ABANDONMENT: Dunn Road ABSTRACTS: GENERAL FUND ...

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REGULAR BOARD MEETING
FEBRUARY 3, 1993
TOHN HALL
7:30 P.M.
world that the Town of Boston wants is a pit that looks like a
gravel pit, like the one in Clarence. They don't want that
here. Is that what it is going to look like? We have someone
who can answer that and explain exactly what it is going to look
like. Jerry Shaffer who is an architect will be able to explain
this to you. He has put together a relief map or scale
and he can address that particular question.
Councilman Flowers: Mr. D'Agostino may I ask you a question,
please sir, before we go any further? The last time that we sat
down the Town Board and the Planning Board and Mr. Forestal, Mr
Forestal conveyed to us that the Seamons planned to purchase the
property, the seventeen (17) acres across the street. It vias
indicated that they planned to close on this parcel of property
sometime in March. Have they indeed purchased this property and
closed on it, are they the legal owner of that seventeen (17)
acres at this time?
Mr. D'Agostino: It is under contract to close. It has not
closed yet. The way this site is going to be developea, there
is a very strong possibility that they may, in fact, change
their mind as to thf.* location of their home and put it right
above this pond. the architect can show you. That is a very
good likelihood in this case because the way things are shaping
up that may be a very desirable location for them.
Councilman Flowers: Are you aware of the Steep slopes
Legislation that is proposed in the Tovm of Boston at this
particular time?
Mr. D'Agostino: No.
Jerry Shaffer, Architect: After Cold Springs Construction
meeting with your Planning Board last week they brought me in to
study the aesthetic and architectural issues on this site and
the project area basea on the responses at the Planning Board.
It is rather difficult to give a character of a site on a two
dimensional drawing and even more difficult for me to try to
explain it to you.
Hhat I have done is prepared a Site Model of this parcel. This
is the western fifteen (15) or sixteen (16 acres of the parcel.
The area where Cold Springs proposes to remove the stone from
the site. The model is at a scale of one inch (1") equals fifty
feet (50') with a contour at intervals of two feet (2') all
three dimensions look similar to this scale. At one inch (1")
equal fifty feet (50') this is an accurate depiction of the lay
of the land in its present configuration. It slopes at about
one (1) in twelve (12), one in fifteen (15) to the east.
There was some concern that this was going to have the character
of strip mine, stone quarry or something to that affect. So with
the engineering drawings that Cold Spring prepared we put
together this topographical model to give you an idea.
Beginning at Pfarner Road in this meadow area the footprint of
the five (5) acre pond and the new contours which slope about
one (1) in four (4) along Pfarner Road, with a slightly steeper
area over on the south then it begins to flatten out from one
(1) to eight (8) downhill to the pond. This really in no way
has the character ot a mine or stone quarry. The undulating
lines are basically natural in form and that is the way the
owners of the parcel intend it to be.
The second issue vfas that the site, this quarry would be
detrimental to future residential development on this site. I
don't feel tnat this should be a concern. The area where you
would want to build along Pfarner Road v/hich has approximately
a one (1) to four (4) slope as proposed'here, viould really lend
itself quite well for hillside residential development. There
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