Schodack Planning Board · SPB #2025-24 · Sunset Road, Castleton
Planning Board – September 15, 2025
Keller Park lacrosse complex, Sunset Road · Agenda item 5 · First appearance
What happened
- The project's first appearance before the Planning Board (application filed Aug. 27, 2025).
- An applicant presentation only – no public comment on Keller was taken this night.
- No motion and no approval. The Chair sent it to engineering as an incomplete application.
- This is the baseline – the project's fullest form, before features were later pared back.
What was discussed
- Original scope (as pitched): two regulation lacrosse fields plus a box rink, a ~200-vehicle parking lot, a concession stand, a septic area, and a well.
- Parking basis: the ~200-space count was derived from Afrim's sports complex – a basis a Board member questioned.
- Who uses it: a K–6 program described in the applicant's own words as "rec programs" and "camps," open to "basically Rensselaer County – anybody who doesn't have a program."
- Lights: "no lights at present" – but possible later "if the fields are crazy."
- The fullest vision, in the applicant's own words: "the other half is up for grabs… there is thoughts of something there more" – "an indoor facility in the middle… a dome… so there'd be four fields… and that parking lot would flip over… parking spot for 400 spots."
Who appeared
Steve Hart Hart Engineering – for the applicant
John Keller property owner
Greg Sherwin was named on the record as president of the Columbia Lacrosse Club but did not present. No members of the public spoke on the Keller item this night.