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Reviewers discuss site-plan update for yard on 17M; concerns about signage, trees and piles of wood chips
Summary
The board discussed a site-plan resubmission from a landscaping/materials yard on 17M, focusing on a previously unsigned plan, ownership extents along 17M, tree plantings, DEC inspections and wood-chip pile management.
Town planning members reviewed a resubmitted site plan for an existing landscape-supply yard along Route 17M, discussing an earlier unsigned approval, a newly acquired rear parcel, DEC findings and operational details including wood-chip pile management.
The applicant’s project is a resubmission of a prior site-plan approval that was never signed; staff said the owner had delayed signing previously over fees and now seeks updated approval that reflects a recently acquired parcel at the rear of the site.
Why it matters: The parcel sits next to 17M and near homes and institutional uses. Reviewers covered frontage ownership, setback measurement from deed lines, acceptable planting locations, DEC recommendations on plantings close to the road and fire- and stormwater-related limits on wood-chip pile dimensions.
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