The Syracuse Planning Commission held its first meeting of the new year on January 12, 2026, at approximately 10:56 PM. The meeting began with approval of the minutes from December 15, 2025, followed by action on two subdivision applications: a resubdivision at 920–22 Willis Avenue in Essex and a three‑mile‑limit subdivision in the Town of Onondaga. Both applications were approved with specified conditions.
And welcome to this first meeting of the new year of the Syracuse Planning Commission. We have a very full agenda. And after we take care of our minutes, we'll get to both items. Minutes from the last meeting of 2025 have been distributed distributed in advance of tonight's meeting. That was our meeting on December 15th. Are there any corrections or revisions to those minutes? Otherwise, a motion to accept would be in order. Thank you. Shop city. So I'm not sure how we want to take care of noticing that in the record. If we want to make an adjustment in the minutes, or if we want to deal with it as old business tonight. So you guys told them to do an easement, or they were we approved it with a 30-day condition that the easement had to be completed within 30 days because it was the assumption that the usement was on its way, but the easements completed now. It arrived the next day in the mail. Okay. Yeah, it actually came in that evening. But we weren't aware of that until the next day, but it's shocking how we brought it up and then it got responsible. End of story. So it stands. Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any other discussion on the motion for the minutes. If not, all in favor, please indicate by saying aye. Aye. Those opposed, say nay. Any abstentions? The minutes of our last 2025 meeting are approved. We move into new business. By way of process, uh, for those who might be unfamiliar with our process, as each application is announced by a member of the staff. We ask that the applicant or the representative come forward to the podium in the center of the room, provide their name and address for the record, and then a brief summary of the application involved. Following questions from the commission members, um, we will offer an opportunity for the public to speak in favor of the application and likewise an opportunity to speak in opposition to the application. Where comments are offered in opposition, the uh applicant will be uh encouraged to return to the podium to address the comments made in opposition. So those are our uh rules of procedure, if you will. So with that, I think we're ready for our first item of new business. Yes, R-25-62, a resubdivision at 920-22 Willis Av in Essex. This is in the R1 zone district. As far as we know, and with research that the city zoning office has conducted, this property has always existed in its current configuration with two residential structures on the lot. They were built in the late 1890s prior to zoning regulations coming into effect. So Mr. Shire and his family have owned this since uh the 1970s, and now they wish to sell one of the residential structures, which is necessitating the need to divide it into two lots so that each structure sits on its own individual lot. We worked with the city zoning office with respect to lot size, frontage, and setbacks, which is why you see the irregular shape, as well as elements that were in the right of way. And all of that feedback was incorporated into the resubdivision map shown and prepared by land surveyors. Thank you. Are there questions from the commission members regarding the application? It seems pretty straightforward what we're trying to do here. We have some non-conformities that can't be gotten rid of, but because we have continued residency, that's not a problem. We have some other nonconformities that we are getting rid of. Driveway problem, the fence problem that seems all good.