The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink AboutPB 2025-09-25 PB 9-25-25 APPROVED 1 Town of Dryden Planning Board Meeting Thursday, September 25, 2025 Hybrid - Zoom Planning Board - 2025 IP Z Ex Ab Tony Salerno, Chair (2029) x John Kiefer (2027) x Frank Parish (2028) x Chris Morrissey (2030) x Craig Anderson (2025) x Bill Griffin (2031) x Brad Will (2026) x x Other Staff or Board Members I.P. or on Zoom Ray Burger, Director of Planning (IP) Gina Cassidy, Planner (IP) Joy Foster - Recording Secretary (Ab) Dan Lamb – Town Board (IP) PB 9-25-25 APPROVED 2 6:01 pm Call to Order AGENDA 1. Welcome – Quorum Check – New Member Welcome 2. Public Comment Period For items not on the agenda and limited to 3 minutes per person. 3. 338 Lower Creek Rd – Intro for Sketch Plan Review 4. Zoning Rewrite – Results of Recent ZAG meeting 5. Planning Department Update 6. Town Board Update 7. Minutes Approval – August 28, 2025 8. Acting Chair for October 23rd meeting 9. Executive Session (If needed) 8:00 Adjourn Next Zoning Advisory Group (ZAG) Meeting: October 2nd, 2025, 6:00pm Next Regular Meeting: Thursday, October 23rd, 2025, 6:00pm Agenda subject to amendment. #1. Welcome – Quorum Check & open the meeting at 6:04 PM Welcome, new alternate Pat Brenna. She will not be activated tonight. #2. Public Comment Period – No comments offered from the audience or by Zoom. PB 9-25-25 APPROVED 3 #3. 338 Lower Creek Road – Intro for Sketch Plan Review The Planning Department is in receipt of a Sketch Plan Review application, submitted by parcel owners Paulina Klimkiewicz and Stephen DiGerardo, to build three duplexes on a parcel currently containing a single-family residence. This parcel is located in the Rural Residential district at 338 Lower Creek Road, Tax Map Parcel #42.-1-39.6. The owners have delegated power of attorney in this matter to Zbigniew (Joe) Klimkiewicz. Dryden Town Code (hereinafter “Code”) §270-6.7 Density in Rural Residential and Rural Agricultural Districts indicates that (B) Two to four single or two-family dwellings require SPR (Site Plan Review). Therefore, the applicant has applied to have SPR of this proposed development. • The Board looks at how these 3 duplexes could be subdivided in the future. • Project to return next month for a Site Plan Review, the Board asks that they return with the 30 questions for SPR answered, on the site plan, showing all the septic systems. #4. Zoning Rewrite – Results of Recent ZAG meeting. Residents’ concerns or comments: Marie McRae feels the residents who were at the last ZAG meeting were not heard or taken into account. She would ban all Data Centers as she sees no benefit to Dryden in allowing them. Also, if not banned, she would suggest all buildings be reduced in size to no larger than 500 sq. feet. This may cause the centers to move to another place outside of Dryden. Joe Wilson agrees with what Ms. McRay commented on. His question is, if you can carefully define a Data Center sufficiently to think that the regulations you propose will hold up, why can you not define, use the same language and definition of a Data Center, and balance it out? Mr. Wilson would like to commend and compliment all involved in this effort on Data Centers and how it will affect the community. He will be submitting to the TB a list of questions for their review. Nancy Munkenbeck is on the Conservation Board for Dryden. She is concerned with the noise to the Rail Trail, and if Lite Industrial could be changed to something is there a way to red flag the rail trail? The Board discussed the size of the building, sq. ft, and or cubic feet. Water use and electricity use. Maybe having one Data Center in each Lite Industrial district. • More details on sizing of data centers, ways to size a data center, physical footprint 5,000 sq. ft., small enterprise data centers, a few thousand sq. ft., hyper facilities like Amazon exceed a million sq. ft. Another way is rack capacity or by cooling capacity. • Data centers incorporate a lot of definitions and usage. • How do we allow those who support local business and are in our Comp. Plan. • For enforcement, there could be a Special Use Permit, and they would bring in their energy PB 9-25-25 APPROVED 4 usage yearly. And show who they are serving. T. Salerno polls the Board for outright banning: the Board is not in favor of outright banning. • T. Salerno has proposed a draft workup up and the PB decides when ready to send to the TB. The TB will have a public hearing then it’s the TB that makes the final decision on Data Centers in Dryden. This is a draft, and we should also talk about the questions that came up at the last ZAG meeting to see if they should be incorporated into this draft. • After a long discussion, the Board reviews and makes changes to the draft recommendation. T. Salerno will type up the resolution with the changes discussed and will have Nam review it before the PB votes and sends it to the TB. #5. Planning Department Update – Ray Burger • Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for Hanshaw Village has been sent in. • We are up to full staff, and the Code Enforcement team is working on the MHP on Kirk Rd. to bring it up to code and address safety issues. #6. Town Board Update – Dan Lamb • Progress on Rt. 13 and Freese Rd. bridges. DOT has replied, and we are close to putting them out to bid. • We had a productive meeting with the DEC over Dryden Lake Dam, and it’s in the hands of the attorney now to get the DEC to view and agree to their agreement. #7. Minutes Approval – Aug. 28, 2025 Approve the Minutes Motion: T. Salerno Second: C. Anderson All in favor – unanimous #8. Acting Chair for the October 23rd meeting. Frank Parish will be acting chair for 10-23-25 T. Salerno talks to the Board about not engaging in conversation via email. Discussions on issues/topics need to be discussed at the PB meeting. Its ok in an email to ask a question or for more details, but not to discuss anything further or talk about how to vote on a subject. Adjourned: after 8PM