Rye Brook schedules April public hearing on Sunrise Senior Living amendments at 900 King Street

The Rye Brook Planning Board voted to hold a public hearing on April 10, 2025, and to refer revised site-plan materials for review by the Architectural Review Board after Sunrise Senior Living presented amendments to the previously approved planned unit development at 900 King Street.

The amendments, presented by Stuart Lacks, principal at Perkins Eastman Architects, and Clyde McGraw, representing Sunrise Senior Living, keep the project’s maximum building height unchanged while reducing building footprint and increasing on-site open space. Lacks said the revisions reduce the combined footprint of the independent- and assisted-living buildings by “over 10,000 square feet” and that the plan shows a roughly 13,713-square-foot increase in programmed open space. Lacks and project team members said total unit counts for independent living, assisted living and memory care remain the same.

Why it matters: the application modifies a previously approved plan and the board must confirm there are no new wetland, steep-slope, sewer, water or stormwater impacts before approvals proceed. Several trustees and board members pressed the applicant to produce written responses to a recent engineering memorandum from Dolph’s office…