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QUEENS BURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING
SPECIAL MEETING
JUNE 20, 1996
INDEX
Freshwater Wetlands
Permit No. FW 2-96
Open Space Institute
Tax Map No. 148-1-2.1
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Site Plan No. 31-96
Tax Map No. 136-2-1
Lee & Holly Coon
5.
Site Plan No. 32-96
Tax Map No. 110-1-3.31
Lee & Holly Coon
8.
Site Plan No. 33-96
Tax Map No. 107-1-54
Lee & Holly Coon
9.
Site Plan No. 34-96
Tax Map No. 102-1-5
Lee & Holly Coon
9.
Site Plan No. 35-96
Tax Map No. 60-1-2
Evergreen Bank
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Subdivision No. 13-86
FINAL STAGE
Herald Square, Phase III
Tax Map No. 125-1-999
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Site Plan No. 36-96
Tax Map No. 48-3-34.1
Richard Schermerhorn
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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
SPECIAL MEETING
JUNE 20, 1996
7:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT
GEORGE STARK, ACTING CHAIRMAN
CATHERINE LABOMBARD, SECRETARY
DAVID WEST
ROGER RUEL
CRAIG MACEWAN
TIMOTHY BREWER
MEMBERS ABSENT
ROBERT PALING
PLANNER-GEORGE HILTON
PLANNING BOARD ATTORNEY-MILLER, MANNIX, & PRATT - JEFF FRIEDLAND
STENOGRAPHER-MARIA GAGLIARDI
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NEW BUSINESS:
FRESHWATER WETLANDS PERMIT - FW 2-96 OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE OWNER:
SAME AS ABOVE ZONE: P.U.D. LOCATION: OFF FUTURE HUDSON PTE.
BLVD. FRESHWATER WETLANDS PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HIKING TRAIL
AND BOARDWALK/BRIDGE. PROJECT WILL REQUIRE MINOR CUTTING OF
VEGETATION AND PLACEMENT OF FILL MATERIAL WITHIN THE WETLAND.
REMOVAL OF VEGETATION FOR THE TRAIL WILL OCCUR IN THE ADJACENT
AREA. WETLAND AFFECTED: GF-9 AREA AFFECTED: .25 ACRES TAX MAP
NO. 148-1-2.1 SECTION: 94-6
JIM MILLER, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Freshwater Wetlands Permit - FW 2-96, Open Space
Institute, Meeting Date: June 20, 1996 liThe applicant is applying
for a Freshwater Wetlands Permit to construct a hiking trail and
walking bridge in a wetland. As a part of this proj ect some
vegetation will have to be removed and some fill material will have
to be installed in order to support the bridge. The applicant has
received a permit from DEC to conduct this activity in a wetland.
A permit is also required from the Army Corps of Engineers for this
project. Staff foresees no negative impacts associated with this
application and would recommend approval of Freshwater Wetlands
Permit No. 2-96 with the following condition: 1. An Army Corps of
Engineers permit will accompany the application for a building
permit. II
(DUE TO TAPE PROBLEM, SOME OF THIS SECTION OF MINUTES WAS LOST)
MR. MILLER-We had originally submitted a joint application from DEC
and the Corps for the permit, and the DEC has processed and they've
issued the permit, and the Corps of Engineers is still in the
process. They're a little bit slower than DEC.
MR. STARK-When do you anticipate?
DAN LUCIANO
MR. LUCIANO- I've been talking to the Corps during the last few
weeks, and they are on the verge of putting on a 30 day notice, and
it'll just all depend on whatever comments they get during that
notice period, but I would hope that they can get their notice
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either as early as tomorrow or the first thing next week, and I
guess that puts us out into July, and with any luck we'd have that
permit by the end of July.
MR. STARK-Okay. You're going to show us what you're doing?
MR. MILLER-The Hudson Pointe Nature Preserve, as you know, it is
the area along the bluff and inside this is a big bay on the river.
This is the main part of the river, and the Hudson Pointe Nature
Preserve is about 83 and a half acres. Part of the original
agreement that the Open Space Institute made with the Town to
develop a trail system and to develop that part of the trail
system, and a (lost words). We spent some time, these contour
lines show the end of the bluff, and we spent quite a bit of time
on this site trying to site this overlook, and we had to be on the
inside of the bay, away from the currents, and most of this area is
not really a grassy marsh, but it's sort of a shrub marsh with
dogwoods and alders. So there was nothing really unique about this
area, and also the trail system, we wanted to take advantage of
being out as close to the edge of the water as possible. So we
finally decided the best location down here was to combine this
overlook as an overlook and also as a dock structure, because you
see there's a shallow cove, and it comes back in, in this portion
of the bay, and the original, this is the existing road way that
came down, traverses the bluff, down to a lower level. That's
where there used to be some cabins down in there. We wanted to
develop this trail to come out around the water's edge, so by
locating that observation platform in this location, across this
shallow throat of this cove, we'd be able to continue that trail
system around the shoreline, and it comes up by Clendon Brook then
loops back up again at the top of the bluff, back up to this trail,
and then comes out over to the recreation area that we talked about
a couple of weeks ago. We also indicated on here the possibility
of a second trail that would come around the inside of this cove,
but it's not for sure that if that's installed, that's going to be
the secondary trail, and the purpose of that will be to provide a
shorter loop, as opposed to the longer trail system. It's going to
be all hiking trail. No motorized vehicles and cross country
skiing. The next drawing is an enlargement of the dock area
itself. As you can see it spans 72 feet, and the high water goes
from the high water level of the river, 284.1, and spans across.
Now, the area of filling would just be in these bulkhead areas.
This is a timber wall bulkhead support at each end, and that's just
elevated up to give us clearance for the structure and clearance
over the water, and I think there was only like three cubic yards
of fill at each point. The trail system itself, it talked about
some clearing being required. There's really going to be minimal
clearing. There may be some brush in this area in here. The trail
is really going to be established in among the trees, and so
clearing will be minimized. The trail system is going to be like
a bark chip surface, or just a blazed trail.
MR. MACEWAN-No crushed stone or anything like that, dust?
MR. MILLER-No. The other thing that this plan shows is silt fences
will be installed around the area where the bulkheading and tilling
will occur, until that was established. That would be for the
upland portion, and then there would also be silt fencing, floating
silt fence installed on each side of the structure while work was
being done within the water. This elevation down below, it shows
the elevation looking at the side of the structure. One of the
comments that DEC came back with was for us to provide as much
clearance as we could in here, so that a canoe could come in and
they could get underneath, to get back into that cove. So,
originally, it was flat across it. We did, we elevated this as
much as we could. We put a slope on this section of that
boardwalk, equal to about the slope of a handicapped ramp, and then
this section here, is that wider overlook. What we tried to do is
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create a wider platform that, from this point you have a good view
out across the bay but you also have a view back into this cove,
and it's all, that rocky ledge that comes down is covered with
hemlocks. So you'd have an interesting view from either side. So,
someone skiing here, they'd have the option to stop here and have
room for someone to pass.
MR. MACEWAN-When you said that it's going to require fill on both
of those bulkheads on either side of that walkway, how is material
going to be gotten in there?
MR. MILLER-Well, that was one of the concerns with the contractors.
The trail that comes down the bluff and down to the site, you know,
people used to drive cars down in there, so they could get in there
with, you know, a tractor or a small four wheel vehicle, and that's
the kind of thing that adds some cost to something like this,
because the access is going to be limited, and they have to stay
within the trailed area. So, that's one of the cost factors in
here. They're going to have to bring in a little at a time.
That's why we tried to minimize that type of work, and that's why,
like some of the trail system, you know, it's probably just going
to be marked with tags on trees, rather than all completely
delineated with bark chips. ~
MR. RUEL-How much of a clearance do you have between the high water
mark and the bottom of the bridge?
MR. MILLER-A little bit under three feet. What happened, that was
under negotiations with DEC, because to get it higher, we either
would have to increase the slope on the board walk, which really
wouldn't be appropriate to get that too high. I thought like the
handicapped ramp slope was probably as steep as we wanted to go,
and if you get it any higher by raising the whole thing, we were
going to increase the bulkhead and the amount of fill. So, you
know, DEC said, well, no sense going through, making this to
elaborate just to pick up an extra foot. So it's a little bit
under three feet, and they felt that was adequate.
MR. RUEL-To get a canoe through, with someone in it?
MR. MILLER-You've got to duck. They said that the occurrence for
this is pretty minimal. As a matter of fact, when the water's
down, this basically becomes just a channel in here, this whole
cove back in here I think is only closer to about two foot deep.
One day we were down there, and it was only about six feet wide
through here, and most of it was dry in the back.
MR. LUCIANO-This question about how the construction was staged.
The contractor plans to, the entrance to the preserve is back up
here. As you're aware, the Hudson pointe subdivision is coming in
this area. This doesn't quite show the entire property of the
preserve. It actually comes up and something like this and back
around, but what they're going to do, actually, is they're going to
come down through this ravine right here and they're going to stage
their project from this end. They can get down in here with a
truck, I guess, and off load materials, and then it's a very short
distance down to.
MR. MACEWAN-Is there like an old abandoned road going down through
the ravine or something?
MR. LUCIANO-Pretty much. It's been used through the years by jeeps
and that kind of thing. So the contractor's confident that he can
get the materials down into the bottom in this area, and just one
other point that occurred to me for the Board's understanding.
This is the existing dirt road that ends down here at the end of
the peninsula, and the dark lines are the future trail system that
we will eventually develop there, that is not in there on the
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ground now. It's pretty passable, but there will need to be some
clearing of vegetation, as Jim has said. There aren't any major
trees down through here that would need to be cut. There is
another trail segment that leads from the formal entrance to the
preserve up in this area, off the subdivision road Hudson pointe
Boulevard, and for a short distance at the edge of the bluff along
the river up here, there's another trail segment we would be
building where a few trees would have to be taken down some
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s1zeable trees, to create a true walking path that would connect to
the upper end of the existing dirt road.
MR. STARK-Okay. Have you got any more presentation, Jim?
MR. MILLER-No. The last sheet was some construction details, and
unless you have some questions regarding that.
MR. STARK-Okay. Dave, do you have any questions?
MR. WEST-Were you going to be using pressure treated lumber?
MR. MILLER-Yes.
MR. STARK-Rog?
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MR. RUEL-No.
MR. STARK-Cathy?
MRS. LABOMBARD-I'm fine.
MR. STARK-Craig?
MR. MACEWAN-Nothing.
MR. STARK-Okay. If that's the case, I'd like to open the public
hearing at this point. If anybody would like to speak for or
against this granting of the permit, please come up to the table,
identify yourself and speak into the microphone.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. STARK-George, do you have any more comments at all?
MR. HILTON-At this time, no. I guess I have a question of Jim. The
zoning right now on this property is POD. Was this shown on the
overall P.U.D. plan?
MR. MILLER-I don't know exactly. My understanding is, it was
probably described in the P.U.D. document. I think the P.U.D. plan
basically has shown this area as a conservation zone, and I think
that after the P.U.D. document was developed, then the Open Space
Institute became the owner of the property, and then moved forward
to develop this. I think it was a verbal description.
MR. MACEWAN-Are you asking, is it part of the P.U.D.?
MR. HILTON-The only reason I'm asking is that I'm wondering if
SEQRA has been done on this. We don't list a type. I guess it's
my understanding that it was taken care of with the initial SEQRA
for the Hudson pointe P.U.D.
MR. MILLER-We also did a SEQRA application to DEC with our permit.
So DEC reviewed it under SEQRA also.
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MR. STARK-Well, I don't have any problems. Dave, Roger, Craig,
Cathy? Okay. We'll entertain a motion at this point, then.
MOTION TO APPROVE FRESHWATER WETLANDS PERMIT NO. 2-96 OPEN SPACE
INSTITUTE, Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption,
seconded by Craig MacEwan:
To allow construction of hiking trail and boardwalk bridge, with
the condition that the applicant obtain an Army Corps of Engineer
permit before construction.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Rue 1 , Mr. West, Mr. MacEwan, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Brewer, Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 31-96 TYPE II LEE & HOLLY COON OWNER: JOHN LIAPES
ZONE: CR-1S LOCATION: CORNER OF CORINTH ROAD AND BIG BAY ROAD
APPLICANT PROPOSES A VEGETABLE STAND. PER SECTION 179 - 24, SEASONAL
PRODUCE BUSINESS IS SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY-THE
PLANNING BOARD. WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/12/96 TAX MAP NO. 136-2-1
LOT SIZE: .39 ACRES SECTION: 179-24
LEE COON, PRESENT
MR. HILTON-For the next four items, what I did was I made one set
of comments to basically serve for all of the next four items.
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 31-96, Lee & Holly Coon, Meeting
Date: June 20, 1996 "The applicants are proposing vegetable
stands at four different locations throughout Queensbury. In each
case the applicants are proposing to use either a gazebo or picnic
table as the vegetable stand. No increase in the building area
will occur on any of the properties. Parking and access on any of
these sites will not be adversely affected by these seasonal
vegetable stands. Staff foresees no adverse impacts associated
with these applications and would recommend approval of these site
plans."
MR. HILTON-One further comment. Before the meeting, I was asked
why there are no setbacks that apply to these vegetable stands.
Not being a part of drafting that Ordinance, I really don't have an
answer as to why they weren't, but in each case here, the structure
that's being used is under 100 square feet, and according to our
Ordinance, they would at least, any structure that's under 100 can
be close enough as five feet to a property line.
MR. MACEWAN-The structure being a picnic table?
MR. HILTON-The structure being a picnic table. So if you wanted to
apply that Ordinance to each of these items, you might say that
they have to be five feet away from the property line, but seasonal
produce stands don't have any outlying setbacks, and in reality can
be right on the property line.
MR. MACEWAN-I'm familiar with everyone of these sites. I've never
seen a problem with any of them that he's ever had in the past. I
mean, if it's a case of something being too close to the property
line, you pick it up and you move it five feet.
MR. HILTON-Well, the reason I brought that up is that, in most
cases, we ask that something under 100 feet, or something under 100
feet has to be five feet away. I'm not saying that these should be
or have to be five feet away. As the law is written right now,
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they can be on the property line, but a worse case scenario is that
it would be five feet, and you're right. If there's a problem
pick it up and move it five feet. '
MR. STARK-Is anyone here from the applicant? Okay. If you'd like
to come up and identify yourself, please. Speak into the
microphone.
MR. COON-My name's Lee Coon.
MR. STARK-Okay. Do you have any comments on Staff's comments?
MR. COON-No. It's what I've been doing for the last 12 years.
MR. STARK-When does it shut down in the fall?
MR. COON-It shuts down in September, July to September.
MR. BREWER-My only comment was about the setbacks. I was curious
why they didn't have them, and I don't have a problem with any of
the stands. I guess my point was, if something is on the corner
that's attracting people, vision may be a problem. I'm not saying
it is or it isn't. I just was curious about it. That's all~-
MR. STARK-Do you have a problem with keeping it five foot off the
line, the property line?
MR. BREWER-Five foot is nothing anyway. I'm just saying that if a
stand is on a corner, and cars are going to stop in front of it,
and I do it myself. I mean, is it going to create a vision problem
for somebody coming out of an intersection or whatever. It's just
a question. That's all.
MR. STARK-Do you keep them back from the property line?
MR. COON-What I do is when they pull in, I keep them off, I pull
them right in where they can park, and if anybody comes out and
tries to pull in, in front of the stand, I tell them just go down
the road turn around and come back, because I don't serve anybody
that comes out next to the road, because it'll cause traffic
problems and all that.
MR. HILTON-I think in each case, in reviewing the plans, three out
of the four are at least five feet off the line. There's only one
I believe, the proposal at Bay and Quaker, at King Fuels, that is
between five feet and the property line. It varies, depending on
where he sets it up each day. He indicated that he could set it up
on the property line.
MR. MACEWAN-With that particular site, though, I mean, there's
ample parking within the King Fuels parking lot, and I don't think
anybody's going to want to park either on Dix or Quaker at that
point, because of those drainage ditches.
MR. HILTON-Right, and if you're worried about his picnic table or
gazebo being close to Quaker, it's not. It's more than five feet
back from Quaker. It's closer to the side property line, and there
is adequate parking on site.
MR. STARK-Okay. David, do you have any comments?
MR. WEST-No, that was my only issue was that there was adequate off
street parking, and it appears that there is.
MR. RUEL-Yes. I have two questions. One, George, in these four
applications, you reference Section 179, three different numbers,
why, 22, 23, and 24?
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MR. HILTON-I'm confused.
MR. RUEL-All of them have different Section numbers.
they were all the same?
MR. HILTON-Okay. The advertisements, that's due to the zone.
They're each located in a different zone.
I thought
MR. RUEL-Okay.
MR. HILTON-They're all allowed site plan uses, but the zoning
district just happens to be different.
MR. RUEL-All right. The other question I had was, will we be
placing a time limit on this application?
MR. HILTON-No. These are something, site plan review uses, that
once approved, are basically good indefinitely.
MR. RUEL-All right, and I have a question for the applicant. What
do you anticipate the hours of operation?
MR. COONS-The hours? They're going to be anywhere from 10 to 5-:-30.
MR. RUEL-Not late at night?
MR. COON-No.
MR. RUEL-So there's no lighting or anything?
MR. COON-No, there's no lighting.
MR. RUEL-Okay. Thank you.
MR. STARK-Cathy?
MRS. LABOMBARD-No. I just am concerned about the traffic, making
sure it's pulled off the side of the road far enough so it doesn't
obstruct any other passing traffic, just safety, but I think that
people are pretty, hopefully they'll be prudent, as far as that
goes.
MR. STARK-Craig?
MR. MACEWAN-Can we lump all four of these site plans into one
approval?
MR. STARK-I've got a question for the counsel, myself.
have to pay four different times?
Did you
MR. COON-Yes.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Four different applications, four sites.
MR. HILTON-For the purposes of my Staff comments, because they were
so similar, I just grouped them together. I think we'd probably
want to vote on them individually, though, because they are
separate applications, and they did pay separate application fees.
MR. STARK-Okay. Jeff, before I open the first public hearing, do
we have to open an individual public hearing for each one?
MR. FRIEDLAND-Yes. Did you have a separate time set down in the
notice for each public hearing?
MR. MACEWAN-As long as they're different applications, treat them,
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each one as individuals, and that way we won't get in trouble.
MR. BREWER-There's four applications. That's probably the safest
thing to do.
MR. STARK-Okay. I'd like to open the public hearing at this point,
if anybody would like to comment for or against this site plan.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. HILTON-In each case, all four of these items were heard before
the Warren County Planning Board on the June 12, 1996 meeting, and
in each case, this one in particular, a recommendation was for No
County Impact. Signed C. Powel South, Chairperson.
MR. STARK-Thank you. Okay. I'd like to entertain a motion for the
first Site Plan. Site Plan No. 31-96.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 31-96 LEE & HOLLY COON, Introduced
by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by Catherine
LaBombard:
For a vegetable stand.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
MR. MACEWAN-Do you want that note in there about the five feet off
the property line setbacks?
MR. HILTON-Well, we're not requiring that they be five feet. Like
I said, they can be on the property line. There are no setbacks
for the seasonal business. Should it become a concern and we do
get some, if we do get some concerns, we may ask them go in and
move back to the five feet that's required of other similar
structures that are under 100 square feet. I just wanted to make
that clear to the Board.
AYES: Mr. Ruel, Mr. West, Mr. Brewer, Mr. MacEwan,
Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 32-96 TYPE II LEE & HOLLY COON OWNER: EDWIN KING
ZONE: HC-1A LOCATION: CORNER OF DIX AND QUAKER ROAD IN FRONT OF
KING FUELS APPLICANT PROPOSES A VEGETABLE STAND. PER SECTION 179-
23, SEASONAL PRODUCE BUSINESS IS SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW AND
APPROVAL BY THE PLANNING BOARD. WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/12/96 TAX
MAP NO. 110-1-3.31 LOT SIZE: 1.61 ACRES SECTION: 179-23
LEE COON, PRESENT
MR. STARK-Okay. I'd like to open the public hearing, if anybody
wishes to speak for or against this site plan.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. STARK-I'll entertain a motion.
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MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 32-96 LEE & HOLLY COON, Introduced
by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by Craig
MacEwan:
For a vegetable stand at the corner of Dix and Quaker Road.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. West, Mr. Brewer, Mr. MacEwan, Mrs. LaBombard,
Mr. Rue I , Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 33-96 TYPE II LEE & HOLLY COON OWNER: EDWIN KING
ZONE: HC-1A LOCATION: CORNER OF QUAKER AND BAY APPLICANT
PROPOSES A VEGETABLE STAND. PER SECTION 179-23, SEASONAL PRODUCE
BUSINESS IS SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE
PLANNING BOARD. WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/12/96 TAX MAP NO. 107-1-
54 LOT SIZE: .82 ACRES SECTION: 179-23
LEE COON, PRESENT
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MR. STARK-I'd like to open the public hearing for Site Plan No. 33-
96, if anybody wishes to speak for or against this site plan.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. STARK-I'll entertain a motion.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 33-96 LEE & HOLLY COON, Introduced
by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by Craig
MacEwan:
For a vegetable stand at the corner of Quaker & Bay.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. MacEwan, Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. West,
Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 34-96 LEE & HOLLY COON OWNER: CLAUDE CHARLEBOIS
ZONE: PC-1A LOCATION: GLEN STREET IN FRONT OF GLEN BEVERAGE
APPLICANT PROPOSES A VEGETABLE STAND. PER SECTION 179 - 2 2, SEASONAL
PRODUCE BUSINESS IS SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE
PLANNING BOARD. WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/12/96 TAX MAP NO. 102-1-5
LOT SIZE: .38 ACRES SECTION: 179-22
LEE COON, PRESENT
MR. STARK-Okay. I'd like to open the public hearing for Site Plan
No. 34-96, if anybody would like to speak for or against this site
plan.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
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MR. STARK-I'll entertain a motion.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 34-96 LEE & HOLLY COON, Introduced
by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by Craig
MacEwan:
For a vegetable stand at Glen Street in front of Glen Beverage.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. West, Mr. Brewer, Mr. MacEwan, Mrs. LaBombard,
Mr. Ruel, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 35-96 TYPE II EVERGREEN BANK
P. U. D. LOCATION: LOT 22, HILAND TERRACE
MODIFICATION OF PUD, LOT 22 HILAND TERRACE.
LOT SIZE: .93 ACRES SECTION: 179-58
OWNER: SAME ZONE:
APPLICANT PROPOSES
TAX MAP NO. 60-1-2
PAUL CARDINALE AND MEL GUGINO, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 35-96, Evergreen Bank, June 20,
1996 "The applicant is proposing to modify the Hiland Park POD.
Lot 22 of Hiland Terrace will be changed slightly from the way it
was originally shown. Access to this lot will be from Haviland
Road for now. In the future when the rest of Hiland Terrace is
developed, this lot will be accessed from a future road within the
POD. Staff would recommend a stipulation that when the POD road is
developed access from Haviland Road will be abandoned and relocated
to the POD road. This site plan is actually a subdivision of an
existing larger lot. Because this land is zoned under the Hiland
Park PUD a site plan need only be filed at Warren County to
recognize this subdivision. Staff would offer another stipulation
requiring this site plan be filed with Warren County."
MR. CARDINALE-Good evening. Paul Cardinale from Evergreen Bank.
MR. GUGINO-I'm Mel Gugino from Evergreen Bank.
MR. HILTON-On the June 12, 1996 meeting of the Warren County
Planning Board, a recommendation to approve, the comments: "Concur
with local conditions", was made and signed by C. powel South,
Chairperson.
MR. MACEWAN-I have a question for Staff. Was the Town Board lead
agency for this POD?
MR. HILTON-The Town Board was lead agency.
MR. MACEWAN-We can't modify it then.
MR. BREWER-Why can't we?
MR. MACEWAN-The same reason we couldn't do it with Hudson Pointe,
because the Town Board was lead agency.
MR. HILTON-My understanding is that the modification is, it's a
modification to the overall POD and to the way a lot was shown. To
explain things just a little bit, right now this house I believe,
and the applicants can clarify this.
MR. CARDINALE-Mr. Chairman, there's no construction going on.
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MR. HILTON-It's an existing house that has access off of Haviland.
MR. CARDINALE-An existing stone crushed drive there.
MR. MACEWAN-But you're moving a lot line.
MR. CARDINALE-That's correct.
MR. MACEWAN-So it's a subdivision. It's not a site plan.
MR. CARDINALE-We originally approached it as a subdivision, and
were instructed to approach it as final Site Plan Review because
the portion of the land that's being carved out will not be used
for a building.
MR. MACEWAN-But if you're changing lot configurations, by just
moving the lot line to give these people an extra piece of land, to
make their driveway work so it's on their property, it's not really
a site plan, is it?
MR. BREWER-We did it last week with Hudson Pointe.
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MR. HILTON-If I may. This lot was originally shown within the
overall Hiland Park PUD. It's still as shown today before you.
The only difference is that there's a minor modification to what is
proposed. Normally, when a phase of a PUD comes in, they come in
as a site plan, are reviewed by the Planning Board, and then filed
at Warren County. I think the determination was made, and I cannot
vouch for this, that due to the extremely minor modification, that
it wasn't necessary to go through the same procedure and have the
Town Board approve it.
MR. MACEWAN-I guess where I was confused is what we did the other
night with Hudson Pointe.
MR. HILTON-Right. I think that we were including an entirely new
lot, introducing an entirely, increasing a land use, I guess, in
that it was pre-approved for a PUD. The land use is not changing
in this lot. It's the same as it is now, and will be in the
future. We're just modifying, like I said, the lot line slightly,
and they're going to go in and basically plat this lot with Warren
County. I know it's a difficult answer to take, but it's really
such a minor modification that I just think the determination was
made that it didn't really need to go to the Town Board.
MR. STARK-Okay. Tim, do you have any comments? Dave? Rog?
MR. RUEL-No problems.
MR. STARK-Cathy?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Yes. How come we had such a tough time. When we
went on site visits, David, you went. Why did we have such a tough
time finding this place?
MR. WEST-We weren't looking hard enough? I don't know.
MRS. LABOMBARD-No, no, no. I mean, I still am not sure where it
is, but now I have a perception.
MR. GUGINO-This is the house. There's two houses down here, the
one that Bowen lives in and the white house across it, right down
the street here, and this is the house that Bowen lives in.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Wait a minute. I've only played about 200 rounds of
golf on that golf course, and I'm totally disoriented right now.
We're going east on Haviland.
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MR. GUGINO-Right.
MRS. LABOMBARD-We're going east toward the golf course.
MR. GUGINO-Right.
MRS. LABOMBARD-And you know where the big white house was where
they used to have the real estate center?
MR. GUGINO-It's before that.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Okay. It's the house before that.
MR. WEST-Before you go up the hill.
MR. GUGINO-That's right. There's a doctor that has the house on
the hill, and it's even before his house.
MRS. LABOMBARD-It's kind of down.
MR. GUGINO-It's the two little houses in the hollow down there.
There's a little stone drive that cuts in there, real quick, and
that's this one right here. ~
MRS. LABOMBARD-Right. I mean, usually I know where everything is,
and I have not had, and I didn't get a chance to go back.
MR. GUGINO-This is Haviland over here. This is the stone driveway
that goes in. This is the little white house that's there right
now, and this is the house that Bowen owns. This is lot 22.
MRS. LABOMBARD-And how big is that, how many acres, approximately?
I can see that little area up in the right hand corner.
MR. GUGINO-.93.
MRS. LABOMBARD-That .93, though, I thought went just for this
little part here.
MR. GUGINO-No, that's all of this right here.
MRS. LABOMBARD-That's all that is. Okay. I just needed a better
perception.
MR. STARK-Craig, do you have any comment? Are you satisfied with
that answer about the POD? You're not satisfied?
MR. MACEWAN-That's okay.
MR. CARDINALE-Craig, do you recall when we came here, five or six
(lost words) .
MR. MACEWAN-I wasn't here for the original POD.
MR. CARDINALE-No. I mean, last year when we had the modification
of the two little office buildings up there, and that we did. This
is the very same thing.
MR. BREWER-It's exactly the same thing.
MR. MACEWAN-I guess I'm really confused by the situation that we
had the other night with Hudson Pointe where we're still talking
the small triangular piece we're attaching, just like we did with
the easement for the homeowners, but it had to go back, we could
only make a recommendation. It had to go back to the Town Board
for their approval on it, and if this is a POD that's under the
guidelines and jurisdiction of the Town Board, why are we
authorized to make this revision? As far as I'm concerned, I don't
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think it's a site plan issue. I think it's a subdivision issue.
MR. RUEL-We should then make a recommendation to the Town Board.
MR. MACEWAN-That's what I'm getting at.
MR. BREWER-But it's not going to go back to the Town Board. It's
a lot line adjustment.
MR. MACEWAN-I'm not trying to be a thorn in everybody's side here.
I'm just a little confused on this.
MR. STARK-Staff said it was so minor that it would come t.o us
instead of the Town Board.
MR. MACEWAN-But we're not legally entitled to do it.
MR. HILTON-If the Board is uncomfortable approving this
modification.
MR. CARDINALE-Craig, the last time we did this, as you'll recall,
your legal counsel did make a comment, (lost word) to what we're
requesting here tonight as a modification, that you could make-the
decision, and it did not have to go to the Town Board.
MR. RUEL-I agree with Craig.
MR. FRIEDLAND-I guess I could make just one suggestion, that's that
the Zoning Administrator's already decided, I gather, that this can
be done by site plan approval, and that's a decision that he makes,
and I gather he's made that already. So, I think that's already
been decided by him.
MR. STARK-Does that alleviate any of your concern?
MR. MACEWAN-There's the six of us up here.
MR. STARK-Okay. I'd like to open the public hearing at this point,
if anybody would like to speak for or against this site plan.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. STARK-I'll ask one more time, any comments?
MRS. LABOMBARD-No. I'm just concerned about Craig's concern, but,
obviously, nobody else is.
MR. STARK-It's a very minor, you know. It's not like they're
changing a big lot line or building on a lot or something. Okay.
I'd like to entertain a motion at this point.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 35-96 EVERGREEN BANK, Introduced
by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by Timothy
Brewer:
For a modification of P.U.D. Lot 22 Hiland Terrace, with two
conditions. One, that when the P.U.D. road is developed, access
from Haviland Road will be abandoned, relocated to the P.U.D. road,
and, Two, that the site plan be filed with Warren County. The
modification is not significant enough for SEQRA.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
MR. FRIEDLAND-Mr. Chairman, I hate to interrupt.
I just want to
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make sure that you understand, as far as SEQRA goes. This says
it's Type II. It's really not a Type II SEQRA action. Obviously,
it went through SEQRA before. The Board needs to make sure that it
determines one of two things. Either that this modification is not
a material modification of the existing plan, and no SEQRA review
is required, or you could determine it is a modification.
MR. STARK-We'll have to. Rog, include that there, that's it's not
a material, in the motion, like we usually do on a modification.
AYES: Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. West, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSTAINED: Mr. MacEwan
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SUBDIVISION NO. 13-86 FINAL STAGE TYPE:
OWNER: GUIDO PASSARELLI ZONE: SR-20
LUZERNE ROADS PHASE III - 43 LOTS.
SECTION: SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
HERALD SQUARE, PHASE III
LOCATION: VAN DUSEN &
TAX MAP NO.: 125-1-999
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TOM NACE, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Subdivision No. 13-86, Herald Square Phase III,
Meeting Date: June 20, 1996 "The applicant is proposing the
subdivision and creation of 43 new lots in the Herald Square
subdivision. This third phase would be the final phase in the
overall subdivision. Staff has reviewed this application and has
the following comments. Staff would like to see the building
setbacks represented on this subdivision plan. Staff would
recommend a stipulation that these building setbacks be included on
the subdivision plat when it is filed at Warren County. The
required recreation fee will be required prior to this plat being
recorded with Warren County. Current test pit information needs to
be submitted prior to Planning Board action on this application.
This information should contain the date that the test pits were
dug in order to determine if the data submitted is current. Any
comments from the Town's engineering consultant need to be
addressed prior to Planning Board action on this application."
MR. HILTON-And I have those comments in front of me. We received
them today. The only major comment I think that the engineering
consultant has is that the setbacks should be indicated. They feel
that they may be can be shown on the plans, but Planning Staff
would like to see setbacks for these lots shown on the subdivision
plat, so that in the future, if there ever are any re-zonings or
changes out here, we can refer to that plat, and see exactly what
kind of envelope any homes must be built in.
MR. RUEL-That's the only condition you have?
MR. MACEWAN-Isn't that part of the Subdivision Reg's?
MR. HIL'rON-It's part of the Subdivision Reg's, yes, and we have
that condition, and we'd also like to see some updated test pit
information.
MR. STARK-Okay. Would you identify yourselves, please.
MR. NACE-For the record, my name is
Engineering, and Leon Steves, with
representing Guido Passarelli.
Tom Nace,
VanDusen
with
and
Haanen
Steves,
MR. STARK-Okay. You have Rist-Frost's comments in front of you?
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MR. NACE-Yes, we do.
MR. STARK-Could you refer to each one, Tom?
MR. NACE-Okay. First, the "previous comments relating to phase I
and II were satisfactorily addressed during their reviews.
Drainage plans submitted with Phase III is adequate to prevent
problems from occurring. Wing swales between drywells direct flow
for infiltration into either new or existing area control
structures. A generic disposal system is shown. Site specific
percolation tests are noted and must be performed. II The original
Health Department approvals for this were given with the
preliminary plan approval back in '86 or '87, and the percolation
tests done by a different engineer at that time, percolation test
data was to the satisfaction of Brian Fear at that time, and he
approved the plans for the entire subdivision, not just for Phase
II, for the entire subdivision. I don't necessarily feel that it's
appropo to go back and re-do all that information. We have shown
test pit data which was shown on the original plan, Phase III area.
We've done work and been present during the excavation work for
Phase II, and been around Phase I a little bit. I don't think
there's any indication of high groundwater in this area. Clendon
Brook is immediately to the west of Phase III and provides
groundwater relief that's about 20 or 30 feet below the, actually
30 or 40 feet below the elevation of Phase III, and these granular
soils I don't think (lost words) ground water could be a problem in
this area. "Road contours are included, however, no geometry".
Again, the road geometry was all approved at the preliminary
approval of all three phases. We have not changed it in any way.
MR. RUEL-Phase I was different. In Phase II, the geometry had to
be changed.
MR. NACE-Phase II, we went for a different approval. If you
remember in Phase II, we went through a different approval process.
In Phase II, well, I don't have an overall site plan here, but
Phase II originally, Phase I was a through road that went from
VanDusen Road up to Luzerne Road. Phase II originally had three
loops. Phase II originally had three loops that came down off of
the main road, and in going in and doing the final design of this,
and discussing it with the Town, it was decided that it would
really be better if we connected these two loops with a through
road across the bottom back out to VanDusen. Therefore, in Phase
II, we went back through preliminary design approvals to do that.
MR. RUEL-Fine. I accept that. However, what does that have to do
with the geometry or the radii of the curbs?
MR. NACE - No . I said, we have not changed. The original
subdivision, and your Subdivision Reg's reflect this, the whole
subdivision is reviewed at Preliminary Stage, okay, before you
grant any final approvals. When you do a final approval, it's just
for (lost words). So the overall layout, the road geometry and
everything else is signed off on, at the Preliminary approval,
okay. So what I'm saying is that when this whole subdivision was
done, including what is Phase III up here, the road geometry at
that time was all approved. We have not changed that approved
geometry. We changed it on Phase I I because there was some
specific requests from the Town to do that and bring another
entrance out to VanDusen Road.
MR. RUEL-What does radii have to do with this?
MR. BREWER-Because he changed the, I recall that. You changed the
roads, and there was some turns that didn't meet the radius that we
wanted, and they changed them.
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MR. NACE-Yes. On Phase II, we have not changed from what was
originally approved. We have not been asked, though. I believe
Paul Naylor has looked at the plans and has signed off on them.
So, I don't know what more to say. The only thing we've changed on
this, as far as layout, is that you'll notice here there were two
littl; p~eces of lots ~hat we,re sort of no man's land. They
weren t lncluded, the llttle pleces of property weren't included
wi~h any of the lots. In those two locations, instead of having
thlS no man's land up here, which really isn't valid, we've taken
the lot lines on out and included pieces in each of the lots.
MR. RUEL-It's still the same number of lots?
MR. NACE-Still the same number of lots, the same layout, the same
roads.
MR. RUEL-When will you be putting the road in on Phase III?
MR. NACE-That'll be the next thing they have to do is put the road
in.
MR. RUEL-Yes, because you already have a house there.
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LEON STEVES
MR. STEVES-The road has already been grubbed out. The Staff, Jim
Martin granted permission to do that.
MR. RUEL-Without a road?
MR. STEVES - Yes, just grub it out. He didn't have any problems with
that. The Town gave their blessing to that.
MR. RUEL-AIl right, and while I have you there, I want to ask you
about the drainage plan. In Phase I or II, the water runoff went
into Clendon Brook. I hope you're not going to do that for phase
III.
MR. NACE-No. On Phase II, in this back loop, there was an overflow
into Clendon Brook, and it was also an overflow into the existing
drainage system along VanDusen Road.
MR. RUEL-Yes. Right.
MR. NACE-Those were overflows. There is an existing overflow from
the main Herald Square Drive out to that drainage system, just an
overflow. The only places we've changed the drainage in Phase III,
or the only changes we've made is that if you go in and look at the
roads in phase I and II, the roads are not wing swales, okay. They
have just a regular shoulder on them, and underneath the shoulder
there's a perforated pipe. The drainage goes off the road into the
shoulder, is collected in some catchbasins along there, and the
catch basins are connected with perforated pipe. For all intents
and purposes, 98% of the runoff goes into the ground from the
perforated pipe. The perforated pipe's just there as an
infiltration device, plus a safety overflow, a safety outlet, in
the event of a huge storm, that the overflow from that can go on
(lost word) .
MR. RUEL-That pipe into Clendon Brook is only overflow?
MR. NACE-That's only an emergency overflow.
MR. RUEL-Where's your overflow for Phase III?
MR. NACE-Phase III is the same. It uses, and that's the way it was
originally planned, was to use that same overflow that goes out
here to VanDusen Road.
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MR. RUEL-It's adequate?
MR. NACE-Yes. It was planned that way. What we have done is taken
and replaced the road section that was used here with a wing swale
section and put in our standard large drywells in place of the
little perforated cans that were used in the other two Phases, and
gotten out infiltration out, from our low point to the road, we
have perforated pipe connecting to this existing.
MR. RUEL-Yes. It's all solid sand there anyway.
MR. NACE-Yes.
MR. STARK-Okay. Tim, do you have any questions?
MR. BREWER-No, not right now.
MR. STARK-Dave?
MR. WEST-No.
MR. STARK-Cathy?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Okay.
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MR. STARK-Craig?
MR. MACEWAN-Not at the moment.
MR. STARK-Okay. George, are you satisfied with his answers to the
Rist-Frost comments?
MR. HILTON-Well, I was looking for the information at the time.
What was the date that you said that these test pits were done?
MR. NACE-In '86?
MR. HILTON-Okay. Before the entire subdivision was developed.
MR. NACE-They were done for the Preliminary approval.
MR. HILTON-Right. I guess what I was looking for was to get some
kind of information. We didn't have a date referenced on the
drawing. If we have a date in our comments now and our engineering
staff's comfortable with it, I don't have a problem with that. I
still would like to discuss the building setbacks and have those.
MR. NACE-The setbacks are no problem.
should be shown on the site plan.
It's an oversight.
They
MR. BREWER-Maybe we could have you, Tom, get a hold of the engineer
and get him up to speed on the test pit data.
MR. NACE-Sure.
MR. MACEWAN-Are those the only two significant things, are just
those two?
MR. BREWER-And the only other thing is the fee for recreation,
right?
MR. HIL'rON-I just put that in for the applicant's knowledge.
MR. RUEL-That's not a condition?
MR. HILTON-No.
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MR. STARK-Now, you're built out 60% on Phase II?
HOWARD KRANTZ
MR. KRANTZ-Yes.
MR. STARK-I just wondered. Okay, and there's no public hearing
scheduled, so I guess we can entertain a motion.
MOTION TO APPROVE SUBDIVISION NO. 13-86 FINAL STAGE HERALD
SQUARE, PHASE III, Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved for its
adoption, seconded by Craig MacEwan:
For 43 lots, with the condition that building setbacks be included
on the subdivision plat when it is filed at Warren County, and also
if you would note on the plat, reference the initial approval, on
the Phase III plans.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
MR. MACEWAN-We wanted dates.
MR. HILTON-We wanted the test pit, the dates for the.
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MR. NACE-I will reference the date and the plan that that appears
on, and I'll provide a copy of that plan to Rist-Frost.
MR. HILTON-That's fine.
AYES: Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. West, Mr. Brewer,
Mr. MacEwan, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
SITE PLAN NO. 36-96 TYPE: UNLISTED RICHARD SCHERMERHORN, JR.
OWNER: SAME ZONE: MR- 5 LOCATION: CORNER OF BAY ROAD AND BLIND
ROCK ROAD, NE CORNER NEXT TO EXISTING APARTMENT BUILDING. PROPOSAL
IS TO CONSTRUCTION A 8 UNIT APARTMENT BUILDING WITH ASSOCIATED
PARKING AND SITE WORK. ALL LAND USES IN MR-5 ARE SUBJECT TO SITE
PLAN REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE PLANNING BOARD. CROSS REFERENCE:
SUB. 21-1989 WARREN CO. PLANNING: 6/12/96 TAX MAP NO. 48-3-34.1
LOT SIZE: 2.43 ACRES SECTION: 179-18
RICH SCHERMERHORN, PRESENT
STAFF INPUT
Notes from Staff, Site Plan No. 36-96, Richard Schermerhorn, Jr.,
Meeting Date: June 20, 1996 liThe applicant is proposing the
construction of an 8 unit apartment building at the Northwest
corner of Bay Road and Blind Rock Road. This building will be
built next to an existing multi family dwelling which is also owned
by the applicant. Staff has reviewed this application and has the
following comments. Staff would recommend that more landscaping be
placed at the easterly property line. A mix of low lying
vegetation and larger trees would be an appropriate screen between
the two apartment buildings in this location. The Planning Board
should review any revised landscaping plan prior to taking action
on this site plan. The applicant has indicated that the parking
area for this building will have a gravel surface. Paving would be
in keeping with what has already been established at the building
to the east. If a gravel parking area was built snowplowing and
regular vehicle traffic could wear away gravel in this parking
area. As a result a paved parking surface would require less
maintenance than a gravel surface. Staff is also concerned with
dust that could effect adjacent properties should a gravel drive be
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constructed. Staff would recommend a stipulation that the parking
area be paved. Staff would also, offe~ a stipulation tha,t the
subdivision plat for this area be f11ed w1th Warren County pr10r to
a building permit being issued for this building. Any co~cerns
from the Town's engineering consultant should be addressed pr10r to
the Planning Board taking action on this site plan."
MR. HILTON-Town Engineering concerns I have in front of me. In a
letter to Mr. Jim Martin, from Rist-Frost. It says that they have
reviewed it and they have one recommendation. It says, "We
recommend that the drywell on the southeast of the lot be relocated
to the west as far as possible to increase the horizontal
separation distance between the drYWell and the leach field.'" And
that is signed by William Levandowski of Rist-Frost.
MR. STARK-Okay. Do you want to do the Warren County?
MR. HILTON-I'm going to take care of that right now. On June 12,
1996 the Warren County Planning Board met, discussed and heard this
item, and the vote, recommendation was, No County Impact. Signed
c. Powel South, Chairperson.
MR. STARK-Okay. Would the representatives of the applicant please
identify themselves and comment on the Rist-Frost letter.
JIM MILLER
MR. MILLER-Yes. Jim Miller, Landscape Architect. I'm here with
Rich Schermerhorn, the owner. We agreed to the drywell correction
in this location here, and the leach field that currently runs
parallel to the property line in this area, and we will shift it as
far west as possible.
MR. MACEWAN-Where would you put it?
MR. MILLER-There's no water line here. These are contour lines.
It'd be closer to the entrance. So we pitched, the parking lots
are pitching across the low point here, pitch it to a low point in
here. The drywell sets off the edge of the pavement, in a low
grass area. So we'll just shift that and we could probably
increase the separation by an additional 10 feet.
MR. MACEWAN-Is there enough room there to give you what you're
looking for?
MR. MILLER-Yes.
MR. MACEWAN-I'd like to hear some more definite plans about
landscaping or buffering between the two units.
MR. STARK-Okay. What about the paving also, Staff's recommendation
of paving?
MR. SCHERMERHORN-I just, as a matter of fact, I asked Jim just to
put gravel on there because I plan on, obviously, paving it, but
sometimes to get it before the CO, like, for instance, the building
I did over here, the month of May it rained for a whole month. The
blacktopper had a hard time lining up, getting there when I needed
him, and usually, to be honest with you, it's not like building a
house for me. There's no profit in these buildings, building them,
and usually I depend on that last construction draw to have the
money to be able to pay the blacktopper, because they don't take
any terms. These parking lots are like $7,000. If we could just
stipulate it from, you know, 30 days from completion or something
like that, 15 days after completion, just something reasonable,
that's all.
MR. STARK-When do you anticipate completion?
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MR. SCHERMERHORN-This one here, now, see, this is the other problem
that arises, too when I put gravel in there. Blacktop plants
usually close, right ar~und Thanksgiving. This building's quite
large, and r~ght now ~t/ s extremely busy with my residential
business. So say I don't get started for a month or so. I could
be rig~t at that deadline where I might not be able to pave, if the
plant ~s closed. That's the only thing, and I don't want to be
faced with a situation where you're giving a temporary CO, because
banks won't accept that. I'll do my best to do this building and
pave it right before, you know, I don't plan on having gravel
parking lots. I don't gravel parking lots in any of my apartments,
but, I mean, however you feel comfortable with it.
MR. HILTON-Possibly a more appropriate method, and one way that we
would be better able to tract this would be prior to the issuance
of a CO, that the parking lot be paved.
MR. BREWER-Yes, but what happens?
MR. STARK-Suppose it's after the paving, the blacktop plants close
down and he can't and he can't get blacktopping?
MR. BREWER-Yes, exactly.
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MR. HILTON-When do you plan on completing construction?
MR. SCHERMERHORN-Well, like I just said, I'm busy with my
construction business right now. If I don't get started for a
month, it maybe a month and a half before I get started. I don't
know. I just, I'm only bringing this up just because if I don't
meet that deadline I'd hate to have the building done and find out
I can't blacktop and I can't get the CO.
MR. MACEWAN-Do you have tenants lined up already for this proposed
building?
MR. SCHERMERHORN-I have people inquiring already. The one I just
did across the street, it's fully occupied. All year's leases.
I've got one person left to move in. As a matter of fact, 70%,
you'll be happy to know, are all seniors, and the next building is
a townhouse style, which probably won't, well, I shouldn't say
that. A lot of my seniors are requesting the upper apartments,
which townhouses have the two upper bedrooms. People are just
asking for these, as a matter of fact, these are a little bigger
than the ones I just did. They'll rent right up as soon as I
finish them. I mean, the other one, I've had it done three weeks
and I've had 80% of it rented.
MR. MACEWAN-I'm trying to look for something maybe as an enticement
for you to start sooner than a month and a half, so that we don't
get in a situation that if you get it finished and the asphalt plan
closes and you can't pave your driveway, you don't get a CO. I
wouldn't want to see you go through the winter without a paved
driveway.
MR. SCHERMERHORN-Well, I don't want to, either, because I have to
plow them, and it makes a mess in the spring when I've got to pick
up the gravel, but the other thing to keep in mind, too, is, I
borrow the money for these. I mortgage them. I have to get
mortgages to build these things. Sometimes it takes a month just
to get the financing alone, and it's hard to go to a bank, before
hand on a project like this and say, well, I think I'm going to get
approval. I have to go in with a letter and say, hey, look, I've
got approval for an eight unit, then they have to review my
financials, so I don't think there will be a problem, but there's
a little bit of time it takes to go from this point to go to the
bank and get everything organized. That's why I don't think I'm
going to be able to break ground next week. I don't have a problem
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with how you want to stipulate the parking lot. I'm just telling
you what could happen, that's all.
MR. BREWER-I don't see why it's a real big issue. We know he's
going to pave it. There's been lots and lots and lots of
apartments or whatever built and we never stipulated that before.
I don't see why it's a big problem here.
MR. RUEL-Why can't we just state 30 days after.
MR. HILTON-One thing I would say in response to that is, lets say
we get to the point where, when you finish the building and then 30
days after that happens to be when the blacktop places are olosed
anyway, we're not going to get it blacktopped.
MR. MILLER-This is a phased project, and maybe you ought to tie it
in, you can't submit the next one until.
MR. MACEWAN-That's what I was thinking.
MR. BREWER-Is there anything in our Zoning Ordinance that says they
have to be paved?
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MR. HILTON-We have, in our Zoning Ordinance, criteria for approving
site plans. We can take into consideration existing conditions,
neighborhood conditions, and what we have out there now is the
paved parking lot to the east, and, you know, in keeping with that
tradition, we'd like to see it remain paved. We'd like to
eliminate any dust and any maintenance difficulties out at this
location.
MR. SCHERMERHORN-I mean, obviously, I'm going to pave it. I mean,
for aesthetics, and just for the simple, I maintain these buildings
myself, personally.
MR. STARK-Okay. Fine. What about the landscaping on the east?
MR. SCHERMERHORN-The landscaping, I don't have a problem with
adding a few more trees. The only thing I do want to bring up, is
I have a letter from Dave Michaels, and I agreed to split the cost
with him for a $4200 fence along the back to try and give some
protection for the Cedar Court people plus myself, and I,
obviously, I already own the building to the east of it, and I
already have a few trees there, but I've got to have a little bit
of room to put snow in the septic systems right there. Here it
comes to dollars and cents again. I'm going to pay for half of the
fence, which is going to cost me $2500. So, I mean, I plan on
adding a few more trees, but I think if you walked out there you
wouldn't see that it's absolutely necessary, because it's my
building that's right next to it, 60 feet away, but that's, I
guess, you're opinion how you'd like it.
MR. MILLER-I believe this plan shows, there's a group of three
pines that were planted in the first building right here, and
there's two pin oaks in this area. If you remember, one of the
comments Rist-Frost had in the first plan was that this area in
here was a set aside for a septic system. So actually what would
happen, if they needed that reserve area, we would have two (lost
words) side by side. That was one of the other reasons that.
MR. SCHERMERHORN-I'm going to keep, throughout the whole thing in
the front, I'm going to keep the maple trees, which I think we have
spaced every 20 or 30 feet. I left those, and that's going to be
the whole continuation of the project. So, if anything, I think
the sides and the back are the most important.
MR. HILTON-If I may one second here, I would just like to point out
to the Board that Section 179-38E, the Planning Board review of
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site plans includes Number Seven, E7, says, "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." Now he owns the
property to the east, but it is an adjoining land, and we would
like to see some buffering out there, for, you know, just noise and
separation of the activity between both lots. We'd like to see
something proposed first and then have time to review it and put it
before the Board.
MR. RUEL-Did the Beautification Committee get involved in it?
MR. HILTON-The Beautification Committee does not review' this
application.
MR. RUEL-Why?
MR. HILTON-I think they're only charged with reviewing commercial
projects.
MR. RUEL-Since when?
MR. HILTON-I'm not sure why they didn't review this, to tell~you
the truth.
MR. STARK-Rog, lets move to the public hearing, then we'll go one
more time through the Board and see if there's any comments. I'd
like to open the public hearing at this point, and if anybody
wishes to speak for against this site plan, please come forward.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
NO COMMENT
PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED
MR. STARK-Tim, do you have any comments?
MR. BREWER-No. I would agree with maybe a little bit more
buffering, but I don't have a problem with the paving and all. I
think, if he puts the gravel down, he has to. I don't see a
problem with it. I know he's going to do it.
MR. WEST-Yes. I think the stipulation that approval for any
subsequent faces will be contingent upon paving of this phase would
satisfy that concern.
MR. MACEWAN-I like that idea. That way, if something happens, the
winter starts creeping on and you're behind, at least we know,
before you come in here for the next one, that that will be done.
MR. STARK-Dave, what about the buffering? Do you want to see more
or anything?
MR. WEST-To be honest with you, that doesn't concern me a heck of
a lot, the need for additional buffering.
MR. STARK-Okay. Rog?
MR. RUEL-I'm just wondering why we're in the landscape business.
We have a Beautification Committee. Where are they?
MR. MACEWAN-Actually, if you come down to it, you made the comment
that they only review commercial properties.
MR. HILTON-I'm not sure on that. That's my understanding. I could
be wrong. Lets assume that they do review multi family projects.
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I cannot answer the question why they did not review this.
MR. BREWER-All right. So, let me ask you this. What's the
distance between the lot line in the back and the front, from front
to back, on that lot line where the concern is?
MR. STARK-Are you talking about from Michaels' property to the
road?
MR. MILLER-169 is the total depth of the lot.
MR. BREWER-All right. So if you're spacing trees in the front 20
feet apart.
MR. MILLER-That's what we agreed in the first phase.
MR. BREWER-So do the same thing on the side.
many more trees?
That's, what, how
MR. WEST-You're talking five or six trees there.
MR. MILLER-Well, you know, if you're going to add some, I think the
place where you really need the separation I would say is more in
the front and by the parking areas, because what happens, if you
look like in the rear yard, these existing lawn areas in here, nice
flat lawn areas provide some good recreation space for the tenants.
MR. BREWER-Yes, but what's the big deal if you put some, a row of
four trees right between, say 35 feet out here, and from the last
tree here where the slope stops, 30 feet from that slope, and then
whatever the distance is in here, put two more. That's four trees,
four maples.
MR. WEST-What does a maple tree cost?
MR. SCHERMERHORN-About $100.
MR. BREWER-It depends on how big.
MR. WEST-That's $400 I wouldn't spend if I didn't have to.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Me, either.
MR. SCHERMERHORN-Right. Or you could look at it this way. The
first phase of my project, I think, came out real nice. If the
second phase you don't find nice, if you don't find that the
landscaping was accommodate enough, well, then the next building I
come into it, we just make sure we stipulate more, but I think
you're going to find that, with the way I've been doing it, I mean,
I think you can tell just by the first one I did, it's going to be
a nice project throughout. I mean, every tree, even if they're
small trees, they're still $50, $60 a piece.
MR. STARK-Okay. Cathy, any comments?
MRS. LABOMBARD-Yes. I just feel that Rich has gone out of his way
to make a nice buffer between his property and Cedar Court, and
being over at Cedar Court and looking toward Rich's property with
the way the embankment goes up, I mean, I think putting in $2500
extra for a fence is going, is really extending himself, because I
don't really think it's needed, but I think he's going that far.
Now, as far as buffering between two buildings, if that's what
you're talking about here, I don't know why, I don't see them
having to put trees in between those buildings. Maybe something,
later on, right out here that's toward Bay Road, but I'd leave it
alone right now.
MR. BREWER-I say there's a long way between him and Bay Road.
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MR. MILLER-Yes. The first one, and it isn't from Bay Road. This
one is going to be behind the first one.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Well, that's what I'm saying. I mean, when you're
talking about where you want to put these four maples in.
MR. BREWER-It's not my idea.
MRS. LABOMBARD-No, but I mean, I don't think you need to put in any
more trees. I think as long as there's a decent buffer between
your property and Cedar Court, that's where all the concern was
originally.
MR. SCHERMERHORN-Well, let me prove myself on this one.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I think it looks nice. As far as that blacktopping,
yes, it would look a lot nicer and it would be easier for you to
maintain it and when you can get it in, put it in.
MR. HILTON-I have a comment. I would like to step back a little
bi t and address the gravel, the paved parking. If we have a
condition where we make it contingent that the next site plan
cannot be built until that is paved, I think it makes it kind of
difficult for us to track, when we're looking at a separate site
plan application, whether or not there were any prior conditions
from another application. I think in the past, Planning Staff and
our enforcement officer, we've been pretty good with people, and if
we do make it contingent upon a CO, that this be paved, and there
is a problem and he cannot meet that deadline, we will work with
him, but if we made it a stipulation of this file, that before a CO
is, you know, he gets a CO, we have a paved parking lot, it would
be better for us, in tracking it and making sure that it's done.
MR. BREWER-I don't agree with that. I don't think that we should
make a stipulation with that.
MR. STARK-We don't need a stipulation. He's going to do it.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I agree.
MR. RUEL-Do the plans indicate gravel now?
MR. HILTON-The plans indicate gravel.
MR. RUEL-All right. How about changing the plans.
MR. HILTON-Ask the applicant.
MR. MILLER-We would change the plan and add a note to the detail to
reflect what we're discussing for the resolution.
MR. RUEL-Why don't you do that? What's wrong with that?
MR. HILTON-Yes, but then you're still having a hard time tracking
it.
MR. BREWER-I think, lets have a little bit of faith in our people
that come before us. It's on a regular basis he's here before us.
He hasn't stiffed us yet.
MR. STARK-Fine. No problem. No problem with that or the
landscaping, as far as I'm concerned.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I agree. You're right, Tim.
MR. RUEL-Well, as a professional landscaper, I think it's
beautiful. The last three years, that's all I've been talking
about.
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MR. STARK-Okay. I'd like to entertain a motion at this point.
MOTION TO APPROVE SITE PLAN NO. 36-96 RICHARD SCHERMERHORN, JR.,
Introduced by Roger Ruel who moved for its adoption, seconded by
Catherine LaBombard:
To construct an eight unit apartment building with associated
parking and site work.
Duly adopted this 20th day of June, 1996, by the following vote:
MR. MACEWAN-They're going to change the plat to reflect that it's
going to be a paved parking lot.
MR. RUEL-Yes. Would you do that, make that a condition.
MR. MILLER-With the note that asphalt will be installed prior to
the next phase.
MR. BREWER-Yes. Then when he goes to the next phase, can you track
it that way?
MR. HILTON-Okay. Well, there may be some difficulties, but if you
want to send us the plan tomorrow, whenever you get the plan done,
give it to us1 and we'll have it on file.
MR. STARK-He's not going to do another phase until next June
anyway.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Right.
AYES: Mr. MacEwan, Mrs. LaBombard, Mr. Ruel, Mr. West,
Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stark
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Paling
MR. HILTON-Before we adjourn, I have one thing for the Board,
unless you have anything to discuss.
MR. STARK-No. I don't have anything to discuss.
MR. HILTON-No one? Okay. After Tuesday night's meeting, I had
some concerns with, there was an item before us to extend a site
plan, it was Site Plan No. 38-95 for a Frank Adamo, and the request
was before you to extend the site plan for one year. I think a
motion was passed to extend that and then rescinded. What resulted
was a motion which was not passed. It was not denied or passed.
It just was not carried through. I had some concern, reallYI with
the reasoning for why the motion was rescinded and the result was
the motion not being carried through. I think some of the comments
that were made were that there was a lot of public controversy at
the initial site plan. There was, you know, some people were
uncomfortable with the original site plan, and correct me if I'm
wrong, I think that in the past what has happened with items that
were before you for extensions, you have considered extending them
based on reasons why they need extending, not what was before you
at the time of the initial site plan and the initial public
hearing. So, I think that, I just want to give my concerns to the
Board, that I'm really concerned that maybe some of the reasons why
a motion was not passed, they were not based entirely on the
reasons that other site plans, in the past, have been extended, if
you understand what I'm saying.
MR. STARK-George, this guy didn't even care enough.
MR. MACEWAN-She rescinded her vote, based on the fact that she
recollected that the original site plan, she didn't vote in favor
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of the project.
MR. HILTON-Right. That's fine, but I'm just saying, I just want to
make sure.
MR. STARK-That was Tim's reason, also.
MR. HILTON-Okay. I just want to discuss this with the Board,
because I know, in the past, with other site plan extensions, we
had one recently, I forget the applicant, that a lot of times
what's taken into the consideration are the compelling needs, as to
why they need an extension, not what happened at the public hearing
or what happened when the item was reviewed.
MR. STARK-George, this guy didn't even care enough to show up.
MR. HILTON-Well, he lives in Palm Ridge, New York, which is down by
the City. He's a long way away.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Yes, but George, let me tell you, you weren't here
at the time, and I'll tell you, for what he went through to get
this, he was really being presumptuous by not starting it. I mean,
he was, there was a fine line, and I can't believe that he played
around with it.
MR. HILTON-Okay. Well, that's fine. I'm just saying that I don't
want certain applicants to be held to why, to the conditions of
their approval, as opposed to why they cannot meet getting a
building permit.
MRS. LABOMBARD-I know where you're coming from, and I think that's
correct that you bring this point up, but that was not the reason
at all.
MR. HILTON-And also I'm not encouraging the Board to re-make any
motion. I'm just bringing it to your attention, and you can do
with it what you will.
MR. MACEWAN-If it should ever come up, and asked why that an
extension wasn't approved, it could probably be put in a way that
when the previous Board members that are no longer here were the
ones in favor, are no longer here. It's a different Board now.
Some of the new members didn't feel comfortable with it. More
importantly, the members that were here were some of the ones that
voted no on it, and they didn't feel comfortable with granting an
extension on it.
MR. HILTON-Well, to me, you know, really, that's fine, and it's
ultimately up to you, and I spoke to Mark, and there's nothing
wrong with what you did. I just felt that I wanted to say to the
Board, you know, I want to make sure we're holding him to the
standards that we hold other applicants who seek extensions.
MRS. LABOMBARD-Yes. I wish you had been here, though, and could
read over the minutes of those meetings, because it was, you know,
I very seldom vote negative.
MR. STARK-I don't think anybody spoke for it.
spoke against it.
I think everybody
MRS. LABOMBARD-And I very seldom will vote something down like
that, and I'll tell you, when I realized what was going on, I
wasn't going to just let that go. I just couldn't.
MR. BREWER-Are we done?
MR. HILTON-We're done.
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On motion meeting was adjourned.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
George Stark, Acting Chairman
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