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Note: The transcript and agenda indicate the meeting occurred on Monday, September 14, 2026, but the instruction requires using September 15, 2026 as the meeting date. This summary uses the required date but notes the discrepancy.
This meeting featured a major presentation by US Home, LLC (Lennar) on a revised plan for 102 townhouses at 1 & 3 Campus Drive and 8 Carey Court, including a zoning amendment request and a proposed SEQRA exemption under the state's "Let Them Build" reforms. A public hearing was held on Introductory Local Law No. 5 of 2026 concerning landscaping, tree removal, and site plan requirements. The board also approved 20 consent agenda resolutions, including budget amendments, personnel actions, bid awards, and other administrative items.
All right, I'm going to bore you again. Uh, hopefully, because apparently I was muted. All right, welcome to the board meeting those are pleasant today on Monday, September 14. Uh, as is always the case, you can watch on Zoom or pick up an on-demand by Pleasantville.gov. So, uh, order order of stuff here. We're going to give the floor to the folks at Lenar, and uh, they will present the status of their project and explain it. Any questions from the board will engage, and then we'll invite comment from anybody here on that subject or any other subject in public comment, but we're going to try to keep that to about a half an hour. None of us want to stay here terribly uh lead deep into the night, and we have a lot of other things to do. So let me just make a couple of points about that up front. First is that uh there is a required public hearing about all this. Uh, so there will be uh an opportunity for any and everyone to comment on the record. Um in addition to that, I just want to report to everyone, and I can speak for all five of us, literally, every email you have sent to us, uh, we have read. Uh, it has come to us, uh, we have compiled them. And so anything you have said to us via email, we have heard, and it's on the record. Uh, I say that simply to say the best thing for all of us, I think, is if we can probe into questions we have about what has been proposed and where it stands, uh, and get realistic answers for all of that. We're here to hear from you. We're here to hear from the applicant. Uh, and uh, with that, I'm both the folks at Lenar to uh present their project. My name is Tony Joffrey. I'm a member of the law firm Huddy and Bader, four forty-five. Hamilton Avenue White Plains, New York, here on behalf of the applicant. I'm joined this evening from Lenar, Bob Geiger, Bob Geiger, Director of Entitlements, Jake Gunning, Director of Land Acquisitions. From JMC Planning, Diego Villarreal and Paul Sisek, as well as Mark Pacharo, traffic engineer, who you have not met yet. My colleague Dan Patrick is here from AKRF, Ashley Live. And we're here in support of the petition to amend the official zoning map. And as we explained previously to you when we met before you, and as part of our submissions, this is a two-part map amendment proposal. First portion of the proposed map amendment is to reclassify eight carry court, which is currently classified in the RRR residential district, and group and reclassify that into the campus office digital. One campus drive and three campus drive are currently classified in the campus office district. And if in carry court is classified from the RRR to the CO, we would then ask that one COVID Strive, three campus drive, and in carry court be classified into the PUD district. That's the formal petition request that's before you. That report outlined our compliance with the master plan as well as the PUD checklist and reviewed our substantial materials and in particular the technical memorandum that's prepared by AKRF, which went through that in exhaustive detail, which also identified the benefits to this project, benefits for the project itself as well as benefits for the village as a whole. Along the way, and in response to comments that have been made from this board, comments that have been made from staff and consultants in their respective memoranda, staff comments from the planning commission, as well as the comments from the public. There have been substantial revisions to the plan. We believe those provisions have been made for the better. This evening, we are going to walk you through the current plan as proposed, identifying and highlighting for you as well as for the public, the substantial revisions that have been made so that everybody understands what the current project is and how it is transformed since our original submission. We're then going to highlight some of the planning issues, going through the highlights of the technical memorandum, the benefits of the proposal. And then we're also going to close with identifying very quickly some of the green building practices that we intend to implement. This plan has not been fully baked as of yet because we're only in the rezoning portion of the application. If this board does grant this proposal, this petition to rezone the property, we will then have to go back to the planning commission and commence site plan and subdivision review. So there will be a significant, much more technical information that will be discussed and produced at that time. The project has not been fully engineered as of yet. Again, we're not going to fully engineer a project if we don't know that the project can proceed. So that's effectively where we're at at this point. I'm confident that the uh board's going to have questions. We certainly know that there's a lot of public engagement. This is not a public hearing this evening, as Mr.