HomeMy WebLinkAbout20210062 Marion Avenue - Maple Dell PUD Correspondance I
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January 26, 2021
Hon. Meg Kelly, Mayor
City of Saratoga Springs
474 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, New York 12866
Mayor Kelly and Members of the Saratoga Springs City Council,
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Stewart's Shops originally opened the store at 11 Maple Dell in 1971,then subsequently purchased
Congress Gas and Oil giving ownership and operation of the Mobil fueling, service station and car wash
at 33 Marion Avenue. Upon adoption of the new zoning ordinance, all uses were placed in the Tourist
Related Business(TRB)which created non-conforming uses further preventing Site Plan modifications.
Stewart's proposes the attached Planned Unit Development which shall be called the Marion Avenue—
Maple Dell Planned Unit Development(PUD). The current use of the property has the Stewart's Shop
(convenience store) along with an adjoining retail liquor store tenant sited on Maple Dell immediately
accessing the abutting residential area. The PUD along with the associated Site Plan seek to modify the
intensity of uses by the relocating the more intense uses in a Commercial Intense (Cl) zone with
frontage on Marion Avenue and then places moderate intensity(destination driven) uses along Maple
Dell. Finally, interior to the Cl zone there will be a Residential component that will provide cluster
development and decrease in the intensity.
Overall,the intended benefits are:
• Relocation of the existing convenience and liquor store to Marion Ave,
• Placement of destination-oriented trips to Maple Dell by directing professional/medical uses,
• Relocation of the existing car wash with a north/south orientation to prevent noise facing the
residential uses.to the west,
• Updating the exsting architecture, lighting and architecture to provide a more desirable
aesthetic element, serving as a gateway to the City.
Attached please find a Petition for Amendment, Project Narrative,SEQRA SERF, and associated fee.
We look forward to the opportunity to present this information and the next available opportunity
before the Council. If there is any additional information needed, please don't hesitate to reach me at
(518) 581-1201 ext.4435.
Respectfully submitted,
Charles "Chuck" Marshall
Stewart's Shops Corp.
®0. Box 435 Saratoga Springs,