SKANEATELES - An ambitious project may have found a home after years of developers searching, but they will have to convince the Skaneateles Town Planning Board to allow an usual building request before continuing.
Dr. Marc Pietropaoli earlier this month presented his plan to the town board for a complex containing a health care facility, sports fields, performance enhancement building and conservation areas in a plot of land east of the village, south of East Genesee Street. His business, Victory Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, is the applicant. The sports medicine specialist presented his background in orthopedic health care.
“But I'm also coming to you as a coach, as a neighbor - that is my neighborhood - and as someone who is intimately involved in a lot of sports organizations,” Pietropaoli said.
His office at 791 W. Genesee St. is cramped for space now.
“The No. 1 thing is that I need space for my medical practice,” Pietropaoli said. “That's phase one. ... We have physical therapy, but we don't have enough room to do performance enhancement and injury prevention programs. There is a need for that, and it's relatively under served.”
However, he has to gain the permission of the planning board to implore a method of property development that would allow builders to concentrate the building section in the middle of the property, and keep the rest of the land as open, with the exception of a couple small structures for shelter, restrooms and storage.
The property divided into smaller parcels would allow for 28 structures, 6,000 square feet in size, with open land surrounding this. In all, this means the developers could have nearly 170,000 square feet of space.
Instead, they want to concentrate their buildings, which would take up a total of 101,000 square feet of building space on 100 acres.
Throughout the rest of the property, Pietropaoli and architect Andy Ramsgard, of Ramsgard Architectural Design, aim to create several sports fields. These would meet the standards of open space. Also, the edges and other sections of the property would continue to have the natural growth to meet the conservation area.
However, town planner Howard Brodsky brought one concern to the town board members' attentions. He asked them to realize there's no guarantee that the developers have to create these sports fields and maintain them.
Pietropaoli pointed to the lack of sports fields in the town, something the board has heard from other people. He has talked to school district officials, namely athletic director Rick Pound and they have suggested a willingness to maintain those fields.
The main portion of the project is Pietropaoli's medical office, a two-story building. The second is an indoor recreation facility. The third component is the athletic fields. The last part of the plan is the conservation areas.
The town board pointed to the planning board to take the lead in the project. That board will work out agreements for the conservation land, as well as negotiate any possible easements to the town-owned land next to the project's property. Ramsgard said he positioned the buildings to sit in the middle of the land because the tree line and natural topography would hide the structures, as well as allow the building to be far from East Genesee Street.
“But I'm also coming to you as a coach, as a neighbor - that is my neighborhood - and as someone who is intimately involved in a lot of sports organizations,” Pietropaoli said.
His office at 791 W. Genesee St. is cramped for space now.
“The No. 1 thing is that I need space for my medical practice,” Pietropaoli said. “That's phase one. ... We have physical therapy, but we don't have enough room to do performance enhancement and injury prevention programs. There is a need for that, and it's relatively under served.”
However, he has to gain the permission of the planning board to implore a method of property development that would allow builders to concentrate the building section in the middle of the property, and keep the rest of the land as open, with the exception of a couple small structures for shelter, restrooms and storage.
The property divided into smaller parcels would allow for 28 structures, 6,000 square feet in size, with open land surrounding this. In all, this means the developers could have nearly 170,000 square feet of space.
Instead, they want to concentrate their buildings, which would take up a total of 101,000 square feet of building space on 100 acres.
Throughout the rest of the property, Pietropaoli and architect Andy Ramsgard, of Ramsgard Architectural Design, aim to create several sports fields. These would meet the standards of open space. Also, the edges and other sections of the property would continue to have the natural growth to meet the conservation area.
However, town planner Howard Brodsky brought one concern to the town board members' attentions. He asked them to realize there's no guarantee that the developers have to create these sports fields and maintain them.
Pietropaoli pointed to the lack of sports fields in the town, something the board has heard from other people. He has talked to school district officials, namely athletic director Rick Pound and they have suggested a willingness to maintain those fields.
The main portion of the project is Pietropaoli's medical office, a two-story building. The second is an indoor recreation facility. The third component is the athletic fields. The last part of the plan is the conservation areas.
The town board pointed to the planning board to take the lead in the project. That board will work out agreements for the conservation land, as well as negotiate any possible easements to the town-owned land next to the project's property. Ramsgard said he positioned the buildings to sit in the middle of the land because the tree line and natural topography would hide the structures, as well as allow the building to be far from East Genesee Street.
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