Cheektowaga advisory committee backs rezoning, site plan for credit union headquarters at 2345 William St.

The Cheektowaga Environmental Advisory Committee on June 25 recommended that the Town Board issue a SEQRA negative declaration and approve a rezoning and site plan for 2345 William Street, a project that would merge two parcels and add a roughly 3,920-square-foot administrative building for a local credit union.

The recommendation came after project representatives described the proposal, responded to questions about records storage, landscaping and stormwater connections, and agreed to provide missing elevation and floor plans and a draft deed restriction limiting future uses of the site.

Sean Hopkins, the applicant representative, told the committee the request is to rezone two parcels “from R to C to accommodate a slightly less than 4,000 square foot largely administrative building for the credit union that exists on the site today.” He said the project would consolidate parcels and house corporate headquarters functions in Cheektowaga.

Hopkins and Jason Knutsig of CS Engineers said the building’s records-storage area is small and not a data center. Knutsig told the panel that “the record storage area is very, very small,” and that the…