Please join us for this meeting of the Rapp Road Working Group.  At this meeting where things stand currently for this proposed development on Rapp Road and building a Costco and plan our next steps accordingly.  Click here to download the agenda and for instructions on how to join this meeting.

On July 29, 2020, the Guilderland Planning Board accepted as complete the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and its accompanying appendices.   A Notice of Completion was filed with the NYSDEC Environmental Notice Bulletin (ENB) on July 31, 2020.

Now the Guilderland Planning Board, which is the lead agency, finalize a Findings Statement within 30 days from the filing of the Notice of Completion with the ENB.

• The State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) requires that the lead agency, and all other involved agencies must wait for at least 10 days after the filing of the FEIS before making their findings and final decisions.
• This period is not a public comment period is time for the involved agencies and any interested parties to consider the FEIS.
• However, concerned parties, or other agencies, may comment in writing to the Guilderland Planning Board on the FEIS, but the lead agency has no obligation to respond to comments on a FEIS. 

The Guilderland Planning Board is allowing until 4:30PM on August 14, 2020 (14 Days) as the review period for the FEIS and has scheduled a special meeting for August 26, 2020 for the Board to issue their Findings Statement.

All comments should be submitted to Kenneth Kovalchik, Town Planner via email at kovalchikk@togny.org or by mail to Town of Guilderland Planning Department, 5209 Western Turnpike, Guilderland, NY 12084.

A hard copy of the FEIS is available for public review during normal business hours in the Planning Department at the Guilderland Town Hall.

We need to raise more money for experts to review the FEIS and make comments.  Please make a donation to support this effort at: http://rapproadgofundme.org/ (Updates coming for this page.)

Here are the details on how to join us:

To join by phone teleconference:
Dial-in number (US): (605) 313-5879
Access code: 116506# 
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 and the town's page at: https://www.townofguilderland.org/planning-board/pages/environmental-impact-statement-rapp-road-residentialwestern-avenue-mixed-use