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Applicant seeks Community Board 11 support for drive-through on large site at 1920 Gun Hill Road
Summary
An applicant representative asked Community Board 11 land use committee members for a recommendation on a special permit to allow a drive-through at 1920 Gun Hill Road (updated address 2450 Alley Avenue), describing site layout with 18 queuing spaces and 37 parking spaces and saying there are no adjacent residences.
An applicant representative described plans for a drive-through retail site at 1920 Gun Hill Road (application materials list an updated address of 2450 Alley Avenue) to the Community Board 11 land use committee on Tuesday, April 15, and asked the committee for a recommendation ahead of the public review schedule.
The representative said the zoning application seeks a special permit for a drive-through. She noted that for the relevant commercial district, the special-permit standard requires more than 10 queuing spaces to be reviewed for traffic and queuing impacts; the proposed layout includes 18 stacking (queuing) spaces and a total of 37 parking spaces on the zoning lot. The representative said the site does not have residences immediately adjacent and that the design includes landscaping, curb modifications and a passerby lane to avoid queue overflow onto public streets. She said a traffic engineer assisted in the site design.
The representative said the larger zoning lot would also include a separate 3,000-square-foot retail building without a drive-through; that building was not part of the special-permit request. She asked the committee for support and said the application will seek a conditional hearing through the board and that the project will proceed through the usual Department of Transportation and Board of Standards and Appeals processes; she identified a committee leadership vote in the near term and a public hearing date on the calendar in June (representative gave June 10 as the hearing date).
Committee members asked about the existing site history; attendees said the property formerly housed the Pelham Bay diner. Several members urged the board to circulate application materials to the full board and to keep sanitation and flooding impacts in mind during project review. The sanitation committee noted concerns about trash pickup and local flooding in heavy rains near the site and asked staff to monitor environmental impacts if the project proceeds.
No formal committee recommendation or vote was recorded at the meeting; the representative said she expected leadership to consider a recommendation in advance of the June hearing.
Ending: The applicant representative said she would return with materials and that the committee would have an opportunity to vote on a recommendation at leadership and then the full board; committee members asked that application documents be included in the full-board packet and requested continued attention to sanitation and stormwater/flooding issues around the site.
