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CITY OF LACKAWANNA PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEETING COUNCIL CHAMBERS TIME: 6:00 PM Wednesday January 28, 2026 Meeting Called to Order/Pledge of Allegiance NB: Meeting being recorded. Roll Call: Board Members: Abdulla (Excused), Buckner, DeSantis, Friend, Gable, Smith, Zambron Administrative: Balon, Cooper, Hayes Approval of Minutes: of the Planning and Development Board Meeting on November 19, 2025. Motion by Friend; seconded by Buckner to adopt minutes of the Planning and Development Board Meeting on November 19, 2025 as written. Yeas: Smith, Buckner, DeSantis, Friend, Gable, Zambron Carried 6-0 Communication from Planning and Development Board Applicants: 1. Zachary Alabadi – Site Plan Approval – 3071-3085 South Park Avenue – Requests the Board approve application to open a supermarket and pharmacy in Neighborhood Commercial Zone. Applicant advised the Board of the following: market to provide produce (fruits & vegetables) as well as cold cuts, butcher meats, and hot food for takeout only, and a pharmacy; hours of operation for the store to either be 8:00am to 11:00PM or 7:00AM to 11:00PM and pharmacy likely to close at 9:00PM; approximately 7 to 10 employees staffed during the entire shift for retail & pharmacy operations; a building addition on the Kirby Avenue side for cold refrigeration storage (no slaughtering of live animals to occur); the building addition to be similar to the one at Ridge Road & Ingham Avenue (steel siding and steel roofing); wooden fencing on Kirby Avenue to be replaced; storm water runoff via gutters & downspouts routed to existing drainage controls; Kirby Avenue ingress & egress will continue to be used for deliveries and public use (i.e. pharmacy); signage to include reusing the existing digital sign at the front of the property with no plans for additional signs; garbage removal to include moving the existing dumpster from the Kirby Avenue side to the larger lot on South Park Avenue and to be removed by a third party commercial service; and opening to occur within one to one and a half months depending upon renovations. Board questions included clarifying information for the above points. The Board asked if anyone from the public was in attendance to speak on the agenda item and no one replied stating they were. Therefore, the public comment and question period was not enacted. 1 of 3