Site plans approved for Bryant & Stratton campus on Long Pond Road

The Greece Town Planning Board approved the site plans for the Stoney Creek Development project for 846 Long Pond Road at their meeting Wednesday night. The development will bring a 33,000 square foot Bryant & Stratton college campus to the area.

The plans for the 17.7-acre site also include a 17,000 square foot retail/service building and an 11,000 square foot retail/office/service building. Site developers 846 LPR, LLC said a child care center may fill the latter space.

The developers made a series of changes since the board postponed its decision on the proposal at its Feb. 8 meeting. These changes include enhanced landscaping along Long Pond Road, modified parking lots to provide room for buses, decreased parking space with green space left for possible future expansion, modified decoration including the addition of two flagpoles, and more.

One major reason the board did not approve the site plans on Feb. 8 was because of concerns over the need for a traffic light at the site's Long Pond exit. Though traffic experts judged the light unnecessary, the developers will install all the underground circutry and equipment it would need should it be built in the future.

"It's gotten better, but I think it has a way to go," said Deborah Janowicz, who lives across the street from the development. Janowicz said she will be able to see the campus from her bedroom window and that its construction -and noise from the site when it opens- will affect her entire neighborhood.

Janowicz said when she moved in, the Stoney Creek site was zoned residential. She hoped more neighborhoods would be built, not a small college campus and strip mall.

"Greece doesn't need more empty retail space," she said.

Stoney Creek property owner Laurence Glazer addressed Janowicz and her neighbors' concerns after the meeting.

"I think their issues have been dealt with very carefully," Glazer said. "They'll be happy with the end result."

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Site plans approved for Bryant & Stratton campus on Long Pond Road