The Yorktown Town Board held a work session meeting on December 10, 2024, at 12:30 PM. The meeting included public hearings, discussion of development projects, a presentation on battery energy storage safety, and consideration of zoning amendments. Key actions included adoption of a local law to remove recycling facilities from light industrial zoning, approval of a negative declaration and rezoning for the Toll Brothers 118-unit active adult community, and scheduling of further discussion on the Navajo Fields overlay district extension.
Good evening everyone and welcome to the uh work session meeting for December 10th, 2024. If we could all uh stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. And uh we'll have our retired firefighter Mark Ianuchi lead us. And which stands one nation under God of liberty and justice for all if we could remain standing for a moment of silence as we uh remember all of those that are victims of uh violence and uh thank those first responders who keep our streets safe and our military who keeps our country safe thank you amen. So we're gonna open up with a public hearing. Uh we're gonna convene a public hearing to consider an MS4 stormwater management permit and tree removal permit application submitted by PANY Industries Inc. for property located at 2991 Hickory Street. Um Mr. Panny, if you could even we're just looking to get approval so we can start building a new house on that area. Okay, do we did you have uh presentation today here or no? I don't think I need a presentation. Okay, all right. No, no, I I thought I heard someone say you were presenting. So uh Dan, why don't you come up as well? These are the comments we've received. Thank you. Yeah, they would affidavit. I have some written. Good evening. Um so this is one of these applications where we've actually talked about tweaking the uh thresholds for administrative permits. Um it's a single family home with a septic system and stormwater. Um and what it does is it puts the application above the threshold for administrative permit. So here we are. I mean it's a straightforward single family home, but like I say, it it crosses that threshold, so the town board is the approval authority on this application. Gotcha. Um we really don't have any objections to it. We have uh a memo out there um from August, which a couple of minor comments, so we'll be working with the engineer to wrap that up. But otherwise, um, you know, as long as that's incorporated into the resolution uh we're good to go with the application. Very good. I see your memo in here. I think it's the same one I have. March I know this is March 1st. This one is 21st. Thank you. Yes, we see the address. August 21st. So your concerns are minor. Yeah. It all seems pretty uh pretty there pretty there. I also have comments from the conservation board. Um so determining with a qualified arborist any dead, dying, or invasive trees of the 32 to be removed, removal of dead and disease trees are permitted by the tree ordinance and should be removed. And uh then we'll know the determin the required mitigation. Um we have uh planning board just asking engineer to look over it twice. And uh county planning said not our uh jurisdiction. All right, and Will's looks like Will's email from March 1st is uh similar to yours, a couple things that look like they've been taken off the August email. All right, I have a question. What is the tree mitigation plan for 32 trees being removed? Well, I'm ready for the the uh tree board to give me you got to talk to the mic. Oh I'm sorry. Um I was waiting for the tree board to give me um some type of guidance for what they wanted in replacement of, and I haven't heard from them, so I'm not sure what they're looking for.