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May 18, 2020
Ms. Susan Barden, Principal Planner
City of Saratoga Springs Planning Board
15 Vanderbilt Avenue (Recreation Center)
Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
RE: Excelsior Avenue Special Use Permit
City Project No. 18.056
Dear Ms. Barden:
The original application for this project was made on November 9, 2017 and the project team presented the
proposal to the Planning Board on February 1, 2018. At this time requests were made to provide a document which
would compare the original Statement of Findings from 2002 with the current application and provide a comparison
to the Board and Planning Staff to clarify the SEQRA review process.
After several meetings and conversations with the Planning Staff and City Attorney, the requested documentation
was submitted on October 16, 2018. The City then engaged the Chazen Companies to review the proposal and a
comment letter was submitted to Bradley Birge on February 26, 2019. After reviewing the contents of the letter, we
had additional meetings with Staff and one meeting with representatives of Chazen to clarify the scope of the
comments and the expected detail of the responses. This was due to the changes in the background and culture of
Saratoga Springs between 2002 and now.
The attached documents represent the project teams response to comments received over the past couple years.
We look forward to restarting the review process presenting this project to the Planning Board in the near future.
Best Regards and Good Health,
David R. Carr, Jr., RLA, ASLA
Associate Principal
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