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PB RESOLUTION 2024 - 004: Final Site Plan Approval
Comfort Inn Hotel
635 Elmira Road
Tax Parcel No. 35.-1-21
Town of Ithaca Planning Board
February 6, 2024
WHEREAS:
1. This action is consideration of Final Site Approval for the proposed Comfort Inn Hotel located
at 635 Elmira Road (NYS Route 13) within the Neighborhood Commercial Zone and Inlet
Valley Center Overlay District. The proposal involves demolishing the existing structures to
allow for the construction of a 3-story, 37,000 +/- square foot hotel. The facility will include 67
hotel rooms, 67 parking spaces, stormwater facilities, outdoor lighting, landscaping, and other
site improvements. The Planning Board granted final site plan approval for this project on
March 7, 2017, but the approval expired because construction did not materially commence
within 36 months of the approval. This is a Type I Action under the State Environmental
Quality Review Act for which the Planning Board issued a negative declaration of
environmental significance on October 3, 2023. Pratik Ahir, Ramji Hospitality, LLC,
Owner/Applicant; Adam M. Fishel, PE, Marathon Engineering, Agent,
2. This is a Type I Action for which the Town of Ithaca Planning Board, acting as lead agency in
coordinating the environmental review with respect to this project, made a negative
determination of environmental significance on October 3, 2023, after reviewing and accepting
as adequate a Full Environmental Assessment Form Part 1 submitted by the applicant, Parts 2
and 3 prepared by Town Planning staff, and other application materials,
3. The Planning Board, at a public hearing held on October 3, 2023, granted special permit and
preliminary site plan approval for the project, with conditions,
4. The Planning Board, at a public hearing held on February 6, 2024, has reviewed and accepted as
adequate a narrative, revised plans prepared by Marathon Engineering entitled “Site
Development Plans for Comfort Inn Hotel, 635 Elmira Road (NYS Route 13, 3 & 96), Town of
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York,” including sheets C1.0 - C3.0, C3.1, C 3.2, C4.0, C5.0, C
6.0 - C 6.6, C 7.0-C 7.3, C 8.0, most recently revised 12/01/23; exterior elevation sheets A201
and A202, prepared by Hex9 Architects, revised December 1, 2023, and other application
materials, and
5. Project plans, and related information, were duly delivered to the Tompkins County Planning
and Sustainability Department per New York State General Municipal Law §§239-l et seq., and
such Department responded in an August 31, 2023, letter from Katherine Borgella, Tompkins
County Commissioner of Planning, pursuant to §§239-l, -m, and -n of the New York State
General Municipal Law, determining that the proposed action will have no significant county-
wide or inter-community impact;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
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The Planning Board hereby grants Final Site Plan Approval for the proposed Comfort Inn Hotel, as
referenced on plans listed in Whereas #4 above, subject to the following conditions to be met:
Before issuance of any building permits except demolition permits:
a. Scheduling and holding of a pre-construction meeting with the Town Engineering, Planning,
and Codes Departments,
b. Submission to the Planning Department of a copy of a revised NYSDOT highway work
permit for the new curb cut off of Elmira Road/NYS Route 13, and for the water and any
sewer infrastructure located within the NYS DOT’s right-of-way,
c. Revision, execution, and filing of a revised stormwater easement, and operation, maintenance
and reporting agreement that is acceptable to the Attorney for the Town, the Town Engineer,
and the Town Board,
d. Approval by the Town Board of the concept and location of any water and sewer lines,
mains, and related infrastructure to be conveyed to the Town,
Before issuance of a certificate of occupancy:
e. Completion and dedication to the Town of the water and sanitary sewer lines and related
infrastructure described in subsection “d” above,
f. Execution and filing of sanitary sewer and water easements for the lines described in
subsection “d” above; such easements must be acceptable to the Town Board, Attorney for
the Town, and Town Engineer.
Moved: Bill Arms Seconded: Liz Bageant
Vote: ayes – Arms, Bageant, Wilcox, McGurk and Cameron