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Babylon Village Zoning Board reviews proposal for old Barbizon building
According to plans filed with the Village, the single story building will have 3,680 square feet and 165 feet of utility space and 746 square foot mezzanine space. A drive through would be located on the west side of the building, and entrances to the site would be from Main Street and Perrydale Court. The two exits on Perrydale that currently exist, would be reduced to one, and drivers would be restricted from making right-hand turns exiting on Perrydale, and left-hand turns exiting onto Main Street. Babylon Village Gerard Glass, who is representing the applicant, said that final details about the movement of traffic in and out of the site is still the subject of discussion and review. "The focus is to make it as safe as possible with as little disruption to the residents of Perrydale Court as possible," he said. The plan is similar to a building the company has built in East Islip, which has been very well received, said Glass. "In this case (in Babylon), we have the benefit of experience with the other site, which has made this process a lot easier," said Glass. "This is going to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the Village, once it is completed." The plans call for a traditional desing, with 28 parking spaces, which more than meets the code, and a 12.5 percent building coverage, which is approxi- mately half of the 25 percent maximum. A traffic study on the proposal was completed by Atlantic Study Design & Engineering of Ronkonkoma. Traffic volume data was collected at Main Street and Little East Neck Road, which showed, said the traffic engineers, that the peak hours are weekday afternoons from noon to 1 p.m., weekday evenings from 4 to 5 p.m. and Saturday afternoons from noon to 1 p.m. In addition, the New York State Department of Transportation statistics showed that the growth rate at that location as 1.10 percent, which the traffic engineers applied to existing traffic volumes and compounded over two years to generate the future growth of traffic at the site. The report stated that "the highway capacity analys's demonstrates that the traffic generated by the proposed development will have no perceptible impact on the levels of service at the intersections or along the roadway network. Based on our traffic engineering analysis ...there is sufficient reserve capacity within the existing roadway network to accommodate the increase traffic associated with the proposed development," the report stated. Residents disagreed. Mark Fuhrmann, who lives on Perrydale Court, told the board at a December 20 meeting, that the addiby tion of 120 customers at the bank, weekdays at noon, makes the location inappropriate. "The traffic consultant gave the current count of cars on Perrydale Court for the noon hour was 29," Fuhrmann said in a letter to the Zoning Board of Appeals. "Assuming that only half of the bank traffic exits to Perrydale Court, the number of cars exiting from our street on to Route 109 might triple. This is a location that is already too congested." In addition, Fuhrmann said that he objects to the location of ATMs on site, pointing to statistics that show a 25 percent increase in crimes involving robbery of ATMs in the past several years in the New York area. "This is alarming," he said, asking that the Village prohibit the placement of the machines at the location and eliminate all entrances and exits on Perrydale Court. Glass said North Fork's places its ATMs in well lit areas and its experience has been that they have not had incidents of crime at their ATM locations. The Zoning Board of Appeals is currently waiting for some additional information from the applicant before it begins its deliberations on the application. In other zoning board news, the board heard applications February 28 as follows: +permission to build an addition at 93 Marlborough Road requiring a front yard setback on Litchfield Avenue from 25 to 7.1 feet and to reduce the front yard setback on Marlborough Road from 25 feet to 11.9 feet. The applicant also seeks permission to increase lot coverage for 25 to 36 percent; +permission to lift covenants and restrictions at 38 East Shore Drive to allow a garage there to be converted into living space; +permission to construct a detached two-car garage at 205 Cadman Avenue requiring a variance to reduce the rear lot line setback from 5 feet to 6-inches. Acting Zoning Board Chairman Andres Garsils told the applicant the Village requires at least a 2-foot setback to ensure that the property behind the building can be maintained; +permission to build an addition at 103 Wyandanch Avenue requiring side yard setback variances, and to reduce the rear lot line setback for an accessory structure from 8 feet to 1 foot. The applicants amended their plans to reduce the proposed height of the building from 34-feet to 29 feet, 112 inches, which meets code. +permission to construct a second story deck at 56 Lucinda Dr., requiring variances to reduce minimum side yard set back from 15 feet to 8.23 feet and to reduce total side yard setback form 30 feet to 27.24 feet and increase lot coverage from 25 to 30 percent.
An application for 235 Little East Neck Road for permission to construct a building there requiring variances to reduce the rear yard setback from 40 feet to 30 and permit four parking spaces between the street and the front of the building line was postponed. In addition, the applicant wants to increase the height of the fencing at Waterman Street and Route 109 from 3 to four feet and erect a 6-foot fence where 4 is permitted at Little East Neck Road and Waterman Street. The property is zoned industrial but the applicants have a rezoning request pending for multiple dwelling.
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