The Smithtown Town Board met on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM in the Victor T. Liss Board Room. The meeting featured a public hearing on Proposed Local Law #13-2025 to override the 2026 state tax cap, approval of a consent agenda with 19 comptroller items, numerous resolutions (including SEQRA negative declarations, bid awards, and operational approvals), personnel actions, and a general public comment period. All votes were recorded as unanimous (5-0) except as noted in the minutes.
Here, Councilman McCarthy. Yeah. Councilwoman Mulligan. Councilwoman and Zarolo. Here. Councilman Lowman. Yeah. Okay, we'll begin this afternoon. We have one site plan. Mr. Trotter, you're up. Good afternoon, Supervisor. Members of the town board. I'm Liam Trotto with the planning department, and I have one site plan to present this afternoon to the board, acting as the board of site plan review. The applicant is McDonald's Comac 100 LLC. The subject site is located near the southwest corner of Road and the Long Island Expressway Service Road North. It's part of the subject site is part of the overall Lowe's shopping center. A couple years ago, Lowe's the site was um they separated in two out parcels, one near the uh the east side along Crooked Hill Road and the southeast corner. So this this area highlighted in red is the subject site for the new proposal, which is the construction of a new 4,310 square foot one-story food retail building with a drive-thru and associated site work. So you can see uh towards the north, the Shake Shack was approved in April this year. They haven't begun construction yet, but I think they anticipate on doing construction uh concurrently with both new buildings. This is an enlarged site plan, so the access to the site will maintain along Crooked Hill and the service road, so there won't be any changes to the existing curb cuts, but only thing changing is the internal access. So there'll be uh two curb cuts to access the McDonald's restaurant, and they'll align with the existing internal um uh curb cut so you can access into the low shopping center parking lot and then it'll line up to the Shake Shack uh parking lot as well. So everything aligns easy to access through the site. This is the proposed architecture of the building. We'll have a brick facade with some uh fiber cement board and some faux wood accents. The applicant has agreed to 11 conditions of site plan approval, uh, most of which are standard. The first condition is that the applicant obtain applicable permits from the town building department prior to construction. The second condition is that the applicant install a tree preservation fence around all trees to be preserved on site. The third condition is that the plans shall be reviewed and approved by the fire marshal. The fourth condition is that the applicant must obtain a highway work permit from a permit from the Suffolk County Department of Public Works for improvements along Crooked Hill Road. The fifth condition is that a fee for soil removal must be submitted to the town engineering department. The sixth condition is that the stormwater pollution prevention plan shall be maintained on site during the duration of construction. The seventh condition is that the facility owner, which is McDonald's, must file with the county clerk a deed covenant requiring that the ongoing operation and maintenance of the post-construction of stormwater practices. Um but except it's the Lowe's facility, must file with the county clerk and modify the covenant requiring the ongoing operation maintenance of the post-construction stormwater taxes. The ninth condition is that the applicant shall grant a permanent basement to the lows for the maintenance of the roadway and all drainage structures that will remain their responsibility. The tenth condition is that the dumpster enclosure shall be bricked to match the principal building. And the last condition is that all on-site lighting shall be directed straight downwards downward in conformance with the zoning ordinance, and that all polls from the McDonald's also match the Shake Shack and the Lowe's shopping center, so it's consistent throughout the site. Any questions by the board? No. No. Mr. Trotter, thank you. This uh site plan will be voted on at the end of the board meeting. Thank you. Okay, we'll be uh continue as sitting as board of water commissioners. Uh comments on that site plan? No comments? No problem. Minutes approval, September 18, 2025, 2025-2026, Smithtown and St.