Planning Board - Regular Meeting

I'd like to bring this meeting to order for the Town of Brunswick Planning Board for July 16th, 2026. Will everybody please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Okay, our agenda this evening is as follows. This was posted on the town website and the town board. Number one, Brunswick Acres, major subdivision. Applicant proposes a major subdivision in regard to the Brunswick Acres planned development district on approximately 44 acre parcel of land located along the north side of Brunswick Road, New York State Route 2. just west of Heather Ridge Road, Brunswick Road Development LLC is the applicant. And that is the only item we have on our agenda tonight. So moving forward with the approval of our minutes of May 6th. Has everybody had an opportunity to look at those? Is there any corrections, additions, Changes?

Nothing?

Okay, we have a motion to accept the minutes as they were submitted. Is there a second?

Second.

Second. Okay. Anyone that was not at this meeting is requested to abstain from voting. But all those who attended the meeting, please vote. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? There was one abstention. Mr. Krieger. I didn't say that since you were at this meeting. May 7th. All right. Moving along right to the agenda. Brunswick Acres Major Subdivision.

Hi, good evening. Andy Brick from the Brick Law Firm. Thrilled to be first on the agenda. So thank you. We were here at your last meeting and Russ Reeves, the town designated engineer reviewing the project, had requested that we get updated correspondence from the Army Corps regarding the project. My client was able to obtain that on Monday, sent it right over to Russ. I would defer to Russ, but I think we closed the one loop necessary in order to schedule a public hearing on the application.

Yes, we did receive that. We did receive copies. We also tonight received a copy from the Corps back in February of 12th of 2020 to compare the two. So... I think the question I have now is for Russ Reeves to come up here and possibly make a comment on this, whether this suffices what we were looking for.

Good evening. Commissioner Bradley of the Water Department and Director of Code Enforcement, Mr. Minello and I, we reviewed the document. And we found that acceptable, that a jurisdictional determination was made by the Army Corps of Engineers. And I guess best on our review, we found it reasonable for the board, if they wish to, to advance it, to have a public hearing, scheduled public hearing at this point.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any other review items that you want to discuss at this point?

At this point, no. What we plan upon doing As we indicated to the applicant that moving forward, we'd like to have a technical meeting between the town engineer, Wayne Bowen-Steele, myself, code enforcement, Bill Bradley. We thought we'd invite you, Mr. Chairman, and the planning board attorney, Chris, and anyone else who you feel should be at this meeting to discuss steps moving forward, technical steps moving forward with this project, because this was dormant for a little bit, and I thought it would be very fruitful to have this technical discussion to discuss next steps.

Okay. Are you referring possibly to the list of conditions for the approval, the conditional approval?

No, we discussed that, Kevin and myself discussed that today. We found that we'd like to basically show, they've addressed everything we've requested. What's remaining is the, shall I say, The approved easement. It's my understanding from the applicant that by the end of this month, that'll be signed by the public service commission. So I think what we'd like to do is as part of advancing this project, meet together, discuss construction issues. moving forward so that we iron out these details now before he gets final approval.

Okay.

That's our thought. And what that does, it just sets the tone for moving forward with construction just so that facilitates that activity. That's the purpose of it.

But you have no issues with scheduling the public hearing everything we do not. We do not in order for the public for review and so it is Mr. Chairman, yes. From a legal point of view, is there any? Things that need to be. Addressed as far as information for the public.

Not that I'm aware of. At the last meeting, we withheld scheduling the public hearing pending updated information from the Army Corps of Engineers. We now have that updated information. Unless somebody tells me there's some piece of information outstanding that the planning board needs or that the public would need, I think you have a green light to schedule a public hearing if you're inclined to do so.

Okay. Anybody have any additional questions? Engineering questions? Applicant questions? Okay, is there any reason why we can't proceed with scheduling a public hearing? Okay, hearing none, I would suggest that we schedule the public hearing for, at this point it would be the first meeting in, no, it would be the second, no, is there time?

Yeah.

so just right i know what you're thinking right can could we do it on august 6th which is your first meeting of august today is uh the 17th so from a notice perspective i think there's enough of a window i think we had noted last time that you already have two public hearings on for august 6th already one of which on the fisher subdivision may turn out to be a more prolonged affair than this one might be okay you also have i believe mavis is on for a public hearing on the sixth so that would probably be the only consideration you have about whether to put this down on the sixth as well to give you three public hearings in one night or to put this off to the second meeting in august which would be august 20th um i hear you i understand that and uh

think the most we've ever scheduled on one meeting was two public hearings so i would have to say that uh the soonest we can do this public hearing would be the meeting on the 20th okay all right yeah yes so we will officially notice that and that might also provide an opportunity for us to have the meeting that russ suggested yes we should have yes um so that whatever comes of that we'll know that before we come back on the artist 20. yeah very good that's very good yeah okay now it should be noted should we note that we should know okay we should note that i will not be here for that meeting so they will be that is the 20th okay make sure it's not the No, no. So I'll be here for the sixth.

Following up on what Russ said, I also will not be here on August 20th. I'm going to be out of state traveling, but another attorney from my firm will be here. So you'll have a planning board attorney, but she, her name is Victoria. She's very nice. She's not going to be as familiar with the projects that are in front of the board, just because she hasn't sat in this chair like I have for the last several months. So you'll have an attorney, you just won't have me. I tend to think that the public hearing portion of all this should be fairly straightforward. Open the meeting, applicant will give a presentation, ask for any public comment, thank you, close the public hearing. No decision is going to be made that night. We'll do that at a future meeting. Again, The reason why we're bringing this up is if the Board members had some hesitation about having this public hearing on the 20th, because the Chairman won't be here, because I won't be here, the next option would be to schedule it for the first meeting in September. But if there's no concerns, you can go ahead and do it on the 20th.

I don't see any concerns.

Easy for you to say. You won't be.

Likewise.

And no, we will not be together. This isn't like a golf trip or anything like that.

All right.

We're not going anywhere. Okay, then. We will schedule for the 20th, 7 o'clock, first on the agenda. And you will be first on the agenda for the meeting.

I really appreciate that. It doesn't happen very much.

Okay. Just moving forward, you know, after the public hearing, obviously, if there is comment, it would have to have a written response. My gut feeling is that there's not gonna be a lot of input from the public as far as, yeah. So moving forward after that, then we're going to go into a draft, depending on our meeting, what conditions we have to put on the approval, do a draft resolution, and then move forward from there. There was one other thing I wanted to mention that escapes me right now. Do you have any questions on that timeline?

No, thank you. Enjoy your vacation.

Anybody have any questions yet for the applicant? If you get this document from, what is it, for the easement? Yeah. The Department of... Public Service Commission, yes. Could you get a copy of that to us as soon as possible?

Sure. I can't promise how quickly, based upon our experience with National Grid, it will be turned around, but this would be actually something from the Public Service Commission, which I believe is meeting the 29th. 29th is a copy. So it's their meeting at the end of this month. Theoretically, we could at least get some type of meeting minutes or something. We can't get the actual document, but whatever we can get to satisfy you, we will get. Okay.

Okay, the one question I had is, is there any reason why the applicant has to be at the August 6th meeting? Okay.

So we will see you on the 20th next time, and we'll move forward from there. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Russell. Thank you. Okay. That concludes our agenda. Do we have any new business?

Okay.

Any old business? WHAT WERE THE ADDITIONS THAT THEY HAD TO PUT ON THAT? YOU WERE INVOLVED WITH THAT. I KNOW THEY CHANGED THE PROPERTY NAME. SOMEBODY ELSE, YOU KNOW THEY'VE CHANGED THAT. DO YOU RECALL ANYTHING ELSE, WAYNE?

NEW SPEAKER NO. NEW SPEAKER OKAY.

NEW SPEAKER NOW, THIS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC, FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING, CORRECT?

YES.

WE DON'T WANT TO HOLD ANYTHING BACK FROM MR. GOLSIN.

SO IF HE DOES COME IN, I WOULD SAY YES. i have one question i went by the chipotles and there is canary inside to sit down and eat is that correct there is somehow i don't recall that as part of the initial plan yeah okay um moving on for our agenda for our next meeting uh one item that's been sitting out there trying to get on a new business it's the law field uh special use permit this is a solar unit the way i understand it he needs a variance from his cba and he's going before the cba

I DON'T KNOW. SO I HAVE THE APPLICANT HAS NOT YET BEEN IN FRONT OF THE ZONING BOARD. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ON AS NEW BUSINESS FOR THE COMING MEETING ON MONDAY. I DON'T KNOW. SO EITHER THEY ARE OR THEY AREN'T. BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN THEM YET.

THIS IS A RESIDENTIAL PRESTANDING. THIS IS THE ONE. that we were possibly going to do a joint public?

No, that was Mavis. And Mavis is on, no, I don't know that. No, I don't know that Mavis is on the agenda for the zoning board either, unless they're under new business. There's three variance applications on their agenda. Mavis is not one of them. There's apparently one item of new business. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's Mavis, but they've already kind of been in front.

I know we had a conversation today that they were entertaining the idea of possibly having a joint public hearing. And I thought it was the special use permit.

No, it was Mavis. So Mavis needs a variance because they're pushing their footprint back on the property to accommodate the water box.

But we have them scheduled for a public hearing.

Correct, but we kind of had a back and forth at our last meeting trying to coordinate how are we going to do this and what we finally decided was, let's just set our own public hearing.

You're going to see if the ZBA wants to join us. Correct. Okay, thank you.

I have a question though. If the variances aren't granted, then the Mavis public hearing on the 6th can't move forward.

You can still have the public hearing, but you can't approve the application.

You can't approve it until the zoning board. Correct.

Correct.

Okay. For the sixth right now, we have Fisher with a public hearing at seven o'clock. We have Mavis Tire with a public hearing at 7.15. And we have Sillis, a major subdivision. This is a continuing review on the sixth also. Is there anything else that I'm missing for the 6th?

Does Mavis know they're not on the agenda?

So maybe before Monday, which means tomorrow, we can try and figure out where they are with the ZBA.

Is there anything I'm missing for the 6th? And obviously on the 20th right now, we have the public hearing for Brunswick Acres at 7 p.m. So I have no other things.

I guess Golden Grain is almost open.

I saw it had pictures on it when I drove by.

Getting ready for a soft open? Yeah, so I'm going to issue them a temporary CO tomorrow. EVENT ON SATURDAY AND THEN MONDAY THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE AN EVENT FOR I THINK FOR SOME OTHER PART OF THEIR COMPANY AND THEN TUESDAY THEY'LL PROBABLY OPEN IT TO THE COMPANY. OKAY. THE CHECK IS OPEN. THE DOLLAR GENERAL'S IS OPEN. SO IT'S ORDER CHEWLETS AT THE END OF CAROL'S ROAD? I'd like to make a motion to adjourn.

Thank you. Have a nice night.