Politics & Government

Farmingdale Hotel Site Plan Vote Set for June

Final plans are being sent to the Board of Trustees.

Final site plan approval of the hotel application being considered by the was postponed until the June 6 meeting, although plans for the hotel continue to move forward.

due to a land swap agreement being negotiated between the developer, Anthony Bartone, and the Village. The land swap was contingent on a re-visit to the Zoning Board to get a variance extended to the new land being acquired from the land swap.

At the May meeting, the trustees approved a resolution that will allow the mayor to approve the land swap contract. In the contract, the Village will exchange their 4,000 foot lot that runs parallel to the back of the from Atlantic Ave. along Eastern Parkway, for 5,300 feet of space in front of the hotel for green space.

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Village Attorney Kevin Walsh and Mayor George Starkie explained that site plan approval could not yet be granted until the following documents were submitted: the latest Zoning Board decision, a final sealed appraisal, a drainage plan signed by the Village engineer and final versions of the drawings that include drainage and other changes enacted to the plans over the site approval process.

Bartone asked the Board if site plan approval could voted on at the May meeting subject to his team complying with these document requests, “in the spirit of keeping the process moving.”

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“Obviously we know that the process has gotten delayed for a number of reasons,” Bartone said. “We lost a significant amount of time.”

However, Starkie said that the “multiple layers of paperwork,” are needed for the vote, but assured that approval is on the horizon.

“I think it is going to be a great application,” he said. “We would not go about resolving to go into a contract if it wasn’t.”

The public hearing on the hotel was kept open until the June 6 meeting, when the Board will vote on the site plan.

The hotel will be an 85 room "limited-service model," meaning there will not be a restaurant or bar in the hotel, and it will be primarily geared for business travelers. Bartone says the hotel will bring more than 80 jobs to the area.

Hotels are already a permitted use in the Village code, so the trustees are not voting on the use of the property as a hotel, but on the specific site plan details.


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