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The Smithtown Town Board met on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM in the Victor T. Liss Board Room. The board unanimously approved a lengthy consent agenda, numerous resolutions, and personnel items. Public comments addressed park privacy, traffic safety, and the town budget. The meeting also featured a presentation on a site plan for Branchinelli's and a statement from the town's Public Information Officer regarding a recent press conference and the launch of a weekly podcast.
Absolute enrollment. Yeah. Okay, Mr. Clerk, would you kindly distribute the budget to the town council? Thank you. Thank you very much. We will begin this afternoon. We have one site plan. Mr. Trotter, you are up. Good afternoon, supervisor and members of the town board. I'm Liam Trotter 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 application is named Branchinelli's. The subject site is located at the northeast corner of New York State Route 11 and town line road in Hopag, just opposite Hopog High School in the town border of the town of Iselip. The proposal is for a parking lot expansion involving the abandonment of an existing recharge basin and modifications to the existing parking lot with associated site work. So currently is a recharge basin behind the building that they plan on infilling and uh expanding their parking lot. Also, the the main um reason for that is to also facilitate uh the sanitary expansion. They're their existing um septic systems are under capacity, so they're gonna be putting uh you know filling that in and also increasing their their septic systems. Um this is a street views of the property. The pictures are a couple years old, but it hasn't changed much since these photos. An idea of what the road frontages look like. Um completely paved, very little landscaping. So this is behind the building. This is this view is on town line road facing north. You can see the recharge basin behind the building, so that'll be getting removed, and that's where the parking lot expansion will be. Uh, this is the existing condition survey, and just to compare what the proposed site plan will look like. Again, the parking lot expansion. Um, they will be shifting the curb cut that is on town line road. They're gonna be shifting it east a little bit to align better with the existing on-site drive aisle to better uh flow the on and off-site traffic. And the proposed landscape plan will be providing the parking uh modifications to the existing lot. They're gonna be creating a further setbacks off of the road frontages to provide additional landscaping to really soften the site from the public view. And the applicant has agreed to six conditions of site plan approval. The first condition is that they obtain applicable 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, and that the uh land clearing is limited to December 1st to February 28th. The third condition is that the applicant shall obtain a highway work permit from the Suffolk County Department of Public Works for improvements along town line road. Fourth condition is that the stormwater pollution prevention plan shall be maintained on site during the duration of construction. The fifth condition is that a meeting shall be held with the planning department at least two weeks prior to the installation of proposed landscaping, and that the area between the sidewalk and parking lot shall be entirely landscaped. And the last condition is that all on-site lighting shall be shielded on the tops and sides and directed straight downward in conformance with the zoning ordinance. Does the board have any questions? Yes, yes. Did I misunderstand, or did you say that they wanted parking in the back as well? Yes, so they're gonna be providing parking. This is the proposed site plan.