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Kingston Housing Authority seeks approvals for 80‑unit senior housing project; board refers plan to county, Parks & Rec
Summary
The Kingston Housing Authority presented an 80‑unit senior housing project that would be created by merging two tax parcels; the Planning Board closed the hearing and referred the application to Ulster County and Parks & Rec for review.
The Kingston Housing Authority presented a consolidated site plan and subdivision for an 80‑unit housing project (senior housing) created by merging two adjacent tax parcels (case recorded as 206–208 Lapis Avenue on the agenda). The developer and project team submitted a comprehensive April plan set with drainage, lighting, landscaping, utilities and traffic analyses after prior board feedback; staff said city agencies had begun reviewing the new materials.
Why it matters: The project would add significant senior housing capacity in Kingston and involves major site engineering (relocated water main, drainage and access) and parks/parkland implications (the board must refer parkland fee assessment to Parks & Rec). The plan also triggers referrals to the Ulster County Planning Board under GML §239.
Applicant representatives said their design responds to earlier board feedback: they keep the chosen massing (a four‑story portion and three‑story portion), added a pickup/drop‑off and improved the internal circulation plan to accommodate two‑way traffic where practical and a turnaround/drop area where needed. City staff flagged one immediate technical comment from the water department that requested a wider access corridor for the water main; the project team said they would coordinate with that department about any dimension changes. The applicant said they would provide landscape, photometric, drainage and soil‑test data and that a meeting with city utilities and engineering staff was already scheduled.
Board action: The planning board closed the public hearing on the project, voted to refer the application to the Ulster County Planning Board for advisory review under General Municipal Law §239 and referred the project to the Parks & Recreation Department for a parkland/mitigation assessment. The board explicitly required a referral to Parks & Rec because of potential parkland or park-fee implications tied to the development scale. The board did not issue final site-plan approval at the meeting; staff will circulate engineering reviews and comments and the applicant will return after the outstanding technical items are addressed.
