Auburn planning board approves 9,240-square-foot addition at 284 North Street

The Auburn Planning Board voted unanimously April 1 to adopt a State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) negative declaration and to approve a site plan for a proposed roughly 9,240-square-foot addition at 284 North Street, an existing gravel lot operated by Blair Construction and Fabrication.

The decision follows a staff review of a drainage report submitted by the applicant that concluded the project would not increase stormwater runoff. Ashley, planning department staff, told the board that city engineers reviewed the drainage report and “agreed with its findings that there would be no further storm runoff.”

The applicant’s representative described the site’s relationship to an old quarry and a small wetland area adjacent to the parcel. “Basically, the way we have it set up to where that sits up on top of the quarry, where the storm…