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Planning Board approves aquifer permit for Children’s Home parking project with buffer condition
Summary
The Fenton Planning Board unanimously approved an Aquifer Development Permit on Feb. 24 for Children’s Home of Wyoming Conference to consolidate parking at 1182 Chenango St., adding a required living-fence buffer and directing lighting shields to limit impacts on adjoining homes.
The Town of Fenton Planning Board voted unanimously on Feb. 24 to approve an Aquifer Development Permit for Children’s Home of Wyoming Conference’s parking consolidation and pedestrian-safety project at 1182 Chenango Street.
Board members completed SEQRA review and declared a Negative Declaration, concluding the project will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. At the permit vote the Board attached a condition requiring a living fence (rows of trees) between the new fenced parking area and neighboring homes to slow runoff and help with erosion control. A roll-call vote recorded six ayes (Aurelio, Illsley, Pipher, Podrazil, Snow, Kark).
The Board discussed, but did not finalize, a site-plan approval during the meeting; legal counsel said the Aquifer Development Permit can include conditions to protect Town water resources. Attorney Richard H. Miller cited the Town code authority, saying the Board may grant a permit with stated conditions and that the applicant must "use the best available means to prevent contamination of the water supply of the Town of Fenton." The Board noted that a separate Fill and Development Permit will be required because more than 500 cubic yards of clean fill will be brought on site; that item is slated for review at the March 31 meeting.
Why it matters: the approved permit directly addresses stormwater and groundwater protections tied to the project while attaching neighborhood-protection conditions intended to limit nighttime lighting and runoff impacts; neighbors remain concerned about noise, lighting, privacy and drainage.
