The Smithtown Town Board held a regular meeting on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 7:00 PM at the Eugene Cannataro Senior Citizens Center. The meeting included two public hearings, a consent agenda, numerous resolutions, and time for public comment. The primary focus was on a controversial zone change petition by Beechwood Smithtown, LLC for a 288-unit condominium development known as Country Pointe Estates at Kings Park. The board also considered a noise law amendment, approved various administrative items, and heard public comments on a proposed battery storage facility and the town budget.
(Note: The agenda lists this as #2025-02, while the minutes reference #2023-02; this discrepancy is noted.)
The applicant, represented by attorney Vincent Pizzulli of Beechwood, proposed a zone change from R-21 to Planned Residential District (PRD) for 72.6 acres at the northwest corner of Lawrence Road and Old Northport Road. The plan calls for 288 condominium homes (259 market-rate, 29 affordable), a clubhouse, pools, pickleball courts, and other amenities. The project would reduce density from 6 to 4 units per acre, replace 156 attached units with 53 detached single-family homes, and add a second entrance to avoid neighborhood cut-through traffic. A Membrane BioReactor sewage treatment plant would be installed.
Applicant’s Position (Vincent Pizzulli):
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Meeting, please join us for the pledge. Councilwoman Nullock. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Supervisor Will. Hi. Here. Councilwoman Mullik. Councilwoman Tarola. Councilman Wilder. Yeah. All right, we will begin this evening. We have five site plans. Mr. Trotter. Good evening, Supervisor, member of the town board. We have shadow with the planning department and I have four site plans to present tonight to the board acting as the board of site plan review. First application is case number 25-06, Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle. The subject site is located on the west side of Brookside Drive in Smithtown. The proposal is for playground equipment upgrades, a new sports court and retaining walls involving tree removal, regrading, and associated site work. This is the proposed site plan. The scope of work will take place on the north side of the school. Here's a larger scale version. So they'll be upgrading some playground equipment, a new sports court. They'll be regrading this area so it's flat to facilitate these new courts. There'll be a two and a half foot tall retaining wall around the corner of the north side of the property with ever new evergreen plantings around the perimeter to screen from the adjacent residences. The applicant has agreed to two conditions of site plan approval. First, that the applicant obtained the necessary permits from the building department. And the second condition is that they install a tree preservation fence around all trees to be preserved on site. Okay. Okay. The next application is case number 25 08, Steel Forest 500 Comac Road. Subject site is located on the east side of Comac Road, just north of the Northern State Parkway. The proposal is for a proposed parking lot expansion involving the construction of 219 land bank parking stalls with associated site work and a new canopy over an entrance door. This is the proposed site plan. The scope of work will take place on the north end of the site. The purpose for this parking lot expansion is because of Stony Brook Medicine is going to be taking over additional space within the building, and they anticipate uh more patients coming to the site. The applicant has agreed to five conditions of site plan approval. The first is that they obtain permits from the town building department. The second condition is that they install a tree preservation fence around all trees to be preserved on site. The third condition is that the applicant obtain a highway work permit from the Suffolk County Department of Public Works. The fourth condition is that the applicant uh maintain the stormwater pollution prevention plan on site for the duration of construction. And the last condition is that prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, the existing recharge basin is to be cleaned of any accumulated sediment. And this is just a more uh scaled in version of the site plan. This is the the northwest corner of the property and the northeast. Any questions on this application? Question about the board. No.