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PB 2025-017 (Filed 5/6) Pg. 1
PB RESOLUTION 2025 - 017: Final Site Plan Approval
Ithaca Self-Storage Project
Tax Parcel No. 31.-3-4
602 Elmira Road
Town of Ithaca Planning Board, May 6, 2025
WHEREAS:
1. This action involves consideration of Final Site Plan Approval for the proposed self-
storage facility located at 602 Elmira Road (NYS Route 13) within the Light Industrial
Zone and Inlet Valley Center Overlay District. The project involves construction of
approximately 24,700 square feet of self-storage in six buildings. The project will be
constructed in two phases and consist of indoor climate-controlled storage and mini-
storage units along with a small parking area, fence and entrance gate, stormwater
management facilities, landscaping, and site lighting. Rudra Management,
Owner/Applicant; Michael B. Lasell, P.E., LEED AP, MBL Engineering, PLLC, Agent;
2. This is an Unlisted Action for which the Town of Ithaca Planning Board, acting in an
uncoordinated environmental review with respect to the project, on February 20, 2024,
made a negative determination of environmental significance, after having reviewed and
accepted as adequate a Short Environmental Assessment Form Part 1, submitted by the
applicant, and Parts 2 and 3, prepared by Town Planning staff;
3. The Planning Board, at a public hearing held on May 6, 2025, has reviewed and accepted
as adequate a narrative, a set of revised drawings titled “Ithaca Self Storage, Rudra
Management, 602 Elmira Road, Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, Revised February 27,
2025,” prepared by MBL Engineering, PLLC, including sheets C-001, C-101 through
C102A, C-103 through C-106, C-201, and C-501 through C-506, dated February 2023
and most recently revised 2/25/25; plans prepared by Line 42 Architecture, including two
sheets titled “Landscape & Material Plan,” one dated December 2023 and the other
revised, dated February 2024, sheets titled “Building 1 & 6 Exterior Elevations & Floor
Plan” and “Building 2, 3, 4 & 5 Exterior Elevations,” dated December 2023, a sheet titled
“Phase 1 With Existing Trees,” dated February 2024, a sheet titled “Phase 1-Existing
Trees Removed For Clarity,” dated February 2024; and other application materials; and
4. 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 a December 13, 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 countywide or inter-community impact;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:
That the Town of Ithaca Planning Board hereby grants Final Site Plan Approval for the proposed
Ithaca Self Storage project, located at 602 Elmira Road, as described in the materials listed in
Whereas #3 above, subject to the following conditions to be met:
PB 2025-017 (Filed 5/6) Pg. 2
Before issuance of a building permit:
a. Submission of revised plans showing:
(i) the location and size of the proposed septic system,
(ii) the correct wall sconces for the front of all buildings (delete “wall packs”),
b. Submission to the Director of Code Enforcement of required calculations and fire flow
test data from fire hydrant R0460,
c. Acceptance by the Town Board, and completion and dedication to the Town, of any
water infrastructure,
d. Submission, review, execution, and filing of an Operation, Maintenance and Reporting
agreement for the proposed stormwater management facilities, with the Town of Ithaca,
specifying the ownership and maintenance responsibilities for the stormwater system,
including:
(i) Submission of an access easement, or other mechanism, to assure Town of Ithaca
access to the stormwater facilities,
(ii) Review and approval of the access easement and the “Operation, Maintenance, and
Reporting Agreement” by the Attorney for the Town and the Town Engineer, and
(iii)Town Board authorization to allow the Town Supervisor to sign any necessary
easements and the stormwater “Operation, Maintenance, and Reporting Agreement”
associated with the project,
e. Submission to the Planning Department of a copy of NYSDOT Highway work permit (s),
and
f. Scheduling of a pre-construction meeting with the Town Engineering, Planning, and
Codes Departments.
Moved: Liz Bageant Seconded: Cindy Kaufman
Vote: ayes – Bageant, Reynolds, Kaufman, Arms, McGurk, Cameron, and Ferrara