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Home My WebLink About20260026 33-35 Caroline St Lot Line Adjustment Application One Commerce Plaza Charlie J. Gottlieb Albany, New York 12260 Partner 518.487.7600 phone 518.487.7612 phone 518.487.7777 fax cgottlieb@woh.com January 9, 2026 VIA EMAIL & FEDERAL EXPRESS Mark Pingel Planning Board Chairman City of Saratoga Springs 474 Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Re: 33-35 Caroline Street, Mixed Use Development – Lot Line Adjustment Project Site: 33-35 Caroline Street (SBL 160-1-27/28/29) Dear Chairman Pingel: Our Firm represents Oldest Lighthouse, LLC (“Applicant”), the owner of property located at 33-35 Caroline Street in the City of Saratoga Springs, New York (SBL 160-1-27/28/29) (“Project Site”), related to its proposed mixed-use project. As a condition of the Applicant’s recent Planning Board approval, the Applicant is required to consolidate the three (3) tax parcels that comprise the Project Site. Per the Planning Board’s approval resolution and the City’s Unified Development Ordinance, such lot consolidation requires administrative approval. Accordingly, please find the enclosed lot line adjustment application, lot consolidation plat, current deeds, and application fee. Please do not hesitate to contact our office with any questions. Very truly yours, /s/ Charles J. Gottlieb Charles J. Gottlieb Enclosures cc: Oldest Lighthouse, LLC (via email) Submission Requirements: Please submit (check boxes): hard cop\ AND one (1) digital copy of the completed application. DOOPDSVGUDZLQJVRULPDJHGRFXPHQWVDV VHSDUDWHILOHVWRPDLQWDLQWKHLURULJLQDOVFDOHDQGLPDJHUHVROXWLRQ If approved, the City will require the submission of two (2) mylars (one for City records and one for the applicant to file with Saratoga County Real Property Services) and two (2) paper copies of the approved final plat. Application Fee: Make checks payable to the "Commissioner of Finance”. REFER TO THE CURRENT FEE WORKSHEET INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT. Part I: General Information Applicant * Surveyor/Engineer Name: __________________________ Name: _______________________________ Address: _____________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ E-mail: _______________________________ Address: __________________________ Phone: _______________________________ E-mail: _______________________________ Property #1:Property #2: Tax Parcel #: _______________________________ Address: _______________________________ Owner's Name: _______________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Tax Parcel #:_____________________________ Address: _______________________________ Owner's Name: __________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Identify primary contact person:  Applicant  Owner  Agent *An applicant must be the property owner, lessee, or one with an option to lease or purchase the property in question.  Yes  Yes  Yes  No Will any additional lots be created?  No Will the newly configured lots meet all minimum zoning requirements?  No Will the proposed lot line adjustment comply with the Unified Development Ordinance? APPLICATION FOR: LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT [FOR OFFICE USE] _______________ (Application #) ____________ (Date received) __________________________ (Project Title) Staff Review _______________ CITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS PLANNING BOARD CITY HALL - 474 BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK 12866-2296 TEL: 518-587-3550 X2533 www.saratoga-springs.org **HANDWRITTEN APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED** Yes No Will the proposed lot line adjustment impede (existing or future) access or utility service to the lots?  Yes  No Will the proposed lot line adjustment impede (existing or future) access or utility service to the lots? Three Lots Consolidated SARATOGA COUNTY — STATE OF NEW YORK SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK CRAIG A. HAYNER 40 MCMASTER STREET, BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 COUNTY CLERK’S RECORDING PAGE *** THIS PAGE IS PART OF THE DOCUMENT — DO NOT DETACH*** Receipt#: Clerk: Rec Date: Doc Grp: Descrip: Num Pgs: Partyl1: Party2: Town: Recording: 20.00 Cover Sheet Fee 5.00 Recording Fee 20.00 Cultural Ed 14.25 Records Management - Coun 1.00 Records Management - Stat 4.75 INSTRUMENT #: 2025012858 RP5217 - County 9.00 RP5217 All others - State 241.00 2025212579150 Names 0.00 AMM TP 584 5.00 05/14/2025 04:07:38 PM —______ D Sub Total: 320.00 DEED 5 Transfer Tax Transfer Tax 6400.00 RSJATTTOSY LLC ee OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE LLC Sub Total: 6400.00 SARATOGA SPRINGS 165 .60-1-27 a 165 .60-1-28 Total: 6720.00 Record and Return To: ELECTRONICALLY RECORDED BY CSC INGEO **** NOTICE: THIS IS NOT A BILL **** ale ale le ale le ale We Te we we RRR Transfer Tax ***** Transfer Tax #: 5441 Commercial Transfer Tax 6400.00 Total: 6400.00 This page constitutes the Clerk's endorsement, required by section 316-a (5) & 319 of the Real Property Law of the State of New York with a stamped signature underneath. ag as Saratoga County Clerk Record & Return to: Daniel Hubbell, Esq Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP 2025012858 One Commerce Plaza 05/14/2025 04:07:38 PM 5P. Albany, New York 12260 DEED RECORDED Saratoga County Clerk WARRANTY DEED THIS INDENTURE made the q day of May, 2025 BETWEEN RSJATTTOS9 LLC, a New York limited liability company having an address of 33 Caroline Street, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 (hereinafter referred to as "Grantor") and OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE LLC, a New York limited liability company, having an address of 12 Stratton Street, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 (hereinafter referred to as "Grantee"). WITNESSETH, that the Grantor, in consideration of ONE AND 00/100 DOLLAR ($1.00) lawful money of the United States, and other good and valuable consideration paid by the Grantee, does hereby grant and release unto the Grantee, the successors and assigns of the Grantee forever, ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Saratoga Springs, County of Saratoga and State of New York more particularly bounded and described as follows: SEE SCHEDULE A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantor herein by John C. Sigby, Jr. by deed dated June 7, 2023 and recorded in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office on June 9, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023014911. This conveyance is made in the ordinary course of business and with the unanimous consent of the sole member of the Grantor herein and does not constitute a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Grantor. SUBJECT to all enforceable covenants, easements, conditions and restrictions of record affecting said premises. TOGETHER with the appurtenances and all the estate and rights of the Grantor in and to said premises, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the premises herein granted unto the Grantee, the successors and assigns of the Grantee forever. AND the Grantor covenants as follows: FIRST, that the Grantee shall quietly enjoy the said premises; SECOND, that the Grantor will forever Warrant the title to said premises; and THIRD the Grantor, in compliance with Section 13 of the Lien Law, covenants Grantor will receive the consideration for this conveyance and will hold the right to receive such consideration as a trust fund to be applied first for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvement and will apply the same first to the payment of the cost of the improvement before using any part of the total of the same for any other purpose. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantor has duly executed this deed the day and year first above written. In Presence of RSJATTTOS9 LLC By: 49 Heyy Name: Grégory Wilson’ 4 Title: 03, barre STATE OF NEW YORK _ ) ) SS.: COUNTY OF Yewhas Onthe “} day of May in the year 2025 before me, the undersigned, a notary public in and for said state, personally appeared GREGORY WILSON, personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual(s) whose name(s) is\are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he\she\they executed the same in his\her\their capacity(ies), and that by his\her\their signature(s) on the instrument, the individual(s), or the person upon behalf of which the individual(s) acted, “Loa / Notary Public MARC CHRISTOPHER KOKOSA NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF NEW YORK Registration No. 02KO6330041 Qualified in Saratoga County Commission Expires Sept. 8, 2027 4835-1715-2562, v. 1 SCHEDULE A- DESCRIPTION ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the City of Saratoga Springs, County of Saratoga and State New York, being portions of Lots No. 1 and No. 14 as laid down on a map entitled “Map of Pavilion Park Property, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., owned by John P. O'Neill, receiver of Continental Like Insurance Company, surveyed and laid out by L. H. Cramer, C. E.”, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Saratoga County on June 24, 1881 as Map No. FF39, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the east line of Pavilion Place with the north line of Caroline Street, and running thence easterly along the north line of Caroline Street twenty- two and six one-hundredths (22 6/100) feet to the center of the wall separating the premises known respectively as No. 33 and No. 35 Caroline Street; thence northerly through the center of said wall and continuing in a straight line ninety-three and forty-five one hundredths (93 45/100) feet to the northerly line of the premises conveyed to the said Abraham Lander by John D. Hazard and wife by deed dated October 20, 1919, recorded in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office on the same day in Book 307 of Deeds at Page 18; thence westerly on a line parallel with Caroline Street twenty-two and eleven one- hundredths (22 11/100) feet to the east line of Pavilion Place; thence southerly along the east line of Pavilion Place ninety-three and forty-five one-hundredths (93 45/100) feet to the point or place of beginning. Together with the rights of ingress and egress for highway purpose to said premises on and over Pavilion Place from both Caroline Street and Lake Avenue, and with the right to lay water pipes, gas pipes and sewer pipes in said Pavilion Place for the use of said premises, and also the right to have wires strung over said Pavilion Place for lighting and telephone purposes for said premises, so far as Victor Hazard and Esther M. Hazard can lawfully grant the said rights in Pavilion Place. Reserving, nevertheless, unto Victor Hazard and Esther M. Hazard, their heirs and assigns, in common with party of the first part, their heirs and assigns, a perpetual right of way to and from Pavilion Place, over the land lying between the northerly line of the premises hereby conveyed and the northerly line of the building as now erected on said premises, being a strip of land twenty-two and ninety-five one hundredths (22 95/100) feet in width. This deed likewise conveys the right to sewer and water, gas, telephone and electric light service through and upon other portions of the building erected upon said premises as the same are now enjoyed, and Victor Hazard and Esther M. Hazard reserve to themselves, their heirs and assigns similar rights for other portions of said building and premises through and upon the premises hereby conveyed.) ALSO, ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York, bounded and described as follows: to wit: Lot No. 18-B East, in Section 10, Block Q as shown on the Assessor’s Map of the inside Tax District of the City of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Being the same premises assessed to O. Wagner on the 1955 Tax Roll of the said City of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The above premises are more modernly described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land situate in the City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point at the intersection of the easterly line of Pavilion Place and the northerly line of Caroline Street, thence along the easterly line of said Pavilion Place, N 26° 27° 25” E, 93.45 feet to a point. Thence along the southerly line of lands now or formerly of Places In Saratoga, LLC as recorded in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office in Inst. #2013038068, S 63° 30’ 00” E, 43.59 feet to a 5/8” iron rod found. Thence along the westerly line of lands now or formerly of Burton P. Schwab as recorded in Inst. #2009006434, S 26° 35’ 09” W, 93.45 feet to a drill hole found in concrete. Thence along the northerly line of Caroline Street, N 63° 30’ 00” W, 43.38 feet to the point of beginning. The above-described premises is conveyed simultaneously with the adjoining premises to the east commonly referred to as 35 Caroline Street, Saratoga Springs, New York (Tax ID: 165.60-1-29), by deed dated May 8, 2025, from Burton Schwab to Oldest Lighthouse, LLC, and recorded simultaneously herewith (the “Adjoining Premises”). Grantor and Grantee intend hereby to merge, extinguish, and terminate any and all easements and rights of way in, on, under, or over the above-described premises that benefit the Adjoining Premises. Broadway Title Agency 480 Broadway, Suite 252 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 583-6000 (518) 587-0590 fax 4903-3220-2305, v. 1 SARATOGA COUNTY — STATE OF NEW YORK SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK CRAIG A. HAYNER 40 MCMASTER STREET, BALLSTON SPA, NY 12020 COUNTY CLERK’S RECORDING PAGE *** THIS PAGE IS PART OF THE DOCUMENT — DO NOT DETACH*** Receipt#: Clerk: Rec Date: Doc Grp: Descrip: Num Pgs: Partyl1: Party2: Town: Recording: 20.00 Cover Sheet Fee 5.00 Recording Fee 20.00 Cultural Ed 14.25 Records Management - Coun 1.00 Records Management - Stat 4.75 INSTRUMENT #: 2025012859 RP5217 - County 9.00 RP5217 All others - State 241.00 2025212579150 Names 0.00 AMM TP 584 5.00 05/14/2025 04:07:38 PM —_______ D Sub Total: 320.00 DEED 5 Transfer Tax Transfer Tax 6000.00 SCHWAB BURTON P —__ OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE LLC Sub Total: 6000.00 SARATOGA SPRINGS 165 .60-1-29 — Total: 6320.00 Record and Return To: ELECTRONICALLY RECORDED BY CSC INGEO **** NOTICE: THIS IS NOT A BILL **** ale ale le ale le ale We Te we we RRR Transfer Tax ***** Transfer Tax #: 5442 Commercial Transfer Tax 6000.00 Total: 6000.00 This page constitutes the Clerk's endorsement, required by section 316-a (5) & 319 of the Real Property Law of the State of New York with a stamped signature underneath. ag as Saratoga County Clerk Record & Return to: Daniel Hubbell, Esq Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP 2025012859 One Commerce Plaza 95/14/2025 04:07:38 PM Albany, New York 12260 DEED RECORDED Saratoga County Clerk WARRANTY DEED THIS INDENTURE made the g day of May 2025 BETWEEN BURTON P. SCHWAB, having an address of 122 Barney Road, Middle Grove, New York 12850 (hereinafter referred to as "Grantor") and OLDEST LIGHTHOUSE LLC, a New York limited liability company, having an address of 12 Stratton Street, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 (hereinafter referred to as "Grantee"). WITNESSETH, that the Grantor, in consideration of ONE AND 00/100 DOLLAR ($1.00) lawful money of the United States, and other good and valuable consideration paid by the Grantee, does hereby grant and release unto the Grantee, the successors and assigns of the Grantee forever, ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Saratoga Springs, County of Saratoga and State of New York more particularly bounded and described as follows: SEE SCHEDULE A ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantor herein by Burton P. Schwab and Colleen Riley- Schwab. by deed dated January 30, 2009 and recorded in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office on as Instrument No. 2009006434. SUBJECT to all enforceable covenants, easements, conditions and restrictions of record affecting said premises. TOGETHER with the appurtenances and all the estate and rights of the Grantor in and to said premises, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the premises herein granted unto the Grantee, the successors and assigns of the Grantee forever. AND the Grantor covenants as follows: FIRST, that the Grantee shall quietly enjoy the said premises; SECOND, that the Grantor will forever Warrant the title to said premises; and THIRD the Grantor, in compliance with Section 13 of the Lien Law, covenants Grantor will receive the consideration for this conveyance and will hold the right to receive such consideration as a trust fund to be applied first for the purpose of paying the cost of the improvement and will apply the Same first to the payment of the cost of the improvement before using any part of the total of the same for any other purpose. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Grantor has duly executed this deed the day and year first above written.. IN PRESENCE OF PASCHWAB STATE OF NEW YORK ) COUNTY OF SARAIRO )SS:: On this J day of May, Two Thousand Twenty Five, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for said State, personally appeared BURTON P. SCHWAB, personally known to me or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the individual whose name is subscribed to the within Instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same in their capacity, and that by their signature on the instrument, the individual, or the person upon behatfof which the individual acted, executed the instrument. Record & Return to: SCHEDULE A- DESCRIPTION ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situate, in the City of Saratoga Springs, County of Saratoga, State of new York, being portions of Lot Nos. 2, 14 and 8, and all of Lots 3 and 4 as laid down on a map entitled “Map of Pavilion Park Property”, Saratoga Springs, New York, owned by John P. O’Neill, Receiver of the Continental Life Insurance Company, surveyed and laid out by L.H. Cramer, C.E., and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Saratoga County, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the north line of Caroline Street in the Center of the wall separating premises known respectively as 35 and 37 Caroline Street, which point is 43.38 feet east of the intersection of Caroline Street and Pavilion Place; and running thence easterly along the north line of Caroline Street 64.82 feet to the southwest corner of Lot No. 5 as laid down on said map; thence north parallel with the east line of Pavilion Place along the west line of said Lot No. 5 and an extension of said line, 89.5 feet to the northeast corner of premises conveyed to John D. Hazard by Alfarata R. Kearney by deed dated December 4, 1915, and recorded in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office December 6, 1915, in Liber * 292 of Deeds at Page 439; thence westerly parallel with the north line of Caroline Street 19.2 feet to the east line of Lot No. 14 as laid down on said map, which point is the northwest corner of said premises conveyed to John D. Hazard by Alfarata R. Kearney; thence northerly parallel with Pavilion Place and along the east line of Lot No. 4 as laid down on said map 3.95 feet; thence westerly parallel with the north line of Caroline Street and distance 93.45 feet therefrom 45.41 feet to the northeast corner of premises heretofore conveyed to Frank W. Garant thence southerly along the said Garant’s east line and through the center of the said wall separating the premises known respectively as No. 35 and 37 Caroline street 93.45 feet to the point of beginning. The above mentioned map was dated 1874 and filed in the Saratoga County Clerk’s Office on June 24, 1881 in Drawer FF Map 39. Together with the right of ingress and egress for highway purposes to said premises on and over Pavilion Place from both Caroline Street and Lake Avenue, and with the right to lay water pipes, gas pipes, and sewer pipes in said Pavilion Place for the use of said premises, and also the right to have wires strung over Pavilion Place for light and telephone purposes for said premises, so far as the parties of the first part can lawfully grant such rights in Pavilion Place; reserving nevertheless unto the other owners of the premises known as the “Hazard Block” in common with the parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns, a perpetual right of way to and from Pavilion Place over the land lying between the northerly line of the premises hereby conveyed and the northerly line of the building as now erected on said premises. This deed likewise conveys all the right to sewer, water, gas, telephone and electric light service over and upon the other portions of the building erected on said premises as the same are now enjoyed, and reserving unto the owners of the other portions of the said premises known as the “Hazard Block”, their heirs and assigns, similar rights over and upon the premises hereby conveyed. This deed likewise conveys all the right, title and interest of the parties of the first part in and to a perpetual right of way to and from Pavilion Place over the land lying between the northerly line of the premises heretofore conveyed to Frank W. Garant and Victor Hazard, and the northerly line of the building as now erected on said premises, being a strip of land 22.95 feet in the width as reserved to the parties of the first part, their heirs and assigns, in the respective deeds of conveyed to said Frank Garant and Victor Hazard. The above-described premises is conveyed simultaneously with the adjoining premises to the west commonly referred to as 33 Caroline Street, Saratoga Springs, New York (Tax IDs: 165.60-1-27 & 165.60-1-28), by deed dated May 8, 2025, RSJATTTOAS9, LLC to Oldest Lighthouse, LLC, and recorded simultaneously herewith (the “Adjoining Premises”). Grantor and Grantee intend hereby to merge, extinguish, and terminate any and all easements and rights of way in, on, under, or over the Adjoining Premises that benefit the above-described premises. Broadway Title Agency 480 Broadway, Suite 252 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 583-6000 (518) 587-0590 fax 4925-6920-8129, v. 1