New Hartford Boards Meet Nov. 5 on Proposed BJ's Wholesale Club at Sangertown Square
A BJ's with a gas station would reshape the old Macy's end of Sangertown and add traffic on Seneca Turnpike, and this is a meeting residents can attend.
New Hartford's Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals hold a joint meeting on the proposed BJ's Wholesale Club on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at the Town Offices, 8635 Clinton St., according to a Rome Sentinel meeting notice. The notice doesn't list what the boards will decide that night.
The plan so far: BJ's wants to tear down the former Macy's at Sangertown Square and build a new store there, plus a gas station in the overflow lot along Seneca Turnpike, across from Taco Bell, the Rome Sentinel and WKTV reported in August. Residents raised lighting, noise and odor concerns about the fuel station at that hearing.
Who decides: the Planning Board leads the state environmental review and rules on the site plan; the Zoning Board handles the variances BJ's needs. BJ's has said its Utica store stays open for now.
Agendas are posted at townofnewhartfordny.gov.
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