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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name Deborah LaCombe - Garrelts
Email Address dgarrelts1@gmail.com
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Address 11 Marion Avenue
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 5189551429
Project Name 33 Marion Ave Stewart's Demo and Construction
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Project Number 20250022
Project Address 33 Marion Avenue
Comments See attached letter, requesting consideration of requiring an 8
foot stockade fence and clean up of wooded lot potentially a
"conservation easement".
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01/07/2026
Members of the Design Review Committee,
Re: 20250022
The Stewart’s Shop Marion Ave expansion project 20250022 is on the agenda for the Design Review
Board meeting this coming Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
We, as adjacent neighbors at 11 Marion Avenue, have done our best to advocate for a smaller project
more fitting for our neighborhood; for the congested traffic area at the intersection of Rt 50, Marion
Avenue, and Maple Dell; and for the proximity to Lougherry Lake. We have seemingly exhausted our
options through the City Council, Planning Department and the Zoning Board of Appeals.
We are satisfied that there will be a conservation easement directly between our property and the
commercial enterprise. We do not speak for any other residents in our Neighborhood Association on
this point.
We appeal to the DRB to consider requiring an 8 foot stockade fence along the boundary between the
non-residential district, and residential district abutting to the north, behind the proposed trash bins to
assist in protecting the environment of that conservation easement, and to ease noise. We also ask the
DRB to require a final clean up of the trash in that lot completed by Stewart’s Corp during or
immediately after their construction project,
For the following reasons:
1. The wooded lot north of the current car wash and UHaul parking lot has, over the past 2-4
years, been littered with a mattress, rugs, an office chair, rubber mats, plastic chair, etc…Most of
these are forever sorts of materials that do not degrade as natural elements. Therefore,
designating the property as a conservation easement “as is” without some form of clean up is
contrary to the intent of protection of wooded areas and protection of the environment and
providing a buffer between the commercial businesses and the residential district.
2. We continue to be concerned that in future, paper, plastic, glass, and metal trash will
accumulate in the parking lots of the stores; be thrown by customers; or be blown by the wind
into the wooded area. This is currently the case for garbage and litter on Maple Dell - coming
from the Stewart’s Shop and East Side Liquor Store.
Thank you,
Deborah LaCombe-Garrelts
11 Marion Ave
Saratoga Springs