July 3, 2025 — Planning Board

Planning Board Meeting

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0:00Thank you.
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8:36Thank you, Heather.
8:36All right, let's keep moving on.
8:38Number two, 305 West Main Street site plan with Heather again.
8:54Just give your name and address, Marty.
8:57Just give your name so we know.
8:58Oh, yeah.
8:58Martin Semelski, 22.
9:00Dean, Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead.
9:01Thank you.
9:02Okay.
9:03So this is a site plan application proposing to construct a new 3,000-square-foot commercial
9:09building along with associated site improvements on a 19,780-square-foot parcel located at
9:16305 West Main Street.
9:18It's within the Peconic River Community Zoning Use District.
9:22They are proposing retail.
9:23That's what the site is parked at, and retail is a permitted use within that zoning use
9:28district.
9:28Okay.
9:30I'll note that, you know, the existing buildings that were there, I don't know if anyone was
9:34on the board.
9:35There was a prior site plan that approved called the Simple Table that was going to
9:38reuse that front building, which was previously a tire shop.
9:42That, unfortunately, didn't move forward, and the buildings just continued to deteriorate.
9:48There were a lot of issues with squatters, people setting fires.
9:53So code enforcement actually had to do a blighted property.
9:57You know, they had to write them for that.
9:58Okay.
9:58Thank you.
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11:00DEC is looking for. Are they in the sewer district there? So they are within the sewer district but I
11:06think the site was served by an existing probably old outdated sanitary system. I did refer it to
11:12the health department as well as the sewer district. They'll probably have to abandon the
11:16existing sanitary system and then make a connection to the sewer district. I referred it to the water
11:21district as well. Their comments are incorporated into my staff report. You know they'll have to
11:26make a formal application there and depending on the you know the water demands for the building
11:32I don't know if they'll be able to use the existing line or not. I think Robin sent an email to us.
11:40It was I think a one inch line that exists. I think it's a small one. Oh no it's a five inch.
11:45It's a five inch water service so it might have to be upgraded. Obviously they would go through
11:49the approval process with the water district. I did refer it to the fire marshal's office and
11:55you know they really.
11:56Didn't have any comments aside from recommending that rear exits be put on each of the suites of
12:02the building which I think would be easily feasible and it wouldn't affect the footprint of the
12:07building. So they do need relief from the zoning board of appeals. You know PRC the dimensional
12:14regulations impervious surface coverage. The maximum allowed is 40 percent and they are in
12:21excess of that. I will note that they're meeting the minimum landscaping requirement. They're
12:26over the top. They're over the top. They're over the top. They're over the top. They're over the
12:2650 percent that's required in the PRC zoning use district and the New York state DEC requires 30
12:33percent which they're well in excess of. And then the other section of code that they need relief for
12:39is 301 236 A1 where a landscape buffer of 25 feet is required because there's the Suffolk County
12:48parkland directly to the east of this parcel and I believe the 711 that's the next parcel down
12:54needed the same relief.
12:56You know this is a fairly narrow parcel so it's understandable that you know they might need relief for that
13:01concerning where the new building is situated on the property. So I wanted to bring it to the board just to
13:08you know introduce it to you and to get your comments prior to them proceeding to the zoning board.
13:15And if they're successful we'll bring them back for a public hearing.
13:20Yeah I would support it. It was an abandoned building with a lot of bad things happening. I'd definitely support it.
13:25Marty did you need another curb cut or are you going to use that one that's there?
13:30No we're going to use that. That's actually an existing 30 foot curb cut that the DOT put in.
13:35So that luckily we don't have to touch that at all.
13:37Okay.
13:38I thought it was getting wider.
13:42No it's actually it is sturdy. It's an existing DOT curb cut that they put in for the previous owner.
13:48Now because I drove there I mean you might have to cut down some of the branches that are.
13:52Yeah exactly. The town park isn't.
13:55The county park isn't very well maintained.
13:57Yeah.
14:00I did refer it to DOT for you know their comments because they will need to review it since it's on a state road.
14:07It's a little bit of a tricky intersection.
14:10You know this is just observations from driving through here all the time from being familiar with the area.
14:15You know the light has been there for a long time and they they cleaned it up when they put the lights on the pole rather than having them strung across the street.
14:25Mm-hmm.
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14:25I just don't know like it's directly across from where Osborne Avenue is.
14:31So I don't know like if someone's looking to get in here from Osborne Avenue I'm assuming they would have to wait for the light to change.
14:37But if they're looking to exit the site and go north on Osborne I don't know if DOT is going to want to see it incorporated into the signalized intersection or not.
14:46I'm not really sure how that would work but I'm not a traffic engineer so.
14:50DOT will figure it out.
14:51Yeah.
14:51Yeah.
14:53You know other than that all of the you know.
14:55All of the applicable referrals were made.
14:58The planning commission came back with quite a few comments which are consistent with my staff report.
15:04And again they need to go through the zoning board process.
15:08So until that happens you know I just wanted to.
15:12Yeah I think our goal is just to make sure there's nothing glaring that you see so that we can get the referral to zoning.
15:17And we still got that hurdle and then we'll be back.
15:19Okay.
15:20Yeah I know.
15:20Look forward to it.
15:20Because I had a very difficult time reading this plan.
15:24I really did.
15:25I'm not even sure are you gonna tear down the existing building yeah they're
15:30gone yeah they're gone already yeah we got the violation yeah and I've actually
15:35allowed us to dance I didn't review when the reduce feed knock them down so and
15:38the owner one haven't been right there lately he was getting callbacks there
15:41were vagrants kept breaking in and yeah yeah page four of my staff report figure
15:50four that was that little bungalow in the back and I mean there's a garbage
15:53everywhere and PD was called out code enforcement was called out several times
15:57to the site yeah you can see that so we cleaned it up already yeah good anything
16:03else good thank you good yeah good thank you good luck okay Matt come on up tell
16:10us all about Venezia Square please
16:20Heather Heather just I'm sorry do we have to
16:23right is there going to be a letter that we have to write to CBA all right
16:41that's if we can use the eye in the sky please
16:48just to bring everybody up to speed on Venetia Square if everyone's not
16:57familiar I don't know how you could be we've been reviewing this for a little
17:00bit of time to site plan application to construct a commercial center it's 27,000
17:06square feet of retail within a with two 10,000 square foot buildings one 7,000
17:11square foot building one 4,000 square foot bank with drive-through one 6,000 square foot building in the city of Venice.
17:16One 7,000 square foot building. One 4,000 square foot bank with drive-through. One 6,000 square foot building.
17:17Which includes a 76 seat restaurant and two takeout restaurants it's a six point
17:24three four two acre parcel so I'm about 25 a and waiting river on the south side
17:31approximately seven hundred eighty nine point six feet west of the New York 25 a
17:36waiting river Manor Road intersection and the business ER zoning use district
17:41and it is multiple tax parcels I have been reviewing this application since the beginning of the year.
17:45I've been reviewing this application since the beginning of the year.
17:47since about the fall of 2022, not long after I started with the town of Riverhead.
17:53We did commence SICRA coordination on this, I believe, in August of 2023,
17:58coordinated with involved agencies.
17:59This is a type 1 action because it involves more than 50 parking places.
18:04At the same time, we did retain LKMA as traffic consultant
18:08to review the expanded environmental assessment form prepared by the applicant.
18:13So it's been a lengthy review process.
18:16This is also within the Pine Barrens Compatible Growth Area.
18:19It was considered a development of regional significance when it came in.
18:23Those standards have changed, but based on the submission,
18:26they still have to go through that process as far as I understand,
18:29but they do comply to all Pine Barrens standards.
18:32So in your packet today, sorry, adding to this,
18:36they do propose a traffic light at the intersection of Route 25A and Dogwood Drive.
18:43DOT has reviewed this.
18:44They conceptually agreed with the,
18:46placement of the traffic light in December of 2025.
18:49We've gone through some revisions to make sure all the improvements necessary for DOT
18:53can fit into the existing right-of-way.
18:56Those do fit.
18:58So we have gone through a little bit of tweaking to make sure the lanes are correct size,
19:01but generally DOT is happy.
19:04So I think at this point in time, we're in a very good place
19:07to move forward with the application.
19:10I have a resolution on today for a negative declaration for Zota SICRA.
19:14It's a little bit different because I,
19:15I added a narrative to the Part 3 AF just related to the size and scope of the application
19:21to make sure, you know, no stone was left unturned,
19:24which I think is the case here,
19:26and then to schedule a public hearing also.
19:29Has the project been the same since its inception or has it made changes?
19:37So I believe its original inception was in, like, 2007.
19:42Yes.
19:42It predates the zone, which I think it's probably,
19:45well, the zone existed, but the standards changed during that process.
19:49But throughout, I believe it has always complied with the dimensional requirements
19:53of the zoning use district and the design.
19:55As you know, in business CR, there's a very specific design for a commercial center.
19:59You know, you're supposed to, you know, everyone's supposed to surround a,
20:03all buildings are supposed to surround a central square feature.
20:06Campus style.
20:06Which this does like a campus.
20:08So this is kind of what we were looking for in this area.
20:10I understand traffic is a concern on this road,
20:12but based on the timing changes to the,
20:15the existing light, the installation of the new light,
20:18it'll actually improve traffic a lot.
20:21They're not going to get into that street again, correct?
20:25That's.
20:25We, the town abandoned the plan for the.
20:28Good.
20:28The service road.
20:30Service road, I guess you'd say.
20:31In favor of, in favor of cross access between parcels.
20:34That was a big stumbling block.
20:35Yeah.
20:36Yeah.
20:37So that's been gone, I think, since like 2015.
20:41But in favor of cross access, which this parcel indicates to the Rockwood,
20:43which is the main road.
20:44Yeah.
20:44So that's been gone, I think, since like 2015.
20:45So, you know, I went to the west and then there's a vacant parcel to the east.
20:50But it's come a long way.
20:52Okay.
20:53We'll do two actions to consider tonight.
20:56You guys got any questions on the narrative or what's included or where we're at?
21:03I don't.
21:04I think we're good.
21:05Yeah.
21:06Good luck.
21:07Check.
21:07See you at the public hearing.
21:08Thank you very much.
21:08We'll see you at the public hearing.
21:10Okay.
21:10I'll discover.
21:11Yep.
21:11All right.
21:13Number four.
21:14Bargain molding site plan amendment.
21:15With Greg Bergman.
21:19Enlighten us, Greg.
21:22Good evening.
21:24Take care.
21:24Take care, Chip.
21:43All right.
21:45Thank you.
21:46So this is a quick update.
21:49We have an amendment application to the bargain molding site.
21:54That was an application that was approved by the board back on March 6th of 2025.
21:59That approved a site plan to reuse the existing vacant building on 58.
22:05At that time, so this site is approved with the existing, I think it's about a 9,000 square foot building.
22:12The site plan that the planning board had originally approved proposed.
22:15One way traffic circulation through the site.
22:18Traffic would enter on the east side of the building, circle around behind the building, and then exit through a new curb cut on the west side of the building.
22:29This site is actually two separate parcels which are owned by different entities.
22:35The applicant bargain molding as a result of the proposed site plan application.
22:42The property owner would not allow them to use the portion of the site plan.
22:45So they would have to use the portion of that western property for the paving and drainage improvements.
22:48So bargain molding's hands are sort of tied.
22:51They're just looking to get into the space and get it occupied.
22:54So what they did is they proposed, revised the plans to just have the existing curb cut on the east side of the building.
23:00It will be two-way traffic.
23:02The parking stalls will be reconfigured.
23:04There will be nine parking stalls located on the east side of that driveway.
23:09Again, it provides the required 24-foot-wide drive aisle.
23:12And there will be five parking stalls on the east side.
23:14So that's the plan.
23:15The property owner will be able to use the same space as the parking stalls.
23:18They're going to resurface the area.
23:19So that's really the main change that's before us.
23:22I did send the revised plans along with a updated 239F form to Suffolk County DPW for their review and comments.
23:31The plans do show the 24-foot-wide future cross-access on the east side that we did require as part of that prior site plan.
23:38However, it doesn't really line up with that existing east-to-west driveway on the neighboring property.
23:44So that's just got to get done.
23:45It's been moved.
23:46The plans have been updated.
23:48They did provide a lighting plan, which shows all dark-sky-compliant fixtures, building-mounted lighting on the building.
23:57Beyond that, I have an approval resolution on for administrative.
24:00All the other conditions, they still need to get health department approval, sewer approval, file the cross-access, and they will need a permit from the Suffolk County DPW.
24:08Yeah.
24:08Is anybody here from the applicant?
24:10Yeah.
24:11You can sit.
24:12I just want to say, you know, I know you're in a hurry to get going.
24:15And we've tried to really help you out.
24:17Sure.
24:17I drove by the site.
24:18It's a mess.
24:19No, you're...
24:20I'm sorry.
24:20I'm Greg.
24:21Okay, Greg.
24:21I apologize.
24:22Mow the lawn, trim the bushes.
24:23The grass is...
24:24You're 100%.
24:25I went there on my way here today.
24:27Yeah.
24:27And I was like, oh, my God, we haven't mowed.
24:28So my apologies.
24:29Yeah, no, it's...
24:30Taking care of it.
24:31I know you're busy.
24:31You know, you want to get in.
24:32But in the same token...
24:34You're right.
24:34You want it to look a little better.
24:35Absolutely, 100%.
24:36Okay.
24:36So I'll get that to you, Carol, first thing for you guys.
24:38Is that you using the building?
24:41No, we can't use it.
24:42Okay.
24:43I would love to.
24:44But unfortunately, right now, we're not.
24:45But I apologize, guys.
24:47I'll take care of that.
24:47Thank you.
24:48Appreciate it.
24:48No problem.
24:49Sometimes they ask for forgiveness.
24:51Greg, the only question I have is on the plans is chain link fence between, you know, the
24:56properties and the property on the east.
24:59Is there any way...
24:59Because it's so nice and clean just to do a small, you know, some type of plantings
25:04or something instead of a chain link fence.
25:06Because a chain link fence is what they took down.
25:08So the chain...
25:08Yeah, the chain link fence is down.
25:09So there's not really much room between...
25:12Yeah, I mean, that could maybe be something agreed to with the neighboring property owner.
25:17Put a landscape buffer in.
25:19But, you know, they're sort of dealing with the existing site conditions.
25:22Right, right.
25:22Those parking stalls or, you know...
25:24We don't have a requirement to buffer or screen commercial from commercial.
25:28But again, you know, with this site coming in for redevelopment to the east, I think
25:32we had a recently approved site plan there.
25:34I think they could probably come up with some kind of small landscape buffer, just put some
25:39landscaping between those two properties.
25:40Plus the tenants are not the owner of the property.
25:42Correct.
25:42Yeah.
25:46Anybody?
25:47That's it.
25:47Are they still going to have to tie into the sewer?
25:52Yes.
25:52So I know...
25:53I believe Young and Young is working on...
25:54Sorry, Young Engineering.
25:55I believe they're working on that.
25:57I haven't heard the status update from them, but I know they are working on that through
26:01the health department in the sewer district.
26:03As far as material going in and out of the building, is there a designated area or is
26:07it going to just go out the front door?
26:08Or is there...
26:09Okay.
26:09So it's like a bay where people are picking up material that they can...
26:13Yeah.
26:14So everything would come out on the back of the building.
26:16Nothing would come out on the front.
26:17Nothing's coming out the front at all?
26:19There's two garage doors around the back that we could utilize for that.
26:23That's what we're planning on doing.
26:24Okay.
26:25And with the parking the way it is, that'll allow for that?
26:27Sure.
26:28Yep.
26:31Good?
26:31Good.
26:32Good.
26:32All right.
26:33Thanks, Greg.
26:33Thank you, John.
26:33Just one thing.
26:34Sir, if you could just state your last name for the record.
26:36Klechka.
26:37Thank you.
26:39All right.
26:41Number five.
26:43940 through 946, West Main Street redevelopment with Greg.
26:57Hello, guys.
26:58You used to like carpentry, man.
27:00Huh?
27:00You used to like carpentry.
27:01You used to like it too.
27:05Oh, yeah.
27:06Yeah, yeah.
27:06Yeah, for sure.
27:07Yeah.
27:09All right.
27:10All right.
27:10So this is an update on the redevelopment plan for the 940 to 946 West Main Street site.
27:22As the board recalls, we had a site plan application proposed to construct two new buildings.
27:28That plan in its previous iteration required several variances from the Zoning Board of
27:32Appeals.
27:34The ZBA denied those variances, so the applicant went back to the drawing board.
27:38All right.
27:38[transcription gap]
27:38All right.
27:39[transcription gap]
28:10The revised plans went to the ARB and they were approved, they're under review.
28:15The ARB looked at them back on June 25th.
28:19We did have comments, I mean I referred it to the fire marshal, water district, they're proposing to expand the sewer district.
28:26They've already submitted a petition to do so.
28:29There was a letter from the DEC, they've got to work out some issues with the DEC relating to the wild scenic recreational rivers area.
28:37So at this point, based on the fact that the plans fully comply with the zoning and dimensional regulations, I have a resolution to schedule it for a public hearing and move it forward.
28:47I like the new facade a lot better than the last one.
28:52I don't have any other issues, we've been kind of beating this thing to death.
28:56Gentlemen, anything?
28:57Yeah, I do.
28:58First thing is on this retaining wall that you've designed, where is that going to be?
29:06We are going to be in the area.
29:07We have a small retaining wall, this is a copy, a bigger copy, this is pretty small, actually it's the same size.
29:13Justin, can you zoom in please?
29:15Actually, there's a small retaining wall in the front here along the western frontage of the property.
29:24This corner of the property is being built up a little bit.
29:28So from West Main Street here up to the property line, we go from an elevation at Main Street.
29:36We go from a elevation at Main Street.
29:37We have an elevation of 14 and our parking lot up there, we go to the grading plant,
29:43will be the invert of the drain is 1625.
29:46So we've got about a two foot raise in the grade so the parking is higher.
29:53So it's a low retaining wall, like one of those low block retaining walls.
29:58I noticed that there's going to be some exporting of fill.
30:04Yes, yeah.
30:05This is a cut fill.
30:06This is a cut fill project altogether and the total cut is 7238 yards.
30:13Okay, let's see.
30:15We're going to cut a little bit into the east side because the property goes up.
30:19Matter of fact, from the previous site, the Blackman property, when they had it,
30:24they had already in the northeast corner, they went in toward the railroad and they gouged out a big area.
30:32They pulled it out and you can see there's a big slope by the railroad.
30:35So we're holding that grade there and then we're pushing dirt southwestward to the other corner
30:42to create the level plateau for the buildings.
30:45Okay, in front on Main Street, you've got water valves, a whole bunch of them.
30:51What are they all for?
30:53We have one, I'm sorry.
30:55Water valves, right in front.
30:59Oh, those are existing, that's just from the survey.
31:02Those are existing valves.
31:03Right.
31:04There are existing buildings on the site now.
31:06My guess is that they're right where the existing buildings are.
31:09Those are probably valves for the existing buildings.
31:11Okay.
31:12They're in the street.
31:13I imagine they're valves.
31:15We copied in from the surveyors, so those will probably go away.
31:18We are going to have new gas service.
31:20We will have electric and water.
31:24Okay.
31:26The screened areas, what exactly is going to go in there?
31:32That is a gravel area for outdoor screened outdoor storage.
31:36So anybody that has the building, you know, a tenant, if they needed additional storage
31:42for their materials associated with their business, this is a general warehousing use.
31:48They can have that storage in the back area.
31:50It's got to be suitably screened, which it is, and it's just a gravel screened storage area, outdoor storage yard.
31:55Okay.
31:56I wasn't sure that we were going to see compost or anything like that going on.
32:00Yeah.
32:02I was just wondering, Marty, what kind of screen it's six-foot fencing?
32:08Yeah.
32:09We did a chaining fence with a slat in it.
32:10With slats in it.
32:11Mm-hmm.
32:12Okay.
32:13Could you review the water system?
32:18Because it runs in a lot of different directions.
32:22Yeah.
32:23Well, we have a new water service right here on the east building.
32:30This is a new water service.
32:31And if you look at the back, it's a new water service.
32:32And if you look at the plan, it goes right into the water service room on the side of the building.
32:37And we have a water service on the west side of this building that goes into an RPZ room here.
32:43That's the only two water services.
32:45Both buildings will have a sprinkler and domestic service.
32:48And that will then service both buildings?
32:50Yeah.
32:51There's one water service for each building.
32:53Correct.
32:54For each building?
32:55We have one electric service for each building.
32:56Okay.
32:57So you're tapping off the main two places.
32:58Correct.
32:59That is correct.
33:00There are some existing water services.
33:01There are some existing water services there that we really can't use because we're doing sprinkler.
33:05So those would be retired and we would replace that with two new water taps, one for each building for domestic as well as fire protection.
33:12Okay.
33:13And now the sewer.
33:15I see the sewer going onto the first building.
33:20What about the second building?
33:21Yeah.
33:22Actually, what happens is we brought the sewer line onto the site to the first building where we have a manhole.
33:27We extend it to building two and then go into building two.
33:30You're going to have a force main or is it going to be gravity?
33:33That will all be reviewed.
33:34Currently, what's happening right now is the town's consulting firm, H2M, I believe that they're preparing a map and plan for that.
33:42They have provided it?
33:43Yeah.
33:44They have the map and plan?
33:45They have the map and plan, yeah.
33:46So that's done by the town's consulting engineer for the sewer district.
33:50So they're doing the engineering for all that right now.
33:53So this may change as far as the sewer.
33:55I'm not sure.
33:56We just showed initially a sewer that we felt was appropriate.
33:58Okay.
33:59We thought it was appropriate to tie in both buildings, but that will also be subject to the re-roof.
34:04That could require pumping.
34:06It mentions a pump.
34:08Oh, yeah?
34:09It does?
34:10Okay.
34:11Yeah, the sewer ends there across the street at the…
34:14By Maple Deli there?
34:16Yeah.
34:17The map and plan shows a pump pumping it up to that location.
34:21Yeah.
34:22Actually, it's a little bit…it's on the old Cottage Lane.
34:25So you got Rainer and Cottage Lane, which is next to the barbecue place, I think.
34:28Well, I think it actually…years ago I remember looking at it.
34:35It was where they make the statue, where they have the statues, the artists have the statues.
34:39That's where it ends, I believe, on Main.
34:42No, it comes down all the way down to across from Maple.
34:46Is it all the way across from Maple?
34:48Right across from Maple.
34:50You'll see a six-foot chain link fence and there's a box in there.
34:52That's the sewer pump in there.
34:54Okay.
34:55Okay.
34:56Yeah.
34:57So, there's 7,000 yards of fill that you're going to take out.
35:02What's your intentions on doing what goes with that?
35:05The excavator takes care of that or the…
35:07Yes.
35:08Or the property owner?
35:09The excavator will take it.
35:10The excavator takes it.
35:11Okay.
35:12And they did have an environmental done, by the way, and everything is clean.
35:15Okay.
35:16All right.
35:17All right.
35:18Could you just give me your names for the record, please?
35:19Ray Dickoff.
35:20I represent the owner and I'm from Acklebark.
35:24Martin Sunloski.
35:25I'm the design professional for the Acklebark.
35:26Okay.
35:27Thank you very much.
35:28Anything else, gentlemen?
35:30Thank you.
35:31Good luck.
35:32Okay.
35:33Thank you.
35:34Oh, you're quite welcome.
35:35I see.
35:36We're independent.
35:37Yes, you too.
35:38Don't blow any fingers off.
35:40Okay.
35:41Number six.
35:42Tanger Allard Mall, 1700 Building, Shake Shack Conversion with Greg.
35:43Okay.
35:44Thank you.
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36:09Can we get your name, please?
36:14Sure. Gino Tedesco, R&M engineer, engineer for the applicant, 50 Elm Street, Huntington, New York.
36:20Thank you.
36:21Thank you.
36:51We have a lot of improvements, site upgrades, including access, parking upgrades.
36:56Approximately 3,200 square feet of that building will be converted to a Shake Shack restaurant.
37:03The remainder will remain as retail uses.
37:06Is there any other uses besides the share of this application?
37:12Is there any other uses in that building?
37:15So there is a children's toy store, I believe, which is in the 1,928 square foot.
37:21The remainder of the building, I think it's about 12,000 square feet right now, it's vacant.
37:26The only reason the application is not before the planning board for the use,
37:32the only reason this is in before the planning board is because of the site and access improvements and changes to the parking.
37:40So really very limited in scope in terms of nature of what they're doing.
37:44There are no new curb cuts proposed on County Route 58 in order to create easier access to the Shake Shack.
37:51The application proposed to remove some of the existing curbing on the north side of the internal Tanger driveway.
37:58So there will be a right in, so you can come off of 58 from either direction, make a right into the parking lot, park there, get to the Shake Shack.
38:07They're redoing some ramps and curbing throughout the vicinity of the site.
38:12They're going to update some landscaping throughout the site and the facade of the building will be completely redone.
38:17The facade was reviewed by the ARB at last month's meeting.
38:21The facade was approved.
38:24The restaurant use is permitted.
38:27The town board recently updated the business F zoning code so it allows one, quote, food court per campus
38:35or that food court can be substituted for a restaurant use.
38:39So that's what Tanger is opting for for this location.
38:43Considering the different Tanger, considering this a separate Tanger campus,
38:47so they don't have to lose the food court in the main.
38:51You know, at the back of the horseshoe there on Tanger 2.
38:54The proposed action is a type 2 action under SECRA as it involves reuse of an existing commercial structure.
39:01Just one minor, I did note the business F zoning code has a certain number.
39:07I believe it's 20% of the total seating of the restaurant can be outdoor.
39:11They just need to tweak the seating calculations in order to comply with the regulations of the business F zoning district.
39:19Is this a franchise or?
39:21Single.
39:21Oh no, Shake Shack's all over the place.
39:23Oh yeah.
39:24Oh yeah.
39:24I was just wondering, they usually don't have them as restaurants.
39:29They usually take out.
39:31I mean, they have, I mean, their business model, they have a sit down restaurant.
39:35There's no, I've never seen a drive through at a Shake Shack, but there is no drive through.
39:38So I mean, it's a traditional sit down restaurant.
39:41I mean, you can get take out.
39:44You know, they do door dash, all that sort of stuff.
39:46So you can go in and go out and go.
39:47I'm just familiar with several of them in Manhattan.
39:49Yeah.
39:50Yeah.
39:50No, I mean, they're fine.
39:50You're going to have to.
39:51Yeah.
39:51Wait on line.
39:52You're going to have to beat me away with a stick when this opens.
39:54Very, very much looking forward to it.
39:56But yeah, traditional sit down restaurant.
39:58I believe the number of seats proposed is 68 total seats.
40:08So there will be some outdoor, some indoor seats.
40:11Excuse me, Greg.
40:12As far as the seating goes, where's the outdoor seating going to be on the drawing?
40:16You have.
40:19It's right outside the back door.
40:20So there'll be just that little patio area right in here.
40:23So that'll be facing old country road?
40:25Yeah, I think.
40:26No, it'll be facing the internal driveway.
40:30I mean, you're probably talking a couple of picnic tables.
40:32On the east side of it?
40:33No, it'll be on the south side.
40:35So here's.
40:35It's going to be somewhere.
40:36It's over here?
40:38Yeah, old country road is at the top of the page.
40:40Oh, right.
40:40Yep.
40:41So right in this area.
40:42Yeah, probably.
40:43It'll be facing the internal road.
40:44Correct.
40:45Gotcha.
40:45Okay.
40:46Thank you.
40:48But I think the entrance.
40:49The entrance is facing.
40:50Old country road to get to walk in.
40:54Right.
40:55The entrance to the restaurant will be on or facing old country road.
40:59That's correct.
41:00Yeah.
41:00Yes.
41:01The main door.
41:01The main door is in the corner of the building.
41:04Right here.
41:04Facing old country road.
41:07So the applicant did prepare a traffic study, even though this is just the reuse of a commercial
41:11building.
41:11I've known.
41:12I've seen Shake Shack get pretty busy.
41:14So they prepared a traffic study and they went and took traffic counts at a Shake Shack
41:19location in Melville.
41:20They took counts on a Friday and a Saturday for a different range of times.
41:25The traffic study looked at several different intersections throughout the site, including
41:31the driveway on 58, the internal driveways as well.
41:37They found no significant impacts as a result of the change in use.
41:41They did note, and I provided the traffic impact study to the Suffolk County DPW.
41:44I guess the DPW provided some traffic timing data with the traffic.
41:50Yeah.
41:50[transcription gap]
41:52Yeah.
41:53Yeah.
41:53[transcription gap]
41:53Yeah.
41:54[transcription gap]
41:54Yeah.
41:54Yeah.
41:54Yeah.
41:55Yeah.
41:55[transcription gap]
41:55Yeah.
41:55[transcription gap]
41:56Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
42:19Yeah.
42:20And the last bit on this is site lighting.
42:22So I did go through the site.
42:24I noticed, I mean, it was tough to estimate,
42:26but I would estimate that the poles are probably close to 30 feet high.
42:30I did speak to Brett Brophy, who is the representative from Tanger,
42:34who I'm dealing with.
42:35I let him know that we're going to need to bring the lighting in this vicinity
42:40up to compliance with town code.
42:43Again, understanding that the remainder of the parking lot is going to be a huge,
42:48huge lift.
42:49You know, again, we've been treating these things coming in to bring it up to compliance.
42:53But they have to start.
42:54Yeah, exactly.
42:55And, you know, to just come and say, you know,
42:56you've got to replace lighting on an entire 42-acre site is a major undertaking in and of itself.
43:01So the applicant agreed to then come in with a lighting plan to update the lighting
43:04for the vicinity of the 1700 building,
43:08which I've included as a condition of approval in the resolution.
43:12Beyond that, pretty straightforward.
43:15Okay.
43:16Any other questions?
43:19That's good.
43:19No, good.
43:20Okay, good luck.
43:21Thank you very much, sir.
43:22Thank you.
43:24All right, don't go anywhere, Greg.
43:26Number seven, East End Commons, BJ's Fueling Station and Expansion.
43:42How you doing, gentlemen?
43:43Good afternoon.
43:44How you doing, gentlemen?
43:45My name is Hansley Mohan, Farrell Fritz, 100 Motor Parkway,
43:48Suite 33.
43:49300 off of New York, 11780.
43:52Are you sure?
43:53Chris Pizzagno, R&M Engineering, 50 Elm Street, Huntington, New York.
43:57Thank you.
43:5711743.
43:58You're welcome.
44:01All right.
44:02So we've got a site plan application,
44:05which is seeking to construct an approximately 10,500-square-foot expansion
44:09to the existing BJ's Wholesale Club on the north end of the building,
44:14as well as an EAT pump, 16-location accessory fueling station,
44:18as well as 165-square-foot fueling attendant station kiosk.
44:23Site plan proposes to reconfigure the existing parking lot
44:26on the north side of the property and perform landscaping improvements.
44:30The site's located at the addresses 565 to 605 Old Country Road.
44:35It's got frontage on both Old Country Road and Northville Turnpike,
44:37which are both county roads.
44:40The property is currently approved with a 93,000-square-foot BJ's Wholesale Club
44:44and approximately 110,000-square-foot building,
44:46which is housing a number of uses,
44:48including...
44:48Southern County Department of Social Services,
44:50Box Pickleball,
44:52and some other vacant spaces that are unidentified tenants yet.
44:57Property is located within the Shopping Center Zoning Use District.
45:01So when this application was initially discussed,
45:03and I looked at the zoning,
45:05the Shopping Center Zoning is a pretty vague description of what's permitted.
45:11I did note that I looked at the underlying CO for the BJ's Wholesale Club.
45:16I received a CO for a wholesale,
45:18and I received a CO for a wholesale club back in December of 1996.
45:22So I made the interpretation that I consider the fueling station customarily accessory to the wholesale club.
45:27We do have another zoning district down the road,
45:30the DRC Zoning District,
45:31which specifically calls out fueling stations as accessory to wholesale clubs.
45:35As the board is aware, the Costco has an accessory fueling station.
45:40So I'm considering it customarily accessory to that use,
45:43with the condition that it remains branded.
45:45This cannot be a separate, stand-alone facility.
45:48It's not necessarily operated by another entity.
45:50It needs to be remained branded a BJ's gas station.
45:52If the BJ's were to close, obviously the accessory use would be lost.
45:57Yeah, how far is fresh water from the project?
46:01Fresh water? I mean, the fresh water you've got here, I mean...
46:05Just to the east of the parcel is...
46:08I mean, there are several, I would say several hundred feet from the fresh water wetland boundary.
46:13I mean, the fresh water wetland boundary is right here.
46:16Yeah.
46:18I'm not saying it's close to 300.
46:20Okay, possibly.
46:21Greg, the covenant on the station, should they decide to close the store,
46:26does that same covenant exist on the property where they're currently pumping gas?
46:31No, so that was a different...
46:33While it's a BJ's branded gas station, I believe they actually received a use variance.
46:39I don't want to speak too much just because it's been about seven or eight years.
46:42I don't remember it was sold.
46:43But I believe that was a use variance because I think it was strong oil,
46:47and I remember there was a use variance that ran with the land on that.
46:51From water mill?
46:53Yeah, so that's not really in the equation.
46:57Okay, okay.
46:58That can operate, I mean, if BJ's wanted to sell that, that could continue to operate as a fueling station.
47:05So that is not rented, that is owned by the corporation?
47:09They're leasing.
47:10They lease it, okay.
47:12Yeah.
47:13All the lighting compliant on the site plan?
47:16Yeah, so they've actually updated this site lighting.
47:19We've been through a couple of different site plans on this.
47:22When DSS came in, when Box Pickleball came in, they've since updated all the site lighting,
47:28brought it down LED compliant heights, 3000 Kelvin, so they're not...
47:33The only lighting that they're doing here is some additional wall-mounted lighting,
47:38which again complies, and then they have to rearrange the parking lot on the north side
47:42so they will reconfigure some of those existing poles, but they're all compliant.
47:45Okay.
47:46We just approved not too long ago that revamping of that area so that we could move the traffic along a lot better there.
47:55So on the Ostranger site, yeah, we...
47:57So was that...
47:58The resolution was tabled, as I...
48:00Oh, it was tabled?
48:01I believe the resolution was tabled.
48:03Okay.
48:04An issue with the cross-action.
48:05I didn't remember that, okay.
48:07Okay.
48:08So I did, this is an unlisted action pursuant to SICRA.
48:11We commenced a coordinator review.
48:14I distributed the coordination with the board.
48:15I submitted the coordination materials to all involved agencies, Riverhead Water District,
48:20Sewer District, Highway, Fire Marshal, Suffolk County Planning Commission, Suffolk County Department of Health Services,
48:25as well as Public Works.
48:27I did note that elevations were provided for the fueling canopy and the station, which were approved by the ARB.
48:36They did not provide elevations for the 10,000 square foot BJ's expansion, so that'll just need to be submitted
48:42if they want to come in and go further, go along further with that.
48:44So regarding traffic circulation to the fueling station, vehicles can enter either on the south side of the fueling area or on the north side.
48:57Vehicles would come in, be oriented in an east-west direction, fuel up, and then leave through the western side of the fueling station.
49:07From there, they could either go back here out to the light at Old Country Road, or they could travel behind the building.
49:13Okay.
49:14To get out to Northville Turnpike.
49:16So that area is a two-way street?
49:19So behind BJ's is a two-way street.
49:22Yeah.
49:23Yeah, I mean, that's when I, if I'm going there to shop on my lunch break, I come up Northville, I come up behind the building, I park here, that's how I get out.
49:29I do just make a recommendation.
49:32Right now, if you're driving north behind the building, this is sort of a blind corner when you're coming around.
49:38There's no stop sign, there's no really any control there, so I just recommend a stop sign and a stop light.
49:43Stop sign and a stop bar be located there just to sort of mitigate any sort of potential conflicts there.
49:49Recommend a do not enter sign here just because right now traffic is all directed out to the south.
49:56So put in a do not stop, do not enter signage there.
50:01The parking lot will be reconfigured.
50:03Again, the site, based on the total amount of uses and the square footage there, requires 931 parking stalls.
50:12The site provides a total of 865 improved stalls as well as 88 land bank stalls.
50:18So they can provide a total of 953 parking stalls where only 930 are required.
50:24Again, I don't think I've ever been to this parking lot when it's been, you know, like more than 75% falls last night on issue.
50:31One minor note is that this bank of parking stalls, which is located proximate to the fueling station, the depth of those stalls is only shown as 16.5 feet.
50:40It needs to be 20 feet.
50:41Okay.
50:42There's 60 feet here between the curving and fueling station so they can easily pick up 3.5 feet.
50:48That's not a major thing.
50:49And 8 by 10.
50:50What's that?
50:5110 by 10.
50:5210 foot.
50:53Yeah, so they will, if they push that back 3.5 feet, they'll get all the compliant 10 by 10 parking stalls.
50:5610 by 20.
50:58Landscaping will be updated throughout the site.
51:01I did note that there is some regrading that's going to be done in the northwest corner of the site to facilitate the installation of the underground fuel tanks.
51:09I have an idea.
51:10You do?
51:11Yeah, let's .
51:20Can you zoom in a little bit on this, Justin?
51:25Good.
51:26Thank you.
51:27So this site will be regraded and they show it to be redone with hydro seed.
51:33There's a really nice vegetative wooded buffer along there.
51:36It's just I'm not sure how much of that existing buffer would need to be lost.
51:40But I do recommend just a little more substantial revegetation plan than just some hydro seed.
51:48Right now there's an existing snow storage equipment removal.
51:51You know, they're contracted and maintains the lots.
51:53They keep a couple of trucks there, trailer and their salt and sand.
51:58So wherever that's going to be relocated should just be shown.
52:01Obviously it's not a permanent improvement, but they're going to need to maintain that on site.
52:07Like I said, I referred everything to involved agencies.
52:09I did get comments back from the health department, which I'll forward to the board.
52:13I'm still waiting on DPW, the planning commission.
52:16In terms of Seward District, they are proposing to connect.
52:19There's a bathroom proposed for the fueling station kiosk.
52:23They are proposing a force main that would connect to a manhole on Oliver Street.
52:28Where is that bathroom?
52:30There's a bathroom within the kiosk.
52:32The kiosk is small.
52:33It's 160 square feet.
52:35It's portioned into three sections.
52:38There's the IT area with the electric and utilities.
52:48Then there's the bathroom area here.
52:50And then there is the attendant area.
52:54I just didn't know where it was.
52:56I know it's referenced, but where it is.
53:00Yeah, so it's on the west side of the kiosk.
53:03And the plan is to have a sewer connection.
53:06Gravity to this landscaped area here.
53:10Put in E1 pump station.
53:13Low pressure force main.
53:15Pipe.
53:17Which will tie into the sewer in Oliver Street.
53:20So will there need to be any clearing to facilitate the installation of that main?
53:24Typically with this force main, it's only one and a half inches, two inches.
53:30It's a small pipe, so they can missile it through.
53:32So I don't intend to see any clearing.
53:34If there is, we'll have to wait.
53:35We'll show it and we'll re-vegetate as needed.
53:40I've already spoken with Tim Allen a couple times over at the sewer district.
53:44And he gave us a connection approval.
53:48So I can forward that to you as well.
53:50And where are you going to bring the water in from?
53:52I'm sorry?
53:53Where is the water supply coming in from?
53:55So right now there's a water, there's a hot box in the northwest corner of the site up here.
54:01And there's a water main that runs down this side.
54:04It goes all the way down the back.
54:07It ties in up front.
54:09And we plan on just...
54:11Just tying in there?
54:13Tying it off inside the site.
54:15That is right.
54:16Okay.
54:17Thanks.
54:18Beyond that, we got comments from the town engineer.
54:21Still waiting for fire marshal comments.
54:24I do recommend I have a resolution on it if the board is comfortable.
54:27We could schedule a public hearing on it.
54:29That will give time for the sewer coordination period to end.
54:32Hopefully get comments from the board.
54:33When this station opens, will they close the opening?
54:38They don't intend to close the opening.
54:40But it's going to take some time.
54:43There you go.
54:47Just right above you right now.
54:49What will the hours of operation be?
54:51The same as the store hours or?
54:53Typically it's about 6 to 10.
54:57And attendant will be there at all?
55:01Yeah.
55:026 to 10.
55:03I like the idea of getting traffic off of 58.
55:09Which is a lot of complaints on Ostrander.
55:13And I actually like the idea of going behind the building.
55:16Because there are actually three means of exits.
55:20Which is a great idea.
55:22And the only thing, like I spoke with Greg, if you can do some tree trimming.
55:26A lot of the branches are starting to overhang that exit area.
55:29Sure.
55:30You know, I just...
55:31I think it's...
55:32It's a great design.
55:33Yeah.
55:34I mean, that's just...
55:35That's a general comment.
55:36I mean, you know, like some of these landscaped islands, like when you go to exit the parking
55:39lot and you go to enter that perimeter drive-wise.
55:42Some of those shrubs, like on either side of you, are sort of high.
55:46It's tough to...
55:47You almost have to be like out in the lane to see what's coming.
55:50So, yeah, if they could just generally maintain the landscaping.
55:54Yeah.
55:55We could add those, you know, to...
55:56Yeah.
55:57To clean it up.
55:58Yeah.
55:59Before...
56:00Before being on that.
56:01Before being on that one.
56:02We reviewed the staff report and the comments with respect to the addition of the do not
56:06enter sign, the stop sign, modifying the stall depth to be code compliant, updating the revegetation
56:12plan, the relocation of the storage equipment, I'm sorry, the snow removal equipment.
56:16We're all going to incorporate that into the next revision of the plans, which will wait
56:19until the public hearing in case if there are any public comments or any further comments
56:23from the board.
56:24That was good, gentlemen.
56:25Good.
56:26Yeah.
56:27Good.
56:28[transcription gap]
56:30Have a great weekend.
56:31You do the same.
56:32Happy Fourth.
56:33Okay.
56:34At this time, we have public comments on all resolutions.
56:37Anybody like to speak?
56:40Let's go.
56:44Good evening, gentlemen.
56:49My name is James Nunnemaker.
56:51I reside on Scenic Lake Drive in Riverhead.
56:54I wish to speak in opposition to resolution number six.
56:58Okay.
57:00Thank you.
57:02The bottom line is Riverhead doesn't need another cannabis dispensary.
57:08We already have three.
57:10There are several adjacent to us.
57:12And if you watch Channel 12, there's at least two who deliver all over Long Island.
57:19The existing one on Old Country Road delivers.
57:22And since this came to my attention, I've been driving along Old Country Road frequently.
57:28And I have yet to see more than...
57:29More than eight or nine.
57:31Nine is the maximum number of cars I've seen in the parking lot at the one adjacent to
57:36Walmart or the West End of 58.
57:44It's my understanding that the location at the West End of 58 delivers all over town.
57:50And do we really need another dispensary?
57:56That's the real question.
57:57And so...
57:58Okay.
57:59So, the way to look at this is looking at the neighborhoods.
58:04I don't know the distance, but I'm guessing it's about 750 feet south of Old Country Road
58:11on Osterender.
58:12There's a church.
58:13And from the church down to the aquarium, we have a very vibrant neighborhood.
58:19You go over to Roanoke, and from Roanoke, from the traffic circle down, we have another
58:24vibrant neighborhood.
58:25You look along middle, you have John Wesley.
58:28The New York Times.
58:29You have the three condo communities, all of which have seen very substantial appreciation
58:36in the value.
58:38And that could be adversely affected by the dispensary, more traffic in the area.
58:42Roanoke, I'm sorry, Osterender is a narrow two-lane road.
58:50We just really don't need it at the site.
58:55One of the...
58:56Thinking about it.
58:58Thinking about it in another dimension is, do we need a dispensary 1,000 feet from the
59:08hospital emergency room?
59:09Surely, we're having people going to that emergency room with substance abuse problems.
59:14Do we need a dispensary 1,000 to 2,000 feet away?
59:21As a lawyer, one of the things that bothers me greatly is...
59:26A retired lawyer.
59:27I should say.
59:28We were just starting to like you until you said that.
59:31Well, I think of myself as a recovering lawyer.
59:39Right now, based on a check I did yesterday, there is no legally approved, legally sanctioned
59:47test for cannabis that the police can use in New York State courts to determine whether
59:53a person is operating a motor vehicle under the influence of cannabis.
59:57There's several wonderful tests for alcohol, but a cop really is on very thin ice making
1:00:04a stop for influence of marijuana.
1:00:08There's tests, blood tests that can be done for conventional drugs, not marijuana.
1:00:13Do we need that?
1:00:14We also have...
1:00:17I realize the planning board is focusing on that site.
1:00:21I do.
1:00:22But not far away, down the hill, down middle, is the Timothy Hill Ranch.
1:00:27We have teenagers who are there who are at risk.
1:00:33Do we need a cannabis facility within three-tenths, four-tenths of a mile of adolescents at risk?
1:00:48I think my request would be to deny the change of use for the zoning on that.
1:00:56If they want to...
1:00:57I think that's a good question.
1:00:58If they want to keep a car dealership there, that's fine, but not a cannabis dealer.
1:01:07That's my major points.
1:01:08Thank you.
1:01:09Good points.
1:01:10Thank you, sir.
1:01:11Anybody else?
1:01:12I also...
1:01:13My name is Mary Hyland.
1:01:14I live in Saddle Lakes on Scenic Lake Drive, and I'm very unhappy with the plan to install
1:01:27yet another cannabis dispensary on our corner, two-tenths of a mile from our gate.
1:01:32You have four senior citizen communities, and we are a vibrant, spending money type
1:01:37of resident in Riverhead.
1:01:41We use the restaurants.
1:01:42We use the entertainment venues.
1:01:44You have portrayed...
1:01:45Well, let me just back up.
1:01:48Riverhead never had such a great reputation.
1:01:51It was never stellar.
1:01:53Now you're going to have us known as the source, and not Fortunoff.
1:01:59It's going to be the source of cannabis, and the whole East End is going to be coming here
1:02:03looking for drugs.
1:02:05Is this what we want?
1:02:06The senior citizens are going to be afraid to go out at night.
1:02:10It's just crazy that you want to have yet another one.
1:02:13CNN published recently that cannabis use causes a 29% increase in stroke and heart disease,
1:02:21heart attacks.
1:02:22It's a very, very bad thing.
1:02:23We have the hospital right there, so I guess that's a good thing, but it's a nightmare
1:02:27in traffic.
1:02:29The Ostrander cannot absorb the volume of traffic.
1:02:33It's already a nightmare.
1:02:34I was coming from a funeral this morning, and there was almost an accident right in
1:02:37front of me that somebody's trying to make a turn, because there is no place to put a
1:02:40turning lane.
1:02:42So it's a dangerous, busy intersection, because 58 is the main thoroughfare, and now you want
1:02:48to put a cannabis distribution site on the corner?
1:02:51I think it's a very bad thing.
1:02:52It's a very bad decision.
1:02:54The flavor of the community is going to be destroyed.
1:02:57We're a very nice community.
1:03:00You are like two-tenths of a mile from private residences, from a church.
1:03:08This is just me clocking it as I drive.
1:03:10Then you have the Timothy Hill Ranch.
1:03:12You have the four senior citizen communities, and you have the high, as Jim said, the entire
1:03:18street of Ostrander is private residences.
1:03:21Why do we have this?
1:03:22We have to be destroyed, because this is going to destroy our property values.
1:03:26It's going to make us afraid to go out at night.
1:03:29I just think it's too close to Peconic Hospital.
1:03:32It's too close to private residences.
1:03:34It's too close to the Timothy Hill Ranch.
1:03:37I think that the variance that is required, because there also had been rules written
1:03:42in November of 22, which required a thousand-foot setback.
1:03:48As I understand it, those rules have been eliminated to accommodate this problem.
1:03:52But there is a plan to make this plan.
1:03:53Rather than the plan accommodating the ...
1:03:54That's not true.
1:03:55No variance has been required.
1:03:56There's no variance.
1:04:00This is a fully compliant site.
1:04:02It complies with all ...
1:04:03Isn't there a variance required to put that building up?
1:04:05They want to add another 6,000-square-foot building?
1:04:08There is no variance required.
1:04:10Well, I'm just very frustrated with the town.
1:04:15I came here, spoke at your last meeting.
1:04:19I think it was June 5th.
1:04:21It was total chaos.
1:04:22maybe go to the town board. The town board said come to you that this is a
1:04:25matter for the for the planning. So I feel like I'm being bounced around and
1:04:29that our concerns as valid citizens, taxpaying citizens, are just being
1:04:35ignored for the purpose of money, revenue. But you're going to destroy the fabric
1:04:41of the community. Thank you. Thank you very much.
1:04:46Any other speakers?
1:04:52Hi, how you doing? Good, you? Dawn Collins, I live in Riverhead and I agree with my friends
1:05:02that just got here to speak, right, but I just want to say that there should be no
1:05:07cannabis dispensaries, right? What are you doing? What are you doing? You're going to
1:05:14send your kids in there?
1:05:15Your grandkids in there?
1:05:16Go get pot? Are you kidding me? What happened to the war on drugs? Just say no, right?
1:05:22You should all be ashamed of yourselves. We shouldn't even be here. Why should we
1:05:28be ashamed of ourselves? Because you should not be putting up cannabis shops. Okay, listen, we're the planning board.
1:05:33You're going to make 3% on the sale for revenue. We do site planning.
1:05:38And where are you going to put that money? In drug rehabilitations, right? There was five
1:05:45members of the town board that are
1:05:46approved, taking away the 1,000 foot setback rule last year, right? This opened us up to
1:05:56many more cannabis dispensaries across the East End or in Riverhead, which includes Jamesport,
1:06:03Ackerbog, right, Baining Hollow, Wading River, Riverhead, right? The five people on the board,
1:06:10they're not the majority. The majority don't want this, right? We don't need drugs in our
1:06:15community, right?
1:06:16Some of the people that are on the board, the five members of the board, don't even
1:06:22live in the immediate area, right? Some of them were even on the police and they were
1:06:28part of the police athletic league, right, for over 20 years.
1:06:41The revenue that a cannabis would bring in is about 3% on each sale, right? And so, we're
1:06:46going to have to make sure that we're not going to have to pay for it.
1:06:47So, if the one on, you know, Old Country Road makes $100 million, that's $3 million a year,
1:06:53say, that's a lot of money, right? And the town supervisor even said that's a huge source
1:06:59of income, and yes, it is, you know? But you know something, the cartel is saying that,
1:07:05the same thing about fentanyl, right? What happened to the war on drugs and just say
1:07:11no, right? The board's not looking at the message to our youth. The North Florida, the
1:07:16North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina,
1:07:16York County, York County, York County, York County, York County, York County, York County,
1:07:17[transcription gap]
1:07:46out here, right?
1:07:48Take the kids go fishing, right?
1:07:50For ice cream.
1:07:52You don't need a dispensary on every corner in Riverhead or anywhere else, right?
1:07:57And the only ones that approved this were Riverhead, Brookhaven, I think Southampton
1:08:02and Babylon.
1:08:03And Babylon is doing really well with their revenue.
1:08:05They can have it.
1:08:07They can have it all.
1:08:09That's not what it's all about.
1:08:11What it's all about is our kids and promoting a healthy lifestyle.
1:08:16You know, and if you don't plan on sending your own kids and grandkids to go pick up
1:08:22some marijuana, then don't put it on other kids and families.
1:08:26Thank you.
1:08:26[transcription gap]
1:08:31I was recently in Maine and there's a cannabis store on every corner, which shocked me.
1:08:37So I came back here to ask staff, due to our zoning, how many could we possibly have in
1:08:45Riverhead?
1:08:46What would the maximum number be?
1:08:48And the maximum number would be seven.
1:08:51Some of us probably feel that's still too many, but it's not like we will have one on
1:08:54every corner like Maine has.
1:08:56I was very surprised.
1:08:57But with that said, next speaker, please.
1:09:13I'm going to ask any of you guys.
1:09:15We need your names.
1:09:16I'm going to ask you.
1:09:17My name is Marie Duell.
1:09:18I grew up through the 60s.
1:09:20I was a semi-hippie.
1:09:23Now has any of you ever gone and purchased some of this stuff and seen the effect of
1:09:31Because it's strong stuff.
1:09:33And I know somebody who takes it as a, they call it medical marijuana.
1:09:39And I said, this stuff is stronger than back when I was buying it illegally.
1:09:44You know?
1:09:45Yeah.
1:09:46Yeah.
1:09:46[transcription gap]
1:09:48So that's something to think about because people will get, they'll roll a joint or get
1:09:52a pipe and hop in their car and that's it.
1:09:57They're smoking it like a cigarette, just driving down the road.
1:10:01Now go in there and go up to that one and buy, buy some and roll yourself a joint and
1:10:08you're going to see, you're not going to get out of your recliner because it's going to
1:10:12blow you away.
1:10:13Yeah.
1:10:14[transcription gap]
1:10:29Yeah.
1:10:30[transcription gap]
1:10:45York I'm the attorney represent the applicant and I've been doing this for
1:10:50many years certainly not with cannabis but and I understand the people's
1:10:57concern but I do think that Riverhead town the town council already set the
1:11:06policy it's not something that this board respectfully has the discretion if
1:11:14you will to say no we don't think it's a good idea maybe it isn't a good idea but
1:11:21the town already said by legislative act that cannabis can be sold in certain
1:11:31dispensaries one of the things is that and I I don't know if the folks that
1:11:39spoke know it but Riverhead's requirements
1:11:43Florida
1:11:44exceed the state requirements it's it's certainly more restrictive than the
1:11:51state of New York requires so I think we're trying to do the best we can the
1:11:59location seems to be one it doesn't seem to be actually it meets every
1:12:05requirement we didn't need variances as the board knows and we came in here the
1:12:13last time and
1:12:14and spoke about the construction so I won't bore you with that so again I know
1:12:21the people's concern but I think Riverhead when they made that ordinance
1:12:26and made it more restrictive than even the state they were thinking about
1:12:32protecting the public also there there are two other applications that I know
1:12:39Riverhead one went to the Board of Appeals the
1:12:44board of appeals denied it it's in litigation another one is pending before
1:12:49the Board of Appeals so it's not an easy task to get approved in the town of
1:12:55Riverhead thank you thank you anybody else okay ma'am if you want to
1:13:07speak you're welcome to but you have to come up to the mic I live in Stonely
1:13:21Woods off of Middle Road which is directly behind where you're gonna put
1:13:25the dispensary okay and I just have to ask why are you putting so many on 58
1:13:31why isn't one in Bading Hollow Calverton
1:13:37why are they all on 58 why do we need so many dispensaries on one road I don't
1:13:44know the answer to that well that was not this board that's not the sport of
1:13:48planning board we take care of the site you speak to the other people who are on
1:13:52boards and I put in distinct boards they don't tell us what to do we don't tell
1:13:56them what to do we're separate and distinct I can understand that but you
1:14:01talk to each other and you do talk to each other so yeah it really is a
1:14:07we're not doing it right now we're not doing it right now we're not doing it
1:14:07right so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so
1:14:37who have homes and families.
1:14:39It's not just the elderly people.
1:14:42It just seems there's been an overall approval of things
1:14:47that are not good for the community.
1:14:50There's no reason to have so many approved plans
1:14:53for a two-and-a-half-mile stretch.
1:14:57It's ridiculous.
1:14:58Thank you.
1:14:59Thank you very much.
1:15:00Thank you very much.
1:15:04Anybody else?
1:15:07Okay, with that said, we have 12 resolutions.
1:15:10Let's run through them, gentlemen.
1:15:12Go ahead, George.
1:15:14All right, I'll move Resolution 2025, 059,
1:15:20Zuma's open space memo to the town board.
1:15:24So moved.
1:15:24Second.
1:15:25Moved and second.
1:15:26Mr. Zernicki.
1:15:27Mr. Hogan.
1:15:28Mr. Nenero.
1:15:29Mr. Baer.
1:15:30And I vote aye.
1:15:31The motion is carried.
1:15:33I'll move Resolution numbers 2022.
1:15:372025, 060, granting extension of approval for the minor subdivision of 230 West Main Street.
1:15:44Second.
1:15:45Moved and seconded.
1:15:46Mr. Zernicki.
1:15:47Mr. Hogan.
1:15:48Mr. Nenero.
1:15:50Mr. Baer.
1:15:51And I vote aye.
1:15:51The motion carries.
1:15:53I move Resolution number 2025-61, Akira House of Worship, FKA, Cox Place of Worship,
1:16:01resolution granting final site plan approval for the site plan application seeking to convert
1:16:06an existing single...
1:16:07single family dwelling into a place of worship and add 3600 plot church yard.
1:16:13Second.
1:16:14So moved.
1:16:15Second.
1:16:16Moved and seconded.
1:16:17Mr. Zernicki.
1:16:19Mr. Hogan.
1:16:21Mr. Nenero.
1:16:23Mr. Baer.
1:16:25And I vote aye.
1:16:26The motion carries.
1:16:27Resolution 2025-062, Home Depot Outdoor Storage and Site Improvement.
1:16:28Resolution granting administrative site plan approval to a site plan application seeking
1:16:32to legitimize and formally designate outdoor storage areas.
1:16:35Second.
1:16:36Moved and seconded.
1:16:37Mr. Zernicki.
1:16:39Mr. Hogan.
1:16:41Mr. Nenero.
1:16:43Mr. Baer.
1:16:45And I vote aye.
1:16:46The motion carries.
1:16:47I move Resolution 63-2025-63, for Gouda, LLC, granting the preliminary...
1:16:54excuse me, preliminary approval for the site plan.
1:16:57So moved.
1:16:58Second.
1:16:59Moved and seconded.
1:17:00Mr. Zernicki.
1:17:02Mr. Hogan.
1:17:04Mr. Nenero.
1:17:06Second.
1:17:07Moved by head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head
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1:17:16I second it.
1:17:21Oh, you second it?
1:17:22I was waiting for that.
1:17:23Moving to the second, Mr. Zernicki.
1:17:26Mr. Chairman, I just want to say that the people who came here had great answers and everything else.
1:17:33But this board, we do not make policy.
1:17:35We do site plan approval.
1:17:37Whether we agree with the cannabis law or not, that is not in our situation to say yes or no.
1:17:49The site plan is in full compliance.
1:17:53It does not need any variances.
1:17:55But we do appreciate the public for their comments.
1:17:59And I vote yes.
1:18:01Mr. Hogan.
1:18:03Mr. De Niro.
1:18:04Mr. Baer.
1:18:06I would just like to say thank you.
1:18:07I would just like to say something before I vote.
1:18:09I am not against these stores.
1:18:11But in my opinion, we would have been better off if they were in towns west of Riverhead.
1:18:17I spoke to Mr. Hogan earlier, and he had what I thought was a good idea.
1:18:21These should have been zoned in industrial areas, not necessarily commercial near residential.
1:18:27That being said, the property owner does have rights, and he met the criteria of the law.
1:18:32So I will vote yes.
1:18:33Motion carries.
1:18:36Okay.
1:18:37That was resolution number 63, correct?
1:18:41It was 64.
1:18:43Okay.
1:18:43Number 7.
1:18:45I will move resolution number 2025-65, East End Commons B.J. Fueling Station and Expansion.
1:18:51Resolution to schedule a public hearing for the site plan application seeking to construct 10,530 square foot expansion.
1:18:59Second.
1:19:00Moved and seconded.
1:19:01Mr. Zanicki.
1:19:03Mr. Hogan.
1:19:04Mr. De Niro.
1:19:05Mr. Baer.
1:19:06And I vote aye.
1:19:07The motion carries.
1:19:07I move resolution 20-25-67, Tanger Outlet Mall.
1:19:351,700 building.
1:19:37For the shake shack conversion.
1:19:41Second.
1:19:41Any preliminary site approvals?
1:19:43Second.
1:19:44Moved and seconded.
1:19:45Mr. Zanicki.
1:19:46Mr. Hogan.
1:19:47Mr. De Niro.
1:19:47Mr. Baer.
1:19:49And I vote aye.
1:19:49The motion carries.
1:19:51I will move resolution number 2025-68, Assume Lead Agency and issue negative deck for Veniza Square.
1:20:00Second.
1:20:01Moved and seconded.
1:20:02Mr. Zanicki.
1:20:03Mr. Hogan.
1:20:04Mr. De Niro.
1:20:05Mr. Baer.
1:20:06And I vote aye.
1:20:07the motion carries.
1:20:10I move
1:20:11Resolution 2025-69
1:20:13to schedule a public hearing for the
1:20:15site plan application of Venetia
1:20:17Square. So moved. Second.
1:20:19Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki? Yes.
1:20:21Mr. Hogan? No. I
1:20:23disagree with the traffic pattern
1:20:25leaving the shopping center and going
1:20:27north up Dogwood Drive. Okay.
1:20:29Mr. Nenaro? Aye.
1:20:31Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote yes.
1:20:33The motion carries 4-1.
1:20:34I move
1:20:36Resolution 2025-070
1:20:39940-946
1:20:42West Main Street
1:20:43Development. Resolution to schedule a public
1:20:45hearing for a site plan application
1:20:47seeking to redevelop the existing
1:20:48commercial site. So moved. Second.
1:20:51Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki?
1:20:53Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes.
1:20:55Mr. Nenaro? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes.
1:20:57And I vote aye. The motion carries.
1:21:00Minutes.
1:21:01Public comment? I don't think
1:21:02we have any. Nope.
1:21:04Done. Let's do the minutes, boys.
1:21:06I'll move the minutes
1:21:08of May 15th.
1:21:11Second.
1:21:12Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye.
1:21:14All opposed?
1:21:16Motion carries.
1:21:18I'll move the minutes of June 5th. So moved.
1:21:21Second. Moved and
1:21:22seconded. All in favor? Aye.
1:21:24All opposed?
1:21:27Okay. Secret actions.
1:21:32Eastern Commons
1:21:33BJ's Fuel Station.
1:21:34Expansion. We have a secret action.
1:21:37Yeah, that's just kind of a record
1:21:39of us distributing the
1:21:41lead agency coordination. Okay. Very good.
1:21:44Staff, any other business?
1:21:46Correspondence?
1:21:48Yeah, correspondence.
1:21:50It was circulated via
1:21:51email earlier this week from
1:21:53Ruth and Michael Arnone
1:21:54regarding Summerwind's
1:21:57subdivision. Thank you very
1:21:59much. Staff, you did a great job
1:22:01tonight. I wish you a happy 4th of July.
1:22:04Yeah.
1:22:04Our next meeting is going to be July 17th
1:22:07at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
1:22:09Can I get somebody to close the meeting?
1:22:11So moved.
1:22:12Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye.
1:22:15Thank you.
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Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you, Heather. All right, let's keep moving on. Number two, 305 West Main Street site plan with Heather again.

Just give your name and address, Marty. Just give your name so we know. Oh, yeah. Martin Semelski, 22. Dean, Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead. Thank you. Okay. So this is a site plan application proposing to construct a new 3,000-square-foot commercial building along with associated site improvements on a 19,780-square-foot parcel located at 305 West Main Street. It's within the Peconic River Community Zoning Use District. They are proposing retail. That's what the site is parked at, and retail is a permitted use within that zoning use district. Okay. I'll note that, you know, the existing buildings that were there, I don't know if anyone was on the board. There was a prior site plan that approved called the Simple Table that was going to reuse that front building, which was previously a tire shop. That, unfortunately, didn't move forward, and the buildings just continued to deteriorate. There were a lot of issues with squatters, people setting fires. So code enforcement actually had to do a blighted property. You know, they had to write them for that. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] DEC is looking for. Are they in the sewer district there? So they are within the sewer district but I think the site was served by an existing probably old outdated sanitary system. I did refer it to the health department as well as the sewer district. They'll probably have to abandon the existing sanitary system and then make a connection to the sewer district. I referred it to the water district as well. Their comments are incorporated into my staff report. You know they'll have to make a formal application there and depending on the you know the water demands for the building I don't know if they'll be able to use the existing line or not. I think Robin sent an email to us. It was I think a one inch line that exists. I think it's a small one. Oh no it's a five inch. It's a five inch water service so it might have to be upgraded. Obviously they would go through the approval process with the water district. I did refer it to the fire marshal's office and you know they really. Didn't have any comments aside from recommending that rear exits be put on each of the suites of the building which I think would be easily feasible and it wouldn't affect the footprint of the building. So they do need relief from the zoning board of appeals. You know PRC the dimensional regulations impervious surface coverage. The maximum allowed is 40 percent and they are in excess of that. I will note that they're meeting the minimum landscaping requirement. They're over the top. They're over the top. They're over the top. They're over the top. They're over the 50 percent that's required in the PRC zoning use district and the New York state DEC requires 30 percent which they're well in excess of. And then the other section of code that they need relief for is 301 236 A1 where a landscape buffer of 25 feet is required because there's the Suffolk County parkland directly to the east of this parcel and I believe the 711 that's the next parcel down needed the same relief. You know this is a fairly narrow parcel so it's understandable that you know they might need relief for that concerning where the new building is situated on the property. So I wanted to bring it to the board just to you know introduce it to you and to get your comments prior to them proceeding to the zoning board. And if they're successful we'll bring them back for a public hearing. Yeah I would support it. It was an abandoned building with a lot of bad things happening. I'd definitely support it. Marty did you need another curb cut or are you going to use that one that's there? No we're going to use that. That's actually an existing 30 foot curb cut that the DOT put in. So that luckily we don't have to touch that at all. Okay. I thought it was getting wider. No it's actually it is sturdy. It's an existing DOT curb cut that they put in for the previous owner. Now because I drove there I mean you might have to cut down some of the branches that are. Yeah exactly. The town park isn't. The county park isn't very well maintained. Yeah. I did refer it to DOT for you know their comments because they will need to review it since it's on a state road. It's a little bit of a tricky intersection. You know this is just observations from driving through here all the time from being familiar with the area. You know the light has been there for a long time and they they cleaned it up when they put the lights on the pole rather than having them strung across the street. Mm-hmm. [transcription gap] I just don't know like it's directly across from where Osborne Avenue is. So I don't know like if someone's looking to get in here from Osborne Avenue I'm assuming they would have to wait for the light to change. But if they're looking to exit the site and go north on Osborne I don't know if DOT is going to want to see it incorporated into the signalized intersection or not. I'm not really sure how that would work but I'm not a traffic engineer so. DOT will figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. You know other than that all of the you know. All of the applicable referrals were made. The planning commission came back with quite a few comments which are consistent with my staff report. And again they need to go through the zoning board process. So until that happens you know I just wanted to. Yeah I think our goal is just to make sure there's nothing glaring that you see so that we can get the referral to zoning. And we still got that hurdle and then we'll be back. Okay. Yeah I know. Look forward to it. Because I had a very difficult time reading this plan. I really did. I'm not even sure are you gonna tear down the existing building yeah they're gone yeah they're gone already yeah we got the violation yeah and I've actually allowed us to dance I didn't review when the reduce feed knock them down so and the owner one haven't been right there lately he was getting callbacks there were vagrants kept breaking in and yeah yeah page four of my staff report figure four that was that little bungalow in the back and I mean there's a garbage everywhere and PD was called out code enforcement was called out several times to the site yeah you can see that so we cleaned it up already yeah good anything else good thank you good yeah good thank you good luck okay Matt come on up tell us all about Venezia Square please

Heather Heather just I'm sorry do we have to go right is there going to be a letter that we have to write to CBA all right that's if we can use the eye in the sky please just to bring everybody up to speed on Venetia Square if everyone's not familiar I don't know how you could be we've been reviewing this for a little bit of time to site plan application to construct a commercial center it's 27,000 square feet of retail within a with two 10,000 square foot buildings one 7,000 square foot building one 4,000 square foot bank with drive-through one 6,000 square foot building in the city of Venice. One 7,000 square foot building. One 4,000 square foot bank with drive-through. One 6,000 square foot building. Which includes a 76 seat restaurant and two takeout restaurants it's a six point three four two acre parcel so I'm about 25 a and waiting river on the south side approximately seven hundred eighty nine point six feet west of the New York 25 a waiting river Manor Road intersection and the business ER zoning use district and it is multiple tax parcels I have been reviewing this application since the beginning of the year. I've been reviewing this application since the beginning of the year. since about the fall of 2022, not long after I started with the town of Riverhead. We did commence SICRA coordination on this, I believe, in August of 2023, coordinated with involved agencies. This is a type 1 action because it involves more than 50 parking places. At the same time, we did retain LKMA as traffic consultant to review the expanded environmental assessment form prepared by the applicant. So it's been a lengthy review process. This is also within the Pine Barrens Compatible Growth Area. It was considered a development of regional significance when it came in. Those standards have changed, but based on the submission, they still have to go through that process as far as I understand, but they do comply to all Pine Barrens standards. So in your packet today, sorry, adding to this, they do propose a traffic light at the intersection of Route 25A and Dogwood Drive. DOT has reviewed this. They conceptually agreed with the, placement of the traffic light in December of 2025. We've gone through some revisions to make sure all the improvements necessary for DOT can fit into the existing right-of-way. Those do fit. So we have gone through a little bit of tweaking to make sure the lanes are correct size, but generally DOT is happy. So I think at this point in time, we're in a very good place to move forward with the application. I have a resolution on today for a negative declaration for Zota SICRA. It's a little bit different because I, I added a narrative to the Part 3 AF just related to the size and scope of the application to make sure, you know, no stone was left unturned, which I think is the case here, and then to schedule a public hearing also. Has the project been the same since its inception or has it made changes? So I believe its original inception was in, like, 2007. Yes. It predates the zone, which I think it's probably, well, the zone existed, but the standards changed during that process. But throughout, I believe it has always complied with the dimensional requirements of the zoning use district and the design. As you know, in business CR, there's a very specific design for a commercial center. You know, you're supposed to, you know, everyone's supposed to surround a, all buildings are supposed to surround a central square feature. Campus style. Which this does like a campus. So this is kind of what we were looking for in this area. I understand traffic is a concern on this road, but based on the timing changes to the, the existing light, the installation of the new light, it'll actually improve traffic a lot. They're not going to get into that street again, correct? No. That's. We, the town abandoned the plan for the. Good. The service road. Service road, I guess you'd say. In favor of, in favor of cross access between parcels. That was a big stumbling block. Yeah. Yeah. So that's been gone, I think, since like 2015. But in favor of cross access, which this parcel indicates to the Rockwood, which is the main road. Yeah. So that's been gone, I think, since like 2015. So, you know, I went to the west and then there's a vacant parcel to the east. But it's come a long way. Okay. We'll do two actions to consider tonight. You guys got any questions on the narrative or what's included or where we're at? I don't. I think we're good. Yeah. Good luck. Check. See you at the public hearing. Thank you very much. We'll see you at the public hearing. Okay. I'll discover. Yep. All right. Number four. Bargain molding site plan amendment. With Greg Bergman. Enlighten us, Greg. Good evening. Take care. Take care, Chip.

All right. Thank you. So this is a quick update. We have an amendment application to the bargain molding site. That was an application that was approved by the board back on March 6th of 2025. That approved a site plan to reuse the existing vacant building on 58. At that time, so this site is approved with the existing, I think it's about a 9,000 square foot building. The site plan that the planning board had originally approved proposed. One way traffic circulation through the site. Traffic would enter on the east side of the building, circle around behind the building, and then exit through a new curb cut on the west side of the building. This site is actually two separate parcels which are owned by different entities. The applicant bargain molding as a result of the proposed site plan application. The property owner would not allow them to use the portion of the site plan. So they would have to use the portion of that western property for the paving and drainage improvements. So bargain molding's hands are sort of tied. They're just looking to get into the space and get it occupied. So what they did is they proposed, revised the plans to just have the existing curb cut on the east side of the building. It will be two-way traffic. The parking stalls will be reconfigured. There will be nine parking stalls located on the east side of that driveway. Again, it provides the required 24-foot-wide drive aisle. And there will be five parking stalls on the east side. So that's the plan. The property owner will be able to use the same space as the parking stalls. They're going to resurface the area. So that's really the main change that's before us. I did send the revised plans along with a updated 239F form to Suffolk County DPW for their review and comments. The plans do show the 24-foot-wide future cross-access on the east side that we did require as part of that prior site plan. However, it doesn't really line up with that existing east-to-west driveway on the neighboring property. So that's just got to get done. It's been moved. The plans have been updated. They did provide a lighting plan, which shows all dark-sky-compliant fixtures, building-mounted lighting on the building. Beyond that, I have an approval resolution on for administrative. All the other conditions, they still need to get health department approval, sewer approval, file the cross-access, and they will need a permit from the Suffolk County DPW. Yeah. Is anybody here from the applicant? Yeah. You can sit. I just want to say, you know, I know you're in a hurry to get going. And we've tried to really help you out. Sure. I drove by the site. It's a mess. No, you're... I'm sorry. I'm Greg. Okay, Greg. I apologize. Mow the lawn, trim the bushes. The grass is... You're 100%. I went there on my way here today. Yeah. And I was like, oh, my God, we haven't mowed. So my apologies. Yeah, no, it's... Taking care of it. I know you're busy. You know, you want to get in. But in the same token... You're right. You want it to look a little better. Absolutely, 100%. Okay. So I'll get that to you, Carol, first thing for you guys. Is that you using the building? No. No. No, we can't use it. Okay. I would love to. But unfortunately, right now, we're not. But I apologize, guys. I'll take care of that. Thank you. Appreciate it. No problem. Sometimes they ask for forgiveness. Greg, the only question I have is on the plans is chain link fence between, you know, the properties and the property on the east. Is there any way... Because it's so nice and clean just to do a small, you know, some type of plantings or something instead of a chain link fence. Because a chain link fence is what they took down. So the chain... Yeah, the chain link fence is down. So there's not really much room between... Yeah, I mean, that could maybe be something agreed to with the neighboring property owner. Put a landscape buffer in. But, you know, they're sort of dealing with the existing site conditions. Right, right. Those parking stalls or, you know... We don't have a requirement to buffer or screen commercial from commercial. But again, you know, with this site coming in for redevelopment to the east, I think we had a recently approved site plan there. I think they could probably come up with some kind of small landscape buffer, just put some landscaping between those two properties. Plus the tenants are not the owner of the property. Correct. Yeah.

Anybody? That's it. Are they still going to have to tie into the sewer? Yes. So I know... I believe Young and Young is working on... Sorry, Young Engineering. I believe they're working on that. I haven't heard the status update from them, but I know they are working on that through the health department in the sewer district. As far as material going in and out of the building, is there a designated area or is it going to just go out the front door? Or is there... Okay. So it's like a bay where people are picking up material that they can... Yeah. So everything would come out on the back of the building. Nothing would come out on the front. Nothing's coming out the front at all? No. There's two garage doors around the back that we could utilize for that. That's what we're planning on doing. Okay. And with the parking the way it is, that'll allow for that? Sure. Yep. Good? Good. Good. All right. Thanks, Greg. Thank you, John. Just one thing. Sir, if you could just state your last name for the record. Klechka. Thank you. All right. Number five. 940 through 946, West Main Street redevelopment with Greg.

Hello, guys. You used to like carpentry, man. Huh? You used to like carpentry. You used to like it too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. All right. All right. So this is an update on the redevelopment plan for the 940 to 946 West Main Street site. As the board recalls, we had a site plan application proposed to construct two new buildings. That plan in its previous iteration required several variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals. The ZBA denied those variances, so the applicant went back to the drawing board. All right. [transcription gap] All right. [transcription gap] The revised plans went to the ARB and they were approved, they're under review. The ARB looked at them back on June 25th. We did have comments, I mean I referred it to the fire marshal, water district, they're proposing to expand the sewer district. They've already submitted a petition to do so. There was a letter from the DEC, they've got to work out some issues with the DEC relating to the wild scenic recreational rivers area. So at this point, based on the fact that the plans fully comply with the zoning and dimensional regulations, I have a resolution to schedule it for a public hearing and move it forward. I like the new facade a lot better than the last one. I don't have any other issues, we've been kind of beating this thing to death. Gentlemen, anything? Yeah, I do. First thing is on this retaining wall that you've designed, where is that going to be? We are going to be in the area. We have a small retaining wall, this is a copy, a bigger copy, this is pretty small, actually it's the same size. Justin, can you zoom in please? Actually, there's a small retaining wall in the front here along the western frontage of the property. This corner of the property is being built up a little bit. So from West Main Street here up to the property line, we go from an elevation at Main Street. We go from a elevation at Main Street. We have an elevation of 14 and our parking lot up there, we go to the grading plant, will be the invert of the drain is 1625. So we've got about a two foot raise in the grade so the parking is higher. So it's a low retaining wall, like one of those low block retaining walls. I noticed that there's going to be some exporting of fill. Yes, yeah. This is a cut fill. This is a cut fill project altogether and the total cut is 7238 yards. Okay, let's see. We're going to cut a little bit into the east side because the property goes up. Matter of fact, from the previous site, the Blackman property, when they had it, they had already in the northeast corner, they went in toward the railroad and they gouged out a big area. They pulled it out and you can see there's a big slope by the railroad. So we're holding that grade there and then we're pushing dirt southwestward to the other corner to create the level plateau for the buildings. Okay, in front on Main Street, you've got water valves, a whole bunch of them. What are they all for? We have one, I'm sorry. Water valves, right in front. Oh, those are existing, that's just from the survey. Those are existing valves. Right. There are existing buildings on the site now. My guess is that they're right where the existing buildings are. Those are probably valves for the existing buildings. Okay. They're in the street. I imagine they're valves. We copied in from the surveyors, so those will probably go away. We are going to have new gas service. We will have electric and water. Okay. The screened areas, what exactly is going to go in there? That is a gravel area for outdoor screened outdoor storage. So anybody that has the building, you know, a tenant, if they needed additional storage for their materials associated with their business, this is a general warehousing use. They can have that storage in the back area. It's got to be suitably screened, which it is, and it's just a gravel screened storage area, outdoor storage yard. Okay. I wasn't sure that we were going to see compost or anything like that going on. Yeah. No. I was just wondering, Marty, what kind of screen it's six-foot fencing? Yeah. We did a chaining fence with a slat in it. With slats in it. Mm-hmm. Okay. Could you review the water system? Because it runs in a lot of different directions. Yeah. Well, we have a new water service right here on the east building. This is a new water service. And if you look at the back, it's a new water service. And if you look at the plan, it goes right into the water service room on the side of the building. And we have a water service on the west side of this building that goes into an RPZ room here. That's the only two water services. Both buildings will have a sprinkler and domestic service. And that will then service both buildings? Yeah. There's one water service for each building. Correct. For each building? We have one electric service for each building. Okay. So you're tapping off the main two places. Correct. That is correct. There are some existing water services. There are some existing water services there that we really can't use because we're doing sprinkler. So those would be retired and we would replace that with two new water taps, one for each building for domestic as well as fire protection. Okay. And now the sewer. I see the sewer going onto the first building. What about the second building? Yeah. Actually, what happens is we brought the sewer line onto the site to the first building where we have a manhole. We extend it to building two and then go into building two. You're going to have a force main or is it going to be gravity? That will all be reviewed. Currently, what's happening right now is the town's consulting firm, H2M, I believe that they're preparing a map and plan for that. They have provided it? Yeah. They have the map and plan? They have the map and plan, yeah. So that's done by the town's consulting engineer for the sewer district. So they're doing the engineering for all that right now. So this may change as far as the sewer. I'm not sure. We just showed initially a sewer that we felt was appropriate. Okay. We thought it was appropriate to tie in both buildings, but that will also be subject to the re-roof. That could require pumping. It mentions a pump. Oh, yeah? It does? Okay. Yeah, the sewer ends there across the street at the… By Maple Deli there? Yeah. The map and plan shows a pump pumping it up to that location. Yeah. Actually, it's a little bit…it's on the old Cottage Lane. So you got Rainer and Cottage Lane, which is next to the barbecue place, I think. Well, I think it actually…years ago I remember looking at it. It was where they make the statue, where they have the statues, the artists have the statues. That's where it ends, I believe, on Main. No, it comes down all the way down to across from Maple. Is it all the way across from Maple? Right across from Maple. You'll see a six-foot chain link fence and there's a box in there. That's the sewer pump in there. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, there's 7,000 yards of fill that you're going to take out. What's your intentions on doing what goes with that? The excavator takes care of that or the… Yes. Or the property owner? The excavator will take it. The excavator takes it. Okay. And they did have an environmental done, by the way, and everything is clean. Okay. All right. All right. Could you just give me your names for the record, please? Ray Dickoff. I represent the owner and I'm from Acklebark. Martin Sunloski. I'm the design professional for the Acklebark. Okay. Thank you very much. Anything else, gentlemen? No. Thank you. Good luck. Okay. Thank you. Oh, you're quite welcome. I see. We're independent. Yes, you too. Don't blow any fingers off. No. Okay. Number six. Tanger Allard Mall, 1700 Building, Shake Shack Conversion with Greg. Okay. Thank you. [transcription gap] Can we get your name, please? Sure. Gino Tedesco, R&M engineer, engineer for the applicant, 50 Elm Street, Huntington, New York. Thank you. Thank you. We have a lot of improvements, site upgrades, including access, parking upgrades. Approximately 3,200 square feet of that building will be converted to a Shake Shack restaurant. The remainder will remain as retail uses. Is there any other uses besides the share of this application? Is there any other uses in that building? So there is a children's toy store, I believe, which is in the 1,928 square foot. The remainder of the building, I think it's about 12,000 square feet right now, it's vacant. The only reason the application is not before the planning board for the use, the only reason this is in before the planning board is because of the site and access improvements and changes to the parking. So really very limited in scope in terms of nature of what they're doing. There are no new curb cuts proposed on County Route 58 in order to create easier access to the Shake Shack. The application proposed to remove some of the existing curbing on the north side of the internal Tanger driveway. So there will be a right in, so you can come off of 58 from either direction, make a right into the parking lot, park there, get to the Shake Shack. They're redoing some ramps and curbing throughout the vicinity of the site. They're going to update some landscaping throughout the site and the facade of the building will be completely redone. The facade was reviewed by the ARB at last month's meeting. The facade was approved. The restaurant use is permitted. The town board recently updated the business F zoning code so it allows one, quote, food court per campus or that food court can be substituted for a restaurant use. So that's what Tanger is opting for for this location. Considering the different Tanger, considering this a separate Tanger campus, so they don't have to lose the food court in the main. You know, at the back of the horseshoe there on Tanger 2. The proposed action is a type 2 action under SECRA as it involves reuse of an existing commercial structure. Just one minor, I did note the business F zoning code has a certain number. I believe it's 20% of the total seating of the restaurant can be outdoor. They just need to tweak the seating calculations in order to comply with the regulations of the business F zoning district. Is this a franchise or? Single. Oh no, Shake Shack's all over the place. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I was just wondering, they usually don't have them as restaurants. They usually take out. I mean, they have, I mean, their business model, they have a sit down restaurant. There's no, I've never seen a drive through at a Shake Shack, but there is no drive through. So I mean, it's a traditional sit down restaurant. I mean, you can get take out. You know, they do door dash, all that sort of stuff. So you can go in and go out and go. I'm just familiar with several of them in Manhattan. Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, they're fine. You're going to have to. Yeah. Wait on line. You're going to have to beat me away with a stick when this opens. Very, very much looking forward to it. But yeah, traditional sit down restaurant. I believe the number of seats proposed is 68 total seats. So there will be some outdoor, some indoor seats. Excuse me, Greg. As far as the seating goes, where's the outdoor seating going to be on the drawing? You have. It's right outside the back door. So there'll be just that little patio area right in here. So that'll be facing old country road? Yeah, I think. No, it'll be facing the internal driveway. I mean, you're probably talking a couple of picnic tables. On the east side of it? No, it'll be on the south side. So here's. It's going to be somewhere. It's over here? Yeah, old country road is at the top of the page. Oh, right. Yep. So right in this area. Yeah, probably. It'll be facing the internal road. Correct. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. But I think the entrance. The entrance is facing. Old country road to get to walk in. Right. The entrance to the restaurant will be on or facing old country road. That's correct. Yeah. Yes. The main door. The main door is in the corner of the building. Right here. Facing old country road. So the applicant did prepare a traffic study, even though this is just the reuse of a commercial building. I've known. I've seen Shake Shack get pretty busy. So they prepared a traffic study and they went and took traffic counts at a Shake Shack location in Melville. They took counts on a Friday and a Saturday for a different range of times. The traffic study looked at several different intersections throughout the site, including the driveway on 58, the internal driveways as well. They found no significant impacts as a result of the change in use. They did note, and I provided the traffic impact study to the Suffolk County DPW. I guess the DPW provided some traffic timing data with the traffic. Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And the last bit on this is site lighting. So I did go through the site. I noticed, I mean, it was tough to estimate, but I would estimate that the poles are probably close to 30 feet high. I did speak to Brett Brophy, who is the representative from Tanger, who I'm dealing with. I let him know that we're going to need to bring the lighting in this vicinity up to compliance with town code. Again, understanding that the remainder of the parking lot is going to be a huge, huge lift. You know, again, we've been treating these things coming in to bring it up to compliance. But they have to start. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, to just come and say, you know, you've got to replace lighting on an entire 42-acre site is a major undertaking in and of itself. So the applicant agreed to then come in with a lighting plan to update the lighting for the vicinity of the 1700 building, which I've included as a condition of approval in the resolution. Beyond that, pretty straightforward. Okay. Any other questions? No. That's good. No, good. Okay, good luck. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you. All right, don't go anywhere, Greg. Number seven, East End Commons, BJ's Fueling Station and Expansion.

How you doing, gentlemen? Good afternoon. How you doing, gentlemen? My name is Hansley Mohan, Farrell Fritz, 100 Motor Parkway, Suite 33. 300 off of New York, 11780. Are you sure? Chris Pizzagno, R&M Engineering, 50 Elm Street, Huntington, New York. Thank you. 11743. You're welcome. All right. So we've got a site plan application, which is seeking to construct an approximately 10,500-square-foot expansion to the existing BJ's Wholesale Club on the north end of the building, as well as an EAT pump, 16-location accessory fueling station, as well as 165-square-foot fueling attendant station kiosk. Site plan proposes to reconfigure the existing parking lot on the north side of the property and perform landscaping improvements. The site's located at the addresses 565 to 605 Old Country Road. It's got frontage on both Old Country Road and Northville Turnpike, which are both county roads. The property is currently approved with a 93,000-square-foot BJ's Wholesale Club and approximately 110,000-square-foot building, which is housing a number of uses, including... Southern County Department of Social Services, Box Pickleball, and some other vacant spaces that are unidentified tenants yet. Property is located within the Shopping Center Zoning Use District. So when this application was initially discussed, and I looked at the zoning, the Shopping Center Zoning is a pretty vague description of what's permitted. I did note that I looked at the underlying CO for the BJ's Wholesale Club. I received a CO for a wholesale, and I received a CO for a wholesale club back in December of 1996. So I made the interpretation that I consider the fueling station customarily accessory to the wholesale club. We do have another zoning district down the road, the DRC Zoning District, which specifically calls out fueling stations as accessory to wholesale clubs. As the board is aware, the Costco has an accessory fueling station. So I'm considering it customarily accessory to that use, with the condition that it remains branded. This cannot be a separate, stand-alone facility. It's not necessarily operated by another entity. It needs to be remained branded a BJ's gas station. If the BJ's were to close, obviously the accessory use would be lost. Yeah, how far is fresh water from the project? Fresh water? I mean, the fresh water you've got here, I mean... Just to the east of the parcel is... I mean, there are several, I would say several hundred feet from the fresh water wetland boundary. I mean, the fresh water wetland boundary is right here. Yeah. I'm not saying it's close to 300. Okay, possibly. Greg, the covenant on the station, should they decide to close the store, does that same covenant exist on the property where they're currently pumping gas? No, so that was a different... While it's a BJ's branded gas station, I believe they actually received a use variance. I don't want to speak too much just because it's been about seven or eight years. I don't remember it was sold. But I believe that was a use variance because I think it was strong oil, and I remember there was a use variance that ran with the land on that. From water mill? Yeah, so that's not really in the equation. Okay, okay. That can operate, I mean, if BJ's wanted to sell that, that could continue to operate as a fueling station. So that is not rented, that is owned by the corporation? They're leasing. They lease it, okay. Yeah. All the lighting compliant on the site plan? Yeah, so they've actually updated this site lighting. We've been through a couple of different site plans on this. When DSS came in, when Box Pickleball came in, they've since updated all the site lighting, brought it down LED compliant heights, 3000 Kelvin, so they're not... The only lighting that they're doing here is some additional wall-mounted lighting, which again complies, and then they have to rearrange the parking lot on the north side so they will reconfigure some of those existing poles, but they're all compliant. Okay. We just approved not too long ago that revamping of that area so that we could move the traffic along a lot better there. So on the Ostranger site, yeah, we... So was that... The resolution was tabled, as I... Oh, it was tabled? I believe the resolution was tabled. Okay. An issue with the cross-action. I didn't remember that, okay. Okay. So I did, this is an unlisted action pursuant to SICRA. We commenced a coordinator review. I distributed the coordination with the board. I submitted the coordination materials to all involved agencies, Riverhead Water District, Sewer District, Highway, Fire Marshal, Suffolk County Planning Commission, Suffolk County Department of Health Services, as well as Public Works. I did note that elevations were provided for the fueling canopy and the station, which were approved by the ARB. They did not provide elevations for the 10,000 square foot BJ's expansion, so that'll just need to be submitted if they want to come in and go further, go along further with that. So regarding traffic circulation to the fueling station, vehicles can enter either on the south side of the fueling area or on the north side. Vehicles would come in, be oriented in an east-west direction, fuel up, and then leave through the western side of the fueling station. From there, they could either go back here out to the light at Old Country Road, or they could travel behind the building. Okay. To get out to Northville Turnpike. So that area is a two-way street? So behind BJ's is a two-way street. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's when I, if I'm going there to shop on my lunch break, I come up Northville, I come up behind the building, I park here, that's how I get out. I do just make a recommendation. Right now, if you're driving north behind the building, this is sort of a blind corner when you're coming around. There's no stop sign, there's no really any control there, so I just recommend a stop sign and a stop light. Stop sign and a stop bar be located there just to sort of mitigate any sort of potential conflicts there. Recommend a do not enter sign here just because right now traffic is all directed out to the south. So put in a do not stop, do not enter signage there. The parking lot will be reconfigured. Again, the site, based on the total amount of uses and the square footage there, requires 931 parking stalls. The site provides a total of 865 improved stalls as well as 88 land bank stalls. So they can provide a total of 953 parking stalls where only 930 are required. Again, I don't think I've ever been to this parking lot when it's been, you know, like more than 75% falls last night on issue. One minor note is that this bank of parking stalls, which is located proximate to the fueling station, the depth of those stalls is only shown as 16.5 feet. It needs to be 20 feet. Okay. There's 60 feet here between the curving and fueling station so they can easily pick up 3.5 feet. That's not a major thing. And 8 by 10. What's that? 10 by 10. 10 foot. Yeah, so they will, if they push that back 3.5 feet, they'll get all the compliant 10 by 10 parking stalls. 10 by 20. Landscaping will be updated throughout the site. I did note that there is some regrading that's going to be done in the northwest corner of the site to facilitate the installation of the underground fuel tanks. I have an idea. You do? Yeah, let's . Can you zoom in a little bit on this, Justin? Good. Thank you. So this site will be regraded and they show it to be redone with hydro seed. There's a really nice vegetative wooded buffer along there. It's just I'm not sure how much of that existing buffer would need to be lost. But I do recommend just a little more substantial revegetation plan than just some hydro seed. Right now there's an existing snow storage equipment removal. You know, they're contracted and maintains the lots. They keep a couple of trucks there, trailer and their salt and sand. So wherever that's going to be relocated should just be shown. Obviously it's not a permanent improvement, but they're going to need to maintain that on site. Like I said, I referred everything to involved agencies. I did get comments back from the health department, which I'll forward to the board. I'm still waiting on DPW, the planning commission. In terms of Seward District, they are proposing to connect. There's a bathroom proposed for the fueling station kiosk. They are proposing a force main that would connect to a manhole on Oliver Street. Where is that bathroom? There's a bathroom within the kiosk. The kiosk is small. It's 160 square feet. It's portioned into three sections. There's the IT area with the electric and utilities. Then there's the bathroom area here. And then there is the attendant area. I just didn't know where it was. I know it's referenced, but where it is. Yeah, so it's on the west side of the kiosk. And the plan is to have a sewer connection. Gravity to this landscaped area here. Put in E1 pump station. Low pressure force main. Pipe. Which will tie into the sewer in Oliver Street. So will there need to be any clearing to facilitate the installation of that main? Typically with this force main, it's only one and a half inches, two inches. It's a small pipe, so they can missile it through. So I don't intend to see any clearing. If there is, we'll have to wait. We'll show it and we'll re-vegetate as needed. I've already spoken with Tim Allen a couple times over at the sewer district. And he gave us a connection approval. So I can forward that to you as well. And where are you going to bring the water in from? I'm sorry? Where is the water supply coming in from? So right now there's a water, there's a hot box in the northwest corner of the site up here. And there's a water main that runs down this side. It goes all the way down the back. It ties in up front. And we plan on just... Just tying in there? Tying it off inside the site. That is right. Okay. Thanks. Beyond that, we got comments from the town engineer. Still waiting for fire marshal comments. I do recommend I have a resolution on it if the board is comfortable. We could schedule a public hearing on it. That will give time for the sewer coordination period to end. Hopefully get comments from the board. When this station opens, will they close the opening? They don't intend to close the opening. But it's going to take some time. There you go. Just right above you right now. What will the hours of operation be? The same as the store hours or? Typically it's about 6 to 10. And attendant will be there at all? Yeah. 6 to 10. I like the idea of getting traffic off of 58. Which is a lot of complaints on Ostrander. And I actually like the idea of going behind the building. Because there are actually three means of exits. Which is a great idea. And the only thing, like I spoke with Greg, if you can do some tree trimming. A lot of the branches are starting to overhang that exit area. Sure. You know, I just... I think it's... It's a great design. Yeah. I mean, that's just... That's a general comment. I mean, you know, like some of these landscaped islands, like when you go to exit the parking lot and you go to enter that perimeter drive-wise. Some of those shrubs, like on either side of you, are sort of high. It's tough to... You almost have to be like out in the lane to see what's coming. So, yeah, if they could just generally maintain the landscaping. Yeah. We could add those, you know, to... Yeah. To clean it up. Yeah. Before... Before being on that. Before being on that one. We reviewed the staff report and the comments with respect to the addition of the do not enter sign, the stop sign, modifying the stall depth to be code compliant, updating the revegetation plan, the relocation of the storage equipment, I'm sorry, the snow removal equipment. We're all going to incorporate that into the next revision of the plans, which will wait until the public hearing in case if there are any public comments or any further comments from the board. That was good, gentlemen. Good. Yeah. Good. [transcription gap] Have a great weekend. You do the same. Happy Fourth. Okay. At this time, we have public comments on all resolutions. Anybody like to speak? Let's go. Good evening, gentlemen. My name is James Nunnemaker. I reside on Scenic Lake Drive in Riverhead. I wish to speak in opposition to resolution number six. Okay. Thank you. The bottom line is Riverhead doesn't need another cannabis dispensary. We already have three. There are several adjacent to us. And if you watch Channel 12, there's at least two who deliver all over Long Island. The existing one on Old Country Road delivers. And since this came to my attention, I've been driving along Old Country Road frequently. And I have yet to see more than... More than eight or nine. Nine is the maximum number of cars I've seen in the parking lot at the one adjacent to Walmart or the West End of 58. It's my understanding that the location at the West End of 58 delivers all over town. And do we really need another dispensary? That's the real question. And so... Okay. So, the way to look at this is looking at the neighborhoods. I don't know the distance, but I'm guessing it's about 750 feet south of Old Country Road on Osterender. There's a church. And from the church down to the aquarium, we have a very vibrant neighborhood. You go over to Roanoke, and from Roanoke, from the traffic circle down, we have another vibrant neighborhood. You look along middle, you have John Wesley. The New York Times. You have the three condo communities, all of which have seen very substantial appreciation in the value. And that could be adversely affected by the dispensary, more traffic in the area. Roanoke, I'm sorry, Osterender is a narrow two-lane road. We just really don't need it at the site. One of the... Thinking about it. Thinking about it in another dimension is, do we need a dispensary 1,000 feet from the hospital emergency room? Surely, we're having people going to that emergency room with substance abuse problems. Do we need a dispensary 1,000 to 2,000 feet away? As a lawyer, one of the things that bothers me greatly is... A retired lawyer. I should say. We were just starting to like you until you said that. Well, I think of myself as a recovering lawyer. Right now, based on a check I did yesterday, there is no legally approved, legally sanctioned test for cannabis that the police can use in New York State courts to determine whether a person is operating a motor vehicle under the influence of cannabis. There's several wonderful tests for alcohol, but a cop really is on very thin ice making a stop for influence of marijuana. There's tests, blood tests that can be done for conventional drugs, not marijuana. Do we need that? We also have... I realize the planning board is focusing on that site. I do. But not far away, down the hill, down middle, is the Timothy Hill Ranch. We have teenagers who are there who are at risk. Do we need a cannabis facility within three-tenths, four-tenths of a mile of adolescents at risk? I think my request would be to deny the change of use for the zoning on that. If they want to... I think that's a good question. If they want to keep a car dealership there, that's fine, but not a cannabis dealer. That's my major points. Thank you. Good points. Thank you, sir. Anybody else? I also... My name is Mary Hyland. I live in Saddle Lakes on Scenic Lake Drive, and I'm very unhappy with the plan to install yet another cannabis dispensary on our corner, two-tenths of a mile from our gate. You have four senior citizen communities, and we are a vibrant, spending money type of resident in Riverhead. We use the restaurants. We use the entertainment venues. You have portrayed... Well, let me just back up. Riverhead never had such a great reputation. It was never stellar. Now you're going to have us known as the source, and not Fortunoff. It's going to be the source of cannabis, and the whole East End is going to be coming here looking for drugs. Is this what we want? The senior citizens are going to be afraid to go out at night. It's just crazy that you want to have yet another one. CNN published recently that cannabis use causes a 29% increase in stroke and heart disease, heart attacks. It's a very, very bad thing. We have the hospital right there, so I guess that's a good thing, but it's a nightmare in traffic. The Ostrander cannot absorb the volume of traffic. It's already a nightmare. I was coming from a funeral this morning, and there was almost an accident right in front of me that somebody's trying to make a turn, because there is no place to put a turning lane. So it's a dangerous, busy intersection, because 58 is the main thoroughfare, and now you want to put a cannabis distribution site on the corner? I think it's a very bad thing. It's a very bad decision. The flavor of the community is going to be destroyed. We're a very nice community. You are like two-tenths of a mile from private residences, from a church. This is just me clocking it as I drive. Then you have the Timothy Hill Ranch. You have the four senior citizen communities, and you have the high, as Jim said, the entire street of Ostrander is private residences. Why do we have this? We have to be destroyed, because this is going to destroy our property values. It's going to make us afraid to go out at night. I just think it's too close to Peconic Hospital. It's too close to private residences. It's too close to the Timothy Hill Ranch. I think that the variance that is required, because there also had been rules written in November of 22, which required a thousand-foot setback. As I understand it, those rules have been eliminated to accommodate this problem. But there is a plan to make this plan. Rather than the plan accommodating the ... That's not true. No variance has been required. There's no variance. This is a fully compliant site. It complies with all ... Isn't there a variance required to put that building up? They want to add another 6,000-square-foot building? There is no variance required. Well, I'm just very frustrated with the town. I came here, spoke at your last meeting. I think it was June 5th. It was total chaos. maybe go to the town board. The town board said come to you that this is a matter for the for the planning. So I feel like I'm being bounced around and that our concerns as valid citizens, taxpaying citizens, are just being ignored for the purpose of money, revenue. But you're going to destroy the fabric of the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other speakers? Hi, how you doing? Good, you? Dawn Collins, I live in Riverhead and I agree with my friends that just got here to speak, right, but I just want to say that there should be no cannabis dispensaries, right? What are you doing? What are you doing? You're going to send your kids in there? Your grandkids in there? Go get pot? Are you kidding me? What happened to the war on drugs? Just say no, right? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. We shouldn't even be here. Why should we be ashamed of ourselves? Because you should not be putting up cannabis shops. Okay, listen, we're the planning board. You're going to make 3% on the sale for revenue. We do site planning. And where are you going to put that money? In drug rehabilitations, right? There was five members of the town board that are approved, taking away the 1,000 foot setback rule last year, right? This opened us up to many more cannabis dispensaries across the East End or in Riverhead, which includes Jamesport, Ackerbog, right, Baining Hollow, Wading River, Riverhead, right? The five people on the board, they're not the majority. The majority don't want this, right? We don't need drugs in our community, right? Some of the people that are on the board, the five members of the board, don't even live in the immediate area, right? Some of them were even on the police and they were part of the police athletic league, right, for over 20 years. The revenue that a cannabis would bring in is about 3% on each sale, right? And so, we're going to have to make sure that we're not going to have to pay for it. So, if the one on, you know, Old Country Road makes $100 million, that's $3 million a year, say, that's a lot of money, right? And the town supervisor even said that's a huge source of income, and yes, it is, you know? But you know something, the cartel is saying that, the same thing about fentanyl, right? What happened to the war on drugs and just say no, right? The board's not looking at the message to our youth. The North Florida, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, the North Carolina, York County, York County, York County, York County, York County, York County, York County, [transcription gap] out here, right? Take the kids go fishing, right? For ice cream. You don't need a dispensary on every corner in Riverhead or anywhere else, right? And the only ones that approved this were Riverhead, Brookhaven, I think Southampton and Babylon. And Babylon is doing really well with their revenue. They can have it. They can have it all. That's not what it's all about. What it's all about is our kids and promoting a healthy lifestyle. You know, and if you don't plan on sending your own kids and grandkids to go pick up some marijuana, then don't put it on other kids and families. Thank you. [transcription gap]

I was recently in Maine and there's a cannabis store on every corner, which shocked me. So I came back here to ask staff, due to our zoning, how many could we possibly have in Riverhead? What would the maximum number be? And the maximum number would be seven. Some of us probably feel that's still too many, but it's not like we will have one on every corner like Maine has. I was very surprised. But with that said, next speaker, please.

I'm going to ask any of you guys. We need your names. I'm going to ask you. My name is Marie Duell. I grew up through the 60s. I was a semi-hippie. Now has any of you ever gone and purchased some of this stuff and seen the effect of it? Because it's strong stuff. And I know somebody who takes it as a, they call it medical marijuana. And I said, this stuff is stronger than back when I was buying it illegally. You know? Yeah. Yeah. [transcription gap] So that's something to think about because people will get, they'll roll a joint or get a pipe and hop in their car and that's it. They're smoking it like a cigarette, just driving down the road. Now go in there and go up to that one and buy, buy some and roll yourself a joint and you're going to see, you're not going to get out of your recliner because it's going to blow you away. Yeah. [transcription gap] Yeah. [transcription gap] York I'm the attorney represent the applicant and I've been doing this for many years certainly not with cannabis but and I understand the people's concern but I do think that Riverhead town the town council already set the policy it's not something that this board respectfully has the discretion if you will to say no we don't think it's a good idea maybe it isn't a good idea but the town already said by legislative act that cannabis can be sold in certain dispensaries one of the things is that and I I don't know if the folks that spoke know it but Riverhead's requirements Florida exceed the state requirements it's it's certainly more restrictive than the state of New York requires so I think we're trying to do the best we can the location seems to be one it doesn't seem to be actually it meets every requirement we didn't need variances as the board knows and we came in here the last time and and spoke about the construction so I won't bore you with that so again I know the people's concern but I think Riverhead when they made that ordinance and made it more restrictive than even the state they were thinking about protecting the public also there there are two other applications that I know Riverhead one went to the Board of Appeals the board of appeals denied it it's in litigation another one is pending before the Board of Appeals so it's not an easy task to get approved in the town of Riverhead thank you thank you anybody else okay ma'am if you want to speak you're welcome to but you have to come up to the mic I live in Stonely Woods off of Middle Road which is directly behind where you're gonna put the dispensary okay and I just have to ask why are you putting so many on 58 why isn't one in Bading Hollow Calverton why are they all on 58 why do we need so many dispensaries on one road I don't know the answer to that well that was not this board that's not the sport of planning board we take care of the site you speak to the other people who are on boards and I put in distinct boards they don't tell us what to do we don't tell them what to do we're separate and distinct I can understand that but you talk to each other and you do talk to each other so yeah it really is a we're not doing it right now we're not doing it right now we're not doing it right so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so who have homes and families. It's not just the elderly people. It just seems there's been an overall approval of things that are not good for the community. There's no reason to have so many approved plans for a two-and-a-half-mile stretch. It's ridiculous. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Anybody else? Okay, with that said, we have 12 resolutions. Let's run through them, gentlemen. Go ahead, George. All right, I'll move Resolution 2025, 059, Zuma's open space memo to the town board. So moved. Second. Moved and second. Mr. Zernicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Nenero. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion is carried. I'll move Resolution numbers 2022. 2025, 060, granting extension of approval for the minor subdivision of 230 West Main Street. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Nenero. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. I move Resolution number 2025-61, Akira House of Worship, FKA, Cox Place of Worship, resolution granting final site plan approval for the site plan application seeking to convert an existing single... single family dwelling into a place of worship and add 3600 plot church yard. Second. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Nenero. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. Resolution 2025-062, Home Depot Outdoor Storage and Site Improvement. Resolution granting administrative site plan approval to a site plan application seeking to legitimize and formally designate outdoor storage areas. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Nenero. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. I move Resolution 63-2025-63, for Gouda, LLC, granting the preliminary... excuse me, preliminary approval for the site plan. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Nenero. Aye. Second. 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Moving to the second, Mr. Zernicki. Mr. Chairman, I just want to say that the people who came here had great answers and everything else. But this board, we do not make policy. We do site plan approval. Whether we agree with the cannabis law or not, that is not in our situation to say yes or no. The site plan is in full compliance. It does not need any variances. But we do appreciate the public for their comments. And I vote yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. De Niro. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. I would just like to say thank you. I would just like to say something before I vote. I am not against these stores. But in my opinion, we would have been better off if they were in towns west of Riverhead. I spoke to Mr. Hogan earlier, and he had what I thought was a good idea. These should have been zoned in industrial areas, not necessarily commercial near residential. That being said, the property owner does have rights, and he met the criteria of the law. So I will vote yes. Motion carries. Okay. That was resolution number 63, correct? Yes. It was 64. 64? Okay. Number 7. I will move resolution number 2025-65, East End Commons B.J. Fueling Station and Expansion. Resolution to schedule a public hearing for the site plan application seeking to construct 10,530 square foot expansion. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zanicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. De Niro. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. I move resolution 20-25-67, Tanger Outlet Mall. 1,700 building. For the shake shack conversion. Second. Any preliminary site approvals? Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zanicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. De Niro. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. I will move resolution number 2025-68, Assume Lead Agency and issue negative deck for Veniza Square. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zanicki. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. De Niro. Aye. Mr. Baer. Yes. And I vote aye. the motion carries. I move Resolution 2025-69 to schedule a public hearing for the site plan application of Venetia Square. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? No. I disagree with the traffic pattern leaving the shopping center and going north up Dogwood Drive. Okay. Mr. Nenaro? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote yes. The motion carries 4-1. I move Resolution 2025-070 940-946 West Main Street Development. Resolution to schedule a public hearing for a site plan application seeking to redevelop the existing commercial site. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. Nenaro? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. Minutes. Public comment? I don't think we have any. Nope. Done. Let's do the minutes, boys. I'll move the minutes of May 15th. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. I'll move the minutes of June 5th. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. 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Eastern Commons BJ's Fuel Station. Expansion. We have a secret action. Yeah, that's just kind of a record of us distributing the lead agency coordination. Okay. Very good. Staff, any other business? Correspondence? Yeah, correspondence. It was circulated via email earlier this week from Ruth and Michael Arnone regarding Summerwind's subdivision. Thank you very much. Staff, you did a great job tonight. I wish you a happy 4th of July. Yeah. Our next meeting is going to be July 17th at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Can I get somebody to close the meeting? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you.

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