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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. This is the advertised time and place for the Thursday, September 18, 2025, Planning Board meeting. Please join us in standing for the pledge. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Yep. You said there's two sheds. Yes. One is on lot two, I assume, and one is on lot one? They're both on lot one. They're existing. So it's a proposed. They're a structure shown on lot two. Yeah. It doesn't exist now, but they're on the western property line on lot one.

Good evening. Kimberly Judd, 737 Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead, New York. The applicant, also one of my clients, is here, Christine. This property has been in their family since 1964, and her mom and dad are proposing to subdivide it for estate planning purposes. The property is located in RA40 zone. The property is located in the area of the zoning district, and each of the lots is proposed in excess of 70,000 square feet. So we are more than conforming as to lot area and zoning. If you've been to the property, when you're standing at the road, I don't know if anybody's gone there, but it's a deep dive. You can see all the contours on the survey, and it goes right down to the sound. We are going to most likely apply to the zoning board for a variance for the sheds. They've been there a very long time, and they're big. They're big and difficult to move. We could try to move them to the other side of the house, but there's the septic system there, and we can't move them behind the house because of the contours. It drops greatly. So my client's here if you have any questions for us. Okay, thank you. Anybody from the audience have anything to say? I just had one quick. Are there any wetlands on the second lot? No. No wetlands, okay. No wetlands. We do have a DEC permit, a title wetlands permit. Do we have any Zoomers? We have people on Zoom, but they don't have their hands raised, so I'm not sure if they want to speak. Board members, anything else? No. Okay, let's get a motion. All right, I'll move that we close the public hearing for Woodhull at South Shore. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zelnicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. Nenero? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. The motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck. All right, public hearing number two for Thomas Anderson for a minor subdivision with Heather.

For the record, Heather Trojanowski, planner for the town of Riverhead. This is a public hearing for a minor subdivision application entitled Thomas Anderson Minor Subdivision, which seeks approval to subdivide a 25.711 acre parcel into two lots, with lot one to contain four acres, and lot two to contain 21.711 acres, situated on the east side of Roanoke Avenue within the APZ zoning use district, more particularly identified as Suffolk County Tax Fund number 600-64-1-57. And I can confirm that we received the affidavit of posting a mailing and the certified receipts. Thank you very much. Anybody from the public? Mr. Cuddy? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Charles Cuddy, 445 Griffin Avenue, Riverhead, New York, for the Andersons. Basically what they're doing is taking 92 acres and making two 46 acre lots. 42 acres of each lot is to be sold to the county, four acres is to be retained by each of them. So they're just as an estate plan, making two lots that are equal, so that each one of them has an equal interest. And They really are selling off the land, preserving the land to the County of Suffolk, and we have contracts with the county and will close shortly. That's great. That's all it is. Awesome. I'm just waiting for this to be approved. I can move ahead and sell the rights? Yes. Okay, thank you. Anybody from the public? Please come up, sir.

Hello, Robert Pappis, 67 Green Tree Drive, Riverhead, New York. I am living on Green Tree Drive. This is like across Runok, so it's like post on the side of the field. Do I understand that this is a protected area? It's going to be. They're selling development rights. Once this application is complete. So they are changing fields where it's growing vegetables? No, they're still going to be farmland. They're changing for the building permits or something like that? No. Just a subdivision. Subdivision? It's still going to be farmland. Still will be farmland? Yes, sir. Is some kind of, you know, like a law for this? Yeah. It's like a... Yeah, it'll be in any program. Solid. Solid rock, right? Yes, sir. No buildings, nothing like this. Just to clarify, there is going to be a four-acre retained parcel, so if they would like to build a house in the future, they could, but they would need to get the appropriate building permits, health department approval, but the larger portion of the lot is going to be preserved. They actually could build on it like a barn or something. Like a power structure. So that would be a subdivision for houses. So this is... Is possible, like for me, the citizen to have the map of this area? We can certainly let you take a look at it. Yes, here. It's also online with the agenda packet. Oh, okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Any other speakers? Board members? Oh, will we close the hearing, public hearing? I'm going to do subdivisions, Joe. Check for zone. Oh, yeah. No more zoomers. No more zoomers. Okay, now you can do it, Joe. I can do it. I'll move and close the public hearing on Thomas Anderson, minor subdivision on Roanoke Avenue. I'll second. Moved and second. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. DeNiro? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. Okay, one more public hearing. Richard Anderson, minor subdivision with Heather. So this is a public hearing for a minor subdivision application entitled Richard Anderson, minor subdivision. This is the lot directly to the south of the lot for the prior public hearing. This seeks approval to subdivide a 66.996 acre parcel into three lots, with lot one to contain 20.369 acres, lot two to contain 42.357 acres, and lot three to contain four acres. Situated on the east side of Roanoke Avenue, north side of Joyce Drive, within the APZ and RA40 zoning use districts, more particularly identified as Suffolk County, tax up number 600-64-1-7.1. And as Mr. Cuddy stated before, this is, I guess, the brother's parcel in conjunction with the parcel to the north, wherein they are subdividing to sell the larger lots to the county in order to get equal profits. And then each will retain just one four-acre parcel for the potential of a barn or house in the future. Great. Okay. Anybody like to speak? Mr. Cuddy? It's virtually to say the same thing, that this is the other side of the parcel. It's the two brothers just equalizing the parcels, and that's it. Mr. Cuddy, can I ask you about, you guys have been notified by the town, the water department. Has Richie or Tommy given any idea if they would be interested in selling the four? They're not. This is going to be Thomas's, the one where they want to put the, the well. And the answer is so far he said. So they're switching. So Richie's going to take the south end? Yes. Oh, okay. All right. All right. That's right. One is going to take the south, the other the north. Right. But the answer is, they said to me they'd like to farm. They're not too sure they want any wells in their property. They just want to farm it. That was last week. I'm still talking to them. Okay. Because, you know, once the county is done. Oh, I understand. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought it would have been a great buffer between the farm and Nadel Drive because the people there complain. But you and I may think differently than they do. Yes. I understand. Okay. And just for the record, we did receive correspondence. It was sent to Mr. Cuddy with a copy to the planning board from Frank Mancini, who's the water district superintendent, requesting that they had an interest in buying four acres of the land from this parcel. Just for a little bit of background. So we're still talking. Thanks, Mr. Cuddy. I appreciate that. Yeah. Anybody else from the audience? Anything else, board members? No. Any zoomers? No zoomers? Nobody on Zoom. Okay. Do it, guys. All right. The move will close the public hearing for Rich Anderson minus subdivision. So moved. Second. Second. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. Denaro? Yes. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. Okay. No discussion items today, Greg? No, sir. All right. Public comments on any resolution? I'm going to do it now. I didn't wait for it to come up. I have a question. Are you sure? Are you sure? Yes. I'm for colony. I'm for colony. Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? Are there any? on page three.

It's just a question. Has the applicant applied to the health department? That I don't know. We do have the attorney for the applicant here. They could probably answer that question. Same question. Same question goes for item two, wetland permits. The DEC? Yeah. And then the last question is, there will be covenants? Yes. Okay. Yeah, so the filing, the second resolve on page three, that upon filing the signed subdivision map with the county clerk, covenants contained in those restrictions above noted in a form approved by council that the planning board shall be filed with the subdivision. You know what? Not well, thanks. Good afternoon. Just give your name. Martin Finnegan, 13250 Main Road, Matatuck for the applicant. We had a letter of non-jurisdiction from the DEC for the original subdivision. We're resubmitting everything based on the reduced density. The same thing with the health department. We were pretty much there, but when things change, everything's pending, but everything has been submitted. We're just waiting here. Also, have you been in contact with the county preservation? Are they? Are they interested in purchasing development rights? We have, other than the comments that were made at the public hearing about that, we have not been approached by the county. My client has not heard from anybody with respect to it at all. Okay. Okay, thank you, Mr. Hagen. Mr. May, speak up.

Hi, I'm Eileen Sperling from 16 Duggs Lane in Jamesport. I've been in touch with the people from the county from Catherine Stark's office, and to my knowledge, what I was told, the owners were given a notice of intent that the county is interested in purchasing this parcel. We have a very active community because this is very sensitive wetlands, and I know that you had some stipulations that you put in on this conditional approval. It doesn't go as far as you did in the November 2023 with the original site proposal, and as a community, we're extremely worried about what's going to happen when this property becomes developed. So I do know that. The county preservation, Dean Gandley and Catherine Stark, have reached out to the owners. We were told that they may be interested. Maybe Mr. Finnegan has better knowledge of that, but we were told that letters of intent have gone out to them in terms of preserving this property, and that is what the community would be most interested in doing. Thank you. Do you have any knowledge on that, Mr. Finnegan? I know my client was waiting to hear from them based on it, but I'm just a fact-filer. I'm sorry. I'm having trouble. Mark, could you just come up? You're not picking up on the microphone. I'm standing back there. I can't hear you. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I can certainly double-check on that and report back to Greg, but this approval has no impact on it. We can still sell the development rights if there's a deal. So that is where we are. Okay. Mention it to the applicant. I will, of course. Very good. Thank you, sir. Just for the board's knowledge, I just want to make a correction. The wetlands on this property that have been referred to, that were referred to by Mr. Gandley at the public hearing as well as just now, they are not title wetlands. What's shown on both the county GIS map and our local GIS is that those areas are identified as dredged spoils. So what happened was when East Creek was dredged out, those spoils were placed on. That property, there are three houses which are located adjacent to Doug's Lane, which are shown on that same dredge spoil layer. So there is, they were able to build three houses on those, on that area that is identified. When you turn on the wetland layer, it comes up, but they're actually dredge spoils. So it's not a wetland. It is within DEC title wetland jurisdiction. That line is shown on the map, and that's why they need to get the approval from the DEC for the site. Okay. Thank you. So that's the map for the subdivision.

Sorry, I'm new to all this procedural thing, but what happens when you give a preliminary approval for the site map? Does that mean that the developers can begin developing this property? Like what is the process? So this is a conditional approval. Basically it spells out the conditions that the applicant needs to meet before the map would be signed by the chairman. Until the map is signed by the chairman, and filed with the Suffolk County Clerk, those lots don't exist. You know, the individual building lots that are shown on the four lot minor subdivision map are not created until that map is filed with the County Clerk. What is the approximate timeline? I mean, that's fully dependent on the applicant filing, you know, getting the approval from the health department, the DEC satisfying those conditions. You know, they could, that's not, once the planning board grants the approval, the ball is in the applicant's court. So to speak, to satisfy those conditions. Before it's finalized. Before it would be signed, or before it would be filed. I think that was the question. I do apologize. So I did, I did, I apologize. So I mean, I call this a conditional approval for the four lot minor subdivision application. This is just a typo on the agenda itself, but the resolution is correct. Resolution is correct. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else like to speak? Okay. Let's do resolutions. I'll do resolution 2024, resolution 94,

a sub-lead agency issued negative declaration for, sorry? Yeah, no, that's correct. Okay. I'm sorry. Resolution 94, BJ's Fueling Station and Wholesale Club expansion. I'll second. Move and second. Mr. Zanicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. Minera? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote yes to motion carries. I move. Aye. I'll move resolution number 2025-095, Sandy Pond Links, LLC, Trade Shops Managers Residents Clubhouse Resolution Granting Final Approval for the Site Plan Seeking to Construct a 3,000 B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S. B.S.

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of Peconic Farms LLC. So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. DeNiro? Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. Okay, at this time we can open it up to public comment on any matter. Okay, no takers. Could we get the minutes moved? Move the minutes of August 21st. Second. Moved and seconded. Mr. Zernicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. DeNiro? Aye. Mr. Baer? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries. No secret actions, Greg? No, sir. Any other business staff? No? Okay, good job, everybody. We'll see you next time, Thursday, October 2nd, at 2025 at six o'clock. Thank you all very much. Motion to close. Motion to close. Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion carried.