Meeting Overview

TOWN  OF ORANGETOWN     ARCHITECTURE   AND COMMUNITY  APPEARANCE BOARD OF REVIEW – MEETING  OF MAY 15, 2014

 

MEMBERS PRESENT: Jack  Messina, Chairman;   Blyth  Yost,  Andrew Andrews and Deborah Stuhlweissenburg

 

MEMBERS ABSENT: James  Dodge,  Jill  Fieldstein   and Stephen Swenney ALSO PRESENT:  Richard   Pakola,   Deputy Town  Attorney; Ann  Marie  Ambrose, Stenographer  and  Cheryl  Coopersmith,   Chief Clerk

 

Jack Messina,   Chairman, called  the meeting  to order at 7:30 p.m.

Mr.  Messina  read  the agenda.    Hearings   as listed   on  this meeting’s   agenda  which   are made  a part of these minutes were held  as noted  below.

 

Continued  from the September 6,  2013 Meeting: Royal Caribbean Artificial  Palm Tree Plan

 

ACABOR #13 – 46

 

Review of Palm  Tree  Plan

Route 303 Overlay  Zone

74.19   I 1   I 2; LI zoning  district

Postponed to

June 5, 2014

Meeting

 

New Item:

Verizon Wireless  Generator Plans

Review  of Generator  Plans

 

 

 

Approved

 

ACABOR #14–14

 

68.20 I 1   I 1./30;   LI zoning district

as Presented

 

 

A motion   was made to adjourn  the meeting   by Blythe   Yost and  seconded  by Deborah  Stuhlweissenburg  and agreed  by all  in  attendance.  The  Decisions  on the above  hearings,   which  Decisions  are made  by the Board before the conclusion of the meeting,  are mailed  to the applicant.    The verbatim   minutes   are not

transcribed,    but are available.     As there was no further   business   before the

Board,   the  meeting  was adjourned  at 8:15   p.m.    The next ACABOR  Meeting  is scheduled  for June 5, 2014.

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FROM:

Leslie  Snyder, Synder & Snyder,   LLP,

94 White Plains Road, Tarrytown,  New York 10591

Architecture  and  Community Appearance Board of Review

 

 

RE:                Verizon Wireless  Generator  Plans:  The application  of Verizon Wireless,   applicant,  for Tri Bee LTD,  owner,  for the review of a generator Plan  at a site to be known as “Verizon  Wireless  Generator  Plans”,   in accordance  with Article 16  of the Town Law of the State of New York and Chapter 2 of the Code of the  Town of Orangetown. The site is  located at 60-70 West Dexter Plaza,

Pearl River, Town of Orangetown, Rockland  County, New York, and as shown

on the Orangetown  Tax Map as Section  68.20,  Block 1,     Lot 1./30  in the LI zoning

district.

 

Heard  by the Architecture and Community Appearance  Board of Review of the Town of Orangetown  at a meeting held Thursday,  May 15,  2014,  at which  time the Board made the following  determinations:

 

Michael  Sheridan   and Andrew Botta appeared and testified for the applicant. The Board received the  following  items:

1. Plans prepared by Tectonic Engineering  & surveying  Consultants,   P.C.: T-1:  Title Sheet

C-1:  Plot Plan,   Setback Map & Notes

 

C-1 A:  Property Owners List

 

C-1 B: Property Owners List

 

C-2:  Site  Plan,  Site  Detail Plan and Notes

 

C-3: Generator  Plan,  Sections   & Details

 

C-4:  Routing  Plan & Details

 

1. B. Material Sheet,  signed   by Leslie  Snyde

 

1. C. A letter from Snyder  & Snyder,   LLP,  signed  by Leslie Snyder,  dated

April 11,  2014. FINDINGS OF FACT:

1. 1. The Board found that the project consists  of a natural gas generator in connection  with  a wireless communication facility  at the Dexter Plaza

location.    The generator  is necessary to ensure  that the facility  will continue to operate during  periods  of prolonged power outages.

 

2. 2. The Board found that the proposed generator would  be located in  an interior  court yard and would  not visible  from the str

 

 

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3. 3. The  Board  found  that a fence  with   brown  slats   would   screen   the generator.

 

4. 4. The Board found  that the  area  has experienced    flooding  in the past,  and the applicant   would  review  the situatio

 

 

 

The hearing    was then opened   to the Public.    There  being no one  to be heard from the  public,   the Public Hearing  portion   of the meeting   was closed.

 

 

 

DECISION:      In  view  of the foregoing    and  the testimony    before  the  Board, the  application    was  APPROVED    AS PRESENTED.

 

 

The foregoing    resolution   was presented  and  moved  by Blythe   Yost and seconded  by Andrew   Andrews   and carried  as follows;   Jack  Messina,   Chairman, aye;  Jill Fieldstein,     absent;  James  Dodge,   absent;   Blythe   Yost,   aye;

Andrew  Andrews,   aye,  Stephen   Sweeney,    absent  and  Deborah    Stuhlweissenburg, aye.

 

The Clerk to the Board  is  hereby   authorized,    directed,    and  empowered     to sign this   Decision    and   file a certified    copy in the Office of the Town  Clerk  and  the Office of the  Architecture  and  Community  Appearance     Board   of Review.

 

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