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MEMORANDUM
To: Paul S. Rosenberg, Mayor, and the
Village of Rye Brook Board of Trustees
Date: July 13, 2020
Subject: 900 King Street, Petition to Amend the PUD Regulations and an Application
for a PUD Concept Plan – Review of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
As requested, we have reviewed the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) dated July 2, 2020,
submitted to the Village of Rye Brook Board of Trustees by 900 King Street Owner, LLC, as part of the petition
to amend Section 250-7 E, the Planned Unit Development (PUD) regulations of the Village Code, and the
application for a PUD Concept Plan regarding the property located at 900 King Street, Town of Rye Tax
Parcel 129.68-1-13. The Proposed Action would construct 241 units of age-targeted housing and related
infrastructure, including driveways, walkways, garage and surface parking, site lighting, signage and
stormwater management facilities.
Previously, the Applicant submitted a draft preliminary FEIS (pFEIS) on May 14, 2019 for the Board’s
consideration. The May 2019 pFEIS had made some reductions to the density of project. However, based
on comments received from the Board, Village Staff and Consultants, the pFEIS was revised in January 2020
which further reduced the density and overall square footage of the revised Proposed Action presented in
the May 2019 pFEIS. There have been no further revisions to the Proposed Action in the July 2020 FEIS.
For the Board’s convenience, we have prepared the following summary of the revised Proposed Action:
Original Proposed
Action
May 2019 Proposed
Action
July 2020 Proposed
Action
Gross Floor Area (SF) 445,000 376,182
355,902 (20%
reduction)
Number of IL units 160 152 136 (15% reduction)
Number of AL units 85 85 85
Number of Townhomes 24 20 20
Average size of IL unit
(SF) 1,219 1,069 1,119
Number of IL Bedrooms 301 228 236
IL unit mix
18 3-bedroom
99 2-bedroom
43 1-bedroom
12 3-bedroom
52 2-bedroom
88 1-bedroom
13 3-bedroom
74 2-bedroom
49 1-bedroom
AL unit mix
26 Memory care
50 1-bedroom
25 Memory care
51 1-bedroom
25 Memory care
51 1-bedroom
9 2-bedroom 9 2-bedroom 9 2-bedroom
Townhome unit mix 24 2-bedroom 20 2-bedroom 20 2-bedroom
Our office conducted a completeness and substantive review of the FEIS dated July 2, 2020, on behalf of
the Village Board of Trustees in its capacity as Lead Agency. Based on our review, the FEIS has incorporated
all of our previous comments and we have no further comments.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to discussing the FEIS with you at your
August meeting.
Michael A. Galante
Managing Principal
Sarah L. Brown, AICP
Senior Associate/Planning
cc: Christopher Bradbury, Village Administrator
Michal Nowak, Superintendent of Public Works/Village Engineer
Jennifer L. Gray, Esq., Village Attorney
Peter Feroe, AICP, for the Applicant
Mark Miller. Esq., for the Applicant
James Ryan, RLA, for the Applicant