Below is a suggested email that you can use to "Sign and Send" to the Guilderland Town Planner, Ken Kovalchik, requesting that the Town of Guilderland Planning Board should remove itself as Lead Agency for evaluating the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed development by The Pyramid Companies (Crossgates) on Rapp Road, the Mall Road and Western Avenue.
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Comment regarding Lead Agency for DEIS Rapp Road Residential/Western Avenue Mixed Use Redevelopment Projects
Attention: Kenneth Kovalchik, Town Planner, Kovalchikk@togny.org
The Town of Guilderland Planning Board should remove itself as Lead Agency for evaluating the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed development by The Pyramid Companies (Crossgates) on Rapp Road, the Mall Road and Western Avenue to build up to 360 Apartments with up to 3 five-story apartment buildings, up to 50,000 sq ft of office space and up to 278,900 sq ft of commercial expansive retail including a Costco with a 700 car parking lot and a 18 pump gas station because:
- The Town allowed illegal alteration during the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process when The Pyramid Companies clear-cut a large wooded portion of the site of the proposed Costco on March 26, 2020 even though Pyramid provided advance notice of the clear cutting to the Town.
- The Guilderland Planning Board deemed the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) "complete" when it was missing a wetland reports for the Costco site and the traffic study that is posted on the Town’s website is dated Feb 17, 2020, 5 days after the DEIS was deemed complete.
- The Guilderland Planning Board claimed Lead Agency before the full scope of the project was revealed.
At the very least, the Town of Guilderland Planning Board should postpone making any decisions regarding the DEIS until all pending lawsuits against the Town of Guilderland and The Pyramid Companies regarding the status of the Planning Board remaining Lead Agency are resolved.
Thank You,