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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPB 2024-10-24 PB 10-24-24 Approved 1 Town of Dryden Planning Board Meeting Thursday, October 24, 2024 Hybrid Zoom Planning Board - 2024 Current Members I.P. Z Ex Ab Tony Salerno, Chair (2029) X John Kiefer (2027) X Frank Parish (2028) X Chris Morrissey (2030) X Craig Anderson (2025) X Joe Wilson (2024) X Brad Will (2026) X Diane Tessaglia-Hymes (2024) Alternate X Bill Griffin ( ) * Alternate X Other Staff or Board Members I.P. or on Zoom Ray Burger, Director of Planning (IP) Gina Cassidy, Planner (IP) Shelley Knickerbocker – Zoning Officer (Z) Joy Foster - Recording Secretary (Z) Dan Lamb (TB)(Z) Christina Dravis (TB)(Z) Marie McRae (Z) PB 10-24-24 Approved 2 AGENDA 6:00 pm Call to Order 1. Welcome – Quorum Check 2. Public Comment Period For items not on the agenda and limited to 3 minutes per person. 3. Drinking Water Source Protection plan Final Draft City of Ithaca DWSP2 Stormwater Build-out Analysis -Findings and Recommendations for the Town of Dryden 4. 1280 Dryden Rd – Site plan review 5. Design Connect Ideas 6. Data Processing Centers-Crypto Mining 7. Planning Department Update 8. Town Board Update 9. Minutes Approval – Sept 27, 2024 10. Zoning Audit Review –Meeting Date 11. November/December Meeting Dates 1) Chair Salerno opens the meeting at 6:01 PM 2) Public Comment Period – No comments 3) Presentation on Drinking Water Source Protection Plan Final Draft City of Ithaca DWSP2 Stormwater Build-out Analysis -Findings and Recommendations for the Town of Dryden Rebecca Minas, (IP) and Grace DeSantis (Z) from Barton & Loguidice along with Roxy Johnston from the City of Ithaca The Planning Department has the presentation documents. PB 10-24-24 Approved 3 4) 1280 Dryden Rd, a Cannabis Dispensary business – Site Plan Review, Riley Rynone with James Steiner talk about their plans. Applicant brought a new sketch plan to the meeting, along with revised application materials. There are still missing documents. Applicant was referred to site plan application list of 30 necessary items and instructed to make sure all of these are submitted before appearing before the PB again. (Applicant had made an incomplete application to the Planning Department in September, and met over Zoom with Planning staff, who gave applicant instructions by email about what missing items still needed submitting). OWNERSHIP - Applicant is leasing the property (a portion of tax map parcel # 52.-1-4.31) from Dave Moore, with whom they are working out a lease-to-own arrangement. Applicant must have the parcel owner either sign the application or create and sign a letter indicating that they give permission for the applicant’s requested alterations to the site be carried out. SITE SIZE - Applicant indicates that the full parcel is @ 4 acres. Applicant is renting 1.25 acres of the parcel. [Tompkins County Parcel Viewer gives full parcel acreage as 2.9.] PB advised applicants that they must show true property lines on the revised site plan. Applicant indicates that the billboard land on the property has been subdivided from the parcel. The Planning Department has no knowledge of this. Applicants will have to provide proof of the status if this is the case. Applicant indicates that storage containers on the site have been removed. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM - PB members instructed applicants in correcting and revising the Short Environmental Assessment Form to be resubmitted. FENCE - PB members asked about the fence and planned mural. A mural might be equivalent to a billboard, and if so, it would not be permitted. PB noted that an eight-foot fence is a structure and would therefore need to follow setbacks and all other requirements for structures. The applicant indicated they would revise the application to make the fence six feet high. Further, PB suggested that the applicant change from a wooden fence to a black chain-link fence with vegetation planted at its base. SIGNAGE - There would be no signage on Route 13, but on two peaks of the building, recessed from the road. TRAFFIC - Applicant anticipates about 100 cars/day accessing the site but indicates that this will include the normal stream of cars going by the site that will be making an extra stop on the way to somewhere else. PB 10-24-24 Approved 4 DRIVEWAY AND PARKING - There would be no new roadcut needed for this project. The existing gravel driveway would be extended and widened to 25 feet. There would be a lock on the gate when the business is closed. Parcel owner also owns the adjacent parcel, currently leased to Clarity Eye Clinic, and the two parcels share a driveway. Were the current owner to sell either parcel or a portion thereof, they would need to provide a driveway easement to avoid tax map parcel # 52.-1-4.31 or a portion thereof being landlocked. PB wants to know if there is a need for a retaining wall in order to keep driveway gravel from washing into the road. The applicant indicated there will be a green buffer in order to prevent this. Applicant indicates that the driveway is wide enough for emergency vehicle access and egress. The applicant indicated that all parking spaces would conform to the minimum parking space (9’ x 20’) and ADA requirements. Parking aisles are proposed to be 25 feet. The number of parking spaces shown on the sketch plan is inaccurate. There would be 32 spaces. The applicant indicates that handicapped access would be provided to enable the most convenient entry to the building. Applicants will need to check the grading necessary for ADA access. Site plan will need to indicate all parking and access measurements. PB expressed concern about vehicles crossing traffic on Route 13 to access and leave the site. The applicant indicated that there is a traffic light nearby that would make crossing safer. OTHER ACCESS - PB informed the applicant that they will have to accommodate pedestrians, perhaps by having a posted low speed limit or something else pro-active to slow down traffic. Existing drainage course is not sufficient. Deputy Town Supervisor requested that the applicant consider providing access to the Rail Trail. Security concerns notwithstanding, applicants are open to doing this. DRAINAGE - Applicant says there will be no change to present drainage, but PB points out that with increased parking there will be increased impermeability and, therefore, increased stormwater runoff. PB mentions that it is not permitted for water runoff to affect neighboring property. Applicants will likely need a SWPPP. Further drainage requirements must be discussed and approved by Town Stormwater Manager Dave Sprout. LANDSCAPING - Applicant is interested in preserving clients’ privacy using parking placement/screening/fencing/landscaping. PB recommended that the applicant employ a local PB 10-24-24 Approved 5 landscaping company to keep up with landscaping/landscape maintenance/screening. A landscaper can help the applicant choose appropriate plantings. LIGHTING - Applicant was directed to create a Dark Sky Compliant outdoor lighting plan. Driveway must be lighted. The applicant has indicated that there are currently spotlights on the Clarity Eye Clinic sign of the adjacent property sharing the driveway. Applicant intends to add an Update Haze sign to Clarity Eye Clinic signpost. PB requires that applicant obtain written permission from the signpost owner to do this. Any spotlighting added must be downward facing. This will need to be indicated on the revised site plan. HOURS - Applicant proposes hours of 10am – 10pm Monday-Saturday, with shorter (non- specified) hours on Sunday. OTHER - Applicant had earlier indicated that they would like to construct a gazebo on the property but have dropped it off this phase of the project. PB recommended that this be added back to the current site plan to reduce the number of times applicant would need to appear before the PB. The list below is what the applicant needs to complete for the next meeting. 1. Include all 30 of the requirements for site plan application, as provided in Town of Dryden Code §270-11.3 (B) Site Plan Checklist. 2. Include the signature of - or letter from - the parcel owner, giving you permission to make the requested changes to the site. 3. Include the signature of the sign owner, giving you permission to make requested changes to the sign. 4. Provide true property lines indicating all subdivisions, correct full parcel size, and dimensions of project area. 5. Provide a corrected and complete Short Environmental Assessment Part I form. 6. Provide scaled rendering with dimensions of parking spots, parking area, and parking access, including ADA-conforming access. 7. Provide an updated rendering and information about the six-foot fence and associated landscaping. 8. Document determination from David Sprout, Town of Dryden Stormwater Manager, indicating satisfactory stormwater management plans (to include driveway). 9. Provide a landscaping plan that includes maintenance. 10. Indicate what Dark Sky-compliant lighting will be used. PB 10-24-24 Approved 6 11. Provide a rendering of the intended sign and downward-facing lighting. 12. Provide a plan for driveway lighting. 13. Provide an acceptable plan for safe pedestrian access to and use of the site. 14. Show provided access to the Dryden Rail Trail, if safely feasible, as stipulated in the October 24 Planning Board meeting. 15. Consider including gazebo plans, so that a separate application to the Planning Board for this structure will not have to be made. After the applicant has submitted the revised, completed site plan, and before applicant’s next presentation to the Planning Board on this project, the Town will seek fire department safety recommendations and a County 239-m determination of county-wide impacts of this project. 5) Design Connect Ideas – R. Burger, we have an opportunity, the design Connect Group (a student design class at Cornell) just came out with the announcement for this 2025 semester. They're taking project submittals until November.4th, if anyone has any ideas, they would like to put in. The Town Board is receptive to anything being put forth to them, they said they're going to have a budget meeting before the 4th, so that would be their opportunity to approve a specific project. The Board’s Ideas are related to the Rail Trail: • Maybe some access ways to the rail trail. • Lateral feeder trails, connecting trails from TC3 to the High School to the trail. The ballfield behind Town Hall, how to get there, maybe some bike trails. • Comfort stations, parking areas. 6) Data Processing Centers-Crypto Mining – This is a standing item on the agenda until the Town’s zoning can be amended to account for these uses before the 18-month moratorium ends. The PB chair is creating a drop-box accessible for all members as a repository of information. We are waiting for the update on the re-writing of the zoning, we are looking to get someone that’s more of an expert on Crypto Mining. There is an 18-month moratorium to keep in mind. This will stay on the agenda, till we are ready to talk about it again. Tony will look into a central spot to put all the crypto info. maybe Dropbox. 7) Planning Department Update – R. Burger, • The Morris Rd. solar was before the Town Board with a public hearing, to be continued till the November 14th meeting where the Town Board will complete the SEQR (State Environmental Quality Review) process by completing parts II and III of the Environmental Assessment form. PB 10-24-24 Approved 7 • There is a Cornell student doing an age friendly doctoral research project on age friendly planning, that he would like to present to the Planning Board. The PB is agreeable to the student making a half hour presentation during a PB meeting with a relatively light schedule. Planning Director Burger will arrange this. • I wanted to get a feeling from this board, for a potential project on Hanshaw Rd over at the Sapsucker Woods subdivision, at the end of Cardinal Dr. at the edge of the Sapsucker Woods sewer and water district. It's an 8-acre lot that is neighborhood residential. So conventionally they could go in there and put in 8, one- acre lots, but they would like to do something more like a cluster subdivision and put a cluster of houses at the end of the sewer water facilities there. We don't allow cluster subdivisions and neighborhood residential, so I'm thinking maybe the PUD is the tool here. We used the PUD at 1061 Dryden Rd. that was 6 acres. This is a larger lot it would simply be for single-family homes. The PB expressed interest. This will be brought to a future Planning Board meeting. 8) Town Board Update – Dan Lamb • It’s budget time, busy, lots of meetings. • Freese Rd. Bridge, we have completed the Environmental Assessment, hoping at next month’s meeting to close it, pass a resolution and go on to the next step. • The Rt. 13 pedestrian bridge updates, all the information needed is complete and turned into NYS DOT and we are waiting for final approval from Federal Highway before we can put it out to bid. The PB asked Deputy Supervisor Lamb about the rationale for removing housing from the Town land. D. Lamb, Consultants that were interested in the RFP did a deep dive into the wetlands map and discovered that really only 7 acres of that entire parcel are developable and in terms of access we simply do not have roadway access to parts of that property for development. we had to reissue the RFP the priority has always been for recreation fields; The Town has made commitments based on this priority. There isn’t enough room for both recreation fields and housing. 9) Zoning Audit Review –Meeting with Nan Stolzenburg Date will be Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, at 6:30pm. It will be an all-Zoom meeting. PB 10-24-24 Approved 8 10) Minutes Approval – Sept 27, 2024, T. Salerno – A new draft is in process, so the vote on the September 2024 minutes will be postponed until the next regular PB meeting. I’m looking into having the minutes in the future put on YouTube. 11) The Board discussed changing the meeting dates for November and December due to the holidays. The November meeting will be 11-19-24 with a time change to 6:30pm. The December meeting will be 12-17-24 with a time change to 6:30pm. Next meeting will be 11 -19-24 at 6:30pm Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM