Planning Board Regular Meeting, Feb 18, 2026 — Minutes

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Town of Hamburg Planning Board Minutes  February 18, 2026

  Planning Board and the Zoning Board. Or they can do an
  Uncoordinated Review where the Planning Board will make a
  SEQR decision but that will require the Zoning Board to make a
  SEQR decision before they act on the use variance.
  •  They will be going to the Zoning Board the first week of March

No comments from Engineering.

Planning Board:

Chair Gronachan: To clarify, they are before the Planning Board tonight for the following:

  •  For the Planning Board to make a recommendation to the Zoning Board
  for the use variance
  •  They are here for the Planning Board to decide if they are going to do a
  coordinated or uncoordinated review
  •  They are here for both.

Member Clark asked if there were going to be any changes to the existing building with
the expansion other than cosmetic changes.
Attorney Kathleen Moriarty explained that there would be no structural changes, and
that it would all be cosmetic changes on the outside of the building. On the inside of the
building, she is unsure of what the exact plans are.

Member Clark also asked, with Ten Lives Club being a nonprofit, if there was a time
frame with the finding on this that would impact could be negative if this drags on for a
few months.

Attorney Kathleen Moriarty responded that is not the case here as they have some
private funding through one of their donors.

Mr. Rogers stated that he would think that the Planning Board would look at this as a
Type II action under SEQR. Ten Lives Club is reusing the existing building and there
are no additions being made and using the same kind of footprint as before.

Chair Gronachan stated that she believed the Planning Board should authorize a
coordinated review as there is no need to keep sending it back and forth between the
Planning Board and the Zoning Board and delaying it.

All members of the Planning Board expressed support of the recommendation to the
ZBA, and the project was tabled to the March 4th Planning Board meeting.

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