October 9th meeting of the Planning Commission to order.

And our first agenda item is an application.

The applicant is Mark Campion of Special Citizens Futures Unlimited, and the owner is Special Citizens Futures Unlimited Inc.

It is a public hearing by the planning commission regarding final site plan approval of the City of Peak Skills zoning ordinance for the proposed level two alterations to an existing family residence for use as a new IRA individualized residence alternate residential alternative residence on property located in the R1A one family residence district at 1474 Elm Street.

So I'm going to ask Jean, did you want to present or shall I just ask the applicant to present?

Okay.

So I think then what I'll do is I'll open the public hearing.

Can I have a motion to open the public hearing?

So move.

Second?

Please.

Second.

All in favor?

Hi.

Okay.

So the applicant will present on this application.

Good evening.

My name is Jody Cross.

I'm from the law firm of Zaren and Steimetz.

I'm here on behalf of Special Citizens Futures Unlimited Inc., uh, the owner of uh 1474 Elm Street, which as you noted was located in the R1A zoning district.

I'm here with uh from uh special citizens, Alex uh Alex D.

Mayo, uh Mark Campioni and Steven Matrone, who's sitting right here.

So last year uh the my client uh sent a notice to the city under the mental hygiene law, Section 4134, which is known as the Padavan Law.

And uh and according to that law, they established their community residential facility on the property to provide housing for five developmentally disabled adults, and this house will be licensed by OPWDD, the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

We're here tonight because a public hearing was scheduled for this um for site plan application.

But when our firm Kate was retained two days ago, um I looked at the papers and I realized that uh I think we're here in error.

We are here in error.

Um, under the Padovan law, community residential facilities are required to be treated as any other single family house for purposes of zoning and other local laws and ordinances.

And that's because this house is going to be operated as a family.

There's no change in use.

They're going to be a family unit, and in fact, your zoning code defines family in part to include Padawan houses.

Um it's a family, they're going to operate as a family, they eat together, socialize, go on uh uh you know, have meals together, et cetera.

Um they're proposing alterations in the home that are almost entirely interior.

They're doing some exterior aesthetic fixes like the walkway, there's a basement window they're changing out, but otherwise this is an interior renovation, which you otherwise wouldn't have a single family resident uh come in for a sp site plan.

So respectfully, although your board doesn't have jurisdiction, we do know that this was noticed as a public hearing.

And we know that the public has questions, and what our goal here is to become a fabric of the community.

So rather than ask you guys to adjourn or uh get us off the agenda, we thought we'd come in and answer any questions you might have or the public might have.

So thank you.

Um so I just have is there somebody one of you who can explain before the but before the public gets up to ask their questions?

Um, because I do know that people have questions that pertain to the exact things that are being done on the site.

Um, and I kind of know what those mostly are, but can somebody to my knowledge there's um there are two a walkway that's being repaired, correct win patio, a walkway that's being replaced, and a laundry room that's being enclosed in the basement.

And you mentioned the window that's being changed out.

Correct.

And as far as as far as I know, that's are there other renovations?

Do you why don't you come up and introduce yourself?

Yeah, you have to come to the microphone and give your give us your name.

And we apologize our architect locked.

No.

Hi, it's my name's Mark Campioni.

I'm the chief financial officer for Special Citizens Futures Unlimited.

The majority of the renovations that are being made are interior where we're changing some doors because the doors in the rooms are old.

In the uh lower level of the facility, uh there is a bedroom.

Uh the window in that bedroom, which is grandfathered in by the city of Peakskill as a legal bedroom.

We decided it should be a little bit bigger, so we are uh opening up the window opening to meet current code, and that is not visible to the street is behind the fencing that it currently exists.

The laundry facilities are actually facing into that bedroom in the basement.

We're actually just reversing it and putting some walls up around it.

Uh the only walkway that is visible to the street is the walkway to the front door.

It is currently uh brick pavers that are very loose and wobbly, and as a matter of fact, one of the rails that was up has fallen over already.

So we're we're gonna replace that walkway.

And the only other thing that we're doing that could be visible from the outside is we're putting in central air conditioning, which I assume a lot of individual home residences do.