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Town
of Clay
Approved
Planning Board Minutes
January 25, 2006
The regular meeting of the Planning Board of the Town of Clay, County of Onondaga was held at the Town Hall, located at 4401 Route 31, Clay, New York on the 25th of January 2006. Deputy Chairman Bruce Johnson called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM and upon the roll being called, the following were:
PRESENT: Bruce Johnson Deputy Chairman
Allen Kovac Member
Karen Guinup Member
James Sharpe Member
Casey Jordan Member
Scott Chatfield Planning Board Attorney
Ron DeTota C&S Engineers
David Tessier Commissioner of Planning & Development
Mary Moskowitz Planner
Karen Dates Planning Board Secretary
ABSENT: Walter Lepkowski, Ferdinand Lepinske
Approval of Minutes:
Motion was made by Mr. Sharpe, seconded by Mr. Jordan to approve the minutes of January 11th as presented.
Old Business:
05-9-1 Georgian Court Enterprises, LLC
Hal Roman presented modified site plans for apartments, west of Morgan Road, reduced to 3 apartment buildings with a community building with office and storage areas with a small garage. Showing also proposed 3 garage buildings that are incorporated with the parking requirements showing 160 parking spaces. The applicant will provide a copy of plans to the fire department. The developer will provide a lighting and landscaping plan to the Planning Board.
Motion made by Mr. Jordan and 2nd by Mr. Kovac to adjourn this until the Feb.22nd meeting.
Motion passed 5-0
05-11-5 Harry Patel Site Plan, Hampton Inn, 3948 Route 31, on the north
side of Pepperidge Way, next to Outback Steak House.
Julian Clark, Engineer, presented changes from last meeting for a 76 room 4 story hotel between Chili’s Restaurant and the Outback Steak House.
Changes proposed are the shrubbery around the dumpster, 20 ft high Red Oaks, extending pavement to the Outback Steak House, and to relocate the free standing sign to the south west corner near the main entrance. Two other changes are the swale along the rear property line and culvert along the Outback property line. The applicant presented the lighting plan along with the landscaping plan, and two options for a gate at the emergency entrance. Mr. Tessier would prefer gate Option #2 with a chain padlocked. Mr. Jordan suggested a wrought iron gate so it was visible not to enter there with some landscaping on either side.
There should be a sign near the gate saying do not enter or entrance next left turn. The proposed light poles are 30 ft high. The height of the poles should match the ones at Outback Steakhouse.
The plan shows paving and curbing on Outback Steakhouse property for the driveway connection. The Planning Board needs to see a written agreement between the two owners to allow this work.
Mr. Tessier just received the revised site plan tonight and would like time to review the landscaping and drainage plan. Mr. DeTota suggested the initial package submitted needed a few more details to incorporate into the final set. Variances have been granted and have to be shown.
Deputy Chairman Johnson closed the public hearing on this.
Motion made by Karen Guinup, 2nd by Mr. Jordan to adjourn the decision to the February 8th meeting.
Motion passed 5-0
05-11-6 - Colonial Village, LLC Site Plan
Bob Eggleston, Architect, and, Julian Clark, Engineer presented some additional details requested.
Front elevation of building #4 which no longer is a bank but a fourth office building,
details of the dumpsters, details of the site signs, and the building signs.
The center portion of Building #4 will be brick, and the sides of the building will be cement board and trim, a similar quality to the other buildings. There will be 2 brick fireplaces facing the center portion and decorative dormers on the roof with a substantial front entrance.
Dumpster enclosure will be 6ft high with an 8” block construction to make it substantial and durable. The corners will have 16” brick piers slightly above main walls and then the infill covering the block walls will be the cement board and trim. There will be two large doors for access for removal of the trash and recyclables. There will be a 30” wide pedestrian access opening on the side for people to dispose of their trash so they will not have to open up the large doors.
The signs on each building will have the name of the building and the address number on it. Two coach lights on both sides of each main door. One sign per building is allowed, per code. The applicant wanted to know if they could have two signs for each building. Two signs per building would require an area variance application from the Zoning Board of Appeals. Colonial Village’s main sign needs to have address numbers on it.
Onondaga County DOT allowed full access to Provo Drive. Karen Guinup suggests that a left hand turn lane from Provo Drive onto Route 57 is needed. Mr. DeTota will estimate the cost for an extra turn lane. Mr. Chatfield discussed the letter from November 14th, 2005 from Jim Stelter to Julian Clark regarding the proposal of a one-way driveway location on Rte. 57. The driveway is to be one way in and no exit at all onto Rte. 57.
Parking lot lighting will be 12’ high post lights. Four along the Rte. 57 side, and 4 on the backside of the front two buildings, and then 3 on the backside of the back two buildings, in the general parking lot areas. There will be two post lights on each side of the entrance from Provo Drive, and flood lights in front of the buildings to shine on the buildings. No flood lights on the backside. There also will be a row of trees blocking lights in the back toward the residences. Blue Spruce trees will be 6’ high, and spaced 10’ on center in the back along the residences. Trees need to extend longer down and around the south end.
Mr. Mitchell suggested a small plaque with the Madison House name on it with a number. Would have to check with ZBA to see about 2 signs on the buildings.
Residence says that street lights should be on timers so that they go off at midnight. After 10:00 could dim down the lights.
Tom Beardley 306 Provo Drive, questioned whether the free standing sign would block the view of people coming off of Provo Drive. The answer was it will be 200 ft away from Provo Drive.
The exit that comes out onto Provo Drive is proposed to be located directly across the street from the opposite driveway.
The spruce trees will stop about 30 feet from Provo Drive near the Provo neighborhood sign.
There being no further comments from the audience, Deputy Chairman Johnson closed the Public Hearing.
Motion to adjourn the decision to the February 8th meeting made by Mr. Jordan and 2nd by Karen Guinup.
Motion passed 5-0
05-12-3 Heather Associates, Inc. Riverwalk Preliminary Plat on the north side of Guy Young Road, west of the Clay Town line.
Mr. Romans representative from Ianuzi & Romans, PC wrote a letter to Chairman Lepkowski, Chairman of the Town of Clay Planning Board addressing the changes to the
Environmental report, and attached copy of the resolution approved December 10, 2003.
The following actions are described in the report:
Name of the Action
Description of Actions
Beneficial Impacts
Local Infrastructure Improvements
Unavoidable Adverse Impacts
Short-term Impacts
Long-term Impacts
Change in Land Use
Minor change - remove reference of water access
Increased Traffic – shows reduction of 74 lots.
Site Conditions – a decrease of 6.28 acres of wetland impact.
Other Impacts and Mitigation Measures
Geology, Topography and Soils
Groundwater, Surface Waters, Wetland and Floodplains
Rare, Threatened and Endangered species
Land Use and Zoning
Historic and Archeological Resources
Transportation
Alternatives
Mr. Tessier commented that for any subdivison that has roads involved he is required to submit a plan and a copy of the drawings to the highway department and one to the Town Board Parks liaison for their comment on the parkland issue. He has received a written comment from the highway department to eliminate the cul-de-sacs. Another comment is that the Town Board hasn’t taken a vote on the open lands as to whether the town should own it or Save The County should own it. The Town Board will discuss the three requested deviations to the Town drainage standards.
Mr. DeTota suggested to breakdown the subdivision into smaller sections.
Motion to adjourn this hearing until the February 22nd meeting made by Mr. Kovac, and 2nd by Mr. Jordan.
Motion passed 5-0
Old Business – None
New Business –
06-1-1 Schwans’s Home Service, Inc. – Gougen Drive, Final Plat.
Representative Joe Phillips, Surveyor, presented. A minor subdivision dividing 3 lots into 1 lot.
The facility has recently expanded.
Motion made by Karen Guinup using standard form 40 granting Final Plat approval to Schwan’s Home Service, Inc. on Gougen Drive, based on a drawing dated October 20th 2004, revised 10/11/05, file 251002, subject to all legal and engineering requirements, 2nd by Mr.Jordan.
Motion passed 5-0
05-6-3 Power Federal Credit Union, Morgan Road, Final Plat.
Mark Weiss, Landscape Architect, presented for the applicant.
Driveway and drainage easements were taken care of.
Motion to approve the Final Plat using Standard form #40 final plat approval for the Power Federal Credit Union sub-division subject to all legal and engineering requirements, based on a drawing made by Parker Land Surveying dated 5-11-05, latest revision 11-22-05, made by Mr. Kovac, and 2nd by Mr. Sharpe.
Motion passed 5-0
Motion for adjournment by Mr. Kovac 2nd by Mr. Sharpe
Motion passed 5-0
Meeting adjourned at 9:50 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Karen Dates
Planning Board Secretary
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