The Town of Clay Planning Board opened a public hearing on a proposed Amazon warehouse on Morgan Road — sized in the minutes at 234,300, a figure the record gives without a unit — at its July 22, 2026 meeting, and Chairwoman Michelle Borton immediately challenged the applicant's own traffic conclusions on the project's state environmental assessment form. Patrick Sheedy of Acquest Development told the board the warehouse — the minutes list a height of 42 feet in one place and 32 feet in another, a discrepancy that was not resolved on the record — would go up on a 37-acre parcel subdivided from a larger 76.74-acre property at 7526 & 7546 Morgan Road owned by P. Drescher Co. Inc. Two curb cuts are planned onto Morgan Road: one to the north primarily for employee parking, and one to the south for deliveries and buses. Borton walked through the environmental assessment form (EAF) line by line. She said the traffic study submitted for the project concluded there were no significant adverse impacts, but that this conflicts with the EAF question asking whether there is "substantial increase in traffic above present levels or generate new demand for transportation facilities or services" — Borton said the answer to that question should be "yes." Sheedy said he would address the discrepancy. Borton also flagged an EAF answer of "no" on whether the project would alter the size of nearby water bodies, saying the board needed confirmation that was correct, and asked Sheedy to define construction and operating hours given a separate EAF question on noise exceeding ambient levels. Onondaga County's review requires the applicant to keep coordinating Morgan Road access with the county Department of Transportation, confirm there are no state-jurisdictional wetlands on site, and obtain sign-offs on capacity assurance and on the possible presence of Indiana bat habitat. Sheedy said the applicant has already reached out to Centro about bus service, which currently ends at Steelway Drive. Borton confirmed the applicant is not seeking a PILOT tax break. Board members also asked whether the project, described in application materials as a lot line adjustment rather than a subdivision, would require two separate tax maps; planning staff said yes, though nothing has yet been filed with Onondaga County. The board voted 7-0 to adjourn the case to August 12, 2026, without a decision on the site plan itself. Separately, the board opened a hearing on a National Grid gas line expansion tied to the Micron GLM campus, and Borton disclosed on the record that the board's own attorney, Bond Schoeneck and King, also represents the applicant — a conflict the board said it would address by using the town's attorney or hiring outside counsel if necessary. Nolan Kokkoris presented the project, which would install additional gas equipment and 8-foot fencing on a .61-acre National Grid regulator site on State Route 31 near Town Hall, and build a new Micron Gas Metering Station on a 99.05-acre parcel on Caughdenoy Road that is part of the Micron campus, fed by a 16-inch gas main. The minutes record the main's depth as approximately 3 feet, the road minimum, without attributing that answer to a specific speaker. Board member Jim Palumbo objected to a landscaping plan calling for dwarf evergreens near the site, saying they should be 8-foot trees, and asked whether existing trees along the parking lot would be removed for construction; the applicant said only if necessary, with removed trees replaced by 3-inch caliper maples. Wetlands adjacent to the site's western, northern and eastern boundaries will require state DEC permits. This case was also adjourned 7-0 to August 12 without a vote on the plan. The rest of the July 22 agenda was routine business, and every other case was adjourned to the board's August 12 meeting. At Community Bank's proposed branch at the R&F Plaza (4000 State Route 31), Palumbo raised a fire-access concern: the drive-through's perimeter road, drawn as a wide driveway, narrows to 14 feet at one point, which he said isn't workable for a fire truck; the applicant discussed shifting the building about two feet west but cited easements, a 30-foot town drainage easement and potential loss of parking and sidewalks as complications. The Northern Credit Union project on West Taft Road was adjourned to August 12 for an eleventh time. Taft Summit Federal Credit Union, West Herr Automotive and Matthews Automotive Group all reported plan updates responding to the board's prior comments and were adjourned to August 12 for further review. The Amazon Drone Implementation case at 7211 Morgan Road — a separate application from the warehouse project on the same road — was adjourned to September 16 while the applicant researches state environmental review requirements; asked directly whether drones would be used at the adjacent warehouse site, Sheedy told the board no. The Black Creek Equestrian Center case, previously pushed to September, was moved up to August 12 at the applicant's request. The board also approved the minutes of its July 8 meeting, 6-0, with Al McMahon abstaining because he was absent that day.