Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Site Plan Approval topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Smithtown board approves four site plans and a broad consent agenda
Summary
After presentations earlier in the meeting, the board unanimously approved four site plans (Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle; Steel Forest parking expansion; Raising Cane’s restaurant; 300 Kennedy Drive parking court) and adopted a lengthy consent agenda covering bids, contracts and permits.
The Smithtown Town Board on Dec. 2 voted unanimously to approve four site plans that had been presented earlier in the evening and to adopt a broad consent agenda of routine resolutions.
Planning staff presented the site plans: Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle (playground upgrades, sports court and retaining walls), Steel Forest at 500 Comarmac Road (219 land‑bank parking stalls and an entrance canopy tied to an expansion used by Stony Brook Medicine), a Raising Cane’s replacing a former McDonald’s including a double drive‑thru lane and curb modifications, and a parking and sports‑court expansion at 300 Kennedy Drive (75 new stalls and a new curb cut). Each application carried town‑staff conditions such as building permits, tree‑preservation fencing, highway work permits where county roads are affected, and maintenance of stormwater pollution prevention plans during construction.
The consent agenda the board adopted by roll call included 17 numbered items and a long list of routine authorizations: grants and budget modifications, bid awards and extensions, equipment rentals, intermunicipal agreements, contract renewals, approval of coastal consistency determinations, and calendar scheduling for 2026 meetings.
What happened next: After the approvals, the board reconvened related water‑district business and recorded minutes approvals and escrow releases as part of the consent actions. No member recorded a negative vote on the site plans or the consent agenda items at the time of the roll call.
Reporting notes: The article summarizes planning staff presentations and the board’s roll‑call approvals; conditions attached to the site approvals were described on the record by planning staff.
