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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Date Fri 9/5/2025 1:01 PM
To Mark Graham <Mark.Graham@saratoga-springs.org>; Susan Barden <Susan.Barden@saratoga-springs.org>
Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Planning Board
Name Suzanna Purcell
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Address SPA CIR
City SARATOGA Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
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Project Name 26 Finely St Site Plan
Project Number 20250533
Project Address 26 Finley St
Comments The SS Comprehensive Plan speaks of how this area the
Complementary Core (CC) should be developed. The abutting
Residential Neighborhood (RN-2) where Spa Dr and Livingston
are: these areas retain the basic character of single-family
neighborhoods, such as front & rear yards, driveways, &
garages. This may change as their rear yards will literally have
a three-story building. The land that The Finley is proposed on
has an additional .58-acre parcel across the street which is
contiguous to the current Rise Headquarters. I shudder to think
9/5/25, 2:39 PM Mail - Mark Graham - Outlook
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what they will plan there. Rise had been fundraising for the
purchase of a 21-unit affordable housing building a few blocks
aways at the end of Aletta Street. More affordable housing for
our area! From the Comprehensive Plan: 3.4-51 Actively
promote affordable housing of all types and tenure throughout
the city & avoid overconcentration in any one area to reduce
the potential for isolation of income groups. 3.4-6 Identify
priority gateways into the City, such as Route 50 and South
Broadway, and develop/review guidelines for appropriate area-
specific amenities and treatments. 3.4-7 All development and
rehabilitation should be respectful of the original community
character. This property is less than 800 feet from our National
Historic Landmark, Saratoga Spa State Park. We have a block
of almost vacant land which now houses the Adelphi shelter on
South Broadway, a Gateway to our Downtown Core. Surely
Rise can find a piece of property not in the backyard of a
residential area that can accommodate this. 107 parking
spaces are required but only 37 with banked parking for future
use. Yet the site plan shows they are planning to put a fence,
retaining wall & trees on that same banked parking, how can
“future use” serve more than one function? What the Planning
Board does today will affect the future of how our portion of the
“City in the Country” grows I hope you put considerable thought
into this.
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