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QUEENSBURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING
FIRST REGULAR MEETING
MAY 17, 2016
Site Plan No. 29-2015 Garvey KIA 1.
18 MONTH EXTENSION Tax Map No. 303.6-1-4
Site Plan PZ 127-2016 Frank & Kathi Miller
2.
ZBA RECOMMENDATION Tax Map No. 289.6-1-15
Site Plan PZ 128-2016 Anthony Muscatello
9.
ZBA RECOMMENDATION Tax Map No. 289.18-1-30
Site Plan PZ 131-2016 Great Meadow Federal Credit Union
11.
Freshwater Wetlands PZ 132-2016 Tax Map No. 296.20-1-10
ZBA RECOMMENDATION
Site Plan PZ 140-2016 Joseph P. Gross
12.
ZBA RECOMMENDATION Tax Map No. 309.17-1-17.2
Site Plan PZ 91-2016 Spruce Hospitality Group, LLC
14.
Special Use Permit PZ 90-2016 Tax Map No. 309.14-1-89.1 & 86.11
Site Plan PZ 0044-2015 Performing Asset Strategies
26.
Tax Map No. 309.10-1-37
Site Plan PZ 123-2016 North Country Imports, Inc.
30.
Tax Map No. 303.10-1-12
Subdivision PZ 129-2016 Philip & Laura Mitchell
26.
SKETCH PLAN Tax Map No. 278.20-1-1
THESE ARE NOT OFFICIALLY ADOPTED MINUTES AND ARE SUBJECT TO BOARD AND
STAFF REVISIONS. REVISIONS WILL APPEAR ON THE FOLLOWING MONTHS MINUTES
(IF ANY) AND WILL STATE SUCH APPROVAL OF SAID MINUTES.
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QUEENSBURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING
FIRST REGULAR MEETING
MAY 17, 2016
7:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT
CHRIS HUNSINGER, CHAIRMAN
STEPHEN TRAVER
DAVID DEEB
GEORGE FERONE
BRAD MAGOWAN
THOMAS FORD
JOHN SHAFER, ALTERNATE
LAND USE PLANNER-LAURA MOORE
STENOGRAPHER-MARIA GAGLIARDI
MR. HUNSINGER-I'll call to order the meeting of the Town of Queensbury Planning Board on
Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Members of the audience, welcome. There are copies of the
agenda on the back table if we didn't run out, and there's also a handout for public hearing
procedures. Several of our items later on do have public hearings scheduled and when we get
to the first public hearing we'll go into details on how the public hearings will be addressed.
The first order of business is approval of minutes from March 15th and March 22nd, 2016. If
anyone would like to move those.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
March 15, 2016
March 22, 2016
MOTION TO APPROVE THE QUEENSBURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING MINUTES OF
MARCH 15TH & MARCH 22, 2016, Introduced by George Ferone who moved for its adoption,
seconded David Deeb:
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
ABSTAINED: Mr. Ford, Mr. Traver
MR. HUNSINGER-We have several items on the agenda for Recommendations to the Zoning
Board of Appeals. The first one is Site Plan PZ 127-2016 for Frank and Kathi Miller.
MRS. MOORE-Actually before you do that there's an Administrative Item.
MR. HUNSINGER-I'm sorry.
ADMINISTRATIVE ITEM:
SITE PLAN 29-2015 GARVEY KIA 18 MONTH EXTENSION TO DECEMBER 2017
MRS. MOORE-I apologize. They requested an 18 month extension to December 2017. So
that would be the 19th of December. Do you want me to read that in?
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, please.
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MRS. MOORE-So it is request of the Zoning Administrator that says due to unforeseen
complications with the KIA Gallery program, I'm respectfully requesting an 18 month extension
to the Planning Board approval of Garvey KIA Site Plan 29-2015. They are currently resolving
the issues with KIA corporate and an 18 month extension will help that.
MOTION TO APPROVE AN EIGHTEEN MONTH EXTENSION FOR SITE PLAN NO. 29-2015
GARVEY KIA., Introduced by Thomas Ford who moved for its adoption, seconded by George
Ferone:
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Ford, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Now we'll hear PZ 127-2016.
PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDATION TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
SITE PLAN PZ 127-2016 SEAR TYPE II FRANK & KATHI MILLER AGENT(S) ETHAN P.
HALL — RUCINSKI HALL ARCHITECTURE OWNER(S) SAME AS APPLICANT ZONING
WR LOCATION 22 NACY ROAD APPLICANT PROPOSES DEMOLITION OF EXISTING
HOME AND OTHER BUILDINGS ON SITE. PROJECT INCLUDES INSTALLATION OF NEW
SEPTIC AND WELL. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-6-060 OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE
CONSTRUCTION WITHIN 50 FT. OF 15% SLOPES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO PLANNING
BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL. VARIANCE: RELIEF REQUESTED FROM
SETBACKS, FAR, AND PERMEABILITY. PLANNING BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A
RECOMMENDATION TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS. CROSS REFERENCE BP
2014-204 DOCK, AV PZ 67-2016 TEAR DOWN & CONST. OF SFD WARREN CO.
REFERRAL N/A SITE INFORMATION CEA LOT SIZE .32 ACRE TAX MAP NO. 289.6-
1-35 SECTION 179-6-060
ETHAN HALL, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT; FRANK & KATHI MILLER,
PRESENT
MRS. MOORE-This applicant proposes demolition of an existing home and other buildings on
the site for the construction of a new 3,925 sq. ft. home. This is the floor area of that home.
Project includes installation of new septic and well, and for site plan is within 50 feet of 15%
slopes. The nature of the variance: The applicant requests relief for side setbacks where 20
ft. is required and 12 ft. 7 in. is proposed on the North and 9 ft. 9 in. on the south. Relief is also
requested for permeability where 75% is required and 64.4% is proposed. In addition Floor
area ratio relief is requested where 22% is the maximum and the applicant proposes 27%.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you. Good evening.
MR. HALL-Good evening. For the record my name is Ethan Hall. I'm a principle with Rucinski
Hall Architecture. With me tonight are Frank and Kathi Miller, the owners of the property. The
property is 22 Nacy Road. It is on the west shore of Glen Lake. The drawing that's the first
one on the board here is the existing layout conditions. The red line indicates the setback line
for the property. I did not do the property lines proper themselves, and the blue outlines are the
current buildings that are on the lot. Currently there's an existing two story wood frame house
down here and a two story wood frame house on the back of the lot. These were two separate
lots that were at one point combined into one. The Millers, the buildings were originally built
somewhere around 1900. The building up front is currently used by the Millers as their
seasonal residence. The one in the back has a garage with a small apartment above it. The
plan here is to demolish all the buildings that are on the lot and construct a year round
residence for them to live in. The second drawing that I have, still the red shows the required
setback. The green line on the outside is the setbacks that are to the existing buildings as they
stand right now, and again, the blue outline is the outline of the proposed structure so you can
see that we're inside what's there now, but we do spill over into the outside lot. The total width
of the lot within is 626 feet. So it would be within, the house is very narrow and would have to
be very long to make that work. The outline that we show, the brown that's on here is the
current non-permeable surfaces, the driveways, the walkways, the paths, the things of that
nature. We're increasing permeability with our proposed, the current green space permeable
area is 54.1%, and we're increasing that with this plan up to 64.4%. We're still below the 75
that's required, but this is as close as we could get on the lot and still get a driveway in and still
get the building where we have it.
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MR. FORD-And a building of that size.
MR. HALL-And a building of that size. We've kept everything on one floor. There is a
basement underneath. That kept us to our, below our 28 foot so we didn't need the height
variance. So I was trying to minimize as many variances as we could keep it down to and the
height was the big. So we wanted to keep under the 28 feet. The proposed layout of the floor
plan of the building, this shows you the layout of the building itself, the garage and the layout of
the bedrooms and everything on the one floor with the basement unfinished, and the elevations
of the building show as such. This is from Nacy Road. It's a very small. It looks like a one
story from Nacy Road, and then the ones on the lakeside show the two story, and you can see
how it gets built back up into the bank. We'll do that with a series of small retaining structures
and we're going to keep the building back away from the lake as best we could. We tried to
keep it back a little farther, but we don't have enough room to put in a septic system and still get
the building in. One note that has been brought up, the Sicard subdivision that was done in
2013 1 believe, I was contacted by Tom Jarrett who was the engineer for that subdivision, and
he asked that we take a look at their Lot Number One. So the drawing that is here, this is, he
sent me over the location of the well that's on Lot Number One, and the four orange bands that
appear there are the laterals for our proposed leach field, and you can see by the blue circle
that we do infringe on that. So I went back today and designed an Eljen bed system, and that's
represented by the red shaded area. So we could put that Eljen bed system in as opposed to
the stone and trench pipe that we would have been proposing, but we can get a compliant
system in and stay outside the 100 foot buffer for that well. We weren't aware that that
subdivision had been approved since nothing's happened with it in four years, three years or
whatever. I was just taking care of that because I knew that there was somebody that brought
that up.
MR. HUNSINGER-Anything else?
MR. HALL-No, I think that'll cover it.
MR. HUNSINGER-Questions, comments from the Board?
MR. MAGOWAN-How many feet are you back from the lake?
MR. HALL-The proposed building? The proposed building is 53 feet 7 inches back from the
lake, where 50 feet is required.
MRS. MOORE-Adjoining lots, it actually creates a different.
MR. HALL-Correct.
MRS. MOORE-In this case it actually has to be further back because of the two adjoining
buildings.
MR. HALL-But we're back into that, the two adjoining lots beside us are farther away from the
lake than the 50 feet. So because it's on the waterfront it's not the 50 foot that's our minimum.
It's the average of the two adjoining lots that's our minimum. So that's why we did the front.
MR. MAGOWAN-But with that new septic system you'd be able to bump it back a little.
MR. HALL-With the small, well, we're right on the edge of where, we're right on the edge. We
may be able to move it back a few feet.
MR. MAGOWAN-Because what's the existing off the lake now?
MR. HALL-The existing off the lake right now is 60 feet 7 inches.
MR. MAGOWAN-So 60 feet 7 inches. So you're coming down seven feet.
MR. HALL-Closer to the lake on our front corner. It's just really the layout of, the way the lot is
skewed to the lake. We're just kind of squaring this off, and by squaring it off it's actually
pushing us closer. Can I get the seven feet back by putting this back, by putting in this type of
a bed system? We could probably slide it back a little bit, yes.
MR. MAGOWAN-Well, I guess, you know, in all fairness, I mean, you're trying to stay within the
footprints and I'm looking at, you know, the red line and then the green lines and everything else
and, I mean, like you said you're asking for setbacks on the side and the front, and even though
those two houses add up to quite a bit of square footage.
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MR. MAGOWAN-But I'm wondering if we can maybe, since you're encroaching so much of the
sides, is give a little more on the front now that you can.
MR. HALL-We can pull the footprint back, yes.
MR. FORD-Good. That's my concern, proximity to the lake.
MR. HALL-Sure. Yes, we can increase that, pull it back.
MR. MAGOWAN-1 mean, I don't have a problem if we can stay, you know, what you have now,
with the existing, you know.
MR. HALL-If I can pull it back the seven feet and still have this remain outside that 100 foot
buffer for that adjoining well. That's the key is I'll pull it back as far as I can until I hit that point.
It looks like on here, yes, this is an inch to a foot, it's got about an inch there. so I think I can
probably slide it back the seven feet, sure we can do that.
MR. FORD-And I appreciate the fact that you're going to an Eljen system and eliminating those
laterals on the leach field.
MR. HALL-Yes, it's a little bit different system but I think it's going to allow us to use a bed
system as opposed to the pipe and trench system.
MR. MAGOWAN-I've done both. Is there really a?
MR. HALL-There's not a huge difference between them. The Romans used pipe and stone.
That's kind of why I like to stay with them. If it's not broke, don't fix it, but the Eljen system has
been around quite some time and in the soils that they've got up there, they should work fine. I
mean, they've got really nice well drained sands over there. So it's not like we're in a clay
situation or we're not going to have to import material to do a replacement bed.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, that's all I have to say.
MR. SHAFER-1 have a question, Mr. Chairman.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, go ahead.
MR. SHAFER-Did you consider a smaller footprint on the lot so that the setback requests for
variances and FAR weren't quite as severe?
MR. HALL-We've looked at trying to downsize the size of the building and we've really got this
down to what they need for, they're moving out of a house over on Queens Lane, over on the
West Mountain side.
MR. SHAFER-3900 feet seems large for that size lot.
MR. HALL-And, yes, and it's a little deceptive because it's the floor area ratio considering all of
the basement space, and this basement is unfinished for storage for them, but obviously that's
part of our calculation of what we have to do for the Floor Area Ratio.
MRS. MILLER-What is our upstairs living space?
MR. HALL-Off the top of my head.
MR. HUNSINGER-2604?
MR. HALL-2604, yes.
MR. FORD-What's the potential for making that lowest level living space instead of just storage?
MR. HALL-What's the potential for it? There's no intention of finishing it.
MR. FORD-1 didn't ask for intention. I asked for potential.
MR. HALL-Yes, it certainly could be finished space at some point in the future, yes.
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MRS. MILLER-We use that back building as storage for all of our boating and kayaks and to
lose that and not have to take up that space in the garage, that's kind of what that basement
area is going to be for, kind of taking the place of that back building that we only use for storage
now.
MR. TRAVER-What's the ceiling height in the basement?
MR. HALL-It's eight feet.
MR. TRAVER-Eight feet?
MR. HALL-Yes.
MR. FORD-We've seen other storage areas that suddenly develop kitchen space and bed
space and so forth.
MR. FERONE-Ethan, there's a number of notes from Chazen about, you know, stormwater.
MR. HALL-Yes, stormwater management.
MR. FERONE-Have all of those been addressed yet?
MR. HALL-Yes, I've looked through it. I just got the list on Monday I guess it was. It's really
stormwater management coming around the sides of the building. We've got eaves trenches
on both sides picking up everything coming off of the roof. We've got grass swales running
down along, this does go right down to the lake. They're asking for some stone basins at the
bottoms of these. It's just to prevent them from eroding. We'll also use the enviro mat to get it
laid down to get the grass established so that there's not any, during construction there's not
erosion, and we'll put the silt fence obviously all the way down along the front edge during the
construction process. So, yes, I read through all of their comments. There wasn't anything
earth shattering. The one thing that they did mention is we're going to have to pull the well
back from the lake. It's a 25 foot minimum setback. So we're going to have to pull that back a
little bit, but we're still within, we're still outside of our setback to our septic and to the other
septic. So it was good to get that information from Tom Jarrett, to see where that was.
MR. MAGOWAN-1 also don't see any planting of that, for the front.
MR. HALL-Any planting?
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, the buffers.
MR. HALL-Yes, this is all landscaped and planted now, and it's going to stay just like it is. This
is the lower terrace, down here. This comes down to a flat piece. These stairs that are in
there. This is all landscaped lawn down here and this is all landscaped down around the front
here.
MR. MAGOWAN-So you're just going to pretty much keep what's there already.
MR. HALL-Yes. There's no intent to change any of the landscaping or cut anything down.
There's really no tree line out on the front. Everything is on the adjoining property for the most
part.
MR. MAGOWAN-And since you're going to crunch back that seven feet there.
MR. HALL-Yes, we'll take that back into account. Sure.
MR. HUNSINGER-Other questions or comments from the Board? Any specific concerns with
the variance requests? The two side setback and permeability and Floor Area Ratio are the
four variance requests.
MR. SHAFER-1 have some concern about those dimensions, Mr. Chairman. Whether there
has been some analysis of a different shape of the house, going further back up the lot more in
keeping with the shape of the lot and maybe even using some of that basement as living area in
order to take in the overall footprint of the house. Has that been looked at carefully?
MR. HALL-We did look at it. What it creates, because of the 25 foot or the 26 foot width, it
really creates a shotgun house where we have to line stuff up down the length of the house and
it would require us to come back farther into the bank which is going to increase our height, and
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I'm afraid that, because we're based on existing height at the finished floor and proposed ridge
height, to keep that within the 28 feet I think is going to be a challenge. That's why we looked
at trying to keep within the bounds of what's already there. We know that we're over the
allowed setback and we tried to crunch in on what's already there. So we tried to minimize that
width as best we could and I was able to get three feet out of the building to keep it inside
what's already there, because that was our big challenge.
MR. FORD-When we say minimize as best you could, that still is outside the parameters of
what's allowed.
MR. HALL-Outside the parameter of what's allowed. Twenty-six feet is narrow to do what
they're trying to do. They're trying to maintain all their living on one floor level for the most part
and to keep the downstairs portion of it as they said for storage of lakefront stuff and when
they're there for using the lake, coming up in that spot underneath the patio, underneath the
deck as a covered space, but to try and keep that part for guests and the upper part for
themselves.
MR. FERONE-The other variance for permeability. Is there anything, I mean, you're 10% off.
MR. HALL-Yes. I've looked at, you know, we used the stepping stone walkway coming down
around to try and minimize as much as we could. We pulled up a significant amount, you
know, the permeability is not on the existing, at 54%, and the way this driveway right now is kind
of off camber, I didn't even count that because it's not really on our lot. So that's obviously all
coming out on the adjoining lot. So we've tried to take up as much of the blacktop and as much
of the concrete walkways and things as we could, and just made it a straight shot in. Obviously
now if we're going to pull ourselves back seven feet, that's going to take seven feet off of the
driveway. So that's seven feet less by the width of the paving, the 22 feet of width of paving.
So we're taking out 150 square feet of paving.
MR. DEEB-You're going to increase the permeability from what's there already. So you
already made improvements in that area because of the size of the lot.
MR. HALL-Yes, on the lakeside. Yes.
MR. FORD-So both front and back are going to be improvements.
MR. HALL-Yes. We're taking away from the back. We're taking the hard surfacing away from
behind the house and we're adding green space to the front of the house. So it'll be a win on
both sides.
MR. HUNSINGER-Can you back up just a second. You said some of the pavement that's
coming off is actually on the neighbor's property.
MR. HALL-Yes, this driveway that's here, Chris, it comes down along the side, it actually angles
out and this was all put in prior to them getting the property, but actually the property line bisects
that drive and paving or drive and parking area. So just the way it sets up, when it was initially
put in it was probably done without the aid of having a survey done, and it was obviously some
time before you guys purchased the property.
MR. HUNSINGER-So do you plan to remove the pavement that's on the neighbor's property?
MRS. MILLER-It's not pavement.
MR. HALL-It's a gravel, it's a crushed stone driveway, but per your Code it's hard surface, but,
yes, all that's coming out.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay.
MR. SHAFER-Are the neighbors on each side aware of this design?
MR. HALL-I believe so. I think this is just a, this is a seasonal cabin.
MRS. MILLER-Actually that's one of Sicard's rentals. Somebody does live there. I actually did
meet a neighbor the other day, I was over at the house and we got talking and I asked her did
you receive anything from the Town about the public hearing that's coming up actually tomorrow
night? And she said, yes, and everything looks really nice. So we haven't had any negative
feedback from the neighbors.
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MR. HALL-I would think that taking down a two story building that's about four feet from Nacy
Road is going to be an improvement for everybody involved.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 was going to say it's right on top of it. I'm surprised the plows don't hit it.
MR. HALL-Yes. The property line is actually out almost into the middle of Nacy Road. The
guys plowing must have a time coming down through there.
MRS. MILLER-When I saw where they put the little pink ribbons for the lot after it was surveyed,
I couldn't believe. I was like, our property line goes halfway into Nacy Road.
MR. MAGOWAN-Is that a Town road or a private road?
MRS. MILLER-It's a Town road now.
MR. MAGOWAN-You're paying tax on that, aren't you?
MRS. MILLER-Yes, we are.
MR. HUNSINGER-Any other comments or questions from the Board?
MR. FORD-While we're on that driveway section, it's crushed stone or gravel?
MR. HALL-The existing? Yes. This is crushed stone down through here. This is crushed
stone here. Everything else is hard surface concrete paved all the way through.
MR. FORD-And the new surface will be paved?
MR. HALL-The new driveway will be paved.
MR. FORD-So my previous observation about increasing permeability there is not accurate, is
it?
MR. HALL-How so?
MR. FORD-Well, if you're going from gravel to paved surface.
MRS. MILLER-We're going to stay with gravel.
MR. HALL-You are?
MRS. MILLER-Yes, we are not going to do anything with the driveway. We're going to just
leave it the gravel surface.
MR. HALL-The gravel surface. By your Code, the gravel, the crushed stone surface is
considered non-permeable, unfortunately. I agree with you. I think water does drain through it
significantly, but.
MR. MAGOWAN-And on a grade, you know.
MR. HALL-Yes, this grade is not bad. It's a one on three. Actually I think it's a little less than
that. It's about one on six. I think they made that driveway so that it's planed off coming down
through there.
MR. HUNSINGER-Any comments from the Board? Would anyone like to put forward a
recommendation? There's a sample resolution.
RESOLUTION RE: ZBA RECOMMENDATION RE: AV PZ 67-2016 FRANK & KATHI
MILLER
The applicant has submitted an application for the following: Applicant proposes demolition of
existing home and other buildings on site for construction of a new 2,604 sq. ft. (footprint), 3,925
sq. ft. (floor area) single family home. Project includes installation of new septic and well.
Pursuant to Chapter 179-6-060 of the Zoning Ordinance, construction within 50 ft. of 15%
slopes shall be subject to Planning Board review and approval. Variance: Relief requested
from setbacks, FAR, and permeability.
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The Town of Queensbury Zoning Ordinance, per Section 179-9-070 J 2 b. requires the Planning
Board to provide a written recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals for projects that
require both Zoning Board of Appeals & Planning Board approval;
The Planning Board has briefly reviewed and discussed this application, the relief request in the
variance application as well as the potential impacts of this project on the neighborhood and
surrounding community, and found that:
MOTION TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON BEHALF OF THE PLANNING BOARD TO
THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR AV PZ 67-2016 FRANK & KATHI MILLER,
Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved for its adoption, seconded by Stephen Traver:
The Planning Board based on a limited review has identified the following area of
concern: (Shoreline setback and permeability) — Where the applicant agrees to move the
house back the 6 foot 7 to 7 feet to stay within the original footprint of the front house
(increasing the permeability by reducing the amount of the driveway) and will be changing the
septic from a trench to a bed, and the paved driveway will be going to a crushed stone.
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016, by the following vote:
MR. MAGOWAN-The Planning Board based on a limited review has not identified any
significant impacts that cannot be mitigated with the current project proposal.
MRS. MOORE-1 guess you did identify a concern.
MR. FORD-Yes.
MRS. MOORE-And the applicant has responded to it. So you should identify that so that when
they come before the Zoning Board. The applicant has addressed your concern about pulling
the building back so you should address that in your recommendation.
MR. MAGOWAN-All right. The Planning Board based on a limited review has identified the
following area of concern: Moving the house back the 6 foot 7 to 7 feet to stay within the
original footprint of the front house and will be changing the septic from a trench to a bed.
MR. HALL-And we'll be changing the paved driveway from a and a paved driveway as depicted
on the plan, too, to a crushed stone drive.
MR. MAGOWAN-All right, and the paved driveway will be going to a crushed stone.
MRS. MOORE-In regards to the permeability. So the applicant has indicated that they're going
to increase their permeability. That figure will be calculated at some point, but.
MR. HUNSINGER-We don't have it right now.
MRS. MOORE-Right, but you may want to identify that.
MR. HALL-I'll have it to you by Thursday.
MR. SHAFER-1 have a question, Mr. Chairman.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, go ahead.
MR. SHAFER-On May 11 we received a copy of a letter from the Town Engineer. Have all of
those comments been responded to and accommodated?
MRS. MOORE-And what happens is that applicant has received that information and once the
Planning Board reviews this information again, the Planning Board has the option to either
condition it pending final signoff from the engineer or tabling the application until the applicant
has satisfied the engineering comments to give an opportunity for the Board to review that when
it comes back before you.
MR. HALL-Yes, and I talked to, that's, George brought that up as well. A lot of them were
pretty much their standard comments dealing with stormwater. It dealt mostly with the drainage
coming around the building and how we were going to handle stormwater runoff.
MR. DEEB-We normally condition it on engineering signoff anyway.
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MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, it's usually a standard condition.
AYES: Mr. Traver, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ford, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HALL-Okay. Thank you very much.
MRS. MILLER-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-You're all set. Good luck. The next item on the agenda is also a
recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
SITE PLAN PZ 128-2016 SEAR TYPE II ANTHONY MUSCATELLO AGENT(S)
HUTCHINS ENGINEERING OWNER(S) SAME AS APPLICANT ZONING RR-3A
LOCATION 91 MANNIS ROAD APPLICANT PROPOSES A 936 SQ. FT. GARAGE WITH
TWO BAYS AND A WORKSHOP. EXISTING HOME WITH 702 SQ. FT. ATTACHED
GARAGE TO REMAIN WITH NO CHANGES. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-6-060 OF THE
ZONING ORDINANCE CONSTRUCTION WITHIN 50 FT. OF 15% SLOPES SHALL BE
SUBJECT TO PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL. VARIANCE: RELIEF
REQUESTED FOR SECOND GARAGE. PLANNING BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A
RECOMMENDATION TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS. CROSS REFERENCE AV
PZ 135-2016 WARREN CO. REFERRAL N/A SITE INFORMATION WETLAND LOT
SIZE 7.89 ACRES TAX MAP NO. 289.18-1-30 SECTION 179-6-060
TOM HUTCHINS, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
MRS. MOORE-This applicant proposes a 936 sq. ft. detached garage with two bays and a
workshop. The existing home currently has a 702 sq. ft. attached garage to remain with no
changes. The application appears before the Planning Board because it's within 50 feet of
15% slopes. The nature of the area variance is the applicant requests relief for a second
garage.
MR. HUNSINGER-Good evening.
MR. HUTCHINS-Good evening. I'm Tom Hutchins. I do business as Hutchins Engineering,
here on behalf of property owner Anthony Muscatello. Anthony resides at 91 Mannis Road and
they have presently a two bay drive under the basement, I call it an under the basement garage.
It's very limited. There's very limited height clearance, and what he proposes to do is to
construct a 936 sq. ft. detached two car garage with a small little workshop area and it would be
detached. He would keep the, basically keep the doors that go into the basement. So we
would be requesting a second, a variance for a second garage. The parcel is nine acres. We
will be meeting all setbacks of the RR zone which is 100 foot front, 75 side, 100 foot rear. So
the only relief we're requesting is the second garage, and so with that, I'd turn it over to the
Board. We'd seek your support certainly for a visit to the Zoning Board tomorrow night and we
would be back here, if that were successful we would be back here Thursday night, and the
owner will be with me that night to answer any questions you have specific to him.
MR. HUNSINGER-Questions, comments from the Board?
MR. FERONE-The workshop is just a personal workshop? It's not something where he's doing
work there commercial or anything like that?
MR. HUTCHINS-It's a personal workshop.
MR. HUNSINGER-Since he's putting in a workshop, is he going to be heating the garage?
MR. HUTCHINS-1 don't know the answer to that. I'll find out, though.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes. I didn't think of it until just now, yes.
MR. HUTCHINS-1 don't know. I don't believe so.
MR. MAGOWAN-What is he going with a monolithic pour?
MR. HUTCHINS-No, it's a full frost wall and then a slab.
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MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, but I mean, that's right underneath. I would imagine he'd put some form
of heat in it. Otherwise it would still heave in the middle, you know?
MR. HUTCHINS-Well, if we've got perimeter frostwall.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, but there's no heat.
MR. HUTCHINS-Right.
MR. MAGOWAN-That cold air is just going to cool off that garage. I know my garage is pretty
cold until that warm car gets in there.
MR. HUTCHINS-Well, yes, cold garages are cold. I don't know the answer to the heat
question, but I'll find out. Okay. I don't believe it's being heated because it's a standard Curtis,
it's a standard Curtis lumber package garage and it would take considerable modifications to
insulate it. I don't believe that's the case, but I'll confirm that.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay.
MR. SHAFER-Will he continue to use the under house garage as a garage?
MR. HUTCHINS-Yes. He wants to keep the doors on it. It may be lawnmowers and tools and
such. It may not be cars every single day because the trucks don't fit in it, but, yes, he wants to
continue that as a garage. He wants to keep the doors on it.
MR. FORD-What will be the height of the garage?
MR. HUTCHINS-The proposed garage? 16 feet? There is a plan in there. I don't recall.
MR. FORD-1 thought it was pretty good and high.
MR. HUTCHINS-Pretty high?
MR. FORD-Do you have any living space on the second floor?
MR. HUTCHINS-No, it's not going to have living space.
MR. HUNSINGER-It's on the elevation drawings.
MR. HUTCHINS-It's 16 feet. And it's kind of tucked into a bank so it will actually appear much
less than 16 feet. Because it's tucked into a bank area, but, yes, it's 16 feet, ridge to flow.
MR. FORD-Thank you.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, it looks like a standard truss there, and the height of the truss from the
ceiling is five foot four, and that's to the top of the ridge. So you take out the two by six, you
know, five foot.
MR. HUNSINGER-Any concerns specific to the variance request?
MR. MAGOWAN-You've got plenty of property.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. If there's no further questions or comments, would anyone like to put
forward a recommendation?
RESOLUTION RE: ZBA RECOMMENDATION RE: AV PZ 135-2016 ANTHONY
MUSCATELLO
The applicant has submitted an application for the following: Applicant proposes a 936 sq. ft.
detached garage with two bays and a workshop. Existing home with 702 sq. ft. attached garage
to remain with no changes. Pursuant to Chapter 179-6-060 of the Zoning Ordinance,
construction within 50 ft. of 15% slope shall be subject to Planning Board review and approval.
Variance: Relief requested for second garage.
The Town of Queensbury Zoning Ordinance, per Section 179-9-070 J 2 b. requires the Planning
Board to provide a written recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals for projects that
require both Zoning Board of Appeals & Planning Board approval;
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The Planning Board has briefly reviewed and discussed this application, the relief request in the
variance application as well as the potential impacts of this project on the neighborhood and
surrounding community, and found that:
MOTION TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON BEHALF OF THE PLANNING BOARD TO
THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR AREA VARIANCE NO. PZ 135-2016 ANTHONY
MUSCATELLO: Introduced by David Deeb who moved its adoption, seconded by Thomas
Ford; and
a) The Planning Board, based on a limited review, has not identified any significant adverse
impacts that cannot be mitigated with current project proposal -
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
MR. HUNSINGER-Can we just clarify the site plan number, Laura?
MRS. MOORE-The Site Plan number is 128, but the variance is what's referenced.
MR. HUNSINGER-135. Okay. Thank you.
AYES: Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ford, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUTCHINS-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-You're all set. Good luck. The next application is still a recommendation to
the Zoning Board of Appeals.
SITE PLAN PZ 131-2016 & FWW PERMIT PZ 132-2016 SEAR TYPE UNLISTED GREAT
MEADOW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION AGENT(S) ETHAN P. HALL — RUCINSKI HALL
ARCHITECTURE ZONING CI LOCATION MEADOWBROOK RD. NW OF QUAKER
ROAD APPLICANT PROPOSES CONSTRUCTION OF 1,915 SQ. FT. BANK BUILDING
INCLUDING A DRIVE THRU. BUILDING TO HAVE 24 X 24 SQ. FT. UPSTAIRS PORTION.
SITE CONTAINS WETLANDS. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-3-040 AND CHAPTER 94
OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE A NEW COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE AND WORK WITHIN
100 FT. OF A WETLAND SHALL BE SUBJECT TO PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AND
APPROVAL. VARIANCE: RELIEF REQUESTED FOR BUILDING SETBACKS AND
SHORELINE SETBACKS. PLANNING BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION
TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS. CROSS REFERENCE SP 7-08 CONST. OF 2,886
SQ. FT. OFFICE BLDG. 5/6/08 WARREN CO. REFERRAL MAY 2016 SITE
INFORMATION WETLAND LOT SIZE 0.63 ACRES TAX MAP NO. 296.20-1-10
SECTION 179-3-040 & FWW PERMIT CHAPTER 94
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
MRS. MOORE-Okay. This application is being tabled. I received the correspondence from the
applicant, and I'd like to have you table it to the September meeting.
MR. HUNSINGER-Did they specify which September meeting?
MRS. MOORE-We can do the first one because it would be considered a Planning Board
recommendation at that time, and that would be September 20th
MR. FORD-Did they give a rationale for that?
MRS. MOORE-Yes, they have to work with New York State DEC.
MR. FORD-1 thought they may have.
MR. DEEB-Yes.
MR. HUNSINGER-We might not see them in September either. Would anyone like to put
forward that resolution?
RESOLUTION TABLING SP PZ 131-2016 & FWW PERMIT PZ 132-2016 GREAT MEADOW
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The applicant has submitted an application for the following: Applicant proposes construction of
1,915 sq. ft. bank building including a drive thru. Building to have 24 x 24 sq. ft. upstairs portion.
Site contains wetlands. Pursuant to Chapter 179-3-040 and Chapter 94 of the Zoning
Ordinance a new commercial structure and work within 100 ft. of a wetland shall be subject to
Planning Board review and approval. Variance: Relief requested for building setbacks and
shoreline setbacks.
MOTION TO TABLE SITE PLAN PZ 131-2016 & FWW PERMIT PZ 132-2016 GREAT
MEADOW FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved for its
adoption, seconded by Thomas Ford:
Tabled to the September 20, 2016 Planning Board meeting.
Duly adopted this 17`" day of May, 2016, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-We have one more recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals.
SITE PLAN PZ 140-2016 SEAR TYPE II JOSEPH P. GROSS AGENT(S) ETHAN P. HALL
— RUCINSKI HALL ARCHITECTURE OWNER(S) JOSEPH P. GROSS ZONING CLI
LOCATION 27 SILVER CIRCLE - OFF BIG BAY ROAD — SUBDIVISION OF FRANK
KINEKE APPLICANT PROPOSES CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STORY 5.,040 SQ. FT.
ADDITION TO THE EXISTING 69,095 SQ. FT. GROSS ELECTRIC OFFICE BUILDING.
VARIANCE: PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-3-040, 179-9-120, EXISTING BUILDINGS AND
SITE CONDITIONS TO REMAIN WITH NO CHANGES; ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING
BUILDING AND PREVIOUS SITE PLAN SHALL BE SUBJECT TO PLANNING BOARD
REVIEW AND APPROVAL. VARIANCE RELIEF REQUESTED FOR SETBACKS.
PLANNING BOARD SHALL PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE ZONING BOARD OF
APPEALS. CROSS REFERENCE AV PZ-0138-2016; SP 14-15; SP 18-09; SP 6-04, SP 62-
13; SB 11-2002 FRANK KINEKE 2-LOTINDUS. SUBD; MULTIPLE BUILDING PERMITS
WARREN CO. REFERRAL MAY 2016 LOT SIZE 3.43 ACRES TAX MAP NO. 309.17-1-
17.2 SECTION 179-3-040; 179-9-120
ETHAN HALL, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
MRS. MOORE-This applicant proposes construction of a two story, this is a 2,520 sq. ft.
footprint. The floor area is 5,040 square feet, and this is an addition to an existing office
building that is part of a larger complex for Gross Electric building facility, and the existing
building and site conditions to remain unchanged, and the variance is requested for shoreline.
MR. DEEB-I was questioning that. I didn't know what the shoreline meant.
MRS. MOORE-1 don't, either. It's a side setback and 30 feet is required and 11.83 feet is
proposed.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Good evening.
MR. HALL-Good evening. Again, for the record, Ethan Hall principle with Rucinski Hall
Architecture. Here tonight representing Joe Gross and Gross Electric. What Joe's looking for
is his office is expanding. He's taking on some new clientele that's going to require him to
expand the office and his idea is to take the office and tie it in to the existing office on that side.
We looked at a couple of different areas to put it within the site. Unfortunately we can't go on
the other end of the building. That's where the septic system is for the existing office building.
We can't take up that space. His only other option is to go on that end where we're going. He
does own the adjoining lot. So we figured if he's asking for a variance, might as well ask for a
variance from himself. That's where we are with it.
MR. HUNSINGER-Did he consider a lot line adjustment?
MR. HALL-We did. We looked at doing a lot line adjustment, but by doing that, because it's on
the cul de sac, it reduces our frontage to down, and it's a 33 acre lot, I mean, that lot that's on
that corner is a big lot, and if we reduced the frontage down, it makes it a nonconforming lot.
So he can't really move that property line.
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MR. MAGOWAN-Is this the lot that he's clearing that he's removing some trees?
MR. HALL-Yes, the lot that he's clearing, removing, yes, doing some cutting, yes. That is the
adjoining property.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Questions, comments from the Board?
MR. FORD-As long as you've got a cooperative neighbor, it works.
MR. DEEB-I think he does.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 said it before at the last meeting when he was here, it's really a nice looking
industrial park he has going on down there.
MR. HALL-For the type of work they do and the contracting and the commercial aspect that they
do, they keep that dirt, that front part of it, very, very nice, and it's a very well kept, you know,
the landscaping is going to remain exactly the same as what it is. He's got the same company
that he's going to keep and just continue that right around, and the actual, the look of the
building we're doing that so that it blends right in with that building that's there.
MR. FORD-It's clean.
MR. HALL-Yes. He really wishes he'd done two stories on the building that he's in now. When
he talked about it in the beginning, he said, no, I'm never going to need a whole second story
out of this whole thing. Well, here we are.
MR. HUNSINGER-Never say never, right?
MR. HALL-I mean, now he needs the second floor, but it's tough to put a second floor on the
existing building, and still operate on it.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. FORD-Yes, that's the tough part.
MR. HUNSINGER-So maybe he ought to think a second floor on the addition.
MR. HALL-The addition is a two story. Yes, we've already crossed that. Otherwise we would
have had to make the building that much bigger. So we've shrunk the building down and made
it two story.
MR. FORD-So once you got the two story building, you're back to a couple of years to put the
second story on the first building.
MR. HUNSINGER-Any additional comments, concerns from the Board? Any concerns relative
to the variance requests? Okay. Would anyone like to put forward a recommendation?
RESOLUTION RE: RECOMMENDATION RE: AV PZ 138-2016 JOSEPH GROSS
The applicant has submitted an application for the following: Applicant proposes construction of
a two-story 5,040 sq. ft. addition to the existing 5,420 sq. ft. Office that is part of the existing 69,
095 sq. ft. Gross Electric building facility. Variance: Pursuant to 179-3-040; 179-9-120, existing
buildings and site conditions to remain with no changes; alterations to an existing building and
previous site plan shall be subject to Planning Board review and approval. Variance: Relief
requested for setbacks.
The Town of Queensbury Zoning Ordinance, per Section 179-9-070 J 2 b. requires the Planning
Board to provide a written recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals for projects that
require both Zoning Board of Appeals & Planning Board approval;
The Planning Board has briefly reviewed and discussed this application, the relief request in the
variance application as well as the potential impacts of this project on the neighborhood and
surrounding community, and found that:
MOTION TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON BEHALF OF THE PLANNING BOARD TO
THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR AREA VARIANCE NO. PZ 138-2016 JOSEPH P.
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GROSS: Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved its adoption, seconded by George Ferone;
and
a) The Planning Board, based on a limited review, has not identified any significant adverse
impacts that cannot be mitigated with current project proposal -
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Ford, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-You're all set. Good luck.
MR. HALL-Thank you very much.
MRS. MOORE-The applicant for Performing Asset Strategies is on their way, and I've already
communicated with the next applicant to let them know they can be next on the agenda.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. We can be flexible. So we'll divert from the formal agenda and we'll
listen to Site Plan PZ 91-2016 for Spruce Hospitality Group, LLC.
SITE PLAN PZ 91-2016 SPECIAL USE PERMIT PZ 90-2016 SPRUCE HOSPITALITY
GROUP, LLC SEAR TYPE UNLISTED AGENT(S) HUTCHINS ENGINEERING
OWNER(S) BIG BOOM REALTY, LLC ZONING CI-18 LOCATION BIG BOOM ROAD
APPLICANT PROPOSES CONSTRUCTION OF A 43,150 SQ. FT. (FLOOR AREA), THREE
STORY (45 FT.), 79 ROOM HOTEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK THAT INCLUDES
INSTALLATION OF PARKING, LANDSCAPING, LIGHTING, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
AND PREPARATION FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WITH SOME TREE CLEARING.
PROJECT INCLUDES RECONFIGURATION OF TWO LOTS TO ACCOMMODATE 18.44
ACRE AND 1.79 ACRE PARCEL; PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-3-040 AND 179-10-010
OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE, MOTELS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN AND
SPECIAL USE PERMITS FOR PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL. CROSS
REFERENCE 12/10/13 FLAG — NO. LOT GARAGE TO BE REMOVED PRIOR TO ANY BP'S.
WARREN CO. REFERRAL FEBRUARY 2016 LOT SIZE 18.44 ACRES TAX MAP NO.
309.14-1-89.1 & -86.11 SECTION 179-3-040179-10-010
TOM HUTCHINS, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT; ED MOORE, PRESENT
MRS. MOORE-Okay. The applicant is proposing construction of a 43,150 sq. ft. floor area
three story, 45 ft. in height 79 room hotel with associated site work that includes installation of a
parking area, landscaping, lighting, stormwater management and preparation for future
development with some tree clearing. There is a reconfiguration of the two lots to
accommodate 18.44 acre and 1.68 acre parcel. In view of the zoning change in that area, the
hotel also has to have a Special Use Permit. Prior to that it was under a Special Use Permit
due to the Main Street zoning. The applicant already addressed the Special Use Permit. The
applicant has also complied with information about traffic analysis and in your e-mails today you
received information about the traffic analysis from our Town Engineer and their comments.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Good evening.
MR. HUTCHINS-Good evening, Board. Tom Hutchins with Ed Moore and Tyler Herrick of
Spruce Hospitality, and this application was submitted back in February, I believe and it was
actually submitted as a Site Plan app and an Area Variance app and we all know there's been
changes in zoning, and with the changes in the zone in the area, the Area Variances are no
longer required. We have updated the plans to reflect the new zone, and they were submitted
recently, and it really didn't change the technicals at all. What it did was take the zoning
information and what we were requesting and we believe we are wholly compliant with the new
CI-18 zone. We've looked ata number of options for configuration on this site. We're actually
taking, reconfiguring a portion, one of the parcels that you folks are under contract for is split by
the new portion of Big Boom Road, and we're going to combine the portion of that parcel that is
on the east side of Big Boom with the larger parcel. It cleans up the properties a little bit, and
again, we looked at orientation in terms of, as we showed it we looked at a side orientation.
We looked at different configurations. We find this to be the best, this is the best configuration
for the hotel on that site. It is a much larger parcel. We have no plan for the remainder of the
property at this point in time. Obviously perhaps someday. We did go stand in the driveway
back behind the hotel to show that we do have room to do something like that should the
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opportunity come up in the future. Again, we'd just like to get it before this Board and get your
thoughts and if there's anything to add, guys. With that, I'd turn it over to the Board.
MR. FORD-1 think it's a real improvement in the configuration and placement.
MR. FERONE-Can you talk about signage and lighting?
MR. HUTCH INS-Lighting, we did submit a lighting plan. I mean, it's a hotel parking lot. It's got
to be reasonably well lit and it would be within compliant levels and I believe our lighting plan is
pretty close there. Signage, there'll be a Marriott, it's a Fairfield Marriott brand of hotel and we
really haven't gotten to the details of signage yet, but the intention would be to be wholly
compliant with the sign language which will be a building mounted sign and a pedestal sign.
MR. FERONE-So where it says Fairfield on the building and it's represented there in the
rendering, is that lit up from inside or is that just lights shining on that, the sign as those letters
are affixed to the building in that spot?
MR. HUTCHINS-1 believe it's backlit, but do you know, Tyler?
TYLER HERRICK
MR. HERRICK-1 believe the one on the building is backlit, but the pedestal sign is up lighted.
MR. FERONE-And the pedestal sign will be on Big Boom Road?
MR. HUTCHINS-Yes.
MR. MOORE-If there was an opportunity that we could put a sign out by the road I'm sure that
we would like to investigate that. It would be in our best interest in the success of the hotel.
So if the opportunity is there further down the road I guess we'll look for that opportunity. Kind
of like a sign, here's the Marriott or something like that.
MR. FORD-Maybe something at the exit, too.
MR. MAGOWAN-Well, they're going to have to be putting something up there that, with all the
hotels and motels coming that, you know, where you come up there's so many gas stations
coming up, so many restaurants, you know, hotels.
MR. HUNSINGER-So how far from Main Street will the building be? It was kind of deceiving
looking at the.
MR. HUTCHINS-It's approximately 300 feet we were just looking at, approximately 300 feet
from the center of the building to Main Street.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay.
MR. HUTCHINS-And that's obviously plus or minus. I don't have a straight scale, and that also
correlates with the length of the sewer that, part of this application is they've agreed to install the
extension of the Queensbury Sewer District that the Town has actually had designed, and we
submitted the plans that the Town had done for that sewer work and they've agreed to install
that 320, 1 believe it was 320 foot portion of force main up Big Boom Road to cross in front of
their project.
MR. DEEB-You read the traffic study?
MR. HUTCHINS-1 did.
MR. DEEB-The comment on there's going to be shared costs. I'm just wondering how do you
ascertain who pays what?
MR. HUTCHINS-1 don't know.
MR. DEEB-It's a concern of mine. You leave it up in the air and then all of a sudden you've got
three hotels going, well, that's not my cost, that's not my cost, that's somebody else's cost.
MR. MOORE-This is the first I've heard there's a shared cost.
MR. DEEB-You didn't know that?
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MR. HUTCH INS-There's been discussion of it, but I wasn't at the discussions, and I think Tyler
and Zach were. My understanding what it was rather general.
MR. DEEB-It is.
MR. HUTCH INS-Conceptual.
MR. DEEB-It's not conceptual. I believe it's there, and maybe you want to look at this.
MR. MOORE-Does anybody know what the costs were?
MR. DEEB-No, a projected increased cost of traffic that has to be taken care of with the roads,
and the three hotels agreed, like if you have more development on another project up the road,
their percentage of that increase in traffic would have to be taken care of by them. Where if
there's any increase with yours, then you'd have to figure out who's going to put in what, and
this has been left up in the air.
MR. HERRICK-If I may, though, the traffic study that we had done, that we submitted, and I
know that the Town had another one that they had been working on, but our traffic study said
that just the hotel parcel itself would not, maybe I read it incorrectly, but would not increase the
traffic flow anymore at that intersection at Big Boom.
MR. DEEB-The hotels, the three hotels
MR. HERRICK-Just our hotel.
MR. MAGOWAN-Well, see that's where it gets confusing. You're right. Your particular project,
no. Their particular project no, and their particular project no, but all three combined is a yes.
MR. DEEB-Cumulatively is going to be a yes.
MR. MAGOWAN-So you're looking at the study. It's just for your particular project, and if they
actually did the study for all three of them, and with the future expansion of, you know, you have
more lot behind you, you know, something in the future, you don't know. So this is where it's
confusing.
MR. HUTCHINS-And the study that the Transportation Council had done, just for some round
numbers here, they projected peak hour traffic from our sites of approximately 400 cars an hour,
peak hour, it was 390 something, but what the hotel uses is more in the range of 40. So we're
a 10% slice of what was projected in that, in the Transportation Council's study, looking at the
future.
MRS. MOORE-So, in reference to traffic studies and analysis and what contribution the
applicant would be subject to, that's part of the makeup of the developer's agreement, and
recently you've worked with the Holiday Inn, with Switchco, and you explained to them in the
resolution that they would be part of putting together a developer's agreement between the
Town and the applicant, and that a development of cost sharing would be developed from that.
In this case, we have, in this case for this particular applicant you'd also be adding information
in your resolution about putting together the developer's agreement, so that that cost share
analysis would be accounted for, whether you talk about trip generation or whether that's a
percentage of the cost overall. If you're saying 40 and we anticipate 400 it's at 10%. So it
would be a percentage of that cost, and whether that's a fee that we set aside or whether that's
an infrastructure improvement, that's part of the developer's agreement.
MR. DEEB-You're talking about future, no future development,just right now.
MRS. MOORE-Today. Right. So the applicant would be, as part of the application process,
we would, the Town and the developer would be developing this developer's agreement.
MR. DEEB-We want to make sure you're aware of that.
MR. FERONE-1 was going to say, that statement needs to be in the resolution, that working out
that agreement is between the Town and the developers.
MR. DEEB-The developers, but it is in the other two resolutions.
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MRS. MOORE-It is in the other, right now it's in the resolution for, it's in the SEQR resolution for
Big Bay. It is in the resolution, in the SEQR resolution, for Holiday Inn, and the resolution for
the approval of the Holiday Inn, about the developer's agreement.
MR. HUNSINGER-If I could be devil's advocate for a second, though, and I'm sure the
developer in this case is going to make the same arguments, might anticipate the question.
The traffic improvements are on the other side of the Northway, the left hand turn, the right hand
turn, the new signal. What are the proposed traffic improvements here?
MRS. MOORE-There are, they've been accounted for. So there's, turning lane is the primary
one. So they're accounted in that study.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. DEEB-On the east side?
MRS. MOORE-Yes.
MR. HUTCHINS-Yes, there were some on the east side.
MR. DEEB-A turning lane on the east side.
MRS. MOORE-There's a percentage that this applicant would have a contribution of, not the full
cost, obviously, but there could be a percentage of that.
MR. DEEB-I just wanted to make sure you were aware of that.
MR. SHAFER-If I could use an example. Your ultimate buildout plan calls for five lanes on the
intersection of this road and Main Street. Two left, one straight, and two right. It's five lanes,
in the ultimate buildout for Big Boom Road.
MRS. MOORE-So there's an alternate figure that, turn lanes, so there's two proposals in there
that have to be evaluated.
MR. FORD-And who is coordinating this and coming up with this agreement?
MRS. MOORE-Between the Town and the.
MR. FORD-And the developers.
MR. DEEB-And the developers.
MR. HUTCHINS-Would that be done out of your office?
MRS. MOORE-In combination with our office. Because the way the new Code reads it outlines
that it should be accomplished and it's up to the Board to implement, saying that a developer's
agreement will be developed.
MR. FORD-Do we have any sense of the timing of that, those meetings?
MRS. MOORE-It would be part of the resolution. So they wouldn't get final signoff until that
developer's agreement is in place.
MR. FORD-1 understand that, but do we know when this developer's agreement is going to be
developed?
MRS. MOORE-It's a case by case basis. Simply because there's certain elements that the
applicant is responsible for and we need to determine the percentage cost that that applicant
would be responsible for because they're not implementing the entire thing because they're not
generating the trip, the full trip, the full count.
MR. FORD-But it is going to have to be a percentage, on a percentage basis. Somebody
determining, it isn't probably going to come out to a third here and a third there.
MRS. MOORE-Correct. Yes, and that's outlined.
MR. FERONE-That's not going to be in our resolution. That's going to be in the agreement.
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MR. FORD-1 understand that, but jus on behalf of the applicant I'm trying to get some sense of
when this is going to come together.
MR. HERRICK-So in regards to looking at the hotel development on its own, this this hotel, the
existing traffic pattern, according to all the reports that we've had done, say that this building will
not affect anything. So why, or that the existing pattern can support this 79 room hotel. So
couldn't any future development that we want to do at the 18 acres be subject to that type of
agreement whereas this hotel is not going to take it to a threshold that would have any negative
impact on the traffic pattern now.
MRS. MOORE-But cumulatively there's three hotels at that.
MR. HERRICK-But on the east side.
MRS. MOORE-It's cumulatively part of an entire study.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, everyone's made the same agreement you've made, all right.
MR. HERRICK-1 know, but we don't have to, to get, to go to the traffic pattern, that's already
there. Those other ones, they have to create it. They have to, the other project for the Holiday
Inn, they have to make a three way intersection into a four way intersection. They have to do
all those types of things which our turning lanes were already there. They were put in when
UPS and other development went back there, and so what we're trying to say is that just this
standalone hotel, yes, if you look at the 18 acres and you say, you know, 10 years from now, if
we develop the back, if we develop the front or do any other things, we would need to add those
other extra, you know, infrastructure, but right now we just don't feel that that's necessary.
MR. TRAVER-Well, if you're a party to a developer's agreement, perhaps that developer's
agreement will say your development is zero. Hypothetically.
MR. HERRICK-We'd agree with that.
MR. DEEB-That's not up to us. Believe me, that's not going to be up to us.
MR. TRAVER-That's not up to us. I guess what I'm saying is it's not up to us to decide what
the percentages are. It sounds as though, you know, we're advocating and requiring that you
participate in some kind of agreement. What that ends up looking like is going to be a
discussion that you participate in with the other developers. As long as the Town is satisfied
that whatever costs are accounted for, I think you're fine. So we're not requiring a percentage.
We're just simply requiring your participation in agreement.
MR. FERONE-And the volume is not, I don't think, just being looked at for what is on Big Boom
Road. Yes, that will be minimum, but if the overall impact to that whole area, the whole Exit 18
corridor, both west side, east side, everything, and that's what I think is being looked at in terms
of the traffic study.
MR. FORD-Because everything is contributing.
MR. MOORE-But, you know, it might be, just playing devil's advocate, if there's a 400 car
threshold, and if we're 50 and they're 50 and they're 50, you've got 150, and it doesn't exceed
the threshold, I mean, that's the argument you're saying we have to make with the Town?
MR. FORD-Yes. It's the degree of impact and who's responsible.
MR. HUNSINGER-How do we deal with SEQR if we don't?
MRS. MOORE-You identified it last time.
MR. HUNSINGER-We identified the specific studies.
MRS. MOORE-Right. So you identified in the Part I the specific question, and you identified,
the project identified an Exit 18 re-zone, and you clearly said there could be an impact and you
indicated that due to the Exit 18 re-zoning and the items that were identified.
MR. HUNSINGER-You actually gave us language, yes. I thought I'd seen it in the draft
resolution.
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MR. FERONE-Some other things. There's some notes on Staff Notes. Have you been
approached or thought about people who are staying at the hotel in terms of getting to Main
Street for food and a sidewalk, instead of having people walk along the road? You've got a
Pizza Hut, a Subway. What else is over there? A couple of things down there, but, I mean,
people might walk down to grab food. Any thought on that?
MR. MOORE-We haven't thought about it. We've broached it over the last couple of days, but
we haven't been thinking hard about it.
MR. HUTCHINS-1 think we agree it makes sense that it were that, for the guests. It certainly
makes sense, and should probably, we're going to explore a means that it could be done.
MR. FORD-It also will impact the vehicular traffic.
MR. HUTCHINS-It likely would, yes.
MR. FERONE-But again, I'm trying to remember how your property is, but we might be asking
you to put a sidewalk on property that wasn't even yours.
MR. HUTCHINS-Well, it would be in the Town right of way, that the Town right of way is wide
enough in that area, and I don't have good detailed information on that right here, but provided
the Town right of way is wide enough to get a sidewalk outside of the travel lane, that's a great
solution, because it would really be a benefit.
MR. MOORE-And we've had discussion and agreed that if it's feasible and we can get the Town
to, but it only came in the last couple of days.
MR. HUNSINGER-Other questions or comments from the Board?
MR. FERONE-1 guess the only thing we didn't talk about that's on the Staff Notes is
landscaping. It said something about lawn and existing vegetation on the property.
MR. HUTCHINS-The property is pretty well disturbed. Where are we talking on that, Laura?
The history of the property is it's been disturbed for years.
MRS. MOORE-It's primarily on the south side of that lot.
MR. HUTCHINS-Along the low, the low area there. Yes, we're looking into just how classified
that low area is, because we're exploring what the options are there. One of the options was
we could leave it absolutely alone and I guess I don't have all the answers for you. Right now
we're avoiding it, and we're looking into what the options are going to be.
MR. FORD-It will be looked at.
MR. MAGOWAN-Tom, I don't think I've ever heard your tongue so twisted.
MR. HUTCHINS-If I don't know I do say I don't.
MR. HUNSINGER-Anything else that we failed to address? We haven't talked about the color
scheme. Any thoughts, comments on the color scheme?
MR. MAGOWAN-Is there a standard color that the Fairfield wants?
MR. HERRICK-The picture right there at the top, you know, that's their Gen 4 model, that
rendering right there on that front. When we get into that part of the design, there'll be, you
know, a couple of options, but it'll be very similar to what you see. It's not going to be a custom
build or anything.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 mean, personally I like the design. I like the use of the different materials
and the different elevations and staggering the fagade.
MR. FORD-It's attractive.
MR. TRAVER-Yes.
MR. HUNSINGER-No other comments?
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MR. DEEB-Well, I just want to make sure everybody's okay with everything that was thrown out
tonight.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MR. MOORE-I'm glad you brought that up.
MR. DEEB-I don't want to leave any question marks.
MR. HUNSINGER-Good point.
MR. MOORE-I was starting to choke a bit with the sidewalks, sewers, traffic study.
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, the interesting thing is that, you know, the sidewalk question, your
frontage on the street isn't very large.
MR. HUTCHINS-On Main Street.
MR. HUNSINGER-On Big Boom.
MR. MOORE-No, not there, but to take it all the way to the corner.
MR. DEEB-You're talking 300 feet. That's City, right, the Town, I mean. Town property, but
300 feet's still a long way.
MR. HUTCHINS-But it's 300 feet from Main Street, well, to the center of ours to Main Street.
MR. MOORE-That's a long way.
MR. HUNSINGER-I was thinking just for your own property.
MR. DEEB-Would the Town be responsible for the rest of it? I've got a lot of nods over here,
at this end.
MR. HUNSINGER-I guess it's open for discussion. If there's no other questions or comments
from the Board, we do have a public hearing scheduled. I saw at least one hand go up earlier.
The purpose of the public hearing is for interested parties to provide comments to the Board. I
would ask anyone that wishes to address the Board to speak their name for the record and to
speak clearly into the microphone. We do tape the meeting. The tape is used to transcribe
the minutes. It's also available on the Town website so that anyone can go to the Town
website to listen to the meeting proceedings. Who would like to be first? Sir, did you have
some comments? Come to the microphone, please. Good evening.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
PARESH PATEL
MR. PATEL-Good evening. My name is Paresh. I'm the owner of the property on Big Boom
Road. I have some questions about the project he's applying for on Big Boom Road, east side
and west side. Do we need the rooms in this area? Do we need more property in this area?
MR. DEEB-That's not for us to answer.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MR. PATEL-I don't know what is going on about gentlemen, and I'm sorry about the costs, if
they're talking about 10% goes to this property. What about the impact on existing business?
I'm here for 12 years. I've owned a business for the last 12 years in this area on Big Boom
Road. The business clientele has fallen off day by day and the business year round is only for
three or four months. Right now we are doing around 25% of occupancy. Do we need more
properties? I don't know.
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, it's really not for us to decide.
MR. PATEL-I understand.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
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MR. PATEL-Second thing, there are more rooms coming in this area, or more properties coming
in this area. Right now there are many properties that are closed, shut down for the winter.
I'm here for 12 years. I know how hard a time I'm getting in the winter. If we get more
properties, is it better for us, better for existing business or no? It's really hard. Try to think
about the effect on existing business more and more before you approve new projects. I'm
here for 12 years. Winter time is so tough. Right now we are running on 10, 20%, sometimes
zero room occupied in December, January time. What do you guys think, what is the Town
Board thinking about if more properties come in? It definitely impacts on existing business.
Am I right? Generally.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, again, that's not part of our review.
MR. DEEB-Do you have the Super 8?
MR. PATEL-I'm Days Inn on Big Boom.
MR. DEEB-Days Inn on Big Boom.
MR. PATEL-I'm here for 12 years. It's really, really tough.
MR. DEEB-I understand that. I was in the motel business for a lot of years, and one of the
things I find when you get competition, sometimes it brings more people into the area, and I've
got to believe that room rates might be a little bit higher at some of these bigger hotels, which
might generate some business for you. People don't want to pay those rates. They might end
up going to you. This could enhance your business.
MR. PATEL-People have choices. In this area there are, same people are coming in this area.
I don't think more and more people are coming to this area every year. So what I'm thinking,
our business, or I'm talking about generally existing business, and it is pay bills in December
and January. Our taxes are going up and up. How can we support it? December and
January I'm talking about winter time, it is really, really tough. Hard to pay bills. There's no
business on one end and electricity and bills go up on the other end. It's kind of tough. If we
get more rooms, more properties, definitely it will impact on existing business. So think about
more property coming in this area. We have to think twice about the impact on the existing
business. The second thing is on the ramp. There are two lanes going to the left, center lines,
I'm sorry, one lane goes on the left, one lane goes on the right and the centerline goes on the
straight plus left. So think about how many people are going right on Big Boom Road, plus
there is more properties. I'm only one right now, maybe more. On this site there are two more
applications. I understand. I know that, but think about it. Right now there are many, many
properties that shutdown in the Lake George area. Why? No business. So think about it.
New properties apply. Of course everybody has money. Think about one time about new
properties, but think twice about existing properties. It is very, very tough for property tax,
school tax going up every time, business going down. I'm here for 12 years. So think about,
do we need more rooms in this area or not? That is my first simple question.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you.
MR. PATEL-No problem. Thank you so much.
MR. FORD-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-Anyone else? No one else wishes to address the Board? Were there any
written comments, Laura?
MRS. MOORE-There were no written comments.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. If the applicant wants to come back to the table. Were there any
other questions or comments from the Board?
MR. FERONE-Can I ask a question about SEAR?
MR. HUNSINGER-Sure.
MR. FERONE-On your SEQR form, the question about archeological, and we checked yes.
MR. HUTCHINS-Is it a sensitive area?
MR. FERONE-Yes.
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MR. HUTCHINS-Yes, when we're doing these forms now there's an EAF mapper that DEC
actually does part of the form for you, and I'm finding, because we've looked at a number of
these over there, anywhere in that area close to the river it comes up in what they call the gray
area. So yes it's in an archeologically sensitive area. So an inquiry goes off to SHPO and in
this case the site's disturbed. I don't have the answer yet, but the site's been completely
disturbed. We'll find out if further study is required, but that's in the works.
MR. FERONE-Okay. Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-Good catch.
MR. DEEB-I've noticed most of them are checked yes on almost all the SEQR's.
MR. HUTCHINS-Yes, well, if you get near the Hudson River or between Lake George and Fort
Edward anyway.
MR. HUNSINGER-Does the Board feel like we have enough information to move forward, or are
there still outstanding questions?
MR. FORD-I'm comfortable going ahead.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. All right. Then I will close the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. HUNSINGER-We started to talk about SEAR. We do have a draft SEQR resolution that
was prepared by Staff. Are there any items that the Board feel may create a potentially large to
significant impact?
MR. TRAVER-Well, again, the only question that I have is when you talk about the developer's
agreement, is the applicant on the record agreeing to participate in that agreement?
MR. HUTCHINS-Yes.
MR. TRAVER-Yes.
MR. DEEB-Well, depending on the resolution.
MRS. MOORE-Correct. Currently the proposed SEQR resolution has it as, the second page in
the SEQR does, and then you'll follow up saying in the draft resolution in the Site Plan. There's
two places it's showing up. It should definitely be addressed in SEQR because you have a
study in front of you.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right. We can't ignore the information that we have in front of us. Not a
good practice. Would anyone like to put forward the SEQR resolution?
RESOLUTION GRANTING A NEGATIVE SEQR DECLARATION SP PZ 91-2016; SUP PZ 90-
2016
SPRUCE HOSPITALITY
The applicant proposes construction of a 43,150 sq. ft. (floor area), three story (45 ft.), 79 room
hotel and associated site work that includes installation of parking, landscaping, lighting,
stormwater management and preparation for future development with some tree clearing.
Project includes reconfiguration of two lots to accommodate 18.44 acre and 1.79 acre parcel.
Pursuant to Chapter 179-3-040 and 179-10-010 of the Zoning Ordinance, motels shall be
subject to Site Plan and Special Use Permits for Planning Board review and approval.
The Planning Board has determined that the proposed project and Planning Board action is
subject to review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act;
The proposed action considered by this Board is Unlisted in the Department of Environmental
Conservation Regulations implementing the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the
regulations of the Town of Queensbury;
No Federal or other agencies are involved;
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Part 1 of the Short EAF has been completed by the applicant;
Upon review of the information recorded on this EAF, it is the conclusion of the Town of
Queensbury Planning Board as lead agency that this project will result in no significant adverse
impacts on the environment, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement need not be
prepared. Accordingly, this negative declaration is issued.
MOTION TO GRANT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR SITE PLAN PZ 91-2016 & SPECIAL
USE PERMIT PZ 90-2016 SPRUCE HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC, Introduced by David Deeb
who moved for its adoption, seconded by Brad Magowan;
As per the resolution prepared by staff.
1. Part II of the Short EAF has been reviewed and completed by the Planning Board.
2. Part III of the Short EAF is not necessary because the Planning Board did not identify
potentially moderate to large impacts.
3. During the environmental review of the short form under question 5 the board indicated there
would be no or small impact may occur because the applicant agreed to enter into a
Developer's
Agreement establishing the timing and cost contribution to traffic mitigation measures
identified
in the Exit 18 Rezone study included for the Big Boom Rd/Main Street intersection.
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-We also have a draft resolution. I was just reviewing it again myself. Were
there any questions or comments from the Board that we haven't already discussed?
MR. MAGOWAN-Obviously the developer agreement, and what did we decide on sidewalks?
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, it was on the second page of the draft resolution. Developer's
agreement's in Item J. The sidewalk is in K.
MR. MAGOWAN-All right. So are you looking for a motion?
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, unless there's discussion first.
MR. DEEB-Tom, did you see K?
MR. HUTCHINS-1 did not. I don't have your resolution, no.
MR. MAGOWAN-J is Traffic analysis — developers agreement outlining timing and cost
contribution for installation of traffic mitigation measures as outlined in the Exit 18 Rezone
Study. And the other one, K, is Pedestrian — sidewalk from property to connect to Main Street.
MR. HUTCH INS-They're separate items, though.
MR. MAGOWAN-They are, J and K.
MR. HUTCHINS-In the developers agreement, he's agreeing to participate.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. HUTCHINS-In the developer's agreement. The sidewalk one sounds like we're agreeing
to sidewalks.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MR. HUTCHINS-Like we're agreeing to provide sidewalks.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes. Basically you're agreeing to a discussion with the Town.
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MR. MOORE-Is it open for discussion or does it mean we're agreeing to do it?
MR. DEEB-That's the traffic analysis. That's not the sidewalk.
MRS. MOORE-Correct. The sidewalk question that he's asking, I think, is important to discuss
at the Planning Board because there may be an issue where a portion of that sidewalk is on
property that is owned by the Town, and there are instances where communities have asked the
applicant to install sidewalks from their property along town right of way, and that's something
that, I'm not sure if the applicant's ready to do that, but at least ensure that the sidewalk is part
of this discussion. I don't know how the Board wants to proceed with it.
MR. MOORE-Well, I'm just saying, I'm asking the question, is this resolution in fact mandating
that we do that or like we talked before is it open for discussion to see if the Town will do that or
whatever?
MR. DEEB-You're just talking about the sidewalks?
MR. MOORE-Just the sidewalks. The other stuff I know.
MR. DEEB-Okay.
MR. MOORE-1 mean, this appears to me that we're agreeing to go from Main Street.
MR. TRAVER-That's the way the resolution currently reads.
MR. HUNSINGER-That's why I wanted to talk about it first.
MR. HUTCHINS-It would have to be, obviously that would be something that we'd have to work
with the Town to make work because it would be in the Town right of way.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. HUTCH INS-Because we can't run it on other people's property.
MR. MOORE-It does say that we agree to it.
MR. TRAVER-That's the way it currently reads.
MR. MOORE-What are we going to do?
MR. MAGOWAN-Pedestrian sidewalk to connect from the property to Main Street. I mean, it's
all in interpretation of how you read it.
MR. MOORE-I'm being honest. It seems to me like we're saying we're willing to put it in.
MRS. MOORE-1 was going to say, it's a draft resolution. So the Board, you know, if necessary
the language could be amended to say applicant agrees to install sidewalk.
MR. DEEB-In negotiations with the Town.
MRS. MOORE-Per agreement with, in compliance with the Town requirements. I'm trying to
come up with better language. It's not coming easily today, just so that I understand the
applicant's statement that you're asking me to install a sidewalk from my site to the Main Street
and that the length of sidewalk, I'm sure he'll do it along his property line.
MR. FERONE-Right. I think this needs to be modified.
MR. HUNSINGER-That's why I asked the question earlier about the distance to Main Street.
Because in the past when we've asked developer's to put in sidewalks it was only on their
portion of the right of way.
MR. FORD-1 think the agreement should be to enter into a discussion with the Town relative to
the installation of the sidewalk.
MR. DEEB-Well, responsibility for sidewalks on your property, and then in discussions with the
Town for continuation of the sidewalk to Main Street.
MR. TRAVER-That works.
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MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, I like that.
MR. DEEB-Okay. Responsibility for sidewalks on your property. Continued discussions with
the Town for continuation of the sidewalk to Main Street.
MR. FERONE-Now say it as part of the resolution.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 guess you're reading the resolution, since you've got the language there.
Well, before we do that, are there any other items in the resolution that need discussion? I
think everything else is pretty straightforward. Those were the two big ones was the traffic and
the sidewalk.
MR. DEEB-To be fair with everyone.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay.
RESOLUTION APPROVING SP PZ 91-2016; SUP PZ 90-2016 SPRUCE HOSPITALITY
GROUP, LLC
The applicant has submitted an application to the Planning Board for Site Plan approval
pursuant to Article 9 of the Town zoning Ordinance for: Applicant proposes construction of a
43,150 sq. ft. (floor area), three story (45 ft.), 79 room hotel and associated site work that
includes installation of parking, landscaping, lighting, stormwater management and preparation
for future development with some tree clearing. Project includes reconfiguration of two lots to
accommodate 18.44 acre and 1.79 acre parcel. Pursuant to Chapter 179-3-040 and 179-10-
010 of the Zoning Ordinance, motels shall be subject to Site Plan and Special Use Permits for
Planning Board review and approval.
Pursuant to relevant sections of the Town of Queensbury Zoning Code-Chapter 179-9-080, the
Planning Board has determined that this proposal satisfies the requirements as stated in the
Zoning Code;
As required by General Municipal Law Section 239-m the site plan application was referred to
the Warren County Planning Department for its recommendation;
The Planning Board has reviewed the potential environmental impacts of the project, pursuant
to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and adopted a SEQRA Negative
Declaration — Determination of Non-Significance
The Planning Board opened a public hearing on the Site plan application on 5/17/2016 and
continued the public hearing to 5/17/2016 when it was closed,
The Planning Board has reviewed the application materials submitted by the applicant and all
comments made at the public hearing and submitted in writing through and including 5/17/2016;
The Planning Board determines that the application complies with the review considerations and
standards set forth in Article 9 of the Zoning Ordinance for Site Plan approval,
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN PZ 91-2016 & SPECIAL USE PERMIT PZ 90-2016
SPRUCE HOSPITALITY GROUP, LLC, Introduced by David Deeb who moved for its adoption,
seconded by George Ferone:
According to the draft resolution prepared by Staff with the following:
1`�, granted/denied;
2. Adherence to the items outlined in the follow-up letter sent with this resolution.
a) The limits of clearing will constitute a no-cut buffer zone, orange construction
fencing shall be installed around these areas and field verified by Community
Development staff;
b) If applicable, the Sanitary Sewer connection plan must be submitted to the
Wastewater Department for its review, approval, permitting and inspection;
c) If curb cuts are being added or changed a driveway permit is required. A building
permit will not be issued until the approved driveway permit has been provided to the
Planning Office;
d) If application was referred to engineering then Engineering sign-off required prior to
signature of Zoning Administrator of the approved plans;
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e) If required, the applicant must submit a copy of the following to the Town:
a. The project NOI (Notice of Intent) for coverage under the current "NYSDEC
SPDES General Permit from Construction Activity" prior to the start of any site
work.
b. The project NOT (Notice of Termination) upon completion of the project;
c. The applicant must maintain on their project site, for review by staff:
i. The approved final plans that have been stamped by the Town Zoning
Administrator. These plans must include the project SWPPP (Storm
Water Pollution Prevention Plan) when such a plan was prepared and
approved;
ii. The project NOI and proof of coverage under the current NYSDEC
SPDES General Permit, or an individual SPDES permit issued for the
project if required.
f) Final approved plans, in compliance with the Site Plan, must be submitted to the
Community Development Department before any further review by the Zoning
Administrator or Building and Codes personnel;
g) The applicant must meet with Staff after approval and prior to issuance of
Building Permit and/or the beginning of any site work;
h) Subsequent issuance of further permits, including building permits is dependent on
compliance with this and all other conditions of this resolution;
i) As-built plans to certify that the site plan is developed according to the approved plans to
be provided prior to issuance of the certificate of occupancy.
j) Traffic analysis —applicant to enter into a developers agreement outlining timing and cost
contribution for installation of traffic mitigation measures as outlined in the Exit 18
Rezone Study
k) Pedestrian —sidewalk from property to connect to Main Street. Developer will be
responsible for sidewalk on his own property and to get into discussions with the Town
for continuation of the sidewalk to Main Street.
1) This resolution is to be placed in its entirety on the final plans
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
MRS. MOORE-There were no waivers requested for this application.
MR. DEEB-No waivers requested for this application. So scratch number one.
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUTCHINS-Thank you.
MR. MOORE-Thank you very much.
MR. HUNSINGER-Good luck. Is Performing Assets here, Laura?
MRS. MOORE-Yes, they are.
MR. HUNSINGER-We're going to go back in the agenda for Site Plan PZ-0044-2015 & Special
Use Permit PZ-0050-2015 Performing Asset Strategies.
SITE PLAN PZ-0044-2015, SPECIAL USE PERMIT PZ-0050-2015 SEAR TYPE UNLISTED
PERFORMING ASSET STRATEGIES OWNER(S) PERFORMING ASSET STRATEGIES
ZONING MS LOCATION 87 MAIN STREET APPLICANT PROPOSES TO CONSTRUCT
ONE COMMERCIAL BUILDING WITH AN EXISTING SINGLE CURB CUT. BUILDING
PROPOSED TO BE TWO STORY 76' X 48 , OFFICE, TO PROMOTE PEDESTRIAN AND
MIXED USE BUSINESSES. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-10-040 OF THE ZONING
ORDINANCE, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON MAIN STREET SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
A SPECIAL USE PERMIT. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-3-040 OF THE ZONING
ORDINANCE, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON MAIN STREET SHALL BE SUBJECT TO
PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL. CROSS REFERENCE AV 72-2000; SP 63-
2000 & MOD.; SP 2-2003 & MOD. WARREN CO. REFERRAL JANUARY 2016 LOT SIZE
43,200 SQ. FT. TAX MAP NO. 309.10-1-37 SECTION 179-3-040, 179-10-040
STEVE ETHIER, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
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MRS. MOORE-This applicant has made revisions to his application materials. We've received
those. This is now to construct one two-story commercial building with the existing curb cut.
The building is 3,648 square feet, and the floor area is 7,296. This includes potentially a
restaurant, coffee shop, deli, wine store, medical office and it's to promote pedestrian and mixed
use business. We went through items the last time and the applicant has addressed those in
reference to color scheme and transparency. The only thing that's outstanding, which is
understandable, is the engineering comments, and the applicant is in the process of revising his
application materials to address the stormwater concerns that were identified by Chazen with
the new building structure.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you. Good evening.
MR. ETHIER-Hi, good evening. Steve Ethier here from Performing Assets. Since our last
meeting we did some revisions. To make it a little bit simpler, we eliminated the back, the
second building or the potential for the second building. To make it a little simpler for
everybody to digest, and the building and the frontage, the two stories. There's a couple of
items with the engineering going back and forth. It doesn't seem like there's going to be any
complications to address the stormwater. The soils are phenomenal there, and we're
encouraged that that can be resolved over the next week or two. So we're here tonight
hopefully to move forward with a Special Use Permit and a Site Plan approval, contingent on the
technicalities of the engineer, and knowing that we have to come back once we have a tenant
for signage and for lighting. So I'm here to answer any questions. We have glass proposed
from Jim's Glass on Main Street. He's pretty familiar, so far, with what Main Street requires.
As far as transparency, we see no problem meeting that, and we're just to signage and lighting,
I believe.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you. Questions, comments from the Board?
MR. FERONE-Your project looks much better.
MR. DEEB-It looks really good.
MR. ETHIER-Thanks. I tried to make it simpler for everyone.
MR. HUNSINGER-I still like the design.
MR. ETHIER-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-Are there any outstanding issues that the Board feels haven't been
addressed?
MR. DEEB-As long as the engineering signoff is required. Everything looks fine.
MR. FERONE-I'm waiting for my esteemed colleague to say this but he seems to be a little
behind tonight. Impervious pavement, and pervious concrete, I thought you'd want to
congratulate him on that. I jumped in there for you.
MR. FORD-Thank you. I appreciate that. Thumbs up on that.
MR. ETHIER-Great spot for, the soils are phenomenal.
MR. FERONE-You check the topsoil and it's like a beach under there.
MR. ETHIER-We did test about 17 feet.
MR. DEEB-And this is our projection for Main Street. It's starting to take shape the way we
want it to take shape, and this is going to be a nice addition.
MR. ETHIER-You did a great job. Everything's, you know, with all the National Grid and the
sidewalks, in terms of, that's a real help.
MR. DEEB-I appreciate your patience.
MR. ETHIER-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-The only real question I have is more for Staff, on the Special Use Permit.
Since we don't have specific answers we don't have specific uses. So I'm not sure how we
address that?
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MRS. MOORE-I'm sorry. Those uses are already allowed in those zones.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MRS. MOORE-So you're approving a site plan.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MRS. MOORE-It's sort of like a business complex where.
MR. HUNSINGER-So it's understood that it has to be one of the approved uses.
MRS. MOORE-One of the approved uses, yes, and if it's something else, then that applicant
would be, and he's already explained that, the applicant would be coming in either for signage
or for that use.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Good. That works for me. We do have a public hearing scheduled
for this project this evening. Is there anyone that wishes to address the Board? Any written
comments?
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
MRS. MOORE-There is one written comment. This was back in March, and I think this has
been addressed, but I'll read it into the record. This is addressed to myself. This is, "My
husband and I have been out in our back yard looking over the 87 Main property with the details
of what you showed us this morning in mind. We have no problem with the 24' of lawn and yew
bush plantings along the north side of that property. We just would like more yew bushes
planted than what was indicated (I believe it was 15) on the landscape plans. That would make
the barrier of bushes more dense so as to shield our back yard a little more. I also had a
question. if the developer is only proposing to build one building at the present time, will the
whole parking lot be finished as depicted now? And what will be where the second building is
proposed? Will that square footage be more parking lot, bare dirt, ????? The plans show it
nice and neat with two buildings — I didn't see any plans of what it would look like with only the
one building. Perhaps I missed those this morning? I just thought I should email you in case I
missed this evening's planning board meeting. Thank you, Lois Hammond 16 Pine St.
Queensbury"
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you. I will then close the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. HUNSINGER-I believe the revised drawings do address those specific questions. Any
other questions or comments from the Board?
MR. FERONE-No.
MR. HUNSINGER-This is an Unlisted SEAR. We do have a draft SEQR resolution in our
package, if anyone would like to put forward the negative declaration.
RESOLUTION GRANTING A NEGATIVE DEC. SP PZ-0044-2015 & SUP PZ-0050-2015
PERFORMING ASSET STRATEGIES
The applicant proposes to construct one commercial building with an existing single curb cut.
Building proposed to be two story 76' x 48', uses may include restaurant/food service, or
medical office intending to promote pedestrian and mixed use businesses. Pursuant to Chapter
179-10-040 of the Zoning Ordinance, commercial development on Main Street shall be subject
to a Special Use Permit. Also, pursuant to Chapter 179-3-040 of the Zoning Ordinance,
commercial development on Main Street shall be subject to Planning Board review and
approval.
The Planning Board has determined that the proposed project and Planning Board action is
subject to review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act;
The proposed action considered by this Board is Unlisted in the Department of Environmental
Conservation Regulations implementing the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the
regulations of the Town of Queensbury;
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No Federal or other agencies are involved;
Part 1 of the Short EAF has been completed by the applicant;
Upon review of the information recorded on this EAF, it is the conclusion of the Town of
Queensbury Planning Board as lead agency that this project will result in no significant adverse
impacts on the environment, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement need not be
prepared. Accordingly, this negative declaration is issued.
MOTION TO GRANT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR SITE PLAN PZ-0044-2015 &
SPECIAL USE PERMIT PZ-0050-2016 PERFORMING ASSET STRATEGIES, Introduced by
Brad Magowan who moved for its adoption, seconded by George Ferone;
As per the resolution prepared by staff.
1. Part II of the Short EAF has been reviewed and completed by the Planning Board.
2. Part III of the Short EAF is not necessary because the Planning Board did not identify
potentially moderate to large impacts.
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-Any other questions or comments? Would anyone like to put forward a
resolution?
RESOLUTION APPROVING SP PZ-0044-2015 & SUP PZ-0050-2015 PERFORMING ASSET
The applicant has submitted an application to the Planning Board for Site Plan approval
pursuant to Article 9 of the Town zoning Ordinance for: The applicant proposes to construct one
commercial building with an existing single curb cut. Building proposed to be two story 76' x 48',
uses may include restaurant/food service, or medical office intending to promote pedestrian and
mixed use businesses. Pursuant to Chapter 179-10-040 of the Zoning Ordinance, commercial
development on Main Street shall be subject to a Special Use Permit. Also, pursuant to Chapter
179-3-040 of the Zoning Ordinance, commercial development on Main Street shall be subject to
Planning Board review and approval.
Pursuant to relevant sections of the Town of Queensbury Zoning Code-Chapter 179-9-080, the
Planning Board has determined that this proposal satisfies the requirements as stated in the
Zoning Code;
As required by General Municipal Law Section 239-m the site plan application was referred to
the Warren County Planning Department for its recommendation;
The Planning Board has reviewed the potential environmental impacts of the project, pursuant
to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and adopted a SEQRA Negative
Declaration — Determination of Non-Significance
The Planning Board opened a public hearing on the Site plan application on 2/5/2015,
3/15/2016 and continued the public hearing to 5/17/2016 when it was closed,
The Planning Board has reviewed the application materials submitted by the applicant and all
comments made at the public hearing and submitted in writing through and including 5/17/2016;
The Planning Board determines that the application complies with the review considerations and
standards set forth in Article 9 of the Zoning Ordinance for Site Plan approval,
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN PZ-0044-2015 & SPECIAL USE PERMIT PZ-0050-2015
PERFORMING ASSET STRATEGIES; Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved for its
adoption, seconded by Thomas Ford:
According to the draft resolution prepared by Staff with the following:
1) Waivers requested granted; vegetative buffer between uses
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2. Adherence to the items outlined in the follow-up letter sent with this resolution.
a) The limits of clearing will constitute a no-cut buffer zone, orange construction
fencing shall be installed around these areas and field verified by Community
Development staff;
b) If applicable, the Sanitary Sewer connection plan must be submitted to the
Wastewater Department for its review, approval, permitting and inspection;
c) If curb cuts are being added or changed a driveway permit is required. A building
permit will not be issued until the approved driveway permit has been provided to the
Planning Office;
d) If application was referred to engineering then Engineering sign-off required prior to
signature of Zoning Administrator of the approved plans;
e) If required, the applicant must submit a copy of the following to the Town:
a. The project NOI (Notice of Intent) for coverage under the current "NYSDEC
SPDES General Permit from Construction Activity" prior to the start of any site
work.
b. The project NOT (Notice of Termination) upon completion of the project;
c. The applicant must maintain on their project site, for review by staff:
i. The approved final plans that have been stamped by the Town Zoning
Administrator. These plans must include the project SWPPP (Storm
Water Pollution Prevention Plan) when such a plan was prepared and
approved;
ii. The project NOI and proof of coverage under the current NYSDEC
SPDES General Permit, or an individual SPDES permit issued for the
project if required.
f) Final approved plans, in compliance with the Site Plan, must be submitted to the
Community Development Department before any further review by the Zoning
Administrator or Building and Codes personnel;
g) The applicant must meet with Staff after approval and prior to issuance of
Building Permit and/or the beginning of any site work;
h) Subsequent issuance of further permits, including building permits is dependent on
compliance with this and all other conditions of this resolution;
i) As-built plans to certify that the site plan is developed according to the approved plans to
be provided prior to issuance of the certificate of occupancy.
j) This resolution is to be placed in its entirety on the final plans
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Deeb, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-You're all set. Good luck.
MR. ETHIER-Great. Thank you, gentlemen.
MR. FORD-Thank you.
MR. HUNSINGER-We have two items under New Business.
NEW BUSINESS:
SITE PLAN PZ 123-2016 SEAR TYPE UNLISTED NORTH COUNTRY IMPORTS, INC.
AGENT(S) JARED LENDRUM OWNER(S) SAME AS APPLICANT ZONING CI
LOCATION 616 QUAKER ROAD APPLICANT PROPOSES A 120 FT. X 36 FT. ADDITION
TO AN EXISTING 10,864 SQ. FT. AUTO SALES & SERVICE BUILDING WITH TWO
CUSTOMER DRIVE-IN BAYS AND ADDITIONAL BAYS FOR SERVICE, WITH AN
ADDITIONAL OFFICE AREA. A SEPARATE ADDITION OF 280 SQ. FT. BOILER AREA.
PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 179-3-040 AND 179-9-120 OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE,
ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING BUILDING AND PREVIOUS SITE PLAN SHALL BE
SUBJECT TO PLANNING BOARD REVIEW AND APPROVAL. CROSS REFERENCE SP
18-2011 NEW FACADE & 8' X 8' SIGN TOWER; OTHER SIGN BUILDING PERMITS, SV PZ
141-2016 WARREN CO. REFERRAL MAY 2016 SITE INFORMATION WETLAND LOT
SIZE 4.55 ACRES TAX MAP NO. 3093.10-1-12 SECTION 179-3-040; 179-9-120
JARED LENDRUM & KEN LENDRUM, PRESENT
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
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MRS. MOORE-Okay. This project applicant proposes a 120 ft. x 36 ft. addition to an existing
10,864 sq. ft. auto sales and service building. This allows for two customer drive-in bays and
additional bays for service, and rearrangement of the office area, and a separate building for a
280 sq. ft. boiler area. Project is subject to Planning Board review and approval.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you. Good evening.
MR. J. LENDRUM-Good evening, gentlemen. I'm Jared Lendrum. This is my father Ken and
Lee Horning. We've been in business in Queensbury since 1976. We've been in this location
since I was born. So we've been serving this Town with Saab's and Subaru's this whole time.
Mainly our goal has been to take care of customers as well as we can. Dad told us a long time
ago that's it's easier to get a customer to come back five times than it is to get five customers to
come back one time. So it's always been our goal to take care of people as well as possible,
make them happy, and that's pretty much how we got here today. Our goal is to make sure we
have the best possible customer satisfaction. We've grown to the extent of our building and
although I don't think this addition will actually create business, it'll help us take care of the
people that we have better. Subaru has made some recommendations and they're in light of
different expectations that people have these days. Back in the day, if you just didn't gouge
somebody it was good customer service, but now days if we want to be cutting edge, we have
to use all the ideas presented to us. One of which is a service job. The primary goal of this
addition is to let customers pull in to the building in inclement weather, whether it's rain, snow,
heat or cold and get out of their car in a comfortable setting where they can be greeted by our
employees and then we can take care of the customer and give them an individualized walk
through. So that's the three bays in the center of the building. It's just to take better care of
our customers, and to give them, actually some of the parking spaces for incoming customers
are inside now. In doing so, we wanted to make some state of the art offices, cleaner
appearance with newer finishes where our riders can see them and the cars, a short walk from
the car, just to make things nicer for the customer. As well as Subaru has recommended that
we wash every single car. So we have expanded upon our detail department to help cover
that. Just to make every customer happier now we're going to go as far as walking around the
cars, giving them the car back, washing their cars so they have a clean car back and this all
takes infrastructure. The other end of it is the boiler room. We have to come up with a way to
heat this building. I like the idea of a waste oil boiler. Last year we didn't spend a single dollar
on fuel oil to heat our service department, and I'd like to continue with that idea and with the
boiler I can shift the heat up to the new room and heat the room without a series of furnaces just
pumping hot water, and if I get lucky and have enough left over, I may be able to heat the rest of
the building, and that's kind of a green concept, even though it's waste oil. We're not burning
fuel oil. So that's the justification for that room in the back corner, and I'd also like to get the
waste oil tanks in their own sealed room away from any potential hazards where cars could
bump into them or tools could pierce them or anything like that. So the boiler room in the back
entrance that explains itself. So that's how we get to where we are today.
MR. FORD-A question about the waste oil fuel tanks, what will they be made of?
MR. J. LENDRUM-The waste oil tanks are already there. We had an inspection by the DEC,
and we are now in compliance, fully in compliance with what they expect. They are a, tank
made by Watertown. They are a stainless steel tank with a plastic liner. So they have a tank
with secondary containment with, they have signals that if the tank is leaking they pump out the
top so that they don't leak. There's pretty good fancy stuff, but I still wouldn't like them, I don't
like having cars driving around.
MR. K. LENDRUM-What you want to do is you want to put them into an area out of the main
shop which would also free up some work space around where these are, because they actually
don't take up as much space as you think, but it would allow us to put them around the current
space we have.
MR. FORD-The whole concept is laudable and the fact that you have such sophistication.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We had double wall steel tanks for two decades, but we had them made by
Mullen Ironworks and they didn't have a little stamp on them and they went out of business.
MR. DEEB-Mr. Chairman, I need to make a statement before we start. I've done business with
them before, since 1976 since. In full disclosure I want to make sure that this Board knows and
that it's on record.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay. Thank you.
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MR. J. LENDRUM-So where we're really at, if you think about it, the whole idea here is to get
the customer to not walk across the snow, parking lots that are frozen. It's a really good
customer relations issue because even though, we spend a tremendous amount of time with
salt and snow removal, but every winter you're just afraid all day long that somebody is going to
slip and fall, and this eliminates probably 70% of our customers from ever stepping outside.
MR. HUNSINGER-Wow.
MR. DEEB-And that's the norm, isn't it, Ken? I mean, that's what's going on with all the
dealerships.
MR. K. LENDRUM-You know, Subaru's no different than anybody else, in looking around at
what Honda and Toyota are doing. The other thing is, I mean, Subaru has all of a sudden in
the last five years become known. It's gotten on the list. They've had double digit growth
across the country. We've had double digit growth since the last time we were here asking for
the fagade. We are more than double where we are. So in order to stay ahead of customer
conveniences the service department, because those of you that know me know that I started
out changing oil. I still think of our service customers as what makes us as strong as we are.
So to stay ahead of that with the car population growth we need a little more space, a couple of
more service bays, a couple of more clean up bays, and then to really get on to this wash every
car, it's a pretty big task. Because we get about 30 cars a day.
MR. HUNSINGER-Wow.
MR. J. LENDRUM-That's the service cars. We still need to detail cars for delivery.
MR. K. LENDRUM-It's a pretty interesting statistic. We did, we may actually do more oil
changes than any other dealer in Town. We are very, very close.
MR. DEEB-That's where you get your fuel from.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We've always taken the attitude that we don't want our customer to have to
go somewhere else and pay more money somewhere else. So we've always been competitive
with the Warren Tire, and they're very good competition and with Jiffy Lube. They're very good
competition, and we do have many, many people that come back for just oil changes. So
they're in and out of there all day long.
MR. FORD-You're in good company because Dale Earnhardt, Jr. started changing oil.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We talked with a young lady the other day to do our public relations, and I
said, you know, I started with a loan and a prayer and that's about it. You remember that.
MR. DEEB-Yes.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We really did. We started on Upper Glen Street with a $10,000 loan and
everybody that gave me advice said you'll never make it.
MR. DEEB-That's the Gambles building you were in.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We rented that place for five years and outgrew it. So this is the next step.
Jared and his brother are the next generation. I think our transition, the succession plan is
great. As you know, these car companies, and I'm sure you've had this stuff before you,
Nissan, Honda, Toyota, they're all the same. They all go to the same companies that draw
their building proposals to tell them what signs they have to have. Yes, they did it so we've got
to do it, too. So the texture of the materials inside the walls, all those finishes, the guests,
they're all spec.
MR. FERONE-But they have to remain competitive and that's going to make you much more
competitive. It's all about customer service experience.
MR. K. LENDRUM-When we re-did the building, and that was in 2011, we're more than double
what we were then, which is phenomenal.
MR. FERONE-But, for the North Country, I mean, to have people to come out of their car and
go through the elements, that's big time.
MR. DEEB-So if you change the oil, you wash their cars?
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MR. J. LENDRUM-Pretty much if we rate an RO we will wash the car.
MR. DEEB-I know where I'm getting an oil change, then.
MR. K. LENDRUM-It's not going to be a money maker.
MR. J. LENDRUM-We currently make about three dollars on it.
MR. DEEB-Volume, lots of volume.
MR. K. LENDRUM-But, you know, this brand's on the rise, and I don't think they're wrong on
some of this stuff. I mean, you have a credibility issue maybe with some customers and the
best way to get over that is to prove that you're as good as the expensive cars, and you take
better care of your customers than some of the expensive car franchises, and we do that, and
that gets you repeat business.
MR. DEEB-And that philosophy's worked. You've been around a long time.
MR. FORD-Your commitment to customer satisfaction is commendable.
MR. K. LENDRUM-A lot of them are like family. Do you know Marjorie Muller? I was explaining
to this young lady that Marjorie Muller has been a customer of mine for 40 years. She must
have been six at the time. Well, we have many customers like that, and that's been our goal
since Day One. This is part of the growth, part of the evolution, how do we do it. When you
get down to the details, we have a fair amount of acreage. We have lots of places for the water
to run. We're not going to get close to anything that's scary or dangerous. We're building over
blacktop at this point. It's replace customer parking and now they're parking indoors. So it's
interesting.
MR. MAGOWAN-Well, I think it's a great addition. You've got a tremendous contract to do the
work. The only thing that worries me, he does it all by himself, but I think the addition of the
front is totally going to change the look, just as you did with the fagade. It just really brought
that building together, and how you're going to finish this out, and I love the idea with the waste
oil. I personally kind of liked the push around cart tanks you had there for room. It's too bad
they didn't pass, but that was smart thinking, but now you've got the right tanks. You need
them. I think the whole project is really going to brighten up that area on Quaker Road, too.
MR. K. LENDRUM-It's going to make it look more mature.
MR. DEEB-There's a lot more competition down there now, too.
MR. J. LENDRUM-1 don't know how fast cars fly off that lot. We've been trying to figure that out
ever since it started up.
MR. K. LENDRUM-There seems to be a challenge to see who can have the most cars on their
lot.
MR. DEEB-It seems to be that way.
MR. FORD-We've addressed that.
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, we try to when we can.
MR. K. LENDRUM-For the sake of discussion, when we got into available parking spaces, I
don't know who drew the lines or whatever. I just bought this property in '81, but the main
building is in one parcel. The parking lot on the hill that 1, 1 don't know if you remember, but
back about ten years ago I came up here and said we want to level off this ugly thing that we
couldn't maintain and we made a parking lot out of it, and that's been about ten years ago, but
that parking lot has got a different parcel number than the one that our store's in. Even though
it's in the Town of Queensbury, we actually get a different tax bill for that, which I don't
understand, but that parcel is in Town of Queensbury, Queensbury school district. The
dealership is in Town of Queensbury, Glens Falls school district, and the body shop is in Glens
Falls, Glens Falls school district. According to the rules, we couldn't count the parking, which is
on the same tax bill, we're on the same deed, which is still in Queensbury. So you know the
whole hill, that's in Queensbury on the same deed. So I don't know if it takes a, yes, you
should count that note from somebody that, rather than trying to get all our parking spaces on
the one parcel. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, right.
MR. K. LENDRUM-We have way more parking and it looks like we're scrunch down when you
look at the numbers.
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, you are showing you have enough parking spaces.
MR. J. LENDRUM-Yes, I think we can get enough, but there's just a whole lot of extra. I mean,
we haven't even talked about putting parking spaces in the City of Glens Falls, which is 10 feet
off the back of the building.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. J. LENDRUM-So there's plenty of room.
MR. K. LENDRUM-It's a bizarre piece of property if you look at the property line, because it was
obviously parceled out before Quaker Road was ever built.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. J. LENDRUM-Quaker Road comes in at a curve and then these parcels that made sense
once upon a time all of a sudden are angled crazy. Then we have rock ledge that we're dealing
with near the building. So I guess it gives it character.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 was wondering why the building was angled the way it was.
MR. J. LENDRUM-1 think it works out at this point because now the way it all comes together it
gives service an equal storefront with sales. It's not quite as close to the road as the pylon is
necessarily, but it does make the service department entrance nicer, especially the way it's
drawn. Rather than being off from behind the building. With Glens Falls Toyota you've got to
drive around the building so you can figure out where the service area is. Ours should be nice
and clean and understandable.
MR. HUNSINGER-Any questions or concerns from the Board? We have a public hearing
scheduled. Did you want to comment?
AUDIENCE MEMBER-No. I bought a Saab in '79.
MR. K. LENDRUM-It was red, wasn't it?
AUDIENCE MEMBER-It was a blue one, and I bought a black one the next year.
MR. HUNSINGER-Did we have any written comments, Laura?
MRS. MOORE-No, we did not. I will open the public hearing and close the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENTS
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. HUNSINGER-And let the record show no comments were received. This is an Unlisted
action. We do have a draft SEQR resolution in our package. If anyone would like to move
that.
RESOLUTION GRANTING A NEGATIVE SEQR DEC. SP PZ 123-2016 NO. COUNTRY
IMPORTS
The applicant proposes a 120 ft. x 36 ft. addition to an existing 10,864 sq. ft. auto sales &
service building with two customer drive-in bays and additional bays for service, with an
additional office area. A separate addition of 280 sq. ft. boiler area. Pursuant to Chapter 179-3-
040 and 179-9-120 of the Zoning Ordinance, alterations to an existing building and previous Site
Plan shall be subject to Planning Board review and approval.
The Planning Board has determined that the proposed project and Planning Board action is
subject to review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act;
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The proposed action considered by this Board is Unlisted in the Department of Environmental
Conservation Regulations implementing the State Environmental Quality Review Act and the
regulations of the Town of Queensbury;
No Federal or other agencies are involved;
Part 1 of the Short EAF has been completed by the applicant;
Upon review of the information recorded on this EAF, it is the conclusion of the Town of
Queensbury Planning Board as lead agency that this project will result in no significant adverse
impacts on the environment, and, therefore, an environmental impact statement need not be
prepared. Accordingly, this negative declaration is issued.
MOTION TO GRANT A NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR SITE PLAN PZ 123-2016 NORTH
COUNTRY IMPORTS, INC., Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved for its adoption,
seconded by Thomas Ford;
As per the resolution prepared by staff.
1. Part II of the Short EAF has been reviewed and completed by the Planning Board.
2. Part III of the Short EAF is not necessary because the Planning Board did not identify
potentially moderate to large impacts.
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Shafer, Mr. Ford, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Traver, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-And then we have a resolution, if anyone would like to put that forward.
RESOLUTION APPROVING SP PZ 123-2016 NORTH COUNTRY IMPORTS
The applicant has submitted an application to the Planning Board for Site Plan approval
pursuant to Article 9 of the Town zoning Ordinance for: Applicant proposes a 120 ft. x 36 ft.
addition to an existing 10,864 sq. ft. auto sales & service building with two customer drive-in
bays and additional bays for service, with an additional office area. A separate addition of 280
sq. ft. boiler area. Pursuant to Chapter 179-3-040 and 179-9-120 of the Zoning Ordinance,
alterations to an existing building and previous Site Plan shall be subject to Planning Board
review and approval.
Pursuant to relevant sections of the Town of Queensbury Zoning Code-Chapter 179-9-080, the
Planning Board has determined that this proposal satisfies the requirements as stated in the
Zoning Code;
As required by General Municipal Law Section 239-m the site plan application was referred to
the Warren County Planning Department for its recommendation;
The Planning Board has reviewed the potential environmental impacts of the project, pursuant
to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and adopted a SEQRA Negative
Declaration — Determination of Non-Significance
The Planning Board opened a public hearing on the Site plan application on 5/17/2016 and
continued the public hearing to 5/17/2016 when it was closed,
The Planning Board has reviewed the application materials submitted by the applicant and all
comments made at the public hearing and submitted in writing through and including 5/17/2016;
The Planning Board determines that the application complies with the review considerations and
standards set forth in Article 9 of the Zoning Ordinance for Site Plan approval,
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN PZ 123-2016 NORTH COUNTRY IMPORTS, INC.,
Introduced by Brad Magowan who moved for its adoption, seconded by David Deeb:
Per the draft provided by staff conditioned upon the following conditions:
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2) Adherence to the items outlined in the follow-up letter sent with this resolution.
a) Final approved plans, in compliance with the Site Plan, must be submitted to the
Community Development Department before any further review by the Zoning
Administrator or Building and Codes personnel;
b) The applicant must meet with Staff after approval and prior to issuance of
Building Permit and/or the beginning of any site work;
c) Subsequent issuance of further permits, including building permits is dependent on
compliance with this and all other conditions of this resolution;
d) Resolution to be placed on final plans in its entirety and legible.
Duly adopted this 17th day of May, 2016 by the following vote:
MR. HUNSINGER-I don't know that they requested any waivers.
MRS. MOORE-I didn't identify any waivers.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, there's no waivers requested.
MR. MAGOWAN-We can scratch out the waivers granted. There are no waivers.
AYES: Mr. Traver, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Ford, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
MR. HUNSINGER-You're all set. Good luck.
MR. DEEB-When are you going to start?
MR. J. LENDRUM-As soon as you guys say go.
MR. HUNSINGER-We just said go.
MR. DEEB-We said go.
SUBDIVISION PZ 129-2016 SKETCH PLAN SEAR TYPE UNLISTED PHILIP & LAURA
MITCHELL OWNER(S) SAME AS APPLICANT ZONING RR-3A LOCATION MOON
HILL & WALKUP ROADS APPLICANT PROPOSES A TWO LOT SUBDIVISION OF A 6.75
ACRE PARCEL — ONE PARCEL TO CONTAIN EXISTING RESIDENCE ON MOON HILL
ROAD AND SECOND LOT TO CONTAIN EXISTING BARNS AND HAVE ACCESS ON
WALKUP ROAD. PARCEL HAS EXISTING FLOODPLAIN AREA AND 20% SLOPES.
POTENTIAL DIVISION WOULD HAVE WALKUP ROAD 4.05 ACRES AND MOON HILL
ROAD 2.64 ACRES. PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 183 OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE.
SKETCH PLAN STAGE IS SUBJECT TO PLANNING BOARD REVIEW. CROSS
REFERENCE 2/5/93 SF DWELLING W/GARAGE UNDERNEATH SITE INFORMATION
WETLAND LOT SIZE 6.74 ACRES TAX MAP NO. 278.20-1-1 SECTION 183
PHIL MITCHELL, PRESENT
MR. HUNSINGER-Laura?
MRS. MOORE-This applicant proposes a two lot subdivision of a 6.75 acre parcel. The zone is
in the Rural Residential Three acres. The existing lot contains constraints on it, 20% slopes, in
a floodplain area, and the applicant wants to discuss its proposal to maintain the barns off of
Walkup and then the existing residence on Moon Hill.
MR. HUNSINGER-Good evening.
MR. MITCHELL-Hi.
MR. HUNSINGER-Could you identify yourself for the record.
MR. MITCHELL-My name's Phil Mitchell.
MR. HUNSINGER-And was there anything else that you wanted to say about your project?
MR. MITCHELL-Well, there's lots of documents here, but it's, just across the street there's a
new house going in on about an acre. That subdivision was approved before the three acre
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rural residential went in. So there's going to be, the fact that this is a little bit smaller than the
three acres, or quite a bit smaller than the three acres allowed, it's going to fit in. It has the
existing barns on it. One of those I might turn into a residence, if I can. That's what I'm
looking to do. Exactly why it was divided originally into lots this size I really don't know. It's
very narrow. The lots are long, 240 feet wide at one end and 300 feet wide on the other end,
but it makes perfect sense to divide them, I think, and have one with the residence on Moon Hill
Road and one on Lockhart Road.
MR. HUNSINGER-Questions, comments from the Board? I always assumed those barns went
with the blue house right across the street.
MR. MITCHELL-Well, they probably did at one time, but then somebody divided it, who knows
when and their property line goes down the road.
MR. SHAFER-A question is, why did you draw the line where you did so that you ended up with
4.05 and 2.64? In three acre zoning, theoretically it could have been three and three.
MR. MITCHELL-Well, that's a curious thing with the zoning. The three acre zoning is supposed
to be three acres, as I understand it, three acres of buildable area.
MRS. MOORE-Right. So three acres, there's already constraints on the site. Those actually
would have to be subtracted out. So he's, the site is already less than the three acre lot
because you have to subtract out the 20% slopes and the area, if it was delineated wetlands
area, that would all come out where the lot would actually be smaller than the developable area
that would be considered smaller.
MR. MITCHELL-So this way they both end up being pretty close to the three acre, but not quite.
MR. TRAVER-SO I guess the question that I would have is, coming to the Planning Board with
Sketch Plan, I mean, this would have to go to the ZBA I assume, right? So how can we?
MRS. MOORE-It's Sketch Plan. That's what it's there for. Part of his next step would be
pursuing, you know, a variance or delineation of wetlands. The first step he can come to the
Board and discuss with you, you know, is this something that, after I subtract everything out, I
have a developable site for two homes potentially. Does the area exist?
MR. TRAVER-Understanding that it would be also subject to zoning variance. Yes. Okay.
MR. HUNSINGER-So on the one drawing you have proposed barn re-located.
MR. MITCHELL-Right.
MR. HUNSINGER-Is that what you would intend to do is to re-locate the barn and make it into a
house?
MR. MITCHELL-Yes. That thing is, that barn is right on the road. I don't know if you've driven
by it or seen it. You could almost trip over it. So it would be, that needs to have some setback
from the road anyway. I'm working on the barn right now.
MR. HUNSINGER-Stabilize it. Yes.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes. There's a lot of lovely components to it as well.
MR. TRAVER-So in the state that it's in, can it be moved?
MR. MITCHELL-Yes. I talked to a timber framer friend of mine. He can do it. We'll see.
MR. TRAVER-Interesting, and then that would be the subject, potentially, of another residence.
MR. MITCHELL-Correct.
MR. HUNSINGER-It is a cool barn.
MR. TRAVER-Yes.
MR. HUNSINGER-How would you deal with the old foundations? There's also an old
foundation there for the old silo.
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MR. MITCHELL-Yes. The 15 feet came out. That puts the front corner of the barn right at the
edge of the entry to the old silo. So that could be a feature in the residence.
MR. TRAVER-Get a hot tub or something.
MR. MITCHELL-A hot tub. I thought of that, too. So that was within 15 feet.
MR. HUNSINGER-Interesting. What do Board members feel about the lot sizes and the
general concept of subdivision?
MR. TRAVER-Well, I think it's the best option if you're going to try to get two lots out of this
parcel. The only thing is, again, my concern is you understand that we may think it's great, and
then you go to the Zoning Board and they say, I don't think so. In other words, I mean, you're
coming to us for comment, but we can only speak for, conceptually, for ourselves, and not
address the potential issues that, for whatever reason, members of the Zoning Board might
have.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes. So I guess I'm trying to follow the procedures and say, you submit a
Sketch Plan and then you guys look at it and say, in your best opinion, the next step is.
MR. TRAVER-1 understand that. I'm just wanting to understand that you understand that we
may think it's great, but we're only half of the, because of the nature of the variance that you're
asking, I mean, it typically would come to us for perhaps a recommendation to the ZBA, but, you
know, that's all. As long as you understand that there's more approval required ultimately.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes. There's, how many steps are there that we go through? Three, twelve,
106? 1 wanted to get some feel from some representatives of the Town of what problems I'm
going to have with this at the next step.
MR. TRAVER-Well, my own feeling is that if, you know, you're going to divide this property, this
seems like the most reasonable way to go about it.
MR. MITCHELL-Okay. I know there's some other setback issues from the road, the drain field.
MR. TRAVER-And the barn.
MR. MITCHELL-And the barn. I mean, I know that's not acceptable if I was building new, but I
figure I'm doing better than what it is now.
MR. TRAVER-Yes, that would be an additional potential variance. So that's another, you know,
talking about a step, you're first dividing it, and then addressing the site plan issues with the
associated variances for potentially each building lot.
MR. MAGOWAN-Well, if he just secures and fixes the barn, he can leave it where it is, but if
he's going to move it.
MR. TRAVER-Well, it may not be, I mean, it might not even be considered habitable. I mean,
it's literally right.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes, now can I divide it and keep the barns and not make it a residence?
MR. TRAVER-Well, the first step that you're looking at is, that you're discussing with us tonight,
is the subdivision, right? So that doesn't address the site plan side, in terms of, and you have
not submitted any plans, Sketch Plans, that say, here is what the house would look like, here is
where I would put the barn. So at this stage we're just conceptually talking about taking this lot
and subdividing it with the issue of the less than three acre piece, which again is the ZBA.
That's what I wanted to make sure that you were aware of.
MR. HUNSINGER-This wouldn't come back for site plan, if we were to approve a subdivision,
unless we conditioned it.
MRS. MOORE-1 was going to say, sometimes constructing a single family home on greater than
15%, or 50 feet within 15% would trigger site plan. So if we're relocating the barn.
MR. HUNSINGER-The lower lot wouldn't be, though. The slope is on the Moon Hillside.
MR. TRAVER-You've got the existing residence.
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MR. MITCHELL-Yes, the slope's on the Moon Hill side. The Walkup side has wet area.
MR. TRAVER-And the barn.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, he might be within the floodplain.
MRS. MOORE-Right. So filling or hard surfacing within 50 feet of the boundary would trigger
the site plan review. I don't know where the wetland boundary is.
MR. HUNSINGER-It's possible it wouldn't, though. So to answer your question it's possible
that you may not have to come back here if we were to approve the subdivision. It's possible.
MR. DEEB-Depending on boundary lines, where everything sites on the property.
MR. MITCHELL-Right.
MR. HUNSINGER-Because we don't review just every house. Like the house that went in
across the street, on Walkup Road never came before us.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes, you didn't review that because it had already been approved.
MR. HUNSINGER-As an existing lot.
MR. MITCHELL-Everything was good, but I have special things going on here.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes. I tell you, I would love to see, just for what it's worth, I live around the
corner, and I walk my dog down there a lot, and I would love to see you stabilize and secure the
barns.
MR. MAGOWAN-Because he always crosses the road when he comes to the barns.
MR. TRAVER-It would make a neat house.
MR. HUNSINGER-It would.
MR. MITCHELL-It would. It is a challenge exactly how I'd do that. I've lifted a number of
things, I have some ideas, I think they'll work. I'll see some stuff.
MR. HUNSINGER-And of course the house across the street, not the blue house but the other
one, the salt box, that's just an incredible setting.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes.
MR. HUNSINGER-The stream and the driveway.
MR. FORD-Is that 1.73 acres actually designated wetland?
MR. MITCHELL-That's my estimate. What I did is I looked at the few pages down here you can
see the aerial view, the last page, Page 15, actually, and where the tan is on that is the old
cattails. So you can see from the aerial view where the wet areas are, and so I just put some
rough boundaries to figure out, give you folks an idea and myself, how much I would have to
take out for the wetland, and now I'll have to get that surveyed to get an accurate number for the
next step, but I just thought by this step I'd show you what I estimate.
MR. FORD-And when that survey is done, you may be right on and you may find you're a bit off.
MR. MITCHELL-Well, yes, but, yes, it's a gamble I think right now, and I thought I'd come see
what you folks had to say before I spent the money on the surveys and all of that.
MR. HUNSINGER-I mean, in my mind it kind of makes sense to, you know, with the existing
house on Moon Hill Road. The barns really are of no value to that house.
MR. MITCHELL-Yes, not much.
MR. HUNSINGER-Because you can't even get there because of the slope and then stream.
MR. MITCHELL-Well, you can get there fast in the winter.
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MR. TRAVER-Yes, if you can make it work, that would be pretty neat.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MR. MITCHELL-Cool.
MR. HUNSINGER-Are there any concerns or issues that haven't been discussed? Did we give
you enough feedback?
MR. MITCHELL-I guess so.
MR. HUNSINGER-Did you have any questions for the Board?
MR. MITCHELL-No. I guess I just go through the next steps, get a survey, a full application and
have to go through the Zoning Board of Appeals.
MR. HUNSINGER-Right.
MR. MITCHELL-And see where that goes.
MR. HUNSINGER-Okay.
MR. FORD-Thanks for coming in.
MR. HUNSINGER-Is there anything else you wanted to add, Laura, from a Staff perspective?
MRS. MOORE-With this application?
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MRS. MOORE-That the applicant talk to Staff at some point so that we can give direction and
probably start with the Army Corps, DEC and have them do the wetlands first before you survey
it.
MR. MITCHELL-Right.
MRS. MOORE-And determine if there's other constraints that they identify so that you're aware.
MR. MITCHELL-Okay.
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, good luck.
MR. MITCHELL-Thanks so much.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, you're welcome. Just before we adjourn, members may have noticed
that Paul Schonewolf wasn't here again this evening and he won't be here on Thursday as well.
When I spoke to him he asked me, he said he's finding it increasingly difficult to act as
Secretary and also to do the other preparation for meetings, and he's asked me if I would ask
other members of the Board if anyone were interested in being Secretary so that he could step
down. So I'll leave that out for your consideration.
MR. DEEB-What are the duties? What does it entail?
MR. HUNSINGER-Well, you know, it's interesting because the official duties of the Secretary
are to certify the minutes, but we have kind of fallen into this pattern where the Secretary has
been the one that reads the resolutions, and it doesn't have to be that way. We can split up
doing the resolutions, and, you know, I think we've handled it pretty well the last couple of
months when he wasn't here. So there's sort of the official duties and then there's the informal
duties. The official duties and the informal duties don't necessarily correspond. Like I said, I
remember years ago, long before I was Chairman, that the Chairman would literally pick out
members and say, you know, George, you haven't offered a resolution in a while, why don't you
make the resolution on this project.
MR. DEEB-I don't have a problem with that.
MR. FERONE-Now, when Gretchen Steffan was on the Board, was she the Secretary?
MR. TRAVER-Yes.
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MR. FERONE-Because I know when I attended the meetings for our Tribune project, she kind
of read.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes.
MR. FERONE-So maybe that was around the time.
MR. HUNSINGER-That was around the time. One of the official duties of the Secretary used to
be to read the SEQR review, and we don't do that anymore. We just have a resolution. So
that's one of the official duties that has fallen off. Is there any other like specific duties that I'm
missing? I don't have our by-laws in front of me. They are on the Town website.
MRS. MOORE-They are on the Town website. I can't think of anything.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes, but the by-laws do talk about the duties of the officers.
MR. FORD-Maybe we can think about it and get back on Thursday.
MR. TRAVER-On Thursday.
MR. HUNSINGER-Yes. That's why I wanted to bring it up this evening, to give you some time
to think about it.
MR. FORD-Good.
MR. HUNSINGER-Did you have anything?
MRS. MOORE-The only other item I had was I discussed with you about updating our
applications, and so I'll trying to bring that information with me. Like if you have any concerns
about how the applications read now, you know, this is the time to let me know so I can address
that. Currently you see a gamut of things. You've seen applications all the way back when I
first started that people are still using as their links, to some of them using from 2009 and some
are using the most recent one. So it's a gamut of what those applications are. So I'd really
like to get it straightened out so that the applicants are using the same applications, but if you
have some comments about how it's working or some information that should appear on that
cover page.
MR. HUNSINGER-1 mentioned to Laura, it surprises me how many applications still come in that
have Keith's name on them, because that's been awhile now.
MR. DEEB-How many years?
MRS. MOORE-Three years.
MR. TRAVER-One of the things I wanted to mention is, Laura, I wanted to compliment you and
your Staff for getting the Staff Notes out to us in the mail sooner. It's very handy to have them, I
mean, it's great having them by e-mail, if you're really concerned about something, but it's, for
those of us that really like to have them to write on and highlight and so on, it's great to have
them a few days in advance. So I know that's not always easy to get them out that quickly, so I
appreciate that very much.
MR. HUNSINGER-Thanks.
MR. MAGOWAN-Yes, thank you, I would agree with Steve. Thanks for bringing that up.
MR. DEEB-I move we adjourn.
MOTION TO ADJOURN THE QUEENSBURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING OF MAY 17,
2016, Introduced by David Deeb who moved for its adoption, seconded by Thomas Ford:
Duly adopted this 17`" day of May, 2016, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Ford, Mr. Magowan, Mr. Shafer, Mr. Deeb, Mr. Ferone, Mr. Traver, Mr. Hunsinger
NOES: NONE
On motion meeting was adjourned.
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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Chris Hunsinger, Chairman
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