The New Castle Town Board will continue its review work for the Chappaqua Crossing retail proposal at its work session meeting tonight.
Discussion will focus on two parts of the environmental review, according to the meeting's agenda. One involves discussion about the second half of the project's final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS), a detailed document that succeeds the draft supplemental impact statement (DSEIS) that developer Summit/Greenfield submitted for the project last fall. Board members discussed the first half of the FSEIS at a work session nearly two weeks ago. Both halves of the FSEIS are now posted on the town's website.
The other item up for discussion is a town-commissioned market study by consulting company AKRF. The study, requested last month, is intended to provide a second look at whether or not the proposal, which calls for having 120,000 square feet of retail space on the site, would compete with existing merchants in town, something that critics of the proposal allege. Summit/Greenfield, which had a market study commissioned earlier this year, submitted findings that state the proposal does not undermine merchants. The AKRF study is not available on the town's website as of early Tuesday.
The retail proposal also includes a grocery store of 36,000 to 66,000 square feet, with ancillary retail being housed in new buildings on the southern portion of the site. The plan includes a zoning change that enables the construction, along with changes to the town's master plan.
The town board meets tonight at 7:45 p.m. at town hall in Chappaqua. To search for the agenda and accompanying packet, click here.
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