Sailor's Cove study on deck

By Paul Kirby , Freeman staff Daily Freeman February 1, 2006

KINGSTON - The city Planning Board next month is expected to begin reviewing a draft environmental impact study on a developer's plan for more than 300 housing units and commercial space at the former Hutton Brickyard site just north of Kingston Point.
City Planner Suzanne Cahill said the board will consider whether the study on the proposed project known as Sailor's Cove on the Hudson is complete. Such a determination would not be an endorsement of the project, she said, but serve as a notice to the developer, Ohio-based 771 Polaris Liability Ltd., that the study covers all the issues the Planning Board wants examined.
"What they have submitted is a draft environmental impact (study) and we and our consultants are looking at that study right now to consider making a determination of completeness," Cahill said.
Polaris has proposed building 369 housings units, a 45,000 square-foot commercial building and 9,000 square feet of office space.
The review comes at a time when the board is already considering a proposal by Yonkers-based AVR Acquisition to build The Landing at Kingston and Ulster, a large-scale housing and commercial project on the former Tilcon property. The site overlooks the Hudson River on the city's northern border with the town of Ulster, just north of the former brickyard.
The Landing developers have proposed to build 2,182 housing units.
Consultants and planners are poring over written comments and those recorded at four public hearings on the draft environmental impact study for The Landing. Cahill said the next step in the process is for a report from the consultants to be presented to AVR for a response.
Cahill said she is not certain when that report will be completed.
Critics, notably the Poughkeepsie-based environmental group Scenic Hudson, object to separate environmental reviews for the two neighboring projects. Another group, the Friends of the Kingston Waterfront, of which Scenic Hudson is a member, has submitted an alternate plan that incorporates both properties as a single project, with a total of 900 housing units.
That proposal was unveiled at a public session Jan. 12.
Mayor James Sottile said he opposes examining Sailor's Cove and The Landing together. Because The Landing developers have moved more quickly through the environmental review process, he said, it would be unfair to let one developer hold up the other.

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