1 1 STATE OF NEW YORK CITY OF YONKERS 2 -------------------------------------------------X 3 MINUTES OF THE CITY OF YONKERS PLANNING BOARD 4 November 18, 2020 - 5:37 P.M. 5 at 6 VIRTUAL MEETING 7 PURSUANT TO GOVERNOR CUOMO'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 202.1 8 --------------------------------------------------X 9 10 B E F O R E: 11 ROMAN KOZICKY, CHAIRMAN 12 DAWN BAKER, MEMBER MACKENZIE FORSBERG, MEMBER 13 MICHAEL GILLAN, MEMBER ADELIA LANDI, MEMBER 14 JOHN LARKIN, MEMBER 15 P R E S E N T: 16 LEE ELLMAN, PLANNING DIRECTOR CHRISTINE CARNEY, PLANNING DEPARTMENT 17 ALAIN NATCHEV, ASSISTANT CORP. COUNSEL GEORGE KUNTZ, CITY OF YONKERS 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Proceedings 2 1 2 I N D E X 3 ITEM: PAGE: 4 5 2. Steven Accinelli - 70 Salisbury Rd (Held) 5 3. Stephen Veneruso - 470 Nepperhan Ave (Held) 5 6 4. Julio Leder-Luis - 88/94-100 Saratoga Ave (Held)5 5. James Gibbons - 1061 Nepperhan Ave (Held) 5 7 6. James Gibbons - 87 Waverly St 7 7. Thomas Haynes - 759 Palmer Rd 13 8 8. Leslie Snyder - 10 Executive Blvd (Held) 6 9. Nicholas Faustini - 868 Midland Ave 20 9 10. Keith Brown - 155 South Broadway 25 11. Janet Giris - 808 Central Park Ave 52 10 12. Tom Abillama - 43 Garfield St 60 13. Steven Accinelli - 76 Locust Hill Ave 64 11 14. Thomas Haynes - 155 Saw Mill River Rd 79 15. Janet Giris - 19-27 Tuckahoe Rd 83 12 16. Stuart Markowitz - 35 Vark St 99 17. Paul Berte - 1, 7, 11 Balint Dr 105 13 18. Mark Silberblatt - Landmarks Board Request 110 19. City Council Referral - Chicken Island, etc 120 14 20. City Council Referral - Solar Energy Collect. 128 21. City Council Referral - Nantucket Pl (Held) 6 15 22. City Council Referral - Corbalis Pl (Held) 6 23. City Council Referral - Byron Pl (Held) 6 16 24. City Council Referral - Winans Dr (Held) 6 25. City Council Referral - Montgomery Ave (Held) 6 17 26. Correspondence 132 - 134 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 3 1 THE CHAIRMAN: All right, this is a Planning 2 Board meeting pursuant to Governor Cuomo's Executive 3 Order 202.1. The City of Yonkers Planning Board is 4 conducting this Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 5 meeting. It is 5:37 in the evening, and it is a 6 distance virtual meeting. 7 There will be no in-person attendance at 8 this time. The meeting is being televised and is on 9 this virtual platform. If you need information on how 10 to attend the meeting, you can go to www.yonkersny. 11 gov. 12 Please note that any matter requiring a 13 public hearing will be heard after 7:00 p.m., and that 14 items may be taken out of order in order to 15 accommodate public comment or as the Board may deem 16 necessary. 17 We're going to move to Item number 1, which 18 are the minutes of the regular Planning Board meeting 19 that was held on October 14, 2020. 20 Ladies and gentlemen of the Board, you had 21 the opportunity to review those minutes. Are there 22 any changes or comments at this time? 23 Actually, George, can you unmute at this 24 time, can you unmute Corporate Counsel, Mr. Natchev, 25 the Planning Board members, Adelia Landi, Dawn Baker, DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 4 1 Dr. Gillan, John Larkin, Mackenzie Forsberg. 2 MR. KUNTZ: I'm having a little bit of an 3 issue unmuting people, so I'm just going to let 4 everyone know you can unmute yourself, all the 5 members, by just pressing the button on the bottom. 6 THE CHAIRMAN: Ms. Forsberg, if you can 7 unmute yourself and, Lee. Also, our Stenographer, 8 there she is. 9 Any comments or changes to the minutes as 10 represented to us? 11 MS. FORSBERG: No. 12 THE CHAIRMAN: If not, I'll entertain a 13 motion to accept the minutes as presented. 14 MRS. LANDI: I make a motion to accept the 15 minutes as presented. 16 THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mrs. Landi. Do I 17 have a second on that? 18 MR. LARKIN: Second. 19 THE CHAIRMAN: Seconded by Mr. Larkin. 20 Thank you. 21 All in favor, please indicate by saying aye. 22 (A chorus of ayes.) 23 THE CHAIRMAN: Oppose, nay. 24 That passes unanimously. Thank you very 25 much. DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 5 1 Item number 2, is being held over. This is 2 the property at 70 Salisbury Road. This is being held 3 over at the applicant's request. 4 Item number 3 is also being held over. 5 Actually, there are a lot of items that are 6 being held over this evening in case there's anyone 7 out there waiting for them. Let me go through them 8 right now and, Christine, correct me if I'm wrong, 9 please, on any of them. 10 Being held over tonight, like I mentioned, 11 is Item number 2, 70 Salisbury Road; 12 Item number 3, 470 Nepperhan Avenue; 13 Item number 4, Christine, is that being held 14 over still, that's the Saratoga Avenue? 15 MR. ELLMAN: Mr. Chairman, I don't believe 16 that's being held over. 17 THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. Item number 5 is being 18 held over, that's the 1055, also known as 1061, 19 Nepperhan Avenue. 20 Item 7, the 759 Palmer Road item is being 21 held over. 22 MS. CARNEY: Mr. Chairman 759 Palmer Road 23 is being discussed. I got an e-mail this afternoon 24 that Mr. Haynes wants to discuss the matter. 25 THE CHAIRMAN: That's all right, I stand DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 6 1 corrected, 759 Palmer Road will be on the agenda this 2 evening. 3 Item number 8, 10 Executive Boulevard, that 4 is being held over; 5 And then the items at the end of the agenda 6 having to do with declaration of public streets, all 7 of those items are being held over; that's Items 21, 8 22, 23, 24, and 25. Those have to do with Nantucket 9 Place, Corbalis Place, Byron Place, Winans Drive, and 10 Montgomery Avenue. Those items are being held over. 11 I'll announce it again as we get to the items, but 12 just in case there's someone out there or on this 13 meeting that was anticipating those to be on, they 14 will not be. 15 As I mentioned, we're moving to Item number 16 3, which is being held over at the applicant's 17 request. 18 We're going to move to Item number 4, which 19 is a site plan review for a proposed 26-unit 20 residential building at Block 36, Lots 27, 29, 30, and 21 31 on the property known as 88 and 94-100 Saratoga 22 Avenue pursuant to Article IX of the Yonkers Zoning 23 Ordinance. 24 Julio Leder-Luis is the representative for 25 the proposal. DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 7 1 If you could unmute yourself, Mr. Luis. Is 2 there any representative here this evening for Item 3 number 4, which is Saratoga Avenue? 4 (No response.) 5 MR. KUNTZ: If you are on your phone, you 6 can just press star 6. 7 THE CHAIRMAN: All right, let's circle back 8 to that one, remind me of that later because we have a 9 long agenda, we'll circle back to Item number 4. 10 Item number 5 is being held over at the 11 applicant's request, that's the 1055, also known as 12 1061 Nepperhan Avenue. 13 Moving to Item number 6, ,Item number 6 is a 14 site plan review for a proposed parking lot to serve 15 92 Waverly Street at Block 476, Lots 14 and 17 on 16 property known as 87 Waverly Street pursuant to 17 Article IX of the Yonkers Zoning Ordinance. 18 James Gibbons is representative for the 19 proposal. 20 Mr. Gibbons. 21 MR. GIBBONS: Good evening, Mr. Chairman, 22 I'm here. 23 THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, go ahead. 24 MR. GIBBONS: I wanted to update the Board. 25 We had received comments from the Traffic Engineer and DIAMOND REPORTING 718-624-7200 Proceedings 8 1 revised the plans to show safe pedestrian access from 2 the parking lot on Waverly over to the 92 Waverly. 3 We labeled the sign for the ADA space, no 4 parking for the adjacent spot to the ADA spot. We 5 revised the plans to show the pedestrian curbs, ramps, 6 and crosswalks to Waverly crossing the street, and 7 also showed the site plan to include the 92 Waverly 8 Street portion of the project. So, we took care of 9 the Traffic Engineer's comments. 10 Engineering had no comments from John 11 Mihalik, and Chief DeSantis, or Deputey Chief 12 DeSantis, had no comments either. 13 Planning Board comments, there were some 14 cars parked across the street. I spoke to my client, 15 Mr. Mitter(ph), and he did have the cars removed, all 16 except one. There has been a car there for the last 17 several weeks, it has a non-working transmission. 18 That is scheduled to be removed tomorrow, but that is 19 one of his employees over at 92 Waverly. 20 We've put the lighting plan on our plans.