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

Page 1 TOWN OF CORTLANDT PLANNING AND ZONING BOARDS BOARD MEETING Town Hall 1 Heady Street Cortlandt Manor, New York 1057 March 3, 2026 6:30 p.m. - 7:42 p.m. Page 2 Page 2 March 3, 2026 MEMBERS PRESENT: Steven Kessler, Chairman Thomas A. Bianchi, Vice Chairman Kevin Kobasa, Member Peter McKinley, Member Jeff Rothfeder, Member Kellan Cantrell, Alternate MEMBERS ABSENT: Nora Hildinger, Member 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 March 3, 2026 2 (The board meeting commenced at 6:30 p.m.) 3 MR. STEVEN KESSLER: Welcome to the 4 planning board meeting of March 3rd. Please rise 5 for the pledge. 6 MULTIPLE: I pledge allegiance to the 7 flag of the United States of America and to the 8 republic for which it stands, one nation under 9 God, indivisible with liberty and justice for 10 all. 11 MR. KESSLER: Roll please, Chris. 12 MR. CHRIS KEHOE: Mr. Kobasa. 13 MR. KEVIN KOBASA: Here. 14 MR. KEHOE: Ms. Timko? 15 MS. KAREN TIMKO: Here. 16 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Rothfeder? 17 MR. JEFF ROTHFEDER: Here. 18 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Kessler? 19 MR. KESSLER: Here. 20 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Bianchi? 21 MR. THOMAS BIANCHI: Here. 22 MR. KEHOE: Mr. Cantrell? 23 MR. KELLAN CANTRELL: Here. 24 MR. KEHOE: Mr. McKinley? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 4 Page 4 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. PETER MCKINLEY: Here. 3 MR. KEHOE: Ms. Hildinger noted as 4 absent. 5 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. We have a 6 change to the agenda tonight. There are two items 7 that’ll be removed from the agenda per the, 8 excuse me. Excuse me. 9 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sorry. 10 MR. KESSLER: We have two changes to the 11 agenda. We have two items that be removed per the 12 applicant’s request. That is the public hearing 13 regarding VS Construction for Evergreen Manner, 14 and secondly, under old business, the application 15 of 70 Roa Hook Road Realty for a site development 16 plan by Annesville Circle for a former car wash. 17 Can I please have a motion for the adoption of 18 our minutes, the meeting of February 2nd? 19 MR. BIANCHI: So moved. 20 MR. MCKINLEY: Second. 21 MR. KESSLER: Second, thank you. One the 22 question, all in favor? 23 MULTIPLE: Aye. 24 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? All right. First Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 5 Page 5 1 March 3, 2026 2 item is a letter dated February 20, 2026 from Jim 3 Annicchiarico requesting the fifth six-month time 4 extension for preliminary plat approval for the 5 Pomona Development, LLC subdivision located on 6 the south side of Revolutionary Road south of 7 Eaton Lane. Jeff? 8 MR. ROTHFEDER: Mr. Chair, I move that 9 we approve resolution 6-26. Is that right? 10 MR. KESSLER: Yeah, that’s it. 11 MR. ROTHFEDER: Yeah. 12 MR. KESSLER: Second please. 13 MR. BIANCHI: Second. 14 MR. KESSLER: And on the question? All 15 in favor? 16 MULTIPLE: Aye. 17 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. All right, 18 the next item is a public hearing and it’s an 19 adjourned public hearing. It is the public 20 hearing application of Yeshiva Ohr Hameir for 21 site plan approval, an amended special permit for 22 a university, college or seminary, and a wetland 23 permit for a proposed 51,730 square foot 24 dormitory building, the repurposing of other Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 6 Page 6 1 March 3, 2026 2 buildings on site, site improvements including 3 storm water, landscaping, and building facade 4 renovations located at the existing Yeshiva Ohr 5 Hameir campus at 141 Furnace Woods Road, latest 6 drawings, February 18, 2026. Mr. Schwartz, good 7 evening. 8 MR. BRAD SCHWARTZ: Good evening, 9 Chairman Kessler, members of the board and staff. 10 For the record, Brad Schwartz from Zarin and 11 Steinmetz representing the Yeshiva, joined 12 tonight by Steve Marino, Dan Ciarcia, and my 13 associate Vincent Pedone. So were last here on 14 January 6th. That was the second public hearing 15 session. Tonight will be the third public hearing 16 session. 17 Since the last meeting our team met with 18 town staff to address certain outstanding 19 engineering items. We made a submission on 20 February 18th addressing those engineering items, 21 including a letter from Mr. Ciarcia. I’m not 22 going to run the table on all of them, but just 23 to highlight a few. As requested by planning, we 24 submitted a photometric plan that shows all dark Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 7 Page 7 1 March 3, 2026 2 sky compliant lighting. Thanks to engineering’s 3 assistance, we met on site with the fire 4 department and resolved all turnaround and 5 accessibility issues on the site with the fire 6 department and addressed all those outstanding 7 items. We also submitted a revised SWPPP and we 8 think we made a lot of progress as was mentioned 9 during the work session with respect to the storm 10 water design. The board had requested updated 11 architectural floor plans. We submitted those as 12 well. So you have all of this info that was 13 recently submitted. Our team is here to answer 14 any questions. Otherwise, we’re happy to listen 15 to the additional public comment this evening and 16 hopefully your board will be in a position to 17 close the hearing at the end of the night. 18 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Well, the board has 19 I think, a number of comments, but let’s wait 20 until after we hear from the public and then 21 we’ll address them. 22 MR. SCHWARTZ: Perfect. 23 MR. KESSLER: With that, this is a 24 public hearing. Is there anybody that wishes to Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 8 Page 8 1 March 3, 2026 2 comment on the application? Please come up, state 3 your name, address for the record. Yeah, please. 4 MS. LINDA MCMANN: Hi, good evening. 5 Linda McMann, 14 Lakeview Avenue West. Good 6 evening chair person and members of the planning 7 board. Thank you for the opportunity to speak 8 this evening. I’d like to emphasize the 9 importance of grounding this application review 10 of the town’s established land use standards and 11 environmental protections. The Yeshiva’s proposal 12 presents significant questions about code 13 compliance, neighborhood compatibility, and 14 potential impacts to sensitive wetland areas, all 15 of which require careful fact-based evaluation 16 under town codes and SEQRA. My comments this 17 evening focus on these core regulatory 18 responsibilities and why they should guide the 19 board’s decision moving forward. 20 First, I respect respectfully urge the 21 board to apply chapter 307 of the Town Code, 22 which clearly establishes the standards governing 23 what may be built and how it must relate to its 24 surroundings. The code requires the new Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 9 Page 9 1 March 3, 2026 2 development be compatible with the scaled massing 3 roof forms and materials of the neighborhood. 4 This property is located within and directly 5 adjacent to an established single family 6 residential neighborhood. Because of this, I 7 asked the board, I asked that the board require 8 any new buildings, including the proposed 51,000 9 square foot dormitory to be designed in a matter 10 that reflects the existing residential character 11 of both the campus and the neighboring homes. 12 Large multistory institutional structures are 13 markedly different in massing and appearance from 14 the existing buildings on the site and from the 15 surrounding residential area. Under chapter 307, 16 compatibility is not optional, it’s a 17 requirement. RLUIPA does not override or displace 18 neutral general, applicable, applicable land use 19 regulations such as these. RLUIPA does not 20 prevent the board from enforcing objective zoning 21 criteria related to height, massing, neighborhood 22 character, aesthetics, and environmental 23 standards so as long as they’re applied fairly 24 and uniformly. In this case, the board is acting Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 10 Page 10 1 March 3, 2026 2 fully within its authority. 3 Second, I would like to address the 4 potential risk that the construction activity, 5 particularly any building expansion, may pose to 6 the wetlands. Any materials or runoff entering 7 the wetlands can travel through the Blue Mountain 8 Reservation, flow into Lake Rose, and ultimately 9 reach the field in front of the middle school. As 10 many of you likely know, that front field floods 11 during heavy storms. Given this downstream 12 vulnerability, especially in an area where 13 children are present, it is essential that a 14 thorough, well-documented, science-based 15 environmental investigation be conducted in 16 accordance with Chapter 179. 17 This need is heightened by the fact that 18 one of the stated justifications for the sewer 19 installation was concerns that nitrates and 20 pathogens could be present in the wetlands. 21 RLUIPA does not exempt any applicant from meeting 22 environmental requirements under Chapter 179, and 23 these obligations remain critical to ensuring the 24 protection of our wetlands and safety of our Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 11 Page 11 1 March 3, 2026 2 community. 3 With that being said, under Chapter 179, 4 as well as SEQRA, I respectfully request that the 5 board require comprehensive groundwater sampling, 6 a downstream contamination, contamination 7 analysis, soil testing in the flood prone areas 8 of the middle school. Without baseline 9 groundwater data, a downstream impact assessment 10 and complete wetland studies, the board cannot 11 confidently make the legally required finding 12 that this project will not adversely affect 13 wetlands, public lands, or public health. 14 These are not extraordinary requests. 15 These are basic safeguards required when 16 development is proposed adjacent to protected 17 wetlands, known flood prone areas and public 18 facilities used by children. 19 Along these lines, it is essential to 20 recognized that large scale construction as well 21 as tree removal, can significantly alter 22 hydrology. Redirected storm water has the 23 potential to carry untreated runoff directly into 24 protected wetlands. At this time, it is not clear Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 12 Page 12 1 March 3, 2026 2 that the applicant has demonstrated that these 3 impacts will be avoided or sufficiently mitigated 4 as required under Chapter 179. 5 Therefore, I ask that a wetlands 6 environmental analysis be submitted to the board 7 that evaluates the cumulative impacts of the 8 building. Expansion tree, tree removal 9 construction activity, alter drainage patterns, 10 changes to grading and storm water runoff. 11 In closing, I urge the board to ensure 12 that all applicable, applicable sections of town 13 codes and SEQRA are fully satisfied before any 14 special permit amendment or wetlands permit is 15 granted. These reviews are designed to protect 16 our environmental resources, public safety and 17 wellbeing of the entire community. Once again, 18 RLUIPA does not prevent the board from requiring 19 full compliance with these neutral standard 20 regulatory requirements. Thank you for your time 21 and for your thorough evaluation of this 22 application. I look forward to the forthcoming 23 results on the environmental impact analysis. 24 Thank you. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 13 Page 13 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Anybody else 3 wish to comment? 4 MS. SHERRY ANN COOK: Good evening, 5 ladies and gentlemen. I am Sherry Ann Cook. I 6 reside within the town of Cortlandt, and I am 7 speaking regarding a great deal of work and 8 research I’ve done on this, the entirety of this 9 project, especially the records that I got from 10 the Department of Health as a result of my FOIL. 11 I believe that no matter what is said at any of 12 these public hearings, that the town undertaking 13 what the Yeshiva could not do for itself from 14 2007 until 2021 presents a specific question on 15 federal law of whether or not the town itself has 16 violated the establishment clause for separation 17 between church and state. Against the 18 representations for RLUIPA, also known by some as 19 RLUIPA or religious and institutionalized persons 20 land use act. I present that these questions can 21 be answered by a federal court. 22 I do not, I am personally very upset 23 that our tax dollars and public grants were used 24 to forward the interests of only a religious Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 14 Page 14 1 March 3, 2026 2 entity. And the case law that I have researched, 3 which started out from a decision of 1994, 4 involving Kiryas Joel and the Woodbury school 5 district, gave me the trail of this case law 6 about the violation of the establishment clause 7 between separation of church and state. The town 8 has forwarded the interests of only the yeshiva, 9 no other entity. 10 The project that the town undertook does 11 not represent any secular or public purpose. 12 These 130 proposed or possible or potential 13 houses that might at some unknown future be 14 utilized, the town never even had those pieces or 15 parcels of property authorized for the wastewater 16 to go to the county trunk and the Peekskill 17 sanitary sewer district. Only the yeshiva is 18 allowed and authorized to ever use that facility. 19 No matter what sewer district you create here, 20 the Yeshiva is consistently mentioned as the only 21 customer. 22 I reviewed over 667 pages. I filed with 23 Chris Kehoe, David Steinmetez, because I expected 24 him to be here tonight. And Laroue Shatzkin, I Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 15 Page 15 1 March 3, 2026 2 filed everything that I have given, that I have 3 received. I have given it to the town as well as 4 anybody who’s authorized me to email the 5 documents to them. So the town, what they did in 6 creating the sewer district and only doing so 7 with public funds for the Yeshiva presents this 8 establishment clause issue. I’m not even going to 9 get into the merits because honestly, it seems 10 like no matter what anybody says or does, it 11 doesn’t matter, because everybody just wants to 12 go forward with this. And I think that’s 13 inappropriate. 14 I personally think Michael Cunningham, 15 copying Senator Harckham on correspondence, that 16 Michael Preziosi and Michael Cunningham were the 17 leads on what the town did, that Dr. Becker 18 started this whole thing in 2020 with a short 19 form EAF for a SEQRA, which was rejected. The 20 time, expense and money that has been put into 21 this, and there are documents from the county 22 legislators that says, the town has paid for all 23 of this, or gotten public grants from public tax 24 dollars. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 16 Page 16 1 March 3, 2026 2 So all of that, everybody can argue 3 about the separation of church and state issue 4 that is for a federal court determination in my 5 experience as paralegal working with federal 6 courts. 7 The second thing that I want to bring up 8 is that I think that I have more than established 9 to the planning board and the town that there are 10 multiple acts of what is known as bad faith in 11 legal terms. There’s proof in the Department of 12 Health records that someone at the Yeshiva tried 13 to bribe a health inspector on February 1, 2024. 14 They are now going by the Yeshiva form 15 settlements since January of ‘25. You know, 16 they’re working in New Jersey and not having any 17 kind of real legal, from what I understand, legal 18 standing here in New York for operating while 19 they’re in New Jersey. The tax certificate I gave 20 to you guys, I’ve given this town a whole lot of 21 documents, well over a thousand pages at my own 22 expense. But I think that I have shown that for 23 the last, at minimum 15 years, and at least 24 almost 20, they have been incompetent in running Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 17 Page 17 1 March 3, 2026 2 their own property that has led to the pollution 3 and the detriment of the community at large. Dr. 4 Becker is well aware that people had to pay to 5 install private aerators in lakes around their 6 homes because of the pollution they were dumping. 7 The Department of Health records bear 8 out multiple violations, multiple agreements that 9 they never stuck to. And when the Westchester 10 County Department of Health said that they had to 11 cease all actions in 2021 on that property, that 12 is when the town stepped in with the sewer 13 project that is almost identical to the one they 14 were trying to get approved with the Department 15 of Health prior. I think that speaks to their 16 very bad faith. 17 The issue of health inspector being, 18 attempting to be bribed, makes me have to wonder 19 who else have they bribed or tried to bribe. And 20 I’m not going to name names, but I have 21 suspicions, which is why I might suggest that 22 Michael Cunningham, and at least Michael Preziosi 23 recuse themselves from anything to do with these 24 projects immediately because there is more than Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 18 Page 18 1 March 3, 2026 2 just an appearance of impropriety, as well as 3 that for Senator Harckham. He is central to any 4 funding that has been given to the town. 5 Taxpayer dollars have been used and will 6 be used in the future for the sewer pump station. 7 We’re paying for that, not them, we are. The 8 value of the sewer district and the, and the 9 value of our town has gone up, therefore, more 10 taxes to be collected. We are bearing that 11 expense because they’re getting the benefit of 12 all of that. This is truly upsetting. There are 13 plenty of people who are angry about it. And I 14 think I have demonstrated more than enough that 15 there is more than enough bad faith by all of 16 them to say that they are not deserving of any 17 consideration from this board for anything. 18 The other thing that I will bring up 19 here is that they keep classifying their 20 application as a type two proceeding or type two 21 action under SEQRA. On the research I have done, 22 because they are changing the use of student 23 dormitories for older buildings into private 24 residences, because they’re expanding the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 19 Page 19 1 March 3, 2026 2 footprint of their sanctuary, because they’re 3 putting up this new building and it encompasses 4 more than 10 acres of land on their 37 acres, 5 including the pathways, the walking pathways that 6 have to be put in that was added as a result of 7 concern for students’ safety. Because of all of 8 these things affect more than 10 acres of land, 9 at minimum, there should be a type one 10 proceeding, and I respectfully request the 11 planning board force them into a full 12 environmental review for all of these things. 13 Dr. Becker’s application in 2020 and Mr. 14 Preziosi’s in 2021 and in 2022, clearly it could 15 be argued that there were less than the truthful 16 answers to the application. The fact that the 17 authorization that the county legislators gave to 18 the town for authorization to use the sanitary 19 sewer district, the Peekskill one, the mere fact 20 that the town has not accounted for any sort of 21 calculation for whether or not the Peekskill 22 sanitary sewer district can handle any uptick 23 from these potential 130 homes is a big omission. 24 And to me, it it’s interpreted as this was only Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 20 Page 20 1 March 3, 2026 2 for the yeshiva. Even the authorization to use 3 the Peekskill sanitary sewer district is solely 4 for the yeshiva. And our public dollars have been 5 used to accomplish this. 6 With those arguments in mind, if anybody 7 wants me to email everything to them directly 8 instead of Chris Kehoe and Laroue Shatzkin, I 9 will be happy to do so. I have literally 10 submitted over 1,000 pages of documents to you, 11 well, to the town. I don’t think they should be 12 allowed to do this, especially on the public dime 13 with the town’s consent. It is unfair to every 14 property owner in the district. It was unfair to 15 every property owner to create this Furnace Woods 16 sewer district when everybody else is on septic 17 just like they used to be. 18 And if I believe that there is talk 19 about court intervention, and I would hate to see 20 that play out with we have enough political angst 21 in the world right now. But I would request that 22 you respectfully, respectfully keep all of these 23 things that I have said in mind. 24 MR. KESSLER: Can I ask you a question? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 21 Page 21 1 March 3, 2026 2 MS. COOK: Of course. 3 MR. KESSLER: You really want to leave 4 on the record the accusations you made about 5 certain people in the town? 6 MS. COOK: I have said that -- 7 MR. KESSLER: Without, without any 8 proof. 9 MS. COOK: No, no, no, no. It’s based 10 upon what’s in the Department of Health records. 11 There are main players who are constantly 12 involved. 13 MR. KESSLER: But you’re accusing them 14 of wrongdoing. 15 MS. COOK: I have said that they should 16 recuse themselves because there’s, in my 17 estimation, more than just an appearance of 18 impropriety. But even an appearance of 19 impropriety would warrant at least recusing 20 themselves from anything further to do with this, 21 if anybody wants to seek court intervention, 22 especially or if there’s an investigation that 23 takes place. Whether Mr. Cunningham or anybody 24 else is directly involved, I can only go by Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 22 Page 22 1 March 3, 2026 2 what’s in the Department of Health records. And 3 there’s a strong suspicion because Michael 4 Preziosi and Mr. Cunningham are key players for 5 what was done through the town and for the 6 yeshiva. 7 MR. KESSLER: Okay. I gave you an 8 opportunity. Let me ask you another question. 9 You’ve been posting things on Next Door? 10 MS. COOK: Yes. 11 MR. KESSLER: I’m curious why you 12 consider the Yeshiva a cult. 13 MS. COOK: Miriam Webster’s -- 14 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. 15 MS. COOK: -- Definition of any 16 organized religion is defined as a cult. 17 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Let me, let me read 18 you what the definition of a cult is, if you’ll 19 give me one -- 20 MS. COOK: Out of, if you would mind, 21 sir, out of which, out of which -- 22 MR. KESSLER: Wait, let me, let me, let 23 me you, you -- 24 MS. COOK: Okay. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 23 Page 23 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: You’re citing definition. 3 A cult is generally defined as a social group 4 with unorthodox, extreme or novel beliefs, often 5 characterized by intense devotion to a 6 charismatic leader, strict control and isolation 7 from society. Historically, the term stems from 8 Latin cultus, adoration and cultivation 9 originally referring to a system of religious 10 worship, of rituals. Modern usage often implies 11 manipulative, coercive, or dangerous behaviors. 12 Is that what you’re claiming? 13 MS. COOK: I would ask you to direct 14 your attention to the fact that women are 15 discriminated in their, in their practice of 16 religion. It’s their right to do so. But that 17 kind of fanaticism in this day and age for women 18 to not be educated on an equal level with men 19 goes towards that. And all the other words that 20 have commas in them. Fanatical, they exclude 21 everybody else. My definition that I got from 22 Merriam Webster dictionary is what I based the 23 word cult on. 24 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 24 Page 24 1 March 3, 2026 2 MS. COOK: So I used a primary source. 3 MR. KESSLER: Okay. But you also then 4 withdrew that comment in subsequent posts, did 5 you not? Did you edit it out? 6 MS. COOK: No. 7 MR. KESSLER: No? Oh, okay. I just 8 wonder if, you know, using that kind of language 9 is, you know, creates -- 10 MS. COOK: I’m using that word based 11 upon a primary source, the Merriam Webster 12 dictionary. 13 MR. KESSLER: Okay. All right, well 14 thank you for your comments. 15 MS. COOK: Thank you. 16 MR. KESSLER: Anybody else wish to 17 comment? [applause] Please, please, please. 18 Rather than applaud, why don’t you comment? 19 Anybody else wish to comment? Sure. 20 MR. JOHN MUELLER: John Mueller 25 21 Lakeview Avenue West. I just want a 22 clarification. I’m, I’m not involved much, I 23 don’t do much reading or so, I just hear, you 24 know, it’s hearsay. But am I to believe that what Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 25 Page 25 1 March 3, 2026 2 I just heard here, that us taxpayers are paying 3 for this sewer line for the yeshiva? Is that, is 4 that true? 5 MR. KESSLER: My understanding that the 6 sewer line was through a grant from the state? Is 7 that correct? 8 MR. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM: There are a few 9 different grants. The only town funds, there was 10 500,000, because the pipe was upsized. So then 11 others along the route could connect. There’s 12 about 130 other parcels that could connect. 13 MR. MUELLER: Yeah. But I’m 14 understanding that they cannot tie into it. So 15 $500,000 of our money went into the pipeline? 16 MR. KESSLER: Any, anybody along the 17 sewer route is allowed to connect to the sewer. 18 They have to pay, admittedly, there’s a cost to 19 doing so. But as long as the sewer line runs in 20 front of their houses they are allowed to connect 21 to that sewer line. So it is a fact that there 22 are 130 homes that have the potential to connect 23 to that same sewer line that the yeshiva will be 24 connected to. It’s a question of whether they Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 26 Page 26 1 March 3, 2026 2 choose to and if they choose to pay the cost to, 3 to provide that connection. The homeowner has to 4 provide that, has to provide, has to pay for the 5 connection. 6 MR. MUELLER: Okay. Thank you for the 7 clarification. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. You’re welcome. 9 MR. EDDIE TATLIAN: Eddie Tatlian in 10 2146 Maple Avenue. So on that note where we’ve, I 11 know we’ve, I’ve been here before discussing the 12 cost of this and the costs are very astronomical. 13 And as -- 14 MR. KESSLER: I’m sorry, the cost of? 15 MR. TATLIAN: The cost of tying into the 16 sewer. 17 MR. KESSLER: Oh, yes. 18 MR. TATLIAN: Okay, for a residence that 19 is along this pipeline. Okay. And it seems like, 20 like everybody’s been saying, we are the 21 taxpayers and $500,000 of our taxpayer money went 22 into the yeshiva. Where’s, where, where do we get 23 a break to tie into that line? We had no input on 24 the design of that, where it could have been Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 27 Page 27 1 March 3, 2026 2 designed a different way where it been more 3 affordable for the people that live there to tie 4 into. We had no say in that whatsoever. The cost 5 to be what, what we have to pay for is just out 6 of control. There are people whose their, their, 7 their houses are, they distribute their, their 8 their waste into their septic in the back of 9 their homes, which is in downward position. So 10 they need, they need a pump from their house just 11 to get to the pump that they have to buy in the, 12 for the sewer system. So you say that we’re 13 allowed to tie into it, but at what cost? And why 14 don’t we get any break? And we’re the taxpayers 15 and they don’t pay any taxes. So how does that, 16 that even fair? 17 MR. KESSLER: I mean, not, not to 18 minimize your, your concerns, but these are 19 really the town board issues. I mean, the town 20 board is the one that authorizes the sewer 21 district and, and the, of the sizes of that sewer 22 pipe. So why are, why isn’t there a member here 23 from that board during these meetings? Why do 24 our, our, our concerns get pushed to the side Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 28 Page 28 1 March 3, 2026 2 because they’re not here? 3 MR. KESSLER: Well, I mean, the sewer, I 4 mean, that, that, that’s a done deal. I mean, 5 that, that was done by the town board. We’re now 6 here just to address their site plan, what they 7 wish to do on their site in terms of, you know, 8 building a dormitory and a and a number of other 9 items there. You know, that’s our purview right 10 now. The sewer district is, is and, and and the 11 establishment of that district had nothing to do 12 with this board. So, you know, I hate to say it, 13 but the issues that you raise really belong with 14 the town board and not with this board. 15 MR. TATLIAN: But it’s all tied into 16 this situation. It’s all tied into this. 17 MR. KESSLER: Well -- 18 MR. TATLIAN: Without, without that 19 sewer, we wouldn’t be having these conversations 20 to begin with. That was, that’s what led us to 21 the, to the development of these buildings was 22 that sewer. 23 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. And, and we’ve been 24 discussing that sewer for, I don’t know, 20 Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 29 Page 29 1 March 3, 2026 2 years, 20 years now, this sewer has been an issue 3 until it finally got approved by the town board. 4 I mean, the site has always been problematic with 5 their septic system. And the sewer was proposed, 6 as I said, 20 years ago to alleviate that issue 7 with their septic system. And now it’s finally 8 come to fruition or close to it. And, you know, 9 hopefully that will alleviate it. Now what we are 10 here to do is discuss what they want to what 11 they’re proposing in terms of, you know, know, 12 modifying their site to build a dormitory and 13 make enhancements to their other buildings. I 14 mean, that, that’s what we are here to decide on. 15 MR. TATLIAN: And what, what about, 16 where do we find out about the road itself, about 17 them repairing the road back to its original 18 condition? Because I, I would like to know if 19 they’re going to do, if they’re going to remove 20 the asphalt that’s existing there, or they just 21 plan on going on top of it, because it’s already 22 been, already had a project done about 15 years 23 ago where they just went on top of it and keep 24 raising the, raising the elevation, raising the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 30 Page 30 1 March 3, 2026 2 elevation. 3 MR. KESSLER: Right. 4 MR. TATLIAN: And, you know, the water 5 that pools in front of people’s driveways and 6 then freezes up in the wintertime is hazardous. 7 So I want to know, you know, are they going to 8 rip, rip out what’s there and reclaim that and go 9 down to a, a better elevation? Or are they just 10 going to keep going on top -- 11 MR. KESSLER: Again, that’s a town board 12 issue. Now, the town board, when they meet, they 13 do have the, help me out here. I’m not so 14 familiar with their processes, but don’t they 15 have an open comment on their agenda at times at 16 the town board? 17 MR. KEHOE: Well, they do. But also, you 18 know, the engineering department is overseeing 19 that construction project. So you could always 20 speak to the town engineer, Mike Preziosi. 21 Katie’s here. I don’t know if you’re comfortable 22 to speak on that, but the road will be redone. 23 MS. KATIE BROSNAN: Sure. Hello, Katie 24 Brosnan, assistant civil engineer with the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 31 Page 31 1 March 3, 2026 2 engineering department. So typically, I can tell 3 you, I do a lot of water main jobs. This is 4 obviously sewer. But whenever we come through, 5 usually we wait a season and then we mill and 6 pave, we typically mill two inches and then pave 7 over that the whole width of the road. That’s 8 what we typically do for water main projects. 9 It’s my understanding that that’s what we’re 10 going to do for sewer, once it’s done. And we do 11 usually wait a season because we want the trench 12 to settle to make sure there’s no waves in the 13 pavement. 14 MR. TATLIAN: Understood. So you are 15 milling? 16 MS. BROSNAN: Yes sir. 17 MR. TATLIAN: You are milling the whole, 18 the whole street. 19 MS. BROSNAN: That is, that’s my 20 understanding. 21 MR. TATLIAN: Curb to curb? 22 MS. BROSNAN: That’s my understanding. 23 MR. TATLIAN: Okay. Alright. Thank you. 24 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 32 Page 32 1 March 3, 2026 2 Katie. Anybody else wish to comment on the 3 application? Okay. Let’s talk, we had discussed 4 this at the work session. So Brad, why don’t you 5 come back up? One of the ma major concerns, I 6 think was if this thing were to be approved, how 7 this construction would be phased, you know, over 8 what period of time, you know, how do you deal 9 with a cafeteria that’s being fixed? 10 MR. SCHWARTZ: Yep. 11 MR. KESSLER: You know, while you have 12 students there, those kinds of things. 13 MR. SCHWARTZ: Sure. 14 MR. KESSLER: So why, can you discuss 15 that, please? 16 MR. SCHWARTZ: So, Mr. Chairman, 17 candidly, I don’t have the answers to those 18 questions. I heard those questions. They’re very 19 fair ones. And, and then we just need to, I 20 think, supply that information to you, to your 21 board in terms of phasing sequencing. Certainly 22 the students will be fed. So the cafeteria, I’m 23 sure will be constructed appropriately with 24 respect to the, to the dorm. I just don’t, I Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 33 Page 33 1 March 3, 2026 2 don’t have that exact timing, but we’ll get you 3 that information. 4 MR. KESSLER: And somebody else on the 5 board raised the issue about, you know, how do we 6 ensure that everything you say you’re going to do 7 is going to be done as part of, you know, to 8 complete this project. You know, the re-facing of 9 the buildings and the building of the dormitory, 10 et cetera. 11 MR. SCHWARTZ: So what’s shown on the 12 approved plans needs to be implemented. And then 13 the town, the building department has enforcement 14 authority over those plans. And I heard there was 15 some conversation about potentially tying CO to 16 those improvements, so I think that’s something 17 else that we could discuss going forward as 18 conditions in the resolution. 19 MR. KESSLER: Comments from the board? 20 MR. BIANCHI: I want to revisit what we 21 discussed I think at the last meeting regarding 22 the student population. 23 MR. SCHWARTZ: Mm-hmm. 24 MR. KEHOE: Make sure you use your mic. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 34 Page 34 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. BIANCHI: Is it on? 3 MR. KEHOE: Is it on? 4 MR. BIANCHI: I don’t think it’s on. 5 MR. MCKINLEY: Green, it’s got to go 6 green. 7 MR. BIANCHI: How’s that? 8 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. 9 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. 10 MR. KESSLER: There you go. 11 MR. BIANCHI: All right. Yeah, I want to 12 revisit the discussion we had at the last meeting 13 regarding the student population. And from my 14 notes, it indicates that you are proposing when 15 and if the facility is constructed and amended 16 that you would house five students or people per 17 room and there are 64 rooms, which equals 320 18 student population, total population, right? Is 19 that correct if I say that? Total population or 20 just students? 21 MR. SCHWARTZ: Correct. 22 MR. BIANCHI: Which? 23 MR. SCHWARTZ: Students, students. 24 MR. BIANCHI: Students. Okay. And I just Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 35 Page 35 1 March 3, 2026 2 want to confirm, I think Mr. Steinzmetz indicated 3 that he would, his, his client would agree to 4 that as a cap. 5 MR. SCWARTZ: Right. While not legally 6 required, Mr. Bianchi, our client is amenable to 7 a student cap of 320 students. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. I thought we had 9 conversations that, you know, the maximum allowed 10 is 320, but perhaps there’d be some lesser number 11 that would get approved. And if you wanted to 12 increase that number, you would come back and 13 make that request. 14 MR. SCHWARTZ: So I am covering for, for 15 David tonight. I heard that that was a 16 conversation, but again, our voluntary suggestion 17 is a 320 cap and, and how that condition in the 18 resolution gets fleshed out and finalized is 19 something that I think we’ll be happy to continue 20 talking to the board and staff in the ensuing 21 months. 22 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. I think, you know, 23 the thinking, at least my thinking, I can’t speak 24 for the board obviously you know, is that, you Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 36 Page 36 1 March 3, 2026 2 know, if we’re talking about four people to a 3 room, that should be the initial cap. And if you 4 then come want to increase that to five people 5 per room, you would come back and make the case 6 for that. 7 MR. SCHWARTZ: I think that’s -- 8 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That’s correct. 9 MR. SCHWARTZ: I think that’s, that’s an 10 on, that’s an ongoing discussion 11 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. 12 MR. KESSLER: I know. I said it. 13 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want him to know. 14 MR. KESSLER: Oh, okay. I’m sure he 15 knows. 16 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It doesn’t sound 17 like it. 18 MR. KESSLER: Well. 19 MR. SCHWARTZ: Again, Mr. Chairman, the 20 details of that condition can be fleshed out. Our 21 offer remains the 320. Again, we submitted a 22 letter that frankly sets forth what we believe is 23 the legal standards that no cap is required and, 24 and can be required by your board. But Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 37 Page 37 1 March 3, 2026 2 voluntarily we offer the 320. If you’re thinking 3 a different number, that’s a conversation that we 4 can continue to have. 5 MR. KESSLER: And we will have that 6 conversation, absolutely. 7 MR. BIANCHI: Just to follow up on that, 8 what’s the number of non-students that are going 9 to be housed there approximately? 10 MR. SCHWARTZ: I’ll get you that answer 11 as well. I don’t know. 12 MR. KEHOE: While, while they’re looking 13 for that, Tom, one thing that the attorney wanted 14 to make clear that. Within the architect’s 15 building elevations and floor plans they now 16 clearly depict what a four-bedroom unit would 17 like look like and what a five-bedroom unit would 18 look like. And they did that in general, but 19 partially in response to some of your comments. 20 MR. BIANCHI: Okay. 21 MR. KEHOE: So they wanted to make it 22 clear that in those drawings they do show what a 23 five-bedroom unit would look like. 24 MR. KESSLER: My understanding from the Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 38 Page 38 1 March 3, 2026 2 last meeting was that they said there were 75 3 additional, 75 additional people beyond the 4 student population. That’s what my notes say 5 currently. 6 MR. SCHWARTZ: I’ll have to verify that. 7 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 8 MR. CHRIS LAPINE: Mr. Chairman, their 9 plans show up to 86 on their bulk table. 10 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 11 MR. BIANCHI: I’m sorry, 86? 12 MR. LAPINE: Eighty-six on their bulk 13 table of staff and family members. 14 MR. BIANCHI: Thanks. 15 MR. KESSLER: All right, any other 16 comments from the board? 17 MR. ROTHFEDER: And just that, as I 18 brought up about the work session, and I actually 19 mentioned it to David informally last month, 20 about the green building technology, which again, 21 has been in the, discussed since last July. 22 Westchester Planning Board brought it up, we 23 brought it up, and nothing’s been done. 24 MR. SCHWARTZ: So I’ve talked to our Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 39 Page 39 1 March 3, 2026 2 client about that. They’re continuing to evaluate 3 Mr. Rothfeder. And so again, that could be 4 continued to be explored and evaluated in the 5 next couple of months. But they have not 6 forgotten about that comment and the yeshiva is 7 looking into it. We heard you on that one. 8 MR. ROTHFEDER: Thank you. 9 MR. KESSLER: Kellan? 10 MR. CANTRELL: Yeah. I just have a 11 couple of questions about the wetland area. So 12 how much of the wetland are you disturbing in 13 square feet? 14 MR. SCHWARTZ: So, Mr. Cantrell, what 15 I’m going to do is, is defer to Mr. Marino, our 16 wetlands -- 17 MR. KEHOE: Yeah. I’d like, I’d like to 18 actually, if, if it’s all right to have you make 19 sort of a formal presentation to remind us of 20 where we are with the wetlands and the DEC. 21 MR. STEVE MARINO: Sure. Okay. good 22 evening. Steve Marino, Tim Miller Associates. As 23 you know, there are wetlands on the site that are 24 regulated both by the town and by New York State Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 40 Page 40 1 March 3, 2026 2 DEC. Those lines are not co-terminus, we ended up 3 with two separate lines. DEC delineated, the 4 official delineation for DEC is based on historic 5 delineation that was done about 20 years ago by 6 Steve Coleman. Paul Jaehnig has recently gone out 7 to the field on behalf of the town, as the town’s 8 consultant and flagged the wetland, which in, in 9 his opinion, that’s a different and slightly 10 smaller line than the DEC line. So there are two 11 lines that we’re working with. 12 At this time, there is no impact to the 13 DEC wetland based on previous discussions and my 14 discussions with the DEC. A retaining wall has 15 been built at the edge of the existing parking 16 lot or is proposed to the edge of the existing 17 parking lot, which will then bring that 18 disturbance outside of the DEC wetland. So there 19 is no DEC wetland disturbance. There is a a minor 20 encroachment into the town wetland disturbance in 21 an area in town wetland in an area that is 22 currently maintained and has been for many years 23 as lawn. 24 The majority of the wetland area, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 41 Page 41 1 March 3, 2026 2 anywhere in close proximity to the existing 3 parking and buildings has been maintained as lawn 4 for many years. So there is some encroachment 5 into DEC and town buffers. We cover that. We did 6 provide a wetland narrative and description of 7 the wetland as well as of the disturbances to 8 both town and DEC wetlands as part of our recent 9 submission. There is buffer encroachment. 10 I had a sit down with the DEC and in New 11 Paltz, went over the plans with them as they 12 existed at that time. Their only comment was that 13 they would like to see the disturbance that we 14 had previously proposed in the wetland taken out 15 of the wetland so that there’s no wetland 16 disturbance. They’re well aware of the disturbed 17 nature of the site, the amount of impervious 18 parking lots and buildings, et cetera, that 19 already exist in the state buffer. But they did 20 have the comment please pull that parking area 21 out of the wetland. And Mr. Ciarcia has revised 22 the plans. This most recent submission now shows 23 all disturbance outside of the wetland. That was 24 the only significant comment that the DEC had. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 42 Page 42 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: So you’re saying that 3 there is now no disturbance in the buffer as 4 defined by the DEC? 5 MR. MARINO: No, there’s no, no. There’s 6 no disturbance in the wetland. 7 MR. KESSLER: In the wetland? 8 MR. MARINO: As defined by the DEC. 9 MR. KEHOE: And is that in the, the sort 10 of the turnaround area down below the building in 11 the gray? 12 MR. MARINO: Right, exactly. 13 MR. KEHOE: Right. 14 MR. MARINO: Yep. 15 MR. SCHWARTZ: It’s for the fire -- 16 MR. LAPINO: Is the DEC wetland or the 17 town wetland? 18 MR. MARINO: Both. Both. The most, the 19 area of largest wetland and buffer disturbance is 20 for the creation of this new fire access, fire 21 truck turnaround in the southwest corner of the 22 property. You can see it. It’s shown on the 23 graphic that’s shown right now, it’s that gray 24 gravel, which is proposed to be a gravel or Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 43 Page 43 1 March 3, 2026 2 pavers area for the turnaround of the fire 3 access. 4 MR. LAPINE: Steve? 5 MR. MARINO: Yes? 6 MR. LAPINE: Can I ask you a quick 7 question? I know we had met in early February and 8 you were going to seek documentation from the 9 DEC? Is what -- 10 MR. MARINO: And we’re expecting it 11 anytime. I didn’t get it today. I expected to. 12 Sarah Pawliczak of the DEC is the person I sat 13 down with and went over the plans. She said she 14 would send us something, because I did make the 15 point to her that the town would like to get some 16 correspondence and I expect it any time. 17 MR. LAPINE: So the feedback you’re 18 giving us tonight is based on your conversations 19 with her. So the current plans -- 20 MR. MARINO: Conversations, phone calls, 21 like I say, sit down, but I don’t have anything 22 in writing just Yet. 23 MR. LAPINE: So, the current plan that’s 24 before the board where there is some compensatory Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 44 Page 44 1 March 3, 2026 2 excavation within a DEC wetland, that’ll be -- 3 MR. MARINO: Yes. That’s also, yes -- 4 MR. LAPINE: That’ll be revised and the 5 grading taken out? 6 MR. MARINO: No, the, well, okay, Chris, 7 that’s a good point. The, there is disturbance in 8 the DEC wetland for the floodplain compensation, 9 but they didn’t really look at that in terms of a 10 disturbance rather than a remodel, remolding and 11 replanting of that area. 12 MR. LAPINE: Okay. 13 MR. MARINO: So yes, that is, that was 14 included in our discussion with that. They’re 15 well aware of all these things that are going on. 16 MR. KESSLER: So the DEC has no concern, 17 you’ve taken the disturbance from the wetland 18 area to the satisfaction of DEC? 19 MR. MARINO: Yes. That’s my 20 understanding. And we’re still waiting to hear 21 that. 22 MR. KESSLER: Are they comfortable with 23 your disturbance in the buffer? 24 MR. MARINO: Yes. Yes. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 45 Page 45 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KEHOE: And they need -- 3 MR. KESSLER: That’ll also be in the 4 correspondence? 5 MR. MARINO: That will also be in the 6 correspondence. That was also, I, just so I can 7 make it very clear. I went to DEC with the plan 8 as it existed in December of 2025. That was the 9 last plan that had been submitted. I sat down 10 with them and discussed that plan. Their only 11 comment on that plan was, can you get the 12 disturbance out of the wetland entirely? And so 13 we subsequently revised the plan. I sent that to 14 the DEC. She got back to me saying that that was 15 okay, but I’m just waiting for written 16 correspondence. 17 MR. KESSLER: So, and these, these are 18 the plans dated February 18th that show that? 19 MR. MARINO: Yes. 20 MR. KEHOE: And, and you will need a DEC 21 permit for the -- 22 MR. MARINO: We will need a DEC, we’ll 23 have to go, and, and I made this very clear when 24 I talked to Sarah at the DEC, we didn’t, we don’t Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 46 Page 46 1 March 3, 2026 2 take anything she says right now as a permit, as 3 an absolute endorsement of the project, just I 4 wanted some immediate feedback that we’re on the 5 right track and that we will be presenting them 6 with an application for a permit, and we will be 7 going through a full permit review with the DEC. 8 MR. KEHOE: Can you just explain your 9 experience? We have typically conditioned our 10 approvals on the ultimate issuance of the DEC 11 permit. There are -- 12 MR. MARINO: It makes sense. 13 MR. KEHOE: -- there are other views 14 that the DEC permit should be in place first. My 15 impression is that the DEC probably won’t issue 16 the permit until they know where the town stands. 17 MR. MARINO: Right. Well, for one thing, 18 they can’t issue the permit until a SEQRA 19 determination has been made. 20 MR. KEHOE: So, if the town, if the 21 planning board did it differently and made a 22 SEQRA determination earlier in the process, which 23 isn’t our normal way of doing it, we make the 24 SEQRA determination at the end of the process, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 47 Page 47 1 March 3, 2026 2 then they could issue the permit because SEQRA 3 would’ve been closed. 4 MR. MARINO: In advance of that, yes. 5 Okay. We just prefer, generally Chris, not to do 6 it that way, because if there are then plan 7 changes, it goes back that it has to go back to 8 the DEC, then it goes back to the town. It, it 9 makes it more difficult. So we’d like to have a 10 final plan from the, from the town before we go 11 to them with the -- 12 MR. KEHOE: But that, but that’s an 13 important nuance. And maybe that is we don’t 14 typically adopt findings in environmentally, sort 15 of close SEQRA, earlier in the process, which is 16 what SEQRA wants you to do sometimes. So maybe 17 that’s one of the reasons why historically we’ve 18 always conditioned the permit. 19 MR. MARINO: If we don’t get, get the 20 permit from the DEC or there are changes to the 21 plan based on our application to the DEC, we 22 would have to come back to the board to finalize, 23 you know, those changes and details. 24 MR. KEHOE: Alright, Kellan. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 48 Page 48 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: And and, and -- 3 MR. KEHOE: Sorry. 4 MR. CANTRELL: Yeah, no, I, I’ve gotten 5 permits in Greenburgh and Scarsdale before and 6 we’ve done it the opposite. That’s just, that’s 7 my experience. Have you, have you ever had it the 8 opposite way, where you’ve gotten the DEC permit 9 and then gotten the local permit? 10 MR. MARINO: On larger projects like 11 this when there’s a full SEQRA review, we 12 generally -- 13 MR. CANTRELL: Full SEQRA, like a short 14 environmental assessment or a full EAF? 15 MR. MARINO: Well, well, we’re going, 16 basically we’re going through a part three 17 essentially right now, the long form EAF. And DEC 18 won’t, will not issue their permit until we have 19 a SEQRA determination, which in Cortlandt, as 20 Chris mentioned, tends to come at the end of the, 21 of the process. 22 MR. CANTRELL: Maybe I’ve been working 23 with someone else, I don’t know. It could be. 24 MR. KESSLER: And just also, I don’t Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 49 Page 49 1 March 3, 2026 2 know, we got this Chris, I don’t know who wrote 3 this. I don’t know if this is Jaehnigs or 4 whomever. But there’s also a reduction in 5 impervious surfaces? 6 MR. MARINO: Yes. There’s a reduction of 7 about 4,000 square feet in impervious surface in 8 the buffers. 9 MR. KESSLER: In the buffers? 10 MR. MARINO: In the buffers, yeah. I, 11 just as a reminder, at one point, you know, the 12 sanctuary building there on the south end of the 13 building was at one time proposed to be extended 14 about 85 feet -- 15 MR. KESSLER: Right. 16 MR. MARINO: -- out. That would’ve been 17 significantly in the DEC buffer, that would’ve 18 been right up against the edge of the wetland. As 19 you know, that was removed and the sanctuary 20 improvements have now been installed inside the 21 new building. 22 MR. KESSLER: Right. 23 MR. MARINO: So that that disturbance is 24 not necessary. And as part of our submission, we Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 50 Page 50 1 March 3, 2026 2 also have a long list, there’s a diagram and a 3 long list of mitigation measures that are 4 proposed to offset some of these new buffer 5 impacts. But again, historically, for more than 6 40 years, most of the impacts in the buffers on 7 this site have existed and this is more 8 redevelopment than anything else. 9 MR. LAPINE: I just had a question about 10 how you chose the mitigation site. Does it 11 connect to the existing system? 12 MR. MARINO: Yes, it does. 13 MR. LAPINE: It does. 14 MR. MARINO: Yes, it does. 15 MR. LAPINE: And then that, so the way 16 that I’m looking at it on the site plan up here, 17 the grade kind of goes down towards the 18 buildings, right? So the grade to the right 19 slopes downward towards -- 20 MR. MARINO: Not really towards the 21 buildings. You can see that there’s that long 22 finger that goes up there, which is that black 23 line, that’s the DEC wetland. And water, the 24 grade flows in that direction. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 51 Page 51 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. LAPINE: Towards the wetland? 3 MR. MARINO: Towards the wetland. 4 MR. LAPINE: There’s like a wetland you 5 know, connection there to other wetlands and 6 then, yeah. 7 MR. MARINO: Yes. 8 MR. LAPINE: And then the trail, what is 9 that going to be made of? Just wood chips? 10 MR. MARINO: Wood chips, yeah. And that 11 we, I spoke to DEC, I brought that up as well, 12 because they’re aware of that. The trail is about 13 a half mile long. And, and as you know, it’s, it 14 was proposed in response to neighbor concerns 15 about students walking on the road. We wanted to 16 give them another option on site to walk. So 17 we’re proposing a four foot wide, we had 18 originally said four to six foot wide wood chip 19 trail from the building, looping around, crossing 20 the watercourse down there in the western part of 21 the site, coming back around and back to the 22 building again. It’s about half a mile long. DEC 23 prefers four feet wide for a wood chip trail 24 rather than going six feet wide. So we’ve revised Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 52 Page 52 1 March 3, 2026 2 it to be a four foot wide trail. 3 MR. LAPINE: No trees are to be removed? 4 MR. MARINO: No trees, because with a 5 wood chip trail, you can, you know, move in and 6 out of existing trees and not have to take any 7 down. 8 MR. LAPINE: Thank you. 9 MR. KESSLER: Any more comments? 10 MR. KEHOE: Just, just one other thing. 11 MR. KESSLER: Yeah. 12 MR. KEHOE: As this is getting fleshed 13 out, you have mentioned in recent correspondence 14 with respect to parking. Parking had never really 15 been an issue on this site in the past, but you 16 brought up that an interpretation of the yeshiva, 17 a seminary special permit would require a certain 18 number of parking spaces, which would over park 19 the site. And you’ve mentioned that the planning 20 board has the ability to waive that parking. 21 MR. MARINO: Yes. 22 MR. KEHOE: But you also mentioned that 23 the parking can be land banked on the site? 24 MR. MARINO: We do have there, yes. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 53 Page 53 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KEHOE: You would need to reflect 3 that on a future plan of where that, you don’t 4 have to design it, but that needs to be shown 5 where it’s going to be on the plan. 6 MR. MARINO: I know that we did describe 7 it as there’s an existing concrete slab on the 8 site that was historically the site of a barn. It 9 remains on site and has been used, again 10 historically, as overflow parking when necessary 11 a couple times a year for holidays. And then 12 there are also basketball courts immediately 13 adjacent to that slab that can also be used as 14 overflow parking when necessary. But again, as 15 Chris said, historically, there, there aren’t 16 that many vehicles coming and going from the site 17 so parking has never been an issue. 18 MR. KEHOE: I just want to mention one 19 other thing. Brad, could you address the type two 20 comment? I think some of the type two issues have 21 to do with respect to maybe bureaucratic 22 regulations with respect to district formation or 23 something having to do with the sewer, because 24 we’re not processing this application as a type Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 54 Page 54 1 March 3, 2026 2 two action. This is a long form EAF unlisted 3 action. 4 MR. SCHWARTZ: That’s my understanding, 5 Mr. Kehoe. And, and I think the comment was with 6 respect to this application, I think that comment 7 was incorrect. This is not being treated as a 8 type two. 9 MR. KESSLER: Any more comments from the 10 board? 11 MR. BIANCHI: Just a clarification, on 12 the January narrative that you supplied for the 13 application for a town wetland permit, you 14 mentioned that there’s a reduction in the 15 impervious service, this is for Dan. And so 16 there’s a table in there that lists several 17 figures regarding proposed, existing impervious 18 surface and proposed wetlands disturbance and 19 proposed buffer disturbance. Have those numbers 20 changed with any of the architecture and 21 modifications to the building? 22 MR. MARINO: No. Not, no. I believe what 23 you’re reading is the most recent submission. So 24 that would be the numbers that are reflected by Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 55 Page 55 1 March 3, 2026 2 the -- 3 MR. KESSLER: Well, I mean, this, this 4 what, what Mr. Bianchi’s referring to is a 5 January 24th letter we received. I don’t know who 6 wrote it. 7 MR. BIANCHI: Yeah, that’s right. Yeah. 8 MR. KESSLER: But, you know, yet your 9 plans, the latest plans of February, what did I 10 say 18th? So I think Tom’s question is 11 appropriate here. You know, do the 18th -- 12 MR. MARINO: Okay. I will double check 13 that. I mean, Dan and I have been working very 14 closely on the development of the plans and, and 15 wetland impacts. I may have had some information 16 earlier -- 17 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 18 MR. MARINO -- then the actual plans were 19 filed. 20 MR. KESSLER: You, you submitted this? 21 Is this yours? 22 MR. MARINO: Is it basic wetland 23 narrative and -- 24 MR. KEHOE: Yeah, that’s a detailed Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 56 Page 56 1 March 3, 2026 2 wetland narrative dated January 24th. And I think 3 the concern is that the drawings are now dated 4 February 18th. 5 MR. LAPINE: For, for the board 6 understanding the most recent storm water 7 pollution prevention plan that was submitted, the 8 increase in onsite impervious for the total site 9 is 10,000 square feet. I think what Mr. Marino’s 10 been referring to in terms of the reduction in 11 impervious area is the reduction of impervious 12 area, which was in the town wetland buffer 13 before. 14 MR. MARINO: In the buffers, yes. 15 MR. KESSLER: The wetlands and the 16 buffers? 17 MR. MARINO: Thank you, Chris. 18 MR. KESSLER: That’s what the table 19 says. Okay. Well just -- 20 MR. MARINO: Yeah, we will double check 21 to make sure that’s still consistent with that 22 plan. 23 MR. KESSLER: -- that it’s consistent 24 with the current plans. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 57 Page 57 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. MARINO: But like I said, I was 3 working with him, I had those numbers while he 4 was tweaking other things on the plan, so. 5 MR. BIANCHI: All right. Thank you. 6 MR. KESSLER: All right, last -- 7 MR. TATLIAN: And just for the board’s 8 reference -- 9 MR. KESSLER: -- yeah, sure. Any more 10 public comment before we figure out what to do 11 here. 12 MR. TATLIAN: So through a couple of 13 meetings I’ve been through, I realized that the 14 wetlands area has decreased. Am I correct in 15 that? From what it used to be? Wasn’t there a map 16 that showed the wetlands a certain size and a 17 decrease? Okay. And how and when was that, that 18 last site survey done to show the decrease in 19 there? 20 MR. KESSLER: Let’s let the expert 21 comment. 22 MR. MARINO: The town’s consultant, Paul 23 Jaehnig, delineated the wetlands at the end of 24 2025, and the survey was done December, October, Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 58 Page 58 1 March 3, 2026 2 in November, December of 2025. So the red line 3 that you see there is the most recent, oh no, 4 that’s the floodplain line. There is, like I 5 said, there are two wetland lines on the plan. It 6 may not show up at this scale, but there’s two 7 wetland lines. One is the town’s line, but they, 8 they are the recent lines. DEC was out there with 9 me early last year and Paul Jaehnig did the 10 town’s line towards the end of last year. 11 MR. KESSLER: All right. 12 MR. TATLIAN: So is it, is it true to 13 say that the weather patterns we’ve had these 14 past few years might’ve lent to that? Now here we 15 have two, two storms with about almost two feet 16 of snow that we received this winter, which we 17 haven’t seen that in many, many years, probably 18 20 years. If we were to do a site survey after 19 this winter, would this, would this map change? 20 MR. MARINO: No, it wouldn’t change, I 21 mean -- 22 MR. TATLIAN: Why not? 23 MR. MARINO: Well, Mr. Jaehnig 24 specifically does his wetland delineation Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 59 Page 59 1 March 3, 2026 2 primarily based on soils. And soils take a long 3 time to change. So one wet winter, a couple of 4 wet seasons, a couple of dry seasons don’t change 5 the soil types significantly enough that that’s 6 something that really changes. 7 MR. TATLIAN: So, so -- 8 MR. MARINO: We don’t, we don’t re- 9 delineate wetlands every year. Generally, it’s a 10 10-year limit on 10-year expiration on wetland 11 delineations. 12 MR. TATLIAN: Well, what if we’re going 13 into another 10 years of, you know, the old 14 fashioned New York winters like we’ve had all of 15 our lives growing up and it’s just been recently 16 that we haven’t had these winters. 17 MR. MARINO: Well, the only thing to say 18 to that is what if we don’t? So I, I don’t know 19 the answer. 20 MR. TATLIAN: Well then maybe, maybe the 21 line shouldn’t be changing. Maybe they shouldn’t 22 be changing. I think it’s something to consider 23 and maybe there should be an average taken where, 24 you know, we’re, we’re, we’re pulling everything Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 60 Page 60 1 March 3, 2026 2 back so quickly and so much, and maybe, maybe we 3 need to have more of a buffer there because I 4 can’t imagine what’s going to happen after the 5 snow melts and who knows how much more snow we’re 6 going to get this year or the next 10 years. We 7 don’t know that. 8 MR. KESSLER: Point noted, Thank you. 9 Last, again, last call for the public? Staff? 10 Board? All right, so let, let’s discuss process 11 and how we proceed here. Our thinking is now that 12 this is, what our third public hearing? 13 MR. SCHWARTZ: Correct. 14 MR. KESSLER: That, you know, we’ve 15 heard from the public. and we’ll take that under, 16 all under consideration, that we close the public 17 hearing, but clearly we want to keep the record 18 open here for at least, I’m thinking almost 45 19 days for the public to continue to comment. Now, 20 just because the public hearing is closed, that 21 doesn’t mean we’re making a decision. There’s 22 still a lot of work to be done with the, with the 23 staff, engineering and others to flesh out a lot 24 of the issues that still exist with the layout of Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 61 Page 61 1 March 3, 2026 2 the plan. So with your approval, we’d like to, 3 you know, once we close the public hearing, we 4 have a requirement, a state requirement that we 5 have to make a decision in 62 days, this board. 6 We do not want to do that. So we need the 7 applicant to grant us an extension of that 62 day 8 period for us to go through all the information 9 and for staff, as I said, to continue to work out 10 the details of the proposal. So, Brad, with, with 11 your, you know, we will close the public hearing 12 if you give us permission to extend that 62 day 13 clock until some point where we decide it’s ready 14 to come back to the board for discussion. And, 15 and as was said during the meeting, you know, 16 there’s still points that we have to discuss in 17 terms of student camp and other things, and the 18 designation of exactly what’s going to happen in 19 each of the buildings, those kinds of things. And 20 this board will certainly do that and come to 21 hopefully some agreement with the applicant on 22 those issues. So, if we do close the public 23 hearing, do you agree to grant an extension of a 24 62 day clock? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 62 Page 62 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. SCHWARTZ: We absolutely grant and 3 consent to the extension. 4 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 5 MR. SCHWARTZ: I heard the comment at 6 the works extension about in perpetuity, and if 7 that’s the board’s desire, you got it. As a 8 matter of practice, I, we typically extend to 9 some period of time. So understanding that the 10 board needs a good amount of time, I would 11 suggest six months, I think would be fair and 12 reasonable, but I defer to the board as to -- 13 MR. KESSLER: I’m sure it’s going to be 14 a reasonable amount of time. 15 MR. SCHWARTZ: Yeah. 16 MR. KESSLER: I just, you know, we just 17 want to make sure everybody has enough time to 18 look this over and for you to respond to the 19 issues. I mean, we’ve had, I don’t know how many 20 revisions now, we’ve had now five revisions to 21 the plan to date, in the last, last 11 months. So 22 clearly this back and forth work with staff and 23 the board and, and the applicant is important 24 work to be done. So, you know, it, it’s not Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 63 Page 63 1 March 3, 2026 2 unusual for there to be continuing, continuing 3 amendments to the plan, to the to the plat. So if 4 there’s no -- 5 MR. KEHOE: And also the extension of 6 the public comment period. 7 MR. KESSLER: Oh, yes, yes. Well, we’ll 8 make that part of the part of the motion, which 9 is going to be done by Kevin. 10 MR. KOBASA: I’d like to make, make a 11 motion to close the hearing. 12 MR. KESSLER: Oh, sure. Yeah. Okay. 13 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just got kind of a 14 -- 15 MR. KESSLER: Before we close it, 16 absolutely. 17 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This new 18 construction, is this building just for students 19 and staff or, because I heard something in the 20 pipe that it’d be for families or -- 21 MR. KESSLER: There are a number of 22 buildings on the campus. The, the proposed 23 dormitory is just for students and they are, 24 they’re what’s the word, they’re rehabilitating Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 64 Page 64 1 March 3, 2026 2 the other buildings and repurposing the other 3 buildings for staff, weekend visitors, those 4 kinds of things. 5 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Okay. So no, no 6 permanent families -- 7 MR. KESSLER: For the rabbi and -- 8 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. Right. 9 MR. KESSLER: -- and such. 10 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Okay. 11 MR. KESSLER: So, yes, but to answer 12 your question, the proposed dormitory is just for 13 students. They proposed four beds per room 14 initially, which would mean 256 students. And 15 they would like the potential to put five beds in 16 a room, which would meet 320 students. 17 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Okay. 18 MR. KESSLER: And that’s what we’re 19 going to be discussing with them in terms of a 20 cap. 21 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much. 22 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 23 MR. TATLIAN: There’s also for teachers 24 families to live there, aren’t there? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 65 Page 65 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KOBASA: Yes. 3 MR. KESSLER: There are other buildings, 4 as I said, there are buildings that are going to 5 be used for staff, office, weekend and staff, 6 there’s one building for two families, there’s 7 the sanctuary, the dorm, some storage areas. Yes. 8 The, there, there are a total of eight buildings 9 on the site. The one new one will be the 10 dormitory. The others will be repurposed for 11 various uses. That, that’s the proposal. 12 MR. KEHOE: And, and the repurposing is 13 specifically called out in building floor plans 14 exactly what can happen in each room, in each 15 building. 16 MR. KESSLER: Right. 17 MR. LAPINE: Mr. Chairman they didn’t 18 make a on a record, I forgot which particular 19 meeting, but some of these staff are married and 20 both themselves and their partner, their wives 21 will also be residing on campus. And if they had 22 a child, they would also be living in those units 23 that are being repurposed for them. 24 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 66 Page 66 1 March 3, 2026 2 MS. COOK: Hi. Sorry. 3 MR. KESSLER: That’s okay. 4 MS. COOK: Thank you for a reminder. I 5 did put in further FOILS with the DEC, 6 Environmental Facilities Corporation, Departments 7 of Agriculture and Markets, and a couple of 8 others for documents that showed up in the 9 Department of Health records. Just, I will 10 provide whatever I get to the town 11 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 12 MS. COOK: And I’m sure there are a lot 13 of people who want discuss it. 14 MR. KESSLER: In the motion that we’re 15 about to make, we’re going to keep the period 16 open for, I think until, what do we say? May 17 15th. So May, you’ll have until May 15th from the 18 time we close the public hearing tonight to 19 submit whatever information you think is relevant 20 for our deliberations. 21 MS. COOK: I appreciate that, Mr. 22 Kessler. Thank you. 23 MR. KEHOE: And also, along those lines, 24 what I received today from you will be directly Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 67 Page 67 1 March 3, 2026 2 provided to all of the planning board members. 3 MS. COOK: That’s cool. I really think 4 we’re spinning our wheels here and a lot of 5 people feel that way. It’s sad that we have to 6 get to this particular point, but I bear no 7 particular personal ill will against anybody or 8 any entity in general. I moved into this 9 neighborhood for a reason, but this particular 10 situation has become questioning, challenging and 11 it’s made me wonder whether or not I’m going to 12 live here and who might be voted out the next 13 time the elections come around. It’s very 14 upsetting. That’s not intended as a threat 15 either. 16 MR. KESSLER: I understand. Thank you. 17 MS. COOK: Have a good day, evening. 18 MR. KESSLER: Alright Kevin, we were in 19 the process -- 20 MR. KOBASA: I think there’s one more. 21 MR. KESSLER: Oh, I’m sorry. Another, 22 one more comment. I’m sorry. We’ll get there. 23 MR. STEVE ROTOLO: Thank you for hearing 24 me out. Steve Rotolo, 50 Lakeview Avenue. I don’t Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 68 Page 68 1 March 3, 2026 2 think that we should be closing this particular 3 public hearing at this point in time. There’s a 4 multitude of issues that have not been answered, 5 particularly the number of people that are going 6 to be utilizing this facility on a massive scale. 7 Just going through some of the numbers here, this 8 place is almost doubling in size, literally 9 doubling in size, if you take a look at it. 10 They’re going from 226 people, as noted on their 11 plans to 434. And that’s not even talking about 12 the hotel, the accommodations for visitors and 13 all this other things that are going on here. 14 This is not the time to close this. It needs more 15 time to be reviewed, particularly by the public. 16 I mean, just look at the difference in buildings 17 in occupancy levels. You’re going to tell me that 18 the Dakota building that has five sleeping rooms 19 is only going to operate only be occupied by two 20 people at any time into perpetuity? Look at each 21 one of those items. There’s a potential of 600 22 people. 23 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 24 MR. ROTOLO: Okay. On a three-acre lot. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 69 Page 69 1 March 3, 2026 2 They may have a big footprint in the, in the 3 area, but they’re putting the density of this is 4 an extremely large size. It’s a three-story 5 building over 50 feet tall. You’re not looking at 6 this right. And I have not seen the answers 7 coming through. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. 9 MR. ROTOLO: I don’t know what you guys 10 are looking at. Maybe you have more information 11 than I do, that all these answers have come that 12 have been brought up by the public here, but I 13 don’t see any of it. 14 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Let’s, let’s be 15 clear on the numbers. You threw out a lot of 16 numbers there. Let me tell you the reality here. 17 Right now, they have 217 students, and I’m not, 18 I’m not, you know -- 19 MR. ROTOLO: Plus nine staff members. 20 MR. KESSLER: Wait, no. Plus 75 staff 21 members, that’s what they have now. 22 MR. KEHOE: That’s what they’re 23 approved, approved for. 24 MR. ROTOLO: That’s not what it says on Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 70 Page 70 1 March 3, 2026 2 their plans. 3 MR. KESSLER: That’s, that’s what 4 they’re approved for. And, okay, so they have 217 5 currently and they have 75 staff. Okay, so let’s 6 see, what is that? That’s 292. They’re proposing 7 to go with four people in a room, It would be 256 8 students and with five people in a room, 320. So 9 if we were to allow five people in a room, you’d 10 be going from 217 to 320. As Chris said, their 11 plan shows 89 staff. Chris, is that the number? 12 MR. LAPINE: Eighty-six. 13 MR. ROTOLO: Eighty-six. 14 MR. KESSLER: Eighty-six. So the -- 15 MR. ROTOLO: The staff’s family. 16 MR. KESSLER: Correct. Staff and the 17 family. 18 MR. ROTOLO: Staff members are 28 going 19 from nine -- according to their charts on their 20 paperwork is going from 320 plus 28 plus 86. And 21 we don’t know anything about the hotel, visitor 22 accommodations. 23 MR. KESSLER: No. That there’s no, don’t 24 forget a lot -- there’s no hotel, but a lot, a Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 71 Page 71 1 March 3, 2026 2 lot of these buildings are, you’ve got to put 3 them all together because they are people 4 scattered in all the buildings. 5 MR. ROTOLO: Yeah. 6 MR. KESSLER: So all I’m saying is that 7 217 and 75 is the number, the most that it could 8 possibly be if we were to approve what they’re 9 asking for would be 320 plus 86. That would be 10 the most. I -- 11 MR. ROTOLO: Okay. That’s 500 people. 12 And then you get the visitors that come, holidays 13 -- 14 MR. KESSLER: That’s 400 people. 15 MR. ROTOLO: -- et cetera, and so on. 16 MR. KESSLER: That’s 400 people. But 17 again, that’s what they’re asking for. That’s not 18 necessarily what we’re going to approve. We 19 haven’t gotten to that point yet. But there’s no 20 600 people. Let’s be clear. I don’t want, you 21 know, misrepresentations about what they’re -- 22 MR. ROTOLO: It can be that many. You’re 23 not, you’re not looking at the bigger picture 24 here. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 72 Page 72 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. KESSLER: You can’t accommodate, 3 there’s no room to accommodate 600 people. 4 MR. ROTOLO: Apparently there is, 5 according to their charts. You got area, like the 6 Dakota building, five sleeping rooms. They’re 7 saying there’s only going to be two people in 8 those rooms ever, according to their charts. 9 MR. LAPINE: The Dakota building is 10 where they have a majority of their offices and 11 no sleeping rooms anywhere. 12 MR. ROTOLO: Well, it doesn’t say that. 13 MR. LAPINE: Yes. 14 MR. ROTOLO: Believe me. If you look at 15 it properly, you’ll see that it’s being 16 particularly secretive about what’s going on 17 there. You’ve got Texas building got eight, eight 18 sleeping rooms will never be occupied more than 19 four people. 20 MR. KESSLER: They, they’re saying -- 21 MR. ROTOLO: That’s what it says on 22 their chart. 23 MR. KESSLER: They’re representing the 24 Texas family will have two -- the Texas building Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 73 Page 73 1 March 3, 2026 2 will have two families. That’s what they’re 3 saying. 4 MR. ROTOLO: That that’s not what it 5 says on the plans. 6 MR. KESSLER: If we were to ever approve 7 this, we will make sure that each building is 8 clearly identified as to its use and its 9 occupancy. 10 MR. ROTOLO: Well, that’s what we’re 11 waiting for. We haven’t seen any of that. As the 12 public, we haven’t seen it. I’ve been to three 13 meetings so far and we keep asking the same 14 questions and we never get the answers. 15 MR. KESSLER: Well, there is -- 16 MR. ROTOLO: That new report that just 17 came out, didn’t answer, didn’t answer a quarter 18 of the questions that were asked on that document 19 that just came through. 20 MR. KESSLER: As Chris pointed out, 21 there is a chart that shows what the occupancy is 22 for each of the buildings totaling 86 people. And 23 we will make sure that that is adhered to as part 24 of any, if we were to ever approve this. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 74 Page 74 1 March 3, 2026 2 MR. ROTOLO: I want to see the documents 3 to say, stipulate exactly what’s going on there. 4 MR. LAPINE: It’s on -- 5 MR. ROTOLO: Because it’s not happening. 6 We keep asking for it and it never comes. I’m 7 telling you it’s a fact. Look at the new plans. 8 It just came out. 9 MR. KESSLER: Right. 10 MR. ROTOLO: February 15th. 11 MR. SCHWARTZ: Let me provide this to 12 you. 13 MR. ROTOLO: Yeah. Yeah. There you go. 14 Right there. 15 MR. SCHWARTZ: Here’s a table on sheet 16 one. So all the information is documented on this 17 drawing. 18 MR. ROTOLO: I know, but you’ve got five 19 sleeping rooms and only two people are ever going 20 to occupy them. That’s what you’re telling me. 21 MR. SCHWARTZ: That’s what’s being 22 represented, correct. 23 MR. ROTOLO: So, the other four rooms 24 are going to sit empty forever, literally Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 75 Page 75 1 March 3, 2026 2 forever. What are they being used for? What’s the 3 storage shed being used for? What’s actually 4 going in that proposed storage shed? You go to 5 every one of these rooms, there’s a potential to 6 put multitudes of people in these rooms. 7 MR. LAPINE: Sir. What’s also not being 8 noted here is there -- 9 MR. ROTOLO: I kid you not. 10 MR. LAPINE: Yeah. What’s also not being 11 noted here is there is an annual fire inspection 12 that takes place on the campus. 13 MR. ROTOLO: Listen, I know that. I’ve 14 been through this already. Okay. Thank you for 15 putting that out. But I know all about that. 16 There’s still a bunch of questions that I brought 17 up. 18 MR. LAPINE: But that, that was -- 19 MR. ROTOLO: Sprinkler systems -- 20 MR. LAPINE: Sprinkler systems aside, 21 that fire inspection also includes occupancy of 22 each of these rooms. So, if there’s an occupancy 23 greater than what was approved on this set of 24 plans that’s before you, that would be a Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 76 Page 76 1 March 3, 2026 2 violation that would have to be rectified. 3 MR. ROTOLO: Okay. I’ve heard all this 4 before. We’ve been fighting this thing for 20 5 years. Nothing has changed. The place is still a 6 dump. The wall outside is falling down. They 7 don’t do any maintenance over there. This is a 8 serious potential hazard. 9 MR. LAPINE: This is an enforceable 10 document once they have this signed, campus 11 population table. 12 MR. ROTOLO: I’m still saying and 13 requesting that you keep this open for another 14 term. So you spend a little bit more time and 15 bring up more of these questions and they start 16 answering the questions that have already been 17 asked. Okay? It’s not happening. It’s simply not 18 happening. I know they’re trying to push this 19 through in the dead of winter or whatever. A lot 20 of people couldn’t come tonight because of the 21 weather outside. But I could go on for a week and 22 I’m not going to, but I’m seriously requesting 23 that you do not close this public hearing at this 24 time. Thank you. Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 77 Page 77 1 March 3, 2026 2 MS. VALERIE FRISCIA: Good evening. 3 Thank you very much. I’m Valerie Friscia. I live 4 at 19 Shaw Highway. I have a letter and basically 5 what it says is that the Peekskill waterway 6 system, treatment system stated clearly that it 7 could not accept flows exceeding more than 10,000 8 gallons per day for this site. So if this cap is 9 not kept, we are going to be exceeding that 10 without even including the 135 houses that were 11 also stated that could be hooked up. Despite 12 these loads limitations, this facility has 13 continued operating, now with the septic system 14 reportedly failed, wetlands being impacted. The 15 proposal to expand operations raises serious 16 environmental, legal, and financial concerns for 17 the town. Approving expansion under these 18 circumstances would expose the town to potential 19 violations of state environmental conservation, 20 wetland protection laws, public health liability, 21 increased discharge beyond previously documented 22 capacity limitations, long-term environmental 23 remedial costs. Expansion should not even 24 considered until a full inspection of Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 78 Page 78 1 March 3, 2026 2 environmental and health inspection is completed 3 and publicly released, independent confirmation 4 is provided that no untreated wastewater is 5 entering regulated wetlands, verify that the 6 infrastructure exists to handle all the 7 wastewater within legal limits, the town provides 8 transparency regarding what has changed since 9 2020 sewer district petition. As a resident, I’m 10 asking the board to pause any approval on 11 expansions until these issues are fully resolved. 12 Moving forward without addressing documented 13 septic failure and capacity limits would be 14 irresponsible. I respectfully request that this 15 letter be entered into the public record and that 16 the board provide a written response outlining 17 how it intends to address these concerns. The 18 community deserves transparency, environmental 19 protection, and responsible governance. 20 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. Okay. Can we 21 get from the Peekskill sewer district, because 22 I’m sure when they did the expansion, when they 23 did the sewer district, there was no sense as to 24 the number of people that potentially could be at Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 79 Page 79 1 March 3, 2026 2 the yeshiva. So can we get something from the 3 sewer district that says if they were to put in 4 320 people, plus 86 staff, plus 140 houses along 5 the route, all hooking up that the Peekskill 6 Sewer District can accommodate that? Okay. And 7 that should hopefully answer all the questions, 8 MS. COOK: Excuse me. But then wouldn’t 9 that require an amendment of the permit issued by 10 the Board of Legislatures that only included 141 11 Furnace Woods Road? 12 MR. KESSLER: It didn’t only include 141 13 Furnace -- 14 MS. COOK: Right. But if we are going to 15 talk about, and this is the main bone of 16 contention on some of the things I said tonight. 17 MR. KESSLER: The, the fact is anybody 18 can hook in if they want to. So it’s not just the 19 yeshiva. 20 MS. COOK: Okay. Okay. 21 MR. KESSLER: If you have, if you have 22 something that says otherwise, please share that. 23 MS. COOK: I believe the permit -- 24 UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The wallet says Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 80 Page 80 1 March 3, 2026 2 otherwise. 3 MS. COOK: I’m sorry? 4 MR. KESSLER: If you have documentation 5 -- 6 MS. COOK: I’ll, we’ll take it up 7 elsewhere. 8 MR. KESSLER: Okay. Thank you. Where 9 were we? Okay, and again. Okay. Last call. Okay. 10 And I think we were about to make a motion. So 11 take two. 12 MR. KOBASA: I’d like to make a motion 13 to close the hearing with the comment period 14 extended to May 15th and a commitment from the 15 applicant to extend the 60-day time clock if 16 needed, which Was given. 17 MR. KESSLER: Which he, which he did -- 18 MR. SCHWARTZ: Consent granted 19 MR. KESSLER: -- in perpetuity. 20 MR. SCHWARTZ: Yep. In perpetuity. 21 MR. BIANCHI: Second. 22 MR. KESSLER: Okay, second. Thank you 23 Tom. On the motion, any question on the motion? 24 All in favor? Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 81 Page 81 1 March 3, 2026 2 MULTIPLE: Aye. 3 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Okay. 4 MR. SCHWARTZ: Thank you. 5 MR. KESSLER: Thank you all. 6 MR. SCHWARTZ: Goodnight. 7 MR. KESSLER: Thank you, public. Thank 8 you for participating. We appreciate it. Okay, 9 last item this evening is new business, the 10 application of Rafael Triana of High Q Electric 11 for renewal of a specialty trade contractor, a 12 special permit for an electrical contractor 13 located at 1 Dogwood Road. Drawings dated April 14 5, 2022. Good evening. 15 MR. RAFAEL TRIANA: Good evening. 16 MR. KESSLER: You are? 17 MR. TRIANA: Rafael Triana. Welcome. 18 MR. KESSLER: We’re going to set a 19 public hearing on your application for the next 20 meeting. 21 MR. TRIANA: Okay. 22 MR. KESSLER: So we’ll make it easy for 23 you. So with that, Karen? 24 MS. TIMKO: I’d like to make a motion on Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 82 Page 82 1 March 3, 2026 2 item PB 2026-4, High Q Electric and the motion is 3 to set a public hearing for April 7, 2026. 4 MR. ROTHFEDER: Second. 5 MR. KESSLER: Second. Thank you. On the 6 question. 7 MR. KEHOE: On the question. So the code 8 requires a public hearing. We went through this 9 before. I’ll be working with you. I’ll send you 10 the list of abutters, I’ll send you the public 11 hearing notice. You’re responsible for sending it 12 out. There’s not too many abutters. And then 13 we’ll be back here in April to hold the hearing. 14 MR. TRIANA: Okay. 15 MR. KEHOE: Okay. 16 MR. KESSLER: All right, we’re on the 17 question. All in favor? 18 MULTIPLE: Aye. 19 MR. KESSLER: Opposed? Thank you. 20 MR. TRIANA: I’d like to say something 21 too. Thank you to Michael and Chris. You guys 22 have been great. Appreciate the help. I know I’ve 23 been a little late, but I appreciate it. 24 MR. KESSLER: Okay. We’ll see you next Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 83 Page 83 1 March 3, 2026 2 month. 3 MR. TRIANA: Thank you. 4 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. 5 MR. KOBASA: All right. The time is 6 7:42. The meeting’s adjourned. 7 MR. KESSLER: Thank you. 8 (The public board meeting concluded at 9 7:42.) 10 Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. New York, NY 10003 Page 84 Page 84 CERTIFICATE OF ACCURACY I, Juliana Castano, certify that the foregoing transcript of the Planning Board meeting of the Town of Cortlandt on March , 2026 was prepared using the required transcription equipment and is a true and accurate record of the proceedings. Certified By ________________________________________ Date: March 17, 2026 GENEVAWORLDWIDE, INC 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669 New York, NY 10003 Geneva Worldwide, Inc. 228 Park Ave S - PMB 27669. 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