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QUEENSBURY PLANNING BO~ MEETING
FIRST REGULAR MEETING
JUN E 2 1 S T, 1 994
INDEX
Site Plan No. 13-93 North Queensbury Volunteer Fire Co. 1.
Subdivision No. 5-1994 Joseph & Maria Leuci 2.
FINAL STAGE
Site Plan No. 35-92 Howard Carr 5.
Subdivision No. 7-1994 Daniel R. Barber 17.
SKETCH PLAN
Site Plan No. 22-94 Columbia Development Group 19.
Subdivision No. 4-1994 Guido Passarelli 37.
FINAL STAGE
Site Plan No. 15-94 Oral Health Care Associates 50.
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
JUNE 21ST, 1994
7:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT
TIMOTHY BREWER, CHAIRMAN
GEORGE STARK, SECRETARY
CATHERINE LABOMBARD
ROGER RUEL
JAMES OBERMAYER
ROBERT PALING
MEMBERS ABSENT
CRAIG MACEWAN
PLANNER-SCOTT HARLICKER
PLANNING BOARD ATTORNEY-MARK SCHACHNER
TOWN ENGINEER-BILL MACNAMARA, REPRESENTING RIST-FROST
OLD BUSINESS:
SITE PLAN NO. 13-93 TYPE I MODIFICATION OF EXISTING SITE PLAN
APPROVAL. NORTH QUEENSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO. OWNER: SAME AS
ABOVE
ED CARR, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
MR. BREWER-Maybe you could just put up a map and explain briefly
what you're going to do.
MR . CARR - I had hop e d to h a v e a n as b u i I t p I an, but Co u 1 t e r &
McCormack couldn't get it done by tonight. I do have the placement
of the building mapped out.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Could I just ask you to identify yourself for the
record?
MR. CARR-Ed Carr, North Queensbury Fire Company. As we were doing
the site work last fall, we found out there was an exist power pole
that ended up in the middle of the driveway. Aside from the power
pole, we also had the Clost word) New York Telephone, or Nynex's
pole schedules. So it would be rather expensive to move, and what
we did, we shifted this section over ten feet, moved the building
over five feet, took a five foot strip out of the parking lot here,
five foot strip out of the parking lot, here. So this line stayed
the same, and we then angled this, so we could angle the parking in
here. So we weren't hurt by removing that five foot in the parking
area, and we changed the paving, just so snowplowing could go
straight across, because as it was, during construction, we found
out that the traffic was cutting over these corners and they were
going to be a constant mess. Aside from that, the only other
changes, I believe there's a schedule with your packets, that Dick
Mead had recommended chang i ng some 0 f the p I an t i ng schedul e to
species that might do a little bit better. This area in here,
around in back, change that to crown vetch instead of lawn. We
didn't really want to have to mow any more than what we had to.
This stays lawn out in front, and just the shrubs, he just made
them scheduled similar to the schedule that was on the original
site plan, just change the species.
MR. HARLICKER-Are the numbers of plantings the same?
MR. CARR-Yes.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Any questions from anybody on the Board?
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MR. RUEL-Does this have to be reviewed by the Beautification
Corruni t tee?
MR. BREWER-I would say not.
MR. HARLICKER-No.
MR . BREWER-They don't even r eall y have to be rev i ewed by us,
don't think. I think fire companies and whatever are exempt.
MR. CARR-This was under the jurisdiction of the APA, and the APA
relinquished jurisdiction, based on your site plan review. So,
consequently, we wanted to make sure that we had your site plan
review.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. RUEL-Do we have new plans, with these modifications?
MR. BREWER-I'm sure they're filed.
MR. RUEL Scott, do you have them?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. They'll submit revised plans showing revisions.
MR. CARR-The as built plans, this is all that he was able to get
done by today.
MR. BREWER-Okay. You can just give that to Scott.
anybody care to make a motion.
Okay.
Does
MR. PALING-You're not going to have a public hearing for this?
MR . B R EWE R - The r e i s n 't a pub 1 i c he a r i n g, but i f the r e 's any bod y
here from the public that would like to comn1ent, we'll let them.
Okay.
MOTION TO APPROVE MODIFICATION TO SITE PLAN NO. 13--93 NORTH
OUEENSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO., Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved
for its adoption, seconded by Robert Paling:
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Stark, Mr. Obermayer, Mrs,. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel,
Mr. Paling, Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
SUBDIVISION NO. 5-1994 FINAL STAGE TYPE: UNLISTED JOSEPH &
MARIA LEUCI OWNER: SAME AS ABOVE ZONE: SR-IA LOCATION: WEST
S IDE OF WEST MT. RD. REQUEST I S FOR A 2 LOT SUBDI V I S ION.
ADIRONDACK PARK AGENCY TAX MAP NO. 123-1-10, 11.2 LOT SIZE: +/-
9 ACRES SECTION: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
LEON STEVES, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Subdivision No. 5-1994 Final Stage, Joseph &
Maria Leuci, Meeting Date: June 21st, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The applicant is proposing to subdivide a 10.2 acre parcel into two
lots of 9.19 acres and 1.01 acres. The property is zoned SR-IA and
is located on West Mountain Road. PROJECT ANALYSIS: The applicant
has complied with the Board's condition that the plat be revised so
the shed on the existing lot complies with the setback
requirements. The revised plat shows the existing lot at .78
acres, lot one at 1.01 acres and lot two at 9.08 acres."
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MR. HARLICKER-They still comply. They're just slightly different
than the size of the lots.
MR. BREWER-It does comply?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-Isn't it one acre zoning?
MR. HARLICKER-Well, one's an existing lot.
MR. BREWER--All right. Any comment, Mr. Steves?
MR. STEVES-No comment.
MR. BREWER-Any questions from anybody?
MR. PALING-Yes, I have a question. This has probably been asked
before, but one of the two lots is the nine acre lot, right?
MR. STEVES-Yes, sir.
MR. PALING-But they don't have an access, as such, on the print.
MR. STEVES-Yes, all three will be using the common driveway that's
shown on the plan.
MR. PALING-All three will use the common driveway?
MR. STEVES-That's correct.
MR. PALING-But then we're supposed to have 40 feet per lot.
MR. BREWER-Well, they have, of road frontage, they do. They have
200 and, what is it?
MR. STEVES-That's why we have that tail coming down, dog legged
into the road, so each of them have 40 feet of frontage, minimum,
on West Mount Road.
MR. PALING-Wait a minute. How do you get 40? There's three lots.
MR. STEVES-If you follow Lot One, easterly, (lost word) you will
find 40 feet frontage on West Mountain Road.
MR. PALING-Right.
MR. STEVES-Okay. If you come southerly of that, the lot, existing
lot, you have 40 feet frontage on West Mountain Road.
MR. PALING-Right.
MR. STEVES-Then you have 300, 400 feet left over for Lot Three.
MR. BREWER-For Lot Two.
MR. STEVES-Yes.
MR. BREWER-You have 400 feet on Lot Two. You've got 40 on Lot One
and 40 on Lot Three.
MR. RUEL-More than enough.
MR. PALING-Okay.
MR. BREWER-That 80 foot is used as one driveway, is that not
correct, Leon?
MR. STEVES-Yes, it is.
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MR. BREWER-So, actually, the Lot One and Three have 80 foot of
access.
MR. PALING-Well, you're saying that you re designating two
that have 40 foot each, and then you're saying one lot has
feet, or whatever it is, access.
lots
400
MR. STEVES-Yes.
MR. PALING-Okay.
MR. HARLICKER-Frontage, not access.
MR. PALING-Is that an arterial road, West Mountain?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. PALING-Okay. It seems a strange way to put it. It must be
right, because everyone says it, but I don't, it seems a strange
way to explain it. Why doesn't the third one have a 40 foot
opening, with a driveway?
MR. BREWER-Because the frontage on the road is 400 feet.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. All three lots are going to use that driveway.
MR. OBERMAYER-They , just indicating the road frontage.
re
MR. PALING-Okay. Well, then when these lots are re-sold, how do
you designate who owns? You're going to pass on access of the
driveway to all of the three owners, then?
MR. STEVES-That's correct.
MR. PALING~Okay.
MR. BREWER-Anything else?
MR. OBERMAYER-What's going to happen to the remainder of the nine
acres?
MR. STEVES-It's all going to remain as one lot.
MR. OBERMAYER-One lot. Okay. That's not going to be developed or
anything?
MR. STEVES-No. We said no more buildings within the Adirondack
Park portion of the lot.
MR. OBERMAYER-Yes. Is that what this, that's what the APA Blue
Line is for, ,right?
MR. STEVES-Yes. So we don't develop anything more in the Park part
of the lot.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
Line?
How many acres are on this side of the APA
MR. STEVES-I would say about four.
MR. OBERMAYER-Four acres, okay, which is currently zoned for what?
MR. STEVES-One.
MR. OBERMAYER-So, potentially, you could develop that, then.
MR. STEVES-Potentially, but I don't think we will. He has the
area, but I don't think he has the desire or the land ability to
divide into more than maybe two tops. I can't say. At this stage,
we're only proposing what you see in front of you.
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MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
MR. STEVES-That's all
for the future.
,
we re
proposing,
but I can't shut the door
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay. No.
curious for the future.
I'm just asking a question.
I'm just
MR. STEVES-I hear you.
MR. BREWER-Would somebody care to make a motion?
MOTION TO APPROVE FINAL STAGE SUBDIVISION NO. 5-1994 JOSEPH &
MARIA LEUCI, Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption,
seconded by George Stark:
For a two lot subdivision.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Obermayer, Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. Stark,
Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSTAINED: Mr. Paling
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
SITE PLAN NO. 35-92 TYPE I HOWARD CARR OWNER: ILENE FLAUM
ZONE: PC-IA LOCATION: QUEENSBURY PLAZA MODIFICATION OF
PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SITE PLAN TO ADD A FREE STANDING RESTAURANT,
ADDITIONAL PARKING WHICH WILL RESULT IN A NET DECREASE OF 9,325 SQ.
FT. OF GLA AND REVIEW OF A COMPREHENSIVE FACADE PLAN FOR THE PLAZA.
BEAUTIFICATION COMM.: 5/9/94 6/6/94 WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/8/94
TAX MAP NO. 103-1-1 LOT SIZE: 13.67 ACRES SECTION: 179-22
JON LAPPER, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT; HOWARD CARR, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 35-92 Modification, Howard Carr,
Meeting Date: June 21st, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The
applicant is proposing to modify a previously approved site. The
modification includes the reduction of approved retail space and
the construction of a restaurant. PROJECT ANALYSIS: Staff has the
following corrunents regarding the modified site plan: 1. Parking:
Total number of parking spaces required is 702 and 704 are
proposed. Handicapped spaces should be included near the proposed
building. 2. Pedestrian access: Access from the east parking lot
is not shown. 3. Landscaping: If the landscaping shown on the
modified plan is correct, it does not correspond with what was
previously approved. Staff would like to see an increase in
interior landscaping particularly on the proposed seeded islands
and along the main access drives and hedges around the perimeter to
screen the parking area along Glen Street and the south property
line. Additional evergreens along Quaker Road and placing the
proposed deciduous trees in front would provide year round
screening as well as shade and decoration. 4. Traffic
circulation: Circulation around Red Lobster should be clarified.
It appears that right turns into the access on the west side of the
building will be difficult as will left turns out. The turn in
front of the proposed building should also be better defined. Four
way stop bars should be placed at the intersection of the Bank
Street access and the interior access roads. 5. Placement of the
trash container in the midst of the parking lot is less than
desirable. If it is to be kept out in the parking lot, it should
be landscaped. 6. Wastewater: Mike Shaw's corrunents have to be
addressed. 7. Soi I contamination: DEC's corrunents on the analysis
of soil samples has not been received. 8. Facade Plan: The
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facade plan as proposed is unacceptable. The plan should be
carried out throughout the entire plaza. All stores should be made
to comply with the plan. Exemptions should not be allowed for REX
Television, Staples or any other future tenants. The purpose of
the plan is to provide for some flow and continuity of colors and
pattern within the plaza. Exemptions to the plan only creates a
hodgepodge look to the plaza. Staff believes that the facade plan
is a step in the right direction but to have a truly effective
facade plan a coordinated sign plan should also be implemented."
MR. BREWER-Okay. We've got engineering comments?
MR. MACNAMARA-A number of the conments that we had were previously
mentioned, actually, in the Town's review that Scott's just
summarized. Other comments had to do with the access point that's
shown, the northwest corner of the plaza, and, again, I was
comparing this site plan to a previously approved site plan. The
previously approved site plan indicated that that access point was
to be blocked, or had already been blocked, and I do notice, coming
over here, that it is blocked, and that was one of the conments,
that it wasn't on the site plan. There wasn't any detail if there
is to be a curb box for the water service shut off for Red Lobster.
It's a nice thing to have, certainly if you have a problem over
there. Landscaping note that Scott talked about earlier. There
was confusion whether these trees and plantings were in addition to
the previously approved plantings, or if this was just in lieu of,
and it appeared that if it were in lieu of, it wasn't quite equal
to what was previously proposed. The note about the handicapped
spots by the proposed building. I'm curious about the sizing of
the stormwater grease trap and insulation details. I didn't see
any on the site plans. That's the grease trap that's behind the
proposed building. I didn't see a grease trap for the Red Lobster
sanitary connection, and being that it's a restaurant.
MR. LAPPER-We'll provide you with that.
MR. MACNAMARA-A clean out for the Red Lobster sanitary service.
Another note on the dumpster, as far as the height of the block
wall, and more details, and lastly was recommending some type of a
schedule for cleaning and maintenance of the catch basin sumps and
the grease trap for the stormwater system, and the reason I mention
that is I don't know the whole detail of the whole site plan and
all the surrounding area, but I do believe that that run off runs,
I believe it's a straight shot into Hovey Pond, I believe, and that
being the case, I certainly think it warrants some care to the
grease trap and the stormwater catch basins. That's it.
MR. BREWER-Okay, and we do have Warren County, approval, "With the
condition that the NYS Department of Transportation review the
traffic plan." And that's it.
MR. LAPPER-Good evening. I guess I'd like to start off with just
a couple of prel iminary comments. We're not here asking for
approval tonight. We just want to discuss the site plan, get the
Board's input, and we'll make provisional changes. We'll provide
the engineering details that you've requested, and we'll be back in
July. I guess if I could say that, in terms of the development of
the Plaza, we're real pleased to have Red Lobster interested in
locating on the site, the site which used to be the Sears Auto
Center. We consider this type of development in-fill, because it's
taking part of the Town which has already been developed, but now
what was there was removed. Sears was obviously relocated up to
the Mall. It's been vacant for a long time, and we see this an
opportunity to not only finish this site, but ,to provide a nice
landscaped building which would block the view of the back of the
lumber store, the back of some of the other uses along Glen Street,
and just generally, visually, make Glen Street look a lot nicer.
When we were here last time, for the modification which allowed the
Olive Garden to go in, part of what the Board was looking for, and
what we've done north of the access road, is to bring the green
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space to the front, to bring it to Glen Street, which is similar to
what the Board just approved across Glen Street, for John Nigro's
project, where we're going to be moving green space along Glen
Street as well, and what we've tried to do in front of Red Lobster
is to do the same thing, to provide a nice, wide area, where
ther e '11 be green space, lands caped, and ex tens ion 1 andscapi ng
around the restaurant i tsel f. We haven't prov ided that. We're
waiting to get the specifications of the landscaping around Red
Lobster, from General Mills, we should have in a few days, and
we'll have that for this Board for the next meeting. One of the
comments, in terms of changing the landscaping along Glen Street,
in front of Red Lobster, we did change that around a little bit,
because when we were in here last time to have this approved, it
was for the large, 56,000 square foot L-shaped building. Now that
we've sited the Red Lobster there, it changes the view a little
bit, and we've moving a lot of landscaping in front of Red Lobster,
in front of the building itself, actually, on all sides, and
landscaping around where the dumpster's going to be. We'll have
that in detail for you, for next month.
MR. BREWER-Okay. As far as the Staff comments, do you want to
comment on any of them?
MR. LAPPER-Yes. We could go through it, one at a time, if Scott
wants to go th~ough it. We really didn't, in terms of landscaping,
we will provide more in the islands. We've already put some trees
in the islands. We'll provide some more.
MR. BREWER -Okay. As far as pedes tr i an acces s acros s the eas t
parking lot, you'll take care of that. Landscaping. Traffic
circulation. You're going to clarify the circulation around Red
Lobster.
MR. LAPPER-We, actually, there's something we wanted to show you.
MR. OBERMAYER-Is the proposed building part of this project? I
notice how you have it all shaded. It seems like you're throwing
it in with the Red Lobster. Is that what you're doing?
MR. LAPPER-What we did last time, you weren't on the Board when we
got this approved, which allowed the Olive Garden. This was
formerly a 56,000 square foot L-Shaped building which came all the
way down to here.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
MR. LAPPER-We now, in order to provide for the Red Lobster, we've
cut back, and we've reduced the standard square footage from the
previously approved site plan. That's how we cut it, so we could
provide parking near the Red Lobster.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
square footage.
did notice that.
You did cut back the
MRS. LABOMBARD-What's this?
MR. LAPPER-This is additional retail space which has not been
leased yet, but that would be, it's existing as an approval, but
not built. So that would be phased in after we get the Red Lobster
up.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay, but you still need our approval for this,
though, because it is a modification.
MR. LAPPER-Yes. Well, it's one modification.
MR. OBERMAYER-Because I have questions on this building, itself.
MR. LAPPER-Sure.
just less of it.
What's there is what was already there. There's
Tim, in answer to your question about the access,
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we haven't yet incorporated this into the plan. I'll show
everybody. This is something that we talked about wi th County
Planning, that they wanted to see this. What this does is that
this provides, it'll reduce the possibility of stacking, if people
are going to be entering the Red Lobster from Glen Street. It'll
provide a stacking lane, which also addresses one of Scott's
comments, about the design of this intersection, so that people
going into the rest of the plaza can bypass them on the left, and
they'll be stacking.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes, but the thing is, if you look at it, if you're
coming around that left side of Red Lobster, you come in, and you
go out, how are they going to, so they're going to have to
circulate and go back out this way?
MR. LAPPER~Yes. You can't turn in here.
MR. HARLICKER-Okay.
to go that way.
So you're going to come out and you're going
MR. LAPPER-Right.
MR. HARLICKER-What about coming in? Are you going to be allowed to
turn in, or are you going to have to go all the way around?
MR. LAPPER-I think we were talking about restricting that, so that
there's no right turn in there.
MR. HARLICKER-No right turns in, no left turns out?
MR. LAPPER-Exactly. No right turn in, no left turn out. We'11
incorporate that on the final plan. So what Scott was asking for,
there's no left turn out here, and that's why we've done the
geometry, with the island in the middle over here, and with the
angle, so that nobody'11, it'll be marked with a sign, but also
there'll be no physical way to get there, and there'll be no right
turn in. So this is just coming out.
MR. BREWER-If you come in here, and you've got to go up here and go
out?
MR. LAPPER-Right.
MR. BREWER-You come in here and you want to park, and come back out
and go up between here and come out?
MR. LAPPER-Yes, but that'll work.
MR. BREWER--Yes.
It'll work.
MR. LAPPER-The reason that you have, there are just some competing
design issues here, and in order to eliminate the number of curb
cuts, and to control traffic, we've got the one entranceway here,
which makes a lot of sense, in terms of access to the State right
of-way. It does create design issues here, and that's why we've
made it so that people who want to get to Red Lobster can get out
quickly, but that nobody can come in here and get involved with
people that are stacking, and this far back it should be fine,
because this provides a significant stacking. One of the
modifications, actually, when we were here last time, this was
closed, and one of the modifications now is to open this up to
allow people to just, to get over to the Olive Garden and to get
back, for better flow.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Traffic circulation will be taken care of.
about the trash container? Where is that located on here,
here in the parking lot?
What
back
MR. LAPPER-That's going to be concrete block. That'll be finished.
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MR. BREWER-Similar to Olive Garden?
MR. LAPPER-And landscaped.
MR. BREWER--Do we have any comments from Mike Shaw?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. A few of them.
MR. BREWER-Well, we'11 get right to them in a minute.
contamination, you've got a DEC letter coming?
Soil
MR. LAPPER-Let me explain that issue, and I guess, when Howard was
just getting involved, somebody.
MR. OBERMAYER-Why would we need a letter from DEC, as far as
indemnification? It's the people that are putting the building on
the property that need to be indemnified. Why does the Town of
Queensbury need to be indemnified, as far as contamination to the
site goes? Maybe you could answer that, Mark.
MR. SCHACHNER-I haven't the faintest idea. Who's proposing that
the Town be indemnified? I'm not aware of the issue.
MR. OBERMAYER-Why are we asking for a letter, as far
contamination of the site goes? Why are we interested in
as the
that?
MR. LAPPER-Let me give a little bit of history to this. There was
a minor spill, a long time ago, when it was Sears Tire Center.
There was some petroleum products in the soil. This was determined
in '89. It was filed with DEC. There have been monitoring wells
put in every year, and DEC, there were 10 wells to begin with.
DEC, two years ago, said all you need is, instead of, they were
quarterly and 10 wells. Two years ago they said, you're under any
threshold that would mandate any kind of remediation, so we'll go
to just the two wells that have the highest concentrations, but
we're still less than anything that would require remediation, and
to go, instead of quarterly testing, to bi-annually, and that's
where we are now. We're now, and of those two wells that they've
required that we keep there, neither of them are in the footprint
oft h e b u i I din g, so i f we had to, we co u I d jus t k e e p them in the
parking lot with covers on them, so you could drive over them. No
there's no issue there, but we've requested that DEC allow us to
just take it out and just forget about it. At this point, we
expect that they will, but what had happened was, they blamed them
on the County, when he was out looking around. He was aware of the
issue. He saw the well. So he just asked for the file. We
supplied him, and I think I had sent a copy to Jim, also, with the
who 1 e file, all the cor respondence with DEC over the year s, and
when County saw that, they dropped that as an issue. They said,
it's a State issue, and they're comfortable, and they didn't want
to condition it. So we just provided the information, but we don't
see that as being any problem to site development.
MR. BREWER-So, in other words, if there's a sealed site there, they
don't want you to take it up and pull it out of there, I guess, is
what the concern might be.
MR. OBERMAYER-It must have been brought up just as a concern, but
I don't see why it would be a concern for us. That's all I'm
saying, is that we don't really need a letter from DEC, 1 don't
need one anyway.
MR. LAPPER-The County didn't require anything else.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
on the Board.
I guess that brings us to questions from anybody
MR. OBERMAYER-Yes. As far as drainage goes, on the parking lot, I
notice that you have some arrows on the, I guess it's the northwest
side, pointing, as far as drainage goes, and you have a high point
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going in both directions. Where's that water going to drain to,
because you really don't have any catch basins to capture any water
there. In fact, you have a curb cut right along there, right
there. You have drainage going in both directions, but you really
don't have any catch basins. So you're going to have a pool of
water here and a pool of water here.
MR. LAPPER-I think that the contours are that they're going to be
sheet flow, because that's a high point.
MR. OBERMAYER-Where's the water, if you have a curb right here,
though, you're going to have pools of water here, and pools of
water here. That's my comment.
MR. LAPPER-I guess, we'll, since John Goralski couldn't make it
tonight, we'll address that next time, and we'll either add a catch
basin if it's necessary, or explain to you why it's not, but we'll
address that.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay. That's all right.
a little more defined.
I'd just like the drainage
MR. LAFFER-Okay.
MR. OBE~~AYER-As far as lighting, because the restaurant will be
open after hours, I can't remember, as I drive past Olive Garden,
is there exterior lighting on the building, because this will be a
parking lot that will be separate from the existing?
MR. CARR-There's existing lighting in the lot there, now. Subject
to the final landscape plan, it may have to be relocated, and the
Olive Garden itself will be individually illuminated, excuse me,
the Red Lobs t e r, i n d i v i d u a 11 y w ill be i 11 urn i n ate d , i n a s i mil a r
manner to Olive Garden.
MR. OBERMAYER-And that'll be shown on the site plan, the final site
plan, also.
MR. CARR-I don't know if that would show. That would probably be
on the building plans. They typically light off the building. I
mean, I could get that for you.
MR. BREWER-Will you have some kind of an idea what that building is
going to look like for us?
MR. CARR-I've seen three different sets of drawings on it. ]
know which, this is a new prototype for them, a new building.
seen three different facades now. I don't know which one I'm
to get. Now, we can, we'll request it of then1, certainly.
don't
I've
going
MR. BREWER-Yes.
I would like to.
MR. OBERMAYER-It would be nice to see what the building's going to
look like, before we give the approval.
MR. BREWER-Yes. In other words, it's not going to be the same as
Blockbuster, that type of a, I mean, it's just nice to ask, because
people are going to, if something ever did happen like that,
they're going to say, the Planning Board approved.
MR. CARR-I'll tell you the three buildings I've seen. There is a
building that is very similar in its design to the Olive Garden,
all right. It's really colored a little bit differently and has a
little bit different architecture, and it's more rounded, it's
architectural features are more rounded, as opposed to being
square, like the Olive Garden is. So that's one. Another one is
a wood building that has a (lost word) copper style roof on it,
which is much more New Englandy, and then the third one is kind of,
I call it Florida Modern, for lack of a better term.
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MR. BREWER-That's what the Blockbuster is, Florida Modern.
MR. CARR-No.
MR. BREWER-I think that was one of the terms they used.
MR. CARR-Really? Believe me, the Blockbuster building doesn't come
out to Florida Modern at all. I'd say, it uses a clay tile roof,
and that type of thing. I guess probably it picks up a little bit
of a Spanish motif, to some extent, with arches in it and that kind
of thing.
MR. RUEL-I think one of the most important things, regardless of
the architecture of the building itself, is the compatibility with
the surrounding buildings in the plaza.
MR. BREWER-Exactly.
MR. RUEL-I think that that's a prime importance. I mean, you're
concentrating on the building itself, but I'm thinking in terms of
the complete picture. Compatibility with the rest of the buildings
in that plaza.
MR. BREWER-Good point. So, possibly we could get some drawings as
to what it might look like.
MR. CARR-Yes.
MR. RUEL-And if you could take a photo of the existing buildings,
so we can make the comparison.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Is there any reason why one would be chosen over the
other two?
MR. CARR-Cost, as always. They come in, they are extensive in
their marketing campaign, and they will not put a building into a
market, okay, that is going to be something that is offensive. So,
they're going to be concerned about that and very sensitive to it.
I can tell you, i f you got 0 C a 1 i for n i a , an 0 I i veGa r den i n
California does not look at all like the Olive Garden here. It's
very different. I mean, you know, well, they're going to want it
to meld well with the Olive Garden, but they're not going to want
it to be confused with the Olive Garden.
MR. BREWER-They want it to be independent.
MR. CARR-Right. It's got to be different.
MR. RUEL-We 11 , think you can do both.
MR. CARR-Sure, and I agree with you.
MR. OBERMAYER-Does Howard Carr Group own the property that you're
discharging the stormwater to, over in this area, over to the south
of the proposed parking lot, the ground parking lot?
MR. LAPPER-The land immediately to the south is the Niagara Mohawk
right-of-way. What that does is that follows the natural contour
of the land, which is where the water drained before there was ever
a plaza, and ever a power right-of-way. In fact, the water drains
from the Northway Plaza, across the intersection, from the new
Kentucky Fried Chicken. That's just the natural grade of the land.
MR. OBERMAYER-But Niagara Mohawk is aware that you're discharging
stormwater into their right-of-way there?
MR. LAPPER-Yes, and we actually, in order to address stormwater
issues, when we were before the Board last time, for the last
modification, we added grease traps to the catch basins to address
that issue of (lost word) coming off the cars, etc., but that is a
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natural drainage area, and in fact, if that's just vegetated,
that's not developed, the water can be absorbed into there.
MR. OBERMAYER-As far as the proposed building, the new proposed
building, is there going to be any loading docks on this building?
MR. LAPPER-We don't have a tenant yet. So we don't know if that
would be one bui lding, or one use, two uses, three uses. We
haven't designed it. So, I mean, yes, the answer is there would be
one or more loading docks that would have to be added, and if we
need more room for that, then we'd have to reduce the size of the
building a little bit.
MR. OBERMAYER--Also, you'll have a water supply going
building? I don't see that indicated on the drawing.
building, you show a grease trap and sanitary leaving the
but you really don't indicate any water coming into it.
into the
Into this
building,
MR. CARR-There'll be water.
MR. OBERMAYER-I figured there would be.
why you left it off.
I was just curious as to
MR. BREWER-Anything else? Okay. Any idea when you might start?
I reme~ber conversation, the last time you were here, about this
parking to the south was going to be just, remain gravel, and then,
as you progressed, you were going to possibly, wasn't there a spot
on there you were going to leave vacant?
MR. LAPPER-Let me explain that. Right now, that's all asphalt.
That was part of the old parking lot for the Sears. You mean the
Bank Street lot?
MR. BREWER-Yes.
MR. LAPPER-What this Board asked us to do, the last time, was to
remove that, to make it permeable. There's a provision in the
Ordinance that says that as long as you have the land for parking,
it can be permeable green space for now, provided that if there
comes a time in the future when it needs to be done, the Planning
Board can tell us to put in as parking, and that's how it was
approved last time.
MR. BREWER-Right.
MR. LAPPER-The Board would rather see it as green, and that's what,
and that's not something we've done yet, because that's part of the
development that's on the other side, for the future development.
MR. BREWER-Yes, but that'll happen when this other proposed
building happens?
MR. LAPPER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-That's all I've got. Roger? Bob?
MR. PALING-Just back to the facade comments a minute. The Staff
comments talk about the unacceptability of the facade plan, which
is part of what we have tonight to talk about. Do you want to
address that?
MR. BREWER-I thought we'd talk about that as a separate issue.
MR. PALING-Okay.
it.
It's under 35-92.
That's why I'm asking about
MR. BREWER-Okay. As long as we've got all the questions done with
that, why don't we, there is a public hearing. If there's anybody
here from the public that would like to ask any questions about
what's been presented, we'll let them say what they want to say
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now, and then we'll get into the facade. Is there anyone here that
would like to speak? Okay. I guess we'll go right to the facade.
MR. LAPPER-Okay. If could address that. In Queensbury, of
course, there's no architectural review in site plan review, and
we're dealing with an existing plaza that was done, it started as
an A & P and was expanded. What we're trying to do, we're in the
process of doing, is lease it up and modernize it. We've provided
that facade plan in order to make Jim Martin happy, to show him
what we were planning to do, but that's nothing that is required.
We feel that we're doing that just to help Jim, and give him an
idea of what that's supposed to look like, or what we're hoping
it'll look like, but I think that Jim's issue there is in terms of
colors, and what the colors of various buildings might be, and I
guess there's just a couple of different theories on what shopping
centers should look like. Everyone knows what Northway Plaza looks
like. I think Howard Carr can better address that than me.
MR. CARR-Par t of what thi nk that the Board needs to have an
understanding of is that a shopping center is like, today, it's a
market place, and that market place is an amalgamation of different
pieces of this puzzle that go together to make a particular
shopping center site appealing, and attractive, both to the
merchants and to the customer base, and that's all part of what we
try to create. That's why we try to bring a broad rang~ of goods
and services to the site, now. The problem that we have is that
each and every retailer wants to have the most unique facade and
building that they can possibly think of, and that's why they pay
these designers hundreds of thousands of dollars to dream up logos,
etc. Part of that goes into making the shopping center, though,
attractive to other tenants. We have what we consider to be
destination retailers. A destination retailer in the Center,
currently, would be a REX tv, because you don't just drive by and
say, I'm going to buy a 35 inch color tv today. It's not something
that people buy on an impulse basis. So that, what happens is
that, with this destination, that retailer does an extensive amount
of advertising and all of a sudden he draws people. Now the
smaller tenants then feed off of the traffic that he draws to that
Center. Typically, the way it was done years ago was, there was a
supermarket and drug store, and then everybody pretty much fed off
of those two uses. Today, it's a little bit different, that there
are different mixes and different types of tenancies. We are
unable, on this site, to have a Shop N' Save or Price Chopper, as
much as we'd like one, because they generate trips, people trips,
that come to the site. So, what happens is now is that the tenants
themselves come up, with plans to draw attention to themselves,
because we're dealing with a road that's pretty heavily travelled,
and what the retailer's trying to do is to try and tell the world
out there that I'm here. It's really no different than what has
happened, if I drove you by a building that happens to sit down on
Western Avenue in Albany, at the entrance to the Northway, if I
drove you by it, there is no sign on that building whatsoever, but
there's a small one out in the front that has just two gold arches,
and we all know what that is, and that's part of what they're
trying to create. So that the facade plan, while we try to make it
as visually pleasing as possible, all right, still needs to be
unique unto its own individual retailer, because that's what they
need to grab attention to their store, and they're fighting for the
dollar that's out there. Just as each food tenant fights for that
dollar, the Staple Store will fight for that dollar. The ABC
Retail Store will fight for the clothing dollar. So those are all
parts of what goes into that, and so if you have that
understanding, you'll have the understanding of why many times,
okay, that certain tenants, if you were to look at a brand new
design, one of the big items that are being used now are called
bell towers, and if you go down the Northway, you'll see one that's
on the Crossings that's being built right now where the Builder's
Square went in. They build a big bell tower, and they put a clock
on it. It sits right in front of Grand Union. Why? To draw
attention to it. They couldn't get a bigger sign. They did it
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with architecture. That's pretty much where it's going. To put
bell towers and those types of architectural features on this
Center, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't sit right on the site,
because we're dealing with a road that's elevated above it, and so
it's only going to defeat the purpose for which the bell tower is
intended. Generally, we're never going to change a retailer's
attitude toward its corporate logo. We can't get Radio Shack to do
anything but a red sign. They'll never do anything but a red sign.
If they carr't have a red sign, they just don't locate there.
MR. BREWER-Can they all be uniform in size?
MR. CARR-Well, that's very difficult, because you have
different size tenancies, and the tenant has a 30.000 square
store certainly doesn't want to say that I'm going to have the
size sign as the guy in the 1.000 square foot store does.
all
foot
same
MR. BREWER-All right. Maybe I should re-phrase that. See how you
have your facade her e, it's all, it comes down her e and then it
goes way up, and then way across, then it drops down again, then it
goes back up, then it goes back up.
MR . CARR - Par t 0 f t hat rei ate s t 0 s t e p s
building is built in steps. It's got a
that's where part of this is coming from.
than this, and then it's stepping down.
in the building. This
step footing to it. So
This building is higher
MR. BREWER-But you could put a fake front across the front of it?
MR. CARR-Yes. We could make, this could be built up very easily,
but I don't think that that's something that the Board's going to
want to see.
MR. BREWER-No. I'm just exploring, I mean, the other plaza, like
you said, is all uniform, and isn't there a provision for signs out
front?
MR. CARR-I don't know what you mean.
MR. BREWER-I'm talking about Northway Plaza. I mean, all the signs
are all uniform, aren't they, no matter who's in there, and that
Plaza's full, pretty much.
MR. CARR - CV S , t hat's the i r n a t ion a I log 0 .
same as anybody else's in there.
Their sign is not the
MR. STARK-Honingsbaums just put a new sign in.
MR. CARR-Honingsbaums just put a scripted sign
log 0 . T hat's the pro b 1 em, i s t his log 0 i s sue.
spend millions of dollars a year creating this
They want some identification.
in. That's their
These companies
corporate logo.
MR. RUEL-Well,
don't think you can eliminate the logo.
MR. CARR-Never.
MR. RUEL-But you made a statement before, and I think that if all
tenants would highlight their buildings, then none would stand out.
I mean, you're talking about each one will be highlighting his
particular store. If they all do it, then nobody is standing out.
I mean, the same thing exists with signs, you know.
MR. BREWER-Exactly.
MR. RUEL-You get signs, and people would tell you, they like garish
red and orange, they say, hey, that really stands out, but now if
they're all red and orange, none stand out. Do you follow me? So,
if you have a more subdued element to the whole thing, and some
compatibility, then all of them will stand out.
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MR. LAPPER-We're going to make this a little bit more compatible
and subdued, and the facade plan provides for, just like it is
around, the other side of REX, where Bruegger's Bagel is planning
to go. This is what the Center's going to look like, and now we've
got different architecture, but we, ultimately, will tie it all in.
MR. RUEL-Yes, but, now, you have red up here, what color red? It's
right on top, red against white, very contrasting, candy apple red,
fire engine red. I mean, what kind of red are we talking about?
MR. HARLICKER-It's been explained to us, a nice bright fire engine
red.
MR. CARR-It's pretty bright.
MR. LAPPER-There's a whole other issue here, though, that you've
got to look at the Northway Plaza by comparison, that you've got
something which, just from a distance, it's very attractive,
because you see the green and the whi te, but you can't see the
signs from the road, and there've been, really, terrible vacancy
rates in there, and even now, that al though it's subdued and
aesthetically very nice.
MR. RUEL-Lighting would help an awful lot. I mean, even in the day
time, you have bright lights on the buildings, and even at night.
So lighting would help a lot, and that whole plaza is not, the
lighting is very poor.
MR. CARR-I know what you're getting to, and I happen to, basically,
agree with your concept. Probably the greatest building that I've
ever seen illuminated is the Magic Castle at Disneyland, because
when I built illY office building down in Albany, I wanted to find a
way to light the building like they lit that building. I went to
Disney World with my kids and sent my kids on their own, and I went
and met with the engineers to find out how they do it. There's a
problem though. You can't do long buildings like that, because
what happens then is we're going to make the whole site glow, and
then nothing is going to stand out. It's a difficult thing to do,
to illuminate buildings. It's probably one of the toughest things
that we run into because we try to ground light them. We can't
ground light it because the parking field's in front of it. So
what we're then going to be forced to do is to light it off the
poles that are in the front, all right. We're going to end up with
this great big long strip of light, all right. You're not going to
be able to read the signs. The tenants are going to turn to us and
say, we don't want that situation. Typically, the retailer goes
in, and what we have invoked here is what we call individual
lighted letter, where each letter is individually lighted.
MR. RUEL-Yes, plastic, lighted, no neon.
MR. CARR-Well, there's some different ways to do that. No, there
is some neon, as a matter of fact, right in the middle of REX. In
the middle of each letter of R-E-X, there's a red band, or that
middle line is a red band.
MR. RUEL-It's a metal letter, channel?
MR. CARR-That letter is, this letter happens to be done completely
different. In the center, where you see that line running through
the arc, that's red, but that letter is set off the building, and
then the illuminated behind it.
MR. RUEL--Yes.
MR. CARR-That just happens to be how they do it. Bruegger's has
got a completely different sign, and I can even show you, we've got
a drawing of that with us.
MR. RUEL-We don't have an architectural review board, and I don't
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know what the Ordinances are as far as the signs are concerned, and
I don't think there's anything on lighting, but from the Planning
Board's standpoint we're just trying to make a request to give us
something that really looks elegant.
MR. BREWER-To unify it.
MR. LAPPER-We think unified is one of the things we're doing.
MR. RUEL-We don't want anything that's garish. We want something
that's elegant, and we want a lot of landscaping.
MR. BREWER-And it should be.
that's all blacktopping?
I mean, why should we look at a Town
MR. RUEL-Because the whole area is wooded. So why have a concrete
jungle here.
MR. LAPPER-A lot of that was from the 60's, development, 50's,
60's, rip it all out, and put blacktop in. Now we're in-filling
and we're fixing it up, and that's part of what this project is
about.
MR. BREWER-I guess what, 99 percent of this whole thing is white,
in the background, until you get here.
MR. LAPPER-But that might change, because we could have another
tenant that comes in over here and some vacant space that wants to
be another color. We're not saying that it has to be white. I
mean, as compared to the green and white across the street, it's
sort of more of a marketplace that.
MR. BREWER-But there's not even now, in your building it's not even
uniform, because the whole building, 85 percent of the whole
building is the same color, and then the new tenant that's moving
In, the back of the building's a different color now.
MR. LAPPER-Well, that's a separate issue.
MR. CARR-That's something I just found today.
on the plans. That was not on the drawings.
I've al ready call ed
We'll address that.
MR. BREWER-~o, I mean, so that's not uniform, to me.
MR. CARR-No.
MR. BREWER-Uniform is all the same.
MR. CARR-Right.
MR. BREWER-And what you have there is, everybody's trying to get
their own identity, and just, it's unappealing.
MR. LAPPER-Well, we're talking about uniform in
architecture here, and whether or not it's uniform in
color is something that we're not, we don't think that.
terms
terms
of
of
MR. BREWER-I don't think we have a right to tell you what color you
can make it.
MR. LAPPER-Yes, but the architecture will be changed, as things are
leased out.
MR. RUEL- I want to ask you about
stacks and so forth on the roofs.
front?
the air conditioning and the
Will they be visible from the
MR. CARR-They should not be.
MR. RUEL-Because I think it's really ugly when you can see that.
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MR. CARR-Quaker Road, because the other problem is, remember, the
road is rising. So you're going to get up to a point where you're
right on the same eye level as the roof line.
MR. RUEL-Yes. As long as it's covered in the front.
MR. CARR-It's all covered in the front.
MR. RUEL-Okay. That's good.
MR. BREWER-So when you come back, you will have a, can we get this
somewhat condensed?
MR. CARR-We can shoot it down to any scale you want. That's on a
computer.
MR. BREWER-Well, something even like this. Okay.
it.
I guess that's
MR. LAPPER-Okay. We'll be back next month. Thanks.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Do we need to table? We need to table, otherwise
they have to advertise it.
MR. RUEL-What kind of date are we looking at?
MR. BREWER-Probably the first meeting in July.
MOTION TO TABLE SITE PLAN NO. 35-92 HOWARD CARR,
Roger Ruel who moved for its adopt ion, seconded
LaBombard:
Introduced by
by Cather i ne
Until 19 July 1994.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. Paling, Mr. Stark,
Mr. Obermayer, Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
NEW BUSINESS:
SUBDIVISION NO. 7-1994 SKETCH PLAN DANIEL R. BARBER OWNER:
BARBARA L. BARBER ZONE: SFR-IA LOCATION: WEST SIDE BAY RD.,
NORTH SIDE TEE HILL RD. PROPOSAL IS TO SUBDIVIDE +/- 14 ACRES INTO
10 LOTS FOR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES. TAX MAP NO. 48-3-49.55 LOT
SIZE: +/- 14.32 ACRES SECTION: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
MICHAEL O'CONNOR, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Subdivision No. 7-1994 Sketch Plan, Daniel
Barber, Meeting Date: June 21, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The
applicant is proposing a 10 lot subdivision of +14 acres. Eight of
the lots will be accessed from a cuI de sac and 2 lots will front
on Tee Hill Road. The lot sizes will range from 1 acre to 3 acres.
The lots wi 11 have on si te septic systems and wells. PROJECT
ANALYSIS: 1. Existing gravel road should be upgraded to town
standards. 2. The slopes on the property will restrict location
of houses and septic systems on lots 8, 9, and 10. 3. Access for
lot 1 should be off of the cui de sac. 4. A landscaped island in
the cuI de sac would serve as a focal point for the subdivision and
would also screen the residences from each other. 5. The houses
will be looking down on the residences of Sherwood Acres; however,
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it is important that every effort be made to retain the existing
vegetation which will provide a screened buffer between
properties."
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. O'CONNOR-Mr. Chairman, I'm Michael O'Connor. As to Staff
cOlT1men t s, we have no probl em with Number One. We've al ready tal ked
to Paul Naylor. We understand that we will have to make a road to
Town specifications. As to Number Two, we've looked at the
individual lots, and we understand that we probably will be placing
the houses on lots eight, nine, and ten, towards the front of the
lot, or towards the new road that will be constructed as part of
this development. There are good areas on each of those lots where
we can easily place a house without a great deal of problem. As to
Item Number Three, we have no problem with the suggestion. We will
put that in our restrictive covenants, that says that the driveway
will be paced off of the cui de sac road.
MR. BREWER-Is there a name for that road now?
MR. O'CONNOR-I don't think we have a name for the road yet. We
will.
MR. BREWER-I think there ~.
DANIEL BARBER
MR. BARBER-It's Maid Marion. Way.
MR. BREWER-Remember we drove up in there?
sign.
I thought there was a
MR. O'CONNOR-It's the continuation of Sherwood Acres, which is the
other side of the (lost word), and we're going to call this
Locksley Knolls, when we name the subdivision. As to Point Four,
the cui de sac, we have no problem with having a landscaped island,
if that is something that Paul Naylor would approve. As to the
houses that would be looking down on the existing houses in
Sherwood Acres, those lots are only three, I think, of the ten that
we propose. The lots that are part of Sherwood Acres are really
very heavily treed, also. That are all fully developed. Those
lots, when they were developed, the houses were placed on the front
section of their lots. So between what we're going to have in the
back of our yards, and what they have in the back of their yards,
we really don't think we're going to be obtrusive to those lots.
That's basically it.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
Board?
Ar ether e any ques t ions f rom anybody on the
MR. OBERMAYER-What (lost word) requiring a setback off the road,
for a house?
MR. STARK-From the road, 50 feet.
MR. BREWER-Yes.
It's different in different zones. This is in.
MR. OBERMAYER-What's the required setback for this area off of
their road?
MR. O'CONNOR-I think 40 feet should be.
Setback, front is 30 feet.
He's got it up here.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay. So you do have enough room, then, probably,
because this really drops off.
MR. STARK-You're talking, h~re, 100 feet, to here.
MR. OBERMAYER-Right.
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MR. O'CONNOR-If you look on there, I'm not sure on your map,
there's a setback line set up already, and we're talking about, on
this lot here, you could build a house in here. Here you could do
it here. Right in here, you could do it there, before you get into
the drop offs.
MR. OBERMAYER-Do you plan on filling in any of this?
MR. BARBER-No, we don't. We're going to change the (lost word).
We'll move some of the fill from the top of the knoll, where the
houses would be situated, and then it would drop down, in that
context, but not being pushed on, no. I built this first
subdivision, here, all those homes, since 1970. We own these
apartments here, and all these apartments that are over in here,
also, on this side of this land.
MR. RUEL-I don't understand this access to Lot One to be off of the
cui de sac.
MR. BREWER-Because this road is existing, okay, right to here.
What they're saying is.
MR. RUEL-Don't make it there. Make it over here.
MR. BREWER-Anything else? I have no questions.
quite a nice plan.
thought it was
MR. O'CONNOR-Okay. Thank you very much.
SITE PLAN NO. 22-94 TYPE I COLUMBIA DEVELOPMENT GROUP OWNER:
TOWN OF QUEENSBURY ZONE: LI-IA LOCATION: CAREY RD. OFF CORINTH
RD. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW MANUFACTURING FACILITY FOR NATIVE
TEXT I LES . BU I LD I NG TO BE A PRE - ENG I NEERED SINGLE STORY BE I NG
116,400 SQ. FT. IN SIZE. SEQRA: 6/21/94 BEAUTIFICATION COMM.:
6/6/94 TAX MAP NO. 146-1-6 LOT SIZE: +/- 34 ACRES SECTION:
179-26
RICHARD ROSEN, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 22-94, Columbia Development Group,
Meeting Date: June 21, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The applicant
is proposing to construct a 116,000 square foot textile
manufacturing facility on a 34.08 acre parcel. The site will be
serviced by municipal water and on site septic system. A 77 space
parking area is also proposed. PROJECT ANALYSIS: Staff reviewed
the project for compliance with Sections 179-38A, 179-38B, 179-38C
and the relevant factors outlined in 179-39 and as the following
comments: 1. The applicant indicates that the number of vehicle
trips generated during peak hour will be 130. 2. There is a
spring and small stream as well as a substantial ravine on the
property. The actual building and parking area are far enough away
so that they will not impact it. However, it restricts access to
the rear of the property so that future development of the
r ema i n de r 0 f the pro per t y will bel i m i t e d . The pro j e c t was
compared to the following standards found in Section 179-38 E. of
the Zoning Code: 1. The location, arrangement, size design and
general site compatibility of buildings, lighting and signs; Site
design and layout is adequate. Outdoor lighting includes security
lights on the sides of the building, 2 pole lights for the parking
area and 2 pole lights for the access drive to the loading docks.
The proposed sign will have to be a minimum of 15 feet from the
property line. 2. The adequacy and arrangement of vehicular
traffic access and circulation, including intersections, road
widths, pavement surfaces, dividers and traffic controls; Traffic
access is adequate. Access is via a 24 foot wide drive from a
proposed Town road. It is staff's understanding that the Town will
construct the road from Carey Road to the property line and the
applicant will continue through their property. 3. The location,
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arrangement, appearance and sufficiency of off-street parking and
loading; Parking is adequate. There are 77 parking spaces
proposed. The lo~ding area is separated from the employee parking
area but the number of loading docks is not given. 4. The
adequacy and arrangement of pedestrian traffic access and
circulation walkway structures, control of intersections with
vehicular traffic and overall pedestrian convenience; Pedestrian
access is adequate. 5. The adequacy of stormwater drainage
facilities; Stormwater drainage is being reviewed by Rist Frost.
6. The adequacy of water supply and sewage disposal facilities;
The sewage disposal facility is being reviewed by Rist-Frost and
the facility will be serviced by municipal water. 7. The
adequacy, type and arrangement of trees, shrubs and other suitable
plantings, landscaping and screening constituting a visual and/or
noise buffer between the applicant's and adjoining lands, including
the maximum retention of existing vegetation and maintenance
including replacement of dead plants; Landscaping is adequate. 8.
The adequacy of fire lanes and other emergency zones and the
provision of fire hydrants; Emergency access and fire hydrants are
being reviewed by the West Glens Falls Fire Company. 9. The
adequacy and impact of structures, roadways, and landscaping in
areas with susceptibility to ponding, flooding and/or erosion.
Proper erosion control measures need to be in place during
construction and until the site has been stabilized."
MR. BREWER-Okay. Rist-Frost?
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, we have a couple of different sets of comments,
here, based on some varying submittals that we've received, and the
latest submittal we actually received last night, late last night,
which aren't included in these comments. We weren't able to review
those today. We did review an earlier set of comments that we
received earlier yesterday, but not the latest set that we got.
MR. BREWER-So you haven't reviewed all, what haven't you reviewed?
MR. MACNAMARA- I 'II go through the points, but I'll try not to re--
read the points that they have already addressed, in the interest
of time, unless the Board chooses to hear all the comments.
MR. BREWER-No.
MR. MACNAMARA-At this point, the comments that remain are
essentially in the areas of two areas, drainage plan and layout and
sewage disposal. The drainage plan, there's basically some
confusion about how they're going to be grading the southwest
corner of the building. One of the grade lines is missing, and
another one ends, and it's just not clear how they're going to run
the water on that corner. The piping is typically shown adequate
for 50 year storms, and they use a 25 year storm to show piping
adequacy. Catch basin inverts weren't shown on the drawings, and
that's pretty standard as far as figuring out depths of cover and
slopes and things of that nature. I also had a question about the,
the y , r e pro p 0 sin gar e ten t ion bas i n for the s tor mw ate r, and the
invert of the pipe that discharges into the stormwater basin is
actually, could be considerably lower than the possible level in
the basin, and I asked how that's going to impact the upstream pipe
flows of the stormwater, and lastly, the stormwater basin volume
that they refer to in their stormwater management report is
considerably higher than the number that I can crank out of the
scale drawing, and I may be mis-scaling it, but I did it a couple
of times, and I can't get the volumes to work out, and the bigger
issue is the sewage disposal. The first submittal, there was a
number of comments on the sewage disposal right from the flows used
should have had a SPDES Permit application, and then getting the
flow issue, you seemed to be very generous with your flows. I'm
not sure what you're planning for flows into this sewage disposal
system, but you really are oversizing it, which, obviously, is not
to your advantage, and if you want to make it that big, then that's
your choice, and there were a number of other sanitary questions,
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pump stations. The type of system that they're proposing, if
anybody's familiar with that corner of Queensbury, and I'm becoming
quickly familiar with the corner of Queensbury, the sands are very,
very rapid, as far as the percolation rates, and they went straight
to a raised fill system, and it wasn't really clear that they had,
to be honest with you, done the homework that would guide them into
picking that system. That's not known as the most reliable type of
a disposal system. We basically asked, why did you choose that
system, and can you look to maybe use a slightly different type.
There just wasn't a lot of information on the sewage disposal, and
it was a fairly decent sized mound system, raised fill. So that's
wher e we stand r i gh t now, and I under stand tha t ther e was some
considerable data that I didn't get a chance to go through today,
was dropped off last night.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. MACNAMARA-That's it.
Is that it?
MR. BREWER-Okay. Everything else has been addressed, on your list
that you have here?
MR. MACNAMARA-The first set of comments, dated June 9th, the
majority of the miscellaneous comments were addressed. A lot of
the drainage comments were addressed, but there's been nothing,
other than what was submitted last night, which we haven't looked
at, that would go toward the sewage disposal questions, whatsoever.
MR. BREWER-So, potentially, if we went through the other items, and
went through a public hearing, if you had a week to review the
items, could we possibly get an approval or disapproval next week?
MR. MACNAMARA-I could comment in a week.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Do you want to address any of the comments that
have been made?
MR. ROSEN-My name is Richard Rosen, and I'm with Columbia
Development Group. We are the applicants. Just a couple of
questions. Last night, we did submit a substantial amount of
i n for ma t ion, 1 as t m i nut e . I t too k usa w h i let 0 get 0 n sit e , to
actually do some of the percolation tests, due to the heavy woody
conditions, which I'm sure you're aware of when you had your site
visit. One thing that I would like to point out is, we did revise
our stormwater management report, which was submitted, to reflect
the 50 year storm and the piping size adequately. The catch basin
inverts are shown on the new drawings which have been submitted,
and just one point of clarification that I would like to make, we
just submitted our application for our SPDES Permit, and we
understand that the Town of Queensbury has its own rules and
regulations as far as sewage disposal systems, but at this point,
I think we're going to get our lead, and correct me if I'm wrong,
from DEC. I mean, DEC is the one that the applicant (lost word)
the SPDES Permit, and during our process of obtaining this permit,
DEC is going to make their recommendations and comments on this.
MR. BREWER-Is that necessarily so?
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, the way that I've always been directed to work
for the Board is to take Queensbury's standards and apply them to
whatever site plan has been submitted, and certainly if the DEC is
going to issue a SPDES Permit, then we'd certainly look to the DEC
to see if the permit will be issued. At the same time, unless
directed otherwise, I'll continue to take Queensbury's standards,
put them on the site plan, and let you choose to do what you want
with them. We'll comment as to what's out there, and certainly a
SPDES Permit is paramount, but your own Code, I believe, wants to
be addressed at the same time.
MR. BREWER-I guess what the question would be is, if we have
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standards, and they apply for the SPDES Permit, ENCON says, okay,
that's okay to do that system, then, therefore, they're not meeting
our standards, are they able to do it?
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, it's not to say that your standards are
actually more demanding than their standards are.
MR. BREWER-I don't know.
MR. OBERMAYER-See, I would think, in order to get a SPDES Permit,
their standards are going to be a lot more stringent than the Town
of Queensbury's.
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, to be honest wi th you, a lot of things are
dependent upon who reviews the site and which set of codes they
use. I mean, the DEC's regulations can be different from the DOH's
regulations, which can be different from yours, and what ~ seen,
yours are a combination of both.
MR. ROSEN-But like has been pointed out, I don't think we're in a
situation where we're trying to cut any corners.
MR. BREWER-No. I guess what I'm saying is, is there something
stopping you from going to the ENCON Standards?
MR. ROSEN-No.
MR. MACNAMARA-No, nothing. In
trying to cut corners, either.
trying to help you out. If
advantage.
fact, no one ever said
The comment l made was
it's too big, it's not
you wer e
actually
to your
MR. BREWER-I guess what I'm saying is, if Dave Hatin goes out there
and inspects it and says, well that's not done to our standards,
does that pr€vent him from doing it another way, I guess, is what
I'm saying, before he goes ahead and does it the other way.
MR. OBERMAYER-He's going to need a SPDES Permit to operate anyway.
I mean, that's required by DEC. There's no way he's going to be
able to run, have a manufacturing plant without having a SPDES
Permit by DEC.
MR. BREWER-I understand that, but you're walking away from the
question that I'm asking.
MR. MACNAMARA-It's important to note that the manufacturing plant
has nothing to do with the SPDES Permit. It's for sanitary
discharge, which is one of our comments, and I'm not sure how
they're going to handle the rest of their industrial wastewater, if
they have any, but the comment 1 made was that it needs to be only
sanitary waste that goes to this system, and that comment I made
simply so it goes into the record, and then they understand it.
It's a pretty big bui Iding, and I'm not sure what goes on in the
building, but this system is for sanitary wastewater.
MR. ROSEN-Yes, basically what we have is you have three shifts of
approximately 30 employees at a time. There is no wastewater as a
result of any manufacturing that goes on, but there will be showers
there. There will be showers provided for all the employees, as
well as a locker room, so people are encouraged to shower after
they leave work, and those numbers were taken into consideration
when we figured out our gallons per day of sewage that we're going
to generate, and different engineers are maybe a little more
conservative, or over conservative. I would definitely review this
with my engineer to make sure that I put in the right system, but
we're going to get feedback from DEC, and we can copy with Rist-
Fros t with our SPDES Permi t, and we will copy them with any
comments and changes that DEC requires us to make on the system, or
if we come up with any changes, if we go back and see that it's
oversized, obviously, we don't want to put in something that's
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MR. BREWER-Okay. Do you want to go down through Scott's notes, and
then we'll go through the engineering notes, and you can address
each one that's not been addressed? I guess starting with Number
Two on Staff Notes.
MR. ROSEN-Okay.
Scott, do you want me to go through all these?
MR. HARLICKER-Well, just, I guess my first concern is.
MR. BREWER-The spring and small stream, as well as a substantial
ravine on the property. The actually building in the parking area,
that restricts, is there not going to be any more building?
MR. ROSEN-Yes. We don't plan anything right now.
MR. BREWER-Potentially, is there plans for a warehouse there, at
some time?
MR. ROSEN-No. At this time, we don't have anything planned for
that area, and if we did, we'd have to come back, obviously, and go
through the application process again, but right now, as far as
that stream is concerned, we feel it's far away from the area where
we're developing. It should have no significance whatsoever.
MR. OBERMAYER-What's going to manufactured here?
MR. ROSEN-Synthetic fabric,
bring in bulk material and
weaving machines. They put
of a technical. They roll
dyed, and they sell them
Activewear, Sportswear.
and basically what they do is they
they weave it here. They have large
together, actually, blankets, for lack
them up and they send them out to be
to people such as Hanes, a lot of
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
solvents?
So they won't be doing any dying, using any
MR. ROSEN-No, absolutely not.
MR. OBERMAYER-They get it in rolls and then they slit it, or what
do they do?
MR. ROSEN-They get it in rolls, well, they get it in spools of
thread, and then you get a but, it looks like a big tree, and you
put the spools on the tree, and each strand comes from a spool, and
it comes to this machine, where it feeds into, and there's a bunch
of little fingers, like knitting needles, that go back and forth at
so many revolutions per minute, and you put it with the fabric,
actually, and weave it together.
MR. RUEL-A State of the Art loom.
MR. ROSEN-Yes, absolutely.
MR. OBERMAYER-Will there be any processed water used inside the
facility?
MR. ROSEN-No.
MR. OBERMAYER-There'll be no water cooled airconditioning?
MR. ROSEN-Well, water will be involved in the airconditioning, but
that will be a closed system.
MR. OBERMAYER-So you'll have chilled water, a chilled water system?
MR. ROSEN-Yes.
MR. OBERMAYER-And then a chiller will use cooling tower water to
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cool those chillers?
MR. ROSEN-Cooling tower water, right.
MR.OBERMAYER-Okay. So where, then, is that cooling tower load
down going to go? Is that going to go into a sanitary system or?
MR. ROSEN-The condensation?
MR. OBERMAYER-No. Generally when you have a cool ing tower, you
have make up water, Number One, and then you treat the towers, so
you will have chemicals, and you blow down the tower so that you
don't get algae build up.
MR. RUEL-There's no excess water in the cooling tower.
MR. OBERMAYER-No. You're always adding water to a cooling tower,
because that's how a cooling tower works. It evaporates, okay, and
you treat your towers.
MR. RUEL-Yes. You're adding water. You're not taking water away.
MR. OBERMAYER-I realize that, but you have to treat the tower, or
you'll get algae build up in the tower, and you have a blow down.
You blow down your tower periodically, as you add the chemicals to
it.
MR. ROSEN-I'd like to check on that and get back to you. I'm
pretty sure, if there would be any drainage water, it would go into
the sewage disposal system, but I'll get you an answer on that.
MR.OBERMAYER-Okay. Good. I was just curious, that's all, to find
out on the cooling tower blow down, specifically.
MR. RUEL-You have pole lights in the parking area.
will be on all night, I guess?
These lights
MR. BREWER-Presumably, yes, because there's three shifts.
MR. ROSEN-Yes.
MR. OBERMAYER-And then your air compressors, you'll have air, also,
probably, compressed air>?
MR. ROSEN-Compressed air, yes.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay, will that, the discharge of that, will that go,
also, to this sanitary, or will you have an oil/water separator?
MR. ROSEN-As far as water lines and stuff like that?
MR. OBERMAYER -Condensa t ion. Whenever you have, 1 i ke in an air
compressor, normally you'd have cooling tower water, again, to keep
the air compressor cool, and that also goes to drain, and normally
you have condensation, which has oil in it.
MR. BREWER-How big a compressor are we talking, 25 horse or
something, Bill?
MR. OBERMAYER-Still has oil in it.
compressor has oil in it.
The condensation from an air
MR. BREWER-I know, but the condensation that's gathered in an air
compressor is usually gathered in a filter.
MR.OBERMAYER-No. You always have a, your compressor, your
condensation from your air compressor goes to drain, and normally,
that would go through either an oil/water separator.
MR. BREWER-We have a compressor in our store that doesn't go to
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drain. It's just, it's trapped in a filter, and you drain the
filter.
MR. RUEL-All small compressors just have the filter, and the water
goes into the filter.
MR. OBERMAYER-Does your filter have a drain on it?
MR. BREWER-Sure it does.
MR. OBERMAYER-Sure it does. Where does the drain go?
MR. BREWER-The residue is trapped in the filter, in an element, and
the water, all that you have left is water.
MR. OBERMAYER-Where does the water go?
MR. BREWER-The water
nothing in the water,
line.
just goes into a drain. I mean, there's
because the filter traps whatever's in the
MR. OBERMAYER-Do me a favor, will you?
compressor it is, and tell me whether
oil/water separator, and going to drain.
Look, see
it's going
what size
through an
MR. ROSEN-Okay.
MR. OBERMAYER-This is a little bit different size than a NAPA
Store.
MR. BREWER-I know, but they have them in Story town, 25, 50 horse
compressor. Lumber yards have them. I've sold them.
MR. ROSEN-When we did our calculations, when we went through and.
MR. BREWER-I mean, lets not let him re-engineer the whole project.
MR. OBERMAYER-I'm not. I'm just curious to see whether the oil is
going to a drain or whether there's an oil/water separator.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. ROSEN-I can find that out for you, and the one thing, when we
did design the sewage system, and we were figuring out our gallons
per day, our engineer did contact our HBAC Contractor and asked
him, and it's insignificant, the amount of water generated. It
does generate water. So you are correct, and I will find out what
kind of filter.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Do we have any kind of a letter, or conversation
with the fire company about hydrants?
MR. ROSEN-It's in review.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. It was sent to the fire company. We haven't
heard back from them yet, but I showed it to Kip Grant. He was the
one that suggested that we send it to the fire company for
comments, but he had a concern about accessing the back part of
this building, because of the distance from the fire hydrant. One
of his suggestions would be to move the fire hydrant farther down
on the, I guess it would be the east side, east side of the
building, so they could access the back side. Now is this access
road going to be plowed during the winter?
MR. ROSEN-Yes, it will be maintained.
MR. HARLICKER-Okay, but, no, we haven't heard back from them yet.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Can we make note that we get an answer from them?
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MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-And you will use proper erosion control measures during
construction?
MR. ROSEN-Well, that's a note that was added on to the drawing,
which was just last night, again, submitted.
MR. BREWER-Okay, and that will be put in place pretty quick?
MR. ROSEN-Absolutely.
MR. HARLICKER-How many loading docks are you going to have on
there?
MR. ROSEN-Yes. That wasn't shown on there. We'll have two
receiving and two that will be used to load up and ship material
out. So there will be a total of four.
MR. HARLICKER-So you're going to have trucks coming and going 24
hours a day?
MR. ROSEN-Yes, but the traffic volume, as
trailer, is going to be minimal. I mean,
deliveries a day, it will be a lot.
far
if
as the tractor
they have four
MR. HARLICKER-Okay. There was also, we received a comment from
neighboring property owner, I guess this isn't really his
responsibility, but there was a concern about extending this road
that maybe the Board should look into, through back to the other
properties and tie it into Eagan Road. There was a letter in the
file, we'll get to when the public comment comes, but there was
another access and tying this into Eagan Road, for emergency access
to those properties on Eagan Road.
MR. BREWER-For emergency access?
MR. HARLICKER-Well, yes. Right now there's just one way in back
there, and some of the residents are concerned about.
MR. BREWER-Do we have some sort of a map as to the location of the
roads, where we could see how far it is to get Eagan Road, or
whatever?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. could look it up.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Any other comments?
MR. RUEL-The Town construction of the road, is that documented?
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MR. ROSEN-There is an agreement in place that the Town will build
that road. At the present time, Van Dusen & Steves is working up
the specifications and the bid documents for the road, and we've
been told that the road hopefully will be constructed late August,
early September it will be complete.
MR. RUEL-You have no letter to that effect, though?
MR. ROSEN-I'm sure we do.
MR. RUEL-Okay.
MRS. LABOMBARD~-I have a question concerning something I read, and
I just can't remember where I read it. I don't even know if this
is relevant, but I'm just curious, as to when the plant is in
operation, how many truckloads of waste will be carried to the burn
plant in Hudson Falls? Did I read that somewhere? I know I did.
MR. ROSEN-Yes.
ques t ion abou t
That was in the Long Form EAF. I think there's a
that, and that answer is in there. Basically,
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you're talking about cardboard, miscellaneous scraps.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Well, I'm talking about, first of all, what is the
waste, and it sounded like there was a large amount that would be
going over there.
MR. OBERMAYER-Cardboard's recyclable anyway.
MR. ROSEN-Right.
MR. OBERMAYER-You wouldn't bring that to the waste plant.
MR. ROSEN-I mean, there will be no hazardous waste generated.
There will be no, I can't think of what their garbage, besides
cardboard, you have miscellaneous scraps of thread material.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Well, when you're talking about synthetic fabrics,
you're also talking about, well, I know that the chemicals used to
make synthetic fabrics won't be made on this site, but the
synthetic fabric itself, it's not a biodegradable type of thing,
like cotton is, and when it is burned, are there synthetic fabrics
that give off any kind of toxic fumes, things like that?
MR. ROSEN-I'm sure there's studies out there that explain the
ramifications of burning such a material. It hasn't been a major
concern of ours. I'm not saying that it isn't something that
should be looked into. They've operated this facility in Dallas,
Pennsylvania for the last 15 to 20 years, and there was no mention
or concern of obtaining a permit to get rid of their (lost word).
MR. BREWER-Does the plant on Warren Street have similar products
that they use, or will be?
MR. ROSEN-The plant on Warren Street is a different operation.
MR. BREWER-It
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MR. ROSEN-Absolutely.
MR. BREWER-I just thought if they had similar products, you could
find out what they did with it.
MR. ROSEN-No. Thes e same produc tsar e brought over to ther e.
There is some minor knitting that does go on over at Warren Street,
but it's more intricate and delicate equipment, just specialized
custom weavings over there, which doesn't represent the majority of
the work that they do.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Could you just tell me how many tons of waste will
be going over there a day, and how many, and when the trucks will
be carrying all of this? Like, do they carry it at night?
MR. BREWER-Well, they've got to do it between the hours when the
plant is open.
MRS. LABOMBARD-So the plant is not open continually?
words, it shuts down every evening, right?
In other
MR. BREWER-No, the plant's open three shifts.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Three shifts.
So that's all night long, too.
MR. ROSEN-Right.
MRS. LABOMBARD-So, in other words, really, then they could truck
the waste during the night time.
MR. BREWER-I mean, if they're going to take the waste to the burn
plan, the burn plant's only open for so many hours during the day.
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MRS. LABOMBARD-You're right.
MR. ROSEN-Yes. I'm sure they'll come up with a schedule and work
closely with the burn plant, and deliveries, I don't know if you
could call it deliveries, drop offs will be made.
MR. OBERMAYER-Will the plant be generating any hazardous waste or
storing hazardous waste for 30 days or?
MR. ROSEN-No.
MRS. LABOMBARD-And just how many tons of that waste is,
forgot that figure.
just
MR. HARLICKER-The figure they have in their EAF is ten tons per
month.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Ten tons per month? That's not too bad.
MR. HARLICKER-Solid waste.
MR. BREWER-A third of a ton a day. That's 650 pounds a day. Okay.
Anything else?
MR. RUEL-Your term, pre--engineering, that's an elegant word for,
what, pre-fab?
MR. ROSEN-Yes. It's basically, when you cut it down to the bare
bone, it's your typical metal building. Form structural
components, steel looping, steel siding.
MR. RUEL-Thank you.
MR. MACNAMARA-Rich, you mentioned you're going to plow this road in
the winter time.
MR. ROSEN-Yes.
MR. MACNAMARA-Does that mean you're going
from, you've got topsoil and grass on that
going to plow grass?
to change the detai 1
right now. Are you
MR. ROSEN-No.
I believe it's supposed to be gravel.
MR. MACNAMARA-Okay. Well, you might want to fix the detail on it.
It says twelve inches of gravel, and then it shows six inch topsoil
with seed on top of that. My concern is the two catch basins
there. They're in elevations that are pretty important, since
those two catch basins are taking all the flow from the roof, which
is, I think it's like two and a half acres of runoff. So it's
pretty important for those catch basins to maintain their
integrity.
MR. ROSEN-Absolutely, or we'll have major flooding in the winter
time.
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, spring, whatever. What I'm saying is that if
the ground is soft and you plow it and you whack the rims, then
they aren't going to take the water they're supposed to take. So,
I'd pay attention to that detail, and if you're going to plow it,
I'd show probably a better detail on it.
MR. BREWER-Is that going to be a Town road into there, or is that
going to be, the road that the Town is building?
MR. ROSEN-Basically, the right-of-way that the Town has obtained is
this line right here, and this line right here, and it stops right
here, at this point, which presently is the property of the Town of
Queensbury. As you can see, we've shown this. Van Dusen and
Steves has done the calculations to do this, to make sure we comply
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to a Town road. We show this right-of-way going through here,
which will be deeded to the Town, for the construction of this
road. To be honest with you, where they plan to go from here, and
their plans on when, I really don't have an idea.
MR. BREWER-I guess what my question is if that road that you're
pointing to, where it goes up to the 90, is the Town going to own
that road, or is Native Textiles going to own that road?
MR. ROSEN-Well, to start off with, the road will only be
constructed to here, and paved, and the Town will own the road.
Now this property, the Town will own this road, this property, but
there won't be a road constructed.
MR. BREWER-Right, but to your building, or your parking lot, back
to Carey Road, the Town's going to own that?
MR. ROSEN-Right.
MR. BREWER-Therefore, the Town will have to maintain it.
MR. ROSEN-Well, I don't know if I'm following you right, because
right here is where our property lines will be.
MR. BREWER-Right, and the road is going.
MR. ROSEN-From here out, yes, that will be a Town maintained road.
MR. BREWER-Exactly. So the Town will plow that, repair it, if it
ever has to happen. You're just going to be responsible for
plowing the parking lot, and around the building.
MR. ROSEN-Correct.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. HARLICKER-The rest of that loop, from where your entrance is,
to the parking lot, to the end of that parking lot, is not going to
be completed. That's going to be done at a later date?
MR. ROSEN-That's the understanding that I have. Yes.
MR. HARLICKER-Okay.
MR. BREWER-Depending on what the Town wants to do with the piece of
property in the back.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. ROSEN-Right. I mean, I think this is pretty much, taking into
consideration what they have planned for back here and some kind of
master plan on, if anything ever goes on back here and over in this
area, on a Town road, provide access.
MR. BREWER-Would continue, but is there room there to pile snow?
MR. ROSEN-As far as, where, now?
MR. BREWER-Right where you're, right where the road's going to end.
What are they going to do with the snow, just stop right there?
MR. ROSEN-When this road is built, it will be to here, and this
area will be open.
MR. BREWER-So they'll just push it through.
MR. ROSEN-So,
there, again,
tha t road, 0 r
time frame.
they'll push the snow there, and once they go from
we're getting back in a situation where, if they pave
they'll construct that road, we really don't know the
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MR. BREWER-Okay. Is there anything else from anybody on the Board?
I'll open the public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
PLINEY TUCKER
MR. TUCKER-Pliney Tucker, Division Road, Queensbury. Question for
Scott. When was this land zoned Light Industry?
MR. HARLICKER-When was it? I'm not sure when it was, the date that
it was zoned.
MR. TUCKER-I assume that it's a foregone conclusion that this is
going to move along. Ownership of this property changed hands last
night, and this company's been in there clearing it for about three
weeks. So, I've got a few comments, and if they're not what you're
supposed to hear, turn me off, but I'd like to make them, if I
could. My personal opinion, this piece of land is another one
that, through the Master Plan, was mis--zoned, like Charlie Wood's
property was on Aviation Road, where the Red Lobster wanted to go.
Okay. This should have never been light industry. This piece of
land, basically, is the same type of land, same situation, as the
Hudson Point land, where Niagara Mohawk wants to build their
project. Can I ask the engineer a question?
MR. BREWER-Sure.
MR. TUCKER-You were talking about sanitation, and you said
something about DEC would have jurisdiction over it?
MR. MACNAMARA-I think that's what Rich had indicated.
MR. TUCKER-Yes. I just wonder, do commercial properties come under
DEC's jurisdiction? Because I know subdivisions and individual
lots are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health.
MR. MACNAMARA-There's a number of different criteria that will
force the DEC to get into it. One of the most common is the flow
volume, the quantity of the discharges, and, typically, if the
discharge is 1,000 gallons a day, or greater, then whether the DEC
likes it or not, they're supposed to get into it and issue a SPDES
Permit. They may try and entice the applicant to use water saving
devices to get below 1,000 gallons, so that they don't need to
issue a SPDES Permit, but that's one of the criteria that will
force the DEC to look at a SPDES Permit application.
MR. TUCKER-I ßee, but the State Department of Health would still
have their jurisdiction over the sanitation?
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, the DOH has their own rules and regulations on
individual, they call the "household systems", is the title of the
Code that I'm familiar with, but, again, it certainly gets down to
a jurisdictional issue, like Rich had indicated earlier, that if
one agency wants to say that they've got it, then they certainly
have it. Are there concerns wi th the DOH rules that you think
aren't being met by the DEC's rules?
MR. TUCKER-No. was just wondering where the jurisdiction
changed. I feel more comfortable with the New York State
Department of Health, because they're more level headed than DEC.
Somebody catches a cold and they change their minds.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Pliney, could I interrupt you for a second? Your
original question on when it was zoned Light Industrial? Well, I
can't give you that direct, the exact date, but I know that the
Carey family that, I'm pretty sure they own Northern Distributing?
MR. TUCKER-Yes.
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MRS. LABOMBARD-I can remember when that road was cut in, years and
years ago, and right away, myself, my husband said, wow, look at
this. This Industrial Park is coming in. What another nice way
for somebody to make some money, you know, and so that land has,
that road has been cut in there for years, and finally, now, a
business is going in there, and probably, it'll bring other
businesses with it, and wasn't that the original plan of the family
that built that road, and the Town Board that approved it, years
and years ago?
MR. TUCKER-Can
give you a little history?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Sure, I'd like to hear it.
MR. TUCKER-The 34 acres is part of a parcel that was purchased when
Jerry Solomon was Supervisor here in the Town of Queensbury, along
with an additional, roughly, 30 or 32 acres, below this property,
toward the river, to move the City landfill from Luzerne Road up to
the Corinth Road. A bunch of us went into the old office building
over here, and it was a done deal, and we were told that you can't
fight City Hall, but we decided we would anyway, and Nelson
Rockefeller was Governor of the State, and he had his Hudson River
Commission, and we contacted them. We won the battle, anyway, and
that's why the land is sitting there. This piece of land, the Town
purchased, and it did not have any right-of-way, whatsoever,
period. There's an old railroad bed that passes between Merritt
Road and this property, and that railroad bed is a right-of-way
owned by International Paper Company, forever, and for the Town to
access that, to get to their property, they had to have clear title
to it, and they couldn't get clear title to it. So when Carey
decided to put in his Industrial Park up there, the Town, through
the planning system, got him to agree to allow for a right-of-way
to this property, and this is the right-of-way that the Town's
going to build the road on, to access this property at this time.
Now, my personal feelings on this thing here, economically, this is
a poor deal for the taxpayers of the Town of Queensbury, and I'd
like to run some figures by you to prove my point. They purchased
34 acres here for $90,000, Queensbury Economic Development
Corporation. I believe they're selling it to this gentleman's
organization for $150,000, stretched over a 20 year period, payment
over a 20 year period. Carey Manufacturing had 20 acres of land
optioned to Niagara Mohawk for $2,000,000, in their development,
right next door to this piece of property. What shot that down
was, the politicians in Glens Falls were in trouble with that piece
on Dix Avenue, and they made a deal. Directly across from this
property, seven acres of commercial property was sold in February
1992 for the sum of $280,000. Torrington has got seven and three
quarter acres almost directly across from where this property is
going to be located. The selling price for that piece of property
is $700,000. There is another piece of property within half a
mile, seven tenths of an acre, and they had a firm offer, last
October, of $700,000. So as you can see, if we go back to the
piece that was sold in February 1992, the seven acres for $280,000,
if this piece of property right here was sold for that same price,
which would be cheaper than it should be sold for, this piece of
property right here would be worth $1,300,000, at that price.
MR. BREWER-Not to interrupt you, but isn't this property, when it's
all said and done, going to generate $3,000,000 a year in jobs, in
dollars and cents, for the Town?
MR. TUCKER-Let me point something out to you. This original
project, here, was going into the Warren/Washington County
Industrial Park. It was set to go. So the jobs weren't going to
leave the area, whatsoever, and I don't, not being privy to what
took place, I just don't realize why this kind of a deal was put
together, really. I don't.
MR. BREWER-I don't know, either, what happened or why it happened,
but it happened, so I think it's something we have to live with.
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MR. TUCKER-And if I'm out of line, tell me so, but I've been
chewing on this thing, here, for a month and a half. I've got to
tell somebody about it.
MR. RUEL-Change the Master Plan.
MR. TUCKER-How many acres are involved, what we're actually looking
at right there now.
MR. ROSEN-Basically, as far as what's going to be developed?
MR. TUCKER-Yes.
MR. ROSEN-About 14.
MR. TUCKER-About 14 acres?
MR. ROSEN-Yes.
MR. TUCKER-About 14 acres. I understand if you want to do anything
more, that you have to come back for site plan review on anything
else?
MR. BREWER-Exactly. Yes.
MR. ROSEN-Yes. There's a lot of paperwork involved.
MR. BREWER-Yes, they do. If they want to put up anymore buildings,
they'll have to come back for site plan review. The remainder of
the land, the facility and the parking and the septic, or whatever,
it takes up a certain amount, and I think he said it was 14 acres.
The rest of it would be a perimeter.
MR. TUCKER-The 14 acres would be on the east side. I see here on
the thing, you people are going to do the SEQRA tonight?
MR. BREWER-Well, I don't know about tonight. I would like to see
my own opinion, all the engineering concerns addressed before we do
any SEQRA. That would be illY opinion.
MR. TUCKER-Okay.
just see it was on the sheet here tonight.
MR. BREWER-Well, potentially, if everything was done, then we would
do it. If the blow down was done, and all that, then we would.
MR. TUCKER-Well,
thank you for your time.
MR. BREWER-You're welcome. So, it
There's no question about that, when
think that we'll do that tonight.
wi 11
we do
be back here
the SEQRA.
again.
don't
MR. TUCKER-Can I come again?
MR. BREWER-Sure. Ladies?
BARBARA MELVILLE
MRS. MELVILLE-I'm Barbara Melville, and I have a small house on
Stevens Road. I'm here because I'm curious about where this all
is. A while ago, little orange flags started appearing in the
woods behind my house, which I've enjoyed for almost 20 years, and
they're very beautiful woodlands. It seems sort of stupid to talk
about a woodlands when there is this kind of money being spent. I
do feel that particular strip along the river is green space we
talk about a lot. The thinking, the Home of Natural Beauty we have
on our Town letterhead, and I'm just curious about how much of that
green space, if any, will be taken up by this particular building.
If this building takes up 14 acres, what about the rest of the 34
acres that the Group has purchased, and where is it? I mean, I can
see the building, but, as a land owner, I'm sitting here wondering
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if my woods are going to be chewed up, and I'm just curious as to
where it's going to go. Is there some kind of map that shows where
this place is going to go?
MR. BREWER-There's a location map.
MR. HARLICKER-It's on the front page of a, this development,
there's, a ravine that bisects the property, and this is all on the
east side of the ravine. Nothing is being proposed on the part
that faces your property.
MR. OBERMAYER-Here's where it is right here. Here's the site right
here, and there's a river. I'm not sure where, here you are right
here, Stevens Road, and there's Steven's Street, and here's the
site right here.
MRS. MELVILLE-My property is right here.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Here's the actual plan, and we walked it. This is
all going to remain woods.
MR. BREWER-So what they call, steven's Gully, is between your house
and where that is. It's all wooded behind it. So, when you come
in Carey, here, you've got that steep gully that goes right behind
this, and your over, where's, your house is over here. You're
protected, because their property line ends right at the gully.
It's intersected by the gully.
MRS. MELVILLE-All right. Then why were they surveying back here.
MR. BREWER-Excuse me. The prevention of them any development,
behind in here, they can't because of the ravine.
MRS. MELVILLE-They could fill it.
MR. BREWER-I don't think it'll ever happen.
back here.
They'd have to come
MR. OBERMAYER-Are site plans available, if they wanted a print of
it? Could they get it from the Town?
MR. BREWER-I imagine they can come in to the Planning Office.
MR.OBERMAYER-Yes. If you want to get a copy of the prints, I'm
sure Scott can get you one.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. We can make prints up.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
CHRISTINE SEARS
MRS. SEARS-Christine Sears, and our land also borders on the back
of this property line, and my concerns were basically the same as
Barbara's, and I also have the added concern as to what's going to
happen, as far as the traffic, and what's already rapidly becoming
a congested area of Corinth Road, as development seems to be moving
right down that road, and, again, my biggest concern was for the
buffer zone and the fact that if you own that road, is that still
going to be openly, I mean, it's going to end up being posted, or
is that still going to be able to be used by the residents in the
area?
MR. ROSEN-It's a Town road.
I don't have the right to close it.
MR. BREWER-I think they're talking about the property.
MRS. SEARS-I mean the land, I'm sorry, the land. If you own the
land, in other words, where your land borders mine, okay, all those
woods that are going to be left, are they still going to be usable?
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MR. BREWER-I own two and a half acres behind my house, and the kids
still use that.
MRS. SEARS-Yes. I mean, they don't intend to fence the whole area?
MR. ROSEN-No, we're not going to fence the area in.
MRS. SEARS-Because it is exquisite woods back there. I mean, it's
just beautiful.
MR. BREWER-You can put a fence up, and if there's a brook or
something back there, the kids are going to get to it anyway.
MRS. SEARS-Yes.
MR. OBERMAYER-But remember, the intended use of that area is for
Light Industrial, and that's the way it li zoned, and that's really
going to be the future of that area, just realistically.
MRS. SEARS-All right, and I'd also like to ask you, I'm under the
understanding, correct me if I'm wrong, that the Town is granted 10
tax free years to this Company?
MR. BREWER-That has nothing to do with us.
officials.
That's the elected
MRS. SEARS-Thank you.
MR. BREWER-You're welcome.
Questions?
Is there any other
cormnents?
MR. OBERMAYER-I have another question. Air emissions. Are you
going to have any air emissions, any exhaust points, from any of
the processes?
MR. ROSEN-No.
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay.
So, there'll be no stacks or anything?
MR. ROSEN-No smoke stacks, or anything like that.
MR. OBERMAYER-No air emissions.
MR. ROSEN-No exhaust pipes or anything like that.
MRS. MELVILLE-I just wanted to add that he did mention this entire
area is zoned Light Industrial, and I just want to say, this is not
a good use for this land. This is along side a river. It's a
beautiful woodland. It's a natural park that's used by a lot of
citizens in Queensbury, and all I can think of is Hudson Falls
failing to act on a piece of land along the Hudson River, that's
highly scenic, and is now being used for a burn plant. I think,
and it's not the time or place, but I would like to say, this is
beautiful land. Maybe 50 years from now, citizens of Queensbury
will say, what were they thinking of, if we don't at least hold it
in abeyance, to maybe keep green and use it in a different way, and
keep factories in Light Industrial in other particular sites in
Queensbury. On Luzerne Road, there is land available and zoned for
Light Industrial.
MR. BREWER-Thank you.
cormnent?
Is ther'e anyone else who would like to
MR. RUEL-Just for the record, I somewhat agree with Mr. Tucker and
his statements. However, the application meets the zoning and the
Master Plan requirements. It improves the employment picture. It
brings in tax revenue. It may help to invite new companies and
help to develop the area, and to surmnarize, I'd like to say that
the Queensbury Town Fathers should constantly review the Master
Plan, so that improperly zoned areas can be changed, so that we
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don't come up to a situation like this, where an applicant now has
a piece of land, and he's allowed to develop it, and we find out
that it should have been zoned something else, but I think it's the
responsibility of the Town Fathers to update and to review the
Master Plan. It's just dormant, and there are areas in there that
are completely improperly zoned, and something should be done about
it. That's all I have to say.
MR. HARLICKER-Well, to address that, the Town is undergoing a
revision to the Master Plan, starting this summer.
MR. RUEL-Yes.
I've been hearing that for two years.
MR. BREWER-It's happening now.
MR. OBERMAYER-And do the people in the Town have a say in how that
Master Plan is generated.
MR. HARLICKER-There is going to be an intensive effort to get
feedback from c i t i zens of the Town. Ther e' 11 be ne i ghborhood
committees set up, public hearings held in 14 neighborhoods, set up
throughout the Town. There's going to be an intensive effort to
get public input into the process.
MR. RUEL-And how do we participate in that?
MR. BREWER-Sign on the dotted line, Roger. Volunteer.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
It's going to be very time consuming.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Mr. Rosen, I think, I don't know how the rest of
the Board feels, but I would feel comfortable if we tabled this
until all engineering comments are considered and met. Is that a
big problem?
MR. HARLICKER-Could we maybe go through, informally, Part II of the
EAF, so if you do have any concerns, they have time to address
those, because the two kind of go together?
MR. BREWER-Sure. Well, yes, I understand, but if you don't have
the engineering done, how can you thoroughly go through, or even
remotely go through the EAF? Because the engineering pertains to.
MR. HARLICKER-There are a number of items in the EAF that aren't
engineering related, also.
MR. BREWER-All right.
MR. OBERMAYER-But you should have all your comments back to us
right away, right?
MR. ROSEN-Right.
MR. OBERMAYER-So, we can have you in next week.
MR. ROSEN-The only thing that I might ask to be entertained is an
actual SEQRA Resolution, so that questions and revisions that have
been brought out are actually, I feel, more site plan oriented, to
site plan approval, then actually SEQRA. I really don't see how.
MR. OBERMAYER-Sanitary and stormwater?
MR. BREWER-How can sanitary be unrelated to SEQRA?
MR. ROSEN-Now sanitary is the SPDES Permit, again.
MR. BREWER-It still has an effect on the land, and I think that's
part of the SEQRA, and 1 don't feel comfortable doing it until the
engineer has signed off and says that everything is done.
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MR. RUEL-And drainage flow is part of it.
MR. BREWER-Runoff. I mean, that all has something to do with the
SEQRA, and I, personally, I won't vote on a SEQRA Resolution, if we
go through it tonight without the engineering done. You can do it
if you want, if they want to go through it, but I'll vote no. I'll
tell you that up front.
MRS. LABOMBARD-No.
It's just a waste of time.
MR. ROSEN-And your reasons for not voting on the SEQRA are, can I
have a list of them?
MR. BREWER-I just told you them, because if the engineering is not
done, and satisfied by our engineer, if he got the comments, or the
concerns last night, late, he hasn't reviewed them.
MR. ROSEN-Right.
MR. BREWER-So,
to this Board,
reviewed them.
therefore, if he has concerns or comments, to give
he won't give them to us today because he hasn't
He'll give them to us next week, he said.
MR. ROSEN-I still don't understand why, you have SEQRA and then you
have site plan approval, correct?
MR. BREWER-Right, but if we do the SEQRA, it's done. If we do the
SEQRA tonight, and neg dec it, he comes up with an issue.
MR. ROSEN-I still don't have site ~ approval, though.
MR. BREWER-I understand that, but what's the difference? You don't
have one without the other.
MR. ROSEN-Normally, sometimes you can get a SEQRA Resolution
without site plan approval.
MR. BREWER-Right. Tonight, I'm not going to do it.
MR. STARK-Can you answer engineering concerns by next week?
MR. ROSEN-Absolutely.
MR. BREWER-Okay. So then it will be a week from tonight we do the
SEQRA.
MR. OBERMAYER-Can we do the SEQRA, and the site plan?
MR. BREWER-Sufe, next week.
MR. ROSEN-Normally, typically, I get a SEQRA Resolution and then we
continue with our final site plan.
MR. OBERMAYER-Yes, but you still haven't answered the engineering
questions, though, right? There's still a lot of engineering
issues that are open?
MR. BREWER-Exactly, that pertain to the SEQRA, and I don't want to
entertain doing a SEQRA Resolution until everything has been
answered. I think that's only fair.
MR. STARK-You have to wait a week anyway. So answer the concerns
by next Tuesday. We'll put you on first, and you're all set, then.
MR. ROSEN-Sure, yes, I understand. I just thought, typically, you
get a SEQRA Resolution, then you continue.
MR. OBERMAYER-Well, typically, you do, but normally the engineering
questions ha~e been addressed.
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MR. MACNAMARA-Rich, out of curiosity, did you get any commitment
out of the DEC on when they'd act on your application?
MR. ROSEN-I mean, that could be up to a 40 day process.
MR. BREWER-So we shouldn't bother you.
MR. MACNAMARA-I was just curious if they were going to look at it
right away or what.
MR. BREWER-I mean, if you're going to wait 40 days for the SPDES
Permit, is a week going to bother you if we wait to do the SEQRA
next week, when we have all of our answers.
MR. ROSEN-Well, I mean, you can issue site plan approval, right,
and the I can go for my building permit and do everything, but the
sewage system, and then hopefully when I get that permit.
MR. BREWER-I feel very uncomfortable doing it without all
engineering answers.
MR. ROSEN-Okay.
MR. STARK-We'll just table it until next week, then.
MRS. LABOMBARD-You're Number One, next week.
MR. BREWER-Does somebody want to make a motion to table?
MOTION TO TABLE SITE PLAN NO. 22-94 COLUMBIA DEVELOPMENT GROUP,
Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by
Catherine LaBombard:
Until 28 June 1994.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Ruel, Mr. Paling, Mr. Stark, Mr. Obermayer,
Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
OLD BUSINESS:
SUBDIVISION NO. 4-1994 FINAL STAGE TYPE I GUIDO PASSARELLI
OWNER: SAME AS ABOVE ZONE: HC-IA, RR-3A, WR-3A LOCATION: RT.
9 & ROUND POND RD. PROPOSAL IS FOR A THREE LOT SUBDIVISION. PLANS
ARE TO SELL ONE OF THE COMMERCIAL LOTS AND RETAIN OWNERSHIP OF
REMAINDER. SEQRA REVIEW: 5/26/94 TAX MAP NO. 67-2-1 LOT SIZE:
69 ACRE SECTION: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
TOM NACE, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Subdivision No. 4-1994 Final Stage, Guido
Passarelli, Meeting Date: June 21, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The applicant is seeking final subdivision approval for a 3 lot
subdivision. The subdivision will result in 2 lots zoned highway
commercial. One lot will be 1.48 acres and is the proposed site
for a dentist office. The second commercial lot, located at the
corner of Round Pond Road, will be 5.83 acres. The remaining lot
will be approximately 53 acres and is zoned rural residential and
waterfront residential. There are currently no development
proposals before the Town for the 5.8 acre lot or the remaining 53
acres. PROJECT ANALYSIS: 1. The 1.48 acre parcel is undergoing
review as a separate project, that project being Oral Health Care
Associates. 2. A single curb cut to service both parcels would be
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the most effective means of providing access to the two properties.
This would also comply with the Town's goals of controlling the
number of curb cuts on Route 9 and applying access management. 3.
The engineering concerns relating to grading, erosion control and
drainage are being reviewed by Rist Frost. 4. The applicant
should provide a bond to cover the cost of landscaping."
MR. HARLICKER-And I don't think you've had a chance to look at it
yet, but on a revised plat that they dropped off yesterday, they
show the single access to the two parcels.
MR. OBERMAYER-Why does the Staff recommend that there's a single
access?
MR. HARLICKER-We're just trying to cut down on the number of curb
cuts and access management along Route 9. If the property can be
serviced by one curb cut, that's.
MR. OBERMAYER-Yes, but all the other structures, that the road is
just about fully developed, and they have multiple curb cuts. Why
are we singling out this one development?
MR. HARLICKER-If they come back in, as we did with Taco Bell,
that's what we're going to try to do, is cut down on the number of
curb cuts, as these properties are re-developed.
MR. BREWER-I think because it's undeveloped and there's a chance to
do it.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. Why should we continue a bad situation?
MR. OBERMAYER-Why is it a bad situation to have two curb cuts?
MR. HARLICKER-You get people turning in and out of two different
spots, you get more people stopping along the way. They're
stopping at different places along the road. It's just much more
efficient, from an access management and traffic flow perspective,
if they all turn into one spot. I mean, you don't have people
coming out of the road at two different places, cutting across the
traffic. You're only coming out in one place.
MR. BREWER-Less chance of an accident.
MR. HARLICKER-Less chances for accidents. Less need for people to
stop and slow up to let these people out.
MR. BREWER-Should we create more places for more accidents to
happen? Or create less of a chance for an accident to happen?
MR. OBERMAYER-I don't know, in having, I agree with what you're
saying, is that we don't want to create any accidents. However, I
don't neces sar i I y agr ee, becaus e of the d i stance between the
accesses that we're looking at, that we would create an accident
situation. We're not looking at an access point of 20 feet and 20
feet. We're looking at an access point, possibly, in one location,
and then 400 feet another access point. So there's a little bit of
differential, compared to one right next to each other.
MR. BREWER-It still creates the scenario of two access points on
the same road, no matter how you look at it. If you have one, you
have less of a chance of cars coming out of only one place, rather
than two places.
MR. NACE-May I jump in here for a minute, then?
MR. BREWER-Sure.
MR. NACE-Okay. For the record, Tom Nace, with Haanen Engineering,
representing Guido Passarelli. We created the plan with one access
point, with mixed emotions. Okay. We hear everybody's concern
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9, and, in some cases, I think that's good. We've worked on this
for a while, with different plans of development for the northern
parcel, before we were able to prove to ourselves that we could at
least find some configuration where the access to the two could
separate fairly early, before bringing cars into a parking lot or
commercial establishment here, and having to take them back out of
the parking lot, up to Oral Health, which is, in our opinion,
totall y unacceptab Ie. The s cenar i 0 we came up with does permi t
single access, but I think there's a trade off, and I can argue
both sides of the street on this one, okay, and I probably will end
up arguing both sides of the street. The negatives that I see, and
when you're talking about traffic accidents and safety, single
access has some pluses, where people can identify how to get into
the facility or to the location you're talking about, a shopping
mall, obviously single access, coming down on the curb cuts where
people know exactly where they're going. In this instance, I do
have some concern, in that, first of all, the two locations served
by this access are going to be separated, and people coming down
the hill, the first thing they're going to see is the building for
Oral Health, because it sits up higher, and it's closer to them as
they come down the hill. They're going to be scratching their head
and say, okay. There's where I want to go, and how do I get there.
That's when you tend to create some hesitancy in driving, and a
possible hazard, okay. None of these things are things that I can
put absolute values on and say, this is a three on the scale, and
that's a five, and that's a ten. You just can't do that, but I
think it will, people trying to figure out how to get where they're
going, does create some confusion which can lead to accidents, and
in that instance, I think this single access has some problems,
okay. The other concern I have with this being a single access is
that, aesthetically, when you're coming down the hill here, this
doesn't show it, because this is just a landscaping plan, but if
you look on the grading plan, in order to get this road back up to
Oral Health, which is sits up on the upper plateau here, we've had
to sort of grade the peninsula in here to get it back up. So
you're going to come down the hill. You're going to be seeing this
peninsula sticking up in the air, and the site in behind that
peninsula sitting down in a hole, and that's going to look at
little odd, from an aesthetic standpoint.
MR. BREWER-All right. Ultimately, when the site is done, though,
it's going to be a lot different, when development occurs on that
northern site. I mean, nothing is forever. You're not going to
leave it like that forever, I presume.
MR. NACE-Well, the grades that we have established, on our grading
plan for the subdivision, have tried to establish what's going to
be fairly close to final grade, no matter what you do in here, so
that you're not going to have to come in, when this comes in for a
site plan, you're not going to have to do substantial grading in
here. Okay. If you look at the grading plan, we've leveled the
sod fairly flat. We've created a berm up here, toward this
property line, where we've terraced down from the upper level down
to this lower level.
MR. BREWER-Do we new plans of that today?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-Can I get a copy of it, of the new one?
MR. HARLICKER-We've only got one copy.
MR. NACE-I brought some copies.
MR. RUEL-Excuse me. You gave us pros and cons on access. Do you
have any pros and cons on exiting the property?
MR. NACE-On exiting?
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MR. RUEL-Yes.
MR. NACE-Exiting probably doesn't make any difference, one way or
another, whether you're going out of a single access or a double
access. From a safety standpoint, where the multiple accesses have
a safety hazard is where they're fairly close, where a car coming
out here is watching traffic on the road, and maybe doesn't see a
car that's sitting 100 feet away, that's pulling out at the same
time he's pulling out, okay. That's your primary concern there.
Where we have about 300 feet between these access points. That's
enough time to allow a car pulling out of here, at the same time
that a car pulls out of here, to clear each other, without creating
a hazard.
MR. RUEL-Is there a wide shoulder on that road or not?
MR. NACE-Yes, there is. It's, what we've shown here is pretty much
curb to curb travel lane.
MR. RUEL-Is it paved?
MR. NACE-Yes, it's all paved, curb to curb.
MR. RUEL-Are the shoulders paved?
MR. NACE-It's curbed.
MR. BREWER-In front of there I don't think it's curbed.
MR. NACE-No, it's not curbed right here.
line is fairly close. It's very narrow.
foot wide paved shoulder.
It's paved, but the white
It's like a one or two
MR. RUEL-If it's not paved, then a car can't be on that portion of
the shoulder. He would have to exit directly into the road.
Right?
MR. NACE-That is correct. It is a fairly wide road. There is
ex t r a room i nth e r oa d . It' s not jus tap air 0 f 1 2 f 00 t I an e s . I
think the total pavement width is up in the middle thirties.
MR. RUEL-Now there's a rise in the road, just before you get to the
property, right?
MR. NACE-There's a rise. This rises and levels off a little bit up
in front of Sutton's, and goes back on up.
MR. RUEL-Yes.
So the peak is somewhere around that motel.
MR. NACE-The peak is somewhere around here. Right.
MR. RUEL-All right. So you come over the peak, and immediately you
would see an entrance, almost immediately.
MR. NACE-The peak is not that, it's not a sharp peak. It's a very,
very gentle, and we've looked at. You have to really go up the
road a ways before a car can actually hide in the sag that's there.
MR. RUEL-Okay.
I was thinking from a safety standpoint.
MR. NACE-No, that's, if it was too close, if site distance here was
inadequate, we wouldn't not get a driveway permit from DOT.
MR. RUEL- I though t so.
So your r econID1enda t ion is?
MR. NACE-I think, in my standpoint, that the aesthetics pushes me
a little bit toward the two entrances. Safety, I don't think
you're gaining anything by the single entrance. Safety, I think
anything you gain by the single entrance is probably washed away by
the fact that people have a hard time identifying where they're
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MR. RUEL-Do we have any input from?
MR. BREWER-But if they're going to a dentist office, Tom, isn't it
true that, they go to the dentist once, they're going to know how
to get there.
MR. NACE-The next time they will, but the first time they won't.
MR. BREWER-That's true with anywhere. I mean, if you put the
access down here, they don't know how to get there until they get
there when they get there.
MR. NACE-Well, but they see, typically, you see a sign, it's not
like, when you drive in to Boston, you see the Prudential Center,
and you start heading there, and in two blocks, your street's gone
in a different direction, and you're no longer heading there. The
idea is when you see where you want to go, you are looking
immediately for the most direct way of getting there.
MR. OBERMAYER-Tom, did you seek any input from DOT on this?
MR. NACE-We have not gone down to, we've tried to get input from
Warrensburg. They have declined everything to Albany, and we
didn't get this plan developed until, quite frankly, on the
drawing, yesterday, yesterday morning. So we haven't, we wanted to
have both plans to set in front of DOT, and say, here, here are our
alternatives, and we prefer this one because.
MR. RUEL-So you have no answer from DOT?
MR. NACE-I don't have a definitive answer, no.
MR. BREWER-Okay. George, you had something?
MR. STARK-Yes. The fact that it's a dentist office, you're going
to have 30, 40 cars a day, max, going into the place, okay. So
it's not going to be that much of a problem pulling in to there,
okay. If you look up the street, at Agway, they have three curb
cuts, and 100 feet of road frontage. If you look at Sutton's, they
have five curb cuts and about 200 feet. I don't see a lot of
accidents up there.
MR. BREWER-But like Scott said, though, because you have a bad
situation, should you add to a bad situation?
MR. STARK-Well,
don't agree that it's a bad situation.
MR. BREWER-Agway's coming in for a site plan, too. Maybe we can
convince them that they should only have two curb cuts. You have
to look at the big picture, George.
MR. STARK-Okay. Lets look at the pic tur e. Look at Agway, and
they've got a tremendous amount of traffic volume. People go in,
buy something, and come right out again, okay. They're not there.
They probably have, what, just off the top of my head, three, four
hundred cars a day going in and out. Here, you've got thirty,
forty cars a day, max.
MR. BREWER-Yes, but you don't know, the unknown is, what's going to
be in the big parcel, George.
MR. STARK-Okay.
It doesn't matter what's in the big parcel.
MR. BREWER-Sure it does. If you have a volume of 1,000 cars a day
in and out of the Qlg parcel, then it creates a problem for the
small parcel. So if they're both using the same entrance/exit.
MR. OBERMAYER-Why does it create a problem for the small parcel,
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MR. BREWER-See, because if you've got 30 people coming out of here,
like Tom said, you've got one guy watching the road to see how the
traffic's coming. He's got somebody pulling out of another
driveway. Then you've got a road right down the street, another.
MR. NACE-My point is that you've got, in this instance, you have
enough separation for that to safely happen. DOT says that if
you' ve got 1 00 to 1 50 fee t, you' ve got en 0 ugh room sot hat the
drivers can recognize, by the time they're pulling out, recognize
that something else was happening adjacent.
MR. BREWER-If a car's going 50 miles an hour, Tom, or 50 plus, how
long does it take to get 50 feet, or 500 feet?
MR. STARK-Sixty miles an hour is 88 feet per second.
MR. NACE-Right.
MR. STARK-That's going 60. Going 50 is about 70 feet, say, okay.
MR. BREWER-Yes, but they go 55, 60 down there.
GUIDO PASSARELLI
MR. PASSARELLI-It's a 20 mile zone.
MR. BREWER-They still go 50, 55. Peggy Ann Road's 40, too, but I
go down there 55. I mean, you can't help it. You get going down
straight roads.
MR. NACE-Tim, that's really not the issue with adjacent entrances,
okay. The issue with the adjacent entrances, your issue pertains
to people that are on the road, up to speed already, versus people
coming out, okay, or interfering with the people trying to pull
out. The same number of cars are going to be pulling out,
regardless of whether it's one entrance or two entrances. Okay.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. NACE-The issue, the reality between separating the entrances,
safety issue, is can people have one entrance clear, somebody
pulling out of the other entrance at the same time, or somebody
pulling into the other entrance at the same time. Do they have
enough reaction time to recognize what's happening and react to it?
And DOT regularly says, that if you've got 100 to 150 feet, that
they feel that that's sufficient reaction time for cars that are
(lost word).
MR. STARK-Okay. Now, the second point is, to go in past your 75
foot buffer, go up that, what he called the peninsula road, you've
got to go up at least 15, 18 feet on that peninsula road to go from
the lower parcel to the upper parcel, okay. That isn't going to
look that good, I don't think. I think, aesthetically, just have
those two entrances. The one goes into the one parcel up here.
You've got your graded land, 30 foot, according to the plan, going
down, which is almost final grade, on that second parcel of
property further north. That's my point. We could debate this all
night. Why don't we just poll the Board, and if we want one
entrance, fine. If we want two, fine, but just poll them right
now.
MR. BREWER-Well, wait a minute. Lets get everything out before we
do that.
MRS. LABOMBARD-How wide is that entrance again?
MR. NACE-This entrance here?
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MRS. LABOMBARD-Right.
MR. NACE-We've made what they call the throat of it here 30 feet,
so that you have enough room for one lane coming in, and two lanes
coming out. One for a stacking lane, for people that want to turn
left, and that, we recognize that in a high volume period, that
maybe backed up a couple of cars, and another for people turning
right to go past, because that won't have such a long wait.
Another point to make here, Guido just pointed out, is that in the
recognition of where they're going and how to get there, with this
landscaping buffer, we have, when this grows up more densely, this
road, will be partially obliterated from view by the landscaping
plan. When that happens, the recogni tion of how to get where I
want to go becomes even harder, because they can't see, obviously,
there's a road there.
MR. MACNAMARA-Well, in all fairness, on that point, I think that's
a great point, if it was a McDonalds or if were a Radio Shack, or
something where somebody wanted, a snap decision to stop in there.
I think most of the traffic going into this dental facility are
going to know where they're going, after their first visit.
MR. NACE-After they've made their first visit.
MR. BREWER-After they go there one time, so whether the entrance is
in front of the building or down the road 400 feet, the first time,
they're going to know how to get there. That's illY point.
MR. OBERMAYER-Tom, do you have a drawing that shows the two
entrances? So we can compare? Also, do you know where the curb
cuts are across the street, by any chance, just so that we, or is
the whole thing open?
MR. STARK-Just about.
MR. NACE-There are quite a few openings. We looked at trying to
line up with some of the existing openings, and there's so many of
them, it doesn't really. I think there's, there's a telephone pole
there. There's one here. There's one up by this catch basin up
here.
MR. BREWER-Where do they go, though, Tom?
MR. NACE-They're all into the Zoological Park.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I like what you've done with the trees, though.
MR. OBERMAYER-Let me tell you something, the landscaping plan is
really nice.
MR. BREWER-Super.
MR. OBERMAYER-If we can just decide on this entrance, we'd be all
set.
MR. BREWER-We're going to decide tonight, Jim.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Tom, do you, I still haven't read you yet, as far as
strongly feeling about.
MR. NACE-I prefer this plan, quite frankly. Okay. I worked the
other one out to prove to myself and to show the Board what it
would look like, okay, to prove to myself that it could be done,
but aesthetically, aesthetically, I much prefer this plan, okay.
This is the entrance, here, for Oral Health, and we haven't, all
we've shown is the location, the entrance down here. We didn't
show what it would look like.
MRS. LABOMBARD-And everything in between will be all those nice
bushes and trees.
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MR. NACE-Yes.
MR. OBERMAYER-What's the frontage there, Tom, like, 1,000 foot, 950
feet?
MR. NACE-About 750 feet. Seven hundred and fifty feet is the total
frontage.
MR. BREWER-Roger, have you got any questions?
MR. RUEL-Yes. We have had a long discussion about curb cuts. Is
this fictional? Is this documented somewhere? Are there facts and
figures to indicate the pluses and minuses, as far as the number of
curb cuts? Does anyone know?
MR. BREWER-We have a
Transportation Council.
letter from
We have Staff.
Glens Falls Urban Area
We have our comments.
MR. RUEL-Yes, these are letters, but I mean.
MR. BREWER-Yes, they're letters.
agencies.
They're input from other
MR. RUEL-No, no. What I'm looking for is documentation,
scientific, technical documentation, similar to a traffic study,
anything. If anyone makes these recommendations, it must be based
on something.
MR. STARK-They're based on safety.
safety.
I think he bases everything on
MR. OBERMAYER-I was going to say. They're probably based on
people's opinion, that are setting these regulations, okay, as far
as thes e let t er s ar e concer ned, as far as DOT is concerned.
There's probably certain requirements as far as how often you can
put a curb cut.
MR. STARK-No. They're basing it on just trying to cut down the
total number of curb cuts.
MR. BREWER-Trying to cut down potential access to a major highway,
to prevent accidents.
MR. RUEL-Therefore, there must be some documentation indicating an
excessive number of curb cuts increases the number of accidents.
Do we have a copy of this study?
MR. BREWER-I'm sure we probably do. We don't have it here tonight.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Tom, have a question,
this land, see, the doctor's office
business. You're not going to go and
You're just going to go to a, to get
other par t of the proper ty, i s that,
saying that it's going to be maybe more
stores?
Guido. The other part of
is a very subtle type of
go shopping, so to speak.
your teeth fixed, but the
could we be justified in
of a corrunercial thing, like
MR. PASSARELLI-It's 95 percent, it'll be a bowling alley.
MRS. LABOMBARD-The bowling alley. That's right. I forgot about
that. Then I think that there's justification for the two
entranceways, because you're talking about two entirely different
businesses.
MR. BREWER-Think of this, Cathy. Just let me give you a for
instance. Down here on Bay Street, where all the medical offices
are, there's a medical office right here.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Yes.
go there twice a week for physical therapy.
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MR. BREWER-Dr. Sherrick's office is way back here. All right.
There's a medical office here. Should they have a curb cut going
into their office, and a curb cut going into this office, and a
curb cut.
MRS. LABOMBARD-But they're behind the ones in the front.
MR. BREWER-No. Right on Bay. There's an
There's another medical doctor right here.
here. Should they all have a curb cut
separate businesses, when, in fact, they
services businesses back here, services
business, this business, and this business.
eye doctor right here.
There's another doctor
just because they're
have one curb cut,
this business, this
MR. OBERMAYER-They're all doctors though, right?
MR. NACE-Plus it's a flat piece of land.
one curb cut.
It's easy to access from
MRS. LABOMBARD-I know where you're coming from, but that's a little
road in there.
MR. BREWER-Sure
Cathy, all have
it is, but these
one access, one.
thr ee bus i nes s es
right
here,
MR. OBERMAYER-Well, maybe we should just survey the Board on how
everybody feels.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Lets put it this way. This one, here, uses this
one, because these two could use the same one.
MR. BREWER-That's right. So this guy here uses this one to prevent
a curb cut on Bay.
MR. HARLICKER-I'd just like to point out something that's in the
Zoning Code, too, under Section 179-66.1, in the review of
Commercial and Industrial development, where internal roadways are
not provided, the Planning Board shall determine if it is feasible
to link parking areas to allow for internal flow of traffic. Where
it is feasible, and they show it is feasible, a 20 foot connection
way must be provided.
MR. BREWER-So it is documented.
MR. HARLICKER-If the
connection way shall
linkages.
adjacent property is undeveloped,
be identified on the site plan for
then a
future
MR. BREWER-The same thing we made K-Mart do with Livingston's
Furniture, rather than have another curb cut.
MR. NACE-Did you take the curb cut away from (lost word)?
MR. BREWER-It's already existing, Tom. These aren't existing, is
what I'm trying to stress. These aren't existing. That was
already there.
MR. NACE-My closing comment is, though, that we're looking at
different situations, with the grading, the grade differential
between these two places, the use difference. In fact, there's
something else, if you want to talk about safety. Even if these
two accesses were very close, the peak use hours of a bowling alley
are far different than the traffic peaks for a professional office.
That's why in !TIY. mind I'd say that I think any safety advantages
are sort of washed out. It's really hard to say to you,
definitively, that one of these options is better than the other,
from a safety issue. So then I'm looking at, what's aesthetically
better looking, and I think, because the grading of the site, in!TIY.
mind, the two accesses would be aesthetically more pleasing.
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MRS. LABOMBARD-Will there be a sign down there on Route 9?
MR. NACE-For?
MRS. LABOMBARD-For the dentist's office?
MR. NACE-You mean if we go with the single access? There'll be a
sign for the dentist's office, one way or another.
MRS. LABOMBARD-One way or the other, but if you go with the double,
it would be for, it would be at that access, that would be farther
south.
MR. NACE-It would have to be, yes.
MR. STARK-Poll the Board.
MR. BREWER-All right. Bob?
MR. PALING-Well, this is going to be a very close call, and I'm
inclined to go with the letter I've read and referred to from the
Glens Falls Transportation people, and others that have talked
about this, and I'm inclined to nod in the direction of safety and
go for a single curb cut on this.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Can
ask Mark a question?
MR. BREWER-Sure.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Mark, are we in any way obligated to heed the
recommendations of a professional study like that? In other words,
they base their opinions on statistics and things that they've
gathered over the years, over these kinds of situations.
MR. SCHACHNER-Cathy, if you're asking, are you legally bound by
that recommendation, the answer is no. If you're asking, should
you take it into consideration, I think you should take it into
consideration, as you should all the other input from anybody else.
There's some apples and oranges here, in that, even if we, this
Board, decides to allow whichever configuration, that does not
alleviate the applicant of the obligation of getting the
appropriate approvals from DOT and whoever else has jurisdiction.
Does that answer your question?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Thanks.
MR. OBERMAYER-So, if we were to, lets say, approve, two curb cuts,
we could make it contingent on approval by DOT.
MR. BREWER-Well, I think what you're doing there, then they're
going to take our recommendation as saying, yes, we allow two curb
cuts if you guys say it's okay.
MR. RUEL-Yes, you can't do that.
MRS. LABOMBARD-No, sir.
MR. BREWER-I mean, that's pretty much what you're saying.
MR. NACE-They've got that letter from the Transportation Council,
and my discussions with Herb Stevens indicate that they will look
at that seriously.
MR. BREWER-I guess, basically, what I'm saying, and I'll ask Guido,
is the road going to come to an end if you have to have one access?
Is the project going to stop?
MR. PASSARELLI-My only problem would be, when people come out of
his office, the slope is going to be so deep, you talk about
accidents. There'll be more accidents with people trying to stop,
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to make a left turn to go into Route 9, then anything else, because
if this was a flat piece of property, one access would be
be aut i f u I . Be c au s e 0 f the s lop e , it' s go i n g t 0 ma k e i t v e r y
dangerous for those people to come out of that place.
MR. BREWER-It's going to be plowed in the winter, isn't it? What's
the slope?
MR. RUEL-Twelve feet.
MR. BREWER-Twelve feet rise, and how far?
MR. PAL ING-Bu t the s lope has go t to be the road I eve I anyway,
whether they come directly out of the dentist's office onto Route
9, or go down and out. It's going to be the same slope, I mean,
the same distance down.
MR. BREWER-I think the slope going YQ to the dentist's is going to
be worse than that slope there.
MR. PASSARELLI-I'd like to keep this up. He wants the view. He
loves the view. He wants to keep his building nice.
MR. PALING-Yes, that won't change.
MR. PASSARELLI-To make this building down, there would be a big
slope from (lost word) to the other.
MR. BREWER-Don't you think, Guido, when you come in and you take a
right to go up, is the slope going to be, going up to the
dentist's, worse than it is coming up this road?
MR. PASSARELLI-No.
MR. BREWER-It's not? It's not higher on top, where the dentist's
office is going to be than it is where the road is? How far is it,
then?
MR. OBERMAYER-I guess you have to decide on whether it's a safety
issue or aesthetics. I don't see it as a safety issue.
MR. BREWER-Well, I see it as a safety issue. I don't think it's
going to fly with two accesses, though, is what I'm saying to you.
MR. RUEL-Tim, it's about eight feet from here to here.
MR. PASSARELLI-Which would be like 250 feet.
MR. RUEL-And how many feet from here to here?
MR. PASSARELLI-That's more like 17, 1 8 feet.
MR. OBERMAYER-That's quite a difference.
MR. RUEL-That's the difference. There's about a 18 foot rise, and
an 8 foot rise here.
MR. BREWER-So that rise couldn't be changed?
MR. OBERMAYER-Not really.
MR. BREWER-Over what distance? That's 18 feet over.
MR. NACE-Between the access points on Route 9, there's 12 foot of
difference, on Route 9.
MR. BREWER-Twelve foot, over how far of a distance.
MR. NACE-Just on Route 9.
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MR. NACE-About 300 feet.
MR. BREWER-All right. So you've got 12 feet on 300 feet, a 12 foot
rise on 300 feet. How far do you go up, when you go up 8 feet to
the building, how far is that?
MR. NACE-About 400, a little over 400 feet.
MR. BREWER-So you , ve got the distance going up both then.
same ways
MR. OBERMAYER-But one has a much greater slope, double the slope.
MR. BREWER-No, twelve versus eight. That's not double.
MR. RUEL-He said it was more than 12.
MR. BREWER-Thirty percent more.
MR. PALING-Yes, but at less distance, though.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Well, if you guys want to make a motion, make it
a t one entrance, then go ahead and do so, and we'll see wha t
happens, or two, whatever the choice.
MR. STARK-Well, is there any more questions about any other
aspects?
MR. OBERMAYER-We don't want to see the project stop because of one
or two accesses.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. STARK-Tim, are there any other questions? I mean, this is the
only sticking point really.
MR. BREWER-No.
I think we have engineering comments.
MR. MACNAMARA-Yes. The only two comments remaining on the actual
subdivision aspect of the development, one is minor, it has to do
with, the Code requires that the property boundaries at the angles
and the corner points have monuments so that you can find where the
property is, monumentation, just simply a note on the drawing that
there's going to be monuments, and then the other one was the much
bigger issue that says, part of our own subdivision review, our
engineering review says that all the other agency approvals have to
be in hand before we'll give our final subdivision approval, and,
obviously, the one that we're speaking of is the DOT's curb cut
approval. So we just said that since the DOT must approve the
access or accesses, to Route 9, conditional approval is all that we
would say could be granted.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
If somebody wants to do it, go ahead.
MR. PALING-Well, we ve got to cover, at least, Item Number Four, in
the Staff Comments, I think.
MR. BREWER-What's that?
MR. PALING-The bond for landscaping.
MR. RUEL-The bond to cover the cost of landscaping.
MR. BREWER-Is that an issue with everybody?
MR. NACE-Didn't we discuss this at the last meeting, and I think,
you guys hold the ultimate club, in that your resolution before, I
think, included something to the effect that the CO itself will be
held until landscaping is done.
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MR. RUEL-I think that's documented.
MR. BREWER--I think, to me, that's adequate. I think that was
pretty well put, that no CO would be given unless all the plantings
were in place.
MR. HARLICKER-One thing you might take into consideration is the
time of year that the plantings are being put in, and the size of
them. They make the plantings. The building goes up. Then they
die off.
MR. BREWER-But there's a bit of extra protection.
guarantee for two years that they will live.
We made him
MR. HARLICKER-Okay.
MR. STARK-Do you want a motion?
MR. BREWER-It's up to you.
MOTION TO APPROVE FINAL STAGE SUBDIVISION NO. 4-1994 GUIDO
PASSARELLI, Introduced by George Stark who moved for its adoption,
seconded by James Obermayer:
For a three lot subdivision, with two curb cuts.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Stark, Mr. Obermayer, Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel
NOES: Mr. Paling, Mr. Brewer
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
MR. BREWER-I' 11 offer a motion with one curb cut, if we could
rescind the previous motion and make a motion to approve with one
curb cut.
MR. OBERMAYER-Do we need five?
MR. NACE-Wait a minute.
five?
Did they disapprove? Why does it need
MR. BREWER-I thought we talked about, no Warren County has nothing
to do with, they have nothing to do with the subdivision.
MR. HARLICKER-No.
MR. BREWER-Okay, then it's approved. Okay. Lets move on. That's
provided that DOT okays it.
MR. HARLICKER-They didn't condition it on DOT's approval. You just
gave it a blanket approval.
MRS. LABOMBARD-No. You didn't say that in the motion. That is not
in the motion.
MR. STARK-I said no stipulations.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. RUEL-It goes regardless of what DOT says, right?
MR. BREWER-Yes, but DOT has to give curb cuts, don't they, on a
State,.. hi¡¡hway?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-So, it's a given. They have to get DOT approval. If
they don't get DOT approval for two curb cuts.
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approval. Are you ready to move on?
MR. BREWER-Yes, I guess.
SITE PLAN NO. 15-94 TYPE: UNLISTED ORAL HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATES
OWNER: GUIDO PASSARELLI ZONE: HC-1A LOCATION: RT. 9 & ROUND
POND RD. PROPOSAL IS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A 5,000 SQ. FT. DENTAL
FACILITY WITH PARKING AND UTILITIES. ALL LAND USES IN HC ZONES ARE
SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW. BEAUTIFICATION COMM.: 5/9/94 WARREN
CO. PLANNING: 5/11/94 TAX MAP NO. 67-2-1 LOT SIZE: +/- 1.40
ACRES SECTION: 179-23
TOM NACE, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
GUIDO PASSARELLI
MR. PASSARELLI-It's 3,944 square feet.
MR. STARK-I stand corrected.
It's 3,944 square feet.
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 15-94, Oral Health Care Associates,
Meeting Date: June 21, 1994 "PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The applicant
is proposing to construct a 5,000 square foot dental office
including a 30 space parking lot on a 1.4 acre parcel of land zoned
highway commercial. PROJECT ANALYSIS: Staff reviewed the project
for compliance with Sections 179-38A, 179-38B, 179-38C and the
relevant factors outlined in 179-39 and has the following comments:
1. The access to this project should be combined with the access
to the vacant adjacent parcel. A single access to both parcels
would be the most effective means of providing access to the
properties while at the same time complying with the Town's goals
of controlling curb cuts on Route 9, internalizing traffic flow and
applying access management. Access to the property is subject to
DOT approval òf the curb cut location. The project was compared to
the following standards found in Section 179-38 E. of the Zoning
Code: 1. The location, arrangement, size, design and general site
compatibility of buildings, lighting and signs; The proposed
building will be placed on the top of a hill; therefore, its design
and appearance are important. The size of the structure is well
underneath the maximum 12,000 square feet allowed. Lighting
includes 7 light posts to illuminate the parking and sidewalks and
4 wall mounted lights at the entrances. The light post will be
from 8 to 12 feet high and match the architecture of the building.
No signage is shown on the plan. 2. The adequacy and arrangement
of vehicular traffic access and circulation, including
intersections, road widths, pavement surfaces, dividers and traffic
controls; Vehicular traffic access should be modified to show the
access drive connected to a single access that serves both this
building and the future development on the adjacent parcel. 3.
The location, arrangement, appearance and sufficiency of off-street
parking and loading; Off street parking is adequate; 30 spaces are
proposed, including 2 handicapped, where 25 are required. No
loading area is shown on the plan. 4. The adequacy and
arrangement of pedestrian traffic access and circulation walkway
structures, control of intersections with vehicular traffic access
and overall pedestrian convenience; Pedestrian access is adequate.
5. The adequacy of stormwater drainage facilities; Stormwater
drainage is being reviewed by Rist Frost. 6. The adequacy of
water supply and sewage disposal facilities; Sewage disposal is
being reviewed by Rist-Frost and the project will be serviced by
municipal water. 7. The adequacy, type and arrangement of trees,
shrubs and other suitable plantings, landscaping and screening
constituting a visual and/or noise buffer between the applicant's
and adjoining lands, including the maximum retention of existing
vegetation and maintenance including replacement of dead plants;
Lands cap i ng around the bu i I ding is adequa te ; however, no
landscaping is shown in the area along Route 9. Consideration
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should be given to extending the 75 foot landscaped buffer,
currently proposed for the adjacent property, across the frontage
of this parcel. 8. The adequacy of fire lanes and other emergency
zones and the provision of fire hydrants; Fire hydrants are
located on the adjacent property to the south and near the
intersection of Round Pond and Route 9. The applicant indicated
that the building will be sprinklered and emergency access appears
to be adequate. 9. The adequacy and impact of structures,
roadways, and landscaping in areas with susceptibility to ponding,
flooding and/or erosion. No areas of the site appear to be subject
to ponding and flooding. Erosion control measures will have to be
in place during construction and until the site has been stabilized
and the adequacy will be reviewed by Rist-Frost."
MR. HARLICKER-We've got something in here from Warren County.
"Based on the past problems with the clear cutting and lack of
stormwater management plan", the site plan was disapproved.
MR. BREWER-And we have engineering?
MR. MACNAMARA-The engineering comments are of June 2nd, and they
were based on the previous site plan submittal, which showed the
two accesses. Additional information was just submitted last
night, regarding the new site plan, with one access, but now I'm
actually confused, when I go to review that, should I be reviewing
that, with the one access?
MR. NACE-No. We've got to, obviously, readdress the grading around
the septic system with the two access.
MR. BREWER-No, no, because if this gets denied because of the
accesses, you may end up doing it the other way.
MR. MACNAMARA-My point is that, well, Number One, as far as the
stormwater review, there was none, because there was no stormwater
information submitted until last night.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. NACE-Just a note on that.
submitted to the Board on
Department, on the submittal
from the Planning Department
The stormwater information that was
the submi t tal, or to the Planning
date, for some reason, it didn't get
to the engineer. It was submitted.
MR. BREWER-So, in all fairness, it was submitted on your part?
MR. NACE-Yes.
MR. MACNAMARA-Yes. I didn't mean to indicate that he didn't submit
it.
MR. BREWER-Why was it held back?
MR. HARLICKER-I wasn't aware that it was.
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MR. MACNAMARA-Well, it was in the comments of June 2nd. I t said
that there was no stormwater. The appendices were left out. So,
anyway, a bigger issue is, again, falls on the septic system, and
once again, the other issue comes into the SPDES Permit issue, as
to who has jurisdiction. Regardless of that, I'm working on the
fact that Jim Martin said, review the septic systems as if it was,
compared to the Town Standards, which I did, which refers to DOH,
and in some cases DEC. So all the sewage disposal notes are based
on a combination of Queensbury Standards, DEC's standards, DOH
standards, but to cut to the quick, they basically tried to fit a
system in, in this application, that wasn't quite right, as far as
depths of cover, slope of original grade, things of that nature,
which I think they'll basically agree that, now that, the one
access helped them out from their septic system point of view,
which is why I asked, initially, do I need to review anything with
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one access, because it sounds like you're going with two, but
anyway, if they stay with one, there were considerable issues with
the sewage disposal, septic system, as was submitted.
MR. BREWER-As it stands right now, they're independent with their
own access.
MR. MACNAMARA-Okay. Then if you'd care to, we can go over all the
notes. At the time, there wasn't any sizing information submitted,
which I believe you just submitted yesterday?
MR. NACE-Yes, we did.
MR. MACNAMARA-Okay, which, that goes to the whole heart of how you
design the septic system, is flow.
MR. BREWER-Okay. So I 'm confus ed a lit t1 e bi t.
with two entrances, or one entrance?
You reviewed it
MR. MACN~~ARA-Two entrances.
MR. BREWER --Two.
then. Okay.
So then we're safe to say that we can go ahead,
MR. MACNAMARA-Okay, but anyhow, at the time, there wasn't any flow
information submitted regarding gallonage. So I was not to know if
there was a SPDES Permi t to be required or not. I assumed it was -
greater than 1,000 gallons. I suggested that they look at a SPDES
Permi t.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. NACE-We have, in fact, we submitted SPDES about a month and a
half ago, and they have completed, or deemed it complete. They
just have not issued the permit, and, again, we're probably remiss.
We should have submitted the complete SPDES application to the
Town, but because of who reviews what, we assumed that, since DEC
had control of it.
"
MR. MACNAMARA-Now, in all fairness, there's certainly some issues
that the DEC really couldn't care less about, the Town does, such
as things to property lines, and things that are specific to the
Queensbury Code. Again, it may not be the actual mound, or it may
not bet h e act u a I I e a c h fie I d ,or i t ma y not bet h e act u a I
distribution box, per se, but there's certainly things that are in
Queensbury Code that, certainly, it's worth looking at. It's up to
you if don't choose to look at it or not, but, anyway, you had them
in there for some reason. The notes went to the distribution box
being closer than 10 feet from the property line. Part of the
dosing tank was located under a paved area. A bigger issue was the
fact that the perc tests that were taken didn't actual fall at the
same elevation, as to where the effluent would be applied to the
soil. It's pretty key to the whole perc test issue, as far as
kriowing that the perc test is representative of the soil to receive
the waste, and because of the grading issues that were associated,
it was very deep, to put it bluntly. There was some drop from the
inlet to the outlet of the septic tank. This is, essentially, very
boiler-plate stuff, sanitary. Cover for gravity lines. I
suggested four feet. I think they had three. Not knowing who was
rev i ew i ng the sys tem, I us ed DOH's manual, as far as how long
absorption bed laterals need to be. Seventy-five feet is what DOH
talks about. I believe the DEC talks about a thousand.
MR. NACE-DEC allows 100. The Code systems, they allow about 100.
MR. MACNAMARA - I
distribution box
if they go to one
of that.
mean, 100. Then there's the issue of the
cover, but again, these are all going to go away
access, because they system was changed, or a lot
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MR. BREWER-When you say one access, you're talking about,
specifically, for the dentist?
MR. MACNAMARA-No. When I said one access, I mean, one access for
the development site.
MR. BREWER-They're going with two, as we speak, right now.
MR. MACNAMARA-Okay. That's my point.
MR. BREWER-All right.
I understand what you re saying.
MR. MACNAMARA-And the information that was just submitted last
night I'm not even going to look at tonight.
MR. BREWER-Okay.
MR. NACE-I think, it is going to get confusing. Probably what we
need to do, if we can, is get from the Board a consensus, if we can
clear up the engineering concerns, okay, given separate accesses
for the two parcels, if we can still clear up engineering concerns,
will the Board or will the Board not approve site plan. I think
that's the bottom line issue, is it not?
MR. BREWER-Pretty much, it is.
MR. NACE-So maybe we ought to set the engineering concerns aside,
at this point, as soon as we can, address them adequately, if we
have separate accesses, and find out what other concerns are on the
table.
MR. STARK-Tim, you don't have any questions about the septic or
anything, do you?
MR. BREWER-I have no questions about the septic or the planning.
MR. OBERMAYER-I have a question about the sep'tic. I don't see
anywhere, Tom, where you indicated what size pipe, pipe line,
sanitary line, is going into the septic tank, or leaving it.
MR. NACE-It's four inch.
It shows on the profiles that we have.
MR. MACNAMARA-That's on the new submission, by the way. That was
one of the first comments, that they didn't show any pipes.
MR. OBERMAYER-It was?
drawings. Okay.
Okay.
It wasn't shown on the or iginal
MR. MACNAMARA-Right.
MR. BREWER-I guess I would ask a question of Mark. I mean, if this
comes to vote right now, I presume nothing can happen to the
subdivision approval. If we vote and this is denied, then this
particular project is denied, right?
MR. SCHACHNER-Well, again, there's some apples and oranges, in
that, by the "this" that's coming to vote, I assume you're
referring to specifically the site plan application for the
dentist's office, correct?
MR. BREWER-I guess I'm a little confused, because he has an
approved subdivision, as we speak.
MR. SCHACHNER-Correct.
MR. BREWER-With two access points.
MR. SCHACHNER-Correct.
MR. BREWER-Now do we have to look at this as an approved
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subdivision with its own access, or can we still look at the
picture of the whole parcel and say that we want one access?
MR. SCHACHNER-Well, I don't think you can, that, to me, sounds like
it's re-visiting the subdivision issue.
MR. BREWER-Right.
MR. SCHACHNER-I think you have to look at this application on its
merits. Now one of the aspects that you're allowed to consider in
reviewing an application is access. If you feel that for some
reason this application for this project on this location doesn't
meet your standards or criteria for access, you can deny this
particular application for this project. That would not undo the
subdivision approval. They would still have an approved
subdivision with two accesses, and they would have submitted a
particular application for one specific portion of the subdivision
land that would have been denied.
MR. BREWER-I guess where my confusion comes in is, Warren County
looked at this as one parcel. We're looking at it as two, right
now.
MR. SCHACHNER-Well, Warren County,
County doesn't have j ur isdict ion
County looked at this as site plan
I believe.
I'm not sure, but I think Warren
over subdivision, and Warren
approval for the dental office,
MR. NACE-That's correct.
MR. SCHACHNER-And Warren County, as I understand it, recommended
denial.
MR. BREWER-They recommended denial, based on.
MR. NACE-Based on the fact that the site was graded.
MR. SCHACHNER-Clear cutting and something else, as I recall.
MR. BREWER-Not access.
MR. NACE-Not access.
MR. RUEL-No, not access.
MR. BREWER-Okay. I guess, then, I don't have a choice.
have no problem with the project, then. It stands on
merit, seeing how it's approved with the sole access.
I mean, I
its own
MR. OBERMAYER-Are you going to have living medical waste generated
from this facility?
MR. NACE-Any medical waste that is going to be generated, the
doctors, the dentists, all fall under the transport and storage
regulations, that say they have to take care of it. They've got to
package it in a certain way. They've got to have (lost word).
MR. OBERMAYER-Okay. So that'll
Occupancy. For them to operate,
They already have it? Well,
different location.
be part of the Certificate of
they'll have to their retro fit.
it's operating, but this is a
MR. NACE-If they store any on site, yes. They would have to have
the retro storage.
MR. BREWER-Anything else, Jim?
MR. OBERMAYER-No.
MR. BREWER-George, any questions?
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MR. STARK--No.
MR. BREWER-Cathy, any questions?
MRS. LABOMBARD-No.
MR. RUEL-No.
MR. NACE-We do have building plans, if anybody's interested.
MR. BREWER-Yes, I would.
MR. OBERMAYER-Yes, sure.
MR. HARLICKER-What about the landscaping on the rest of the site?
The only landscaping they show is around the building, on the plans
1 have.
MR. NACE-There are two landscaping plans, Scott, that show, they're
separate plans, I believe, for up front, and then one for around
the building. It's part of the old submission. Okay. Looking
from the road, okay, the elevation that will be facing the road.
There's a little courtyard (lost word) courtyard on the north side
of it. I think you start to see that in here.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Now how many dentists does he have in there?
MR. PASSARELLI-He's going to have nine chairs.
MR. OBERMAYER-Nine chairs.
MR. STARK-How many are there now?
MR. NACE-There's seven.
MR. OBERMAYER-It's going to be a sharp looking place.
MRS. LABOMBARD-uHow many square feet is this?
MR. PASSARELLI-Four thousand square feet.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Any other questions? We've got to do a SEQRA on
this. It's unlisted. Short Form, right?
MR. HARLICKER-Public hearing also.
MR. BREWER-Yes.
to talk about
project?
I'll open the public hearing.
th is? Wou I d anybody car e to
Does anybody want
speak about this
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. BREWER-We've got to do a Short Form.
MR. HARLICKER-They submitted a Long Form with the application.
MR. BREWER-We don't have to do a Long Form, do we? It's unlisted.
MR. HARLICKER-It's not required.
MR. BREWER-Well, we'll do a Short Form then.
RESOLUTION WHEN DETERMINATION OF NO SIGNIFICANCE IS MADE
RESOLUTION NO. 15-94, Introduced by George Stark who moved for its
adoption, seconded by James Obermayer:
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WHEREAS, ther e
application for:
is presently before the Planning
ORAL HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATES, and
Board
an
WHEREAS, this Planning Board has determined that the proposed
project and Planning Board action is subject to review under the
State Environmental Quality Review Act,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED:
1. No federal agency appears to be involved.
2. The following agencies are involved:
NONE
3. 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.
4. An Environmental Assessment Form has been completed by the
applicant.
5. Having considered and thoroughly analyzed the relevant areas
of environmental concern and having considered the criteria
for determining whether a project has a significant
environmental impact as the same is set forth in Section
617.11 of the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and
Regulations for the State of New York, this Board finds that
the action about to be undertaken by this Board will have no
significant environmental effect and the Chairman of the
Planning Board is hereby authorized to execute and sign and
file as may be necessary a statement of non-significance or a
negative declaration that may be required by law.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
AYES: Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. Paling, Mr. Stark,
Mr. Obermayer, Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
MR. BREWER-Now we can offer a motion to approve or disapprove.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 15-94 ORAL HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATES,
Introduced by George Stark who moved for its adoption, seconded by
James Obermayer:
Contingent upon the applicant answering and meeting all engineering
requirements.
Duly adopted this 21st day of June, 1994, by the following vote:
MR. NACE-In all fairness, yoU may want to make that contingent upon
engineering.
MR. BREWER-Engineering comments.
MR. STARK-Okay.
AYES: Mr. Ruel, Mr. Paling, Mr. Stark, Mr. Obermayer,
Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Brewer
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. MacEwan
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MR. BREWER-Is there anything else?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. There was a letter from Richard Baker, National
Realty, about the two stop lights. You should have a copy of it
also. It's to Richard Baker, National Realty and Development Corp.
MR. BREWER-Do you want to read that, Cathy?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Okay. "Dear Mr. Baker: I am writing this letter in
response to your request for the Town Planning Board's impression
of a two signal configuration along N.Y.S. Route 9. The two signal
configuration would be coordinated and provide signalization of the
nor ther n en tr ance to the Ames Plaza (i n f ron t 0 f the Queen Di ner )
as well as the proposed aligned intersection of Sweet Road and
Weeks Road. The Board discussed this matter at our meeting of June
21st and conceptually agrees with the approach. Formal approval of
such a design will require a resolution from the Planning Board as
this constitutes a change to the approved site plan. We understand
the N.Y.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is currently
reviewing this proposal and will be rendering a decision shortly.
A written acceptance from DOT will be required prior to the Board's
formal decision on this issue. Furthermore, as indicated by Jim
Martin, it is assumed the cost of the second signal will be borne
by the developer. I look forward to discussing this matter further
as a modification to the approved site plan. Sincerely, Timothy
Brewer Chairman Planning Board" With copies to Mark Kennedy and
the DOT.
MR. BREWER-I guess what the question .is, if you want me to sign
that?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes. That's it.
MR. BREWER-Do we have a consensus from the Board? Lets discuss it
first. Why don't you tell us what it's all about, the two lights
at the Wal-Mart?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-Is that what the consideration is?
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Did you write that letter?
MR. BREWER-Yes, I did.
be two lights?
Is that the Staff's opinion, there should
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. BREWER-How does everybody else feel about it?
MR. PALING-I'd like to ask a question about the alignment of Sweet
and Weeks Road. Was that passed by this Board as a site plan
approval?
MR. HARLICKER-No.
MR. PALING-It wasn't.
MR. HARLICKER-At the time this came through the process.
MR. PAL lNG-We 11, then how do we fit into approv i ng, r ecormnend ing a
traffic light then? Are we putting the cart before the horse?
MR. BREWER-No. There was a great deal of conversation about that,
whether the light should go there, or whether it should go down
where it is. Then, after the fact, I think the Town came up with
the idea, or the Planning Staff came up with the idea that those
roads should be aligned, like we discussed a year and a half ago,
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at the Planning Board meeting, finally sunk into them. So they
said, well, we should realign this road. So that's where the idea
for the second light came in.
MR. HARLICKER-It had sunk in. They just needed an outside source
to confirm what we had been saying all along. This was part of a
recommendation that's in this Route 9/254 study that was completed.
MR. PALING-Yes. There was one the other night.
MR. HARLICKER-Yes.
MR. PALING-The letter indicates that we approve the realigning of
the road, at least I'm reading that into it. It doesn't say it
directly, but indirectly, and I didn't realize we'd done that. I'm
not sure, I like the idea of the lights, if you've got the right
place to put them, the double lights, but I'm not sure I go along
with the realignment of the road. So I don't know. I've got a
dilemma, as to whether I should vote, you know, would go along with
this or not.
MR. BREWER-Well, I guess if you realign the road, it alleviates the
problem of people getting in and out of that little, narrow road
from Robert Gardens. I guess they expressed concern that they have
a terrible time getting in and out of there. So a light would help
them, but if you realigned it and you put a light there, then it's
going to.
MR. PALING-But it does, there's other neighbors that also object to
it, though, that's going to bring traffic on the other side of
Route 9, along Country Club Road. They're saying it's going to
make that a thruway in there, which they're objecting to.
MRS. LABOMBARD-You mean, going down, connecting Country Club with
Route 9, going down Sweet Road?
MR. HARLICKER-Mrs. Valente.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Liz: I don't think it.
MR. BREWER-Well, you know, it's going to create, it probably is
going to create some more traffic down there, but, I mean, you've
got a contractor, a developer that's bitching about development.
So, I mean, they want to build houses allover Town, but they want
to bitch because cars are going by where they live.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Their house is for sale.
MR. BREWER-It doesn't make any difference, no matter, where they
live.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I'm just saying, they're not going to be living
there.
MR. BREWER-I mean, they're building the houses that people are
going to be living in, when they're driving these cars to the
places, and they're complaining about it.
MR. RUEL-I have a question about the lights. Will these lights
also be unsynchronized, like everything else in Queensbury?
MR. STARK-They would be synchronized,
think.
MR. PALING-They're a pair. They will be sychronized.
MR. RUEL-How do you know?
MR. PALING-Because that's what they said at the meeting the other
night.
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MR. BREWER-If the State owns them, the State will synchronize them,
I'm sure, but these lights on Quaker Road you're talking about, the
Town owns.
MR. PALING-But you buy them as a pair.
lights.
You don't buy separate
MR. RUEL--You know that new
on Aviation Road, the other
the traffic tie up there?
light.
light they put across the bridge there
side of the bridge? Have you ever seen
It's not synchronized with the other
MR. BREWER-So, how do you feel about it, Bob?
MR . PAL I N G - Why i s the P I ann i n g Boa r d v 0 ti n g 0 nth e two Ii g h t
configuration?
MR. STARK-It's a recommendation, that's all.
MR. PALING-Yes, but why is it in our jurisdiction to say anything?
MR. BREWER-Because the first light is part of an approved site plan
for Wal-Mart.
MR. SCHACHNER-Yes, but you know, quite honestly, it's confusing to
me, and I was just asking Scott, and he's not sure of the
background of this, but it's confusing to me why the Board is being
asked to sign a letter that says that the Board conceptually agrees
with this approach, but then says that the Board's formal decision
won't be made until there's a DOT action. It seems to me that
there's a site plan that's been approved, and that this would
constitute a change to that approved site plan, and if the
applicant wants to make a request of the Planning Board for
modification of that site plan, that seems appropriate to me. MY
concern is just from the narrow procedural standpoint. I'm not
sure who is asking the Board to write a letter that says something
about conceptually agreeing with something for a modified site
plan. What if you sign this letter, send this letter and then the
applicant comes back and you decide, upon full review, that you
want to deny the modification? I'm concerned that you've written
a letter that says you conceptually agree with something, but then
when you see it on the Board, and you see it in full detail, you
don't like it. So I guess I'm confused as to the background here.
I don't know who's asking, or why this request is being made, to
sign this type of letter.
MR. RUEL-Wha t do you r econm1end?
MR. SCHACHNER-I guess I don't have
somebody answers that question for me,
a recommendation, unless
of who's asking why.
MR. HARLICKER--In the first sense it sounds like Mr. Baker requested
a letter from the Town Planning Board regarding.
MR. OBERMAYER-Who is Mr. Baker?
MR. SCHACHNER-Mr. Baker, as I understand it, is a principal in
National Realty and Development Corp., which is the developer of
the Wal-Mart.
MR. HARLICKER-They own the property.
MR. BREWER-Okay. Well, if illY. name's going to go on that letter, as
the Chairman of this Board, I don't ever recall him asking me to do
that. If he did, I never got the letter. Somebody else got the
let ter.
MR. OBERMAYER-Who generated the letter, Scott?
MR. HARLICKER-Jim did.
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MR. BREWER-That's the first I saw it, right now.
MR. SCHACHNER-I guess my answer to Roger's, Roger asked what do I
r ecorrunend, and I guess my r ecorrunenda t ion is an easy one. I gues s
I recorrunend that you do nothing, because you don't know the origin
of the request. You don't have a written request in front of you.
Nobody but Jim really knows where this came from.
MR. BREWER-I guess, maybe we should possibly write a little note
back to him, asking him to come in and present it to us, and then
maybe we'll.
MR. SCHACHNER-I think first we should find out what the origin is,
and it sounds like the only person that knows that is Jim Martin,
and he happens not to be here tonight. I think we need to know
that before we know what our next move is.
MR. OBERMAYER-Lets do it when he gets back, then.
MR. BREWER-He told me he'd be here the 28th, that night.
MR. OBERMAYER-I don't like the idea of stating that the Planning
Board conceptually agrees, as Mark says. I don't even really know
what I'm agreeing to.
MR. BREWER-Okay. That's fine. I didn't write the letter. The
Town Board, they did pass a resolution. We've got Mark for the
rest of the year.
On motion meeting was adjourned.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Timothy Brewer, Chairman
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