Planning Board Meeting & Work Session — 2026-02-03 — Minutes

Page 1 TOWN OF CORTLANDT PLANNING AND ZONING BOARDS BOARD MEETING Town Hall 1 Heady Street Cortlandt Manor, New York 1057 February 3, 2026 6:20 p.m. - 7:28 p.m. Page 2 Page 2 February 3, 2026 MEMBERS PRESENT: Steven Kessler, Chairman Thomas A. Bianchi, Vice Chairman Nora Hildinger, Member Kevin Kobasa, Member Peter McKinley, Member Jeff Rothfeder, Member Kellan Cantrell, Alternate ALSO PRESENT: Chris Kehoe, AICP, Director of Planning Michael Cunningham, Esq., Deputy Town Attorney Heather LaVarnway, CNU-A, Planner Chris Lapine, P.E., Engineer Catherine Brosnan, P.E., Assistant Civil Engineer Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 3 Page 3 1 February 3, 2026 2 (The board meeting commenced at 6:20 p.m.) 3 MR. STEVEN KESSLER: All right, we’re 4 going to get started. Welcome to the planning 5 board meeting for February 3rd. Please rise for 6 the pledge. 7 MULTIPLE: I pledge allegiance to the 8 flag of the United States of America and to the 9 republic for which it stands, one nation under 10 God, indivisible with liberty and justice for 11 all. 12 MR. KESSLER: Roll please, Chris. 13 MR. CHRIS KEHOE: Mr. Kobasa? 14 MR. KEVIN KOBASA: Here. 15 MR. KEHOE: Ms. Hildinger? 16 MS. NORA HILDINGER: Here. 17 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Rothfeder? 18 MR. JEFF ROTHFEDER: Here. 19 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Kessler? 20 MR. KESSLER: Here. 21 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Bianchi? 22 MR. BIANCHI: Here. 23 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Cantrell? 24 MR. KELLAN CANTRELL: Here. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 4 Page 4 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KEHOE: Mr. McKinley? 3 MR. PETER MCKINLEY: Here. 4 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. So this 5 evening, one change to the agenda which we 6 notified the public about, we’ll be not, having 7 the yeshiva tonight on the agenda. Chris sent out 8 notifications to interested parties and it was in 9 the town newsletter, the weekly newsletter, also 10 made note of that. So, if there’s anybody here 11 for the yeshiva, we will not be discussing that 12 this evening. It’ll be back on the agenda for our 13 March 3rd meeting. Can I please have a motion to 14 adopt the minutes from our meeting of January 15 6th? 16 MR. MCKINLEY: So moved. 17 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Second? 18 MR. KOBASA: Second. 19 MR. KESSLER: And on the question, all 20 in favor? 21 MULTIPLE: Aye. 22 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? First item is to 23 receive and file the 2025 annual report of the 24 planning board. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 5 Page 5 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. ROTHFEDER: Mr. Chair, I move that 3 we receive and file this report. 4 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Second, please. 5 MR. BIANCHI: Second. 6 MR. KESSLER: And on the question. All 7 in favor? 8 MULTIPLE: Aye. 9 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. First item 10 is a resolution, it’s the application of 2051 11 Cortlandt Holding, LLC, for amended site plan 12 approval for the addition of five parking spaces 13 at the existing gas station located at 2051 East 14 Main Street, drawing latest revised December 22, 15 2025. Kevin? 16 MR. MCKINLEY: I’d like to make a motion 17 to adopt resolution 5-26. 18 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Second, please. 19 MR. ROTHFEDER: Second. 20 MR. KESSLER: And on the question, all 21 in favor? 22 MULTIPLE: Aye. 23 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. Next item 24 is adjourn, as I mentioned, we’re skipping over Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 6 Page 6 1 February 3, 2026 2 the yeshiva this evening. The next item is an 3 adjourned public hearing. It’s the public hearing 4 for the application of VS Construction 5 Corporation for site plan approval and for tree, 6 wetland and steep slope permits for a proposed 7 96,850 square foot assisted living facility 8 located in the medical oriented district at 2003 9 Crompond Road, latest drawings November 20, 2025. 10 Mr. Steinmetz, good evening. 11 MR. DAVID STEINMETZ: Good evening, Mr. 12 Chairman, members of the board, David Steinmetz 13 from the law firm of VS -- from the law firm of 14 VS, law firm of Zarin and Steinmetz -- 15 MR. KESSLER: It might as well be. 16 MR. STEINMETZ: -- representing VS 17 Construction. Maybe Mr. Santucci would like me to 18 join his law firm but, the good news is I have 19 Mr. Schwartz as a partner rather than Mr. 20 Santucci. Here tonight in connection with the 21 assisted living application that we have 22 previously appeared on, our client has a 23 development site that we have explained to you. 24 Benchmark Senior Living is interested in placing Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 7 Page 7 1 February 3, 2026 2 a 100-unit, 118-bed assisted living facility. I 3 believe William Cook from Benchmark is on screen 4 if we have any specific questions. 5 This is a continuation of our public 6 hearing on this project, and I’m going to take 7 one step back. As I mentioned in the work 8 session, this site was the subject of a 9 comprehensive review pursuant to the New York 10 State Environmental Quality Review Act, SEQRA, in 11 connection with the medical oriented district, 12 the MOD rezoning process. We are now here 13 specifically in the northeast corner of the MOD 14 with regard to this particular site. 15 We have presented this to you. As we 16 indicated at the last, the kickoff session of the 17 public hearing, we had received a number of 18 comments from your board and from staff about 19 reorienting, reorienting aspects of that 20 building. We have done that. We have also 21 conducted a fairly comprehensive site inspection 22 with your board and staff, where we looked at the 23 site, the trees, the wetland area, and in 24 particular, the corner of the property where Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 8 Page 8 1 February 3, 2026 2 there are some retaining walls. 3 We, my client and Benchmark’s design 4 team have attempted to be responsive to the 5 concerns that have been raised. And we’re here 6 tonight, Matt Steinberg is going to do a brief 7 presentation. We have responded to comments that 8 we have received from DOTS, from your outside 9 engineering consultant and most recently we have 10 received some comments from the Westchester 11 County planning department under Section 239M of 12 the general municipal law. 13 We understand that there may still be 14 some technical issues that are going back and 15 forth between our consultants and the town. But 16 we’re pleased that we’re making significant 17 progress. And I can tell you that Benchmark and 18 VS Construction are anxious to bring this to 19 fruition. 20 This is one of the linchpins of what 21 Envision Cortlandt had in mind 10 years ago when 22 your comprehensive planning committee wanted to 23 bring medical uses that combined both residential 24 accommodation, i.e. housing for seniors, as well Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 9 Page 9 1 February 3, 2026 2 as the provision of activities of daily living 3 support and services. Benchmark is one of the 4 preeminent providers of senior services in this 5 region, and they are very excited as, as are we, 6 to bring them to the Cortlandt community. So, 7 with that, I’m going to turn it over to Matt. 8 MR. KESSLER: Just one question before 9 you do that. 10 MR. STEINMETZ: Sure. 11 MR. KESSLER: The plans we received this 12 evening, those are in response to Mr. Lapine’s 13 memo of January 21st? 14 MR. STEINMETZ: So the plans that are, 15 that you have this evening are probably from the 16 last round of comments that we got from Chris. I 17 would -- 18 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. Just, the planning 19 department issued a review memo January 16th, and 20 Chris Lapine issued one January 20th. 21 MR. STEINMETZ: Correct. 22 MR. KESSLER: 21st. 23 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. 24 MR. STEINMETZ: So we’re good. But we Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 10 Page 10 1 February 3, 2026 2 didn’t turn it around that quickly. We just got, 3 we just got his, his memo like a week and a half 4 ago. 5 MR. KESSLER: Okay. So, basically more 6 revisions to come is my point. 7 MR. STEINMETZ: Which is why I said we 8 know there are still some technical issues that 9 have to be addressed. But the, we appreciate the 10 fact that staff has been moving with us and, and 11 proceeding. As we generate more iterations, 12 they’re conducting their review and getting back 13 to us, again, all in an effort to finally bring 14 the MOD to fruition. 15 So there’s a number of technical issues 16 that have been confronted. We, I think, addressed 17 and got rid of the wetland concern that, that 18 arose several months ago. We addressed, and we 19 think we got rid of the retaining wall issue that 20 arose several months ago. So we are, we’re sort 21 of down to the short straws at this point, but 22 that remains to be seen. And at least allow Matt 23 to respond to some of these comments and address 24 some of the county comments as well. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 11 Page 11 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Okay. I also, we wanted, I 3 thought the fire department was also going to go 4 out there. Has that happened? 5 MR. KEHOE: No. Fire department did the 6 yeshiva. 7 MR. STEINMETZ: Yeah, we did, we talked 8 about that on other matters. Katie, you would 9 know better than I. I thought we were talking 10 about that on the -- 11 MS. KATIE BROSNAN: On the, the fire -- 12 MR. KESSLER: It was on the yeshiva? 13 MR. STEINMETZ: On the, on the yeshiva 14 and the self-storage. 15 MR. KESSLER: Oh, okay. 16 MS. BROSNAN: Yeah. But they haven’t, I 17 don’t think they’ve gone to self-storage. 18 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Okay. Then -- 19 MS. BROSNAN: But they did the yeshiva. 20 MR. KESSLER: -- we’ll deal with that 21 next time. 22 MR. STEINMETZ: Got it. Got it. 23 MR. CHRIS LAPINE: I think you’re, Mr. 24 Chairman, I think you’re referring to the fire Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 12 Page 12 1 February 3, 2026 2 department reviewing the slopes at the main 3 entryway into the site, you wanted that 4 revisited. 5 MR. KESSLER: I’m sorry, I missed that? 6 MR. LAPINE: I think you’re referring to 7 the slopes at the front of the site. 8 MR. KESSLER: Yes. 9 MR. LAPINE: For this application, it 10 was about 10 percent slope and you wanted to 11 confirm from the fire department that they can 12 make those slopes, so. 13 MR. STEINMETZ: I thought that issue was 14 addressed in SEQRA, Chris, but we can confirm. 15 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 16 MR. MATT STEINBERG: Thank you, David. 17 Matt Steinberg, DTS Provident. So yeah, we are in 18 the process of responding to the planning 19 department’s comments and to the engineering 20 department, engineering comments. So we’re, you 21 know, we will be submitting another set of plans 22 to address those comments. Regarding fire, we had 23 addressed that in the previous set, but 24 obviously, you know, if there’s additional Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 13 Page 13 1 February 3, 2026 2 comments to be had from the fire department, 3 we’ll obviously address them. But, we did address 4 their comments regarding, slopes into the site, 5 through the parking lot. And then, a fire truck 6 in this instance can circulate all the way 7 through the site, out the emergency access back 8 to Crompond Road. 9 What we did submit to this board is, 10 response to the Westchester County comments. They 11 had a number of comments. Some of them had to do 12 with the overall Evergreen site, so we tried to 13 be responsive to those. One in particular had to 14 do with parking spaces. So the number of parking 15 spaces is a little bit over what is required 16 under the code. 17 This was just, essentially based to be 18 consistent with ITE, the Institute of 19 Transportation Engineers, requirements or 20 suggestions, along with what Benchmark feels 21 comfortable with for their staff and guests. It’s 22 only, it’s not a ton, 66 parking spaces, 59 are 23 required. So, it’s not an excessive amount over. 24 We did actually remove some spaces to provide Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 14 Page 14 1 February 3, 2026 2 additional room for maneuvering in response to 3 some of the comments that we’re working through 4 from staff. 5 We’ll take another look whether or not 6 any other spaces would be removed. Essentially 7 the parking lot though, the way it’s configured, 8 there’s really, we wouldn’t be reducing the 9 impervious as part of that though. That was 10 really, I mean, I’m happy to answer any questions 11 if you have. 12 MR. KESSLER: Well, I guess the other 13 comments from the county regarding the bus stop 14 and the sidewalks, right. Those are the other two 15 issues that they raised? 16 MR. STEINBERG: They did, They did raise 17 that. So there was a bus stop as part of the 18 overall transportation improvements along the 19 corridor. So the bus stop that’s actually closer 20 to the hospital is going to be relocated slightly 21 and improved. So it’ll have an improved turnoff 22 for buses. That -- 23 MR. KESSLER: You had that discussion 24 with the county? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 15 Page 15 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. STEINBERG: We have not had a 3 discussion further with the county as far as a 4 bus stop closer to our site. We’re going to try 5 to set that up with them. 6 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 7 MR. STEINBERG: In previous -- 8 MR. KEHOE: But Matt, is some of the bus 9 stop stuff worked in with what Colliers is doing 10 on the transportation improvements? 11 MR. STEINBERG: Correct. 12 MR. KEHOE: Right. 13 MR. STEINBERG: Correct, right. As part 14 of those overall improvements, there’s an 15 improvement to the existing bus stop that serves 16 an existing line. 17 MR. LAPINE: And, and Matt, if I’m 18 correct from the meeting that we had, some of 19 this is related to existing utilities that are 20 prohibiting relocation of that bus stop even 21 closer to the site? From what Colliers explained 22 to us during that meeting? 23 MR. STEINBERG: Yes. Yes. There are 24 some existing poles, not in front of the VS site, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 16 Page 16 1 February 3, 2026 2 but in front of the Gyrodyne site that actually 3 serve the hospital and they can’t be relocated 4 readily. So -- 5 MR. KESSLER: The bus stop is currently 6 at the Gyrodyne site? 7 MR. STEINBERG: It’s closer to the 8 Gyrodyne site. 9 MR. KESSLER: But You mentioned you were 10 going to move it? 11 MR. STEINBERG: It was going to slightly 12 move a little bit closer to our site, but still 13 in front of the Gyrodyne site, that’s still where 14 it makes sense. 15 MR. KESSLER: The county has to approve 16 that movement. 17 MR. STEINBERG: Hmm? 18 MR. KESSLER: Doesn’t the county have to 19 approve moving the bus stop? 20 MR. STEINBERG: Um -- 21 MR. KEHOE: I think the county Bee-Line 22 might have to. 23 MR. STEINBERG: They, yeah, they might 24 as part of the review of the Collier’s Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 17 Page 17 1 February 3, 2026 2 transportation plans. But overall, the intent is 3 to, to improve it so it’ll have a larger pull off 4 for a bus as part of that. So I, you know, we’re 5 hoping that that is seen as a benefit. The -- 6 MS. HILDINGER: It still west Of 7 Lafayette though? 8 MR. STEINBERG: It is west of Lafayette. 9 MR. MCKINLEY: It’s where the 10 [unintelligible] [00:12:11] are. 11 MR. STEINBERG: Yep. And it is, I think 12 I, we included -- 13 MR. KESSLER: It’s basically across from 14 the hospital right now. 15 MR. STEINBERG: Yes. Which, you know, 16 the, the hospital certainly has the larger 17 ridership. 18 MR. KESSLER: Sure. 19 MR. STEINBERG: In past, and we’ll try 20 to have a discussion with, with the Department of 21 Transportation at the county. In the past, 22 obviously these lines are very long, these Bee- 23 Line buses. Obviously, adding additional stops 24 adds additional times to very long lines. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 18 Page 18 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Sure. 3 MR. STEINBERG: They tend to typically 4 do not just do that without, you know, having a 5 known ridership. You know, the, while there will 6 be a population at this site, it probably does 7 not warrant another stop at this time. The Bee- 8 Line obviously will investigate that. But we’ll 9 have that discussion with them. 10 MR. KESSLER: But there will be a 11 sidewalk going from your side to that bus stop? 12 MR. STEINBERG: Correct, which doesn’t 13 exist today. So there’ll be that new sidewalk. 14 The county kind of mentioned crosswalks, so part 15 of this, there would be crosswalks, there’ll be 16 new crosswalks across Lafayette. There’ll be a 17 new crosswalk across Crompond Road to the 18 hospital. So there’s a, there’s a number of 19 improvements in the, in the roadway improvement 20 plans. 21 MR. KESSLER: But they also raised the 22 issue of the sidewalk going east? 23 MR. STEINBERG: They did. 24 MR. KESSLER: And your position is? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 19 Page 19 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. STEINBERG: That it does not really 3 provide additional access to anywhere else. It 4 would get to the end of our site, perhaps. The 5 likelihood of putting another crosswalk to the 6 nearby commercial is probably very difficult. 7 That would be a midblock crossing on a state 8 road. We just don’t see that that would happen. 9 MR. KESSLER: Would that be by Conklin 10 or? 11 MR. STEINBERG: Further east of Conklin. 12 I don’t, sorry, I’m not sure, I don’t remember 13 the road. 14 MR. KESSLER: Will there be a crosswalk 15 going to Conklin or from your site, no? 16 MR. STEINBERG: No. There will not be -- 17 I don’t think there’s a crosswalk proposed there. 18 MR. KESSLER: So the only crosswalk will 19 be across Lafayette into the hospital? 20 MR. MCKINLEY: Right here. 21 MR. KOBASA: Across Crompond? 22 MR. STEINBERG: Yes. To the hospital and 23 then again, over by the Gyrodyne entrance, I 24 think there’s another set of crosswalks. So Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 20 Page 20 1 February 3, 2026 2 there’ll be additional crosswalks, additional 3 sidewalks, additional, definitely additional 4 mobility between our site, the future Gyrodyne 5 and the hospital itself plan. 6 MR. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM: Matt, isn’t 7 Collier’s engineering working on the plans too, 8 and, and speaking with the county and the state 9 about that as well? Or is that just your team 10 specifically? 11 MR. STEINBERG: No. Colliers is the one 12 working on the roadway improvements. They are 13 definitely in concert with the state, because it 14 obviously is a DOT road, but also with the county 15 because Dayton Lane, that intersection, the 16 existing, and I think the light after that is 17 county. So there’s a coordination between all 18 parties, both the town, the county, and the 19 state. Our understanding is that the lights will 20 all be hooked to the same system so that they 21 will communicate with each other. So that’s being 22 discussed now so that they’re coordinated between 23 the county’s and the state’s highway signal 24 system. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 21 Page 21 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. CUNNINGHAM: And, just by way of 3 review too, the Colliers is a town retained 4 consultant and it’s being funded by VS 5 Construction and Gyrodyne. So they’re the one 6 that’s overseeing all the developments and the, 7 all the improvements to the road and the 8 sidewalks and the crosswalks and the corridor, 9 because it had to be aligned. You couldn’t just 10 ha look at each project piecemeal, because then 11 it would end up with just, with improvements that 12 didn’t make sense for the whole corridor. 13 MR. STEINMETZ: So, very much appreciate 14 Michael’s comments and taking a step back, 15 because more than half of this board was not 16 sitting on this board at the time we went through 17 the MOD, a four-year SEQRA process, which 18 culminated in a finding statement that Michael’s 19 alluding to with literally several million 20 dollars of offsite improvements that are required 21 to be made at neighboring intersections, 22 crosswalks, road widenings, et cetera. 23 But the most important point Michael 24 made is it took into account not only the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 22 Page 22 1 February 3, 2026 2 Evergreen site and everything we’re talking about 3 tonight, the assisted living, and you heard 4 during the work session, 96 townhouse lots as 5 well as a 10,000 square foot commercial building, 6 which we’ll get to later on the agenda. But it 7 also took into account a rather sizable project 8 at the Gyrodyne property. So all of those 9 improvements were all mandated mitigation as part 10 of the full SEQRA process. And yes, the 11 applicants, Gyrodyne and VS Construction are 12 required to implement those. 13 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Go ahead. Sure, Tom? 14 MR. BIANCHI: Is Crompond Road a state 15 road? Okay. Has there been, or have you received 16 comments from the DOT on traffic mitigation 17 measures that, except for, I know there’s 18 Lafayette, there’s modifications going on there, 19 but -- 20 MR. STEINMETZ: So we received -- 21 MR. BIANCHI: I don’t recall seeing 22 them. 23 MR. STEINMETZ: So Tom, that was all 24 baked into, literally two years of your Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 23 Page 23 1 February 3, 2026 2 consultants working with DOT during the SEQRA 3 process. 4 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. 5 MR. STEINMETZ: So DOT, everything that 6 I just referred to in terms of the, the several 7 million dollars of offsite improvements, those 8 are mandates from DOT. 9 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. 10 MR. STEINMETZ: They were coordinated 11 with the town’s consultant. The town at that time 12 was utilizing AKRF as its traffic consultant and 13 its SEQRA consultant. So all of that was studied 14 in the DEIS, the FEIS and the town board as lead 15 agency under SEQRA, mandated those mitigation 16 measures and they’re baked into the finding 17 statement that bind all of us. 18 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. Are there, I don’t 19 recall. I’m not doubting you, I just don’t recall 20 seeing them, but are there measures -- 21 MR. STEINMETZ: You ask Michael, you 22 don’t have to ask me. C 23 MR. BIANCHI: -- at the cross section, 24 the intersection of the site and Crompond Road Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 24 Page 24 1 February 3, 2026 2 other than Lafayette? Are there any -- 3 MR. STEINMETZ: Dayton Lane -- 4 MR. BIANCHI: -- additional light, near 5 Conklin, for instance? 6 MR. STEINMETZ: Dayton Lane, Lafayette 7 Conklin, road widening on 202, crosswalks. 8 MR. STEINBERG: And the Bear Mountain 9 Parkway -- 10 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. 11 MR. STEINBERG: -- intersection. 12 MR. BIANCHI: Those were all addressed, 13 okay. 14 MR. STEINMETZ: All studied and all 15 mitigated. 16 MR. BIANCHI: All right. Thank you. 17 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Any other questions 18 from the board or staff? And it’s, this is a 19 public hearing, is there anybody that wishes to 20 comment in the audience? 21 MR. LAPINE: Mr. Chairman, just for your 22 benefit and the benefit of the board, we made one 23 aesthetic comment that maybe you can guide the 24 applicant on. At the northwest corner of the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 25 Page 25 1 February 3, 2026 2 facility at the entry road, there is a retaining 3 wall that’s being proposed, it’s 14 foot in 4 height. Our office, I think along with planning, 5 recommended the terracing of that wall so that we 6 can incorporate some greenery there. Maybe if you 7 can give the applicant some guidance, as that’s, 8 that’s something that you wish to see. 9 MR. KESSLER: That’s on, the wall’s on 10 Crompond Road? 11 MR. LAPINE: Yeah, it’s the, at the 12 intersection of the main entryway. 13 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 14 MR. STEINMETZ: So before Matt speaks to 15 that, I just want to state for the record that 16 just because I want to make a record on this, 17 it’s the second public hearing in a row that 18 nobody spoke to the assisted living. So I’m 19 pleased to see that. And, and I just want the 20 record to reflect that. But on the, the terracing 21 of the retaining wall, Matt, I thought we had 22 incorporated that? 23 MR. STEINBERG: Well, we’ve, right. We 24 have incorporated some terracing. That front wall Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 26 Page 26 1 February 3, 2026 2 obviously is, as it appears in the image. So we 3 were asked to investigate it. We are, we’re all 4 looking at options. You know, this is, it’s a 5 tight site, between the building and the setback. 6 So there’s a limit of where we can set the wall 7 and terrace it. There’s also a limit of how much 8 planting we can do in the terracing itself, 9 between each terrace. Obviously we, we would not 10 be able to plant trees, those wouldn’t work, but 11 they would’ve to be shrubs, whereas we could try 12 to put larger trees at the bottom of the base. 13 The further we move those terraces out, it just 14 limits how much space we have for those larger 15 trees. So we’re looking at it now so we can 16 present that back to staff. 17 MR. KESSLER: Okay. And before Jeff 18 raises it, the county also raised the issue of 19 green building technology. Any, any thoughts, any 20 plans? 21 MR. STEINBERG: So we’ve asked 22 Benchmark, if there’s anything specific, so we 23 can get back to you about that, yeah. 24 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 27 Page 27 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. ROTHFEDER: Thank you. 3 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Yeah, I think that 4 would be something to look into. 5 MR. STEINMETZ: Understood. We know Jeff 6 would’ve raised it. 7 MR. ROTHFEDER: It was on my mind. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Any other comments 9 from the board of staff? So as, as you mentioned 10 David, so this, obviously still some work to be 11 done, so, we’ll be, adjourning this public 12 hearing to the March 3rd meeting. So, no other 13 comments, Kellan? 14 MR. KEHOE: Just, you know, what, what, 15 what we’re talking about a lot recently is that 16 the, your team should get those revised drawings 17 back to us in advance of the deadline, not use 18 the deadline as their goal. 19 MR. STEINMETZ: I got, I hear you. 20 You’ve been making that very clear to us on a 21 number of different applications to make sure you 22 have time to review it, and we can actually 23 accomplish something at the next meeting, got it. 24 MR. KESSLER: Okay, motion, please. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 28 Page 28 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. CANTRELL: Motion to adjourn the 3 public hearing to the March planning board 4 meeting. 5 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Second, please. 6 MR. BIANCHI: Second. 7 MR. KESSLER: And on the question. All 8 in favor? 9 MULTIPLE: Aye. 10 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. 11 MR. STEINMETZ: Thank you all. 12 MR. KESSLER: See you then. All right, 13 moving on to old business this evening, it’s the 14 application of 70 Roa Hook Realty, LLC for, site 15 development plan approval to redevelop the site 16 of the partially constructed Crystal Clean 17 Carwash facility to a proposed vehicle showroom 18 and service facility for the property located at 19 70 Roa Hook Road, drawings dated January 22, 20 2026. Good evening. 21 MR. BRAD SCHWARTZ: Good evening. Mr. 22 Chairman, members of the board and staff, Brad 23 Schwartz from the law firm still known as Zarin 24 and Steinmetz. So we’re here for an application Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 29 Page 29 1 February 3, 2026 2 for, to allow part sales and service repair of 3 Peterbilt trucks at the property. When we were 4 here in December, we had talked about bifurcating 5 the approvals for those two operations. As you 6 discussed in your work session, we talked to 7 staff and we are now combining it. It’s one 8 complete application covering both operations. We 9 submitted a full site plan application covering 10 those uses with a full set of site plans. And we 11 look forward to comments and review by staff. 12 You should know that John Canning is now 13 also part of our team. I’m going to be submitting 14 a traffic parking report in the next day or two, 15 concluding that this will be a, a lesser impact 16 from traffic and parking as compared to the 17 proposed car wash. 18 MR. KESSLER: He’s with you guys now? 19 MR. SCHWARTZ: He’s with us, yeah, part 20 of the law firm too. Wow. 21 MR. KEHOE: Oh, we used to use John 22 Canning, but I don’t think he was ever uniformly 23 on the municipal side. I do think he had been 24 representing private clients as well. He was Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 30 Page 30 1 February 3, 2026 2 never our personal consultant, so to speak. 3 MR. CUNNINGHAM: He represented the gas 4 station recently on Route 6. 5 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 6 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. 7 MR. CUNNINGHAM: The one, the Sinclair 8 station. 9 MR. KESSLER: Hmm. Okay. So as you said, 10 we’re going to refer this back for staff to -- 11 MR. SCHWARTZ: John Gilchrist is here 12 tonight to make a brief presentation if you woud 13 like. 14 MR. KESSLER: Oh, sure. 15 MR. SCHWARTZ: So, just to point out the 16 modifications from the approved car wash and to 17 show you what we’re proposing to install. 18 MR. KESSLER: Sure. 19 MR. JOHN GILCHRIST: Good evening. I’m 20 John Gilchrist. I was the architect and engineer 21 for the car wash project. And the current owners 22 were good enough to rehire me to work with them 23 on this remodeling and addition of the project. 24 And, I wonder if you could put up my zoning plan, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 31 Page 31 1 February 3, 2026 2 who’s in charge there? And then, yes, over to 3 the, nope, the site plan part. 4 Anyway, we, if you’re probably familiar 5 with the car wash, it’s 90 percent complete and 6 abandoned for several years. Our proposal is to 7 remove, towards the front, two of the car wash 8 bays and the rotunda, and then create a new 9 building in addition that would serve as four 10 service bays. 11 Unfortunately, the car wash was designed 12 to accommodate a truck, but these service bays 13 need to fit a truck plus a crane rail above the 14 truck so that we could lift motors if necessary. 15 To the right and the rear, we have car wash bays 16 that will remain. We’re going to make them, the 17 two leftmost bays longer, again to accommodate a 18 longer truck. But otherwise, those bays will 19 stay, the existing office space will stay and 20 there’s, another wash bay that will remain that 21 we will use for parts storage. 22 MR. KESSLER: So that’s seven bays 23 altogether, is that -- 24 MR. GILCHRIST: We have seven new bays, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 32 Page 32 1 February 3, 2026 2 yes. 3 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 4 MR. GILCHRIST: Seven service bays. 5 According to the letter produced by the operator, 6 we have a very low incidence of trucks coming and 7 going to the tune of 14 a month. That’s two per 8 bay per month. When it was a car wash, we were 9 anticipating at the peak morning hour, 20 cars 10 per hour and then evening peak hour, 40 cars per 11 hour, so easily in excess of a hundred cars a 12 day. So our traffic volume is greatly reduced. 13 Number of employees is about six, with 14 one guy who’s going to deliver parts. So our 15 parking requirement is reduced. We tried to fit 16 15 cars on the site, which is what was approved 17 for the car wash. We don’t need the 15 cars. 18 Otherwise that’s, that’s, pretty much what it is. 19 The, the site -- 20 MR. ROTHFEDER: Is of the business 21 deliveries? 22 MR. GILCHRIST: We deliver parts. We’ll 23 receive parts and deliver parts. 24 MR. ROTHFEDER: And then deliver? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 33 Page 33 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. GILCHRIST: So if another service 3 facility needs a specific part -- 4 MR. ROTHFEDER: Right. 5 MR. GILCHRIST: -- we’ll, we’ll have it 6 and we’ll deliver it. 7 MR. ROTHFEDER: Okay. 8 MR. GILCHRIST: May we’re not doing 9 small services on trucks, we’re doing major 10 services. 11 MR. ROTHFEDER: Mm-hmm. 12 MR. KESSLER: So those trucks would 13 probably stay there for a number of days before 14 they leave? 15 MR. GILCHRIST: They could be there for 16 two weeks. 17 MR. KESSLER: Weeks, okay. 18 MR. GILCHRIST: Yes. 19 MR. LAPINE: Do you have to change any 20 of the, mitigation of the water, the drainage 21 because of a car wash would take water in? This 22 is going to be, you want to avoid that with oils 23 and other things. 24 MR. GILCHRIST: We, we have, you know, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 34 Page 34 1 February 3, 2026 2 all the underground stuff is done. The well is 3 in, the septic is in all of the rainwater 4 detention is in. We don’t need it. We don’t need 5 the rainwater detention, but we have it, so that, 6 all that stuff will work. The drainage of the 7 site, the grading of the site will remain pretty 8 much the same. It all drains through an oil water 9 separator and then to an existing pipe under Roa 10 Hook Road out into Anneville Creek. So the 11 coverage of the site changes very little. The 12 drainage characteristics of the site changes very 13 little. The use of the site is way diminished. 14 And -- 15 MR. KESSLER: I’m out of my depth here. 16 But do you require additional oil separators or 17 something because of the work that you’re doing 18 on these trucks? I mean a car wash is one thing 19 where you’re just recycling the water. Here, 20 there’ll be other liquids that are going to be 21 generated and have to be captured and disposed 22 of? 23 MR. GILCHRIST: It’s in, that’ll all be 24 inside the building. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 35 Page 35 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. LAPINE: Interior. 3 MR. GILCHRIST: But yeah, we, we’ll do 4 oil changes and we’ll have to capture the oil, 5 certainly. And that’ll be done according to state 6 laws. There should be no, you know, less, we’re 7 not going to have cars come out onto the parking 8 lot to drip dry. It’s nothing like that. 9 MR. KESSLER: Is there a state review 10 process of this at all? Or of the facility or? 11 MR. GILCHRIST: Certainly, you know, I’m 12 not aware, to tell you the truth. 13 MR. ROTHFEDER: So we don’t know. Do 14 they come out and inspect like once a month or 15 that like the separators are working and that 16 sort of thing? 17 MR. GILCHRIST: Are you subject to it? 18 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There’s a state 19 licensing requirement. 20 MR. GILCHRIST: Yeah, so there’s a state 21 licensing requirement for this operation. 22 MR. ROTHFEDER: But ongoing inspections 23 by the state? 24 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don’t think so. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 36 Page 36 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. GILCHRIST: No. 3 MR. ROTHFEDER: That’s great. 4 MR. KEHOE: But I think Katie do, do we 5 do something with oil and water? Do we mandate 6 reports from them or something like that? Okay. 7 We’ll get that answer to you. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 9 MR. KEHOE: Because they only work well 10 if they’re maintained. 11 MR. ROTHFEDER: Yeah, exactly. 12 MR. LAPINE: There’s in the building 13 code, this is similar to what we had to do with 14 the Hertz Rent-a-Car. There’s a whole process for 15 how they design these oil water separators, in 16 each particular bay and what their capacity is. 17 And then there are maintenance requirements that, 18 similar to Hertz we make them put them on the 19 plan. So that gives you some bite. 20 MR. ROTHFEDER: But if that’s our 21 building code, I mean? 22 MR. LAPINE: Yeah. Well, no, it’s a 23 state building code, state building code 24 requirement for how you size these. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 37 Page 37 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Right. 3 MR. LAPINE: And then the maintenance 4 requirements, you could require them to place 5 these on the plan so that it gives you the bite 6 in the event you want to make sure that they’re 7 being constantly maintained. So you can go and 8 you could check on them by having those 9 maintenance requirements on the plans. 10 MR. KESSLER: Okay. But that doesn’t 11 happen routinely? 12 MR. LAPINE: I can’t answer it to DOTS. 13 MR. KESSLER: I mean, once they’re 14 developed according to, rules, regulations, 15 whatever -- 16 MR. ROTHFEDER: Right. 17 MR. KESSLER: -- after that, anything, 18 anything goes. 19 MR. KEHOE: We’ll get you an answer. 20 MS. BROSNAN: I’ll get you a more 21 thorough answer from the code. 22 MR. ROTHFEDER: And it’d be good if we 23 could put something in the resolution. 24 MR. KESSLER: Any, any, Tom? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 38 Page 38 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. BIANCHI: Under the previous 3 application for this facility, I remember that 4 there was a lot of discussion about the traffic 5 flow, especially in the northbound traffic flow. 6 And this is, we’re talking cars at that time and 7 how they would access this facility. Now we’re 8 talking about trucks. So could you describe how 9 that’s, how northbound, I guess it’s northbound. 10 Yeah, northbound traffic will access this 11 facility? Do they have to go to the intersection 12 further north and then turn around and come back 13 down? 14 MR. GILCHRIST: No. And the driveway 15 that’s there was designed to accommodate trucks 16 and it was approved by the DOT, and, you know, 17 rigorously studied. There’s, there was a 18 requirement, we’re allowed left turns in, and 19 there’s a requirement that it would be revisited 20 to see how it’s working. So, as part of the car 21 wash approval, left turns into our driveway and 22 right turns out only. 23 MR. BIANCHI: There’ll be a left turn 24 allowed in going north? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 39 Page 39 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. GILCHRIST: From the northbound, 3 yes. 4 MR. BIANCHI: Into the facility? 5 MR. GILCHRIST: Yes. 6 MR. BIANCHI: And you said, what did DOT 7 say about that? 8 MR. GILCHRIST: I have, there’s a note 9 right on my drawing. 10 MR. BIANCHI: Did they approve that or 11 did they -- 12 MR. KEHOE: Well, there’s a prohibition 13 right now for no left turn in the morning rush 14 hour, and on weekends, in the afternoon and 15 there’s -- weekdays. And there’s signage supposed 16 to be put Out there. 17 MR. KESSLER: That was with the car 18 wash. 19 MR. KEHOE: That was with the car wash. 20 But as they said, they’re going to retain John 21 Canning and we’ll have our own traffic person -- 22 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 23 MR. KEHOE: -- to see if that changes. 24 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. That’s, that’s what Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 40 Page 40 1 February 3, 2026 2 I was getting to, just to review that again. 3 Because now we’re talking trucks versus cars, and 4 that was my concern. 5 MR. GILCHRIST: Yeah. So the, the notes 6 on the drawing, as, as Chris says, no, left turn 7 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 8 weekdays, if safety or operational issues arise, 9 the time restriction on northbound left turn 10 entering may be removed and all left turns 11 prohibited. 12 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. 13 MR. GILCHRIST: So that was, that was 14 language on the drawing that was required. 15 MR. BIANCHI: But that was on the 16 previous application. 17 MR. GILCHRIST: Yes. 18 MR. BIANCHI: Not this one. 19 MR. GILCHRIST: With the car wash at a 20 hundred, over a hundred cars a day. 21 MR. BIANCHI: Right. But again, they 22 were cars, not trucks. But you’re saying 14 23 trucks in and out of the shop per month. 24 MR. GILCHRIST: That, that’s right. And Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 41 Page 41 1 February 3, 2026 2 six employees coming in and going per day. 3 MR. LAPINE: We want to make sure that 4 they can accommodate whatever the trailer that’s 5 delivering. 6 MR. SCHWARTZ: [unintelligible] 7 [00:32:33] deliveries, like the first one is at 8 5:00 in the morning, so as you’ll see, and it’s 9 in the narrative that we submitted, and it’ll be 10 in John’s report also. It’s not even during the 11 peak times, the traditional peak times, like the 12 first delivery at 5:00 a.m., the next one goes 13 out, comes in, I think at 11:00 a.m. So it’s not 14 the traditional peak periods. 15 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 16 MR. BIANCHI: I’d like to see maybe John 17 Canning can appear at the next meeting, at our 18 next meeting just to discuss that a little bit 19 more and review what the DOT’s take is on it, now 20 that we’re talking about trucks, We’ll have him 21 here. 22 MS. BROSNAN: What is the maximum size 23 truck that you anticipate for deliveries? 24 MR. GILCHRIST: Thirty. No trailers. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 42 Page 42 1 February 3, 2026 2 MS. BROSNAN: Thirty feet, no trailers? 3 MR. GILCHRIST: No trailers. You know, 4 it’s -- 5 MR. ROTHFEDER: So it’s a box truck? 6 MR. GILCHRIST: Well -- 7 MR. SCHWARTZ: Sprint trucks, like -- 8 MR. GILCHRIST: Tractors for tractor 9 trailers, cement trucks, any kind of big, big 10 trucks. 11 MS. BROSNAN: What, what side of the 12 building do you anticipate delivery? 13 MR. GILCHRIST: Excuse me? 14 MS. BROSNAN: What side of the building 15 do you anticipate delivery. 16 MR. GILCHRIST: You know, delivery. 17 MS. BROSNAN: Do they offload behind the 18 building? 19 MR. GILCHRIST: Yes. 20 MS. BROSNAN: Okay. 21 MR. KESSLER: So your bays can 22 accommodate a 30 foot truck is what you’re 23 saying? 24 MR. GILCHRIST: Yes. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 43 Page 43 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 3 MR. SCHWARTZ: Many of the trucks will 4 be smaller and that’s all in the project 5 narrative that we submitted. 6 MR. GILCHRIST: Right. The largest would 7 be 30. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Any, any other 9 comments from the board, staff? Yeah, sure. 10 MR. MCKINLEY: Would there ever be a 11 time when some of these trucks or parts or frames 12 would be, sorry, frames would be in, in storage 13 behind? Or is everything contained inside the 14 building? Like all the repair work is done inside 15 the building? 16 MR. GILCHRIST: All the, all the repair 17 work is done inside, yes. 18 MR. MCKINLEY: Okay. So it’s not a 19 salvage or -- 20 MR. GILCHRIST: No. 21 MR. SCHWARTZ: Not stockpiling, no. 22 MR. GILCHRIST: No. 23 MR. MCKINLEY: That’s my question. Okay. 24 MR. SCHWARTZ: No. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 44 Page 44 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. MCKINLEY: Great. 3 MR. KESSLER: Anything else? 4 MR. SCHWARTZ: Mr. Chairman, if I could 5 just procedurally before you conclude? 6 MR. KESSLER: Sure. 7 MR. SCHWARTZ: If there’s no other 8 substantive comments tonight, and we’ll have Mr. 9 Canning here next time and we’ll respond 10 obviously to any comments we can get back from 11 staff. If your board would, please just declare 12 your intent to serve as lead agency tonight, at 13 least start that process, that would be 14 appreciated. 15 MR. KESSLER: Okay. We’ll add that to 16 the, to the motion. So, who has this? Peter? 17 MR. MCKINLEY: I do. Okay. Mr. Chairman, 18 I’d like to refer this back to staff for further 19 discussion and in addition, we’d like to, declare 20 that the planning board would be lead agent for 21 PB 2025-18 for Roa Hook Realty, LLC, site 22 development. 23 MR. KESSLER: Thanks. Second, please. 24 MR. KOBASA: Second. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 45 Page 45 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: On the question. 3 MR. CUNNINGHAM: It just, we’re 4 circulating for now the notice to be lead agency 5 and then at the next meeting likely be able to 6 declare lead agent. 7 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. So technically you’re 8 only declaring your intent to make sure no one 9 objects. 10 MR. KESSLER: Right. 11 MR. KEHOE: And then at a later meeting, 12 you’ll actually declare yourself lead agency. 13 MR. CUNNINGHAM: Actually you’ll 14 probably to wait until April because it’s not 30 15 days given that February’s a short month, so 16 it’ll probably be in April meeting you could 17 actually declare lead agency. 18 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. All right, 19 we’re on the question. All in favor? 20 MULTIPLE: Aye. 21 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. Thank you. 22 MR. SCHWARTZ: Good night. Thank you. 23 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Moving on, the 24 second item under old business, it’s the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 46 Page 46 1 February 3, 2026 2 application of Dakota Recycling Service, LLC and 3 Dakota Concrete Services, LLC for the property of 4 Briga Enterprises Incorporated, and Bilotta 5 Realty of Westchester, Incorporated for amended 6 site plan approval for the existing Dakota 7 Recycling Services and Dakota Concrete Services 8 for property located at 2099 Albany Post Road, 9 drawings dated January 20, 2026. Mr. Steinmetz, 10 good evening again. 11 MR. STEINMETZ: Good evening, Mr. 12 Chairman, members of the board, I’m here this 13 evening also on behalf of Bilotta and Dakota and 14 Briga. As we indicated briefly at the work 15 session, as you heard from Chris, we are not 16 planning on making any kind of comprehensive 17 presentation. I do believe Peter Loyola from CLA 18 engineering should be on if the board has any 19 specific questions. We thought, and I don’t want 20 to speak for Chris, but Chris reached out and 21 indicated that there might be a benefit to just 22 appearing before your board to let you know that 23 although this application was filed last summer, 24 there has been quite a bit of work going on Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 47 Page 47 1 February 3, 2026 2 between staff and our technical consultants. They 3 are addressing a number of issues between them. 4 We expect to hopefully have most of those issues 5 answered and be back before you at the next 6 meeting. 7 I did want to address just briefly 8 something that I heard come up at the work 9 session, so that you don’t leave tonight with any 10 kind of misimpression. It is our understanding, 11 both my client and my firm, that the uses on this 12 property are not an issue and have not been an 13 issue, and then have not been raised by staff and 14 your outside consultants as an issue. 15 As Mr. Lapine, prompted you with his 16 question during the work session, there, there 17 have been some technical questions raised by DOTS 18 and Chris about whether the areas on the site 19 have possibly moved to some extent. Although, I 20 think Mr. Bilotta feels that that’s not accurate. 21 In terms of the uses, as you indicated, 22 Mr. Chairman, this board did grant approval over 23 20 years ago. This is a lawful concrete plant as 24 well as a recycling facility and contractor’s Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 48 Page 48 1 February 3, 2026 2 yard. And as you heard me say, probably at the 3 beginning of 2025, at some meetings, there have 4 been numerous litigations commenced against the 5 town, specifically against the planning board by 6 a neighboring property owner. And in each of 7 those litigations, the town, I believe, took the 8 position that the use was lawful and was 9 permitted. 10 So the reason that we’re here, in my 11 opinion on the back of the property, is that, 12 taking a step back with you, we had filed an 13 application to construct a metal butler building 14 for storage on what I consider the front of the 15 property, along Albany Post Road. That prompted a 16 number of questions during our deliberation, 17 during your deliberations and our discussion of 18 that. 19 And we were asked by DOTS and staff to 20 examine the back of the property, in particular 21 with regard to SWIPP and storm water, storm water 22 management. So during the processing of what was 23 a modest storage building at the front of the 24 property, we sort of walked into the notion of Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 49 Page 49 1 February 3, 2026 2 making sure that your board had a good clean 3 record of the back of the property and the storm 4 water management that was occurring there. 5 Unfortunately, over a year ago, I guess 6 it’s now over a year ago, there was then a fire 7 that on the property and that kind of got in the 8 way and delayed some things and at least raised a 9 number of issues for the building department that 10 had to be answered. 11 So long and short, Bilotta, Dakota, 12 they’re operating, they’ve been operating for 13 over 25 years, or 20 plus years. They believe 14 they’ve been operating lawfully. It’s a pretty 15 critical industry and business here in your 16 community in terms of recycling asphalt and rock 17 used in construction jobs, including on Route 9 18 quite regularly. So, long story short, I hope 19 that staff is getting the information it needs 20 from Peter Loyola and, and staff and our 21 technical team. We look forward to continuing to 22 work with DOTS. 23 But I did not want your board to leave 24 tonight thinking we had tacitly acknowledged the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 50 Page 50 1 February 3, 2026 2 chairman’s comment about uses, because we, we 3 actually quite vehemently disagree. The uses are 4 lawful. You’ve permitted them. They’ve operated 5 for over 20 years. We’re trying to clean up some 6 technical issues and leave you with a good site 7 that has a good clean site plan. 8 MR. KESSLER: Any comments from the 9 board? 10 MR. CANTRELL: I think it, I think it 11 would be good to understand what the existing 12 permit outlines and what’s allowed and make sure 13 that you all are in compliance with that. I think 14 it would be good to hear from staff on that to 15 see what they think of it. And then, you know, 16 just some questions about the detention pond 17 outlets and so forth, so. 18 MR. STEINMETZ: Okay. Understood. 19 MR. CANTRELL: Thank you. 20 MR. KOBASA: I’m just going to bring up 21 the drainage that’s along the access easement, 22 the road that the concrete trucks used to get to 23 the plant, that I raised while we were out there, 24 just to make sure that that’s addressed, the idea Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 51 Page 51 1 February 3, 2026 2 that water was not making it into the drains, as 3 we could see when we were out there. 4 MR. STEINMETZ: So, Peter Loyola is on 5 screen, and Kevin, unless you want an answer 6 tonight, I’m going to ask, I’m going to ask -- 7 MR. KOBASA: I don’t need an answer 8 tonight. 9 MR. STEINMETZ: I figured that. 10 MR. KOBASA: I just want to make sure. 11 MR. STEINMETZ: I’m going to ask Peter 12 and CLA to respond to both your comments and, 13 and, and Kellan’s question as well. 14 MR. KOBASA: Okay. 15 MR. MCKINLEY: I was just, I would like 16 to just go on the record. So I did attend the 17 site visit and, I was pleasantly surprised to see 18 it was a well run operation, excuse me. It was an 19 operation. It had some rigor to it. So when we 20 walked through, it wasn’t haphazard. It didn’t 21 look like it was strung together. I don’t know 22 much about the construction industry, but I do 23 want to say that I was pleasantly surprised to 24 see that there was a logic to it and there was Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 52 Page 52 1 February 3, 2026 2 discussion about the recycling and the benefits 3 of that. So I do want to say that. But, to 4 Kevin’s point, there was some considerable water 5 that was moving down that kind of didn’t look 6 like it was being addressed, or excuse me, it was 7 out of, out of bounds, in the roadway. 8 MR. STEINMETZ: So, Peter, we will make 9 sure we answer the technical question and I 10 appreciate you stating for the record what you 11 did. 12 MR. CANTRELL: I just have one more 13 question that, do you, do you have a DEC permit 14 to operate? 15 MR. STEINMETZ: Yeah, there’s a, a part 16 360 registration as I understand it. I think, 17 Chris, am I right about that? 18 MR. LAPINE: You’re correct. 19 MR. STEINMETZ: Yeah. 20 MR. CANTRELL: And do they do 21 inspections to ensure that you’re in compliance? 22 MR. STEINMETZ: As I’m sure you know, 23 Kallen, based upon your professional expertise, 24 the DEC and Region Three come out periodically Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 53 Page 53 1 February 3, 2026 2 and conduct inspections? There are part 360 3 inspectors that go out, and do those little forms 4 that you probably know better than I do, where 5 they check the boxes on compliance, so yes. 6 MR. CANTRELL: Okay. I often drive by 7 the, on Albany Post, and there’s, a lot of times 8 there’s debris in the roadway from the plant. And 9 I don’t know if, you know, if there’s any, any 10 way to prevent that in the future from coming, 11 because it’s across the street from the VA there. 12 You know, and I worry that, you know, the wrong 13 kind of debris will be in the roadway. So it’s 14 just something that -- 15 MR. STEINMETZ: Total, I -- obviously 16 that can be a condition of approval. But one of 17 the things, and, and you all can help me because 18 you know, the geography better than I. My 19 understanding is board members went out during 20 the site inspection and were surprised that stuff 21 that they thought was Bilotta Dakota was actually 22 Peckham. Am I correct about that? 23 MR. MCKINLEY: Which one’s Peckham? 24 MR. BIANCHI: The house next to it? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 54 Page 54 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Peckham is down by the 3 railroad, right? 4 MR. BIANCHI: Yeah. 5 MR. STEINMETZ: Correct. And people 6 thought that was all part of this. So I, so I 7 don’t know what debris you’re talking about. I 8 just, I know that, that I’ve heard more than once 9 that everybody kind of thought, well, there’s 10 this, all this industrial stuff. It’s all one 11 operation. It’s not, there, so I, I can’t tell 12 you what you observed and, but I absolutely 13 believe you have a right to impose conditions 14 that, nothing drifts off the site. 15 MR. CANTRELL: I just wanted to 16 understand if that’s, that’s something that 17 anyone else has seen, or if, you know, any of the 18 other board members witnessed that. 19 MR. KEHOE: Meaning drainage or like 20 aggregate? 21 MR. CANTRELL: No, it’s aggregate. 22 MR. KOBASA: I think it’s the dust on 23 the aggregate that you can see. 24 MR. CANTRELL: It’s on Albany Post -- Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 55 Page 55 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KOBASA: When you -- 3 MS. LAVARNWAY: Okay, So that’s not 4 Peckham. 5 MR. CANTRELL: When it immediately comes 6 out? 7 MR. KOBASA: No, it’s when you come out 8 of the train station, if you come out there and 9 make the left right at that intersection, you can 10 see a lot of dust, construction, like concrete 11 cement, like, I mean, I don’t want to say it’s 12 [unintelligible] [00:44:06] so that it would form 13 a cement, but, you know, the refines and 14 everything from all of that -- 15 MR. CUNNINGHAM: Got it. 16 MR. KOBASA: -- drifts down there, 17 whether it’s on the trucks when it comes and 18 settles, but mine is the, it’s not Peckham, it’s 19 the stuff that I’m concerned about starts from up 20 there and goes down through the Peckham site. 21 MR. STEINMETZ: I appreciate The 22 Clarification. Again, Peter, who’s listening, I 23 will ask Peter to take a look at that and make 24 sure we address that in our next submission. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 56 Page 56 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: So the question is, is it 3 the trucks going in or is it trucks coming out? 4 MR. KOBASA: My guess it’s the trucks 5 coming out, would be my assumption. 6 MR. KESSLER: Any other comments? 7 MR. KEHOE: Uh -- oh, sorry, go ahead. 8 MR. KESSLER: Go ahead. 9 MR. KEHOE: No, just I’ll say something 10 on the question. 11 MR. KESSLER: Okay. So, we’ll be, as we 12 said, referring this back. So, Mr. Bianchi? 13 MR. BIANCHI: Mr. Chairman, I move that 14 we declare our intent to be lead agent and to 15 refer this back to staff for continued review. 16 MR. KESSLER: Second, please. 17 MR. ROTHFEDER: Second. 18 MR. KESSLER: And on the question? 19 MR. BIANCHI: Tom took care of it. 20 MR. KESSLER: Oh, he did? 21 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. 22 MR. KESSLER: I see. All in favor? 23 MULTIPLE: Aye. 24 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 57 Page 57 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. STEINMETZ: Thank you. 3 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Okay. Moving on 4 to new business this evening, two items, the 5 first one is the application of Oregon Homes for 6 preliminary plat approval and for steep slope and 7 tree removal permits for a proposed seven-lot 8 major subdivision for six residential lots and 9 one mixed use parcel for property located at 1127 10 Oregon Road and 2 Red Mill Road, drawings dated 11 November 5, 2025. Good evening. 12 MR. JOSEPH RIINA: Good Evening. Joseph 13 Riina, principal site design consultant 14 representing Oregon Homes, Inc. With me tonight 15 are the owners and sponsors of the project, John 16 Gerbino, Mike Mazzola, and Mike Lowe. Also with 17 me, is, Allison Marino from my office, one of my 18 engineers. 19 The parcel as, Chris had explained, is 20 at the intersection of Oregon Road and Red Mill. 21 And I apologize that the, the roads are not 22 labeled on the plan. We’ll get that on there. 23 But, the road at the bottom of the sheet is 24 Oregon, and to the right of the site is Red Mill. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 58 Page 58 1 February 3, 2026 2 So altogether there are two parcels there. The 3 smaller of the parcels is right on the corner. 4 And, that’s, that’s just under, that’s 0.4 acres, 5 just under a half acre. And the larger parcel is 6 just over two acres altogether, it’s 2.4 acres, 7 2.48 acres, sorry. The site is zoned CC, 8 community commercial and, what we’re proposing is 9 permitted in this zone. 10 So, currently, this is, as explained, 11 this is currently the Carvel site. There are the 12 remains of a driveway and two curb cuts that 13 connect both roads. And you could see it there, 14 it kind of loops across the front of the, across 15 the corner there. And, about a third of the site 16 is open and clear, and the remainder of the site 17 is lightly wooded. On the left side of the 18 property, running parallel to that property line, 19 we have a 60-foot, deeded restriction or a buffer 20 zone that we cannot clear or, do any development 21 within. 22 So, the proposal has two aspects to it. 23 One is the smaller, corner piece. We are going to 24 go with a mixed use on that, which would be Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 59 Page 59 1 February 3, 2026 2 retail, a 2,600 square foot retail space with two 3 residential apartments above. The larger parcel, 4 we’re looking to subdivide into six single family 5 residential lots. The, as you could see, we’re 6 proposing a roadway coming in off of Red Mill, 7 terminating in a cul-de-sac and each of the lots 8 coming off of that. Again, we’re respecting that 9 60-foot buffer on the, on the, left side of the 10 property there. 11 The lots all comply to the zoning 12 standards. We have, we’re demonstrating 13 sufficient parking on the commercial site, and 14 we’ve provided two different concepts for the 15 residential site and, you know, get to give you a 16 different look and based on some suggestions also 17 from the staff. And at this time, we’re want to 18 give you a first look at this and get some 19 impressions, if you have any impressions or any 20 comments. And we’re really looking to move in a 21 direction with the residential concept, so we 22 were hoping we could flush a little bit of that 23 out tonight. 24 And, we also hear staff’s comment about Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 60 Page 60 1 February 3, 2026 2 having two separate curb cuts, one for the 3 commercial and one for the road servicing the 4 residential site. And the owners of the property 5 have no objection to eliminating the one curb cut 6 and having it, having just the single curb cut 7 for the main roadway and coming off of that to 8 access the commercial site. 9 MR. KESSLER: Will that affect the 10 parking for the commercial at all? 11 MR. RIINA: We’ll have to, we’ll have to 12 lay that out and, and see that, but we’re 13 definitely open to doing that. 14 MR. KESSLER: I haven’t seen this in a 15 while. What, what is the, lot area for CC, what’s 16 the requirement? 17 MR. KEHOE: 7,500. 18 MS. LAVARNWAY: 7,500. 19 MR. KEHOE: About 7,500? 20 MR. RIINA: It’s, it’s on the, should be 21 on the zoning table there. 22 MS. LAVARNWAY: I think it’s 7,500. 23 MR. KEHOE: Yeah, 7,500. 24 MR. KESSLER: Oh, there it is, 7,500, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 61 Page 61 1 February 3, 2026 2 thank you. 7,500. 3 MR. KEHOE: And I don’t know how much 4 you’ve focused on the difference between one and 5 two, but I don’t think a planning staff is much 6 of a fan of number two. 7 MR. KESSLER: Yeah, I agree with you. 8 MR. KEHOE: Okay. 9 MR. KESSLER: So I mean, obviously we’ll 10 refer this back, they’ll do a review memorandum. 11 MR. RIINA: Yep, mm-hmm. 12 MR. KESSLER: You know, I, certainly 13 we’ll have to have fire look at this with the 14 cul-de-sac as well. 15 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. And, and then one 16 thing is, I, you know, you’ve got time, but I 17 think the elevations of the proposed mixed use 18 building will be very important to the 19 neighborhood out there, what it’s going to look 20 like. 21 MR. RIINA: Yeah, of course, yeah. 22 MR. MCKINLEY: I’m, I’m familiar with 23 the, the area, but do more people use Oregon Road 24 or do people just go up to the town of Cortlandt? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 62 Page 62 1 February 3, 2026 2 Is that a heavily trafficked roundabout position 3 in the street? 4 MR. KOBASA: I would say Red Mill is 5 kind of a cut through. 6 MS. BRASNON: Oh yeah. 7 MR. KEHOE: It’s busy. 8 MR. KOBASA: That’s a cut through from 9 strawberry. 10 MR. KESSLER: And undersized. 11 MR. KOBASA: Yeah. 12 MR. MCKINLEY: So it’s not just 13 bypassed? 14 MR. KESSLER: Right. 15 MR. KEHOE: Right. And then, you know, 16 it’s a mountable roundabout, you know, so you can 17 sort of, you know, but it, it’s a busy, active 18 location. 19 MR. RIINA: Yeah, sure. 20 MR. KOBASA: It’s busy all day. 21 MS. HILDINGER: It’s always busy. 22 MR. BIANCHI: At the appropriate time, 23 maybe a site visit is something you want to 24 consider. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 63 Page 63 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. We’ll wait for the 3 review memorandum, but yes. So any other 4 comments? So I think clearly one’s better than 5 two, in terms of your two proposals -- 6 MR. RIINA: Two or -- 7 MR. KESSLER: -- but there’s still work 8 to be done on one I’m sure. 9 MR. KEHOE: We don’t really like that 10 sort of flag lot in back. 11 MR. RIINA: One? 12 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. 13 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. Your first plan, 14 yeah, as compared to two. 15 MR. RIINA: Okay. 16 MR. KESSLER: And, yeah, I think door 17 number one. But, there’ll be more review and -- 18 MR. RIINA: Of course. 19 MR. KESSLER: There’ll be more detailed 20 discussion, I’m sure about the placement of the 21 houses, as you propose them. So, if there’s no 22 other comments, then, Jeff? 23 MR. ROTHFEDER: I move that we declare 24 the planning board’s intent to be lead agent and Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 64 Page 64 1 February 3, 2026 2 refer the application back to staff. 3 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Second, please. 4 MR. BIANCHI: Second. 5 MS. HILDINGER: Second. 6 MR. KESSLER: And on the question, all 7 in favor? 8 MULTIPLE: Aye. 9 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? 10 MR. RIINA: Thanks very much. 11 MR. KESSLER: Thank You. 12 MR. RIINA: Okay, goodnight. 13 MR. KESSLER: Final item this evening, 14 it’s, new business, the application of VS 15 Construction for site development plan approval 16 and for steep slope and tree removal permits for 17 a proposed 9,600 square foot commercial building 18 located on future parcel three within the medical 19 oriented district for a property located at 2003 20 Crompond Road, drawings dated January 21, 2026. 21 MR. STEINMETZ: Good evening. 22 MR. KESSLER: Hello again. 23 MR. STEINMETZ: Mr. Chairman, members of 24 the board, we are ex extremely pleased to be here Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 65 Page 65 1 February 3, 2026 2 tonight in connection with the kickoff of this 3 particular future lot within the proposed 4 subdivision. This parcel alongside Lafayette was 5 studied during the MOD review. It was always 6 contemplated to be the commercial potential 7 property. The town spent, a great, the town board 8 spent a great deal of time determining what they 9 wanted to see on this particular parcel. 10 And we are here tonight with a 9,600 11 square foot commercial building and the concept 12 would be for this to be a pharmacy or medical 13 retail, medical supply type operation. There is a 14 lovely building that has been designed by Sal 15 Coco and his office. Matt Steinberg is going to 16 walk us through the site plan. What we have 17 before you tonight is the beginning or initiation 18 of a site plan review to the extent that you need 19 to, and Michael and Chris, I don’t even know 20 whether they are doing a lead agency -- 21 MR. CUNNINGHAM: No. 22 MR. STEINMETZ: -- or not. No, I didn’t 23 think so, as I started to say it. So really this 24 is, this is legitimately a pure planning and Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 66 Page 66 1 February 3, 2026 2 engineering exercise. We have filed our 3 materials. We’re going to be working with staff 4 to look at the retaining wall, the setbacks. 5 Obviously, as you mentioned in the work session, 6 the one gentleman who spoke at last month’s 7 public hearing with regard to the Benchmark 8 Assisted Living really was talking about this 9 parcel, and as you mentioned, at the work 10 session, his, irrigation well. 11 I will defer to the technical folks, but 12 as one or more of you indicated at the work 13 session, that particular property is on municipal 14 water so there is no, adverse impact to that 15 property in terms of potable water supply, 16 irrigation water supply or otherwise. 17 And again, this site and this use was 18 specifically approved during, or analyzed and 19 ultimately determined to not have a significant 20 adverse environmental impact, during the SEQRA 21 process. So with that -- 22 MR. KESSLER: Wait, just one question. 23 You said, so it’s a, a pharmacy and a what, a 24 medical office use? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 67 Page 67 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. STEINMETZ: Medical Supply, medical 3 supply. 4 MR. KESSLER: Oh, supply, you said 5 medical office use. 6 MR. STEINMETZ: I said medical supply or 7 retail, medical retail. 8 MR. KESSLER: Like a DME kind of place 9 or a -- 10 MR. STEINMETZ: Well, I don’t -- 11 MR. KESSLER: Like medical equipment, 12 durable -- 13 MR. STEINMETZ: Medical equipment, 14 walkers, wheelchairs. 15 MR. KESSLER: It’s DME, the term is DME. 16 MR. STEINMETZ: Thank you for the 17 acronym, What does it stand for, Mr. Chairman, 18 just so we all get educated? 19 MR. KESSLER: Durable medical equipment. 20 MR. STEINMETZ: Okay. Thank you. So, 21 with, with that, there, there is nothing like 22 that in the town currently that we’re aware of, 23 medical. 24 MR. KESSLER: I thought there was one up Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 68 Page 68 1 February 3, 2026 2 by King Buffet. 3 MR. BIANCHI: Yeah. 4 MR. STEINMETZ: Medical Equipment? 5 MR. BIANCHI: Yeah, there is. 6 MR. STEINMETZ: Okay. Well, there may be 7 another one. 8 MR. KESSLER: Medical supply. I got 9 crutches there once, I remember. 10 MR. STEINMETZ: Oh, is that right? 11 Interesting. We’ll let Matt talk about the site 12 plan. 13 MR. STEINBERG: Thank you. Matt 14 Steinberg, DTS Provident. So the parcel, which we 15 call parcel three as part of the Evergreen Manor 16 site, it’s at the northwest corner of the site. 17 It’s at the intersection of Crompond and 18 Lafayette. It’s right on that corner. The future 19 subdivided lot will be approximately two acres in 20 size and that includes an access drive that goes 21 back out to the, the main Evergreen Manor 22 roadway. The access out to Lafayette is emergency 23 only, so it wouldn’t be open to the, to the 24 general public. It’d be a gated access. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 69 Page 69 1 February 3, 2026 2 The topography, so at the top of this 3 plan, we created a section which we can provide, 4 to the board. It shows the existing topography, 5 so Crompond Road is about, approximately 6 Elevation 360, it kind of changes along the 7 frontage and rise, the property rises from there, 8 back to elevation 390 at the rear of the parcel. 9 So the proposed project would set the 10 parking lot and building at approximately 11 elevation 370, so it’ll create a building pad. 12 And the building is proposed to set into the 13 hillside essentially, become part of the 14 retaining wall system. 15 So just to clarify, so the building is 16 approximately 9,600 square feet. So it’s been 17 designed as 8,000 square feet for the pharmacy 18 and another 1,600 square feet for a medical 19 office. 20 MR. KESSLER: Why? 21 MR. STEINBERG: We’ve designed it so 22 that the, it would meet the medical office -- 23 MR. KESSLER: Medical supply? 24 MR. STEINBERG: No, general medical Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 70 Page 70 1 February 3, 2026 2 office under the code. 3 MR. KESSLER: That’s not what David just 4 said. 5 MR. KEHOE: So, no, so the 8,000 is 6 either a pharmacy -- 7 MR. STEINBERG: Yes. 8 MR. KEHOE: -- or a medical equipment 9 sales. They haven’t settled on that yet. 10 MR. KESSLER: Right. So what’s the 11 1,600? 12 MR. STEINBERG: The 1,600 is the, yeah, 13 1,600 is medical office space. So a -- 14 MR. KEHOE: A doctor office. 15 MR. STEINBERG: -- a physician’s office. 16 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Like, like what 17 exists across, on the Gyrodyne site? 18 MR. STEINBERG: Right, but obviously, at 19 a much smaller scale. So the parking, there’s 43 20 at grade parking spaces that accommodates both 21 uses based on the requirements of the MOD zoning. 22 So it’s 32 for the pharmacy, and another 11 for 23 the medical office, so a total of 43. So during, 24 during the SEQRA review, this building, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 71 Page 71 1 February 3, 2026 2 essentially it’s, the overall building envelope 3 and parking is very similar to what was studied 4 during the SEQRA review, but at that time, the 5 building was pulled closer to the front, and the 6 parking was also on the side, but around the rear 7 of it. During that process, there were a number 8 of uses that were contemplated during the MOD. 9 Ultimately, the town board adopted a 10 code that really only allowed for the medical 11 use. So in, you know, looking at the site plan, 12 and we met with staff, it made sense to try to 13 push it to the back, so that the building could 14 act partly as the retaining system into the 15 hillside and to have parking along, essentially 16 the front and side of the building. Part of this 17 is also due to just the topographic change and 18 what kind of the circumstances that changed, 19 during that overall, MOD review. 20 The site has a 30, so, if you remember 21 the, the east side of the site has a hundred foot 22 non-disturbance buffer. This side of the site has 23 a 30-foot version of that. So the, the idea is to 24 place that retaining wall at the 30-foot mark and Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 72 Page 72 1 February 3, 2026 2 then there’s a number of, it’s a wooded area 3 behind. There’d be additional planting and 4 screening added to supplement that at the top, 5 above that wall. 6 Heather, if you could go to the last 7 slide. And there’s a conceptual landscape plan in 8 the set that we had submitted. So there’s, 9 there’s existing wooded area along the front, 10 along Crompond Road, which we would try to 11 maintain as much as we can and then supplement 12 around the parking lot. The architecture has been 13 designed, as it’s essentially a retail 14 storefront, a mix of light colored brick and 15 hardy siding. There’d be the storefront opening 16 for the pharmacy and then obviously for the 17 medical office, you know, the entry, their entry 18 lobby essentially. 19 And then, you know, we’ll be continuing 20 to study this further. There’s obviously tree 21 removal, steep slopes, wetlands that we will 22 continue to study. But we had met, had a pre- 23 application with staff and they suggested that 24 we, you know, we had enough at this time to Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 73 Page 73 1 February 3, 2026 2 obviously present it to the board to get the 3 initial feedback, so we can continue to review. 4 MR. KESSLER: And the gentleman that, 5 his house is shown here, he’s behind you? 6 MR. STEINBERG: He is directly, right, 7 he is behind. 8 MR. KESSLER: And what’s his, what’s his 9 elevation compared to yours? 10 MR. STEINBERG: So he’s at 11 approximately, so his property line’s at the 390 12 mark, and then essentially it levels out from 13 there on Lafayette. 14 MR. KESSLER: And you’re at 370, you 15 said? 16 MR. STEINBERG: The building would be 17 set at 370, so essentially the top of the 18 building would be at that 390. So by setting it 19 closer to that, closer to him, you know, he would 20 obviously look over it, if he can even see 21 through the trees and the additional planting. 22 MR. KESSLER: Are, are you making any 23 modifications to Lafayette at all or? 24 MR. STEINBERG: So Lafayette is part of Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 74 Page 74 1 February 3, 2026 2 that overall roadway improvement that we talked 3 about earlier this evening. So there will be a 4 new right turn lane added to Lafayette. So 5 there’s a, there’s a, a portion of the Evergreen 6 site that’s being dedicated to the town to create 7 that right turn lane. Right now it’s a single 8 turn, single lane that handles all, all 9 directions. So there’d be a new, one first lane 10 and then a right turn lane. 11 MR. KESSLER: It certainly needs it 12 there. 13 MR. BIANCHI: Yeah. 14 MR. KOBASA: All of your mechanical, is 15 that all going to be on the roof? Where is that 16 going to be? Is that going to be internal? 17 Because I’m thinking if your mechanical’s on the 18 roof and that guy’s property is level with the 19 roof, he’s staring at a lot of HVAC. 20 MR. STEINBERG: Yeah. So, right now the 21 logical place is to place it on the roof. That’s 22 so that it doesn’t have to be placed somewhere 23 else on the site. But we can continue to talk to 24 the architect about how that would be screened. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 75 Page 75 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. KOBASA: Okay. 3 MR. STEINBERG: You know, with a parapet 4 or other fencing. And then we are proposing some 5 additional plantings within that buffer area. 6 MR. KESSLER: So you think the 7 screening, those trees that you’re showing there, 8 will block his view of the roof of your building? 9 MR. STEINBERG: Well, we can, we can 10 obviously use a mix of, of evergreens. There’s 11 also a significant amount of trees in that spot 12 today, but obviously -- 13 MR. KEHOE: Well beyond that landscaping 14 that you’re showing, there is a 30-foot no 15 disturb buffer. 16 MR. STEINBERG: That’s within the 30- 17 foot, those that planting is within the 30-foot 18 buffer. 19 MR. KEHOE: Oh, all right. So that 20 planting’s within the buffer? 21 MR. STEINBERG: Within the 30, yes. 22 MR. KEHOE: Okay. 23 MR. STEINMETZ: However, Chris, my 24 understanding and Craig and Manny, we were both Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 76 Page 76 1 February 3, 2026 2 saying there’s presently a hundred foot 3 separation between where we are and where the 4 gentleman’s property. 5 MR. KEHOE: Well, between where, where 6 his house is. 7 MR. STEINMETZ: Correct. Where his house 8 is, correct. So my understanding is there is a 9 fair amount of vegetation there now, and, and 10 Chris, Chris beat me to what I was going to say, 11 which is responding to Kevin, there is a 30 foot 12 area of non-disturbance where there will be a 13 vegetative, a buffer maintained. And we certainly 14 can look at and enhance it if -- we’ll do a line 15 of sight analysis to analyze the HVAC questions. 16 And it’s a legit question that we have to 17 understand. You have to understand, and I think 18 we can, as a result of the orientation of the 19 building, we should be able to mitigate that. 20 MR. KESSLER: Right. 21 MR. KOBASA: Okay. 22 MR. STEINMETZ: But let us look at that. 23 MR. KESSLER: And certainly some sound 24 bafflers, I would think you have part of this so Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 77 Page 77 1 February 3, 2026 2 that the sound goes -- 3 MR. STEINMETZ: Correct. 4 MR. KESSLER: -- not in his direction. 5 Any other comments? And this is, I know very 6 preliminary. Staff will get this back and review 7 it. 8 MR. STEINMETZ: Correct. 9 MR. KESSLER: You’ll come in with a 10 three-lot subdivision at some point? 11 MR. STEINMETZ: Absolutely. And, and 12 just so you understand why the medical building 13 has now been submitted. We spent a fair amount of 14 time with staff, and I can let them speak to 15 their own comments and suggestions. The way the 16 MOD zoning was written by the town board, we are 17 required to have a medical use in there before 18 certificates of occupancy can be issued for any 19 residential use. 20 As I, as I foreshadowed at the last 21 meeting, and it’s, everybody knows one of the 22 nation’s preeminent home builders, Lennar Homes, 23 wants to come in and begin processing a townhouse 24 project. In order for them to do that and to make Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 78 Page 78 1 February 3, 2026 2 that a reality, we need to have some sense of the 3 timing. Because, if they come in and are ready to 4 build and sell townhouses, people may be lining 5 up in Cortlandt saying, I want to buy one of 6 these. Why won’t the town let me get a CO and 7 move in? So we have attempted to determine that 8 building the 10,000 square foot medical building, 9 the medical supply, and the small medical office 10 will allow a much more rapid construction and 11 potential, CO on that building than would a 12 96,000 square foot assisted living. We’re excited 13 about Benchmark, but Benchmark’s going to take a 14 longer period of time. And the Santucci team 15 believes that they can get this building in 16 rapidly once it’s approved. 17 So that’s why we’re here with this one 18 now, and we appreciate the fact that your board 19 is beginning its review even though you do not 20 have a three-lot, or a 100-lot subdivision yet in 21 front of you. So thank you. 22 MR. MCKINLEY: So this will be your, 23 this will be your first building operational? 24 MR. STEINMETZ: That’s, I -- the first Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 79 Page 79 1 February 3, 2026 2 vertical building -- 3 MR. MCKINLEY: First Building, to get -- 4 MR. STEINMETZ: First vertical. 5 MR. MCKINLEY: -- a CO? 6 MR. STEINMETZ: Yes. 7 MR. MCKINLEY: Right. Yeah. 8 MR. STEINMETZ: The first construction 9 operation will be clearing and grading for the 10 road. 11 MR. MCKINLEY: Yes, Yeah, yeah. 12 Understood. 13 MR. STEINMETZ: Thank you all. We have 14 nothing else for you affirmatively tonight. 15 MR. KESSLER: Okay, if there’s nothing 16 else. Kevin? 17 MR. KOBASA: I’d like to make a motion 18 to refer back to staff for memo. 19 MR. KESSLER: Second, please. 20 MR. MCKINLEY: Second. 21 MR. KESSLER: And all the question. All 22 in favor? 23 MULTIPLE: Aye. 24 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 80 Page 80 1 February 3, 2026 2 MR. STEINMETZ: Thank you. 3 MR. KOBASA: The time is 7:28. Meeting’s 4 adjourned. 5 MR. KESSLER: Adjourned, thank you. 6 (The public board meeting concluded at 7:28 p.m.) Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. 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