE OF ONLY A PORTION, A SMALL PORTION OF THE BUILDING, THERE WAS NO NEED TO, NO REQUIREMENT TO UPDATE THE PARKING TO, UH, INCLUDE AN A DA ACCESSIBLE SPACE, UH, GIVEN THAT IT CURRENTLY DOES NOT HAVE ONE. OKAY. AND, AND I KNOW THERE'S ALSO, THERE'S ALSO, UM, LIVING QUARTERS ON, ON THE SECOND FLOOR. I GUESS A, A HANDICAP SPOT WOULDN'T BE REQUIRED FOR THAT USE EITHER. SO I SENT A MESSAGE TO NOT PREDATED TO BUILDING AND TO SEE IF THEY CAN CONFIRM OF WHAT MEETING'S OVER, UM, OKAY. BUT YEAH, BASED ON THEIR RESPONSE FROM THE LAST TIME THIS PROJECT WAS BEFORE THE BOARD, UH, S SPACE IS NOT REQUIRED TO BE ADDED. OKAY. UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO. MR. WEINBERG. ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT [00:15:02] THEN, UH, WE HAVE TWO, TWO VOTES IN FRONT OF US. UH, THE FIRST WOULD BE TO CLASSIFY THE PROPOSED ACTION AS A TYPE TWO ACTION UNDER CCRA, UH, AND THEN DEVOTE ON THE DRAFT DECISION. UM, SO FIRST OFF, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, UH, CLASSIFY PV 25 25 SULTANA AS A TYPE TWO ACTION UNDER CCRA. SO MOVED. UH, MOVED. MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES. AYE. UH, MOTION CARRIES. UH, NEXT WE HAVE, UH, A VOTE TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION, UH, FOR THE INCIDENTAL DINING SPECIAL PERMIT APPLICATION. SO MOVED. UH, MOVED. MR. WEINBERG? SECONDED. SECOND. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. CHAIR VOTES? AYE. GREAT. AND MICHELLE, UH, WOULD YOU VOTE, CAN YOU PLEASE JUST VERBALIZE, UH, FOR THE RECORDING? THANK YOU. UM, AND, AND IF YOU DO GET ANY MORE INFORMATION FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, I'LL LET YOU KNOW. UH, WE, WE'D LOVE TO KNOW. THANK YOU. WE ALRIGHT. NEXT UP WE HAVE CASE NUMBER PB 25 30 KDRP, UH, WHO IS SEEKING AN AMENDED SITE PLAN AND STREET, UH, FEE REMOVAL PERMIT. HI, HOW'S IT GOING? I'M LUKE BOSWELL FROM KIMLEY HORN AND I'M THE CIVIL ENGINEER REPRESENTING KDRP ON THE PROPOSED PARKING EXPANSION PROJECT. UM, I BELIEVE BRETT BAKER IS ALSO ON THE LINE. UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE WENT THROUGH THE PUBLIC HEARING. THERE WERE NO COMMENTS AT THAT TIME. SO WE ARE HERE TO, UM, SEE WHAT THE COURT'S DECISION IS. ALRIGHT. YEAH. UH, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMID, COULD YOU WALK US THROUGH THE, UH, SITE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS? YES. SO, UH, FIRST OFF, SINCE CLOSURE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND DURING THE OPEN WRITTEN RECORD PERIOD, NO ADDITIONAL COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED. AS SUCH, STAFF PREPARED A DRAFT DECISION FOR THE PLANNING BOARD'S CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING. THERE WOULD BE THREE VOTES UNDER CONSIDERATION. FIRST, A SEEKER DETERMINATION. UH, THIS QUAL THIS PROJECT DOES QUALIFY AS A TYPE TWO ACTION UNDER SEEKER AND THEN, UH, CONSIDERATION OF A DECISION ON THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION AS WELL AS THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION. UH, WITH RESPECT TO SITE SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. SIMILAR TO, UH, AN EARLIER PROJECT CONDITION 4.1 ON PAGE SIX INDICATES THAT ALL PROPOSED EXTERIOR LIGHTING MUST BE DARK SKY COMPLIANT AND MUST BE DOWNCAST AND CONSTRUCTED AND OR RETROFITTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER TWO 40 SIGN AND ILLUMINATION LAW. AND AS DEPICTED ON THE PLANS LISTED IN SECTION ONE OF THIS DECISION, OTHER THAN THAT, THE CONDITIONS ARE STANDARD FOR A PROJECT OF THIS TYPE. ALRIGHT, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT DECISIONS? UH, JUST SIMILAR TO THE EARLIER COMMENT ON THE FIRST PAGE. UH, THE DATES HAVE TO CHANGE TO REFLECT TODAY'S DATE ON JANUARY 8TH. YES. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALRIGHT. SO THEN WE HAVE THREE VOTES HERE IN FRONT OF US. THE FIRST TO CLASSIFY THE, UH, ACTION AS A TYPE TWO ACTION. AND THEN TO APPROVE OR TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE DRAFT DECISION ON THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION AND ON THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION. UH, SO FIRST I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO, UH, CLASSIFY, UH, PB 25 30 KDRP AS A TYPE TWO ACTION UNDER CCRA. SO MOVED, UH, MOVED BY MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED BY MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES. AYE. UH, NEXT UP, WE, UH, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION FOR THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION. SO, MOVED. MOVED. MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR, MS. BOYER, YOU'RE YOU'RE ON MUTE. WE COULDN'T HEAR YOU. SORRY. AYE. THANK YOU. AND CHAIR VOTES. AYE. UM, AND LASTLY, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE DRAFT DECISION FOR THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION. UH, AND, AND THESE ARE ALL AS AMENDED. SO MOVED. UH, MOVE MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES. AYE. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOING BACK TO SELANA. YES. SO BUILDING AND WOULD LIKE TO CONFIRM WITH ENGINEERING REGARDING THE A DA SPACE, DEPENDING UPON THE NATURE OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH THE PARKING LOT, IF THEY'RE JUST RES STRIPING, IF THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, REPAVING. 'CAUSE IT IS PARTIALLY GRAVEL OR SOMEWHAT GRAVEL. SURE. SO I THINK IT MAY BE BEST TO [00:20:01] ADD IN A CONDITION THAT ENGINEERING AND BUILDING SIGN OFF ON THE PARKING ARRANGEMENT. SO, AMENDING THE, SO AMENDING THE DECISION TO INCLUDE A CONDITION THAT IF REQUIRED. IF REQUIRED NECESSARY, YES. YEP. IF SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES, IF DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE TOWN ENGINEER AND BUILDING INSPECTOR TO MODIFY THE PARKING STRIPING TO INCLUDE AN A DA SPACE THAT THEY SHOW THAT AND OBTAIN, UM, SHALL BE DONE. SO PRIOR TO, UH, BUILDING PERMIT ISSUANCE. ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT, YES. OKAY. UM, SO WOULD WE APPROVE, WOULD WE HAVE TO RESCIND THE PREVIOUS DECISION OR PROCEDURALLY, HOW, HOW WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE DO THIS? SO YOU'D BE YES. WE'RE SENDING AND APPROVING IT AS AMENDED WITH AN ADDITIONAL CONDITION. OKAY. DO WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT THE APPLICANT IS STILL ON THE LINE? UM, WE SHOULD SEE IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE. SO I DON'T SEE MS. FERNANDEZ, BUT IT WOULD BE A REQUIREMENT ANYWAY. YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S A CODE REQUIREMENT. IT'S, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO, WHEN THEY TRY TO OBTAIN A BUILDING PERMIT, IT WOULD COME UP. IF IT WASN'T CAUGHT EARLIER, WE CAN SEND A NOTE TO PPLICANT. YEAH, WHY DON'T WE SEND AN EMAIL. OKAY. SO LET'S MAYBE REVISIT IT LATER. OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S TAKE UP ELWOOD AND, UH, THAT'LL GIVE US SOME TIME TO, TO GET THE APPLICANT BACK ONLINE. MATT, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO MS. FERNANDEZ AND MR. FINI? YEP. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THIS IS REPRESENTATIVE DAVID'S TIME. IT'S HIS ON ZOOM, AND WE HAVE DIEGO AND OTHERS IN THE AUDIENCE. SO I'LL DO DAVID, THEN I'LL DO TERRY MM-HMM . AND THEN I'LL, DOES GARRETT WANNA SPEAK ALSO? NO. OKAY. AND THEN I DID CIRCULATE THIS, BUT WE DO OKAY. BUT I THINK, ALRIGHT. UM, ALRIGHT. SO NEXT UP WE HAVE, UH, CASE NUMBER PB 2220 ELMWOOD PRESERVE, UH, WHO IS SEEKING, UH, AN, UH, FINAL SUBDIVISION AMENDED PLANNING BOARD, STEEP SLOPE PERMIT AND AN AMENDED WETLAND WATERCOURSE PERMIT AND A TREE, UH, REMOVAL PERMIT. UH, IN A MOMENT I WILL ASK, UH, DAVID STEINS REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK. UH, THEN WE DO HAVE, UH, THIS EVENING WITH US, UH, THE CHAIR OF THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, TERRY TORY, UH, WHO WILL SPEAK, UH, BRIEFLY ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THAT BOARD ISSUED A FEW WEEKS AGO NOW. UM, AND THEN I WOULD, UH, AND THEN THE BOARD WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS, UM, SINCE THERE WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION FOR US TO GO THROUGH AND, AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION THAT WE'LL RECEIVE FROM THE APPLICANT AND, AND FROM MS. TORY, UH, I WOULD ASK THE BOARD TO HOLD ALL QUESTIONS UNTIL WE'VE RECEIVED THOSE REPORTS. UM, AND THEN WE CAN ASK ALL, ALL THE QUESTIONS WE'D LIKE TO ASK. UM, IS EVERYONE OKAY WITH THAT? GREAT. YEP. UH, SO THEN MR. STEINS, UH, FLOOR IS YOURS. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD, DAVID STEINMAN FROM THE LAW FIRM AND Z AND STEIN, UH, HERE THIS EVENING, REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT IN CONNECTION WITH ELWOOD PRESERVE. THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SOME TIME TONIGHT. AS THE CHAIR INDICATED, WE'RE HERE TONIGHT TECHNICALLY IN CONNECTION WITH FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT APPROVAL FOR THIS 113 LOT CONSERVATION SUBDIVISION, UH, WHICH INCLUDES A, UH, DEDICATION OF APPROXIMATELY 14 ACRES OF PARKLAND TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG TO FACILITATE, UH, NOT ONLY PARK EXPANSION, BUT ALSO THE REALIGNMENT OF THE SPRINGBROOK PARKWAY SOUTHBOUND EXIT RAMP. THIS PROJECT IS, AS I THINK MOST OF YOU KNOW, HAS BEEN PENDING BEFORE THE TOWN IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, UM, LARGELY FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS NOW. UM, WE ARE PLEASED THAT IN, UH, AUGUST OF 2022, WE INITIALLY COMPLETED THE SECRET PROCESS, RECEIVED A FINDING STATEMENT AFTER A COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF THE PROJECT D-E-I-S-F-E-I-S FINDING STATEMENT. UH, WE RECEIVED PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL IN AUGUST OF 2023 AND BEGAN DEALING WITH A SERIES OF CONDITIONS, UH, THAT HAD TO BE ADDRESSED, NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS AN APPLICATION BEFORE THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, THE DEC IN CONNECTION WITH A BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP. UM, ONE OF THE KEY COMPONENTS OF THE BROWNFIELDS CLEANUP, UH, PROCESS WAS SATISFYING THE TOWN'S REQUIRED, UH, CLEANUP STANDARD TO A RESIDENTIAL STANDARD THAT NECESSITATED, UH, BASED UPON THE DE'S UH, REMEDIAL ACTION WORK PLAN, A, UH, SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EARTH MOVEMENT, UM, TRUE REMOVAL AND SOME CHANGES, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE, [00:25:01] WHICH REQUIRED THAT WE GO BACK TO THE TOWN, UH, TO ADDRESS THAT. UM, THOSE CHANGES REALLY WERE LARGELY TECHNICAL AND RESULTED IN THE TOWN BOARD, ULTIMATELY REISSUING A AMENDED AND RESTATED FINDING STATEMENT ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 2025. SIGNIFICANTLY, THE LOT COUNT REMAINED THE SAME. THE ROAD NETWORK REMAINED THE SAME. UM, THE LOT CONFIGURATIONS REMAINED THE SAME. THE OPEN SPACE AND THE PARKLAND DEDICATION REMAINED THE SAME. IT WAS LARGELY ABOUT TREE REMOVAL AND, UH, AND EARTH MOVEMENT, UH, AS WELL AS VEHICULAR MOVEMENT ON THE ASSOCIATED ROADS. WE'RE PLEASED THAT THE TOWN BOARD, UH, DETERMINED THAT THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, AND THAT ALLOWED US TO NOW COME BEFORE YOU TO ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS AND SECURE FINAL PLAT APPROVAL. NOW, ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO, UH, WE RECEIVED A 43 PAGE, UH, DRAFT RESOLUTION OF FINAL PLAT APPROVAL. AND, AND FIRST I WANT TO THANK STAFF FOR, UM, OBVIOUSLY AN AWFUL LOT OF TIME, ATTENTION, AND WORK THAT THEY HAVE PUT IN TO THAT RESOLUTION. BUT MR. CHAIRMAN, YOU AND THE BOARD SHOULD BE AWARE WE SCRAMBLED OVER THE LAST HOUR TO TRY TO READ THROUGH THIS CAREFULLY. UM, AND WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY COMFORTABLE AFTER SUCH A LONG, THOUGHTFUL AND, AND COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS JUST SUMMARILY SAYING GO VOTE ON THIS RESOLUTION. SO, SO WE ARE RESPECTFULLY ASKING THAT YOU NOT VOTE ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION THIS EVENING. UM, WE, THE, THE SECTION'S, UH, COMPREHENSIVE, BUT WE WANT TO HAVE A CHANCE TO CONFER WITH STAFF IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES AFTER THIS MUCH TIME. THIS MUCH ATTENTION, THIS MUCH ATTENTION THAT'S BEEN PUT IN BY YOUR BOARD, THE CONSERVATION BOARD, THE TOWN BOARD, MY CLIENT, UH, WE WANNA BE ABLE TO COME BACK TO YOU. SO, SO I WANNA START WITH THAT. UNDERSTOOD. THANK YOU. IN TERMS OF, IN TERMS OF PROCEDURALLY, MR. CHAIRMAN, YOU AND THE BOARD, UM, SHOULD KNOW THAT UNDER TOWN LAW SECTION 2 76, AND I BELIEVE YOUR OWN TOWN SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS, WHEN A FINAL PLAT IS IN SUBSTANTIAL ACCORDANCE WITH A PRELIMINARY PLAT MAP, UM, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY, UH, TO WAIVE FIN A PUBLIC HEARING ON FINAL PLAT APPROVAL. SO WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU WAIVE FINAL PLAT UH, PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING SO THAT WE KNOW THAT THAT IS OUT OF THE WAY. AND FACT, I ASSUME STAFF SORT OF PRESUPPOSE THAT THAT WAS BEING DONE BECAUSE THAT'S BAKED INTO THE DRAFT RESOLUTION. UM, AND THEORETICALLY, IF MY CLIENT AND I WEREN'T ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER NOT VOTING TONIGHT, MAYBE YOU WOULD'VE VOTED. SO WE WOULD ASK THAT YOU ADDRESS THAT. UM, WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER MR. CHAIRMAN QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ON THE FINAL FLAT MAP QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE HAVING LOOKED AT STAFF'S DRAFT RESOLUTION. UM, BUT I WOULD REMIND YOU AND STAFF AND THE BOARD MEMBERS, UH, THE SECRET PROCESS IS CONCLUDED. UM, THE ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. SO THE GOOD NEWS IS THOSE LARGE HURDLES ARE BEHIND US, BUT WE STILL WANNA MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED. OUR ENTIRE TEAM IS HERE, I BELIEVE, SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU. MY CLIENT, UH, JONATHAN REBO IS THERE FROM, UH, RIDGEWOOD. UH, HIS, HIS COLLEAGUE BRETT OWINGS IS ONLINE, UH, OUR PROJECT ENGINEER FROM JMC DIEGO VILLA REAL IS SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU. HIS COLLEAGUE JAMES CARRIS IS ONLINE WITH ME AS WELL. SO WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. I I DON'T KNOW WHAT TERRY IS PRESENTING, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO LISTEN TO THAT. AND PROCEDURALLY, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU, UH, WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND PUT US ON THE NEXT POSSIBLE AGENDA FOR CONSIDERATION AND ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UH, MR. STEINS, UH, CHAIRPERSON TORY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO APPROACH, UH, APPROACH THE PODIUM? OKAY. OKAY. BRING THIS WAY DOWN, FOR SHORT PEOPLE. GOOD EVENING. UM, I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE WHY THE CAC HAS CONTINUED TO COMMENT ON THIS, BUT I DO WANNA SAY THAT THE END PRODUCT ON THIS DEVELOPMENT IS VERY PLEASING. WE'VE MANAGED TO, UH, MEET THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY, UH, PLAN FOR INTERIOR LAND NOT TO BE OVERDEVELOPED. AND I THINK IT'S A LOVELY DEVELOPMENT THAT'S BEING MADE AT THIS TIME. OUR RECENT COMMENTS ON THIS SECTION HAS TO DO WITH TWO THINGS. ONE HAS TO DO WITH OIL TREE REMOVAL OF INVASIVE SPECIES. AND THE LOGIC IN THAT IS, FIRST OFF, WE DON'T WANT INVASIVE SPECIES. AND AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME, SINCE THERE'S GONNA BE SO MUCH DISTURBANCE OF THE LAND, IT'S GONNA BE SO MUCH EASIER FOR THESE INVASIVE TREES TO PROPAGATE THAN IF THE GROUND HAD LAWN ON IT OR HOUSES. RIGHT NOW WITH OPEN LAND, WITH ALL THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE, WE COULD HAND LAND UP WITH A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF [00:30:01] INVASIVE SAPLING STARTING. SO SINCE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO IN AND TAKE OUT A LOT OF TREES ANYWAY FOR DEVELOPMENT, FOR, UM, JUST BECAUSE SOME OF THE TREES ARE DEAD, UH, IT'S JUST A GOOD TIME TO TAKE OUT ALL THE INVASIVE. SO THAT'S WHAT WE ASKED OUR MAT ONE. AND THE OTHER ONE THAT WE REALLY COMMENTED ON THIS GO ROUND HAS TO DO WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE EARTH, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT NOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET THIS UP TO RESIDENTIAL GRADE, BUT ALSO THE REALLY RIGOROUS MONITORING WHILE THIS TAKES PLACE SO THAT WE DON'T ENCOUNTER RUNOFF WHILE IT'S HAPPENING. AND ALSO THERE'S A SECTION OF IT THAT REALLY DEALS WITH WHEN THIS EARTH IS BEING REMOVED FROM THE PROPERTY AND IS BEING DRIVEN THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT THE TRUCKS REALLY BE PROPERLY COVERED AND THAT THIS BE MONITORED. AND THAT'S REALLY OUR TWO AREAS OF CONCERN. AND OTHER THAN THAT, WE HAD NO OTHER COMMENTS ON THE PROJECT AT THIS TIME. AND, UM, THANK, THANK YOU CHAIRPERSON TORY. AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE IN A LITTLE BIT OF A UNIQUE POSITION RIGHT NOW WHERE, UM, EVERYONE, EVERYONE ON THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, WASN'T ON THE BOARD. THE, WHEN, WHEN THIS PROJECT FIRST BECAME IN FRONT, FIRST CAME IN FRONT OF THIS BOARD, UH, AND, AND WEREN'T DEEPLY ENGAGED IN IN THAT PROCESS. UM, SO I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL FOR THE BOARD IF YOU COULD JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ON, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT YOUR BOARD DOES, THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY OR WHAT YOUR COUNCIL DOES, THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL. UM, AND THEN ALSO JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ON HOW, HOW YOUR GROUP, UH, HAD BEEN INVOLVED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT AND, AND CERTAINLY, UM, HOW YOU WORKED WITH THE PLANNING BOARD AS, AS THEY FIRST TOOK ON THIS PROJECT. OKAY. SO I THINK WHAT WE WANNA DO IS, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OBVIOUSLY THAT DRIVES US IS EXISTING LAW, WHETHER IT'S TOWN LAW, COUNTY LAW, COUNTY PLANS, TOWN PLANS. THE COUNTY HAS SOMETHING WHICH I THINK IS CALLED PATTERNS OF WESTCHESTER. THEY'VE CHANGED THE NAMES. IT'S BASICALLY A MASTER PLAN FOR THE COUNTY. AND THAT MASTER PLAN FOR THE COUNTY SAYS THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT OUR DENSITY ALONG OUR BUSY CORRIDORS, ONE 19 CENTRAL AVENUE, BOSTON POST ROAD. AND WE, WE PULL AWAY FROM THERE, WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE THE DENSITY, TRY TO KEEP AS MUCH GREENERY AS WE CAN, AND ALSO TO RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT AS YOU MOVE AWAY FROM THOSE MAJOR ARTERIALS, THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE ROADS AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE ISN'T THERE FOR HEAVY DEVELOPMENT. NOW, IT TURNED OUT THAT THIS PROPERTY WAS ZONED, THE UNDERLYING ZONING OF THE GOLF COURSE MET THAT, UH, THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF DISCUSSION AS TO, UH, A REQUEST TO CHANGE THAT UNDERLYING ZONING, WHICH OUR CAC FELT WAS INAPPROPRIATE BECAUSE IT DID NOT ALIGN WITH THE COUNTY'S PLAN. AND ALSO BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY GOLF COURSES IN, IN GREENBURG, YOU WOULD BE SETTING A PRECEDENT. SO WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THERE, IT WAS NOT A ONE OFF OCCASION, BUT COULD SET THE PRECEDENT FOR OF THE GOLF COURSES COMING IN WITH MUCH HIGHER DENSITY. SO WE DID FOCUS A GREAT DEAL ON JUST ENSURING FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REASONS. BUT THE UNDERLYING ZONING STAYED IN PLACE AND EVENTUALLY THE APPLICANT DID COME UP WITH A PLAN, WHICH I THINK IS AN EXCELLENT PLAN BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT'S LAID OUT IN TERMS OF THE FACT THAT THEN THEY'RE PUTTING LAND ASIDE, THEY'RE REDUCING THE LOT SIZE AND HOLDING LAND IN COMMON OWNERSHIP, WHICH PROVIDES THE POSSIBILITY FOR ISLANDS OF JUST TREES WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY WHERE YOU WILL HAVE MORE TREE COVERAGE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FOR ALL OF US, I KNOW IT'S ALWAYS SOUNDS FUNNY WHEN YOU SAY, WELL, TREES ARE SO IMPORTANT, BUT THEY ARE BECAUSE THEY REALLY ARE A TREMENDOUS TOOL IN WATER RETENTION AND AIR PURIFICATION. AND WHILE PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY WANT THE TREES IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR BACKYARD 'CAUSE THEY WANT TO HAVE THE SOCCER PRACTICE AREA AND WHATNOT WITH THIS LAYOUT WHERE THE LAND HAS BEEN PUT IN, IN EASEMENTS WHERE THE PEOPLE, IT IS OWNED BY THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT ISN'T ACTUALLY SOMEONE'S PERSONAL LOT, THERE IS THIS OPPORTUNITY NOW TO HAVE MORE TREES, MORE OPEN SPACE REALLY THAN WE HAVE IN A TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY. SO THE FINAL DESIGN OF THE COMMUNITY, I THINK IS EXCELLENT. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE OTHER QUESTIONS YOU HAVE OR, UM, I, I GUESS FOR THOSE WHO ARE LESS FAMILIAR WITH THE CAC, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, WHAT IS SORT OF YOUR ROLE IN STUDYING, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON A, ON A PROJECT? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY TO PUT A POINT ON IT, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR COUNCIL HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS AND, AND SORT OF AFFIRM IF, IF YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH, WITH THE PROJECT. YES, I, I'M VERY MUCH COMFORTABLE WITH THE PROJECT THE WAY IT HAS [00:35:01] FINALIZED THIS CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. WE ARE ACTUALLY CHARGED PRETTY MUCH TO LOOK AT AND RECOMMEND TO THE TOWN BOARD AND THE COMMITTEES, ANYTHING THAT IMPACTS THE ENVIRONMENT. BUT WE HAVE A, A LARGER ROLE THAN IN MOST COMMUNITIES BECAUSE BY TOWN LORE, UM, ANYTHING THAT IMPACTS, UM, A DEVELOPMENT THAT IMPACTS A HUNDRED FEET, EITHER A WETLANDS OR A HUNDRED FEET BUFFER OF A WETLANDS OR A WATERCOURSE ACTUALLY COMES BEFORE US FOR COMMENTING, WHICH IS VERY UNUSUAL 'CAUSE MOST COMMUNITIES DON'T GIVE THAT MUCH, UM, EFFORT TO CONSERVATION. SO GREENBERG IS DESERVES A PAT ON THE BACK FOR THIS ONE. IN ADDITION, OVER THE YEARS, THE RELATIONSHIP WE'VE DEVELOPED WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THE TOWN AND THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE TOWN BOARD IS THAT OUR CAC ACTUALLY GETS TO LOOK AT AND COMMENT ON ANY REALLY LARGE DEVELOPMENT THAT COMES IN. NOW THIS ONE WOULD COME IN ANYWAY UNDER WATERCOURSE, BUT IT, IT DOES GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT IT AND COMMENT ON WHAT WE SEE AS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON A PARTICULAR PROJECT. UM, I CAN GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF MANY YEARS AGO OF SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY SIMPLE, BUT THERE IT WAS A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN BUILT ON CENTRAL AVENUE AND THE LAND HAD CHANGED HANDS, BUT THERE WAS GONNA BE ENSUING LAWSUITS ON THIS AND WHATNOT. AND THAT PARTICULAR AREA ON CENTRAL AVENUE WAS A VERY STEEP SLOPE. AND THE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES. NOW RCAC CAME IN, UH, USING WONDERFUL EYE TOOL COMPUTED HOW MUCH WATER WAS BEING RETAINED AND HOW MUCH CARBON DIOXIDE AND JUST MADE A REQUEST THAT HOLD OFF CUTTING THOSE TREES UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO PUT A SPADE IN THE GROUND AND REALLY START THE PROJECT BY DOING THAT. I THINK WE WENT PROBABLY OVER 10 YEARS WITH TREES THERE. AND I IMAGINE IF WE HAD NOT DONE THAT, THERE WOULD'VE BEEN ALL KINDS OF WATER CASCADING DOWN ONTO CENTRAL AVENUE. SO SOMETIMES A VERY SMALL ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY CHANGE CAN HAVE A, A BIG IMPACT WITHOUT NECESSARILY EVEN INTERFERING WITH DEVELOPMENT. IN THAT CASE, WE WEREN'T OPPOSING THE DEVELOPMENT, WE JUST SAID, LET'S DO IT A DIFFERENT WAY. AND THAT'S SORT OF THE WAY WE TRY TO WORK. WE ALWAYS TRY TO WORK WITH THE APPLICANT AND THE, UH, PLANNING BOARD AND THE TOWN BOARD. THE PURPOSE IS NOT TO PREVENT DEVELOPMENT, BUT RATHER TO HAVE DEVELOPMENT TAKE PLACE IN A WAY THAT IS SENSITIVE TO THE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO THE WHOLE COMMUNITY. AND NOT TO, UH, PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT, BUT HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE CAC AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN CHAIR? I'VE BEEN CHAIR FOR 24 YEARS AND PROBABLY I WAS ON IT FOR ABOUT SIX OR SEVEN BEFORE THAT WAY TOO LONG. I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE A YOUNGER PERSON ON YOUR, YOUR YOU ARE BORN AND YOU WERE ALSO YOUNGER. I THINK THAT'S REALLY A WONDERFUL THING TO TURN OVER THINGS IN THE TOWN. THANK YOU. YOU ARE WELCOME. I I I APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO FOR THE TOWN AND APPRECIATE, UH, YOUR, YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON THIS PROJECT. THANK YOU. UM, WOULD ANYONE ELSE FROM THE APPLICANT, UH, LIKE TO SPEAK? I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL, UH, DAVID AND, AND THE PROJECT TEAM. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL AT THIS TIME TO WALK THE BOARD MEMBERS BEING THAT AS INDICATED EARLIER, UH, WE HAVE A NEWER, A NUMBER OF NEWER MEMBERS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ON THE BOARD SINCE PROJECT INCEPTION. OBVIOUSLY THERE HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES SINCE THE PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION APPROVAL NOT TO THE PLAT. AND BASED ON REQUIREMENTS OF THE PRIOR APPROVALS, AS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, TO BRING THE SITE UP TO THE RESIDENTIAL STANDARD, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE TEAM TO WALK THE BOARD THROUGH THAT. I BELIEVE THERE WAS A PRESENTATION MADE TO THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL LAST MONTH, UH, OR SO AND SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT EFFECT. I DO HAVE THE PLANS AVAILABLE OR THE, THE SHARE SCREENS AVAILABLE TO THE TEAM. GREAT. HAPPY TO DO THAT. AGAIN, WE'RE HERE. WHATEVER THE BOARD NEEDS THIS EVENING, WE'RE HAPPY TO PROVIDE. UH, FOR THE RECORD, AGAIN, DIEGO VI ALLEY WITH JMC, THE PLANNING AND ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR THE APPLICANT. UM, WE JUST SHARED OUR SCREEN. UH, THIS IS A RENDERED VERSION OF THE SITE PLAN AND THIS WAS THE TOOL THAT WAS USED, UH, BEFORE THE CAC AND THE, UM, THE, THE TOWN BOARD ON THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS, JUST TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN OVERALL CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT, UM, AND REALLY TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE MODIFICATIONS AND THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE. AND AARON, I WAS GLAD YOU POINTED OUT IN THAT FASHION. I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. DAVID, UM, UH, SAID THIS ON HIS INITIAL PRESENTATION AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT JUST TO REITERATE IT ONE MORE TIME. UH, THAT THE LAYOUT, THE CONFIGURATION, THE NUMBER OF LOTS, THE ROADWAY, THE ACCESS POINTS, ALL OF THAT REMAIN THE SAME. UM, THE ACREAGE OF OPEN SPACE, THE 24 ACRES AND CHANGE OF OPEN SPACE THAT REMAINS, EXCUSE ME, 28 ACRES AND CHANGE, UH, THAT'S REMAINING AS OPEN SPACE IN ADDITION TO THE 14.2 [00:40:01] ACRE PARCEL, UH, THAT IS BEING DEDICATED TO THE TOWN ALL REMAIN THE SAME FROM THE PRELIMINARY APPROVAL THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THIS BOARD. UM, THE PLAN THAT SHOULD BE HAVE BEFORE YOU RIGHT NOW, UM, ILLUSTRATES REALLY THE OVERALL PROPERTY. YOU CAN SEE DOBBS FERRY ROAD ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE, UH, PROPERTY. THERE, THERE ARE THE TWO MAIN ACCESS POINTS OFF OF DOBBS FERRY ROAD. THERE'S THE ONE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE PAGE, UH, THAT PROVIDES ACCESS. YOU CAN SEE IT'S PARALLEL TO THAT, UH, WE'LL CALL IT THE WESTERN PROPERTY LINE THAT LEADS TO THAT CUL-DE-SAC. THERE'S THE OTHER DRIVEWAY THAT'S IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE EXISTING POND ON THE PROPERTY, AND THAT'S THE SECOND POINT OF ACCESS. FROM THERE, YOU HAVE A NETWORK OF ROADWAYS THAT PROVIDES ACCESS DIRECTLY TO THE HUNDRED AND 13 INDIVIDUAL HOMES THAT ARE GONNA ULTIMATELY BE CONSTRUCTED ON THE PROPERTY. UM, EACH LOT IS DESIGNED IN A FASHION WHERE IT HAS DIRECT ACCESS TO, UH, THE ROADWAY ITSELF AND THEN HAS A BACKYARD IN A SPACE AS WAS DISCUSSED BEFORE. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A CLUSTERED OR A CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT. SO THE LOTS HAVE BEEN SHRUNK DOWN TO A CERTAIN DEGREE TO PRESERVE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF OPEN SPACE. AND YOU SEE THAT OPEN SPACE IN THOSE DARKER GREEN COLORS IN AND AROUND DOBBS FERRY ROAD. IN BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL LOTS. THERE'S THESE POCKETS OF GREEN SPACE THAT IS BEING PRESERVED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT. UM, ESPECIALLY ALONG THE FRONTAGE OF THE PROPERTY ALONG DOPPS FERRY ROAD AND ALONG A LOT, A LOT OF OTHER SENSITIVE AREAS. THERE'S THE EXISTING WETLAND AND WATERCOURSE THAT'S ON, ON THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE SITE AND YOU CAN SEE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT THAT PARALLELS THE EXISTING POWER LINES. UH, THAT AREA IS BEING PRESERVED AS OPEN SPACE, UM, AS PART OF THE, UH, THE SATISFYING THE CONDITIONS OF THE APPROVAL. UM, THE BIGGEST ONE THAT REALLY LED TO THE CHANGES THAT NEEDED TO BE MADE TO THE PLANS WAS THE NEED TO REMEDIATE THE SITE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DEC STANDARDS TO MEET THE RESIDENTIAL, UM, REQUIREMENTS. SO IT'S NOT JUST THE INDIVIDUAL LOTS THAT ARE BEING REMEDIATED OR THE ROADWAY, IT'S THE ENTIRE SITE. SO THE CONDITION OF THE APPROVAL THAT WAS PUT, UM, ON THE PRELIMINARY WAS THAT THE ENTIRE PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT WAS PROPOSED TO BE DISTURBED AS PART OF THE PROJECT, NEEDED TO BE REMEDIATED IF IT CONTAINED ANY OF THE CONTAMINANTS THAT WERE LISTED. SO AS WORKING WITH THE DEC AND AS PART OF THE BROWNFIELD CLEANUP PROGRAM, THEY TESTED THE DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE SITE AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, THERE ARE AREAS OUTSIDE OF THE INDIVIDUAL HOMES THAT NEED TO BE REMEDIATED. THEREFORE THE AMENDMENT IS ESSENTIALLY TO DISTURB DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE SITE THAT WERE NOT PREVIOUSLY PROPOSED TO BE DISTURBED. AND THE INTENTION IS ALL OF THE MATERIAL, UM, WILL BE HAULED OFF THE PROPERTY AND REMOVED FROM THE SITE IN ITS ENTIRETY. WE ARE NOT REPLACING THAT MATERIAL. THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT POINT THAT WE DISCUSSED WITH THE C UM, WITH THE CAC AS WELL, IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE REMOVING A TRUCKLOAD OF SOIL AND THEN HAVE TO BRING IN A TRUCKLOAD TO REPLACE THAT. THE INTENTION IS TO REMEDIATE THE SITE IN ITS ENTIRETY THAT SOIL IS REMOVED FROM THE PROPERTY AND THEN THE BALANCE OF THE GRADING IS BEING DONE WITH THE SOIL THAT'S ON SITE. THE MATERIAL THAT NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, IT'S REALLY OCCURRING WITHIN THAT FIRST SIX INCHES FOR THE MOST PART THROUGHOUT THE SITE. IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IN SOME POCKETS IN DIFFERENT AREAS, IT GOES DOWN TO A FOOT 18 INCHES. THERE'S DIFFERENT AREAS BASED ON THE TESTING, BUT PREDOMINANTLY IT'S WITHIN THAT FIRST SIX TO 12 INCHES OF MATERIAL ON THE PROPERTY. SO IT'S REALLY CLEANING OFF THE TOP SOIL LAYER, CLEANING OFF THE DIFFERENT MATERIAL THAT'S OUT THERE, AND THEN YOU'RE WORKING WITH THE SITE PLAN FROM THERE AS PART OF THE PROJECT. ALL OF THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WAS BEING PROPOSED, WHETHER IT'S IN THE ROADWAYS ADJACENT TO IT ALL REMAINED THE SAME. ALL OF THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AREAS THAT WERE PROPOSED IN THE DIFFERENT AREAS ON THE SITE ALL REMAINED AS PART OF THE PROJECT THAT REMAINED IN THE SAME LOCATION. WE DIDN'T HAVE TO SHIFT THAT AROUND. IT JUST THE AREAS NEED TO BE REMEDIATED ACCORDINGLY. UM, SO AGAIN, THAT WAS PRIMARILY THE MODIFICATIONS THAT WERE MADE. SO THAT RESULTED IN INCREASED DISTURBANCE, INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF TREE REMOVAL AND, UM, OTHER GRADING AND UTILITY MODIFICATIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE MADE TO THE SITE ITSELF. UM, ALL TECHNICAL, ALL ENGINEERING IN NATURE FROM A VISUAL STANDPOINT, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SITE PLAN ALL ESSENTIALLY REMAINS THE SAME. UM, JUST REAL QUICK ON THE TREE REMOVALS AS WELL, EVEN THOUGH WE WERE INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF TREE REMOVALS, I DO THINK IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL APPROVAL. THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT ROBUST LANDSCAPING PLAN, UM, THAT HAS BEEN ENHANCED IN IN RECENT, UH, MONTHS THROUGH THIS PROCESS WORKING, UM, WITH AARON AND THE CAC, [00:45:01] THERE'S BEEN ADDITIONAL PLANTINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE PLAN AS WELL, ESPECIALLY WITHIN THOSE CONSERVATION AREAS. WE ARE ACTUALLY REPLACEMENT QUANTITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR CODE. WE'RE ACTUALLY OVER 10 TIMES MORE THAN WHAT IS REQUIRED BY YOUR CODE WITH THE AMOUNT OF PLANTINGS THAT IS BEING PUT IN PLACE. UM, SO EVEN WITH THE REMOVALS THAT ARE PROPOSED AS A RESULT OF THE REMEDIATION, WE ARE STILL PROPOSING 10 TIMES MORE REPLACEMENT THAN WHAT IS REQUIRED BY YOUR CODE. SO AGAIN, THERE'S SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF REPLACEMENT THAT'S OCCURRING ON THE INDIVIDUAL LOTS ADJACENT TO THE INDIVIDUAL LOTS IN THE REAR. SO THAT WAS ANOTHER COMMENT THAT WAS MADE BY STAFF AS WELL, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE LANDSCAPING COMMON PROPERTY LINES WITH EXISTING HOMEOWNERS. THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT POINT. UM, ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE PLAN AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. UM, BUT AGAIN, IN CLOSING, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE TIME. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING MORE SPECIFIC YOU WANTED ME TO COVER AARON, BUT THAT WAS JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE SITE PLAN ITSELF. WE APPRECIATE. I JUST WANNA CHIME IN WITH ONE QUICK TECHNICAL THING BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THERE TO BE THIS MYSTERY HANGING OUT THERE. UM, THE, THE CONTAMINATION THAT WE'RE REFERRING TO, IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD. IT'S LARGELY ARSENIC. MM-HMM . ARSENIC IS NOT AN UNUSUAL ELEMENT OR COMPOUND TO, TO BE FOUND ON GOLF COURSES, PARTICULARLY GOLF COURSES THAT ARE A HUNDRED YEARS OLD WITH REGARD TO PESTICIDES, FERTILIZERS, ET CETERA, THAT, THAT WERE UTILIZED IN THE TWENTIES AND THIRTIES, UM, BACK IN THE EARLY 19 HUNDREDS. SO THAT IS PRIMARILY WHAT THE SITE IS BEING CLEANED UP FOR. UH, I JUST WANT MR. CHAIRMAN, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF THAT. I KNOW THE PRIOR BOARD WAS MADE AWARE OF THAT AND I JUST FELT YOU AND YOUR BOARD SHOULD KNOW THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU. UH, ARE THERE ANY OR YES, I DID JUST THANK YOU FOR, FOR THAT INFORMATION. I THINK THAT WAS HELPFUL. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO BRIEFLY WALK THE BOARD MEMBERS THROUGH THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT, BOTH DURING CONSTRUCTION AND THEN POST-CONSTRUCTION. OKAY. UM, UNDERSTOOD. AND I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME COMMENTS AND SOME BACK AND FORTH, SO, UM, WE'LL TRY TO ADDRESS THAT, UH, AS BEST WE CAN. AS PART OF THE INITIAL PROCESS, UM, THERE WAS A FULL ROBUST STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN THAT WAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE PRELIMINARY APPROVAL. UM, THAT INCLUDED A NUMBER OF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, INFILTRATION BASINS, DETENTION BASINS, UH, DIFFERENT STORMWATER PRACTICES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SITE. IN ADDITION TO THAT, EACH INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNER WILL HAVE ITS OWN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TOWN REGULATIONS. SO THERE ARE SMALL DETENTION SYSTEMS THAT ARE PROPOSED ON INDIVIDUAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE INTENDED TO TR TO, TO HANDLE THE STORMWATER ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOUSE AND THE DRIVEWAY BEFORE IT CONNECTS INTO THE MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S GONNA BE CONSTRUCTED ALONG THESE ROADWAYS. SO YOU HAVE LAYERS OF STORMWATER PRACTICES THAT ARE BEING DESIGNED. UM, THERE ARE PRIMARILY A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DISCHARGE AND DESIGN POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN EVALUATED AS PART OF THIS PROCESS. YOU HAVE THE EXISTING POND ALONG DOBBS FERRY ROAD THAT DISCHARGES TO THE SOUTH AND IS PART OF THE, I'M GOING OFF OF MEMORY WITH SOME OF THIS, I APOLOGIZE. THE SPRING BOOK DRAINAGE AREA AND THEN THE AREA TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST AND TO THE NORTH, ALL DRAINED TOWARDS THE SAWMILL RIVER. UM, ALL OF THOSE AREAS ARE, WERE ANALYZED INDIVIDUALLY. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF, LIKE I SAID, A OF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES THAT ARE CONTAINED WITHIN EACH OF THOSE DIFFERENT DESIGN POINTS THAT WERE ANALYZED AND THE RATES OF RUNOFF, THE OVERALL VOLUME, AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT WAS A SPECIFIC COMMENT THAT WAS RAISED. THE OVERALL VOLUME THAT'S BEING DISCHARGED FROM THIS SITE IS BEING REDUCED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT AS WELL. SO ALL OF THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE IN ACCORDANCE WITH NOT ONLY THE DE'S REGULATIONS BUT THE TOWN'S REGULATIONS FROM A STORMWATER STANDPOINT. IN ADDITION TO THE STORMWATER PRACTICES, THERE'S BEEN A SERIES OF, UM, SETTLEMENT EROSION CONTROL AND SEQUENCING PLANS. I'M GONNA REFER TO THEM AS, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION WHEN WE REFER TO THEM AS PHASING PLANS, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S THE TITLE ON THE DRAWINGS THEMSELVES. THIS IS NOT A PHASED PROJECT. THE INTENTION OF THIS PROJECT, IT WILL BE CONSTRUCTED AT ONCE. THERE'S NOT 50 UNITS THAT'S GONNA BE CONSTRUCTED. THE PROJECT'S GOING TO STOP AND YOU COME BACK 10 YEARS AND THERE'S A DIFFERENT PHASE. THE INTENTION IS TO BUILD 113 HOMES. HOWEVER, THE CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCING WILL BE PHASED OVER A SPECIFIC DURATION AND THEY WILL HANDLE THIS WITH DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF THE SITE. AND THAT'LL HAPPEN FROM A REMEDIATION STANDPOINT [00:50:01] AND FROM A CONSTRUCTION STANDPOINT. THESE PHASING PLANS HAVE DEVELOPED AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PROCESS. THERE WAS THE INITIAL SW THAT WAS APPROVED AS PART OF THE PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION PLAN. AND NOW THERE IS THE FINAL SW THAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO YOUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FOR REVIEW AND IS PART OF THE FINAL SUBDIVISION APPROVAL. UM, THAT STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN THAT BEFORE THIS BOARD RIGHT NOW AND IS WITH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IS BROKEN APART INTO FOUR PHASES. UH, THE SITE WILL BE REMEDIATED ESSENTIALLY IN FOUR SEQUENTIAL PHASES. THERE'S DETAILED SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN PREPARED FOR EACH OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL PHASES. AND THEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SITE WOULD ALSO OCCUR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE FOUR PHASES AS WELL. SO THERE ARE DETAILED PHASING PLANS THAT DIVES INTO SOIL MOVEMENT, HOW MUCH SOIL IS BEING MOVED IN EACH PORTION OF THE SITE, HOW MUCH MATERIAL IS BEING PUT FROM ONE PHASE TO THE OTHER. ALL OF THIS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TOWN ENGINEER'S REQUEST HAS BEEN BROKEN DOWN AND ADDED TO THE DRAWINGS, UM, UH, THAT HAS BEEN REVIEWED BY THEM. SO, UH, AGAIN, THERE'S A NUMBER OF STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PRACTICES THAT HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE ALL INTENDED TO COMPLY WITH NOT ONLY THE TOWN'S REGULATIONS BUT THE DE C'S REGULATIONS AS WELL. I WOULD JUST ADD THAT NOT ONLY THE TOWN ENGINEER, BUT THE TOWN'S CONSULTANT, UH, LABEL WHO IS ALSO REVIEWING THE SWIP CORRECT. AND THE DATED INFORMATION. AND, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THEY RE REVIEWED AND APPROVED THE DOCUMENTS AS PART OF THE PRELIMINARY SUBDIVISION APPROVAL AND THE FINDING STATEMENT THAT WAS ADOPTED. UM, IT'S NOW THE STORMWATER PERMIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMEDIATION AND EVERYTHING ELSE. THAT IS WHAT'S BEFORE THE ENGINEER AS WE SPEAK. UM, I THINK THAT'S IT. AGAIN, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, ANY THOUGHTS, COMMENTS THAT THE BOARD HAS, BUT LIKE, UH, DAVID HAD INDICATED WE'RE HERE TO WORK WITH YOU AND ADDRESS ANY COMMENTS THAT YOU HAVE. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. SO, AND JUST LOOKING AT THE MAPS, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SOME, UM, SCHOOLS AND DAYCARES IN THE AREA. UM, I BELIEVE ELMWOOD DAY DAY SCHOOLS RIGHT THERE, AND THEY ALSO HAVE A DAY CAMP. UM, I'M WONDERING IF YOU'VE COORDINATED WITH THAT SCHOOL AT ALL IN THE CAMP, UM, TO, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE DOING THE REMEDIATION OF THE ARSENIC, UM, AND THE BROWNFIELD TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T INTERFERE WITH, UM, WITH THE SCHOOL AND WITH THE, THE DAY CAMP. UM, AND MAYBE WITH THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND, AND THAT SORT OF YEAH, SO I'LL BREAK THAT APART INTO YEAH, PROBABLY A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, UM, THINGS TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, NO, I, I AM NOT AWARE. UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T REACHED OUT TO, UM, ANY OF THE ADJOINING PROPERTIES NECESSARILY TO DISCUSS THAT. SO THAT PIECE PUT ASIDE, WE WILL TALK QUICKLY JUST ABOUT THE SEQUENCING AND THE PHASING AND THE OVERSIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS. ALL OF THIS WORK HAS TO BE PERMITTED UNDER THE TOWN UNDER A BUILDING PERMIT. IN ADDITION TO THE DEC, THERE'S A VERY SPECIFIC WORK PLAN THAT'S PUT TOGETHER AS PART OF THE DEC PROCESS THAT DEALS WITH THE REMEDIATION, HOW THE REMEDIATION WILL OCCUR. AND, UM, TRUCK PATTERNS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS DISCUSSED WITH STAFF AS WELL MM-HMM . TO TALK ABOUT LOCATION DURATION, WHICH DIRECTION THEY'RE GOING INTO PROXIMITY OF THIS SITE TO NORWOOD ROAD AND TO 2 87. SO THERE'S A VERY SPECIFIC TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLAN OR TRUCK ROUNDING PLAN, UM, ON WHERE THEY WOULD BE SITUATED AND WHERE THEY WOULD BE PERMITTED TO GO. AND, UM, UH, UM, THE CHAIR OF THE CAC ALSO ALLUDED TO, YOU KNOW, THOSE PROTECTION MEASURES, MAKING SURE TRUCKS ARE COVERED AND YEAH, THINGS ARE NOT BEING SPILLED ONTO THE ROADWAY AND BEING TRACKED OUT. ALL OF THAT IS PART OF THE SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL PLANS, HOW THINGS ARE GONNA BE CONTROLLED ON SITE SO THAT THE TRUCK ACTIVITY IS VERY SMOOTH AND FLUID AS IT GOES THROUGH THIS PROCESS. AND DIEGO, I WANT ADD I COULD, UH, OH, SORRY. UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. JARED KING HERE, COMMISSIONER C AND C. UH, APPRECIATE THE COMMENT. UM, EMILY THERE, AND I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT THERE IS A CONDITION IN THE, UH, THE DRAFT DECISION AND IT IS, UM, SORRY, IT'S CONDITION 6.12. THE APPLICANT SHALL COORDINATE THE CALLING PERIODS WITH LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS RELATED TO THE BUS SCHEDULES IN RECOMMENDED SAFETY PATROLS FACILITATED BY HIS CONTRACTOR FROM [00:55:01] THE DEPARTMENT OF CCB AND C. SO WE CAN AMEND THAT TO ADD, UH, LOCAL, UH, DAYCARE DAY CAMP AND, AND WE, THE C, B AND C DOES HAVE A RULE THERE. SO APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT AND DANIEL APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU BROUGHT TO THE TABLE THERE. UM, BUT WE, WE COULD MAKE THAT SLIGHT AMENDMENT TO RECOGNITION. YEAH, THAT, THAT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. AND, AND MY, MY QUESTION ALONG ALONG THE SAME LINES AS MS. ANDERSON WAS, UM, I BELIEVE THE DAY CAMP IS WITHIN 500 FEET OF THE SITE. SO, YOU KNOW, WHILE THERE MIGHT HAVE NOT BEEN ACTIVE OUTREACH DURING THE NOTICING PROCESS THIS ENTIRE TIME, THEY WOULD'VE RECEIVED NOTICES AND, UM, IF THEY HAD QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, THEY'VE CERTAINLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS TO, TO RAISE THEIR HAND. UM, AND, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T, IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD FROM 'EM THEN, THEN THEY CLEARLY HAD, HAVE NO FEEDBACK TO PROVIDE. AND, UM, BUT I THINK GARRETT'S GARRETT'S AMENDMENT TO THAT CONDITION IS, UH, IS A GOOD ONE. YEAH. I ALSO THINK THAT ANN AND ANDY'S DAYCARE SEEMS TO BE CLOSE BEHIND THE PROPERTY. UM, AND THEN IT, IT'S A LITTLE FURTHER AWAY. I DON'T THINK MARIA OR REGINA WOULD MAKE THAT BIG OF AN IMPACT. THEY SEEM TO BE AT LEAST FIVE MINUTES AWAY. BUT, UM, BUT I WAS JUST SEEING, SO IF WE'RE ADDING SOMETHING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PRIVATE DAYCARES IN THE DAY CAMP, UM, IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND, AND THE LEVEL, THE LEVEL SCHOOLS ACROSS THE, THE STREET FROM MARIE EDINA. RIGHT. OKAY. YEAH. SO, UM, YEAH, ESPECIALLY WITH THE BROWNFIELD, I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE A WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT AND UM, I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T WANT TO HOLD UP SOMETHING, BUT I DO, ESPECIALLY WITH THE BROWNFIELD CLEANUP WITH LITTLE KIDS, UM, PRESCHOOL AGED AND ABOVE VERY IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY. I WOULD THINK THAT YOU'VE GOTTA BE VERY CAREFUL WITH IT. YOU THAT. YEAH. SO, SO I'M GOOD AFTERNOON OR GOOD EVENING. I'M JONATHAN REBO. I'M, UH, IN THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT, AS DAVID SAID ABOUT THE, THE ARSENIC. THIS ISN'T TYVEK VEX TO RESPIRATOR TYPE CLEANUP. THIS IS A DIRT OPERATION. ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT ARSENIC IS THE REASON WHY IT'S THERE OR STILL THERE DECADES AND DECADES LATER IS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T REALLY MOVE. IT STAYS IN THE DIRT. IT STAYS IN THOSE TOP SIX INCHES, 12 INCHES. IT, IT, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT GOES THROUGH WHEN IT RAINS AND RUNS THROUGH THE GROUND AND GOES DEEPER AND DEEPER. IT IS A VERY STABLE, GOOD AND BAD. GOOD AT THIS POINT FOR CLEANUP, RIGHT? WE'VE, WE'VE HAD DOZEN, WE'VE PROBABLY CLEANED UP A DOZEN PROPERTIES LIKE THIS. YOU ARE RIGHT. COVER THE TRUCKS, DUST CONTROL, THOSE THINGS ARE THE KEY. BUT, UM, PUTTING A SCHOOL THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, 500, A THOUSAND FURTHER AWAY AT RISK, IT'S NOT FROM AN AIRBORNE AGREED TRUCK TRAFFIC, BUS TRAFFIC TIMING OF, OF WHEN WE MOVE VEHICLES, NOT LINING THEM UP ALONG DOBBS FERRY IS IMPORTANT. ALL THINGS THAT WERE IN THE FINDING STATEMENT, UM, OR DISCUSSED IN THAT PROCESS. BUT I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW IT'S NOT, AND, AND THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THIS IS NOT, UM, AN ABATEMENT THAT IS, UM, REALLY AN AIRBORNE, SO IT'S NOT VAPORS, RIGHT. YOU'RE CONFIRMING THERE'S NO VAPORS FROM THE CONTAMINANTS THAT ARE BEING REMOVED. NO, WE'VE EVEN TESTED, WE'RE REQUIRED TO TEST FOR THAT IN THE PROCESS FOR ALL SORTS OF CHEMICALS, VAPORS, RELEASES, CHEM. I MEAN THAT'S WHAT THE DE THAT'S WHY I'M STILL, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN A LONG PROCESS. AND SO AS THE DEC THEY ASK US TO TEST AND LOOK FOR AND COME UP WITH THOSE PLANS AND, AND WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO WHAT WE CALL A ROTH, THE REMEDIAL ACTION WORK PLAN, WHICH DETAILS ALL THAT. THE TOWN GETS COPIED. UM, THERE'S A PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD THAT'S ABOUT, ONCE WE GET THIS NEXT APPROVAL, THERE'LL BE A 45 DAY REVIEW PERIOD FOR THE PUB, YOU KNOW, FOR THE PUBLIC, FOR THE TOWN. UM, SO THAT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE ASBESTOS WHERE WE HAVE THAT CLEANUP WHERE I HAVE PEOPLE IN, IN SUITS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 'CAUSE THAT'S AN AIRBORNE RISK FOR THE CLEANUP. SO YOU WON'T, THE ONLY THING WE HAVE PEOPLE IN SUITS FOR IS THE TICKS . SO IF PEOPLE SAW PEOPLE OUT THERE, THEY WERE PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM, YOU KNOW, HUMAN SIZED TICKS. WELL, AND WITHOUT YOU, THIS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT WOULDN'T BE CLEANED UP. THAT'S, SO THAT'S THE, IT WOULD STILL BE A GOLF COURSE AND RIGHT. AND PEOPLE WOULD STILL BE PUTTING A T IN THE GROUND. SO AS I LIKE TO SAY, DON'T EVER PUT THE TEA IN THE, IN YOUR MOUTH. DON'T EVER PUT A CIGAR IN YOUR MOUTH. DON'T LET IT TOUCH THE GROUND ON ANY GOLF COURSE. . OKAY. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD JUST TO, UM, YOU KNOW, DOVETAIL ON, ON THE ISSUE. SO WHEN YOU'RE EXCAVATING THE PROPERTY AND REMOVING THE CONTAMINANTS AND THEN PUTTING THEM ON TRUCKS TO BE TAKEN AWAY, [01:00:02] COULD ANY OF THOSE CONTAMINANTS BECOME AIRBORNE? NO. UH, YOU HAVE TO CONTROL DUST, RIGHT? THAT, THAT'S PART OF IF IT WAS CONTAMINATED OR NOT, YOU CONTROL DUST ON ANY PROJECT THIS SIZE, SMALLER, WHATEVER IT, WHATEVER IT MAY BE. THERE'S A DUST CONTROL PLAN. IN MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, WE HAVE HAD THIS CONCERN ON PROJECTS BEFORE AND WE'VE NEVER HAD ANYBODY COME OUT AND, AND, AND ASSERT ANY CLAIMS THAT SOMEONE GOT SICK. WE HAVE AIR MONITORING STATIONS THAT ARE SET. I FORGET. RIGHT. I FORGOT TO PUT THAT, THAT WAS ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE HAD WITH THE BOARD A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. I THINK SOMEONE IN THE PUBLIC ASKED THAT THERE'S AIR MONITORING STATIONS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE PUT UP AROUND THE SITE. THERE'S SENSORS THAT WAS THE TOWN BOARD TOWN? YEAH, THE TOWN BOARD. YEAH. BUT I DON'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS A, IT WAS AT THE TOWN BOARD MEETING. I DON'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS A PUBLIC PERSON. YEAH, I THINK IT WAS MEMBER YOU WERE HERE. YEAH, I WAS MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC, MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ASKED HOW DO WE MONITOR THAT? SO IF IT WAS WINDY, IF IT WAS DUSTY, IF IT WAS WHATEVER THOSE THINGS ALERT THE CONTRACTOR. SO THAT'S HOW YOU PROTECT SOFT. SOMETHING I SAID . UM, SO DO WE WANNA PAUSE FOR A MINUTE? YEAH, WE DO WANNA PAUSE. YES. YES. THAT'S HOW YOU, I KNOW HOW WE PROTECT IT. WE'VE NEVER, AS I SAID, WE'VE NEVER HAD A SOMEBODY CLAIM THAT IN CLEANUP. ANYBODY HAS, HAS GOTTEN SICK. WE'VE HAD TO QUESTION MANY, MANY TIMES. BUT WE WORK HARD AND ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE ALL OF THAT MONITORING SET UP. DO. UH, BUT IT, I MEAN YOU, ASIDE FROM THE DAY CAMP, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TENNIS COURTS THERE, UH, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR TENNIS COURTS. THERE'S A SWIMMING POOL ON OUR PROPERTY. NO. OH, ON THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, TOWN PARK, WHICH IS ADJACENT. OKAY. UH, YOU KNOW, SO YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, ASIDE FROM THE CAMP, YOU'VE GOT RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN WHO USE THAT PARK FAIRLY INTENSIVELY. YOU HAVE THE TENNIS COURTS, WHICH ARE USED, YOU KNOW, PRETTY INTENSIVELY. AND SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS EVEN DUST FORGETTING ABOUT ARSENIC, YOU KNOW, I'LL ASSUME YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, TAKE AT FACE VALUE THAT YOU'RE SAYING THE ARSENIC STAYS IN THE GROUND AND EVEN WHEN YOU DIG IT OUT AND YOU PUT IT IN THE TRUCK, IT'S NOT GOING AIRBORNE. BUT THERE OBVIOUSLY IS DUST THAT'S GONNA GO AIRBORNE. WELL, I, THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE DUST CONTROL MEASURES SUCH AS A WATER TRUCK OR A WATER LINE. WELL, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE WATER TRUCK. I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE A PIECE OF HEAVY MACHINERY DIGGING INTO THE GROUND. RIGHT. PICKING IT UP AND THROWING IT ON A TRUCK. RIGHT. ON A DUMP TRUCK. YOU KNOW, UH, WE'VE ALL SEEN THAT, YOU KNOW, TO SAY, TO FLY IN THE AIR RIGHT. TO, TO COME IN FRONT OF YOU AND SAY THAT THERE, THIS IS THE DUST FREE, UH, CONSTRUCTION SITE IS IMPOSSIBLE. RIGHT. RIGHT. SO WHEN, WHEN YOU HAVE THE MONITORS THERE. YEP. FOR AND, AND I ASSUME THAT'S FOR CONTAMINANTS AND DUST. UH, WELL, THE MONITORS ARE REALLY FOR CONTAMINANTS, RIGHT? SO THEY TEST FOR CONTAMINANTS IF IT THERE IS DUST. SO THAT'S NO ONE TESTS, JUST IF IT'S A WINDY DAY. AND, BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR. IF IT GOES AND IT'S REALLY DUSTY OUT, NOT CONTAMINANT, IT'S, IT'S JUST DUSTY AND IT'S BLOWING OVER TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, ONE, HAVING, HAVING DONE THIS FOR REALLY FOR 25 YEARS, YOUR TOWN STAFF IS GOING TO BE ALL OVER ME IN THOSE SITUATIONS. RIGHT. UM, THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE MONITORS AND INSPECT PEOPLE MONITORING, UM, AND INSPECTORS. AND WE, IF WE'RE NOT USING THE WATER TRUCK APPROPRIATELY, OR WE'RE NOT COVERING THE TRUCKS, OR WHAT HAPPENS IS THE TRUCKS ARE DRIVING TOO FAST AND THEY KICK UP DUST. WE, WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE SOMETIMES RUSSIAN KICK UP DUST. RIGHT. SO THEN THEY'RE GONNA REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE A TRUCK WASH AND TO HAVE, RIGHT. SO, SO THOSE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE IN YOUR CODE AND ARE REQUIRED FROM YOUR CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT. FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT, THAT'S THE, THE DUST MONITORING AND ALL THE THINGS THAT DEC MAKES US DO. MM-HMM . AND JONATHAN, YOU REALLY NEED TO ADD FROM MR. WEINBERG AT THE TIME THAT CONSTRUCTION IS OCCURRING, CERTAINLY THIS IS GONNA BE GOING ON FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. HOMEOWNERS WHO HAVE BOUGHT HOMES IN THIS SUBDIVISION WILL BE LIVING HERE. SO THERE, THERE'S A CLEAR OBLIGATION AND FINANCIAL AND OTHERWISE TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S CARE TAKEN AS TO HOW THIS IS ROLLED OUT AND IMPLEMENTED. THIS IS, IT'S NOT LIKE, LIKE, THERE, THERE WON'T BE 50 PEOPLE LIVING THERE WHILE THE FINAL PHASE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. MM-HMM . OKAY. [01:05:01] UH, IS THERE, IS THERE A, THERE ARE LOTS IN, AND YOU'LL SEE IT BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAVEN'T READ IT CAREFULLY. UH, AND I'M ALSO ASKING THE STAFF, I DIDN'T SEE A GLOBAL BONDING ISSUE SO THAT WHEN YOU, YOU KNOW, I SEE IT FOR TREES, I SEE IT FOR, YOU KNOW, STORM WATER MANAGEMENT, YOU KNOW, BUILDING SPECIFIC ITEMS, BUT DEVELOPING THE PROPERTY, PUTTING IN THE ROADS, STARTING CONSTRUCTION OF THE, YOU KNOW, OF THE, UH, YOU KNOW, OF THE HOUSES. HOW, HOW DO WE, HOW DOES THE TOWN GET PROTECT PROTECTED THAT THIS PROJECT, YOU KNOW, THINGS HAPPEN WITH THE ECONOMY AND IT JUST GETS ABANDONED. IT JUST SITS THERE HALF BUILT, YOU KNOW, AND, BUT YOU DO HAVE BOND THAT ALLOWS, YOU DO HAVE, IN YOUR, IN THE RESOLUTION THERE IS A BONDING REQUIREMENT. I THINK IT'S 90% BOND, 10% CASH. THERE'S A CO THERE'S A COUPLE OF THEM, COUPLE OF DIFFERENT POINTS. SORRY, LEMME GO AHEAD. RESPOND. SO, UNDER NEW YORK STATE LAW, BERG AND AMANDA CAN EXPLAIN THIS, WE CANNOT, WE CANNOT FILE A SUBDIVISION PLA IN THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE AND BEGIN TO SELL LOTS UNLESS EITHER A, ALL OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS FULLY BUILT, WHICH NO BUILDER DOES, OR B, IT IS BONDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR STATE LAW AND LOCAL REGULATION. SO YOU HAVE A TERRIFIC QUESTION AND AMANDA IS NOT GOING TO LET, UH, DYLAN SIGNED THE SUBDIVISION FLAG UNTIL JONATHAN POST THE REQUISITE BOND. SO YOUR QUESTION IS, IS RIGHT ON PAR AND WE HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THAT OBLIGATION. YEAH. NEW YORK STATE TOWN LAW. ALRIGHT. THERE'S SEVERAL REASON I RAISE IT IS BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER SPECIFIC BONDING PROVISIONS IN THIS APPROVAL. YOU KNOW, SO ABOVE AND BEYOND THAT, IN, IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, YOU GUYS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE BOND. YOU WHAT YOU WERE REFERRING TO A MOMENT AGO, YOU, YOU SAID ROADS AND THE, THE BIG STUFF, ROADS AND STORMWATER BASIN, WHAT WE REFER TO AS SUBDIVISION INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC SUBDIVISION INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS MUST BE EITHER BUILT OR BONDED UNDER NEW YORK STATE LAW. OKAY. RIGHT. SO THERE'S SEVERAL SECTIONS. IF MATT, IF YOU COULD READ OFF THE CONDITIONS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. SO THERE'S SOME FOR LANDSCAPING, STORMWATER, UH, PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. THERE'S, THERE'S QUITE A FEW SECTIONS THAT REFERENCE BONDING. YEAH. SO I DIDN'T SEE THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. I DIDN'T SEE, YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY MATT'S GONNA POINT OUT THE SPECIFIC ONES 'CAUSE I JUST DON'T HAVE THE LIST IN FRONT OF ME. MM-HMM . SO WE CURRENTLY IN THE DRAFT DECISION AS PREPARED, THERE ARE SEVEN SEPARATE, UH, CONDITIONS THAT REQUIRE BONDING FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT. UH, THOSE ARE CONDITIONS FOUR POINT 13, UH, WHICH IS UNDER THE STEEP SLOPE PERMIT, UH, SECTION, WHICH REQUIRES BONDING TO ENSURE THE COMPLETION OF ALL ASPECTS RELATED TO STEEP SLOPE DISTURBANCES. THERE IS CONDITIONS SIX POINT 13, WHICH REQUIRES BONDING FOR WORK WITHIN THE NEW YORK STATE, DOT, UH, RIGHT OF WAY FOR ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF THE PROJECT. THERE IS 6.2, 6.1 0.7, UH, WHICH REQUIRES MAINTENANCE BOND, UH, FOR WORK DONE ON THE ROWS THAT ARE TO BE, UH, DEDICATED TO THE TOWN AS PART OF THE SUBDIVISION. THERE IS 8.18, WHICH REQUIRES BONDING FOR THE, THE LANDSCAPING TO, UH, ENSURE THAT TREES ARE PLANTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIRED LANDSCAPING. AFTER TREES ARE REMOVED FROM THE SITE. THERE'S, UH, CONDITION 10.7, WHICH REQUIRES, UH, AN IVO THE LETTER OF CREDIT TO ENSURE FULL AND FAITHFUL COMPLETION OF ALL LAND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO STORMWATER FACILITIES. THERE IS CONDITION 10 POINT 10, WHICH REQUIRES, UH, THE HOA, UH, TO BE ESTABLISHED AS PART OF THE SUBDIVISION TO PROVIDE A BONDING TO ALLOW FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE STORMWATER FACILITIES, UH, WHICH CAN BE DRAWN UPON IN THE EVENT THE HOA FAILS TO DO SO. AND THE TOWN HAS TO MAINTAIN THE FACILITIES. THERE'S CONDITION 12.9, WHICH, UH, SIMILARLY REQUIRES BONDING FOR POLITICAL FAITHFUL COMPLETION OF ALL LAND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO COMPLIANCE WITH ALL CONDITIONS SET FORTH BY THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, IN ITS APPROVAL. AND THERE IS CONDITION 17.1, WHICH, UH, IS THE GENERAL PERFORMANCE BOND TO PROTECT, UH, THE TOWN NEIGHBORING RESIDENCE AND NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES FROM DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE PROJECT. AND MATT, IF I CAN JUST FOLLOW BEHIND YOU FOR, FOR THE CHAIR AND THE BOARD AND SPECIFIC MR. WEINBERG'S [01:10:01] QUESTION. UM, I, AND I, AND I GOT THE RESOLUTION, MR. WEINBERG ABOUT IT NOW, I GUESS IT'S TWO HOURS AGO NOW, BUT I, SO I DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE TO DO WHAT MATCHES DID, BUT I DID PULL UP HERE FOR YOUR BENEFIT UNDER NEW YORK STATE TOWN LAW SECTION 2 77 9 A AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE INSTALLATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH IS WHAT I TOLD YOU ABOUT BUILDING PRIOR TO PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL, A PERFORMANCE BOND OR OTHER SECURITY SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE FULL COST OF SAME AS ESTIMATED BY THE PLANNING BOARD OR TOWN DEPARTMENT DESIGNATED BY THE PLANNING BOARD SHALL BE FURNISHED TO THE TOWN. SO WE IN THE WORLD OF LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT KNOW THAT WE CANNOT FILE OUR PLAT AND TURN TO THE CHAIR TO SIGN IT UNTIL IT'S EVERYTHING'S FULLY BONDED. SO YOU'LL, WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH FINAL PLAT APPROVAL WITH YOU, HOPEFULLY, AND WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON OUR CONDITIONS AND AT SOME POINT WE'RE GONNA BE IN TOUCH WITH JASON, AMANDA, GARRETT, WORKING THROUGH ALL THIS. AND AT SOME POINT WE WILL GET ALL OF THESE BOND FIGURES AND AGAIN, WE WON'T TURN TO THE CHAIR TO SIGN THE PLAT, WHICH HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE IT'S FILE UNTIL THESE BONDS ARE ALL FINALIZED, SET, POSTED, AND THEN WE CAN TURN TO DYLAN. I HOPE THAT'S CLEAR. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. THAT'S HELPFUL. ALRIGHT, MATT, WE TAKE A LOOK AND MAKE SURE THAT YOUR RESOLUTION CROSS REFERENCES 2 77, 9 JUST TO BE, TO BE CAREFUL. YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU ARTICULATED SIX OR EIGHT DIFFERENT BONDS. I HEAR YOU. AND I, I DON'T THINK ANY OF THOSE BONDS NECESSARILY COVER WHAT I WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT, WHICH IS, WHICH IS WHY I'M ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION COMPLETELY, SIR. THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I'M DOING THIS, WHY I BROUGHT IT UP SO THAT I CAN ANSWER YOU. UH, ALRIGHT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, YES. OH, AND PLEASE. ALL RIGHT. IS, IS THERE A, UH, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT PLAN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRUCKS MOVING IN AND OUT. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A LONG DEVELOPMENT PERIOD ON DOBS BURY ROAD, WHICH PRETTY HEAVILY TRAVELED AND YOU GOT SCHOOL BUSES AND, AND, UH, YOU CITY BUSES, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK COUNTY BUSES GOING BACK AND FORTH. YEAH, IT, IT'S A TRUCK ROUTING PLAN THAT'S REALLY IS WHAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED AND BEING PUT IN PLACE. IT'S THAT DISCUSSES PROXIMITY OF THE SITE TO THE MAJOR HIGHWAYS WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT TRUCK TRAFFIC TO AND GO FROM, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH THE SOIL REMOVALS THAT NEED TO OCCUR. YOU KNOW, HAVING CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THOSE ROADWAYS, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING THROUGH RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. SO IT'S THE TRUCK ROUTING AND THE LOCATIONS THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE PERMITTED TO GO ENFORCE TO AND FROM, ENFORCE FROM THE MAJOR HIGHS ENFORCE, EXCUSE ME, WHO, WHO ENFORCES THAT? I WOULD, I WOULD ENVISION IT WOULD BE THE TOWN THAT WOULD ENFORCE THAT. AND IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT THE, DOES THE TOWN HAVE SOMEONE THERE TO ENFORCE IT WHEN YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, MOVING TRUCKS AND IT WOULD BE THE EMPLOYEES IN AND OUT BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND OR TOWN ENGINEER, DEPENDING, AND IT WOULD BE GENERALLY NOTICED BY A COMPLAINT OF SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, LIKE I, I SEE AT THE LEFT SCHOOL, THEY HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A, YOU KNOW, POLICE OFFICER, YOU KNOW, DIRECTING TRAFFIC DURING, YOU KNOW, OPENING AND CLOSING HOURS. SO WHAT HAPPENS ON A PROJECT LIKE THIS, WHICH IS 140 ACRES, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT DEVELOPING A HUNDRED, BUT IT IS 140 ACRES. YOU'RE CLEANING IT ALL UP. IT'S NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA GO ON FOR A LONG TIME. AND THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, COULD BE A LOT OF TRAFFIC. THERE WILL BE A LOT OF TRAFFIC. SO WHO, YOU KNOW, WHO DIRECTS PEOPLE AND SAYS, YOU WAIT, YOU GO. OKAY. IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS IN THE APPROVAL GUTTER, THEN JUSTICE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT. WEINBERG. SO SIX POINT 10 THE APPLICANT SHALL COORDINATE FLAGGERS OF POLICE PRESENCE DURING HAULING PERIODS. UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THE COORDINATION WITH SCHOOLS. UM, AS AMANDA MENTIONED, IF THERE'S STAGING OF VEHICLES IN THE ROAD, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PICKED UP BY THE POLICE OR TOWN STAFF, UH, INSPECTORS. AND THEY COULD BE, UH, NOTIFIED, UH, TO, TO NOT DO SO. SO THERE, THERE'S A NUMBER OF MECHANISMS. UM, AND THERE'S ALSO, UM, ANOTHER CONDITION I JUST WANNA RECITE REAL QUICK. AND WHILE HE IS LOOKING FOR THAT ONE, TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER, UH, PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALONG THE NEW YORK STATE DOT ROADWAY AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, WE ARE GETTING A NEW YORK STATE DOT PERMIT TO DO THOSE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS. AS PART OF THAT SET, THERE'S MAINTENANCE AND PROTECTION OF TRAFFIC FOR ANY WORK THAT'S BEING DONE ALONG THAT CORRIDOR THERE. MM-HMM . AND IT VERY SPECIFICALLY DICTATES WHERE CONES ARE BEING PLACED, SIGNS WORK ZONE AHEAD, TRAFFIC, WHERE FLAGGERS ARE REQUIRED. ALL OF THAT IS DETAILED ON THE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PLANS AS WELL. AND, AND IN THE REALITY OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT, MOST OF THE HEAVY MACHINERY, LET'S CALL IT THE YELLOW TRUCKS, THEY STAY ON SITE. RIGHT. THEY, THEY STAY THERE, THEY DO THE WORK, THEY DON'T COME OFF. 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT REALLY WOR ROAD WORTHY. WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND WHAT, WHAT DIEGO [01:15:01] WAS REFERRING TO IS REALLY THE DUMP TRUCKS. RIGHT. THE THING, THERE'S TWO TYPES, RIGHT? THE DUMP TRUCKS ARE COMING AND ALL WELL, AND YOU'VE DRIVEN ON DOPPS FERRY ROAD AND THEN YEAH. THEN THE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA JUST, JUST ADD IS EMPLOYEE PARKING AND THERE'S USUALLY A STAGING AREA THAT'S SET UP ON SITE. THERE'S A DESIGNATED AREA FOR THAT. THERE'LL BE A TRAILER. ALL OF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS USUALLY AT A PRE-CONSTRUCTION MEETING WITH THE TOWN TOWN OFFICIALS DESIGNATE THAT AREA SO THEY UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE, HOW THEY GET THERE WHEN THEY GET THERE, WORKING HOURS, THINGS LIKE THAT. RIGHT. AND I THINK THERE'S A GO AHEAD. IN ADDITION TO THAT EFFECT 6.15 INDICATING THAT VEHICLE STAGING STOPPING OR IDLING ALONG WORTHINGTON ROAD AND DOBS ARY ROAD, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WORK APPROVED IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, IS PROHIBITED QUEUING OF TRUCKS WILL BE PERFORMED ON SITE TO MINI MINIMIZE OFFSITE DISTURBANCE. EXACTLY. RIGHT. THAT'S REALLY THE QUEUING OF, OF DUMP TRUCKS. WHAT WE, WHAT WE DISCUSS WITH THE, WITH THE TOWN AND STAFF IS NOT HAVING THEM THERE, THOUGH YOU CAN'T START WORK TILL I, LET'S CALL IT, I, I FORGET WHAT TIME IT'S, CALL IT EIGHT FOR JUST ARGUMENT SAKE. MAYBE IT WAS AT 7 30, 8 30, WHATEVER THE TIME WAS. THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE 'EM THERE AT 6:00 AM WAITING TO BE LOADED WHILE MM-HMM . PEOPLE ARE, ARE TRAVERSING DOBBS FERRY ROAD. RIGHT. AND I THINK WHEN YOU HAVE THAT PRE-CONSTRUCTION MEETING, DEPENDING UPON WHEN YOU ACTUALLY PLAN TO DO THE REMEDIATION REMOVAL, UM, LIKE SAY IF IT'S SUMMER WHEN DAY CAMP'S GOING ON, THERE MIGHT BE SOME SLIGHT CHANGES TO ADDRESS CORRECT. THE SEASON AND, AND WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I'VE SPOKEN TO THE DAY CAMP MANY TIMES, THEY JUST HAVEN'T EXPRESSED A CON TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN COME FORWARD WITH A, WITH WITH CONCERNS, BUT THEY USED TO PARK, WE USED TO COORDINATE. SO IT, IT'S, IT'S SOMEONE THAT I KNOW AND HAVE SPOKEN TO, BUT THEY'VE NEVER FRANKLY ASKED A, A DEVELOPMENT QUESTION, UH, IN REGARDS TO THE PROJECT. YEAH. I MEAN, THE REASON I'M RAISING THIS IS THE BRIGHTVIEW PROJECT, WHICH IS BEING BUILT ON DODGE FAIR ROAD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF NORWOOD. YES, SIR. I MEAN, WHEN YOU DRIVE BACK AND FORTH THERE, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY WERE DOING THEIR SITE WORK, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW. THERE, THERE'S THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE EVER DIRECTING TRAFFIC ARE THE PEOPLE, ARE THE CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE, AND THEY'RE STOPPING TRAFFIC. THEY DON'T CARE, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE FLOW, WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING. IT'S WHAT SUITS THEIR NEEDS. IF THEY'RE, IF THEY HAVE TRUCKS HEAVY, YOU KNOW, HEAVY EQUIPMENT THAT HAVE TO MOVE FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER, AND IT GOES THROUGH THE ROAD, THE ROAD IS STOPPED IF THEY, YOU KNOW, HAVE TRUCKS COMING TO DELIVER, THE TRUCKS ARE THERE, THEY'RE BLOCKING THE LANE. AND IT'S NOT FOR JUST LIKE FIVE MINUTES MM-HMM . AND THEY'RE MAKING IT A ONE LANE STREET AND IT'S HEAVILY TRAVELED. UH, SO THAT, I MEAN THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE TO HAVE ALL THESE CONDITIONS, BUT IF THEY'RE NOT ENFORCED, SOMEONE'S NOT THERE, YOU KNOW, WATCHING IT. MAYBE THE, MAYBE YOUR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PEOPLE ARE ON TOP OF IT, BUT I GOTTA HAVE A FEELING THEY'RE NOT IN THE ROAD NECESSARILY. THEY'RE INSIDE, YOU KNOW, INSIDE THE PROJECT. YOU, YOU ARE RIGHT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF TIMES WHEN IT'S NOT PERFECT. AND I KNOW THIS TOWN IS, UH, ON TOP OF THAT. AND, UH, WE'VE, I THINK WORKING TOGETHER, WE WILL, WE WILL ALL GET TO THE RIGHT PLACE. OKAY. LET'S, LET'S HOPE SO, UH, THIS, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU GOT THE BROWNFIELD NOTICE THAT YOU HAD TO REMEDIATE THE WHOLE SITE, HOW HAS THE SWIFT CHANGED? WELL, JUST TO CORRECT THE RECORD, WE, WE WERE NOT GIVEN NOTICE THAT WE NEEDED TO DO THE ENTIRE SITE. THE BROWNFIELD CLEANUP PROGRAM IS A VOLUNTARY PROGRAM THAT WE PUT OURSELVES IN. RIGHT. IT'S THE TOWN, AND FRANKLY, MYSELF AND AMANDA, UH, NEGOTIATING THE PRELIMINARY APPROVAL ON WITH WHAT THE, THE BOARD, THE, THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, BEFORE WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT CLEANING IT UP TO A RESIDENTIAL STANDARD, NOT REUSING ANY OF THE SOIL ON THE SITE. SO THE, THE IMPETUS FOR THE CLEANUP PLAN REALLY WAS TOWN DRIVEN. IT WA IT'S NOT OKAY. IT'S NOT UN IT'S UNCOMMON THE WAY WE'RE DOING IT, IT IS A STEP OR TWO MORE THAN WE WERE EVEN USED TO. MOST, MOST OF THE TIMES YOU CAN PUT THINGS IN ROADS AND OPEN SPACE, BUT THE TOWN WAS VERY ADAMANT THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT THAT ANYWHERE ON THE PROJECT. AND THAT'S WHAT LED TO THE CLEANUP. JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNEW THAT PART. SO NOW WAS THE OLD BOARD, ALRIGHT, SO NOW THERE'S MUCH MORE DISRUPTION BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING A LOT MORE, YOU KNOW, EXCAVATION. YEAH. SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, HOW DOES THAT INTERACT WITH THE, UH, SWIFT, SWIFT PROGRAM? BECAUSE NOW, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE APPROVALS WERE ORIGINALLY FOR THE ORIGINAL DESIGN WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO REMEDIATE THE WHOLE SITE. RIGHT? NOW YOU'RE REMEDIATING THE WHOLE SITE. IT'S GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, DUG UP. HOW ARE YOU CONTROLLING THE RUNOFF INTO THE STREET DOWN DOWNSTREAM, YOU KNOW, TO, SO I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO, LET ME JUST TELL YOU HOW THE [01:20:01] CLEANUP WORKS IN GENERAL, RIGHT? SO YOU UNDER, SO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THERE ARE SERIES AND ROUNDS OF TESTING. SO RIGHT NOW WE'VE DONE EXTENSIVE TESTING THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY, SEPARATING EVERYTHING INTO QUADRANTS. WHEN THEY START THE WORK, THEY'RE GOING TO CLEAR THOSE QUADRANTS QUADRANT BY QUADRANT, REALLY FIVE ACRES AT A TIME, 10 ACRES AT A TIME. IT'S A WHOLE PHASING PLAN THAT STARTS WITH THE REMEDIATION AND THEN EVENTUALLY ENDS WITH CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS AND STREETS AND HOUSES. BUT THE, WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE REMEDIATION IS THEY SCRAPE OFF THOSE SIX INCHES, THOSE 12 INCHES, WHATEVER, AND IT GETS PUT INTO A PILE. AND THAT PILE IS ASSUMED TO BE DIRTY, CONTAMINATED. MM-HMM . AND THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS WE FOLLOW, WHICH DIEGO CAN GET INTO SPECIFICS ON THE ENGINEERING PART OF STORM, YOU KNOW, WRAPPING IT, COVERING IT, THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT THEN THEY GO THROUGH MORE TESTING OF THOSE PILES TO EITHER PROVE THAT IT IS ACTUALLY CLEAN OR IT IS CONTAMINATED. IT'S CONTAMINATED, IT GETS LOADED ONTO A TRUCK, IT GETS HAULED AWAY TO A SPECIFIC LOCATION OUTSIDE OF TOWN THAT MAY BE IN PENNSYLVANIA THAT MAY BE BROUGHT TO A TRANSFER FACILITY AND PUT ON A TRAIN. IF IT WAS, IT'S NOT. BUT LIKE WE HAVE A PROJECT WHERE SOMETHING IS TOO HOT, IT, IT LITERALLY GETS PUT ON A TRAIN CAR AND MOVED OUT UNDER MM-HMM . UNDER A DIFFERENT PROGRAM. SO THAT, AND THEN IT GOES SECTION BY SECTION, PILE BY PILE. 'CAUSE THE GOAL IS YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE WHAT IS A CLEAN SECTION AND MIX IT WITH A DIRTY SECTION. 'CAUSE THAT TAKES TIME AND THEN COSTS MORE, CONTAMINATES MORE. SO EVERY SECTION IS PUT INTO PILES OR WINDROWS AND THEN TEST FROM THERE. DIEGO CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WITH THOSE. WELL, I WANT TO ANSWER THE SPECIFIC QUESTION, WHICH WAS THE CHANGE TO THE SWIFT, THE CHANGE TO THE STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN WAS THE DISTURBANCE AREA. THAT'S REALLY WHAT CHANGED THE AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS AREA, THE NEW ROADWAYS, THE HOUSES, UM, THE DRIVEWAYS THAT WERE BEING CONSTRUCTED. ALL OF THAT HAS REMAINED THE SAME. WHAT HAS CHANGED FROM A STORMWATER STANDPOINT AND A STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN AND IN THE SWIFT WAS THE OVERALL LIMITS OF DISTURBANCE CHANGED. WE EXPANDED INTO AREAS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY PROPOSED TO BE, TO BE PRESERVED, ARE NOW PROPOSED TO BE DISTURBED. SO WITH THAT BEING THE CASE, WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THOSE IN OUR DRAWING SET, SHOW HOW THOSE ARE BEING DISTURBED, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY HOW THOSE ARE BEING STABILIZED, HOW THEY'RE GONNA BE PROTECTED DURING CONSTRUCTION, WHETHER IT'S SEDIMENT TRAPS, STORMWATER BASINS, DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. THOSE ARE WHAT'S BEING INCLUDED ON THE PLAN. SO THE CHANGES TO THE SWIP ARE STRICTLY TO, UH, ADDRESS THE ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCE AREAS THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THIS ROUND, UH, OF THE PROPERTY. NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT THE WATER FLOW COMING OFF THE PROPERTY. BECAUSE NOW YOU'VE GOT A LOT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LESS VEGETATION, I ASSUME, YOU KNOW, IN WHAT YOU'RE SCRAPING THE WHOLE PROPERTY. NOW AGAIN, YOU'RE SCRAPING THE WHOLE PROPERTY, BUT YOU ARE REMEDIATING AND STABILIZING THOSE AREAS. SO IF, IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO DURING CONSTRUCTION, YES, THAT'S THE SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL PLANS THAT ARE BEING PUT IN PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE TEMPORARY SEDIMENT BASINS WHERE YOU HAVE, UM, UH, DIVERSION S SWALES YOU HAVE. CAN JAMES, DO WE HAVE THOSE PLANS AVAILABLE JUST TO QUICKLY KIND OF PAN? SURE, YEAH. YEAH, HE CAN PULL 'EM UP. IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL. BUT REALLY IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE, IT DIVES INTO THOSE DETAILS WHERE YOU HAVE SILL FENCES, TEMPORARY DIVERSION, S SWALES AND SEDIMENT BASINS THAT ARE BEING INSTALLED. NOW THESE ARE BEING INSTALLED TO CAPTURE THOSE NEWLY DISTURBED AREAS AS WELL. BUT, SO WE MIGHT HAVE HAD ONE SEDIMENT TRAP BEFORE WHERE NOW YOU HAVE TWO. SO THEY WERE, THOSE PLANS WERE UPDATED WHEN YOU HAD TO CORRECT. THEY WERE UPDATED TO REFLECT THE ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCE AREA. AND WHEN YOU MADE REMIND THE BOARD, IT IS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE WERE REQUIRED TO GO BACK TO THE TOWN BOARD AS LEAD AGENCY AND GO THROUGH AN AMENDED SUPPLEMENTAL FINDING STATEMENT. SO IT WAS NOT LIKE GIVEN THE BACK OF THE HAND. WE HAD TO SUBMIT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF DATA, THE STAFF AND THE TOWN BOARD BEFORE THEY ADOPTED THAT SUPPLEMENTAL FINDING STATEMENT. SO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANALYZED AND CONCLUDED THAT THERE ARE NO SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS. SO, AND AGAIN, TO, TO JUST CONTINUE, BUT IT'S THE ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCE AREA AND THAT'S WHAT AFFECTED THE SW. SO HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE PHASE A, ONE OF THE PHASES OF CONSTRUCTION AND THE SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL PLAN, UM, THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE. AND YOU QUICKLY START TO SEE THE AREAS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED WITH SEVERAL SEDIMENT TRAPS AND TEMPORARY SEDIMENT BASINS. AND ALL OF THESE ARE BEING PUT IN PLACE TO HOLD WATER DURING THESE DISTURBANCE ACTIVITIES. MOST IMPORTANTLY, OBVIOUSLY IS STABILIZATION OF THESE AREAS. ONCE AREAS ARE DISTURBED, THEY'RE BROUGHT TO THEIR FINISHED GRADE, MODIFICATIONS ARE MADE, THESE AREAS NEED TO BE STABILIZED. TO YOUR POINT, WHEN THEY HAVE VEGETATION ON IT, THAT'S WHEN THERE'S LESS RUNOFF THAT COMES OFF OF THOSE AREAS [01:25:01] AS A RESULT OF IT. MM-HMM . UM, AND, AND, AND AGAIN, KEEP IN MIND THE, THE COVER TYPES. UM, IT WAS A GOLF COURSE BEFORE. THERE WAS A LOT OF GRASS AREAS. IT WAS NOT SIGNIFICANT POCKETS OF WOODED AREAS AND VEGETATION LIKE THAT, THAT'S BEING REMOVED. WE'RE GOING INTO OTHER AREAS THAT WERE VEGETATED WITH LAWN AND LANDSCAPING AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY NOT CONTEMPLATING TO BE DISTURBED. AND, UH, UH, PLANNER BRITAIN, I, I PRESUME THERE'S A CONDITION ABOUT THE, THE EROSION CONTROL AND, AND FENCING AND SILT FENCING AND ALL OF THAT. COULD YOU JUST READ THAT CONDITION BRIEF QUICKLY? IT'S FURTHER DOWN. NOT, NOT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, . SO, UH, WE HAVE CONDITION FOUR POINT 12, WHICH REQUIRES ALLST FENCING, STRAW BALES, AND CONSTRUCTION FENCING MUST BE CONTAINED IN PROPER WORKING ORDER AT ALL TIMES AND MUST REMAIN IN PLACE UNTIL CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETED. AND ALL DISTURBED SOILS HAVE BEEN FULLY RE-VEGETATED. IS THERE, UH, IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN BEEF THAT UP? I KNOW ON OTHER, ON OTHER APP FOUR POINT 11 PLEASE. FOUR POINT 11 THE APPLICANT MUST USE FOLLOWING MINIMUM MINIMAL EROSION CONTROL MEASURES AS NECESSARY TO PREVENT ONSITE EROSION AND DOWNSTREAM SEDIMENTATION, UH, INSTALLATION OF TREE PROTECTION MEASURES, INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF STILL FENCING IMMEDIATELY DOWNSTREAM OF DISTURBED AREAS. THE STOCKPILING AND PROTECTION OF TOP SOIL IS REQUIRED. SEATING AND RESTORATION OF DISTURBED AREAS AND THE CLEANING OF DRAINAGE UTILITIES RESULTING FROM THE WORK. AND, AND ALL WORK NOTED ABOVE AND COVERED IN THIS PERMIT MUST COMPLY WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS NOTED IN NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION STANDARD AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR EROSION AND SETTLEMENT CONTROL DATED NOVEMBER, 2016, OR THE MOST CURRENT VERSION OR SUCCESSOR. GREAT. IS, IS, IS THERE ANY WAY WE, WE CAN BEEF THAT UP? I, I KNOW IN SOME RECENT LARGER, UH, PROJECTS WE'VE DONE WIRE BACKED FENCING AND WE'VE DONE STRAW BALES. IS IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE APPLICANT WOULD POTENTIALLY BE OPEN TO? YEAH. OKAY. JUST FOR FURTHER PROTECTION MEASURES, OFFSITE PROPERTIES PARTICULARLY, USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS STAFF WILL COME ON SITE DURING AND SEE SOMETHING, COULD YOU ADD SOME MORE PAY BAILS HERE? COULD YOU, IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD TO PERFECTLY PLAN WHERE THEY SHOULD GO. SURE. BUT WE FIND YOU, YOU, YOU FIND, YOU KNOW, WATER FOLLOWS THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE AND SOMEONE ON YOUR TOWN STAFF IS GONNA SAY, MORE CELL FENCE HERE, MORE HAY BAS THERE. GREAT. THAT'S SORT OF HOW IT GOES. AND THEN ALSO, I THINK THE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA SAY IS I, THE PLANS ARE ALSO REFERENCED IN YOUR, BUT THE, SO EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL PLANS ARE REFERENCED IN YOUR PREAMBLE THAT WE HAVE TO COMPLY WITH WITH THOSE PLANS AND, AND JUST HE HAS IT ON THERE. AND WHAT YOU SEE AS WELL ON THE PLANS IS A LITANY OF NOTES, UM, THAT ARE DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE PLAN. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WORKED WITH YOUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND YOUR CONSULTING ENGINEER ON ABOUT DIFFERENT PROTECTION MEASURES. AND, AND I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE IS ABOUT STABILIZATION. THAT AREAS THAT ARE NOT BEING DISTURBED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND 14 DAYS IS THE MAX, UM, NEED TO BE STABILIZED. I THINK THAT'S JUST AN IMPORTANT ONE TO POINT OUT BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT THE DIFFERENT AREAS NEED, YOU CAN'T DISTURB AN AREA, LEAVE IT FOR A MONTH AND COME BACK WHEN YOU'RE READY. YOU HAVE TO STABILIZE THOSE AREAS PERIODICALLY DEPENDING WHERE YOU ARE FROM A SEQUENCE OF CONSTRUCTION. CAN YOU ELABORATE SO THAT THE BOARD UNDERSTANDS WHAT YOU MEAN BY STABILIZE? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT PLANTING GRASS? ARE YOU HYDRO SEED PLANTING, GRASS MULCHING? THERE'S A LOT OF HAY. THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT, WOOD CHIPS ARE USED REGULARLY. THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN STABILIZE IT. PRIMARILY WE SEE HYDRO SEEDING IN SOME TYPE OF TEMPORARY, OF TEMPORARY SEATING. SO HOW COULD, HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU THAT IF WE GOT A SIGNIFICANT, YOU KNOW, RAINFALL THAT NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES AREN'T GONNA GET INUNDATED? I MEAN THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE. THE, WHEN YOU GO THROUGH UNDERSTOOD COMPLETELY. AND, UM, CONSTRUCTION IS A FLUID PROCESS AS JONATHAN HAD ALLUDED TO. UM, WATER FINDS A PATH OF LEASE RESISTANCE. WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THESE SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL PLANS IS TO CONTAIN AS MUCH OF THE SEDIMENT ON SITE AS POSSIBLE. THERE IS, THERE ARE BREACHES, THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION. IT'S THE NATURE OF CONSTRUCTION. THOSE AREAS ARE QUICKLY REMEDIATED. THEY'RE RECTIFIED. YOU PUT UP, AS JONATHAN ALLUDED TO, YOU PUT UP MORE SELF FENCE IN THESE DIFFERENT AREAS. THERE IS SIGNIFICANT SEDIMENT EROSION CONTROL MEASURES THAT IS BEING PUT IN PLACE AS PART OF THIS PROJECT. YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT SEDIMENT TRAPS AND WHAT IS BEING CONTAINED. THEY'RE DESIGNED FOR VERY SPECIFIC STORM EVENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO CONTAIN [01:30:01] WATER ON SITE. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ALSO TO IDENTIFY IN THIS PROJECT, THIS IS AN EXPANSIVE PROJECT. THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S MORE SPACE, WHICH YOU ALLUDED TO WITH SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS, WHETHER IT'S BE BRIGHTVIEW DOWN THE STREET, MUCH MORE CONSTRAINED. THERE'S A LOT MORE AREA HERE TO WORK WITH AND THERE'S A LOT MORE AREA WHERE THESE SEDIMENT, EROSION MEASURES CAN BE PUT IN PLACE TO PROTECT THOSE. SO TO THAT POINT, TO THE EXTENT WE CAN BEEF UP CERTAIN AREAS ON THE FRONT END TO TRY AND, YOU KNOW, DO OUR BEST TO PROTECT, YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN A SINGLE, SINGLE LAYER OF SILT FENCE, LET'S SAY. YEAH. THE WIRE BACKED WITH SOME STRAW BALES ON THE FRONT END. YEAH. AND, AND AS I WOULD SAY TO TRY AND PREDICT LANGUAGE TO ADD IS SOMETHING LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN, THE APPLICANT WILL FOLLOW THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHEN TOWN REQUESTS FOR MORE, MORE HAY, MORE SEASON AS DEEMED NECESSARY AS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE TOWN INSPECTOR. RIGHT. AND I'LL ALSO JUST POINT OUT WE DO HAVE THOSE BROAD CONDITIONS THAT'S TALK ABOUT APPLICANT BEING REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH DIRECTIVES OF THE TOWN ENGINEER TO THAT EFFECT. AND THAT'S WHERE I, YOU COULD PROBABLY BEEF UP, SORRY, I'M SORRY. JUST, JUST TO POINT THE RATE, IF, IF YOU ORIGINAL CONTROL MEASURES AREN'T SUFFICIENT IN AN AREA WHILE YOU'RE IN REMEDIATION PHASE, YOU'RE NOT JUST WASHING SEDIMENT DOWN, YOU'RE WASHING SEDIMENT DOWN, THAT'S POTENTIALLY GOT ARSENIC IN IT. RIGHT? SO YOU'RE NOT JUST SENDING SOIL DOWNSTREAM POTENTIALLY. GO AHEAD. YES. I MEAN THAT, THAT COULD OCCUR. THERE'S MORE STRICT REQUIREMENTS AROUND PROTECTING THOSE PILES DURING RAIN EVENTS COVERAGE THAT AN INDIVIDUAL PILE IS WRAPPED, MIGHT HAVE SILT FENCE AROUND IT. IT'S, I WAS AN, WE WERE MORE ANSWERING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE OVERALL, YOU KNOW, SORT OF AN OVERALL CONSTRUCTION, BUT YOU, YOU ARE CORRECT THERE, BUT THERE IS MORE REQUIREMENTS BY THE DEC FOR REMEDIATION. IT'S VERY SPECIFIC ON PILES YOU'RE WORKING ON. GREAT. UH, I HAVE A, I HAVE A, A COUPLE OF OTHER QUESTIONS. I THINK THE FIRST ONE IS JUST FOR TOWN STAFF ON GIS. THE LARGER PARCEL IS ZONED AS MULTI, NOT AS R 30. SO IT PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE UPDATED. OKAY. UM, AND THEN I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER ABOUT REDUCING THE OVERALL VOLUME OF RUNOFF FROM THE SITE, BUT SPECIFICALLY IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SITE FOR 10 AND 25 AND A HUNDRED YEAR STORMS. THE VOLUME INCREASES, THE FLOW RATE DECREASES, UM, AND THAT WATER RUNS OFF TO THE LEFT, RIGHT BEHIND THOSE HOMES ON WORTHINGTON ROAD. SO MY QUESTION IS, DOES THAT INCREASE IN VOLUME IN THAT AREA OF THE PROPERTY POSE A FLOODING RISK TO THE HOMES ON BURKE WORTHINGTON ROAD? WE CAN MAYBE JUST PULL UP THE PLAN ONE MORE TIME. WE COULD ELABORATE THAT JUST A BIT MORE. AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE LOOKED AT AND UNDERSTOOD THE, THE QUESTION AND THE COMMENT AND WHAT WE HAD SPOKEN ABOUT. FIRST OF ALL, OBVIOUSLY EVERYTHING'S DESIGNED IN ACCORDANCE WITH DESIGN REQUIREMENTS. SO JAMES, IF YOU COULD PULL UP THAT PLAN, IT'S NOT LOADING. THERE IT IS. OKAY. SO WHAT, UH, MICHELLE IS ALLUDING TO, AND I I, IF I UNDERSTOOD YOUR QUESTION COMPLETELY, IT'S THAT BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER, UH, THAT HAS A DESIGN POINT IN THAT AREA. THE RATE OF RUNOFF IN THAT AREA IS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED, MEANING THE FLOW AT THE, THE HOW IT COMES OFF IN THAT CORNER IS BEING REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY, BUT THE VOLUME IS INCREASED THE OVERALL VOLUME. BUT WHAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THERE'S ACTUALLY THREE AREAS THAT DISCHARGE OFF THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. SO THERE'S ONE ON THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF THE PROPERTY AS MICHELLE INDICATED. IT DISCHARGES TO THE HOMES, TO THE WATERCOURSE, ULTIMATELY TO THE WATERCOURSE BEHIND THE HOMES ON WORTHINGTON ROAD. THERE'S ANOTHER ONE JUST OFF THAT CUL-DE-SAC JUST A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH. JAMES, MAYBE IF YOU COULD MOVE IN. YEP. JUST TO THE NORTH, YOU SEE THAT CUL-DE-SAC WITH FOUR HOMES. THERE'S ANOTHER DISCHARGE POINT THERE FROM OUR SITE THAT COMES ACROSS DISCHARGES TO THAT WATERCOURSE BEHIND THE HOMES ON WORTHINGTON ROAD. AND THEN THERE'S A THIRD ONE A LITTLE FURTHER UP, UM, IN THE BACK OF THE PROPERTY COMES DOWN. WHAT IS THAT COUNTRY? WHAT CLUB COUNTRY CLUB LANE THAT COMES DOWN IN THAT AREA TIES INTO THAT SAME, THERE'S THAT WATERCOURSE THAT RUNS IN THE NORTHERLY DIRECTION BEHIND THOSE HOMES. THE DESIGN POINT THAT IS BEING REFERRED TO THAT HAS A, THAT HAS THE INCREASE IN VOLUME IS THAT SINGLE DESIGN POINT. WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THESE LOCATIONS AND WHAT WE'RE TYING INTO, WE'RE ACTUALLY NOT ONLY REDUCING THE RATES TO THAT WATERCOURSE BEHIND THE HOMES ON WORTHINGTON ROAD, WE'RE USING THE VOLUMES TO THOSE THREE DESIGN POINTS BY OVER 25%. I BELIEVE IT'S BETWEEN 25 AND 30%. THE AREA WHERE THERE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN JUST VOLUME IS AT THE TOP OF THE WATERCOURSE. IT'S AT THE VERY, VERY BEGINNING OF IT UP AGAINST WORTHINGTON ROAD, NEAR DOBBS FERRY [01:35:01] ROAD. AND AGAIN, AS YOU GET FURTHER DOWN IS WHERE IT TRAVELS DOWN. WE ARE NOT AWARE OF ANY FLOODING ISSUES THAT ARE BACK THERE. WE AREN'T AWARE OF ANY ISSUES OR CAPACITY ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WAS LOOKED AT AS WE WENT THROUGH THIS DESIGN PROCESS. SO MICHELLE, A HUNDRED PERCENT ACCURATE IN THAT CORNER THERE WE ARE SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING RATES. UM, THE VOLUME DOES INCREASE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE THREE DESIGN POINTS COLLECTIVELY, ALL OF WHICH DOES DISCHARGE TO THAT SAME WATER COURSE THERE, IT'S ACTUALLY A REDUCTION IN VOLUME BY ABOUT 28%, I BELIEVE IS THE NUMBER. SO THE FIRST THREE OR FOUR HOUSES THOUGH COULD BE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM, WHICH WE HAD IN JULY OF LAST YEAR ARE GETTING 47% MORE VOLUME FLOWING BEHIND THEM. RIGHT. BUT OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME, THAT'S WHY THE DEC JUST COULDN'T CONTROLS THE RATE. NO, THAT'S ONLY IF THERE'S A FLOODING CONDITION THERE, THE RATE OF RUNOFF, IT JUST MEANS MORE THE WATER IS GONNA FLOW THROUGH THEIR BACKYARDS AT A SLOWER RATE. WHAT THEY WILL ACTUALLY SEE IS LESS WATER, UM, IN THE WATER COURSE BEHIND THEIR HOMES. IT'LL JUST RUN FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE DETENTION SYSTEMS. YOU ONLY HAVE THESE ISSUES WHEN YOU HAVE, TO YOUR POINT, AND YOU ALLUDED TO IT, A FLOODING CONDITION THAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH. IF YOU WERE DEALING WITH A VERY SPECIFIC FLOODING CONDITION, THAT'S WHERE VOLUME COMES INTO PLAY. IN THIS CASE, I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY FLOODING ISSUES IN THE AREAS BEHIND THE HOMES. IT'S A WATER COURSE THAT HAS PLENTY OF CAPACITY TO ACCOMMODATE THE RATES THAT ARE BEING DISCHARGED THERE. AND AGAIN, ONCE YOU GET A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN THAT WATER COURSE, THE OVERALL VOLUME IS SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE BOTTOM OF WORTHINGTON HAS FLOODING ISSUES. I DON'T KNOW IF TOWN STAFF HAS ANY INFORMATION ON ANY OF THE OTHER HOMES ON WORTHINGTON HAVING FLOODING ISSUES. I'M NOT SURE WHERE THE BOTTOM IS, BUT, UH, IT'S WELL TO THE NORTH WHERE, YEAH, I DON'T, AND AGAIN, TO YOUR POINT FURTHER NORTH, BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE NORTHERN SIDE OF OUR PROPERTY, WE'RE REDUCING THE OVERALL VOLUME. NOT ONLY THE RATES, WE'RE REDUCING THE VOLUMES, WHICH IS AGAIN, NOT REQUIRED BY CODE AND, OR D-E-C-D-E-C AND CODE LOOKS AT RATES OF RUNOFF NOT VOLUME. SO, SO IF I, IF I COULD JUMP IN. SO DESIGN MANUAL, RIGHT? THEY EXPECT A MINIMUM REDUCTION IN VOLUME, CORRECT? UH, NO. THERE IS A RUNOFF REDUCTION VOLUME REQUIREMENT, WHICH HAS TO DO WITH TREATMENT OF STORM WATER, NOT NECESSARILY REDUCTION OF OVERALL VOLUMES. THAT HAS TO DO WITH TREATMENT. AND THAT REALLY FOCUSES ON THE ONE, TWO YEAR STORMS. THOSE SMALLER STORMS, IT'S NOT FOR THE BIGGER STORMS. SO IF I CAN JUST JUMP IN HERE. SORRY. SORRY. IN, I'M SORRY. SO IN THIS, IN A SITUATION LIKE THE HUNDRED PLUS YEAR STORM THAT HAPPENED IN JULY OF LAST YEAR, YOU ARE CONFIDENT THAT THERE IS NO FLOOD RISK TO THE HOMES ON WORTHINGTON AVENUE WITH THE INCREASE IN RUNOFF, WE ARE NOT INCREASING THE RATE OF RUNOFF. IT'S NOT MORE WATER GOING THERE RUN OFF. THERE IS, WE ARE, AGAIN, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE RATES OF RUNOFF. I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY FLOODING ISSUES THAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THOSE HOMES. NONE OF THOSE NEIGHBORS HAVE COME OUT DURING THE PROCESS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT FLOODING IN THE AREA BEHIND THOSE HOMES. DURING THAT PROCESS, ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN LOOKED AT, AND AGAIN, IT'S ONLY THAT SMALL PORTION BEFORE THE RATES, THE, EXCUSE ME, THE VOLUME GETS REDUCED. SO YES, I AM FAIRLY CONFIDENT, I'M CONFIDENT THAT WE ARE NOT IMPACTING THOSE. THAT'S WHAT THE CONCLUSION IS IN THE FINDING STATEMENT AS WELL. ALRIGHT, SO IF I'M GONNA JUMP IN HERE. SO IT IS NOW, UH, 8 45. UM, WE WILL NOT BE TAKING ANY VOTES THIS EVENING AT, AT THE REQUEST OF, OF THE APPLICANT. UM, TYPICALLY WE, WE TAKE ALL OF THESE ACTIONS AT ONCE AND SO WE WON'T BE VOTING THIS EVENING ON, ON WAIVING THE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING. UM, SO TO RESPECT THE OTHER APPLICATIONS, WE HAVE FOUR OTHER APPLICATIONS IN FRONT OF US. UM, I'M GONNA END THIS PORTION OF THE WORK SESSION, UM, BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU BACK AT THE MEETING ON SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER, FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY 4TH. UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING YOU BACK ON FEBRUARY 4TH AND CERTAINLY, UM, WE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, TO YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON, ON THE DRAFT DECISION. AND CERTAINLY IF THE BOARD HAS MORE QUESTIONS, UH, CERTAINLY, UH, FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT THEM TO STAFF AND WE CAN GET THEM ANSWERED AHEAD OF TIME. UM, AND, AND WE DID RECEIVE, UH, UM, MICHELLE, THE BALANCE OF YOUR COMMENTS. WE WILL PROVIDE SOME MORE RESPONSES TO THOSE OTHER ITEMS. I THINK WE'VE ADDRESSED, YOU'VE ADDRESSED MOST OF THEM IN TODAY'S SESSION. THE ONLY ONE I I JUST THINK YOU GUYS SHOULD LOOK [01:40:01] AT IS THE FIRST STREET QUESTION, WHICH YEAH, WE CAN ADDRESS THAT. WE CAN START DIVING INTO SOME OF THOSE OTHER ITEMS AND WE'LL BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS IT. SO THERE'S OTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. IF THERE'S OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE SUBMIT THEM TO STAFF AND UM, WE LOOK FORWARD AGAIN TO HAVING YOU ON FEBRUARY 4TH. AND I I WANT TO THANK CHAIR PERSON TORI AGAIN FOR JOINING US AND SHARING, SHARING HER PERSPECTIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. BUT SO, SO TO TO MOVE BACKWARDS, TO MOVE FORWARDS, UH, WE DO HAVE MS. FERNANDEZ, UH, REPRESENTING ANA PB 25 25. UM, THOUGH AMANDA HAS NOW STEPPED AWAY, MS. MAGANA HAS STEPPED AWAY. UM, BUT I GUESS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, UM, COULD YOU BRING MS. FERNANDEZ UP TO SPEED ON SORT OF WHERE WE ARE AND UM, HOW, HOW WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD? YES. SO MS. FERNANDEZ, A QUESTION CAME UP AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IN CONNECTION WITH REPAVING THE REAR LOT REPAVING AND RES STRIPING THE REAR PARKING LOT, WHETHER THERE WOULD BE A REQUIREMENT FOR AN A DA ACCESSIBLE OFF STREET PARKING SPACE. UH, WE QUICKLY CHECKED IN WITH OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR'S OFFICE AND THERE MAY BE A REQUIREMENT DEPENDING ON THE LEVEL OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE IN THE BACK. SO THE BOARD WAS PREPARED TO, UH, RESCIND THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED DECISION AND ESSENTIALLY UPDATE THE DECISION TO ADD A CONDITION THAT IF DEEMED, UH, IF REQUIRED BY THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AND OR TOWN ENGINEER THE APPLICANT, UH, AND OR LANDLORD SHALL, UH, INCLUDE ONE A DA ACCESSIBLE SPACE AND UPDATE THE PLANS TO REFLECT THAT AND UPDATE THE PLANS THE, AS BILL PLANS TO REFLECT THAT. CORRECT. WE JUST WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE OF IT. OKAY, GREAT. THANKS. UM, I DID LOOK AT THE, UM, STREET VIEW, UM, TONIGHT ABOUT FROM THE PAR REAR PARKING TO THE FRONT. UM, THAT SLOPE IS VERY STEEP, SO THAT WOULD MAKE IT TO ME. YOUR AUDIO IS VERY CHOPPY. WE'RE HAVING A HARD TIME HEARING YOU. ALRIGHT, I I SO YOU'RE CONCERNED WITH THE POTENTIALLY THE SLOPE OF THE PARKING LOT IN THE BACK. DO WE, UH, UM, SEE IF I CAN SEND LIKE A QUICK NOTE. YEAH, PLEASE. I, I, I GUESS IF, IF THE CONCERN IS WITH THE SLOPE MEAN IF WE DID PUT A, UM, A RIGHT SO THERE FOR AADA A SPACES, I THINK IT'S 2% OR LESS. IT HAS TO BE. UM, AND SO IF IT'S NOT FEASIBLE, ENGINEERING WOULD OPINE ON THAT. AND, AND THE, AND THE TOWN CONTROLS THE STREET PARKING. UM, UM, MS. FERNANDEZ, CAN YOU HEAR US ? YOU MIGHT WANNA DISCONNECT AND RECONNECT. OKAY. SO, SO WHAT, WHAT DO YOU, WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST? SO 10 ENGINEER AND BUILDING IS GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT IT TO DETERMINE IF AN A DA SPACE IS REQUIRED. THEY'LL COORDINATE WITH THE APPLICANT AND THEIR LANDLORD. UM, AND IF ANY CHANGES TO THE PLANT, THE FINAL AS-BUILT ARE NECESSARY AND STRIPING, THEY'LL DO THAT. UM, REALISTICALLY, IF THIS PROJECT DIDN'T DISCUSS IT AND IT WAS FOUND OUT AFTER THE FACT THAT THE, THE PROPERTY WAS GONNA REPAVE OR JUST REPAVE THEIR DRIVEWAY ANYWAYS, THAT WOULD JUST GO THROUGH BUILDING AND TOWN ENGINEER REGARDLESS OF THIS APPLICATION, IT WOULD BE REQUIRED ANYWAY. SO, SO I GUESS WOULD YOU SUGGEST WE AMEND THE, AMEND THE APPROVAL? I WOULD SUGGEST YOU AMEND IT. OKAY. MM-HMM . UM, ALRIGHT THEN. SO I, I'LL TAKE THIS AS TWO MOTIONS. UM, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO RESCIND THE APPROVED DECISION, UH, FOR PB 25 25, UH, APPROVED ON JANUARY 21ST, 2026 FOR THE INCIDENTAL DINING SPECIAL PERMIT APPLICATION. SO MOVE, UH, MOVED BY MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED BY MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES. AYE. ALRIGHT. AND UH, NOW I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, A DRAFT DECISION AS AMENDED, [01:45:01] UH, TO INCLUDE THE LANGUAGE REGARDING, UM, THE TOWN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO COORDINATE WITH THE APPLICANT ON THE NECESSITY OF A, UH, HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPOT IN THE REAR AS RELATED TO THEIR PAVING PROJECT. UM, AND ANY POTENTIAL UPDATE TO THE ASBUILT PLANS AND ANY POTENTIAL UPDATES TO THE AS BUILT AS REQUIRED BY THE TOWN ENGINEER AS REQUIRED BY THE ENGINEER BUILDING DEPARTMENT IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT. UM, DO I HEAR A MOTION? SO MOVED, MOVED BY MS. MS. WEINBERG, MR. WEINBERG, UH, SECONDED. SECONDED BY MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR, CHAIR VOTES. AYE. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU MS. FERNANDEZ, IF YOU'RE, UH, IF YOU'RE ABLE TO HEAR US. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR JUMPING IN AND JUMPING IN AND, AND LETTING US, LETTING US TAKE CARE OF THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UH, NOW CHARGING FORWARD, UH, WE HAVE SOME NEW BUSINESS. UH, WE HAVE CASE NUMBER 25 10 CENTRAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL, UH, WHO IS SEEKING A PLANNING BOARD SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A SMALL, UH, SMALL ANIMAL HOSPITAL. SORRY, DOES IT SHOW ME, STILL CONNECTED TO THE ZOOM MEETING. I'M TRYING TO SHARE SCREEN. DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION OR IS IT JUST THE DRAWINGS, UH, PRESENTATION. OH, YOU DO? YEAH. ONE SECOND ACTUALLY, IF YOU MIND JUST PULLING UP THE DRAWINGS, I CAN SPEAK TO THOSE. OKAY. APPRECIATE IT. ALL RIGHT. GOOD. E GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. MY NAME IS CHARLIE. I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK EVERYONE, UH, FOR TAKING THE TIME TO ALLOW US TO PRESENT OUR PROJECT, UH, THAT'S LOCATED AT SEVEN 18 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE. UH, IN THE TIME WE HAVE TOGETHER WE'LL BE COVERING GENERAL SITE AND ITS CONTEXT, OUR PROPOSED SCOPE OF WORK AND IMPACT TO THE AREA. AND FINALLY, A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE HOSPITAL'S OPERATIONS. OUR SITE IS, UH, A FORMER BEN'S RESTAURANT LOCATED ON CENTRAL PARK AVENUE. IT'S NEAR THE CHEVY, UH, DEALERSHIP AS WELL AS THE GREENVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE BUILDING HAS A BASEMENT AND TWO, TWO ABOVE GROUND FLOORS THAT ARE APPROXIMATELY 11,000 SQUARE FEET. UH, THE PROPERTY IS BLURRED ON BOTH SIDES BY COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES AND IN THE REAR, UH, THERE'S RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE, UH, BORDERED BY A FAIRLY LARGE AREA OF DENSE TREE COVERAGE. THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE'VE PROVIDED YOU, UH, SHOW THE RENOVATION OF THE VACANT BUILDING INTO A LARGE ANIMAL HOSPITAL. AND SO SUBSEQUENTLY RELOCATING, UH, THE EXISTING HOSTEL LOCATED ON ARDSLEY, UM, JUST A SHORT DISTANCE, UH, TO THEIR NEW LOCATION. UM, AND IN THE PROCESS OF DOING SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE RELOCATING THE ANIMAL CLINIC, UH, TO A LARGER, MORE MODERN LOCATION, UH, TO FACILITATE A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE AND GREATER NUMBER OF CLIENTS WITHIN THE GREENSBURG AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. OUR RE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING BUILDING WILL HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT. UH, AS WE ARE NOT PROPOSING ANY SITE DEVELOPMENT, UH, ALL THE EXISTING MECHANICAL SYSTEMS WILL STAY IN PLACE. ALL THE EXISTING ELECTRICAL WILL STAY IN PLACE. WE HAVE EXISTING STORM WATER ON SITE THAT WILL ALSO REMAIN, UH, TO BE IN WORKING CONDITION. UH, ADDITIONALLY, UH, OUR, OUR PROJECT ISN'T PROPOSING ANY EXTERIOR WORK IN TERMS OF ITEMS LIKE EXERCISE YARDS OR, OR THINGS THAT MIGHT PRODUCE, UH, NOISE NUISANCES TO THE COMMUNITIES, UM, OR, OR ODORS, UH, THAT MIGHT BE PRESENT WITH LIKE A DOG DAYCARE TYPE OF SITUATION. UH, THE EXISTING PRACTICE EMPLOYS 40, UH, EMPLOYEES WITH APPROXIMATELY 25 ON SHIFT AT TIME. UH, THEY, THEY HAVE HOURS OF OPERATION, UH, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, UM, BUT REDUCED HOURS OF OPERATION ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WITH SUNDAY ONLY SEEING EMERGENCY, UH, APPOINTMENTS [01:50:04] IN THE END. UH, AS WE LOOK FORWARD, UH, AT THIS PROJECT, UH, AND GIVEN THAT WE AREN'T, UH, PROPOSING ANY EXTERIOR DEVELOPMENT, UH, WE, WE FIND THAT THERE WILL BE MINIMAL IMPACT TO THE COMMUNITY, EVEN IN TERMS OF THE CONSTRUCTION AND THEN DAILY FUNCTIONS OF THE HOSPITAL. WE DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT THERE'LL BE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON TRAFFIC EITHER. UH, CURRENTLY THE HOSPITAL IS VERY STRATEGIC IN HOW THEY, UH, SCHEDULE THEIR APPOINTMENTS. UH, THEY MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE EFFICIENT WITH THE TIME THAT THEY HAVE, UH, BECAUSE CURRENTLY THEIR EXISTING HOSPITAL DOESN'T HAVE AS MUCH PARKING AS WE SEE HERE. AND SO WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 60 APPOINTMENTS A DAY, UH, WE ANTICIPATE THE, THE TRAFFIC IMPACT TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS, THEN A RESTAURANT WOULD HAVE. ADDITIONALLY, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T AN ANTICIPATE ANY NEGATIVE IMPACTS TO THE COMMUNITY, BUT WE DO ANTICIPATE SOME, UH, SUBSTANTIAL BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY. I'VE BEEN IN THE PROFESSION OF ANIMAL CARE DESIGN FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, AND I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT QUALITY MEDICINE. UH, AND I KNOW THAT, UH, MISSION VETERINARY PARTNERS ALSO SHARES THE SAME VALUES OF, UH, TOP VETERINARY SCIENCE, EMPATHETIC CARE AND HEALING ENVIRONMENTS. UM, BY ALLOWING THIS PROJECT TO, TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, WE'RE RELOCATING THIS ANIMAL HOSPITAL AND THAT'S BEEN IN THE COMMUNITY FOR APPROXIMATELY A CENTURY. UH, GIVING THEM A NEW HOME THAT REALLY ALIGNS WITH, YOU KNOW, TOP QUALITY CARE, UH, AND ULTIMATELY WILL BE A, A GOOD ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY. UH, WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN UP TO ANY QUESTIONS AND, UH, JUST FOR THE RECORD, COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO THE APPLICANT? OF COURSE. APOLOGIES. UH, MY NAME IS CHARLIE FOX. I WORK AT FMD ARCHITECTS, UM, AND WE REPRESENT MISSION VETERINARY PARTNERS IN THIS EFFORT. GREAT, GREAT, THANK YOU. UM, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CONTEXT TO ADD OR CAN I OPEN UP QUESTIONS TO THE BOARD? ONLY TO INDICATE? THERE WAS MENTION OF THE OFF STREET PARKING AND THE PROPOSED 10,447 SQUARE FOOT ANIMAL HOSPITAL WOULD REQUIRE 53 OFF STREET PARKING SPACES PURSUANT TO OUR CODE WHILE 75 EXIST ON THE SITE, FAR EXCEEDING THE REQUIREMENT. FURTHER, THE APPLICANT DOES NOT PROPOSE THE OVERNIGHT BORDERING OF ANIMALS EXCEPT AS MEDICALLY NECESSARY. UM, I JUST WANTED TO BRING THOSE TWO POINTS UP. THANK YOU. GREAT, THANK YOU. UM, I JUST, ONE THING I WANTED TO, I WAS HAVING TROUBLE PULLING UP THE PLANS RIGHT NOW. I DUNNO, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TECHNICAL ISSUES TONIGHT. SOME OF US HAVE HAD, I MEAN, UM, COULD YOU SHOW THE SIGN, IS THERE A CHANGE TO THE SIGN THAT'S CURRENTLY EXISTING? ARE YOU PROPOSING TO CHANGE IT OR HAVE YOU GONE TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT REGARDING THE SIGN YET? TYPICALLY WITH OUR, OUR CLIENT, WE WOULD BE PROPOSING A, A PERMIT FOR THE SIGNAGE SEPARATE TO THIS PROJECT. UM, BUT WE, WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY, UH, WANT TO HAVE SIGNAGE IN COMPLIANCE WITH, WITH THE TOWN. IF, IF YOU COULD SUBMIT YOUR, YOUR SIGNAGE PLAN AS SOON AS YOU'RE ABLE, UH, THAT WAY WE CAN DETERMINE IF, IF ANY VARIANCES MIGHT BE REQUIRED. WE CERTAINLY CAN. GREAT, THANK YOU. UM, ALRIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU'RE NOT CHANGING ANYTHING WITH THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT? THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S NOT OUR INTENT, AT LEAST AT THE MOMENT. THERE IS STORM WATER, UH, MITIGATION ON SITE CURRENTLY. UH, BUT, BUT WE AREN'T LOOKING TO MODIFY IT IN ANY CAPACITY. UM, WOULD YOU CONSIDER IMPROVING IT, UH, IN, IN WHAT CAPACITIES WOULD YOU BE LOOKING AT? WHAT'S THE CURRENT, UH, WHAT DOES IT CURRENTLY MEET? UH, WE, WE CAN CERTAINLY HAVE A BETTER KIND OF REPORT ON ON WHAT'S EXISTING CURRENTLY. I DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE INFORMATION ON THAT. RIGHT. BUT WE CAN PROVIDE THAT. SO ELABORATE ON THAT. IF WE COULD HAVE LIKE, THE AGE OF THE SYSTEM AND YEAH. WHAT HIS CAPACITY IS FOR AND DETAILS CURRENT CAPACITY IN TERMS OF, UM, STORM EVENT CAPACITY TO HANDLE UP TO WHAT SIZE STORM EVENT UNDER OUR CURRENT REGULATIONS WOULD REQUIRE 25 UP TO A 25 YEAR STORM EVENT. SO IT'D BE, IT'D BE IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT SYSTEM'S CAPACITY IS, WHAT ITS AGE IS, AND WHAT ITS CURRENT CONDITION IS. UM, ALSO IF THERE WAS ANY MAINTENANCE NECESSARY TO BRING THAT SYSTEM BACK UP INTO FULLY, UH, BEING FULLY FUNCTIONAL THAT THERE WOULD BE A COMMITMENT [01:55:01] UPON THE APPLICANT TO PERFORM THAT MAINTENANCE. YEAH, CERTAINLY. AND I, I CAN DEFINITELY SPEAK TO MY CLIENT ABOUT THAT. UH, OUT OF CLARIFICATION, UH, OF COURSE, UM, YOU KNOW, MAINTENANCE, WE'D CERTAINLY WANT THAT TO BE PART OF IT AND WE'D FULLY EXPECT THE PROJECT TO, TO COMPLY WITH THAT. UH, WOULD ANY IMPROVEMENTS BE REQUIRED OR IS THAT JUST THE DESIRE OF THE, THE COMMUNITY? I, I GUESS IT DEPENDS WHAT, WHAT YOUR STUDY DETERMINES THE, THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE, OF THE EQUIPMENT OF THE SYSTEM. SURE. UM, THIS IS A HISTORICAL QUESTION. THIS MIGHT BE A QUESTION FOR, FOR GARRETT OR ME OR FOR, UH, COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER DUQUESNE OR DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT. WHEN, WHEN THIS PROPERTY TRANSITIONED FROM PGA'S TO BEN'S, DID THAT COME IN FRONT OF THIS BOARD OR WAS THAT ADMINISTRATIVE BECAUSE IT WAS A RESTAURANT TO A RESTAURANT? I DO BELIEVE IT DID COME BEFORE THIS BOARD, YES. OKAY. UM, OKAY. WE CAN PROVIDE THAT DATE AND YEAH, THAT, THAT'D BE HELPFUL BECAUSE I'D BE CURIOUS IF WHAT, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY IT WAS PROBABLY SOME TIME AGO, BUT WHAT MM-HMM. WHAT STORM WATER MANAGEMENT PLANS WERE, WERE PUT IN AT THAT TIME. TERRIFIC. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? AND I HAD TWO A QUESTION. TWO QUESTIONS. DID YOU SAY THERE'S NO OUTDOOR LIKE RUN? CORRECT. WE DON'T HAVE ANY EXTERIOR OUTDOOR RUN. OKAY. SO IF THE DOGS HAVE TO HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, STAY SOMEWHERE, THEY'RE GONNA BE INSIDE THE BUILDING. CORRECT? I, I, I MEAN THERE'S NO INTENTION FOR ANY TYPE OF BOARDING. UH, SO THERE'S NO LONG-TERM STAY. UH, CERTAINLY, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'LL BE PROVIDED, UH, FACILITIES OUTDOORS IF THERE'S ANY, UH, WAYS THAT NEEDS TO BE DISPOSED OF, BUT THERE'S NO, UH, PERMANENT FUNCTION TO, TO HAVE DOGS OUTSIDE. SORRY, COULD, COULD YOU CLARIFY? SO I THOUGHT IN THE PLANS THERE WAS, UH, AN INTERIOR RELIEF AREA WITH, WITH TURF AND, AND DRAINAGE AND THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE SHOOT AND MATCH. CORRECT. UM, YEAH. SO WHEN YOU, SO THE EXPECTATION WOULD BE THAT THE, THE ANIMALS UNDER CARE WOULD RELIEVE THEMSELVES IN THAT SPACE, THEY WOULDN'T BE CORRECT. WALKING UP CENTRAL AVENUE, CORRECT. UH, BEING, BEING RELIEVED OUTSIDE? YEP, THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. AND THERE'S A FAIRLY SUBSTANTIAL RETAINING WALL IN THE BACK OF THAT PROPERTY. HAS SOMEONE LOOKED AT IT TO SEE WHAT THE STABILITY IS AND THE CONDITION? UH, WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO ITS CURRENT STATUS. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I I DID HAVE A FEW. UM, SO YOU, YOU STATED THAT THE CENTRAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL IS RELOCATING FROM LEY ROAD TO, TO THIS SITE. UM, SO THE INTENTION WOULD BE TO SHUT DOWN OPERATIONS ENTIRELY AT, AT THE CURRENT LEY ROAD SITE, OR WOULD THIS BE A, A SECOND FACILITY? YEAH, ONCE THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE, THEY'D HAVE A FULL TRANSITION TO THE NEW SITE. AND THE, AND DO THEY OWN THAT SITE CURRENTLY OR DO THEY RENT IT OR, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. RENT IT. OKAY. RENT IT. SO YOU, SO YOU RENT IT SO YOUR LEASE WOULD END AND THEN, UH, AND YOU WOULD OWN THIS SITE ON, ON ALEY ROAD, OR SORRY, YOU'D OWN THE SITE ON CENTRAL AVENUE? YES. OKAY. UM, GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT. UM, THEN I, DO I HAVE THE MOTION FOR PUBLIC HEARING? NOPE. NO. SO THEN I, UH, SO THEN I WILL SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, FOR 25 10 CENTRAL AVENUE HOSPITAL FOR FEBRUARY 4TH, UH, OUR NEXT MEETING. GREAT. WE WILL GET THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES AND THE SIGNAGE TOGETHER, PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU WITH INSTRUCTIONS VIA EMAIL BY THE END OF THE WEEK. IN THE INTERIM, IF YOU CAN GET US THE RESPONSES TO THOSE COMMENTS THAT CAME UP AND REQUESTS THAT CAME UP THIS EVENING, WE'D LIKE THOSE BY NEXT WEDNESDAY. SO A WEEK FROM TONIGHT. OKAY. OF COURSE. HAVE A GREAT EVENING. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TIME. THANKS. GOODNIGHT. ALRIGHT, UH, NEXT UP WE HAVE, UH, SO, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WORK SESSION AND THEN WE'RE GONNA MOVE RIGHT INTO A PUBLIC HEARING. UM, SO FIRST FOR THE WORK SESSION, WE HAVE PB 25 28, UH, NATURE CENTER AT GREENBURG, WHO IS SEEKING A PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT AND A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT. UM, JUST THE STATE FOR THE RECORD, AS I HAVE WHEN, UH, THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBURG HAS COME BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD IN THE PAST. UM, MY WIFE IS CURRENTLY A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRUST OR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBURG. UM, AS SUCH, [02:00:01] I WILL BE ABSTAINING FROM ANY VOTES, UH, THAT OCCURRED THIS EVENING RELATED TO THE PROJECT. AND I'LL ALSO BE REMOVING MYSELF FROM ANY DISCUSSION TONIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALEX DUN. THANK YOU. YES. UH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBERG. AND OUR PROPOSAL IS FOR A WELCOME CENTER PAVILION. UH, WE HAVE BEEN IN FRONT OF THE PLANNING BOARD, UM, IN THE PAST. TONIGHT WE'RE HERE FOR OUR TREE REMOVAL PERMIT AND OUR STEEP SLOPE. BUT JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW TO REMIND THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. AARON, ARE YOU GONNA I, I DO. OKAY. I'M GONNA BRING UP THE PLANS. RIGHT. UM, SO THE WELCOME CENTER PAVILION WILL BE LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY NEAR OUR PARKING LOT. IT'S A 1200 SQUARE FOOT PAVILION, UH, WITH NO WALLS BUT A ROOFED STRUCTURE. SO YOU'VE SEEN THIS PICTURE BEFORE. UM, THE PATH UP IS AN A DA ACCESSIBLE PATH TO THE PAVILION. INSIDE IS ALSO A DA, UH, ACCESSIBLE. AND ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE PAVILION WILL BE COMPOSTING TOILETS, WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED THE APPROVAL FROM WESTCHESTER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ALREADY. UM, IN THIS LOCATION ON THE PROPERTY, UH, WE DID HAVE TO GET A HEIGHT VARIANCE, UM, FROM THE ZONING BOARD, WHICH WAS APPROVED. UM, AND NOW, UM, AS I SAID, WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE STEEP SLOPE AND THE TREE REMOVAL. UM, THE STRUCTURE ITSELF IS A KIT, UM, THAT IS CREATED BY LANCASTER BACKYARD COMPANY, AND THEY WILL BE BRINGING THE STRUCTURE UP ONCE WE PUT IN THE FOUNDATION. UM, WE ARE, LET ME JUST GIVE SOME QUICK BENEFITS, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE DONE THIS ALREADY. UM, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A, UM, ASSET TO THE PARK. UM, IT'S A COMMUNITY BENEFIT. IT WILL BE THE FRONT DOOR TO THE NATURE CENTER. SO WHEN A VISITOR COMES TO OUR PARKING LOT, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IN THE LOWER CORNER OF THAT MAP, UH, IT'S NOT ALWAYS CLEAR HOW TO GET UP TO OUR MANOR HOUSE OR HOW TO USE THE PROPERTY, THE 33 ACRES OF THE NATURE CENTER. SO THIS WOULD PROVIDE THAT, UM, OFFICIAL SORT OF FRONT DOOR TO OUR PROPERTY GIVING, UM, SIGNAGE, UH, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, UM, TALK ABOUT THE NONPROFIT THAT OPERATES ON THE PROPERTY, AND OF COURSE TALK ABOUT OUR, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, BEING THAT THE TOWN OWNS THE PROPERTY. AND THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBURG IS THE OPERATOR THAT HAS A 25 YEAR CONTRACT TO BE ON PROPERTY. SO THIS IMAGE THAT AARON IS SHOWING HERE, UM, IS, UH, SHOWING THE PATH UP TO THE PAVILION. AND THEN THE COMPOSTING TOILETS IS THE STRUCTURE BEHIND THERE WOULD BE A NEW PATH THAT, UM, THAT'S RIGHT, THAT COMES FROM THE BACK OF THE PAVILION WINDS THROUGH A, UM, NICE PART OF OUR FOREST, UM, WHERE WE CAN START OUR EDUCATION ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. THERE'S ALSO, UM, A RAIN GARDEN TO THE, UM, SOUTHWEST OF THE PROPERTY THAT WE'LL BE DEALING WITH STORMWATER RUNOFF. UM, AND, UH, THIS KIND OF ORIENTATION TO THE PROPERTY WE WANTED FOLKS TO EXPERIENCE, UM, A SIMILAR ENTRANCE AS TO NOW, BUT, UH, THE MAIN PATH THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS, UM, WOULD BE REMOVED AND REWILD, WHICH IS THAT AREA, UM, THAT THE CURSOR IS SHOWING THERE. BUT THE, UH, NEW PATH WOULD MEET UP WITH THAT. UM, AT THE TOP, AFTER YOU GET OVER SOME, UM, WE'RE GONNA, IN ESSENCE PUT GUESTS BACK TO WHERE THE GROUND IS FLAT. SO GET RID OF THE VERY STEEP BOARDWALK THAT'S CURRENTLY THERE. AND BY THIS WAY, UM, UH, YOU ENTER THE PROPERTY ON MORE OF A FLAT SURFACE. THAT PATH WILL NOT BE A DA ACCESSIBLE BECAUSE THE HANDICAPPED PARKING THAT WE HAVE FOR THE NATURE CENTER IS UP BEHIND THE MANOR HOUSE. SO, UM, WE WOULD THEN ASK, UM, THAT CAR, THE CAR, UM, CARRYING THE INDIVIDUAL WOULD GO UP TO THE MANOR HOUSE WHERE A DA ACCESS CAN THEN BE, UM, USED TO EITHER GO TO THE PLAYGROUND OR TO THE MANOR HOUSE, WHICH IS WHERE OUR LIVE ANIMAL MUSEUM IS. UM, QUICK QUESTION. YES. SINCE YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THAT, UM, I KNOW YOU HAVE SCHOOL BUSES AND OTHER BUSES THAT DROP OFF. WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO GO UP TO THE MANOR HOUSE TO DROP OFF? UM, SOMEONE WHO NEEDS TO YES. THAT CAN'T WALK THE PATH? OKAY. YES. SO, UM, THIS WILL ALLOW FOR, UM, SCHOOL BUSES TO SAFELY DROP OFF STUDENTS IN THAT TURNAROUND. IT WOULD ACTUALLY STOP TRAFFIC, WHICH IS GREAT, BUT IF WE DO HAVE A STUDENT THAT NEEDS EXTRA CARE, THE BUS CAN STILL ACCESS BY GOING FURTHER UP DRMO ROAD AND INTO THE NATURE CENTER THROUGH THE BACK DRIVEWAY AND TO THE A DA RAMP THAT THEN GOES INTO THE MANOR HOUSE. UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAD FOR THE OVERVIEW. UM, IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. OR WE HAVE OUR ARCHITECT HERE, RONAN WILKE FROM ALFI, UH, AND ASSOCIATES WHO CAN DIVE IN DEEPER IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING [02:05:01] THAT I CAN ANSWER. TWO THINGS. ONE, I'LL PAN BACK UP TO THE PROPOSED TREE REMOVAL 'CAUSE YOU HAVE SOME TREE REMOVAL AND LANDSCAPING. AND THEN JUST A REMINDER FOR THE BOARD, UM, SOME MEMBERS ARE NEWER AS WE KNOW. UH, THIS PROJECT DID COME BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD SOME TIME AGO, UH, IN A, IN ITS REQUEST TO RELEASE PARKLAND FUNDS FOR THAT'S CORRECT. SOME FUNDING PURPOSES. THAT'S CORRECT. IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROJECT. SO THE PLANNING BOARD DID REVIEW A CONCEPTUAL PLAN THAT WAS LAID OUT BY THE PROJECT TEAM AND, AND BY THE ARCHITECT. UM, AND THEN DID ULTIMATELY, UH, AGREE OR RECOMMEND TO THE TOWN BOARD THAT THE RELEASE OF THOSE FUNDS BE ACCOMMODATED TO FUND THIS PROJECT. SO, UM, JUST WANTED THE BOARD MEMBERS TO BE AWARE OF THAT. I THINK WE WERE, I, I THINK I WAS HERE BEFORE AT LEAST. OKAY. MM-HMM . AND I WAS THE NEWEST MEMBER, SO GREAT. I REMEMBER IT. OKAY. YEAH. SO I HAVE THE TREE REMOVAL. SO THE TREE REMOVAL SHOWS THE 11 TREES THAT WE WOULD BE REMOVING. UM, THE MAJORITY OF THESE TREES ARE ACTUALLY IN PRETTY POOR CONDITION. UM, SO IT'S FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT AS WELL AS FROM AN ACCESS TO, UM, ALLOW FOR, UH, THE CONSTRUCTION TO OCCUR ON THE SITE, WE WOULD BE REPLACING THOSE TREES. UM, WITH, UH, NATIVE, UM, OLDER, UH, I, I DON'T REMEMBER THE YEARS EXACTLY, BUT NOT JUST A TINY LITTLE SAPLING. WE'RE GONNA BE USING A, UM, OLDER TREE TO PLACE ON THE SITE. BUT THAT'S, UM, ONE STEP. I MEAN, WE ARE A NATURE CENTER. WE'RE ALWAYS EDUCATING ABOUT NATIVE PLANTS. WE'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT DEMONSTRATION GARDENS. SO WE'RE ACTUALLY REALLY EXCITED TO USE THIS PROPERTY IN THIS AREA TO, UM, DO FURTHER DEMONSTRATION, ESPECIALLY WITH THE RAIN GARDEN AND ANY OF THE TREES THAT WE PLANT TO REPLACE THE 11 THAT WE HAVE TO REMOVE. BUT THEY WOULD ALL BE NATIVES. GREAT. I HAVE ONE QUESTION GOING BACK TO THE A DA SPACES AS WELL. YEAH. DO APOLOGIES. UM, WOULD THERE BE SIGNAGE DIRECTING PEOPLE TO PARK UP AT THE MANOR HOUSE OR THE BUS TO GO TO THE MANOR HOUSE? YES. SO THERE ARE SIGNS RIGHT NOW ON ROMO ROAD. SO YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO GO TO VISITOR PARKING OR HANDICAP PARKING. THERE'S A SIGN THERE RIGHT NOW. WE COULD ALSO TALK ABOUT THAT INSIDE THE WELCOME CENTER. SO IF WE HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT COMES TO THE WELCOME CENTER AND THEN WANTS TO SEE MORE, WE CAN DEFINITELY PUT INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO GET UP. THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF WAY FINDING INFORMATION INSIDE THE WELCOME CENTER. UM, BECAUSE WE HEAR A LOT, UM, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE OR WHAT DO WE DO? AND THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE WANT TO ANSWER. UM, AND ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE WANT TO HAVE THIS STRUCTURE SO CLOSE TO THE PARKING LOT TO GIVE PEOPLE A SENSE OF HOW TO UTILIZE THE PROPERTY. AND THEN THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO HAVE AVAILABLE. ALRIGHT. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? IS ANY, UH, IMPERVIOUS SURFACE BEING ADDED? YES. UM, PERCENTAGE WISE, I DON'T KNOW RONAN IF YOU WANNA ANSWER THAT, BUT YES. UM, THE ACTUAL 1200 SQUARE FEET, UM, OF THE STRUCTURE AND THEN ALSO THE PATH LEADING UP TO THE STRUCTURE WOULD ALL BE, UM, IMPERVIOUS. ISN'T THE STRUCTURE LIKE ABOVE GROUND, DOESN'T, ISN'T IT ON LIKE PEDESTALS OR IT'S ON A FOUNDATION. IT'S ON A, IT'S ON A CEMENT, UH, FOUNDATION WITH FOOTINGS INTO THE GROUND, BUT IT'S NOT ABOVE THE EARTH. THE FLOOR IS NOT, NO, IT'S, I'M SORRY. UH, ROMAN WIL, UH, GI, LLP, UM, NO, IT'S, IT'S A, A SLAB ON GRADE WITH UNDERGROUND FOUNDATION FOR THE POST OF THE, OF THE STRUCTURE. OKAY. SO THAT'S ALL IMPERVIOUS SURFACE. SO WE ARE ADDING, UH, 1200 SQUARE FEET FOR THE PAVILION ITSELF AND ABOUT 150 FOR THE DOUBLE COMPOSTING TOILETS. HOWEVER, ALL OF THAT IS BEING TREATED THROUGH THE BIO RETENTION AREA, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH TIME REGULATION OF A 25 YEAR STORM. UH, THE REST OF THE, UH, UH, IMPERVIOUS SURFACES ARE ACTUALLY A REDUCTION AFTER WE'RE REMOVING SOME EXISTING IMPERVIOUS. WHAT WE'RE BUILDING IN, IN, IN ITS, IN IT, IN ITS PLACE IS ACTUALLY, UH, LESS THAN THAN, THAN THE CURRENT CONDITION. SO OVERALL, IF YOU TAKE OUT THE, THE, THE ADDITIONAL IMPERVIOUS THAT WE ARE TREATING VIA THE, UH, UH, BIO RETENTION, WE'RE ACTUALLY REDUCING IMPERVIOUS. OKAY. IS THERE ANY FLOODING ISSUES IN THAT GENERAL AREA GOING DOWN TO CENTRAL? NOT WHERE WE ARE. 'CAUSE WE'RE HIGH. SO WE, WE ARE ON A, ON A, JUST BELOW A RIDGE THAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO CROSS FROM THE PARKING LOT TOWARD THE MANOR. AND WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO BEEF UP THE STORM RETENTION FROM 25 YEARS? WHAT, WHAT MONEY? YEAH, LIKE, I MEAN, WHAT WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE ADDITIONAL COST, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY? WELL, IT COST IS RELATIVE, BUT, UH, THIS IS A NONPROFIT AND WE'RE ALREADY, UM, [02:10:01] UM, WAY ABOVE THE, UM, JUST TO MEET THE, UH, BASIC NEEDS OF THE, UH, OF, OF THE, UH, NATURE YEAH. OF THE, OF THE NATURE CENTER. AND OBVIOUSLY SATISFY ALL THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE HAVE TO BY REGULATION, WE, UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE, UH, WAY ABOVE WHAT, WHAT THE PLAN WAS ORIGINALLY IN TERMS OF FUNDING. SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A VERY TOUGH, TOUGH ISSUE TO, AT THIS POINT TRY AND ADD ANYTHING BEYOND WHAT WE'RE, UH, REQUIRED TO BY, BY REGULATION AND LAW. AND, AND LET ME ASK THIS QUESTION. THE AREA, UM, THE WAY THE SITE PITCHES IN THIS AREA, DOWNGRADE OF THE PAVILION IS A WOODED AREA. YES, IT'S A WOODED AREA AND THEN OUR NATIVE PLANT MEADOW, UM, AND THEN A FURTHER WOODED AREA, AND THEN THE RIGHT CENTRAL F ONSIDE AND THEN THE BACKSIDE OF WHAT IS THE NEW, UM, DEALERSHIP, WHICH IS THEIR PARKING LOT. SO YEAH, SO THERE IS A, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY FEET THAT IS, BUT A, A HUGE AREA OF, UM, HEAVILY FORESTED WHERE THE LEAVES HAVE BEEN FALLING FOR, UH, FOREVER. AND THEN THE ONLY OPEN AREA IS THE NATIVE PLANT MEADOW, WHICH WE PUT IN, UH, MANY YEARS AGO. SO ALL OF THAT WOULD BE, UM, BEFORE YOU HIT ANY KIND OF PAVED SURFACE. RIGHT. AND I, I DO BELIEVE DOWN, MAYBE ADJACENT TO THE MEADOW, BUT CLOSER TO THE ACCESS ROAD, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK THERE WAS AN EFFORT SOMEWHAT RECENTLY TO PLANT SOME ADDITIONAL SUGAR MAPLES. THAT'S RIGHT, YES. DOWN THERE. SO, UM, THE AREA THAT WE CALL THE VINEYARD, WHICH WAS THAT HAD GRAPES AT ONE POINT WE REMOVED THOSE BECAUSE THEY WERE A NON-PRODUCTIVE, UM, PLANT. AND WE DID PLANT MORE, UM, MAPLE TREES BECAUSE OUR SUGAR BUSH IS, UH, GETTING OLDER AND WE'RE PLANTING FOR THE FUTURE. SO WE DID PUT, UM, A STAND DOWN THERE OF, UM, MAPLE TREES. OKAY. ALRIGHT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? ALRIGHT THEN. UH, DON'T, DON'T GO FAR. WE'LL, WE WILL BEGIN OUR, OUR PUBLIC HEARING IN A MOMENT. THANK YOU. UM, I GUESS LET'S TAKE, UH, DO YOU WANNA TAKE A TWO MINUTES? TWO MINUTES? JUST LET THE SONOGRAPHER BAR, LET BARBARA OKAY. GET SET UP AND THEN, UH, WE'LL WE'LL JUMP BACK INTO IT. YES. GREAT. THANK YOU. BACK EVERYONE, UH, IT IS STILL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21ST AND THIS IS [02:15:01] STILL THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING. UM, SO WE HAVE OUR FIR OR I GUESS BEFORE WE BEGIN, UM, DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, UH, CAN YOU TAKE THE ROLE? SURE. CHAIR FIVE HERE. UH, MR. WEINBERG HERE. MS. MOYER ON ZOOM HERE AND OUR ALTERNATE MS. ANDERSON WHO WILL BE VOTING THIS EVENING HERE. THANK YOU. UH, ALRIGHT. SO OUR FIRST PUBLIC HEARING OF THE EVENING, UH, IS PB 25 28 NATURE CENTER AT GREENBERG, WHO IS SEEKING A PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT AND TREE REMOVAL PERMIT. UM, AND AS I STATED DURING THE WORK SESSION, UM, FOR THE RECORD, MY WIFE IS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBERG. UH, AND AS SUCH, I WILL BE ABSTAINING FROM ANY VOTES, UH, TAKEN THIS EVENING, EV TAKING THIS EVENING RELATED TO THIS PROJECT. AND I'LL ALSO BE, UH, ABSTAINING FROM ANY DISCUSSION. UM, THANK YOU. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ALEX DUNN. COULD YOU PROVIDE A, A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW, UH, FOR THE RECORD OF THE PROJECT BEFORE US? YES. UM, AGAIN, MY NAME IS ALEX. IT'S A LIX DUNN, UM, AND I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATURE CENTER AT GREENBERG. THE NATURE CENTER IS PROPOSING A, UH, WELCOME CENTER PAVILION TO BE LOCATED ADJACENT TO OUR VISITOR PARKING LOT. UH, THIS PAVILION WILL PROVIDE EASY ACCESS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND OUR GUESTS TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROPERTY. IN ESSENCE, IT'S THE FRONT DOOR TO THE NATURE CENTER. IT WILL PROVIDE, UM, SIGNAGE WAY, FINDING SIGNAGE, AS WELL AS INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION. UM, AND OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, THE PAVILION, UM, WILL ALSO HAVE COMPOSTING TOILETS. SO WE GET TO ADD THAT NICE, UM, AMENITY OF HAVING TOILETS IN THE PARKING LOT BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW, UH, THE, THE ONLY TOILETS ARE IN THE MANOR HOUSE AND THAT'S NEVER WHERE YOUR CHILD HAS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM. IT'S ALWAYS AFTER YOU'VE WALKED DOWN TO THE PARKING LOT. SO WE WILL BE PROVIDING THAT. UM, UH, IT'S A CLS UM, COMPOSTING TOILET. IT'S ACTUALLY TWO, UM, THAT LOOKS LIKE A SMALLER STRUCTURE THERE, BUT IT'S TWO, UH, A DA, UM, TOILETS. THERE IS, UH, NO POTABLE WATER TO THE SITE, SO THERE WOULD BE A HAND WASHING STATION AS WELL. UM, AND THE WELCOME CENTER WILL ALLOW FOR MY TEAM TO ENGAGE WITH THE PUBLIC UPON THEIR ARRIVAL. IT WILL ALSO ALLOW FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN TO SAFELY, UH, GET OFF OF A SCHOOL BUS AND BACK ONTO A SCHOOL BUS. 'CAUSE WE HAVE SCHOOL PROGRAMS, THE NATURE CENTER, UH, DAILY. AND, UM, THE WELCOME CENTER WOULD BE OPEN THE SAME TIME AS THE PARK, WHICH IS FROM, UH, DAWN TO DUSK. THE TOILETS AS WELL WOULD BE OPEN FROM DAWN TO DUSK. AND WE'RE LOOKING INTO LOCKS FOR THE NIGHTTIME, UM, SENSOR LOCKS THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THEM TO BE LOCKED, BUT THEY WOULD BE OPEN, UM, ALL SEASON LONG. UM, AND THE SITE ALLOWS US TO DO A LOT OF DEMONSTRATION GARDENS, LIKE A RAIN GARDEN DEALING WITH STORM WATER, ALSO IN THE FORESTED AREA TO TALK ABOUT THE TREES THAT WE WILL BE PLANTING. UM, IT ALSO ALLOWS FOR A REALLY BEAUTIFUL ENTRANCE ONTO THE PROPERTY WITH THAT, UM, PATH THAT SORT OF MEANDERS THROUGH A BEAUTIFUL PART OF OUR FOREST. UM, AND BRINGS THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE TOP OF THE ORIGINAL ENTRANCE PATH, WHICH IS A LOVELY WAY TO ALSO ENTER THE PROPERTY BECAUSE THE MANOR HOUSE SORT OF UN UNVEILS ITSELF AS YOU SORT OF MOVE THROUGH THIS NICE, UM, UH, HEAVILY WOODED AREA. UM, IT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PROPERTY. WE WOULD STILL HAVE OUR HANDICAP PARKING UP BEHIND THE MANOR HOUSE. THE PROJECT, UM, DOES REQUIRE A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT AS WELL AS A STEEP SLOPE PERMIT. WE HAVE BEEN IN FRONT OF THE ZONING BOARD FOR OUR HEIGHT VARIANCE. UM, AND, UH, WE ALSO HAVE RECEIVED FUNDS FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT. UM, AND WE WERE IN FRONT OF THE PLANNING BOARD FOR THAT. UM, IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROJECT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER. GREAT. UH, IS THERE ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC THIS EVENING WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON, UH, THIS APPLICATION? PB 25 28 NATURE CENTER AT GREENBURG. UH, WHICH AGAIN IS STEEP SEEKING A PLANNING BOARD, STEEP SLOPE PERMIT AND A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT. ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? ALL RIGHT. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT, IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK THANK YOU ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING? ALRIGHT. UM, [02:20:01] ARE THERE ANY MOTIONS ON THE FLOOR THEN? UH, THERE WOULD BE CONSIDERATION FROM THE BOARD. I KNOW THE CHAIR IS ABSTAINING, BUT, UM, CONSIDERATION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING. LEAVE THE WRITTEN RECORD OPEN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE WEEK AND THEN HAVE THIS MATTER ON FOR A DECISION AT OUR NEXT MEETING ON FEBRUARY 4TH. SO MOVED SECOND. UH, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. AND THE CHAIR ABSTAINS VERY WELL. UH, MAY I ASK A QUESTION, UM, AT THE TIME OF THE NEXT, UH, PLANNING BOARD MEETING, WOULD WE ALSO BE GETTING OUR STORMWATER PERMIT AT THAT TIME? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT GOES INTO CONSIDERATION? SO THE STORMWATER PERMIT RUNS THROUGH THE TOWN ENGINEER. OKAY. SO YOU CAN FOLLOW UP WITH OUR OFFICE AND OR THE TOWNS ENGINEER TOMORROW. OKAY. AND WE'LL SEE HOW YOU'RE MOVING ALONG IN THAT PROCESS. BUT THIS BOARD DOESN'T ISSUE THE STORMWATER PERMIT. OKAY. SO IT, ADMINISTRATIVE. ADMINISTRATIVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. HAVE A GREAT EVENING. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UH, ALRIGHT. UH, NEXT UP OUR NEXT CASE IS PB 25 24, THE PICKLER, UM, WHICH IS SPEAK SEEKING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A FULLY ENCLOSED COMMERCIAL RECREATION FACILITY. UH, IS THE APPLICANT ON ZOOM HERE IN PERSON? GOOD EVENING. YES. ON, ON ZOOM FROM COUNCIL PROJECTS? YES. WE'RE HERE ON ZOOM THIS EVENING. HI THERE. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD. HOW ARE YOU? VERY GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. UM, SO I KNOW WE HAD A, A CONDENSED, UH, WORK SESSION AT THE LAST MEETING. UM, COULD YOU GIVE US A, A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF, UM, THE PROJECT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. UM, SO OUR CLIENT IS SEEKING, UM, A SPECIAL PERMIT APPLICATION, UH, FOR AN INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY THAT EXCEEDS 5,000 SQUARE FEET. UM, OUR SITE IS LOCATED AT 10 19 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE SOUTH, UM, ALSO KNOWN AS THE FORMER BYE BYE BABY LOCATION. UM, WE ARE, OUR PROGRAM INCLUDES, UM, AN EIGHT COURT INDOOR PICKLEBALL FACILITY, UM, UNDER THE NATIONAL FRANCHISE OF PICKLER. UM, WHICH RUNS AND OPERATES AS A MEMBER BASED, UM, RESERVATION MODEL. UM, THE EIGHT QUAS ALLOW, UH, APPROXIMATELY, UM, 32 PLAYERS AT A, YOU KNOW, MAXIMUM CAPACITY. AND THEN THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL PROGRAM, UM, SUPPORTS SUCH AS SPECT, SPECTATOR SEATING, UM, RECEPTION, AND VERY SMALL RETAIL AREA. UM, A COMMUNITY ROOM THAT SUPPORTS USERS INSIDE THE BUILDING FOR SPECIAL EVENTS OR, UM, UH, TEAM BUILDING. UM, AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT OUR, UM, PROGRAM AND OUR APPLICATION IS. THERE ARE NO, UM, CHANGES TO THE FOOTPRINT PROPOSED OR ANY, UM, SITE DEVELOPMENTS. UM, I DID WANNA CLARIFY THAT WE DID INCLUDE SOME PRELIMINARY SIGNAGE, REALLY FROM A CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE, UM, FOR THE BOARD TO BE ABLE TO SEE. WE RECEIVED SOME INITIAL FEEDBACK, UM, THAT THERE WERE SOME, UM, NON-COMPLIANT COMPONENTS. BUT WE, UH, OUR INTENT IS FOR ALL THE SIGNS TO COMPILE WITH THE ZILLION CODE AND WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH OUR SIGNAGE CONSULTANT, UM, TO PUT TOGETHER A FORMAL APPLICATION. GREAT. THANK, THANK YOU. UM, IS THERE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON, UH, THIS APPLICATION THIS EVENING? ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANYONE ON ZOOM WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS APPLICATION? DEPUTY COMMISSIONER SCHMIDT. DO YOU SEE ANYONE ON ZOOM? I DO NOT. NO ONE ON ZOOM. UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, FROM THE BOARD THIS EVENING? IS, UH, THE WHOLE FACILITY ON ONE LEVEL OR IS IT MULTI-LEVEL? THE MAIN LEVEL HOUSES ALL OF THE EIGHT COURTS. UM, AND THE COMMUNITY SPACE, THE LOWER LEVEL LEVEL WILL HAVE, UM, THE LOCKER ROOM, SHOWER AND BATHROOM FACILITIES. AND IS THAT ALL A DA [02:25:01] ACCESSIBLE? THERE IS AN ELEVATOR, YES. OKAY. AND WHAT ABOUT THE BATHROOM? SAME THING? YES, THEY'RE ALL ON THE LOWER LEVEL. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD? NO, NOT FROM ME. ALRIGHT. UM, THEN I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND KEEP THE WRITTEN RECORD OPEN THROUGH JANUARY 28TH. SO MOVED. UH, MOVED. MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. CHAIR VOTES? AYE. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. DEVITO. HAVE A NICE EVENING. SO, UH, JUST IN TERMS OF PROCEDURE, THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER A DECISION AT ITS NEXT MEETING ON FEBRUARY 4TH. HAVE A GREAT EVENING. THANK YOU, BARBARA. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UM, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, SESSION OF OUR MEETING. SO, MOVED. MOVED, MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED. MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. UH, CHAIR VOTES. AYE. AND THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING SESSION IS, UH, ADJOURNED. UM, ALRIGHT, SO BACK TO NEW BUSINESS. WE HAVE ONE P ONE LAST PIECE OF NEW BUSINESS, UH, IN FRONT OF US THIS EVENING. UH, THIS IS A TOWN BOARD REFERRAL TB 25 0 3, UH, PB 25 1, LAWRENCE, UH, ARDSLEY, LLC AT ONE LAWRENCE STREET. UH, AND THEY ARE SEEKING A TOWN BOARD SITE PLAN, UH, APPROVAL, WHICH, WHICH AGAIN IS REFERRED FROM THE TOWN BOARD. A TOWN BOARD TRUE REMOVAL PERMIT, A ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS SPECIAL USE PERMIT, UH, A PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT, UH, AND A PLANNING BOARD WETLAND WATERCOURSE PERMIT. JUST A QUICK NOTE BEFORE THE APPLICANT BEGINS. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS AN INITIAL WORK SESSION WITH THE PLANNING BOARD, SO AS THOROUGH OF A PRESENTATION AS YOU CAN GET THROUGH, WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE BOARD'S BENEFIT. WE DO HAVE JOHN CANNING TOWN TRAFFIC CONSULTANT FOR THIS PROJECT ON THE ZOOM. UH, SO HE CAN REPORT IN ON WHAT HE'S REVIEWED TO DATE AND ANYTHING OUTSTANDING. AND OBVIOUSLY, UH, THE BOARD, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE BOARD TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS OR GIVE THE APPLICANT ANY HOMEWORK OR REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. WE'LL DO SO AND THEN WE'LL HAVE YOU BACK LIKELY FOR A FUTURE FOLLOW UP WORK SESSION. UNDERSTOOD. MM-HMM . GOOD EVENING, MAYOR OF THE BOARD. UH, MATT BARONS FROM THE LAW FIRM, STEINMETZ HERE WITH THE FULL DEVELOPMENT TEAM, AS WELL AS ONE OF THE CO-OWNERS, UM, OF THE PROPERTY. UH, WE'RE EXCITED TO BE KICKING OFF AND PRESENTING REALLY AN FIRST, AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS PROJECT TO THE PROPERTY, WHAT THE PROPOSAL IS. UM, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THIS IS A REFERRAL FROM THE TOWN BOARD DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY, DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE, UH, THE, THE PARCEL ASSEMBLAGE TOWN BOARD HAS SITE PLAN JURISDICTION OVER THIS. YOU'RE BEING REFERRED TO, WE'LL GO BACK, BUT WE OBVIOUSLY WE'LL HAVE TO COME BACK FOR, HAVE TO COME BACK FOR STEEP SLOPE PERMITS AS WELL. UM, WE'RE ALSO IN FRONT OF THE ZBA DUE TO, UM, THE WAY THE CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD USE IS CLASSIFIED UNDER THE CODE BECAUSE IT'S NOT STRICTLY ENUMERATED IN THE LI OR THE GI DISTRICT, WHICH WE ARE UNDER. UM, WE DO NEED A SPECIAL PERMIT FOR THAT USE. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE HERE FOR THE REFERRAL, INTRODUCE THE PROJECT, UM, AND, AND CONTINUE FROM THERE. SO THIS IS THE ONE LAWRENCE SITE. IT WAS THE FORM, IT WAS FORMER CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING PLANT. UM, THE NOBEL SITE, UM, THAT HAS SINCE BEEN DECOMMISSIONED. UM, THERE WAS A, A TON OF CONTAMINATION ON THE SITE THAT HAS BEEN CLEANED UP. UM, IT HAS, THE PROPERTY WAS FULLY CLEANED TO DEC STANDARDS. IT WAS ENTERED INTO THE BCP, THE BROWNFIELD CLEANUP PROGRAM. UM, SUCCESSFULLY IT'S RECEIVED ITS CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION, WHICH THE CO IT'S PASSED TO THE NEW CO-OWNERS. UM, WITH THAT THERE IS A CAP ALONG THE TOP OF CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE PROPERTY. THE DISTURBED AREA, IT'S ABOUT A 12 INCH CAP. UM, IT DOESN'T PRECLUDE ALL DEVELOPMENT WHATSOEVER, HOWEVER, IT JUST REQUIRES, UM, CERTAIN NOTIFICATION OF THE DEC WHEN YOU DO, UH, BREAK INTO THAT CAP, WHICH, UM, THE OWNERS HAVE ENGINEERS JCS HERE, AS WELL AS OTHER ENGINEERS WHO ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE DEC PROCESS AND WITH THE BCP REQUIREMENTS. UM, WE ARE PROPOSING IN LINE WITH THE NON-RESIDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE BROWNFIELD PROGRAM. A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USE. IT ESSENTIALLY IS TWO COMPONENTS. THE FIRST IS A OUTDOOR CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD, WHICH WILL TAKE UP, IF YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, THE BULK OF THAT DISTURBED AREA. WE'RE NOT GOING BEYOND THE DISTURBED AREA. WE'RE STAYING WITHIN WHAT [02:30:01] WAS ALREADY DISTURBED. AND THE MAJORITY OF THAT WILL BE A OUTDOOR CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD USE. AND THEN ALONG THIS SIDE, AS, AS MARK OUR ENGINEER WILL GET INTO IS GOING TO BE, UM, PORTION OF THAT WILL BE A RIDER TRUCK. SO OUTDOOR MOTOR VEHICLE STORAGE. UM, THIS WILL NOT BE SUPER FREQUENT USE. THIS IS MORE ON DEMAND REQUESTS FOR A RIDER TRUCK, UM, IN THE AREA. SOMEONE WILL COME ON SITE, BRING IT TO ANOTHER SITE WHERE A CUSTOMER WILL PICK IT UP. NO CUSTOMER OR COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS WILL, WILL OCCUR ON SITE. UM, IT, IT'S RESPECTFULLY CONTEXTUAL, THIS KIND OF USE. UM, IF YOU LOOK ACROSS, ADJACENT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ONE LAWRENCE, I BELIEVE THAT'S THE SPORT TIME BUILDING. THERE'S, WHICH IS A LARGE, THERE'S AMUSEMENT CENTER, A LARGE EVENT SPACE. UM, THERE'S ALSO A FOOD AND BEVERAGE, UM, DISTRIBUTION TENANT. UM, SO YOU SEE THOSE LARGER TRUCK, UH, TRUCKS GOING ALONG. ONE LAWRENCE, UM, FROM THAT TENANT USE, IF YOU LOOK ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, THERE'S THE PARKWAY. THE RIGHT SIDE, THERE'S NINE A, AGAIN, FURTHER ON THE TO THE RIGHT IS UM, I 87. SO IF YOU, IF YOU STAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT SITE, IT IS EXTREMELY NOISY GIVEN THOSE THREE DIFFERENT, UH, ROADWAYS. UM, SO IT'S ALREADY A NOISY AREA. AND THIS WOULD BE, AGAIN, A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL SITE THAT WE BELIEVE IS CONTEXTUAL WITH THE, WITH THE AREA. WE ARE, UM, PROVIDING UPGRADED LANDSCAPING AND BUFFERING ALONG THE PERIMETER OF THE SITE, UH, WHICH WILL ALL BE CODE COMPLIANT. UH, THERE'S THE, THE TRAILWAY, THE COUNTY TRAILWAY ON THE LEFT SIDE. IT'S CURRENTLY VERY OVERGROWN. IT'S, THERE'S A RUSTED CHAIN LINK FENCE THERE. UM, THAT WILL ALL BE UPGRADED WITH NEW FENCING, NEW, UH, MATURE SCREENING, MATURE LANDSCAPING, WHICH, UM, UH, MARK WILL GET INTO EVEN MORE. BUT THAT'S ALL CODE COMPLIANT AND WE WANNA MAKE IT ALSO AESTHETICALLY AND VISUAL IMPACTS AS WELL. UM, I'LL STOP THERE. I'LL GO LET MARK TALK THROUGH THE SITE PLAN AND SOME OTHER SITE CONSIDERATIONS AND WE'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THERE. THANK YOU. UH, GOOD EVENING. MARK PETRO FROM JMC. UH, WE'RE THE CIVIL ENGINEERS ON THE PROJECT, AS WAS, UH, MENTIONED BY, UH, MR. BURNS. UH, THE, UH, SITE AS SHOWN ON THE SCREEN AS, AS WAS MENTIONED ALREADY, UH, IS SHOWN HERE IN THE CENTER. IT'S THIS TAN COLORED AREA IS THE DISTURBED AREA. HOWEVER, THE PROPERTY DOES EXTEND FURTHER NORTH, WHICH IS NOT SHOWN. UM, WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE IS YOU GOT NINE A ON THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE PROPERTY. YOU GOT LAWRENCE STREET ON THE SOUTHERN SIDE, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE TRAILWAY THAT BORDERS IT ON THE WEST. AND YES, YOU HAVE SOMEWHERE PARKWAY HERE TO THE, TO THE WEST FURTHER. AND YOU HAVE 87, UH, OVER HERE IN THE VIEW. SO THIS IS JUST TO ORIENT YOU. UM, AND THEN WHAT I WILL DO IS JUST, I'LL GO TO THE LANDSCAPING PLAN, WHICH IS KIND OF ROTATED A BIT. SO NORTH IS ACTUALLY PLAN EAST ON THIS. SO, UH, YOU HAVE LAUREN STREET ON YOUR, YOUR YOUR LEFT SIDE HERE LOOKING. AND THEN YOU GOT ROUTE NINE A ON YOUR SOUTHERN SIDE OF THE PLAN. AND THEN YOU GOT THE TRAILWAY HERE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PLAN. SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE, THE LANDSCAPING THAT'S PROPOSED. UM, IT IS A 10.77 ACRE PROPERTY. UH, IT IS LOCATED IN THE GI ZONE. UM, AND IT DOES HAVE TWO EXISTING CURB CUTS ON LAWRENCE STREET. NOW IT DOES A FENCING AROUND IT AND GATES, UH, AT THOSE LOCATIONS THERE AS WELL. UM, SO AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, IT IS THE PROPOSED OUTDOOR STORAGE YARD, WHICH IS TO BE A GRAVEL AREA, UM, WHICH IS 110,000 SQUARE FEET. UM, AND THEN AS WAS MENTIONED, THERE'S THE 48, UH, TRUCK PARKING, UH, STORAGE SPACES OVER HERE, 48 OF 'EM, UH, ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO THE TRAILWAY. UH, WHICH DOES SHOW THE, THE VEGETATIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE EVERGREEN SCREENING THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ON THAT SIDE TOO, TO PROVIDE THE BUFFER, WHICH IS CODE COMPLIANT. UM, WE DO, UH, WE ARE PROPOSING TO MAINTAIN THOSE TWO SITE ACCESS LOCATIONS ON LAUREN STREET. UM, BOTH DRIVEWAYS ARE PROPOSED TO BE RECONSTRUCTED AS TWO-WAY DRIVEWAYS. THEY CURRENTLY ARE TWO-WAY DRIVEWAYS. HOWEVER, BASED ON COORDINATION THAT WE'VE HAD, 'CAUSE YOUR TOWN TRAFFIC CONSULTANT HAS PROVIDED REVIEWS ON THIS ALREADY. WE ARE RESTRICTING LEFT TURNS IN AT THE DRIVEWAY ON THE WESTERN DRIVEWAY, WHICH IS THE ONE CLOSEST TO THE PARKWAY. UM, THAT ONE IS GONNA RESTRICT LEFT TURNS IN. UM, SO PEOPLE COMING FROM THE PARKWAY OVER THERE WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE A LEFT INTO THE EASTERNMOST DRIVEWAY. UM, UH, WE ARE PROVIDING 64 PARKING SPACES, UH, IN ADDITION TO THOSE CARGO SPACES OR RIDER TRUCK SPACES. UH, FOUR OF THOSE ARE ACCESSIBLE PARKING [02:35:01] SPACES. WE DO HAVE LOADING AREAS ADJACENT TO THE OUTDOOR STORAGE YARD, UH, WHICH WOULD BE ON THE PLANT, UH, THE WEST AND THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF THOSE. AND THEY WOULD BE THE FULL LENGTH OF THE AREA. JUST FOR LOADING PURPOSES OF THE, UH, THE STORAGE YARD. UH, THERE IS A SIDEWALK THAT WERE BEING PROPOSED AS WELL AS THE, THE CIRCULATION, UH, UH, ACCESS AROUND THE SITE, WHICH CIRCLES AROUND THE STORAGE YARD AND THEN BACK OUT TO THE OTHER ACCESS ROAD, UH, ACCESS, UM, ONTO LAWRENCE STREET. UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ARE PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, SUB SUBSTANTIAL VEGETATION, UH, COMPARED TO WHAT CURRENTLY EXISTS ON THE PROPERTY. AS YOU SAW IN THE PICTURE, IT'S BECAUSE OF THE REMEDIATION THAT WAS DONE THERE. IT'S, IT'S PRETTY MUCH A BLANK CANVAS, BUT WE ARE NOT DISTURBING BEYOND WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN DISTURBED, UH, AS PART OF THAT REMEDIATION WORK THAT'S ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED. UM, AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE DEC, UH, WE DID RECEIVE BACK FROM THEM, UH, DETERMINATION ON THE WETLANDS, UH, JURISDICTION. SO WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THEM THROUGH THEIR PROCESS ON THAT AS WELL. 'CAUSE THEY IDENTIFIED IT AS A LOCATION. UM, SO THAT IS SOMETHING WE'LL BE WORKING WITH WITHOUT CITY AGENCY AS WELL ON. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE BOARD AWARE OF THAT. UM, BUT REALLY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL. THERE WAS A TRAFFIC STUDY THAT WAS DONE, IT WAS REVIEWED BY YOUR CONSULTANT AS WELL. UM, AND WE'RE JUST, UH, IN FRONT OF YOU TO GIVE YOU A VERY BRIEF AND HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT AT THIS POINT. COULD YOU TAKE JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES? I KNOW WE'RE HERE ON A REFERRAL FROM THE TOWN BOARD, BUT THERE ARE, UH, THERE ARE WETLAND WATER COURSE PERMIT AND STEEP SLOPE PERMITS THAT ARE GONNA BE CONSIDERED BY THE PLANNING BOARD. WE USUALLY KIND OF JUST GROUP IT ALL TOGETHER, AT LEAST AS PART OF THE WORK SESSION. YEP. UM, SO IF YOU COULD JUST SHOW THE STEEP SLOPE DISTURBANCE AND THEN THE WETLAND WATER COURSE DISTURBANCE AREAS. SO DISCUSS THAT. YEP. UH, RIGHT HERE WHERE MY CURSOR IS, IT'S ACTUALLY THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE PROPERTY IS THE SOMO RIVER, WHICH TRANSVERSES, UH, NORTH TO SOUTH AND THEN IT MEANDERS TOWARDS THE WESTERN SIDE. AS YOU GET FURTHER UP THE PROPERTY, UH, WE'RE NOT DISTURBING, UH, THE WETLAND ITSELF. WE ARE IN THE BUFFER IS WHERE OUR DISTURBANCE WOULD BE. AND OBVIOUSLY WE WERE WORKING THROUGH THAT AS WELL. UM, AND I BELIEVE BASED ON THE COUNTY MAP WHERE THEY SHOW A WETLAND ON THE NORTHERN END OF THE PROPERTY, OUTSIDE OF THE ALREADY DISTURBED AREA TOO, WHICH WE NOT BE TOUCHING. UM, AND THEN AS FAR AS THE STEEP SLOPES, WE DID SHOW AN EXISTING PLAN HERE, UH, WITH, WHICH HAS THE DELINEATION OF THE STEEP SLOPE AREAS HERE. SO THERE'S, UH, MORE CLOSER TO THE STREET, TO THE SOME RIVER. THERE'S SOME STEEP SLOPES IN THIS AREA, BUT GENERALLY YOU, YOU HAVE THESE FEW, THIS LITTLE AREA HERE AND THEN MAYBE A LITTLE BIT IN THIS AREA HERE. OTHERWISE, GENERALLY THESE AREAS WOULD BE REMAINING THE ONES CLOSEST TO THE RIVER THERE. SO THE BLUE THAT'S DOTTED THERE IS, IS THE DISTURBANCE LINE. SO THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF AS FAR AS WHAT, WHICH AREAS WE'D BE DISTURBING FROM THE STEEP STOVE STANDPOINT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. SO NOW I KNOW WE HAVE, SO IT'S NOW I, IT'S NOW 9 42. UM, AND I KNOW WE HAVE JOHN CANNING HERE WITH US, AND SO I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM JOHN. UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE WE WILL NOT BE MAKING ANY DECISIONS TONIGHT. THIS WILL BE ON FOR A FUTURE WORK SESSION TO CONTINUE. UM, SO IF THE BOARD HAS HAS ANY QUESTIONS, THEY CAN CERTAINLY SUBMIT THEM TO STAFF. I, I KNOW MS. MOYER HAD SUBMITTED SOME QUESTIONS MM-HMM . AND I THINK WE'RE STILL WAITING TO, TO RECEIVE SOME RESPONSES. AND SO I'LL GIVE HER A FEW MINUTES AFTER, UH, MR. CANNING TO SUMMARIZE HER QUESTIONS. BUT, BUT FIRST, UH, MR. CANNING, UH, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE PROJECT. THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN. EVENING BOARD. SO THE PROPOSED USE IS A RELATIVELY MODEST TRAFFIC GENERATOR. IT IS A CONTRACTOR'S YARD, BUT THERE ARE TWO ASPECTS OF IT THAT ARE, UM, I GUESS RUNNING UP AGAINST EXISTING CONDITIONS. ANY OF YOU HAVE USED THE SOLAR RIVER PARKWAY KNOW WHAT A BOTTLENECK IT IS AT, UM, FLORENCE STREET AND EVEN ON LARGE STREET USED GO BACK QUITE EXTENSIVELY. UH, SOMETIMES AS FAR AS I A, UH, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE IDENTIFIED THIS WITH THE APPLICANT. WE'VE BEEN REQUESTING THAT THEY, UH, LOOK AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT COULD BE DONE TO AT LEAST IMPROVE THAT SOMEWHAT OR AT LEAST LAY THE FOUNDATION TO IMPROVE IT. UM, A PROJECT WITH THIS NATURE [02:40:01] IS NOT GENERATING THE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC THAT REALLY MOVES THE NEEDLE, BUT THE NEEDLE'S ALREADY STUCK IN RED. SO WE'RE SEEING IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP. AND THE SECOND ASPECT IS, UM, THE SIZE OF THE TRUCKS THAT WILL BE VISITING THE SITE. UM, THEY PROVIDE TRUCK TURNING ANALYSIS AND GENERALLY, UM, THAT THEY SHOW THAT THEY CAN TURN INTO AN OUT OF GUARD STREET. BUT I WOULD NOTE THAT THE TURNS AT BARN STREET AND NINE A ITSELF ARE ALSO KIND OF TIGHT. SO WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THEM WITH THAT. AND THE FINAL ASPECT FROM A TRAFFIC PERSPECTIVE IS, UH, HOW MUCH, HOW RESTRICTIVE TO HAVE ACCESS TO MAKE ACCESS AT THE WESTERN DRIVEWAY. 'CAUSE THE QUEUING ON ARMS STREET APPROACHING IS SOME LITTLE PARKWAY DURING THE PEAK HOURS FREQUENTLY BACKED UP ON BLOCKS THAT DRIVEWAY LOCATION. SO AS, UH, MR. PET INDICATED ALREADY, I BELIEVE THAT THE INTENT WAS TO PROHIBIT LEFT TURNS IN AT THAT LOCATION, UH, INSTEAD HAVE, UM, TRUCKS TURN LEFT IN AT THE EASTERN DRIVEWAY, WHICH WE, UH, SUPPORT THAT RECOMMENDATION. BUT WE'RE ALSO A BIT CONCERNED ABOUT HAVING VEHICLES TURNING OUT THERE BECAUSE, UH, DURING PEAK HOURS THEY WOULD BE TURNING OUT THROUGH A GAP IF SOMEBODY LEFT A GAP IN, UH, THE WESTBOUND QUEUE. AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO SEE EASTBOUND TRAFFIC ON ORANGE STREET. SO THOSE ARE THE ISSUES BASICALLY. IT'S NOT SO MUCH THE PROJECT ITSELF AS THE CURRENT LEVEL OF TRAFFIC IN THE AREA AND HOW WE CAN BEST SEE, WE CAN ACCOMMODATE. AND I CERTAINLY WOULD WELCOME ANY INSIGHTS THAT THE BOARD MEMBERS WOULD HAVE. I'M SURE YOU ARE SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR WITH THE SIDE. OKAY, THANK YOU JOHN. UM, WITH RESPECT TO YOUR LAST COMMENT, YOU WERE REFERRING TO CONCERNS WITH LEFTS OUT OF THE WESTERN MOST DRIVEWAY OR, OR RIGHTS AS WELL? NO, NO LIGHTS ARE. OKAY. UM, AND NOW, NO, THAT IF IT'S A TRUCK, THEY CAN'T GO OUT THE PROPERTY. THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO ACROSS OUR STREET, STREET AND THROUGH DO , BEACON HILL ROAD DOWN TO ASHFORD AVENUE, UM, OR AVENUE, ONE OF THOSE STREETS MM-HMM . UM, DOWN TO ASHFORD AVENUE. BUT, UH, RIGHT CENTER RIGHTS OUT OF THE WEST DRIVEWAY WOULD BE OKAY BECAUSE IF THERE'S A QUEUE THERE, YOU JUST WAIT. IF YOU'RE ENTERING, YOU JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU GET THERE AND YOU MAKE A RIGHT TURN. AND IF YOU'RE EXITING, YOU WAIT TILL SOMEBODY LETS YOU MAKE THE TURN AND THEN YOU GET OUT. IT'S THE LEFT IN THAT ARE PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE IF YOU COME FROM ACROSS THE PARKWAY AND YOU WAITING TO MAKE A LEFT TURN AND THERE'S A QUEUE AND NOBODY LETS YOU IN, NOW YOU'RE BLOCKING TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC AND THE LEFT OUT ARE PROBLEMATIC ALSO. BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY IS KIND ENOUGH TO LET YOU OUT, THERE'S PROBABLY A CAR TO YOUR RIGHT AND YOU MAY OR MAY NOT SEE WHETHER THERE'S SOMEBODY COMING, UH, IN THE, IN THE PASSING LANE, THE FAR PASSING LANE. SO THOSE ARE THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT. THANK YOU. I THINK ALSO IT SORT OF BACKS UP THERE GOING INTO WHERE THE, WHERE THE UM, MOVIE THEATER AND THE MOM'S ORGANIC GROCERY AND I THINK IS THERE AN ALTA OVER THERE AND IN MY GYM? YES, AN APARTMENT. UM, AND THERE CAN BE A VERY LARGE BACKUP, BUT THAT'S THE OTHER DIRECTION. SO IS THERE A CROSSWALK THERE? THERE IS A CROSSWALK AND IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, UM, SADLY I THINK SOME, A PEDESTRIAN MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED THERE THREE, FIVE YEARS AGO. YEAH, THAT SOUNDS RIGHT. BUT THERE IS A CROSSWALK AND IT'S ACTIVATED WHEN, UM, TRAFFIC IS GOING WESTBOUND, I BELIEVE ON LAWRENCE STREET. SO THE CARS ARE NOT GOING THAT FAST. IF YOU CROSS AT THE CROSSWALK AT THE INDICATION, THEN YOU SHOULD BE FINE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT PARTICULAR INCIDENT. WELL, I DON'T RECALL THERE BEING A TON OF, SO YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT YOU WERE GONNA PUT IN A SIDEWALK, BUT I'M WAS WONDERING WHERE THAT WAS AND IF IT WAS SORT OF ON YOUR SITE OR IF IT, AND IF THAT WOULD HELP WITH THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY THERE. SO THE SIDEWALK THAT I WAS REFERENCING WAS REFERRING TO ON SITE AND IT WOULD BE CONNECTING TO THE EXISTING SIDEWALK NETWORK THAT'S ALONG LAUREN STREET IN OUR FRONTAGE THERE. SO THERE'S A SIDEWALK THAT WE HAVE SHOWN ON THE PLAN, WHICH EXTENDS INTO THE LAUREN STREET RIGHT OF WAY TO CONNECT TO THE EXISTING SIDEWALK THAT'S ALONG HERE. SO THE SIDEWALK WOULD BRING, YOU KNOW, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC INTO HERE. EVEN THOUGH, HOWEVER, IT'S NOT ANTICIPATED TO BE A LARGE PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC GENERATOR, WE'RE PROVIDING THAT ACCESS JUST TO HAVE THE ACCESS THERE FOR PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. BUT HOWEVER, THIS IS TO BE UTILIZED AS A CONTRACTOR'S YARD OR OUTDOOR STORAGE, [02:45:02] THEIR HOURS OF OPERATION WOULD BE MORE OFFSET THAN REGULAR ROADWAY PEAK HOUR TIMES. UM, AND MOST OF THE TRAFFIC WOULD BE BY VEHICLE TO PICK UP EQUIPMENT OR DROP OFF EQUIPMENT AND SUCH. WELL, EXCEPT THERE'S A SPORT TIME RIGHT THERE. AND THEN ACROSS THE STREET THERE ARE APARTMENTS AND A MOVIE THEATER AND, UH, THE, MY GYM. SO I WOULD THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO USE THAT SIDEWALK AND THEY JUST DON'T BECAUSE I THINK WHO'S, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING IT? IS IT THE SIDEWALK WITHIN LAWRENCE STREET? YES, THAT WOULD BE THE TOWN. I WOULD BELIEVE IT'S A TOWN ROADWAY. THE TOWN TAKES CARE OF THE SIDEWALK OR THE OWNER TAKES CARE OF THE SIDEWALK. IT'D BE THE, THE BUDDING PROPERTY, THE BUDDING PROPERTY OWNER. SO IT WOULD BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN THAT SIDEWALK? PROBABLY FOR ONLY SNOW REMOVAL, I DON'T THINK AS FAR AS REPAIRS OR ANYTHING THAT INCLUDES REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE AS WELL. YEAH. 'CAUSE I THINK IF I'M, AND IT'S BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE I'VE BEEN OVER THERE, SO I'M, I'M TRYING TO PICTURE IT. I THINK THAT THAT SIDEWALK IS IN PRETTY BAD REPAIR. AND SO WHEN I WAS THINKING, I WAS LIKE, OH GREAT, THIS IS GONNA BE DEVELOPED. UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'LL ALL BE SECURITY PUT IN THERE, MAYBE THERE'LL BE BETTER UPGRADES TO THE SIDEWALKS. UM, MAYBE THERE, AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC STUDY, I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT SOMEBODY GOT HURT AT THAT INTERSECTION. UM, SO IT SEEMS LIKE A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO PUT IN SOME SAFE SAFETY THINGS. SO THERE IS A NOTE ON THE PLAN ALREADY ABOUT EXISTING SIDEWALK ALONG LAUREN STREET. FRONTAGE WILL BE REVIEWED AND CONSIDERED FOR REPLACEMENT. OH, OKAY. SO THAT ALONG OUR FRONTAGE FOR LAUREN STREET, THAT IS ALREADY ON OUR PLAN. YEAH. BUT WHAT I WAS MENTIONING IS, WAS THE SIDEWALK INTO THE SITE. UH, SO AS FAR AS SIDEWALK ALONG LAUREN STREET, THAT IS CONSIDERED IN THE PLAN THERE, IN THAT NOTE. OKAY. UM, HAVE, HAVE YOU ENGAGED THE VILLAGE OF LEY AT ALL ON THIS PROJECT? WE HAVE NOT REACHED OUT. THAT WOULD BE DONE THROUGH THE SECRET PROCESS AND GETTING INPUT FROM THEM. OKAY. JOHN, I'M SORRY, JUST A QUESTION. YOU SAID TRUCKS TURNING TO THE RIGHT WOULD GO, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA HAVE TO NAVIGATE THE TRAFFIC CIRCLE UP AT THE JAB KEY? YEP. IF, IF FOR WHATEVER REASON A CONTRACTOR NEEDED TO GO FROM THIS SIDE TO DO A JOB IN UP THE HILL IN UM, FERRY, THEY WOULD PRESUMABLY MAKE A RIGHT TURN ACROSS THE PARKWAY, GO UP, NAVIGATE THE CIRCLE, AND THEN GO UP. UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER. IT'S PROBABLY GON AVENUE, I BELIEVE IT'S AUGUST. IS THAT CIRCLE NAVI, IS THAT CIRCLE NAVIGABLE WHEN YOU'RE A BIG TRUCK CARRYING LIKE, NOT FOR THE BIGGEST OF TRUCKS, BUT IT'S, IT'S NAVIGABLE FOR A CONTRACTOR'S TRUCK. UM, IT HAS AN APRON AND IT'S USED BY THE VEHICLES THAT SERVICE THE COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS THERE. OKAY. I WILL NOTE THAT WE, IN OUR PLANS HAVE A TRUCK TURNING OF A WB 50. HOWEVER, IT WAS NOTED BY THE CLIENT AT THE ZBA MEETING THAT MOST OF THE TRUCKS THAT WOULD BE VISITING THE SITE WOULD BE SHORTER FLATBED TYPE OF TRUCK. SO A SINGLE UNIT TYPE OF TRUCK, NOT A TRACTOR TRAILER ASPECT, BUT WE DID SHOW A WB 50 TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCK ON THE PLANS ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE, BUT IT WAS NOTED BY THE, THE PROP, THE PROPERTY OWNER AND CLIENT THAT SMALLER TRUCKS WOULD BE MORE FREQUENT TO THIS SITE. UM, SO WE HAVE ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES. DRIVERS KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THE RIGHT ONTO PARKWAYS THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE ON PARKWAYS. LIKE ARE THEY LOCAL? IS IS THE CLIENTELE GONNA BE LOCAL NEW YORK OR WOULD YOU HAVE OUT OF STATE WHO DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT PARKWAY? THAT'S THAT'S A STATE REGULATION AND BE CONVEYED TO THE OPERATORS OR DRIVERS TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY TO AND FROM ANY OBJECTION IS SIGNAGE. SIGNAGE, YOU KNOW, SIGNAGE. YEAH. WE CAN, WE CAN IMPLEMENT SIGNAGE AT THE SITE DRIVEWAYS AS FAR AS TO GUIDE, YOU KNOW, TRUCKS TO THEIR LOCATIONS AND ROUTES THEY NEED TO GO. UM, MS. MS. MOYER, I KNOW YOU SUBMITTED SOME QUESTIONS EARLIER IN THE WEEK AND YOU RECEIVED SOME RESPONSES AND THERE WERE STILL SOME QUESTIONS OUTSTANDING. COULD YOU JUST, I KNOW TOWN STAFF WENT BACK AND ASKED FOR A BUNCH OF THINGS. LET ME, LET ME JUST, SO, SO TWO OF THE PRIMARY ONES THAT I THINK I JUST WONDER, HAVE THE DISCUSSION ABOUT IN THE EAF, THE, THE HOURS OF OPERATION WAS GIVEN AS 24 BY SEVEN IN THE RESPONSE THAT WAS GIVEN. MORE RECENTLY, THE HOURS OF OPERATION WERE GIVEN AS 5:00 AM TO THREE 30. BOTH THE SITE IS NOT PUTTING ANY, THE SITE SAID THEY'RE NOT PUTTING ANY LIGHTING IN. HOW ARE YOU OPERATING THE SITE AT 5:00 AM IN WINTER? IF YOU CAN'T SEE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND. IT'S A QUESTION. WE'LL, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU IN WRITING ON THAT ASPECT OF, WE ALREADY STARTED PREPARATION [02:50:01] OF ACCOUNT RESPONSE LETTER ON YOUR POINTS. YEAH. AND THEN SIMILAR FOR THE NOISE, RIGHT? I UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ROADS MAY BE NOISY DURING THE DAY WHEN THEY HEAVILY TRAVELED. IF YOU'RE IN THE APARTMENT AT 5:00 AM THERE'S PROBABLY NOT A LOT OF TRAFFIC. AND IF YOU START HEARING THE CLANKING OF, UM, OF THESE METAL THINGS, RIGHT, IS IT, IS IT A DISTURBANCE TO THE APARTMENT BUILDING? UH, WE'LL RESPOND IN WRITING ON THAT, BUT THERE IS VEGETATION AROUND THE AREAS, UH, HEAVILY VEGETATED AREAS BETWEEN OUR SITE AND THE NEARBY, YOU KNOW, RESIDENCES AS WELL AS THE, THE ROADWAYS OVER THERE. BUT WE WILL RESPOND BACK TO YOU IN WRITING. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD, UH, IN OUR FINAL MINUTES THAT WE'D LIKE THE APPLICANT, UH, TO RESPOND TO BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING? JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE LACK OF TIME, UH, CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS IN THE YARD? WHAT, WHAT'S BEING STORED THERE? WHERE IS IT GOING TO, WHO ARE THE CUSTOMERS? SO, AND, AND ALSO LIKE WHAT, WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE, SO THE, THE OWNERS HAVE A, A SCAFFOLDING COMPANY WHICH IS BEING CONTEMPLATED FOR USE OF SCAFFOLDING, UH, EQUIPMENT TO BE STORED ON THERE. HOWEVER, WE'RE SEEKING APPROVAL FOR THE USE, NOT JUST THE USER AS IS COMMON IN, IN LAND USE. SO IT, IT COULD BE THE SCAFFOLDING, IT COULD BE ANOTHER CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD WE'RE, WE'RE LEAVING IT BROUGHT ON PURPOSE TO GET APPROVAL FOR THE CONTRACTOR STORAGE USE. SO IT COULD BE THE SCAFFOLDING COMPANY THAT THE APPLICANTS OWN, BUT IT ALSO COULD BE OTHER TYPES OF, UH, ENUMERATED CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD, WHICH IS ALLOWED UNDER, IT COULD BE LIKE PARTS OF TOWER CRANES. IT, IT LIKELY WOULDN'T, BUT IT, IT COULD BE ANYTHING UNDER CONTRACTOR STORAGE YARD AND IT, WE WOULD HAVE TO BE COMPLIANT WITH ALL CODE REQUIREMENTS. AND, AND WHO WERE THE CUSTOMERS? WHO, WHO, WHO ARE RENTING THESE ITEMS? THE SCAFFOLDING COMPANY THAT THE APPLICANT CONDO HAVE A VARIETY OF CITY CUSTOMERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE SEEKING APPROVAL FOR THE USE AS A CONTRACTOR YARD, WHICH RIGHT NOW IS THE USE, NOT A USER, UM, WITH THE POTENTIAL CONTEMPLATION THAT THE APPLICANT'S OWN SCAFFOLDING COMPANY CAN GO IN THERE AND USE IT. AND WHAT KIND OF TRUCKS, I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT'S THE SIZE OF THE TRUCKS THAT HAVE THE CAR? THESE? SO AS, AS FAR AS THE, THE SCAFFOLDING AND SUCH, THE TRUCKS, YOU KNOW, ARE, WERE PRESENTED BY THE APPLICANT TO THE, TO THE ZONING BOARD ABOUT BEING THE SHORTER FLATBED TYPE OF TRUCKS. HOWEVER, WE DID ACCOMMODATE AND SHOW THE TRUCK TURNING FOR WB 50, UH, TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCK ON OUR PLANS. SO THAT'S BEEN SHOWN THERE. THAT WOULD LIKELY BE THE LARGEST ANTICIPATED TRUCK TO THIS LOCATION. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THERE WOULD BE A, DOES THAT, DOES THAT CHANGE, JOHN, DOES THAT CHANGE YOUR ANALYSIS IF IT'S NOT JUST THE TYPE OF TRUCK THAT WOULD BE USED FOR, UM, SCAFFOLDING AND IF IT BECOMES MORE OF A GENERAL CONTRACTOR, YOUR, WELL IT'S, IT'S MOSTLY THE SIZE ON THE, UH, SWEPT PATH OF THE VEHICLE, THE LENGTH AND THE SWEPT PATH OF THE VEHICLE THAT MAKES A TURN. SO TYPICALLY ANYTHING UP TO, UH, 30 FOOT LONG BOX TRUCK SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM. UM, 40 FOOT BOX TRUCK MIGHT BE PROBLEMATIC AND A 40 FOOT WHEEL BASED TRACTOR TRAILER MIGHT BE PROBLEMATIC AT SOME LOCATIONS. UM, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH IT. WE HAVE ASKED FOR MORE TRUCK TURNING ANALYSIS AND I, I REALLY DON'T WANNA SAY IT'S GONNA WORK UNTIL I LOOK AT IT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO IT IS NOW, UH, 9 58. UM, SO, SO I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA END THIS WORK SESSION, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SOME OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS AND SOME OUTSTANDING ANALYSIS STILL TO BE CONDUCTED. UM, SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO, TO RECEIVING THAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND UH, WE'LL WORK TO SCHEDULE, UH, ADDITIONAL WORK SESSION SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU JOHN. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. UM, ALRIGHT, UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS COMMENTS, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE JANUARY 21ST, 2026 PLANNING BOARD MEETING AT 9:58 PM SO MOVED. MOVED BY MR. WEINBERG. SECONDED. SECONDED BY MR. UH, MS. MS. ANDERSON. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. A. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.