NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION d/b/a ...

Potential for increase in motor vehicle accident calls
Potential for increase in hazardous materials calls
Potential for increase in fire calls
Potential need for fire apparatus
Potential incentives to attract additional volunteers for the fire department
Findings
In order to ensure that emergency service responders are adequately prepared for the
potential unique needs of a future use, a facility-specific emergency services impact study shall
be prepared for each actual technology manufacturing facility to be located at the Project Site
and submitted to an informal committee composed of local and county emergency response
representatives to review and provide input on such studies. Moreover, to ensure the
adequacy of these future studies, a baseline study shall be completed to determine the current
baseline levels of services provided by local and county emergency service providers. With
implementation of these mitigation measures, potential impacts to community services shall be
minimized and/or avoided to the maximum extent practicable.
Community Character and Demographics
Discussion of Potential Impacts
The Project has been designed to be in a low density campus setting, meaning that
development will be respectful of and complement its natural landscape. Landscape buffers
shall surround the Project along property lines shared with the existing houses, roads and the
Hamlet of Alabama in order to maintain existing view sheds as well as the rural character of the
area surrounding the Project. In addition, the ridge line that runs the existing Hamlet of
Alabama will remain undeveloped to provide a visual separation between the hamlet and the
Project.
In terms of maintaining the visual character of the community, the Project is planned to visually
integrate itself into the existing rural, agrarian setting as outlined in the Visual Impact
Assessment in the DGEIS. Larger technology manufacturing structures are located on the lower
western portion of the Project Site, while the small-scale supporting structures are located on
the eastern portion of the Project Site to provide a scaled transition to neighboring farmland.
The eastern portion of the Project Site will also be scaled to mirror the aesthetics of the Hamlet
of Alabama. Both the undeveloped buffer zones to be located around the Project Site’s
perimeter and the campus-like setting of the Preferred Alternative shall ensure that open
spaces and environmentally sensitive locations are maintained. A 400-foot buffer will be
maintained around the perimeter of the Project Site, expanded to an average of 1,600 feet
along the western boundary adjoining the Tonawanda Seneca Nation property. Lastly, a
minimum 500-foot buffer will be maintained along the Project Site’s boundary adjoining the
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