Full Transcript

Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. This is the advertised time and place for the Thursday, December 4th, 2025 Planning Board Meeting. Welcome, and please join the board in standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of 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. All right. Thank you, everybody. We do have one public hearing tonight. Heather, can you enlighten us on that? A 305 West Main Street site plan, please. For the record, Heather Trojanowski, planner. This is a public hearing to consider a site plan application seeking approval to construct a 3,000-square-foot commercial building, along with site improvements including parking, paving, greening, drainage, lighting, landscaping, and revegetation on a 19,780-square-foot parcel, located at 305 West Main Street, Riverhead, within the Peconic River Community Zoning News District, more particularly identified as Suffolk County Tax Fund number 600-128-3-48. This was previously before the Planning Board just for a discussion, and then it went to the Zoning Board of Appeals because they did need some area variance relief, which they received on October 9th of 2025. And so if the Board has any questions, I believe we have a representative from the Architect's Office here.

You can go up to the podium.

Good evening, everyone. How's it going? Welcome. Just could we get your name to the record, please? My name is Juan Canales. Okay. Thank you.

Heather, real quick. How much parking? They have plenty. Any parking? Yeah, they're proposing retail, so based on the square footage of the building and our parking calculations, they do have enough parking pursuant to town code. Well, the parking is in the front of the building on the south side? Yeah, the 12th. I mean, on the north side. Yeah, 12 stalls that they're providing are in front of the building, so proximate to West Main Street, but that's because the Peconic River is in the rear of the property, and they actually have to revegetate and keep this area native per DEC, so they're not going to be able to keep this area native per DEC. So, they're going to have to keep this area native per DEC. So, they're going to have to keep this area native per DEC. And where would the fire exits be? So, I mean, it's a one-story building, so the fire truck would come in the front. I know we did receive, I think we didn't receive any comments from the Office of the Fire Marshal other than they would require a construction permit from them.

Do you want to add anything, sir? No, really, I mean, what we propose is just, like she mentioned, a type 2B construction building. It's going to be a wet retail. It's going to be divided into two tenant spaces. Okay. That's all. Is the use of this structure a restaurant? No, so retail, in terms of what's allowed in PRC, is retail, meaning, like, the sale of merchandise to patrons. Wet retail is a designation that the health department makes, because dry retail or a dry use versus a wet use requires different amounts of flow. If they were to try to do a restaurant, number one, I don't think they would be able to do a restaurant. They would be able to meet the parking requirements, depending on how many seats they would want to propose, and it would be a much higher flow. Aren't they in the sewer district there? Right. They are in sewer, yes. I guess you don't have any plans to hook up? I'm sorry? No plans to hook up to the sewer district? I believe we are part of the sewer district. I'm not recalling. Yeah, they're going to hook up, but again, like, health department and sewer district, whenever you're building a new building, whether or not you're in the sewer district, the sewer district sends, I think, the proposed plans, to the health department. That's correct. So, tell me once again, what is wet retail? I thought that was a restaurant. No, so a restaurant is completely different. It's also, again, like, we're focusing on retail in terms of the use. Restaurant is a separate use in town code. So, for wet retail, examples would be maybe like a coffee shop, a specialty food store, a deli, something of that nature. Okay. Where, again, it's not a sit-down restaurant where you're having people, come and stay, and that's a different parking calculation on top of it, and it's a different use within the town code. There's no outside dining or anything. Is there cafe tables or anything? No, none of that nature. No, sir. I'm good. Somebody want to close? Anybody? Is there anyone? Oh, yeah. Do we have any zoomers? No. Okay, gentlemen. I move we close the public hearing. I move. Second. Move to the second. Seconded, Mr. Zelnicki? Yes. Mr. Hogan? Yes. Mr. Nenero? Yes. And I vote aye. The motion carries to close the public hearing. Good luck, sir. Appreciate it. Okay, let's go into discussion items. Marie Andrews, revocable living trust for a minor subdivision. With Matt. No, we don't have Mr. Cuddy here, who's the applicant's representative. He was told, so I don't know if we want to give him a minute. He has the report. He's seen it. He kind of knows what's going on. We can truly up to the board. Do you want to give Mr. Cuddy a minute? I don't know if he's here or not, or keep going. I don't mind. The Andrews are here also. Okay, do you need Mr. Cuddy? I don't need him. No, just a courtesy. All right, so this is a three-lot subdivision on the east side of Holtz Landing Road in Wading River, just under 25 acres. So the board's aware. There was a development rights sale on this property to the county in 2009, so this large middle lot, which is 18. Justin, if you could use the eye in the sky so everybody can see. 18.7909 acres. This has been preserved by the county already. Development rights are retained on lot one. Oh, it's coming. Development rights are retained on lot three, which is a two-acre parcel in the back. So what used to happen is the county or any other agency that was purchasing development rights, they did it by... By deed and by meets and bounds, and then it appeared that lots were created, but the health department would then not recognize those lots. That process has stopped. It doesn't happen anymore. But in this situation here, we have to essentially memorialize a subdivision that happened already. So they'll have to go to the health department, get the map approved, but then it's pretty straightforward. Where do they access that lot? Which one? Lot three? Yeah. It's a flag. It's a flag. So it comes out to Holtz Landing. Okay, there's a flag in there. Yeah. So that's intended. It's intended for the development of a future single-family house. Okay. Nothing at this time. Lot one does have greenhouses on it. Because of the subdivision, they'll likely need a variance for this lot for lot coverage and just for the side yard setback here. It is an unlisted action pursuant to CEQR, so I do have a resolution to classify this as unlisted pursuant to CEQR and issue a negative declaration tonight so the applicant can move on to the zoning board. It's been referred out. Engineering had no concern other than on lot three, if they're disturbing more than an acre, they might need to SWPPP. It's been sent to water. There's water in the street. Sent to the county. I know it went to farmland already and they had no comment, so it's really just to memorialize something that already exists. Okay. Got you. Gentlemen, any thoughts? Questions? No. Pretty basic. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 25 114 rh hamptons 321 llc unmerged resolution granting an unmerger of parcels merged by the operation of law under the town code so moved second moved and second mr zanicki yes mr hogan yes mr narrow and i vote i the motion carries uh this time we have public comments on any issues involving uh any town business

okay not seeing any uh can we do the minutes of november 6th move the minutes of november 6th so moved second uh mrs zanicki yes mr hogan yes mr narrow and i vote i the motion carries uh we have no seeker actions uh other business staff no other business uh we did have one correspondence a letter from uh the open space committee regarding brother bear cannabis uh improved easterly landscaping so that and many more things will be discussed about that our next meeting date is december 18th at three o'clock in the afternoon um that's all we have staff everybody's good okay good job motion close second move to the second all in favor aye all opposed have a good day thank you