Schodack Planning Board · SPB #2025-24 · Sunset Road, Castleton
Planning Board – June 15, 2026
Keller Park lacrosse complex, Sunset Road · Agenda item 4
What happened
- The Board declared its intent to seek SEQR "lead agency" status to coordinate the environmental review.
- The application was again deemed incomplete – the Town's engineer had not yet reviewed the applicant's latest submission.
- No special permit was granted, and no public hearing was held or scheduled. The project stays in preliminary review.
- Public comment on Keller ran 4 against, 1 in favor.
What was discussed
- Revised plan: added screening, an enlarged berm along Sunset Road, perimeter buffers, and no-clearing limits.
- Traffic – called "the largest concern of the project"; the applicant's traffic consultant (Creighton Manning) is to attend the eventual public hearing.
- The undeveloped ~18–20 acres: asked about future plans, the applicant's engineer answered "at this time, no."
- Site size: ~29.6 acres total, ~10 acres of disturbance.
- Access: an old ~50-ft right-of-way off Doelner Circle that the parcel may only touch at a point – a surveyor is to check.
- Neighbors' grounds: traffic and "you don't put this in a residential area." (No one raised the zoning use-classification argument this night.)
Who appeared
Steve Hart Hart Engineering – for the applicant
John Keller property owner
Rich Laberge Laberge Group – Town engineer
Five neighbors also spoke during public comment – four opposed, one in favor.
Summarized by neighbors from the Town's public meeting video. Names and quotes are as captured from the recording and may contain minor errors; the Town's official minutes are the authoritative record.