The New Rochelle Planning Board convened on December 16, 2025, at 7:00 PM. Chair Sarah Dodge Brown announced that the first three agenda items were adjourned: PB 26-2023 (single-family dwelling on Premium Point Road) until further notice; PB 32-2024 (28-story mixed-use building at 570 Main Street) adjourned to the January meeting. The board then proceeded with public hearings on three applications, followed by administrative amendments.
The meeting adjourned after all items were completed.
Good evening and welcome to the December sixteenth, twenty twenty-five uh planning board uh meeting for the city of Neurchell. Uh happy December, happy Hanukkah for those of you who celebrate. Um I do have an announcement that the first three items on the agenda are adjourned until uh until further notice. So application PB twenty-six dash twenty twenty-three by Guild Capital LLC for site plan approval to construct a single family dwelling on premium point road adjourned until further notice. Item two point two, application PB thirty-two dash twenty twenty-four by Crossroad Center LLC for site plan approval to demolish four buildings and construct a new twenty-eight story mixed residential, mixed use residential and commercial building at five seventy Main Street is adjourned to the January meeting. We will call those items uh and the applicant will come to the podium and present. Uh at which time members of the planning board will ask questions uh and engage with the applicant. Uh after that uh period of interaction, we will open up the application for comment for members of the public. If you are a member of the public and would like to make a comment, um you can come to the podium, state your name and address for the record. There is a clock timer here, uh large clock, uh you'll have three minutes in which to make your comments. Um and then we'll call the applicant back after public comment to address uh members of the the the issues raised by members of the public. Uh the second portion of our meeting, you're welcome to stay for that, but it's not public hearing. Uh that those are City Council and Board of Zoning referral items. So again, you're welcome to stay, but there'll be no public comment during that portion of the meeting. Uh we are gonna ask uh Benito to please call roll. Sure. Uh Sarah Dodge Brown. Here. Jim Brown is out, Isabella Qualamarquez is out. Doug Hewson. Walter Lippo. Here. Kate Mercado. Christine O'Connell. And staff members with us today, Jeff Bream, Deputy Corporation Counsel, Paul Vaca, building official, Kevin Kane, Director of Planning and Sustainability, and myself, Benito Seha, senior project manager. So I don't think Paul is here. Oh, it's probably better. Okay. We'll talk about that later. Okay, great. It's nice to see you. Sorry for missing you. Um okay, great. Thank you. So I will call our first item for public hearing, item 2.4. Application PB 23-2025 by Mario Conteros for site plan approval to legalize conversion of an existing single-family dwelling into a two-family dwelling, an extension of rear paved area at 148 Meadow Lane, block 448, lot 57 in an R2-7 zone district. Good evening, board members. My name is Cynthia Sorria Canteros. I am one of the architects. Mario Canteros, the other architect. Four Meadows Lane, 148 meadows lane. Before you, we have an application for site plan approval to legalize the conversion of an existing. Could you just lower the mic a little bit? It's a little bit faint to hear you. How's that? That's much better. So we're here to legalize the conversion of an existing one family dwelling into a two-family. The site is located in a neighborhood that is surrounded by two, three, and multifamily residence. If you're if this is the residence right here, 148 metal. If you go to the left of the property, this is a two-family home on the left.