Riverhead Planning Board

The planning board approved a site plan amendment for Stop & Shop on Route 58 providing for a sound wall and a fuel cell cogeneration unit.

Plans for a Hobby Lobby store on Route 58 in Riverhead got a green light from the Riverhead Planning Board on Thursday, which agreed to amend the Garsten Retail site plan to shrink the building size by about 3,000 square feet, making way for occupancy by a single tenant.

An eight-lot subdivision that will allow the Town of Riverhead Community Development Agency to sell 1,644 acres of vacant land at the Calverton Enterprise Park gained preliminary approval today from the Riverhead Planning Board.

Highlights from the Riverhead Planning Board meeting of June 6, 2019.

Citing concerns that there's "too much, too fast" in solar facility development in Calverton, Riverhead Planning Board members want to hit the brakes.

Former councilwoman Barbara Blass, who served more than 19 years on the town planning board, had harsh criticism for the town's EPCAL subdivision application and the town planning board's review process.

The town board held the hearings open at the request of the town's new business advisory committee.

The developer of a proposed 7-Eleven on West Main Street near Osborn Avenue works to resolve conflicting requirements of different agencies. Planners approve offices in Wading River and Aquebogue, Lavender by the Bay farm stand on Manor Road in Calverton and set a public hearing on four-lot industrial subdivision off Manor Road. Rundown of actions taken at the Feb. 21 planning board meeting.

“In my opinion, this is a lack of information-sharing by sPower and possible willful misrepresentation with intent to deceive,” Planning Board Chairman Stan Carey said, citing sPower's representations that an underground tie-line would be used only for the 20MW solar facility approved by the town earlier this year. Now the company wants to use the same tie-line for a new 36 MW facility being reviewed by the state.

A 36 MW solar power generation facility on 290 acres of leased vacant land in Calverton is now under review by the a facility siting board of the State Department of Public Service, which has sole jurisdiction over the application. But the Town of Riverhead may reopen environmental review of a previously approved 20 MW facility proposed by the same company so that the impacts of both facilities may be examined.