Toll Brothers. (See Planning Board May 6, 2025 and Town Board June 17, 2025.) Two issues were raised during the Public Information Hearing: sewers and the future adaptive reuse of the Field Home.
Regarding sewers, there was a discussion about how the town will be dealing with the I&I problem and how the Toll Brothers’ contribution of $170,000 will go towards remediating the problem once the town has identified where the leak problems are. Town engineer Ciarcia said he anticipates that the TV inspection of the sewer lines should be completed by the end of July.
The Toll application also involves subdividing off 2.46 acres for the Field Home. However, the question was asked what if that lot was not large enough to accommodate the parking needed for an adaptive reuse. After Councilwoman Siegel informed the Board that the Town Board had hired an architect to do a more detailed adaptive reuse study, Planning Director Tegeder said that the contract with the architect hadn’t been signed yet and that it might take 2-3 months for the study to be done.
In the meantime, citing the fact that the application had already been carefully vetted, the applicant asked the Board to move the project along and schedule the required public hearing on the site plan in July. However, citing the need for additional information as there
have been some changes to the wetlands and stormwater plans on the site, Mr. Tegeder said the hearing would be scheduled in August. (The Board meets only once a month during the summer.)
AMS, aka Contractors Register site (See Planning Board May 19, 2025.) The applicant made an extensive presentation on the project’s landscape plan which was very positively received by the Board. A Public Information Meeting will be held in July.
Navajo Fields (Hidden Valleys). The project was on the agenda as a referral from the Town Board on the issue of whether the parcel should be included in the Lake Osceola Overlay District.
Having only received the applicant’s latest submission earlier that day, Board members said they needed more time to review the issue, including what general planning issues needed to be taken into condition. A memo will be sent to the Town Board asking that the July 1 hearing be adjourned.
Councilman Esposito, the Town Board liaison to the Planning Board, explained that adding the Navajo parcel to the Lake Osceola Overlay District was only the first step in the three step process. While he said he hadn’t yet made up his mind about the inclusion, if the parcel was added, the Town Board would still have to review whether the project met the criteria for overlay status written into the law before the Board voted whether or not to grant the project overlay status. If granted, the project would move to the Planning Board for review and potential approval.
Mr. Tegeder explained that the reason why the expansion of the overlay district only included the Navajo parcel and not properties contiguous to the current district boundary was so that the owner of the Navajo site would be responsible for doing the required SEQRA review; if the other properties were included in the expansion plan, the town would have had to do the SEQRA review.
Poggioreale Day Care (See Planning Board, May 19, 2025.) The applicant submitted a revised plan that moves the access slightly to the east and further away from the Route 132 traffic light and revised the access driveway and parking layout. Still undecided is whether left turns in and out of the site should be allowed, A public hearing will be held in July,
Lowes rooftop solar. (See Planning Board, May 19, 2025.) In a brief presentation, the applicant advised the Board that the panels would be visible from the Taconic Parkway for only a fleeting second – and from speeding cars. The Board appeared satisfied with this but asked applicant to consider whether there were ways the panels could be screened
Mohegan Lake Improvement District. On a referral from the Town Board dealing with changes to an existing wetlands permit, representative of the district explained the plan to use natural bacteria to “eat” the accumulated “muck” at the bottom of the lake which contributes to the algae bloom that has led to beach closings. Because of accumulated chemicals in the lake bottom, dredging the lake is not an option.
A video of the meeting is available at
yorktownny.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1977