Lake Placid planning agency urges council to approve Church of the Nazarene rezoning with tree, sewer and path conditions

The Lake Placid Local Planning Agency voted unanimously to forward ordinance 2025-01 to town council with a recommendation of approval, while attaching conditions to preserve canopy tree coverage, coordinate on a planned multi‑use path and confirm sanitary sewer capacity before final development approvals.

Town planner Dana Riddell presented the application — hearing LPTC.25.001RZ — saying the owner, Lake Placid Church of the Nazarene, through Polston Engineering (Marvin Wolf and an engineer identified as Vlad), seeks to rezone the parcel at 512 West Interlake Boulevard from limited commercial (C-2) to a limited commercial plan development (C-2 PD). The change would formally allow church uses and a custom plan development ordinance (section 160‑22 of the town code) that spells out allowable uses, setbacks and three development phases: phase 1 (acknowledge existing church), phase 2 (building addition, landscaping and…