At the April 20th virtual meeting of the Rapp Road Working Group, we decided to meet on Wednesday, April 29th because we expected that the comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) would be on May 4th, 2020.
We are still planning to meet on Wednesday, April 29th, however at the April 22nd meeting of Guilderland Planning Board the deadline for the comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has been extended to May 26th and a virtual public hearing has been scheduled for May 13, 2020 at 6:00pm.
The Albany County Planning Board is also scheduled a vote on the Costco special use permit and area variance April 30th. See https://www.albanycounty.com/departments/public-works/planning-and-land-use for the agenda and the call in number.
Here's the agenda download link for this virtual meeting of the Rapp Road Working Group.
Here are the details on how to join us:
To join by phone teleconference:
Dial-in number (US): (605) 313-5879
Access code: 857618#
Note this is a different access code than before.To join us by online webinar:
Click this link to join the online meeting: https://join.freeconferencecall.com/guilderlandcrg then sign in with your name and email address.You do not need to call in by phone if you allow your web browser to use your microphone and if you want us to also see you in the meeting you must allow use of your camera as well.
For additional assistance connecting to the meeting text "Help" to the Dial-In number above. Message and data rates may apply. (We have never used this "Help" so we have no idea how helpful it is.)
For more information on the DEIS and development itself, please see our page on development on Rapp Road, the Mall Ring Road and Western Avenue.
Lastly, it's urgent to get your written comments sent in made attention to Kenneth Kovalchik, Town Planner by email at kovalchikk@togny.org or by USPS mail to: Town of Guilderland Planning Department, 5209 Western Tpk., Guilderland, NY 12084.
Currently there are 232 comments in favor (many with out any substance at all and not from the area), only 52 in opposition and 2 neutral.
If you sent comments in before during previous comment periods for other phases of the SEQR process, you need to update and send your comments again.