The Huntington Planning Board convened on June 17, 2026, opening with the Pledge of Allegiance. The agenda included a pre-application appointment for The Preserve at Indian Hills Phase II, approval of prior meeting minutes, 90-day filing-time extensions for four subdivisions, a three-month lot-line extension, conditional site plan approval for 1044 New York Avenue, a transfer of density flow rights (TDFR) approval, four subdivision items, one lot-line change, and two Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) referrals. All resolutions on the regular agenda passed unanimously. Note: the meeting is time-stamped 11:00:00 UTC on June 17, 2026, while the transcript opens with 'Good evening,' indicating a local evening session.
Good evening, everyone. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. To the Republicans and Justice. Thank you, everyone. So before we get into our regular agenda, we have an appointment for the Indian Hill subdivision. Is that my queue? That's your cue. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the planning board. It's uh good to see you on a uh on a June evening. And uh my name is uh Michael McCarthy, for those that don't know me, and I am a partner with the law firm of uh for Chelle, Deegan, and Tirana with offices at 444 New York Avenue in Huntington, though. So uh keep my Huntington roots. Kept my office, keep my Huntington roots. I really appreciate the opportunity to come and speak to the board. I thought maybe things weren't uh busy enough for you, so I thought I'd come down and stoke it a little bit about Indian Hills. Um and all kidding aside, um, you know, we went through a really long uh process for Indian Hills to get it approved. Uh if anyone has driven by, you can see that the condominiums are under construction on the northwest portion of the property. Mr. Tunis, who's here with Tom Dixon, who is their uh project engineer with Nelson and Pope uh is here to answer any questions. Um any chance, Vin, you've got the uh the plans. Maybe you can uh why don't you start with uh can you start with the um with lot five on the map, the approved plan. If you remember when Indian Hills was approved, it was a series of condominium lots. Uh Mr. Black, I know you're new to this, so you'll you'll be absorbing a lot of this, but there was, I think if I recall, and I'm doing this by memory, there were six condominium lots, which contemplated the preservation of the golf course, and it contemplated condominiums in duplexes on three different, I'm gonna call them locations on the property, we'll call them neighborhoods. Um was um at the northwest corner, uh access from Mystic into the Indian Hills Golf Course. Those condominiums are under construction. If you ever visit the property or take a ride down Mystic, you can see that that's happening. Um a smaller cluster of condominiums off of Fresh Pond Road, and and then of course the condominiums that are being demonstrated here on the approved plan, that is the approved map. It's just colored for your ease of looking at it, and that shows 18 duplexes with a total of 36 condominiums. Now, if you remember, just to kind of back up a little bit, Mr. Chairman and members of the board, Indian Hills, when it received preliminary subdivision approval and conditional final subdivision approval, had a total of 154.56 acres of property. And the idea was to preserve the golf course in perpetuity and to develop, you know, kind of on the periphery. Um that materialized and and that's that's happening presently. And along the way, uh this board engaged in a very extensive environmental review. It started with um a long form environmental assessment form, then it went into um a positive declaration pursuant to CECRA. Uh there was a draft environmental impact statement, there were public hearings on the environmental impact statement. Um, and then it culminated in a final environmental impact statement with findings. To say the least, this board uh probably conducted not less than five public hearings, and uh the zoning board of appeals as well, I think conducted at least one and maybe two. Uh and there might have been an information meeting along the way, and I just it's been so long I can't remember. But importantly, and this is the most important part, and this is the reason why we're here tonight, is um even though the lot yield analysis back in the day, if if Mr. Chairman you can remember, was 99 lots, um, the applicant and the planning department staff um settled in on the development of 86 lots. And of the 86 lots that were granted approval in the preliminary and subdivision approval and conditional final, 74 units were slated to move forward with 12 units to be held in reserve. And the resolution that granted preliminary subdivision approval dated May 12, 2021, um, indicated that you know, of the remaining uh 12 units, um, that um that these these townhomes may be constructed at a future date uh with an application back to the planning board. So this is an introduction of this proposed application that we're going to make. We would like to introduce the 12 additional condominiums at this time. But there's more. This was volunteered as such, and the property is owned R40. That was a self-imposed restriction that Mr. Tunis and his partners had put on the property. So the question begs, where do the 12 condominium units, where do they best land?