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Minutes, Planning Board Meeting, 0ctober 25, 2006
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1 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD - 10/25/06
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11 HELD AT: Eastchester Town Hall 40 Mill Road 12 Eastchester, New York 10709 October 25, 2006 7:00 p.m. 13
14 BOARD MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
15 Chairman Raymond DelSavio 16 Joseph Cermele, Member Robert Pulaski, Member 17
18 EASTCHESTER EMPLOYEES IN ATTENDANCE: 19
20 LOUIS REDA, Deputy Town Attorney 21 MARGARET UHLE, Director of Planning JAY KING, Building Inspector 22
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24 DINA M. MORGAN, REPORTER 43 CENTRAL DRIVE 25 BRONXVILLE, NEW YORK 10708 (914) 469-6353
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3 The Chairman: Calls meeting to order.
4 Pledge of Allegiance.
5 Roll call conducted by Mr. Cermele:
6 Mr. Pulaski: Present.
7 The Chairman: Present.
8 Mr. Cermele: Present.
9 Ms. Uhle: States Angela Cascione and Joanne Murphy will not be attending tonight's 10 meeting. Explains vote has to be unanimous in order for it to be considered an approval. If 11 it's not unanimous, it's considered a no decision and applicant would have to return. 12
13 APPLICATION 06-75, 755 WHITE PLAINS ROAD 14
15 Ms. Uhle: Explains Planning Board approved application. Explains applicant 16 proposed significant renovations to the existing building and parking lot. Explains 17 one of the conditions of approval was that they try to contain storm water on site and then 18 have it tie into the storm drains on White Plains Road. States applicant was open and 19 willing to do that, however, subsequent to the approval when they went back and did some 20 research it turns out it's not as feasible as they thought it might be. Explains only issue 21 before board is treatment of storm water drainage on site. 22 The Chairman: Asks if there is any 23 increase in impervious surveys.
24 Ms. Uhle: States no net increase, there is a minimal decrease. Explains zoning law 25 indicates the applicant is not required to provide a storm water drainage facility as long
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1 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD - 10/25/06 as they don't increase the runoff. 2 Mr. Tartaglia: Chris Tartaglia, attorney 3 on behalf of the applicant. Shows photograph of the general area. States nearest storm 4 drain to the site is located to the south about one hundred and sixteen feet away on Maple 5 Street. Explains that storm drain does not continue northerly down White Plains Road. 6 States to the north of the site the nearest drain is roughly at the intersection of 7 Reynolds and the shopping center that's next door. Explains they thought about doing a dry 8 well, but the concern they have is there are a couple of rock out croppings on the side which 9 would indicate there is very shallow bedrock. States they're not increasing impervious, 10 they're decreasing it. Indicates they are requesting relief from having to provide site 11 drainage. States they have met all the other comments from the Planning Board. States site 12 is only eight thousand square feet so actual run off which is going into White Plains Road 13 is very minimal.
14 The Chairman: Asks if Steve Grogg from Raymond Keyes looked at this. 15 Ms. Uhle: States typically they wouldn't 16 have an engineer look at this plan at this scale. 17 Mr. Pulaski: States they aren't changing 18 the site very much from what it is presently and they aren't making a lot of changes to the 19 structure itself. Feels it would be an exorbitant cost to run the drain. 20 The Chairman: Entertains a motion to 21 approve Application 06-75, 755 White Plains Road. 22 Mr. Cermele: Seconds motion. 23 (All aye.) 24
25 APPLICATION 06-13, 138 WOODRUFF AVENUE
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2 Ms. Uhle: States this is for site plan 3 and architectural review approval for modifications to an existing building to 4 convert the use to a two family residence. Explains this was before ARB at last month's 5 meeting and ARB had one or two minor comments. Explains two family residences are permitted 6 within the RTD zone.
7 Mr. Crocco: Joseph Crocco, architect for the applicant. Explains they're removing the 8 overhead door and installing a pair of double hung windows, a couple of transoms and adding 9 some additional brick work which will match the brick work that was there. 10 The Chairman: Asks what happens to the 11 parking pad in the front.
12 Mr. Crocco: States it remains the same. States there is no increase in pavement. 13 States there is a reduction in the parking requirement. 14 Mr. Pulaski: Asks how many spaces can 15 fit in the pad now.
16 Mr. Crocco: States legally two.
17 Mr. Pulaski: Asks if that's an existing condition. 18 Mr. Crocco: States yes. 19 Mr. Cermele: Makes a motion to open the 20 public hearing.
21 Mr. Pulaski: Seconds motion.
22 (All aye.)
23 (No comments.)
24 Mr. Cermele: Makes a motion to close the public hearing. 25 Mr. Pulaski: Seconds motion.
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2 (All aye.) 3 The Chairman: Entertains a motion to 4 approve Application 06-13, 138 Woodruff Avenue.
5 Mr. Pulaski: Seconds motion.
6 (All aye.)
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8 APPLICATION 06-24, 11 JOHN ALBANESE PLACE
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10 Ms. Uhle: Explains sometimes they refer certain types of applications to Westchester 11 County for their review and comment. States the county had two comments, the first was they 12 felt the applicant should provide some pedestrian access from the site to White Plains 13 Road and the county is always advocating affordable units and mentioned the desire to 14 require that at least one of the units be an affordable unit. States applicant is here for 15 final approval.
16 The Chairman: Asks applicant to walk board through the changes. 17 Architect: States they submitted a roof 18 plan indicating the compressor locations. States they reduced the apartments from 19 fourteen to twelve which gave them four additional parking spots for visitors. 20 Discusses parking spots twelve and thirteen. Indicates they could eliminate spot thirteen. 21 Mr. Cermele: States they could convert 22 spot thirteen to a grassy island.
23 The Chairman: States they could put low landscaping and a tree where spot thirteen is. 24 Asks if trash compactor is now screened in with a five foot high fence. 25 Architect: States yes.
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2 The Chairman: Asks about lighting. 3 Architect: States they have provided the 4 specifications for the lighting. Discusses lighting. 5 The Chairman: Asks if there is any 6 spillage over the property line.
7 Architect: States no.
8 The Chairman: States light is spilling onto the sidewalk. States they could lower the 9 fixture, lower the wattage and put a shroud on it. 10 Architect: States they could do that. 11 The Chairman: Explains when drawing gets 12 revised, in the lower corner of the drawing they should put a block and have someone draft 13 exactly what was done so there is no light spillage off the property. 14 Ms. Uhle: Asks if that's on the western 15 and northern property line.
16 The Chairman: States yes. Asks if there is a parapet around the condenser units. 17 Architect: States yes. Explains one 18 member of the ARB suggested having the handicapped entry in the same location as the 19 normal entry. Explains they were able to bring the ramp from the side exit or entry into the 20 building to the main lobby.
21 Mr. Pulaski: Makes a motion to open the public hearing. 22 Mr. Cermele: Seconds motion. 23 (All aye.) 24 (No comments.) 25 Mr. Pulaski: Makes a motion to close the
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1 EASTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD - 10/25/06 public hearing. 2 Mr. Cermele: Seconds motion. 3 (All aye.) 4 Mr. Pulaski: Asks what was done 5 regarding the ARB comment to consider adding dimension to each of the facades of the 6 building to reduce the massiveness.
7 Architect: States the center portion of the building was projected out by eight inches. 8 The Chairman: Asks about the issue of 9 storm water review.
10 Ms. Uhle: States applicant provided a storm water management plan. States if board 11 chooses to they could ask that an outside engineer review it. 12 The Chairman: States he would have no 13 problem with Raymond Keyes reviewing it.
14 Mr. Pulaski: States a concern there is no alternative parking in that area at night. 15 Feels this building may have the right number of parking spaces per code but when people have 16 visitors those cars have to go somewhere. Feels this town needs a plan on how that is 17 going to be dealt with because when there is overflow it goes into the single family home 18 districts. Feels the extra three spaces is a step in the right direction but is not enough. 19 Feels parking in that area is already strained.
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