6. BIASI - 2 LOT SUBDIVISION - Howells Road (49-1-6) #014-003

E. Johnson: I’m the surveyor for the project.

G. Lake: Bring everybody up with this project please.

E. Johnson: We’re on Howells Road, what we’re trying to do is a two lot subdivision with one existing house that’s already on the 8.81 acre parcel and we’re leaving that one with a 3.48 acre with a new house on a 5.38 acre parcel.

G. Lake: You’re going to have a two lot subdivision?

E. Johnson: Two lot subdivision. It was three at one point but by doing the soil thing we dropped it down to two.

G. Lake: Okay. Do you have Dick’s comments?

E. Johnson: I have his comments. I’ve addressed them already. I apologize to Mr. McGoey because I just kind of went to the wrong sheet. I’ve made all the changes. We’ve changed 48B back to a Group A soil and we calculated the soils formula.

G. Lake: Do you have them with you?

E. Johnson: Yes. Item #3. The engineer has not revised the soils formula as requested in our Record of Appearance of November 24, 2003. 48B soils are not Group VII, but should be in the Group VIII category. The soils formula must be revised. We’ve changed that. We’ve changed the grouping in the areas to show that. Item #4. Our comments of November 24th indicated that concrete right-of-way monuments are to be shown at all angle points along the Town road frontage. This has not been accomplished by the applicant’s engineer or land surveyor. We put all the concrete monuments to be set on all the course changes along the road. Item #5. Eustance & Horowitz approval of septics must be received prior to final approval. We’re in the process of sending it over them to have them check the septic approval. Item #6. Our comments of November 24th requested that the roadside grading note requires that the work be completed prior to the Certificate of Occupancy. This has not been placed on the plan as requested. We put the note on for roadside grading that it shall be completed prior to a Certificate of Occupancy. Item #7. The driveway culvert has not been specified to include a smooth insert as requested in our comments of November 24th. The driveway culvert we’ve marked with a smooth insert as per your request. Item #8. Please identify the qualifications of Michael Nowicki who delineated the wetlands. I’ve identified Michael Nowicki’s qualifications. He’s a Wetland Biologist for Ecological Solutions. The one question that I still have on this was that Dick’s comment was that we have to verify the acceptable site distance from the driveways at the prevailing speed. We set this at forty, because that’s the speed limit in there and I’m not sure how you figure out the prevailing speed.

D. McGoey: That’s what engineers are for.

E. Johnson: I talked to Kurt Lauger who’s on this and he said the last time he did it was he sat down with the Town Highway Superintendent to go out there and basically see.

D. McGoey: Have you done that?

E. Johnson: We haven’t done that yet. Is that where we can get the Highway Superintendent out there?

D. McGoey: Yes.

G. Lake: Let me go through the Board.

A. Dulgarian: Part of this is pre-existing because of the house?

D. McGoey: Yes.

R. Carr: Other than Mr. McGoey’s comments, I have no problem.

G. Luenzmann: No problem.

G. Monaco: Nice sized lots. No problems at all.

T. Hamilton: Dick, what about the engineer’s seal?

E. Johnson: We will put that on as soon as we get the prevailing speed.

D. McGoey: He’s not getting Final tonight.

MOTION for a NEGATIVE DECLARATION subject to D. McGoey’s comments made by G. Luenzmann and seconded by A. Dulgarian.

A. Dulgarian: Aye

R. Carr: Aye

T. Hamilton: Aye

G. Monaco: Aye

G. Luenzmann: Aye

G. Lake: Aye

MOTION CARRIED. 6 AYES

MOTION for PRELIMINARY APPROVAL subject to D. McGoey’s comments made by A. Dulgarian and seconded by G. Monaco.

A. Dulgarian: Aye

R. Carr: Aye

T. Hamilton: Aye

G. Monaco: Aye

G. Luenzmann: Aye

G. Lake: Aye

MOTION CARRIED. 6 AYES

7. GOBINPERSAUD/CHANKRICA - 3 LOT SUBDIVISION - VanBurenville Road (13-1-17.2) #013-003

E. Johnson: We’re trying to do a three lot subdivision with one existing house on lot #1 which is a 5.99 acre lot. We’ve created two more lots, one being 6.07 acres and the other one 5.38. It’s not a five lot subdivision. It’s the same as the other one. We went down to three lots because of the soil restrictions.

G. Lake: We have to have a Public Hearing on this?

D. McGoey: Pardon me?

G. Lake: Three lot subdivision?

D. McGoey: You’re right. Yes we do. I missed it.

G. Lake: Do you have Dick’s comments? Do you have any problems with any of those?

E. Johnson: No. We’re back to the same thing again where we need the prevailing speed on VanBurenville Road and the septics approved.

A. Dulgarian: No problem with the house that close to the wetland, I’m sorry.

E. Johnson: That’s the soil boundary.

G. Lake: I will go through the Board.

A. Dulgarian: Which way is Route 211?

E. Johnson: Heading up toward the general location plan.

A. Dulgarian: Thank you. I have nothing further.

R. Carr: Nothing.

G. Luenzmann: Nothing.

G. Monaco: Nothing.

T. Hamilton: Nothing.

MOTION to schedule a PUBLIC HEARING for April 21, 2004 made by R. Carr and seconded by G. Monaco.

A. Dulgarian: Aye

R. Carr: Aye

T. Hamilton: Aye

G. Monaco: Aye

G. Luenzmann: Aye

G. Lake: Aye

MOTION CARRIED. 6 AYES

8. RNR - AUTO/SALES/SERVICE/EQUIPMENT - SITE PLAN - York Road (3-1-73) #005-004

B. Babcock: I work with Roger Ferris and Mike Palapiano is the owner of the property. This is the first time you’ve seen this application. It’s a commercial property in the PID district on York Road. It’s several hundred feet south of the intersection with County Route 74. Mr. Palapiano would like to put his truck business, which is repair and sales of large equipment trucks on this site. He’s proposing a building that’s one hundred thirty by fifty feet for Phase 1 and he would like to be for Phase 2 for warehouse use later on. Basically he’s going to have, we’ve provided parking in the front of the site. He’s going to have some of his vehicles that he would be selling located to the rear of the parcel along the side line. The parcel is 3.1 acres and it’s going to be served by in-ground septic and a private well.

A. Dulgarian: Where is this in relationship to the caterpillar dealer?

B. Babcock: The caterpillar dealer is actually directly across the street on County Route 74.

G. Lake: And you’re basically going to have the same type of equipment?

Mr. Palapiano: Yes, to a smaller scale.

G. Lake: Let me go through the Board. We have about eighteen items here. Dick, did he have a work session with you?

D. McGoey: Yes, he did.

G. Lake: Are you handling any of these eighteen items?

B. Babcock: Yes, I have the comments in front of me.

D. McGoey: There are a lot of issues. I don’t think we have to go through them.

G. Lake: Let me go through the Board.

A. Dulgarian: At this early in the process, it sure isn’t going to change the characteristic of Route 17M. I don’t know about York Road that much. I will have to take a better look out there and if they’re attracting that sort of business we have to make sure they can make the swing. Isn’t that pretty tight down York Road?

G. Lake: I don’t know. It’s been a while since I’ve been out there.

Mr. Palapiano: We would have them coming from Exit 116 so nobody would have to make that left turn. They would come directly down Route 17M.

A. Dulgarian: You have to protect your customers. How is the caterpillar going to get there?
How is he going to make that left?

Mr. Palapiano: Ninety percent of the people that come to us come with cars or pickup trucks. Someone coming with equipment we would tell them how to come.

A. Dulgarian: Other than that, I have nothing at this time.

R. Carr: What’s on the other side of the site?

B. Babcock: To the north there’s an excavating business.

R. Carr: You will have them coming off Route 17 rather than York Road?

B. Babcock: I would prefer to have it off of Route 17.

R. Carr: I haven’t been out there in a long time and I will check it.

G. Luenzmann: I have no problems with it other than the detailed comments. The only problem I see is making that turn. You may want to look at that a little bit.

G. Monaco: It’s been a long time since I’ve been out to York Road. I will take a ride out and look at it.

T. Hamilton: I will have to take a ride out there also and I see a number of comments that need to be resolved. We would like to know exactly what type of equipment you are going to have out in the yard and what we’ve going to be looking at.

B. Babcock: I believe a lot of the comments have been addressed.

G. Lake: We’re going to set you up for a Public Hearing for May 5, 2004 but you need to call the office tomorrow to get on a work session. I think there is very limited room for that date. If the room is taken up we will have to push your Public Hearing back. We also recommend that you do get in touch with Mr. Lippert, the Highway Superintendent, because I understand there were a couple of issues on York Road with him so we need a response from him on this project.

MOTION to schedule a PUBLIC HEARING for May 5, 2004 made by A. Dulgarian and seconded by G. Luenzmann.

A. Dulgarian: Aye

R. Carr: Aye

T. Hamilton: Aye

G. Monaco: Aye