The Riverhead Planning Board is soliciting public comment on a draft scoping statement for review of the proposed mixed use development at 4365 Middle Country Road in Calverton.
The proposed development, called “Calverton Hamlet Center,” consists of a nine-lot subdivision of a roughly 16-acre parcel on the north side of Middle Country Road, 485 feet west of Fresh Pond Avenue, according to the draft scoping statement prepared by the applicant,TJOC Real Estate Holdings.
The subdivision will create seven single-family residential lots, one lot for the construction of an on-site sewage treatment plant, and one mixed-use building lot.
The proposed mixed-use building is a two-story building providing 30,000 square feet of retail and/or office space and 6,647 square feet of apartment space on the first floor and 44,588 square feet of apartment space on the second floor, for a total of 36 one-bedroom residential apartments, according to the scoping statement says.
The draft scoping statement [read it below] was prepared by the applicant’s representatives at the direction of the Planning Board. Once finalized and accepted by the board, the scoping statement is the blueprint for environmental review of the proposed action, which the Planning Board, as lead agency for the review, determined last month requires an environmental impact statement to identify its potential significant impacts and determine how the impacts can best be mitigated.
The Planning Board scheduled a hearing for public comments on the scoping document on Thursday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at Riverhead Town Hall, 4 West Second Street, Riverhead.
The scoping statement contains a description of the proposed action, with the proposed subdivision map, site plan drawings and architects’ renderings. It also broadly identifies potential significant adverse impacts of the proposed development —including impacts on natural resources such as water resources, wildlife, vegetation and habitat —and impacts on human environmental resources, such as traffic impacts and historic and archaeological resources.
The draft scoping statement also outlines the content of the draft environmental impact statement for the project. The DEIS will discuss potential significant adverse impacts in detail and analyze measures by which the impacts can be mitigated.
The planning consulting firm Nelson, Pope and Voorhis of Melville will prepare the DEIS.
The draft scoping document is embedded below for viewing and downloading, and can also be viewed and downloaded on the Town of Riverhead website here.
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