Board: Planning Board
Status: Under Review
First Appearance: Sep 15, 2021
Days Open: ~1,783 days
Location: Deep Hill Road, Amenia, NY
Project Summary
A proposed 23-lot residential subdivision on Deep Hill Road (an "Alternative D" layout under review would combine several visually prominent lots and add others, netting 25 lots). The application has been before the Planning Board since September 2021, making it the longest-running case on the town's active docket. Applicant's counsel is Diana Kolb; AKRF (planner Aaron Warner) prepared the Preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Statement; engineering has been handled by Peter Sander. The case predates this site's meeting-by-meeting archive, which begins in January 2025 — the timeline below reflects coverage from that point forward.
Timeline
July 8, 2026
Draft EIS accepted as complete for public review, conditioned on five revisions: an "in the applicant's opinion" qualifier ahead of no-significant-impact conclusions in the visual impacts chapter, technical/formatting corrections, a watermark on the outdated conservation analysis appendix, incorporation of red-line changes to the community character chapter, and correction of the lot-count inconsistency between the document text and Figure 6.5 / Alternative D. Public hearing scheduled for
September 23, 2026, with written comments accepted through 4 p.m. on October 5, 2026.
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June 24, 2026
First board-level completeness review of the PDEIS. Town engineer John Andrews found the document "generally meets the scope," while planning consultant George James's review (still in progress) flagged the visual impact chapter's conclusions as a substantive concern. Board member Ken Topolsky raised a detailed list of questions, including undefined equestrian-lot uses, an out-of-date 2007 comp plan reference, missing tennis court lighting standards, and reliance on a "reasonable worst-case" scenario with houses exceeding 15,000 sq. ft. Attorneys directed to prepare two resolutions (complete / incomplete) for the July 8 meeting; vote to do so passed 4–0–1.
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June 10, 2026
Applicant (AKRF) submitted the 1,127-page Preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Board given approximately 45 days to comment; members instructed to begin reviewing ahead of substantive discussion at the next meeting.
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July 9, 2025
Noted as an upcoming agenda item: a "reasonable worst-case development scenario" review was scheduled for the board's July 23, 2025 meeting.
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January 22, 2025
The applicant's team (via engineer Peter Sander) requested a private meeting with the board's consulting engineer to discuss technical aspects of a resubmission. The board unanimously declined, holding that all discussion between the applicant's team and the board's consultants or members must happen before the full board at public meetings.
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Documents & Materials
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