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Planning board approves Master School parking lot with conditions to beef up landscaping and on-site stormwater measures
Summary
The Planning Board granted site-plan approval for a 41-space paved parking lot at the Master School’s Esther Wood Mansion, adopting a SEQR negative declaration and requiring additional landscaping and evaluation and incorporation of green infrastructure to the satisfaction of village officials.
The Dobbs Ferry Planning Board on Wednesday approved a site plan for the Master School to build a 41-space paved parking lot, including two ADA-compliant spaces and related stormwater-management work, while attaching conditions asking for more robust landscaping and verification that on-site green infrastructure is effective.
The action followed presentations from Master School operations director Dan Perera and the school’s civil engineer, Anthony Catalano of Woodard & Curran, who said the project team changed the drainage approach from a detention system to on-site infiltration after testing supported infiltration at the site.
The board’s nut graf: the project won conditional approval that aims to reduce stormwater discharge to the village system and to give the village engineer final sign-off on any additional green infrastructure incorporated into the design.
Perera told the board the school submitted an updated design showing an infiltration system and that the team has been coordinating with the village engineer. “We’ve been working on changing our design from a detention…
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