001You are live. Good morning everyone and welcome. I call to order the planning board for Thursday, May 8th, 2025. The first item on our agenda, the minutes of February 13. Do we have any questions or corrections? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve. Do I have that motion? I'll make a motion. Thank you very much, Dennis. Uh, do I have a second? Second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Great. The next item is a public hearing of uh 26 Jericho Road uh the Glattis Collier uh Trust. Uh is like I'm going to go ahead. Oh yes, that's right. Go ahead. Application of 26 Jericho Partners LLC and Glattus W. Collier re revocable trust suffet county tax map number 301-12-2-13 for subdivision approval in accordance with the provisions of chapter 252 subdivision of land
002to divide 305,611 ft square foot parcel into three lots all containing 101,870 square ft and scenic easements covering 35% of each lot. Access to lot one and lot two is propose proposed via a shared common driveway off Jericho road and access to lot three is proposed via a single driveway off Copalo Road. The existing and proposed lot configurations are depicted on a subdivision plot titled minor subdivision Jericho Hollow prepared by George Wallbridge Surveyors PC last dated last revised October 30th 2024. The subject property is located at 26 Jericho Road and is in residence district R80. This project is classified as a an unlisted action in accordance with SRA and the planning board has adopted a negative declaration. Thank you. Um and and the parties are here that uh Tom Osborne, would you like to um
003Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like Robert? So, you're going to vote on opening the hearing? Oh, yeah. Okay, let's uh vote on opening the hearing. Do I have a first uh do I have a vote? I'll make a motion. Motion. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. Oh, yes. Could you just introduce yourself? Sure. Uh my name is Denise Shern. I'm a partner at the Adam Miller Group in Bridgeampton, New York. And I'm here today on behalf of the applicant in connection with the subdivision. Okay. As the board may recall, um we've been before you for the past couple of months, um showing you a um plan to subdivide property at the corner of Jericho and Cove Hollow Road. It's 7 acres. It's uh has sort of a
004rolling topography to it. There are two existing structures on it, which we plan to have removed. Um we've proposed to divide it into three lots of 101,000 square ft each. Um each lot could accommodate um a house, an ADU unit. Um the each lot also has a scenic easement which represents 25% of I'm sorry, 35% of each one of those lots. Um so we've preserved 35% of the property. Um we proposed for two of the lots to share a common driveway and one of the lots to take access right off of the road. Uh the rationale behind that was to make sure that the common driveway didn't have to be built um to greater or higher specs than just a country lane sort of driveway. Um we also wanted to make sure that the scenic
005easements were kept um contiguous and uninterrupted. So that's the rationale behind the individual driveway for one of the lots. Um that is a summary of the application. I'd be happy to answer any questions or elaborate further. Board members, any questions or public any any questions? Okay, thank you. Good morning. Tom Osborne from Osborne and McGowan PC, 135 Main Street, East New York. On behalf of the neighbor who is um if you're on Cove Hollow, it's the first on the left in the front. Uh, Mr. and Mrs. Peek, I had written a letter back in January. Just like to reiterate, uh, my clients still would like to have the, uh, driveway for that last lot, I think it's lot number three, move about 15 ft farther away from their property if that's possible. Um, or well,
006not possible, if you would like that to be done. Um, it's really for aesthetics. Um, I understand the board wants to keep that uh stretch of woodland along Cove Hollow uh intact as as long as possible, but I would think that if it was moved 15t further away, it would still be quite a long length and really not have any substantial impact uh on that aspect. Um, it would also serve to keep driveways further apart because their driveway they they bought the property was already built. It was a spec house. their driveway is right up against their line, which if they were to design it these days, it was new. Who knows if they would do that, but that's what they're stuck with. Um, when I d I drove by this morning on the other
007side of my client's lot further down the street, there are three driveways right in a row about 10 ft away from each other. That doesn't look good. Um, the way it's set up now, you'd have two driveways right next to each other. Uh, the other point that I was making, the letter had to do with trees. There are at least there's one very large tree that looks like would have to come down. Uh it's maybe at most 15 ft from my client's property line right in that 20 foot strip and it was moved over that tree would be saved. Um and also other trees uh that might be impacted and and moving it look like there'd be much smaller trees that be impacted. That's really the only comment. My client has no problem with the
008map at all other than that issue. Any other questions, comments? Billy, would you? Yes. Yes. Would you like to say anything? Oh, you're the owners. You're the owners. Anyone else? Would you like to say anything? No. Uh good morning chairman, members of the board. Billy Hjack for the village. Um I you know I understand Tom's concern or request the the the you know the impetus behind as Denise described is to try to keep the scenic easements in a contiguous contiguous block. Um, I think shifting it over 15 feet, you're going to end up with a a, you know, a 15 foot wide or a 6 foot wide or an 8 foot wide strip of land between the property line and the common driveway. That's, you know, I I I just don't I I don't think
009it from a planning perspective, good planning uh is to try to keep blocks of open space contiguous and in one large piece. So I I don't in terms of removal of one large tree or you know some large trees we don't have them on the survey so it's hard to say exactly if 15 ft or 10 feet is going to be enough to save the tree. I you know I don't know you'd almost have to have it located to to figure that out. Um, but I think if the board was truly concerned about screening or buffering, I mean, I think you could make the common driveway um, 25 feet wide and then that would give them an extra 5 ft of wiggle room and maybe a little bit more ability to screen and it it
010would get the curb cut a little bit further away from the neighbor so that they're not right adjoining one another. But, you know, having you know, having single driveways next to one another in the village is not uncommon. So, That's just my own personal comment on it. And in the past, we haven't had a had a necessity to put the driveway in the plans because it wasn't going to be any impacted road. The single driveway would go through ZBA, I thought. No. Uh, no. The single drive I mean, they're showing the flagship. They're what they're showing is just the portion of the lot that's not going to be burdened by a scenic easement. So, the driveway and the utilities have to go in there. Um, that's the only reason it's it's shown like that on
011the map. So, you could widen it to 25 feet, I suppose, and then that would give a little bit more buffering um to the neighbor. You'd lose a little bit of scenic easement, but you know, Billy, can you remind of the minimum width of the actual driveway? The driveway width is uh there is no there's no minimum or or maximum. I mean, I well, state code, I think, is 12 feet. 12 feet. That's correct. 12. Yeah, 12 feet. Um but I mean, it has to be a 12 foot wide cleared cleared width. So, I like the idea of the wider driveway. Uh, and then a wider area. So, less less easement on that lot. That would look much better. Uh, board members, what do you think? I agree. You agree? Yeah. You know, I was
012up there yesterday and I just noticed that the the driveway of the neighbor's house is 16 ft wide and then there's a a a curtain of about 4t of of of lawn that leads up to a hedge, you know, that divides the property. in the hedge is very thick hedge. There's there's very good um uh plantings in between the two properties and and if the new property owner came in and put you know a hedge or trees or or whatever along that same property line, I think it kind of eliminates it, you know, for me it would eliminate the concerns. It would it would relieve them anyway because there there is a decent amount of property between the house and and the property line now. I I think at least 30 ft before the the
013first part of the house. So, and and you know, as you say, uh a lot of the houses in the village much much closer than than that. My my house certainly is. So, um I you know, I'm happy with the plan as it's laid out, proposed. Okay. Dennis, you I I agree with Dave. Okay. And yeah, so I just sort what's at stake as far as we're thinking about potentially widening the the the easement for the driveway which would reduce some of the uh which would reduce some of the scenic portion or not and I and it seems sounds like we could we're we're happy with the current plan is is May I speak just to interject? I'm Britan. the land planner on this application. I have to swear you in. Please state your name
014and address for the record. Pistrian, 21 NP Garber Road, Migans, New York. Thank you. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. Um because the the driveway on paper is 20 ft, but we really probably will have something more uh akin to a residential driveway. As we said, it was probably 12t or maybe 14 ft. The board could condition that we of that 20 foot easement keep it the same and we shift it to the east. Yes. Yeah. Furthest away from Tom's client so that we'd have that um balance that 8 ft that could be planted and it would give him at least half of the separation that he's asking for. It might be a good compromise. So we could put that as a condition of
015the approval that the driveway had to be whatever that I think it's the east side. Um that we had to push it to the east side of the easement. the improved rightway. Okay. Um, how do you all feel about that? That's a better solution. I think I think so, too. Extra wide. It's a compromise in the middle. I would I would vote to and and that's an 8 foot. You you said you're looking for east. Well, it's 20 and we probably would have improved 12 at least. So, would give you a balance of eight. Okay. I I would I would agree. I think that that's a good solution. Board members, do you agree fair compromise? Yes. Just to clarify that that maintains read equal 35% of the property for scenic easement of each one. Okay.
016Do I do I have a motion to approve? You're just closing the record. Just close the record. Okay. So, let's close the record. Do I have a motion to close the Do I have a second? All in favor? Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Uh, this concludes our agenda for today. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Great. Thank you.