At the last Lloyd Town Board meeting the council members voted unanimously not to grant a rezoning change for a parcel off Maple Avenue where the Crest Group had proposed to build 134 units of multi-family residences. The Board pointed out that the 29 acre parcel is currently zoned for single-family in a 2 acre zoning district where multi-family housing is not an allowed use. The board concluded that the developer’s request for Planned Unit Development zoning, “does not merit review and, accordingly, that it will not be considered.”

 

Supervisor Dave Plavchak further explained the Town Board’s denial, citing particularly the project’s location, “on the bluff and the ability for that area to handle the traffic and the intensity and some of the drainage issues that we’ve had in that area in the past. I polled the Board and most of us just don’t think it’s a good idea or viable to put 134 units there and that was my take from talking to everybody. It’s just an area where you know it’s a single road and it has a fork there that’s not that great.”

 

Councilman John Fraino pointed out that the developer’s own traffic estimates pose a problem for that area.

 

“At peak it’s an additional 132 cars per hour,” with Plavchak saying that it may be even higher than that number.