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Rome planning board approves revised Chobani site plan after discussion of noise, traffic and trails
Summary
The Rome Planning Board unanimously approved Chobani LLC’s amended site plan Nov. 18, allowing the dairy processor to expand onto leased golf-course land in Griffith Business Technology Park after presentations on berms, noise and traffic mitigation and a public-comment period raising CO2, water and truck concerns.
ROME, N.Y. — The Rome Planning Board voted unanimously Nov. 18 to approve a revised site plan from Chobani LLC that spreads part of the company’s previously approved dairy-processing campus onto leased portions of the former golf course at 150 Perimeter Road West.
Kevin McAuliffe, an attorney representing Chobani, told the board the amendment shifts some storage and support functions onto county-leased golf-course land to create a more campus-like layout and reduce truck concentration on the triangle parcel. "We were here in June for 1,800,000 square feet. This is, like, 2.1 now," McAuliffe said, while stressing the change does not increase the project’s manufacturing capacity.
The applicant presented noise, light and odor studies and described two earthen berms (one about 15 feet high and another roughly 10 feet with trees) intended to provide both visual screening and sound attenuation. Rod Ives, the project’s site civil engineer, said the modeled effect of the berms and other measures reduces expected noise to roughly 49…
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