Town officials OK amended Kingston Block and Masonry site plan TOWN OF ULSTER
TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. » Town Board members have granted amended site plan approval to have Kingston Block and Masonry adjust its lighting plans under a proposal to construct three new buildings and expand an existing structure.
The project at 1 Kieffer Lane was reviewed during a meeting last week, with board members saying the site plan did not have a provision that would make it compliant with International Dark Sky Association standards.
“The (town) Planning Board does a good job in making sure that the submittals include compliance with Dark Sky rules because that’s what is in our town code,” Supervisor James Quigley said.
“I think in this ... project that somebody overlooked inadvertently the submission for the Dark Sky cut sheets, and the (Ulster County) Planning Board picked up on it and made it a comment,” he said. “Since it wasn’t in the original Planning Board approval, the Town Board put it in its approval to make sure that everything was Dark Sky compliant.”
Information was not immediately available on specifics of the standards that will be required under the amendment.
Under the application Kingston Block and Masonry would:
• Construct a 4,000-square foot garage on the south side of its existing building.
• Build a 4,500-squarefoot automated block production area on the west side of the current building.
• Renovate 1,625 square
feet of its existing building that faces East Chester Bypass.
• Put a 4,375-square-foot roof over an existing material storage area consisting on the north side of the existing building.
• Construct a new 7,500-square-foot storage shed structure on the
north end of the property.
County planners noted the town has included requirements for the removal of sediment and debris from a retention pond and cleaning of storm water catch basins. It suggested that the applicant also pay a share of drainage of improvements being planned
for the area.
“Other businesses along Kieffer Lane have contributed $10,000 toward a drainage improvement program to address drainage-related issues and I recommend the owners of Kingston Block be required to do the same,” officials wrote.