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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20230008 Duplainville Site Plan Public Comment Behuniak4/25/23, 3:02 PM Zimbra https://m.saratoga-springs.org/h/printmessage?id=12654&tz=America/New_York 1/2 From :noreply@civicplus.com Subject :Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment To :julia destino <julia.destino@saratoga-springs.org>, susan barden <susan.barden@saratoga-springs.org>, susanna combs <susanna.combs@saratoga-springs.org> Zimbra julia.destino@saratoga-springs.org Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment Tue, Apr 25, 2023 01:54 PM CAUTION: This email originated outside of the City network. Please contact IT Support if you need assistance determining if it's a threat before opening attachments or clicking any links. Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS Thank you for submitting your comments. Your feedback will be forwarded to the City's Planning Department and Land Use Board members. NOTE: Comments submitted later than 12:00 noon on the day before the Land Use Board meeting may not be reviewed prior to their meeting. All comments will be added to the project file in the Planning Department. Land Use Board Planning Board Name Sasha Behuniak Email Address sashaniak@gmail.com Business Name Field not completed. Address 80 Adams Road City Saratoga Springs State NY Zip Code 12866 Phone Number 315-263-8788 Project Name Munter-Soleno Project Number 20221117 Project Address Adams Road 4/25/23, 3:02 PM Zimbra https://m.saratoga-springs.org/h/printmessage?id=12654&tz=America/New_York 2/2 Comments When I viewed the documents submitted to the Planning Board, I was offended to see how our neighborhood has been literally and figuratively erased. As I am limited to one photo, I attach it here to inform you that there are five homes directly across the road to the south, one abutting the parcel to the west, and several who back up to Adams Road. So hello Planning Board, a vibrant and lovely neighborhood is situated on Adams Road and there are 100s of homes adjacent to our south. Several of homes have FEMA designated wetlands in the front, and we all border the Ballston Spa Water District. The Munter property is in a CDD. Please investigate and act to represent us as well as industrial projects. Attach Photo (optional)Homes on Adams.jpeg Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. 4/25/23, 3:04 PM Zimbra https://m.saratoga-springs.org/h/printmessage?id=12652&tz=America/New_York 1/2 From :noreply@civicplus.com Subject :Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment To :julia destino <julia.destino@saratoga-springs.org>, susan barden <susan.barden@saratoga-springs.org>, susanna combs <susanna.combs@saratoga-springs.org> Zimbra julia.destino@saratoga-springs.org Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment Tue, Apr 25, 2023 01:47 PM CAUTION: This email originated outside of the City network. Please contact IT Support if you need assistance determining if it's a threat before opening attachments or clicking any links. Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS Thank you for submitting your comments. Your feedback will be forwarded to the City's Planning Department and Land Use Board members. NOTE: Comments submitted later than 12:00 noon on the day before the Land Use Board meeting may not be reviewed prior to their meeting. All comments will be added to the project file in the Planning Department. Land Use Board Planning Board Name Susan "Sasha" Behuniak Email Address sashaniak@gmail.com Business Name Field not completed. Address 80 Adams Road City Saratoga Springs State NY Zip Code 12866 Phone Number 315-263-8788 Project Name Munter-Soleno Proposal Project Number 20221117 Project Address Duplainville Road and Adams Road 4/25/23, 3:04 PM Zimbra https://m.saratoga-springs.org/h/printmessage?id=12652&tz=America/New_York 2/2 Comments Dear Planning Board Members: I ask that you delay your vote on the Munter-Soleno Proposal, Project 20221117 until you fully consider the concerns of the neighbors who live along or nearby Adams Road as well as those of other interested parties. The requested delay in voting is not a tactic to prevent development, but a strategy to reach consensus on concessions and compromises that can then be articulated in an updated written proposal to the Planning Board. In a nutshell, our major concerns are: • the clear cutting of 23 acres of trees and the multiple harms that will result; • whether the Project conforms to the City’s and Planning Board’s own guiding documents (e.g., Comprehensive Plan of 2015; No Cut Buffer Policy of 2018); • lack of clarity as to the specifics regarding setbacks, fencing, noise abatement, hours of operation, and traffic impact along Adams Road; • Soleno’s “need” for deforesting the entire 23 acres and its plans for Phase 2. The proposal states that the project will have “no adverse visual impact” (although the plan is not to “selectively cut” but to clear cut), and that noise “will not have adverse impacts to adjacent neighbors” although the stockpiling of the manufactured pipes that will be as large as 16 ft in diameter will begin at 7am (imagine the beep, beep, beeping of the payloaders). Munter has also informed the Planning Board that there is no neighborhood opposition. Not so. We are many; 45 of whom met with him and Soleno, who have significant unanswered questions and a strong commitment to preserve the rural character of Adams Road. We understand that the Munter Land Holdings property is zoned Industrial-General. However, according to the city’s Comprehensive Plan of 2015 (p. 72), about 40% of the parcel is designated as a Conservation Development District (CDD). Doesn’t this designation have implications for deforestation and the buffers? Please delay your vote. If not for us, then for the trees! Attach Photo (optional)4B4AFADA-FA0A-4C9C-BF38-861AEAA626C9.jpeg Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.