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Planning board reinstates Golden Path Cemetery site plan, reaffirms earlier environmental finding
Summary
The Airmont Planning Board voted to reinstate a previously approved site plan for Golden Path Cemetery and to reaffirm the negative environmental declaration tied to the prior approval, clearing the way for the applicant to pursue the remaining permits required for final map signing.
The Airmont Planning Board voted to reinstate a lapsed site-plan approval for Golden Path Cemetery and reaffirmed the board’s earlier negative environmental declaration so the applicant can pursue final permits.
The action applies to the application identified in the record as Golden Path Cemetery (application number 263273). At the public meeting, Dave Ziegler of Hudson National told the board that the map the board originally approved is unchanged and that the final step now is a Department of Transportation permit. “The map that’s up there on the board is exactly the same map you approved,” Ziegler said.
Board members and staff said the original approval had lapsed after the map was not signed following a failed land contract and that code gives the board the authority to reinstate approvals. A planning staff member noted the board could reaffirm the prior environmental determination if agency comments show no material change in conditions since the original review. The board’s motion asked the board to “reinstate a site plan approval” pursuant to section 2-10-79 and to reaffirm the negative declaration adopted on 04/27/2023.
After a second, the board voted in favor; the chair instructed staff to prepare a formal resolution documenting the action. The minutes show the board approved reinstatement and the reaffirmation so the applicant can proceed to obtain the DOT permit and the signed map.
The board’s staff and counsel discussed procedural options before the vote, including whether to circulate the project again for agency review. Staff advised that, where the board finds no substantial changes to environmental conditions or to the project, the board may reaffirm the prior SEQRA/FEAF negative declaration; otherwise the board must reopen the environmental review.
There was limited public comment during this agenda item. The applicant and his consultant said there were no changes to ownership or to the submitted plans; they said prior extension requests had been exhausted after the original purchaser did not close. The board’s action does not itself grant building permits or any DOT approvals; it restores the prior site-plan approval so the applicant can seek the outstanding ministerial or agency signatures needed for final map recording and the DOT permit.
The board’s file will now include a staff-prepared resolution that records the reinstatement and the reaffirmation of the environmental finding. Further permits and agency sign-offs remain to be obtained before on-site work may begin.
