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Breeze Apartments site plan altered after bedrock and utility easement discoveries
Summary
Developers told the board that deeper‑than‑expected bedrock cuts and new utility transformer pole requirements forced shifts to parking, the addition of retaining walls and a request to reduce loading bays from four to two; the board asked for elevations, planting details and fire‑department sign‑off.
The Breeze Apartments redevelopment at 121–125 Lake Street was revised after the project team encountered different bedrock and utility constraints during on‑site brownfield cleanup, project architect Eric Reynolds told the Planning and Development Board on Feb. 25.
Key changes the team presented included shifting the surface parking area north to accommodate a NYSEG pole and transformer, inserting retaining walls where soil — not competent bedrock — was exposed, regrading a steep northeast corner and asking the board for guidance on reducing the number of loading zones from four to two. The developers and architects said the total parking count will remain the same but the location of spaces and loading access changed as a result of…
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