Planning Board Agendas and Minutes

MINUTES OF THE COHOES PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD ON NOVEMBER 5, 2007 AT 6:30 P.M. IN THE COMMON COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF CITY HALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman Joseph Moloughney Vice-Chairman Clarence Badgley Mr. Mark DeFruscio Ms. Sharon Gariepy Mr. Edward Carboni MEMBERS ABSENT: ALSO PRESENT: Ms. Melissa Ashline-Heil, Planner Ms. Carol Shufelt, Recording Secretary CONSIDERATION OF THE MINUTES OF THE AUGUST 6, SEPTEMBER 17, AND OCTOBER 1, 2007 MEETING Chairman Moloughney called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Chairman asked the recording secretary to take attendance call. Chairman Moloughney stated the minutes from the August 6, September 17, and the October 1, 2007 minutes were previously distributed. Member Gariepy made a motion to approve the minutes of the August 6, September 17, and October 1, 2007 meeting Member Badgley seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and the motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X CONSIDERATION OF DECLARE LEAD AGENCY STATUS FOR GOOD GROUNDS CHURCH, CLOSE OUT SEQRA AND APPROVE THE FINAL SITE PLAN FOR THE PARKING LOT BEHIND THE OLD ST. AGNES CHURCH , SUBMITTED BY GOOD GROUNDS CHURCH Chairman Moloughney stated that we have to close out SEQRA and Declare Lead Agency. Member DeFruscio made a motion to approve Resolution # 38 to close out the SEQRA process Member Carboni seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X Chairman Moloughney stated the next step is for the Planning board to issue a Negative Declaration of Environmental Significance. Chairman Moloughney opened up the Public Hearing at 6:40PM the Public Hearing was closed at 6:40PM. Member Gariepy made a motion to approve Resolution # 39 for the Planning Board to be Declared Lead Agency Member Badgley seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X Chairman Moloughney stated the final step is to approve the Site Plan for the Parking for Good Grounds Church. Chairman Moloughney opened the Public Hearing at 6:41PM. Member Gariepy would like to clarify the Resolution to read Traffic Commission request for a no left turn sign at exit, DO NOT Enter signs at both entrance and exit, and One Way signs at both the entrance and exit. Member Gariepy made a motion to accept Resolution # 40 with the clarification to read Traffic Commission request for a no left turn sign at exit, DO NOT Enter signs at both entrance and exit, and One Way signs at both the entrance and exit. Member DeFruscio seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X CONSIDERATION OF DECLARE LEAD AGENCY STATUS FOR 143-147 MOHAWK STREET, APPROVAL OF THE PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR 147 MOHAWK STREET, AND APPROVAL OF THE FINAL SITE PLAN FOR 143-147 MOHAWK STREET, SUBMITTED BY KARL POGGE Chairman Moloughney stated the next step is for the Planning board to be declared Lead Agency Member Badgley made a motion to approve Resolution # 33 for the Planning Board to be Declared Lead Agency Member Gariepy seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X Chairman Moloughney opened up the Public Hearing at 6:56PM for the approval of the preliminary site plan the Public Hearing was closed at 6:56PM. Member Carboni made a motion to approve Resolution # 34 for preliminary site plan review for 147 Mohawk Street Member DeFruscio seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X Member Gariepy made motion to approve Resolution # 35 for final site plan approval for 143-147 Mohawk Street Member Badgley seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X CONSIDERATION OF THE PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR 421 WEST COLUMBIA STREET, AND DECLARE LEAD AGENCY, SUBMITTED BY THE EDDY Lori Mantee from The Eddy that they are looking to start construction in the spring on 16 green house type units at 421 West Columbia Street. This would be done in three phases the first being seven units in the open space area of the grounds. All are one story buildings with gable roofs. The houses will be paired off adjoined by a carport the number of patients will decrease from 211 to 192 this does not include Marjorie Doyle. The rehabilitation will be relocated to Sunnyview in Schenectady. Green space is about equal. Traffic will be maintained as it is. There will be 8 parking spaces per pair. With a drop off in the front. Each unit will have 12 beds per house. There will be a decrease in the number of employees. Four buildings will have walkout basements, two of them will be for facility and resident storage, and the other two will be for administrative staff, conference room. Chairman Moloughney opened the Public Hearing at 7:21PM. The following questions were asked. How is the direct care going to change? There will be 2 on days, 2 evenings, 1 night, and one nurse per pair of houses. Will there be anything done to buffer the lighting on Glenn Meadows? The lighting will be more residential lighting and there will be no lighting in the rear of the building. What about the noise and traffic? The noise will be what it is now and may be less due to the fact of less staff. Traffic will stay about the same. What about a buffer for Glenn Meadows? The buffer will be maintained. What about drainage for the Glenn Meadows? There will be no drainage on the Glenn Meadows Site.  When will the project start? We are hoping to start the phase one in the spring and completion in the fall. There will be downtime in between each phase. Chairman Moloughney closed the Public Hearing at 7:30PM Chairman Moloughney stated the next step is for the Planning board to be declared Lead Agency Member Gariepy made a motion to approve Resolution # 36 for the Planning Board to be Declared Lead Agency Member DeFruscio seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X Chairman Moloughney made suggestion that we Table Resolution # 37 until the The Eddy have had their Town meeting with the local homeowners and the additional information is made available. Member Badgley made a motion to TABLE Resolution # 37 Member DeFruscio seconded the motion, roll of call was taken and motion passed unanimously. YES NO Edward Carboni X Sharon Gariepy X Joseph Moloughney X Clarence Badgley X Mark DeFruscio X PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR LION HEART SUBDIVISION OFF WILLIAMS STREET, SUBMITTED BY RALPH DRAKE Tom Andress from ABD Engineers gave an over view of the project. There will be a total of 72 units in a cluster type setting. Thirty-eight townhouses, twenty twin family, and fourteen single family homes. It will have a Home Owners Association (HOA). The twin family homes property line will be through the middle. There are some units that will have walk out basements. They will be applying for variances to the ZBA for the lot sizes. The will be rebuilding Williams Street the applicant has purchased the property on the corner of Williams and Manor Avenue. They are under negotiations with the 2nd parcel and the third piece of property there is an ROW not owned by the adjoining owner. We will be widening the roads it will be one lane in and two lanes out (R & L). Chairman Moloughney opened the Public Hearing at 8:00PM. The Public Hearing was closed at 8:00PM. Chairman Moloughney recommended NOT making a motion on the resolution and closing out SEQRA until we have heard from Albany County. We will convene for a special meeting within the next couple of weeks. PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR HARMONY MILLS MILL 3 AND THE TOWER RESTORATION Peter Seidner of the Clover Group gave a brief overview of the rehabilitation for Mill 3 and center tower. Center Tower will have a swimming pool, 3 studio apartments, and 3 -2 bedroom apartments. They are looking to begin work in the spring of 08. The catwalk will be removed as well as the loading dock. Five units will have an outdoor terrace. Three units in the back will be Town homes with direct access to the outdoors. Mr. Tremblay stated that a traffic study was done and a traffic signal is not required. SKETCH PLAN PRESENTATION BY CAPTAIN ’S LOOKOUT Peter Lynch representing the applicant. What they are looking for is an amendment of the negative declaration. They will use green roofs. They have purchased the property at 8 Delaware Avenue owned by the Kilventon Family. The existing dock that is there is going to be replaced; they will be repairing the drainage near the mansion. All buildings will be energy efficient buildings. The club house will have a swimming pool with a water falls, fire place, library, conference room a mini room with a kitchen. Member DeFruscio made a motion to adjourn Member Badgley seconded the motion all were in favor.