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Planning board approves Breeze Apartments changes; requires engineered sections and plantings
Summary
The board approved proposed site-plan changes for Breeze Apartments (121–125 Lake St.) including switching an eastern retaining wall from cast-in-place concrete to segmented block, relocating a dumpster and moving a transformer, and imposed conditions requiring engineered drainage/structural sections and planting the fill behind the new block wall.
The Planning & Development Board voted Nov. 24 to approve proposed project changes for the Breeze Apartments at 121–125 Lake Street, subject to conditions that require the applicant to submit engineered drainage and structural drawings and to add specified plantings.
Architect Eric Reynolds explained that brownfield cleanup and site constraints made the originally approved cast-in-place concrete retaining wall impractical: doing the necessary formwork and excavation would have required deeper excavation near a neighbor’s property and potentially triggered DEC review related to unremediated…
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