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RESOLUTION APPROVING SITE PLAN AND AMENDING SITE
PLAN APPROVAL FOR EXPANSION OF FACILITIES AT
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH - 2049 EAST SHORE DRIVE
WHEREAS,an application was made by the Christian Fellowship Church for a prior site
plan review and approval, and the same approved by the Town of Lansing Planning
Board by Resolution PB 16-13 (August 8, 2016) for the construction of a fellowship hall
addition related site improvements to an existing 2,900 SF church located at 2049 East
Shore Drive,Lansing, New York,upon lands also known as TPN 37.1-2-46,located in the
B1 Commercial Mixed-Use Zone and being approximately 2.33± acres in size; and
WHEREAS, the previously approved site plan has been modified to: (i) add a basement
area; (ii) demolish the existing 1,300± SF auxiliary building; (iii) add 2,600 SF of meeting
rooms, restrooms, office space, and a lobby; (iv) add a 600± SF covered porch; (v) for a
new total building size of 6,100 SF; and (vi) with improved and impaired and handicap
access, replacement and upgrading of the existing driveway culvert, relocation of the
existing parking area, adding 7 additional parking spaces, and adding additional
stormwater drainage improvements on the existing site; and
WHEREAS, the total site impacts increase by less than 10% as the improvements are
mainly located within existing building and improvement footprints, and the new area
of total disturbance has been calculated as 0.8± acres (upon the 2.33± acre parcel), and
such amended site plan required an updated review and approval under the Town's
Land Use Ordinance ("LUO") § 701.7 (Modifications of Site Plans), as well as a re-review
of the prior approval and its conditions, as well as a review of the prior environmental
review and the then-issued SEQRA negative declaration; and
WHEREAS, the owner completed an updated Stormwater Plan for considering the
additional impacts of development on the site and the stormwater system, and the same
was reviewed and generally approved by the Town Engineer; and
WHEREAS,a General Municipal Law§239 referral was delivered to,and a review dated
February 9, 2016 was received from, the Tompkins County Planning Department, which
determined that the proposed action recommended that, as the site was previously
developed that a 25-foot setback be maintained along the existing creek, and a re-review
of the modified site plan was delivered to the County and the County replied upon June
20, 2018 that no changes in their prior comments was required and the same were
continued; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board has again considered and carefully reviewed the
requirements of the LUO relative to site plan review, the unique needs of the Town due
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to the topography, the soil types and distribution, and other natural and man-made
features upon and surrounding the area of the proposed site plan,and the Planning Board
has also considered the zoning in the area and the project in light of the Town's
Comprehensive Plan and compliance therewith, and the Planning Board has again
reviewed and considered the aforementioned amended site plan application and
determined that no public hearing is required for this site plan due to its small size, the
fact that no new stormwater permanent practices are triggered and no SEQRA or 239
impacts were found,the use is a permitted use within an B1 Commercial Mixed Use Zone,
and the fact that this is an addition to an already existing developed site; and
WHEREAS, the prior SEQRA negative declaration was examined and the standards
therein re-reviewed by the Town relative to the question of whether any of these site plan
changes, whether as to disturbances, size, or placement, make any actual or potential
impact likely to be or become moderate or significant, and such review shows that all
such impacts remain non-impacts or minor impacts, including because the impacts were
duly mitigated by the development review process and site planning conditions, and
because the changes were minor and made only in relation to an already improved site
and previously approved site plan,such that the prior negative declaration under SEQRA
be and hereby is incorporated and continued; and
WHEREAS, on June 25, 2018 the Planning Board duly considered the proposed site plan
amendments in accordance with the provisions of LUO§701.4 et seq., including concerns
addressing site drainage, lighting, nearby residences, landscaping, parking, buffering,
screening,driveways,and any potential on and off site environmental impacts,and upon
due consideration thereupon and deliberation by the Town of Lansing Planning Board,
now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Christian Fellowship Church amended site plan application for the
proposed demolition of the existing 1,300 SF auxiliary building,and construction of 2,200
SF building additions plus a Lobby of 380 SF and a Porch of 600 SF,together with general
site and area improvements located at 2049 East Shore Drive,Lansing, New York,be and
hereby is granted and approved, subject to the following conditions:
1. Site plan approvals shall include the application and materials as prepared by John
Andersson, P.E., including drawing sheet 5-1 Site Plan, as amended dated May 30, 2018
- Sheet No. 1 of 3. Additionally, except for approved vegetative buffers, a riparian no-
disturbance setback shall be observed and be,at all times and locations,the greater of 25'
or the distance shown upon the updated site plans, as herein so approved.
2. Submission of an approved, general list comparing the changes to the proposed
site plan,including at a minimum; (i) square footage comparisons for each element of the
site plan, including open space; (ii) the number and arrangement of floors or offset levels
for the buildings and structures as proposed; (iii) changes in parking configurations and
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designs, as well as pedestrian and driveway routes and facilities; (iv) landscaping and
setback changes;(v)any changes in site lighting or signage;(vi)building and construction
elevations and site slopes; and (vii) stormwater facilities and locations. No building
permits may be issued until this list is submitted and approved as to its form and detail
by the Town Planner or Code Enforcement Officer. Once submitted and approved, such
list shall be and remain a part of this site plan approval.
3. Verification that the existing stormwater system and features are properly
working prior to issuance of any CO or the close-out of any building permit.
4. Building Permits will be required to construct the approved building additions,
and such plans must meet all code requirements, be sealed by a licensed engineer or
architect, and be constructed in compliance with all building code requirements.
5. Completion of the site plan improvements as shown upon the Site Plans, and
specifically including the installation of vegetative buffering as meets the following goals:
(a) all buffering shall be designed to provide both visual cover buffering and sound
baffling features, and thus emphasis shall be placed upon solid cover barriers, such as
hedges and offset rows of evergreen trees, or large or densely placed deciduous trees
with variable heights and interspersed with evergreens or other plants as provide for
such cover and buffering; and (b) developer and landowner(s) (and their existing and
future tenants), as an express condition of site plan and special use permit approvals (the
violation of which shall be a violation of the Land Use Ordinance and Town Law § 135,
and enforceable as such), shall hereafter and at all times: (1) properly protect and
maintain such trees and other vegetative buffers as healthy and natural non-invasive
vegetation designed to provide both visual and sound buffering; (2) promptly remove
and replace any dead, diseased, or dying trees or plants; (3) promptly replace,
supplement, enhance, or otherwise effect changes in buffers whenever such buffers, or
any plants therein, whether singularly or in combination due to lack of growth, death,
recession, disease or other cause, cease to function as buffers as afore-required; and (4)
effect such maintenance in a manner as promotes the goals of such buffers as stated in
this site plan approval. This condition shall be deemed to augment and further define
prior site plan approval conditions and site plan features hereby or heretofore approved
by the Town.
June 25, 2018 VOTE AS FOLLOWS:
Jerry Caward - Aye
Motion by: Jerry Caward Al Fiorille - Aye
Seconded by: Deborah Trumbull Larry Sharpsteen-Aye
Deborah Trumbull- Aye
Dean Shea-Aye
Thomas Ellis- Aye
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) square footage comparisons for each element of the
site plan, including open space; (ii) the number and arrangement of floors or offset levels
for the buildings and structures as proposed; (iii) changes in parking configurations and
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