“For what it’s worth, I know of an incident where there’s a sign in another town where internally lit signs are not legal and this sign is internally lit and they’ve got two fake lights out in front of them and it works fine,” said Mancini. “Externally lit signs are a hazard as far as I’m concerned.”
After about 40 minutes of public questions, Scott Parker, a representative from the company that plans to rebuild the Mobil station, had his own question.
“My company was developing the plans for the station at the Taconic… we were going to put shovels in the ground in the spring,” Parker said. “I’m just curious if that’s going to affect your plans at all.”
Jeffreys provided some background on the CPD application after Parker’s question, noting that the Mobil project had been taking “years” and the applicant had run into problems as a result of pollution left over from the old station and was working with the Dutchess County Board of Health for final approvals. The applicant never responded to the query.
“The last hurdle we have is from the Department of Health…. We drilled the new well that they wanted, we took the water sample — there was something a little funky with it so they decided they wanted us to take another water sample to determine what kind of [remediation] system we’ll need,” Parker told The Observer.
“We’ve been working on this for years,” he added. “We cleaned up the [Mobil] site, there was some contamination from the previous operations there… They’re talking about taking a piece of land that wasn’t a gas station and making it a gas station. Developing a piece of virgin land into a gas station is a little less environmentally responsible than using a piece of land that was a gas station, cleaning it up and continuing to use it as a gas station.”
The next step for the Sunoco project will be to submit a full application to the planning board and begin the approval process which would include more opportunities for public comment in the future.
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