Developers and traffic consultant respond to board's truck-turning and safety questions for Lawrence Street project

Developers and the town's traffic consultant answered questions at the Greenburgh work session about a proposed Lawrence Street project, focusing on traffic study limits and how tractor-trailers would access the site.

Applicant representatives said they had submitted comment-response materials and an engineering appendix addressing stormwater, groundwater testing and site-management procedures, and they noted the development would follow state DEC procedures for any disturbance of an environmental cap. The consultant said the traffic study covered Lawrence Street from the parkway to the Route 9A intersection and included turning-radius analyses for trucks the project expects to use.

Board members asked for a visual showing the largest truck that would be permitted to use the site; the consultant said the project's modeled vehicles were on the smaller end of tractor trailers (a W B 50 and a W B 40 were cited as examples, representing roughly 42.5-foot and 33-foot trailers). Members remained concerned about on-site turning and the potential for swing-outs onto adjacent lanes while negotiating narrow local streets. One member proposed a "dry run" or field check to observe how a representative truck would navigate Lawrence Street; the applicant said driveways and on-site geometry limited what could be tested without full construction.

The developer said it would accept time-of-day delivery limits and monitoring conditions, and staff proposed a follow-up review if in-field observations showed safety problems, allowing the board to tighten restrictions if needed.

What happens next: the applicant will provide additional truck-visual materials and the board may include monitoring and conditional check-ins as part of any approval.