Board approves Catskill Mountain Creamery wholesale site at 329 Vauxhall with waivers and conditions

The City of Kingston Planning Board on Jan. 21 granted site‑plan approval and waivers for a small wholesale and limited retail ice‑cream cake production facility proposed at 329 Vauxhall Avenue, subject to several conditions addressing sidewalks, screening and planting.

The nut graf: the board authorized three zoning waivers — a major frontage‑occupancy waiver, a major parking‑setback waiver and a minor first‑floor‑height waiver — citing the parcel’s irregular shape, small lot size and the applicant’s intent to adaptively reuse an existing garage structure; approval was conditioned on engineering and planning staff sign‑offs regarding sidewalk alignment, stormwater controls and revised landscape plantings placed outside the public right of way.

Applicants Richard Boyse and Dan Gallagher described an…