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General News: Cornwall Commons' Environmental Statement
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| The entire project site with Route 9W at the bottom |
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| The proposed residential area. |
January 04, 2008
The proposed development of 490 residential units in a planned adult community, Cornwall Commons, will be back on the town planning board agenda at its January 7th meeting as it tackles the newly-submitted draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the project.
The development will cover 197 acres of wooded land on the west side of Route 9W, south of Forge Hill Road. The land includes the former O&W railroad bed and abuts property owned by the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commission near General Knox’s headquarters.
The document responds to environmental concerns about the development, some of which were raised during a public hearing nearly a year-and-a-half ago. It also includes site plans for the 159-acre lot where the housing will be built. Plans call for 314 single-family detached homes, 14 single-family attached homes, and 162 multiple-dwelling units to be constructed at the site. The residential lot also will include a clubhouse and recreational amenities that are not spelled out.
The other nine lots, between 1.2 and 7.8 acres in size, are expected to include a range of retail and commercial properties from a motel/hotel to restaurants and medical clinics.
The project, which is being developed by Joseph Amato, will be built in stages and is expected to be completed in 2015. The first part of it will be the residential area, which targets a population of active seniors age 55 and above.
Environmental issues related to the construction project, which includes a loop road connecting it to Route 9W, are the focus of the environmental impact statement. Topping the list is storm water management and erosion control at the site, which borders the Moodna Creek estuary, an important tributary to the Hudson River.
The plans call for storm water ponds to be constructed on the property to limit soil erosion into the waterways. An inventory of vegetation and wildlife is included in the document, which notes that two significant white oak trees will be saved in an area of undisturbed woodland along the project entry road.
The statement also tackles the issue of traffic volume in the area. Traffic experts studied the current volume of traffic on Route 9W during peak morning and evening rush hours and projected future use.
While traffic volume in the morning rush in 2006 ran about 1,200 to 1, 600 on Route 9W near Willow Avenue and Moodna Creek, in 2010, an additional 579 vehicles would be leaving or entering Cornwall Commons via two roads after it is built.
In the evening rush hour, the study found from 1,346 to 1,871 vehicles on Route 9W in 2006. The projected numbers of vehicles entering and leaving Cornwall Commons at this time in 2010 would be 889.
The developers are now seeking approval for their site plan of the residential component. At a later date they will seek approval of the water supply system from the village water department and of the new access road from the state Department of Transportation.
The environmental impact statement, which fills three large binders, is available at the Cornwall town hall during business hours.
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