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Planning board accepts Part 2 EAF for Student Bus terminal, schedules public hearing
Summary
The Goshen Planning Board accepted a Part 2 environmental assessment form for Student Bus Company Inc.'s proposed bus terminal and lot-line adjustment and confirmed a public hearing will be held at the board's next meeting; the EAF flagged potential small environmental and transportation impacts and the board requested additional traffic review.
The Goshen Planning Board accepted a Part 2 Environmental Assessment Form (EAF) for Student Bus Company Inc.’s proposal for a bus terminal and lot-line adjustment on roughly 3.4 acres along Industrial Drive and set a public hearing for the board’s next meeting.
Planning staff summarized the Part 2 EAF and noted several “potentially small impacts.” Staff said examples marked as potentially small impacts included construction on slopes of 15% or greater, possible effects on freshwater wetlands or water quality, and potential impacts to historic and archaeological resources. The EAF also flagged transportation concerns; staff noted the application’s traffic materials indicated a bus turning onto a high-speed road near a curve.
Board members raised operational and site-control questions. A member recalled that a prior bus facility in the village had been required to provide on-site drip pans or similar measures to catch vehicle fluid leaks; the board said similar controls may be appropriate here and that the site-plan review can address details such as vehicle maintenance runoff prevention. The board asked staff to circulate the applicant’s traffic materials and to have a traffic consultant review the submission before the public hearing.
The planning board voted to accept the Part 2 EAF as presented; the acceptance and the scheduling of a public hearing were recorded and the public hearing will occur at the board’s next meeting. The board noted the applicant had already submitted some traffic information and that remaining details should be provided ahead of the public hearing.
Direct quotes from the meeting include staff’s explanation of EAF markings: “if it's got an arrow on the right hand side, that means small impact rather than no impact,” referring to the visual markers on the Part 2 form.
The board did not provide a full roll-call tally in the transcript for the Part 2 acceptance vote; the motion passed as recorded. Planning staff said they would circulate outstanding documents to board members in advance of the next meeting and that a traffic consultant would review the materials where appropriate.
