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Industrial tenant seeks special permit and parking variance; ZBA holds item for fire marshal sign-off
Summary
Sub 0 Insulation & Refrigeration Technologies sought a special permit to classify its Deer Park site as a public garage and a variance to allow 16 parking spaces instead of the required 53; the board kept the record open pending fire marshal follow-up and a no-further-action review of DEC items.
Attorney Nicole Blanda spoke for Sub 0 Insulation & Refrigeration Technologies LLC at the Town of Babylon Zoning Board of Appeals hearing on Jan. 21, asking the board to grant a special permit and a parking variance for a one-acre industrial property at 45 East Industry Court in Deer Park.
Blanda said Sub 0 upfits refrigerated vans and trucks inside an existing 19,722-square-foot building and that the company's operation is consistent with surrounding industrial uses. She told the board the applicant proposes 16 on-site parking spaces while the zoning requirement calls for 53 spaces; she argued that most employees carpool, use transit, arrive by non-auto means, or are on the road delivering vans during work hours.
The application also included a fire-marshal memo and DEC engagement from prior months. Blanda said the applicant had engaged Action Hazmat and other agencies, received a "no further action" letter from DEC on contamination remediation efforts, and planned an inspection with the fire marshal the week after the hearing. She asked the board for a one-year permit to allow the board to review operations after the first year.
Board members probed whether the proposed outside storage would require a variance (the applicant said the industrial zone permits rear-yard storage) and asked whether the property had been used for habitation in the past (the fire-marshal report referenced a kitchen and prior overnight stays). The board did not make a final decision and left the record open for the fire marshal's follow-up report.
What happens next: The ZBA will keep the record open for the fire marshal's inspection and report before considering final action on the special-permit and parking-variance requests.
