Planning Board TOWN OF BRUNSWICK 336 Town Office Road Troy, New York 12180 MINUTES OF THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING HELD JANUARY 7, 2016 PRESENT were RUSSELL OSTER, CHAIRMAN, TIMOTHY CASEY, MICHAEL CZORNYJ, FRANK ESSER, KEVIN MAINELLO, DAVID TARBOX, and VINCE WETMILLER. ALSO PRESENT was WAYNE BONESTEEL, P.E., Review Engineer to the Planning Board. Chairman Oster welcomed the members to the 2016 term of the Brunswick Planning Board, and also congratulated Member Wetmiller on being appointed to an additional seven year term on the Planning Board. The draft minutes of the November 19, 2015 meeting were reviewed. Upon motion of Member Czornyj, seconded by Member Wetmiller, the minutes of the November 19, 2015 meeting were unanimously approved without amendment. Chairman Oster noted that the Planning Board meetings that had been scheduled for December 3 and December 17, 2015 were cancelled due to lack of agenda items, and therefore no minutes of those meetings will be prepared. The first item of business on the agenda was the site plan application submitted by PF Management Group for property located at 668 Hoosick Road. The applicant is seeking to demolish two existing buildings and construct two new commercial buildings for an Aldi grocery store and a Taco Bell restaurant at this location. Chairman Oster noted for the record that the 1 applicant had contacted the Town, indicating that it was completing all of the application documents, including any updates to the site plan together with the full environmental assessment form and other application documents, and will be submitting those documents within the next day or so, and that the applicant has requested that the matter be placed on the January 21 agenda for consideration. It is also noted for the record that the Brunswick Zoning Board of Appeals did grant the area variances for parking in connection with this project, both in terms of total number of parking spaces as well as parking space size. The Zoning Board of Appeals granted these variances at its meeting held December 21, 2015. It was also noted that the sign variance applications for this project pending before the Zoning Board of Appeals were adjourned without date at the consent of the applicant, subject to action on the site plan by the Planning Board. It is also noted that the applicant has requested that at the January 21 meeting, if the Planning Board deems the application materials to be complete and adequate, that a public hearing be scheduled for the February 4 meeting of the Planning Board on this site plan application. That request will be considered by the Planning Board at the January 21 meeting. The next item of business on the agenda was a sketch plan submittal for a major subdivision submitted by Henry Reiser for property located at 10 Plante Lane (Tax Map No. 104.-3-14). The total size of this parcel is 371 acres, and the applicant is seeking approval for a total of 13 lots, with 12 residential lots, including 11 new building lots ranging in size from approximately 5 acres to approximately 5.5 acres, with 1 residential lot of approximately 60 acres on which an existing house is located, with a remaining undeveloped lot totaling approximately 258 acres. Access to the new residential building lots is proposed off Penny Royal Lane and Plante Lane. The Planning Board members generally reviewed the sketch plan layout, noting that the Board will need to address the issue of driveway access onto the proposed residential lots from both Penny Royal 2 Lane and Plante Lane. The Planning Board will also need to determine whether Plante Lane and Penny Royal Lane are Town roads that are owned by the Town or constitute user roads. The Planning Board noted that the issue of non-realty subdivision lots will need to be addressed. The Planning Board also noted that it will need to address a 60 foot reserved access on lot 11 to adjacent property as noted on the sketch plan. This matter is tentatively placed on the January 21 meeting, subject to receipt of all required application fees. Chairman Oster updated the Planning Board members on the status of the consultant analysis on the issue of a proposed emergency access road in connection with the Oakwood Property Management PDD site plan. Chairman Oster noted that the Planning Board’s consultant on this issue is now working directly with the applicable fire departments and is hopeful that the consultant’s report will be completed within the next few weeks. Member Czornyj updated the Planning Board members on the use of computer software in the Brunswick Building Department to monitor project conditions which the Planning Board attaches to site plans and subdivisions, to ensure that these conditions are being complied with during construction. The index for the January 7, 2016 meeting is as follows: 1. PF Management Group – site plan – 1/21/2016 2. Resier – major subdivision sketch plan – 1/21/2016 (tentative) The proposed agenda for the January 21, 2016 currently is as follows: 1. PF Management Group - site plan 2. Reiser - Major subdivision sketch plan (tentative) 3 Planning Board TOWN OF BRUNSWICK 336 Town Office Road Troy, New York 12180 MINUTES OF THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING HELD JANUARY 21, 2016 PRESENT were RUSSELL OSTER, CHAIRMAN, MICHAEL CZORNYJ, FRANK ESSER, KEVIN MAINELLO, DAVID TARBOX, and VINCE WETMILLER. ABSENT was TIMOTHY CASEY. ALSO PRESENT was WAYNE BONESTEEL, P.E., Review Engineer to the Planning Board. Chairman Oster reviewed the agenda for the January 21 meeting. The draft minutes of the January 7, 2016 meeting were reviewed. Upon motion of Member Czornyj, seconded by Member Wetmiller, the minutes of the January 7, 2016 meeting were unanimously approved with no amendment. The first item of business on the agenda was a site plan application submitted by PF Management Group for property located at 668 Hoosick Road. The applicant is seeking to demolish two existing buildings at this location, and construct two new commercial buildings to be used as an Aldi grocery store and a Taco Bell restaurant. David Leon of PF Management Group was present. The Planning Board noted that it had received a response from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to the lead agency coordination notice that had been circulated. The response from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation stated that NYSDEC had no objection to the Brunswick Planning Board serving as SEQRA lead agency on this action. The Planning Board noted that no response had been received from the 1 New York State Department of Transportation or the Rensselaer County Department of Health to the SEQRA lead agency coordination notice, and that more than 30 days has elapsed since the service of that SEQRA lead agency coordination notice, so that no other involved agency has objected to the Brunswick Planning Board serving as SEQRA lead agency on this action. Chairman Oster asked Mr. Bonesteel to discuss the status of his review of the application documents. Mr. Bonesteel stated that the Town received additional application documents on January 11, 2016, including updated site plans, a long Environmental Assessment Form, highway plans, a stormwater pollution prevention plan, a traffic report, geotechnical information, and a Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment Report. Mr. Bonesteel stated that he has begun the review of all of these documents, and that he is still in the process of completing his review. Mr. Bonesteel stated that he has been corresponding with the project engineer, Chris Kambar of APD Engineering, and that full written comments on the application materials will be completed before the next Planning Board meeting in February. Mr. Bonesteel did note that the traffic study is being reviewed by the New York State Department of Transportation. Mr. Leon stated that the NYSDOT was not continuing its review of the traffic study and proposed traffic improvements until a SEQRA lead agency has been declared. Chairman Oster stated that the Planning Board could proceed to declare SEQRA lead agency status at this meeting. Chairman Oster wanted to review the variances which have been granted by the Brunswick Zoning Board of Appeals regarding the parking spaces. Mr. Leon confirmed that the Brunswick Zoning Board of Appeals had granted variances both with respect to the total number of parking spaces, as well as the size of the parking space. The Zoning Board of Appeals approved a parking space of 9 feet by 18 feet in size, rather than 200 square feet, or 10 feet by 20 feet, as set forth in the Brunswick Zoning Code. Mr. Leon noted that the cross-easements for parking and traffic circulation between this project site and the 2 existing Planet Fitness site was considered by the Brunswick Zoning Board of Appeals, and is provided in the application documents. Mr. Bonesteel stated that the cross-easements are noted on the project plans, but the easement documents themselves had not been provided. Attorney Gilchrist requested that Mr. Leon provide the Planning Board with copies of the easement documents. Member Czornyj asked about fill material which had been brought to the project site in the area of the proposed Aldi grocery store and whether any core drilling had been completed. Mr. Bonesteel stated that the geotechnical report did describe fill in the area of the proposed Aldi grocery store, including loose fill, bricks, and cinder block materials. Mr. Bonesteel also stated that the geotechnical report did provide recommendations on compaction requirements prior to construction in this location. Mr. Bonesteel also noted that the geotechnical report identified the soils classification for this fill material as “landfill” material. Member Wetmiller commented that he remembered materials being deposited to the rear of that site when it was used as a gas station back in the 1970s, and thought that the material was from demolition work associated with constructing the Collar City bridge.