Webster Planning Board extends Sienna Reserve subdivision approval by one year

The Webster Planning Board voted Tuesday to grant a one-year extension of its approval for Sienna Reserve, a 10-lot single-family subdivision on Orchard Road, carrying the approval to July 7, 2027. The vote followed a public hearing in which three Blue Creek Drive residents described flooding on their properties and questioned the project's drainage plan.

The extension involves no changes to the approved design. Insite Land Development Inc., the applicant, asked for the additional year so its construction schedule could catch up, and told the board it intends to break ground within the year, building the subdivision's stormwater pond and infrastructure first.

During the public hearing, one resident of Blue Creek Drive told the board that in each of the past two years his property has taken on about three feet of water, at one point within 15 feet of his house, and asked whether the planned detention pond and regrading would improve the problem or worsen it. Another resident of Blue Creek Drive, raised the same concern. A third asked whether regrading would kill trees the plan calls for preserving and send more runoff onto his property.

Engineers for the project told the board the detention pond is designed to hold and slowly release runoff from the new development only, not drainage from the existing neighborhood, and that a bypass swale off Orchard Road already carries some water past the site. Michael C. Bogojevski, P.E., of BME Associates said the pond would be built first in the construction sequence.

Several board members said the drainage and grading questions had been raised and reviewed when the subdivision received sketch-plan, preliminary and final approval in 2025, and that the matter before them was whether to extend that approval, not to reopen the design. The board granted the extension unanimously.

The rest of the docket

The board approved five other items Tuesday, all unanimously.

A new sign for Invio, approved. The board approved one internally illuminated, 60-square-foot wall sign for Invio at 855 Publishers Parkway, a minor revision to a lighter blue vinyl. The sign company Vital Signs is the applicant.

A lot-line correction near Ridge Road, approved. The board granted final approval to the Bay Ridge Corner Resubdivision at 423, 425 and 429 Ridge Road and 1036 and 1036A Bay Road, reducing five lots to four. The adjustment corrects property lines drawn in the 1920s and 1930s that ran through existing buildings; the septic systems are being redone, and a drainage complaint from an adjacent owner was resolved with a new culvert. Zoning variances for the plan were already in hand. Land surveyor Scott Measday, LS, and engineer Walt Baker of DSB Engineers presented the application.

Final approval for the 7 Brew coffee stand. The board granted final site plan approval to the 7 Brew drive-through coffee stand on Hard Road, the step that follows the preliminary approval it granted June 2. The applicant is Brew Team NY LLC, whose franchisee is Doug Beachel. Conditions include shielding on the site lighting (already installed, and non-dimmable because the LEDs flicker when dimmed), speaker-volume controls, a snow-storage and trucking plan, and no plantings in the drainage swale, after the board found two trees drawn in the swale on the revised landscape plan and had them relocated. A separate signage package is due within a month. The speaker noted that the recent Penfield location, near BayTowne Plaza, has an official open date of July 13.

An accessory building on Lake Road, approved. The board granted both preliminary and final site plan approval for a 615-square-foot accessory building at 1052 Lake Road, following a public hearing at which no one spoke. Architect Amanda Costanza, AIA, represents the homeowners who plan to demolish an existing two-story structure, combine the parcel with the adjacent 1050 Lake Road lot, and use the new building for storage only, with no apartment or rental. The approval is conditioned on the lot combination being completed before construction begins, and carries a one-year clock to July 7, 2027. The homeowners said preventing the property's conversion to a short-term rental was part of their reason for buying it.

Sign changes for Burger King, approved. The board approved a sign package for the Burger King at 940 Hard Road, three wall signs totaling 73.65 square feet, as part of a rebrand. The plan consolidates two sets of illuminated channel letters into one, adds an internally illuminated building-logo sign on the east elevation, which currently has no signage, adds crown light fixtures on two sides, and updates the drive-through menu-board technology.

The board also approved the minutes of its June 2 meeting.

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