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Buchanan Planning Board changes timing of Village Square recreation fees
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The Buchanan Planning Board voted 4–0 on April 21 to change when recreation fees are due for the Village Square residential project, according to the village-posted transcript of the meeting. The board's amendment calls for the required fee for each building to be paid before a temporary or permanent certificate of occupancy is issued for it.
The prior site-plan condition tied payment to building permits, village planner David Smith told the board. The applicants asked to move payment to the occupancy stage. Smith said the fees would have to be paid before occupancy and described the request as consistent with an earlier village project.
The resolution, as read at the meeting, amended condition 16 of the 2023 approval and kept the other conditions in effect. Chair Nicolas Zachary announced the motion carried four to nothing. Tracey Armisto had recused herself, he said, because of a personal acquaintance with an applicant. Kieran Outhouse attended by Zoom; after a discussion about who should make the motion, Eileen Absenger moved it and Jeffrey Faiella seconded.
The applicants described a plan to build three residential buildings in sequence. Their remarks were plans and estimates offered at the meeting, not evidence of the project's present construction status. In a separate discussion about a commercial lot, an applicant described planned road-access and sidewalk work and a school-day turning restriction; this account has not been independently checked with the transportation department.
The board also approved December 18, 2025 meeting minutes and tentatively agreed to a May 19 meeting date, subject to possible changes depending on the agenda and attorney availability. Members discussed whether remote participation would continue to be permitted. The meeting transcript does not establish the eventual May schedule or the law's current requirements.