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Planning board approves conditions for moving‑company storage conversion; requires cameras, landscaping and sidewalk repairs
Summary
The board closed the public hearing on a proposal to convert 896 South Columbus Avenue from manufacturing to storage for a moving company, declared lead agency for SEQRA, completed the short EAF with no significant impacts and asked staff to prepare a resolution with conditions on cameras, landscaping and sidewalk/driveway repairs.
Residents and the owner of 896 South Columbus Avenue addressed the Mount Vernon Planning Board as the board considered an application to convert a turn‑of‑the‑century two‑story manufacturing building into a storage facility for a residential moving business.
Owner Christopher Rooney and design professionals described an internal renovation that would block most existing windows, fix the thermal envelope, install humidity‑controlled HVAC for high‑end storage and maintain only limited truck activity. Rooney said operations would be primarily daytime and that trucks would not be stored on the site overnight; he estimated one…
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