The project engineer, Michael Mastrogiacomo, P.E., said approximately 26 to 30 trees would need to be removed to grade the site, terrace the slope, and manage stormwater. He said the design would achieve net zero runoff after construction and that a …

By the meeting's end, the ZBA concluded that many of the unresolved questions — stormwater management, steep slope analysis, retaining walls up to 14 feet tall — properly belonged before the Planning Board. The board voted unanimously to refer the ap…

you're talking about the back to the steep slopes. One thing I'm struggling with is these retaining walls and, particularly the ones more towards the back where it looks like they're about 10 feet tall. Back here, it's two forty eight, top. Bottom is…

we had to have a little bit of a higher retaining wall there. Yeah. I mean, it's a substantial retaining wall. In some points, it could be up to 14 feet.

Well, again, if we're gonna be falling the house forward, a lot of these retaining walls will go away.

And then similarly on, just down the same page, minor say site plan approval is now something the planning board handles for you'll see on on page 23 numbers six, seven, eight, nine down the bottom of those pages. So the noncommercial swimming pool, …

That because of the grade differential, you can't have this driveway at it's a much higher grade than drop back down. We'd be filling in this whole area, and I'd be putting in walls in excess of 20 feet high. And I I don't think the neighbors will wa…

You wanna show We we started developing a landscaping drawing. So what we what we do is for screening around, we never just put a row of, you know, green dry and arborvitae, which a lot of people just do. We try to create a a mixture of some holly an…

modifications, not here. Here, building a retaining wall to to catch this grade. It's not my glasses aren't that good. I'm trying to look at what you're pointing at. So here's the here's the proposed driveway. Right. I'm just to the left of it. This …

I'll do this. I am gonna read from prepared letter because it has the weight of 45 signatures behind it, and these are folks who are, who are off on vacation because of the rescheduling. Can you please state your name and address? Oh, yeah. I'm sorry…

The study area is Old Post Road, particularly at Hunter Place and Lansbury Road Intersection as well as Michaels Lane Intersection. You can go to the next slide, please. AQRF collected turning movement counts, pedestrian counts, traffic volumes, spee…

And I see that there's a retaining wall and grading and or not grading. Let's say,

contour shown. Those are all existing contours? Yeah. That's all existing in the back there. Yep. That's there's existing, retaining wall there, and you can see the elevation start to rise in back. Hence, the reason why the the height requirement we …

are we trying to say here, though? Retrain retaining wall, I will I'll read the sentence. When asked to talk about the changes to his project, the applicant said that after the house was put up, he started work on the landscaping and retaining wall c…

Thank you, Jeff. Was moved slightly? Because of the contours of the land, the retaining wall had to be moved slightly. That's perfect. Something like that. Yeah. Okay.

The retaining wall. Retaining wall. That's the retaining wall? Yeah. Maybe why don't why we put that in because I have there was discussion of the difference between where the walls of the the building envelope had the the house and that the there we…

A retaining wall dispute on Nordica Drive took center stage at the December 9 Planning Board meeting, where members unanimously approved an amended site plan for a homeowner whose landscaping deviated from previously approved plans—drawing a formal c…

Mark Franzoso appeared before the board seeking retroactive approval for retaining walls and steps built along the south side of his property at 23 Nordica Drive, as well as an enclosed wall on the north side. The walls, constructed after his new sin…

=== HEADLINE === Builder swaps approved walls, tells Planning Board he just molded the land === SUMMARY === Mark Franzoso returned to the Croton Planning Board to seek approval for retaining walls and stairs he built at 23 Nordica Drive that differe…

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • Approved amended minor site plan for 23 Nordica Drive with revised retaining wall configuration • All conditions from original 06/20/2023 site plan resolution remain in effect • As-built drawings required prior to issuance o…

=== ARTICLE === Mark Franzoso had a simple explanation for why the retaining walls at 23 Nordica Drive didn't match what the Planning Board originally approved: he was just making the place look nice. "When you build a house and you finish off espec…

is there anything about any of these retaining walls that were built in in your opinion as the village engineer that is not zoning compliant? No. They're not. Are zoning compliant. Tell us about the how tall

So I just mentioned in this letter from the Levin Law Group that say the material one of the material points it's made is that the current construction includes an unapproved permanent retaining wall near the property line with setbacks under 12 feet…

structured. So that's my understanding. Is there a setback for retaining walls? Not that I know of. He had walls on on property line very often.

And that's what I've always I did not read the letter. I, you know, didn't think it was necessary to read it. Truthfully, it means retaining walls. I mean, whether I I know the other guy on the other side, Davidson, wanted to have me stop working and…

So I'll read it just because not everybody has a copy of it. It says whereas the planning board approved a minor site plan application on 06/20/2023 for Mark Franzoso, the applicant for construction of a new single family house, and whereas the subje…

To appease neighbors on Barton Place, the updated landscape plan includes the planting of 8-10 foot arborvitaes. Board member Steve Krisky successfully pushed for a third condition requiring ivy or similar vegetation to be planted on the retaining wa…

=== HEADLINE === Planning board OKs Riverside project changes, pushes back on alternate member proposal === SUMMARY === The Planning Board approved amended landscaping plans for the South Riverside Avenue multifamily development, including new arbor…

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • Approved amended site plan for 25 South Riverside Avenue multifamily building • Required neighbor-agreed arborvitae plantings to be documented on final plans • Required wall certification before certificate of occupancy • Ad…

One board member successfully pushed to add a condition requiring vine or similar plantings to soften the rear retaining wall — a detail not originally in the plan but roundly supported. "We try to augment even if we don't have to," Rossi said.

And then the ones at the top of the retaining wall, just yeah. Right there. Never change. Those are the original. Same.

Those are in a those are in, like, a pocket that's lower than the top of the retaining wall. Right. Those are down below. The the neighbors in the back won't see those. Those are really for

Just talking about, essentially, plans for a party space on top, and they decided to go ahead with that even in the face of much protest and promised there would be nothing that would be visible from the back of Van Wyck. And well, you know what? I'l…

So those are really the two, but the the big obviously, if you wanna separate them, the shed, as you can see from the photograph, is a shed again. It's existed since they've had the house. It is sort of set down behind the house. You can't see it fro…

Yeah. Let me so let me address the Yeah. If you're good with the shed, as far as the discussion goes, let me address the house. Again, this is this is from, you know, almost a half century ago, like, existing conditions when they bought it. The littl…