Rye Brook planning board approves amended site plan for Sunrise Senior Living at 900 King Street

The Rye Brook Planning Board unanimously approved an amended planned unit development (PUD) site plan for Sunrise Senior Living’s 900 King Street project on June 12, voting to adopt a resolution that reads the amended PUD approval together with an amended SEQRA finding statement and a set of conditions.

The approval came after a public hearing during which the applicant reviewed small design changes to a previously approved project, and residents pressed for additional safety, traffic and construction-management protections. The board’s vote was 6–0 in favor; members present voted yes: Mister Guzan, Mister Mendelson, Miss Schoen, Mister Taig, Mister Vaeseman and Chairman Rob Goodman.

The amended plan reduces portions of the building footprint for the independent living and assisted living wings, reconfigures the entry driveway and porte-cochere, tweaks courtyard and balcony layouts and clarifies parking and fencing details. Applicant and project counsel told the board these are “minor modifications” to a design the village previously approved; village staff and the applicant said no change to overall bed or unit counts was proposed.

Sunrise’s attorney, David Steinmetz of Zarin & Steinmetz, told the board the village board of trustees — acting as lead agency under the State Environmental Quality Review Act — amended its SEQRA finding statement on June 10 and concluded there were no new significant adverse environmental impacts that would require additional studies. Anthony Nestor of JMC, the project’s civil consultant, reviewed drawing changes that were added to the application package: a concrete sidewalk from the Arbor Drive driveway to…