Neighbors hope their requests will be answered soon for a fence to block construction dirt at the Tops Friendly Markets store on McKinley Parkway.
Residents told the Town of Hamburg Planning Board about their frustration last Wednesday (Aug. 17).
They have been asking the supermarket chain for a fence at the site, where Tops is renovating the store.
“We’ve had to look at this my whole summer vacation,” said Laura Podkulski, who lives nearby on McKinley Parkway.
Dirt collecting around her pool and on her driveway has forced her to hose down those areas daily. She also had to clean the windows again after wiping them in May.
The blowing dirt also prevents neighbors from sitting outside during the warm evenings.
“We have to keep our furniture covered,” she said.
Podkulski and others wish Benderson Development Co., the contractor working at Tops, would keep its promise to install an 8-foot fence.
The company will not even water the dirt to prevent it from becoming airborne, she added.
She also described her efforts to contact the town’s code enforcement officers as fruitless. Board members advised her to call Councilman Joseph Collins, the town board’s liaison for those matters.
The town’s Building Inspection Department and Podkulski received an e-mail message from Ken Burns, Benderson’s project supervisor for the site, on Wednesday, Aug. 17. Burns wrote that the company’s fence contractor expected to begin the installation Monday, Aug. 22, and finish it by the week’s end.
In another matter, the board declared no environmental problems at the site for the proposed Brookview Apartments on Southwestern Boulevard near Sowles Road.
The board took no other action on the plan but discussed the emergency entrance planned for the neighborhood.
A Summerway Lane resident asked why the second entrance is necessary.
The board’s chairman, Peter Reszka, explained that most housing developments have a second entrance. The neighborhood lacks a second entrance because that was not required when it was built.
“If your subdivision was being built today, there would be a second entrance,” he said.
The second entrance will be gated and will only be opened in an emergency.
Each building will have eight apartments, said Sean Hopkins, the project’s attorney. He described the proposed complex as “upscale.”
Board members tabled the project until Sept. 21. They are awaiting plans for hydraulic hose engineering, sewers, sidewalks, garbage receptacles, streetlights, fire hydrants, a bridge and roadwork.
The board also tabled the Woods at Versailles project until the next meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. Phase 4 of the project involves removing trees on vacant land south of Fox Chase Road.
Board members also tabled a proposed 2,700-square-foot building for Quest Diagnostics at 3674 Commerce Place.
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