West
Carthage Planning Board
Regular Meeting
June
6, 2012
Board Members Present: Ronald Blinebry, Chairperson
David Rohr, Tom Valentine,
Joe Onyon, Paul Pierce
Recording Secretary: Lou Ann Smith
Others Present: None
Chairman Blinebry called the meeting
to order at 6:30 p.m.
Minutes
for the Planning Board regular meeting on May 30, 2012 were reviewed. On motion
by J. Onyon, seconded by D. Rohr minutes were approved and carried unanimously.
R.
Blinebry opens the meeting with the proposed rezoning of the Broad St. property
Mike Lundy is requesting and the local Subdivision law.
M.
Lundy’s sketch plan is reviewed showing the Arterial District. R. Blinebry
refers to the Village Zoning District Map and states that the properties from
Dr. Vanier’s (possibly including his) up to the corner of Rt.26 and Rt. 126 are
located in the Arterial District and that the property in question is entirely
in the Arterial District, front to back. T. Valentine asks how deep the
frontage is on the property that M. Lundy wants to leave commercial. D. Rohr
states it looks to be roughly 300 feet; R. Blinebry agrees but states the plan
is only a sketch and is rough so it is only a guess.
R.
Blinebry states he and P. Pierce spoke after the last meeting and P. Pierce’s
thoughts were how much of the property should the Planning Board agree to be
rezoned from Arterial to PDD, that they might consider leaving the front
Arterial and rezone the 2 area’s that the developer will be developing housing
on into PDD. R. Blinebry reminds the Board that about a year ago the criteria
for developing in the Arterial District was addressed and changed to benefit
any business that showed interest in developing in the Arterial District. R.
Blinebry states he agrees with P. Pierce and in his opinion the Board should
consider leaving the front that will be commercial as Arterial and only change
the back into PDD.
D.
Rohr states with PDD the Board would have more control how the area is
developed and his thought was M. Lundy’s presentation seemed to come across as,
if the property were rezoned to PDD it would be more beneficial to
him/developer, R. Blinebry states only if the plans were approved.
T.
Valentine asks if M. Lundy has finalized purchasing the property, R. Blinebry
states no, only an option has been put on the property to date.
T.
Valentine asks did he understand M. Lundy to say he would ask to subdivide the
property first. R. Blinebry answers yes.
R.
Blinebry asks how the board members feel they should proceed, P. Pierce states
leave the front that will be commercial as Arterial and rezone the back to PDD.
Board members agree.
R.
Blinebry states when they receive a Preliminary with actual measurements, that
will determine how far back to start the PDD and in the PDD area they would be
able to control spacing between the apartment buildings, as that is a concern
of the board members, they don’t want to see buildings bunched together. P.
Pierce states he would like to see nice green space and appropriate spacing
between buildings. Board members agree.
R.
Blinebry states that the Village Attorney will need to be involved and will be
asked to attend meetings during the process.
R.
Blinebry reviews the PDD in the Village code book.
J.
Onyon states when they receive a Site Plan it needs to be reviewed with caution
so everything is done correctly.
R.
Blinebry reviews a letter and sample development agreement the Clerk sent to
the Village Attorney to review and the response from the Attorney. R. Blinebry
states that the Planning Board should research Engineering firms and present a
proposal letter to the Village Board recommending they solicit for an
Engineering Firm to protect the Village during the development process. R.
Blinebry spoke to the Town of LeRay Clerk, Mary Smith who was very helpful, she
forwarded names of some Engineering firms and Ron suggests they research some
of the firms and put together a list of credited firms and then recommend to
the Village Board to select RFP and hire a firm to oversee the development for
the best interest of the Village.
R.
Blinebry also states that Mary Smith told him that for any development that has
taken place in the Town of LeRay it was customary for the developer to do the
full environmental and the Town’s engineering firm reviewed it.
P.
Pierce states that whatever firm is hired, that firm needs to understand they
will complete the project start to finish.
T.
Valentine asks how far back can the Planning Board mandate sidewalks, curbing
and roads? R. Blinebry states the project as a whole.
P.
Pierce states that if the developer expects the streets to be included as
Village streets then the streets will have to meet with Village code for
streets.
R.
Blinebry asks that the members look over the hand outs and they may meet again
in a couple of weeks.
R.
Blinebry states that the owner of the Caprara property has received his denial
letter from him and has applied for a Use Variance from the ZBA and is
currently waiting to hear when he will need to meet with the ZBA, so it may not
be too long before the owner may be coming to the Planning Board with his
plans.
No
comments from the Board members.
D.Rohr
motions to adjourn, second by P. Pierce. The meeting is closed at 7:43 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Lou
Ann Smith
Recording
Secretary
