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The Pleasantville Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board held a joint meeting on December 5, 2025, at Village Hall. Commissioners reviewed three main items: an informal discussion regarding the Pleasantville Country Club's access request, a new application for a parking area and stairway relocation at 85 Nannahagan Road, and a signage update for Wells Fargo Bank at 44 Washington Avenue. The meeting also included approval of the October 22, 2025, meeting minutes.
Okay. Right. You're ready. Yep. All right. We good. Welcome to the Pleasantville Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board meeting. Present tonight are commissioners Harry Freedis, David Keller, myself, Russ Klein, Henry Lebanon, and Eric Brotherton, our planning consultant Sarah Brown, and our building inspector, Robert Deus. So there is not an application before us. Welcome for which we are grateful. Thank you. I'm George Marcese. I'm the current president of Pleasantville Country Club, which is 72 individual homes. A lot of people, even in Pleasantville, does not know it exists, but it's there. May I give you a piece of paper? Sure. Just because I don't know if every if everyone knows what I'll be discussing. So there's five. This has been dismissed report, hasn't it? Not what I will be saying now. It has. Three years ago. It's the same location, correct? Same location. Okay. Sorry. But but we're talking about uh something different. 30 grades. What I'm here for, as we say in formal, is there are certain things I know we're going to need to do, and I want to not waste your time or my time when we come back with the formal application. There isn't a whole lot of protocol information. So it would be it will be helpful for me to just outline what we're planning to do or what we'll ask permission to do. So the 37 years about the then planning commission and whoever developed Pleasantville Country Club reached an agreement with this declaration. The declaration provided that there could only be for the 72 homes, one access egress. What we want to do is there is a quote emergency gate, which is permissible. What we want to do is make that gate uh so that the 72 homeowners can have a clicker and get out through that entrance. We can't do away with the gate because in going back three years ago, there were different things uh attempted, but what happens is if we did away with the gate, all residents in Pleasantville would come in through and use it as a cut through. But we're more concerned with the with having uh uh a safety egress. I've had uh uh and I'm not um I'm I'm sort of talking, not uh making making the case, but uh uh the I've had the fire chief come, he's and they do they you can ask them and they do an analysis. We we have the the roads inside Pleasantville Country Club are only 24 feet. Uh and when you bring a if you for example, if you bring a fire engine in, you can't get you could never get around. So you so you depending where you live, you can't get out because uh the gate and and it perhaps you could say, well, sure, but it's an emergency gate. Someone, if there's a fire, you you want to wait with your family to get out of there. It it's 37 years later, and it's not quite the same instance. Now, when we when we get to uh hopefully discussing in detail uh what I will be what I will be asking or a prime purpose here is no matter how we do this, because of our neighbors, there's everyone will say traffic study.