Marquis Engineering presented a site plan for a 50-by-80-foot metal storage and office building at 455 or 485 Kennedy Road and the Cheektowaga Planning Board voted to recommend the plan to the town board, contingent on a negative declaration and approval from the town EAC and any minor engineering or landscaping changes.

The applicant’s engineer, Keith Marquis of Marquis Engineering, told the board the proposal would replace older equipment and paving on the parcel with a new building, expanded blacktop parking and a detention system to address drainage and dust concerns. "We are now the design engineers for this particular project," Marquis said. He described a detention area sized to handle roughly a third of the parcel — "somewhere about 3 acres plus or minus" — and said the design uses a French drain-style collection system along the parking edge to avoid drilling directly into an existing town-maintained drainage ditch.

Board members pressed the applicant on neighborhood impacts and details the town still must review. A board member asked whether the project would raise truck traffic, and Marquis replied the plan does not change operations and owners "may store a truck or two" but are not increasing hours or truck movements. The town’s engineering guidance on discharge rates — the applicant cited following the town’s 10-year pre‑developed and 25‑year post‑developed detention discharge criteria — and landscaping specifications remain outstanding items to finalize.

Planning staff and board members said the recommendation is conditional. A motion to recommend the site plan to the town board passed with the amendment that final recommendation be contingent on an EAC negative declaration and approval, and on any minor engineering or landscaping corrections; major changes would require the applicant to return to the planning board.

Next steps: the applicant will address engineering comments from town staff, finalize the detention sizing and landscaping to town standards, and secure any remaining EAC or engineering sign‑offs before appearing on the town board agenda.