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Developers present contractor-storage plan for Lawrence Street; board continues review to Feb. 19
Summary
Attorneys and engineers presented a plan to reuse a remediated brownfield at 1 Lawrence Street for light industrial storage and vehicle parking; board members pressed on wetlands-buffer impacts and trail safety and continued the application to Feb. 19, 2026.
Attorney Matt Barrons and engineer Mark Petruro told the Greenburgh Zoning Board of Appeals they are seeking a special-permit determination to allow a contractor storage yard and motor-vehicle storage at 1 Lawrence Street, a more-than-10-acre site that previously housed a chemical manufacturing plant and has been remediated under the brownfield cleanup program.
"We are staying on the area that was previously disturbed by the chemical manufacturing operations," Barrons said, describing a plan that confines development to remediated parcels and adds extensive perimeter screening. Petruro summarized site elements the applicants called low-impact: a 110,000-square-foot gravel storage area, an on-site layout showing 48 motor-vehicle spaces in one area and 64 in another, and two drives on Lawrence Street, with one driveway restricted to left-turns in after consultation with the town traffic consultant.
Board members and residents pressed the applicants on wetlands-buffer impacts and the project’s effect on users of the adjacent county trailway. A board member pointed out that parts of the proposed parking and storage lie inside the wetland-buffer line shown on the applicant’s plans; Petruro and Barrons said the development is confined to previously disturbed areas and that they will seek required agency permits and follow wetlands-permit conditions.
Local speakers, including property co-owner George Kalergios, described an existing degraded chain-link fence and asked the town for temporary electric service to facilitate site cleanup. "We've been denied temporary electric power to clean up the property," Kalergios said; he and other owners asked the board to note the need for coordination with the building department and town board on temporary utility access. The applicants said they would pursue additional pedestrian-safety measures near the trail—vehicle lights, audible warnings and on-site staff—to reduce conflict between stored vehicles and trail users.
The board treated the hearing as preliminary and said more detailed materials, wetlands approvals and traffic responses are required before a final decision. The board scheduled further review: the matter was continued to Feb. 19, 2026, to allow time for the referenced reviews and for the planning-board steeper-slope and disturbance-permit processes to proceed.
