The Town of Clay Planning Board sat for barely over an hour on the night of April 22, 2026 — gaveled in by Chairwoman Michelle Borton at 7:30 p.m., out by 8:45 — and worked through nine cases on its agenda. By the time the meeting adjourned, only one of them, a four-lot subdivision on Elmcrest Road, had reached a final decision. The rest were adjourned, withdrawn, or never made it onto the board's plate at all. The night's biggest case was also its least resolved. J. Alberici & Sons is seeking a preliminary plat for a 91-lot subdivision on 29 acres at 5300 West Taft Road, the former Hinerwadels site, mixing single-family homes with two office parcels — one already planned as a day care center. Representatives Tim Coyer and Ben Harrell told the board the state Department of Transportation's traffic study, received only that day, was pointing toward a signal at the West Taft Road intersection across from Rockland Drive, to be installed at the developer's expense. The Onondaga County Planning Board had also submitted a list of required modifications, including a full build-out traffic study, a stormwater and lighting plan, and a likely restriction to a single access point on West Taft Road. Donald Keegan, associate superintendent of the North Syracuse Central School District, asked what type of homes were planned and whether a PILOT tax agreement was attached; Borton said the board wasn't aware of one. The case was adjourned to June 10 on a 6-0 vote. Four more cases were pushed to later meetings. Two linked applications for a contractor service yard at 4593 Wetzel Road, filed by John E. Fisher Construction Co., remain tied up in litigation over wetland issues and were adjourned to June 10. An amended site plan for EV charging stations at 7293 Buckley Road, brought by Chad Mutter, stalled after board member Jim Palumbo walked Mutter through an accessibility problem: the path from the ADA-compliant parking at the charging stalls to the building entrance ran through an isolated loading zone, forcing a route around parked cars rather than a direct crosswalk. Mutter agreed to restripe the area and return with revised drawings May 13. A second subdivision, the Gabor Subdivision Phase II on Morgan Road, was adjourned to the same date after no one showed up to represent it. And The Learning Experience day care's special permit and amended site plan for Park Ridge Path were held for another round after board members flagged illegible planting and elevation plans, overlapping text on several sheets, and a missing HVAC location — also due back May 13. One case dropped off the agenda entirely: VFW Post 951's site plan for 5366 Caughdenoy Road was withdrawn because of wetland issues. Another, a proposed two-family conversion on Buckley Road, was never the Planning Board's to hear — the Town Board did not refer it. And at 7835 Goguen Drive, the board found a compliance gap while reviewing an amended site plan for a contractor service yard's storage tanks: the topographic survey on file for the site's stormwater pond carried no seal from a licensed surveyor. Engineer Caitlin Choberka told the applicant a new, licensed survey would be needed to confirm the pond was built and is operating as approved back in 2022, before the board would sign off on any expansion. That case, too, was adjourned, to June 10. The only project to cross the finish line that night was the Mauro Subdivision, a Scott Merle Builders plan to split two existing lots on Elmcrest Road into four single-family parcels of roughly an acre each. After neighbors on Mistral Circle raised questions about tree removal, drainage, and construction traffic, the board adopted a negative declaration under the State Environmental Quality Review Act and granted final plat approval in a series of 6-0 votes, conditioned on a license agreement already filed with Onondaga County covering a driveway encroachment between the two properties. The board's later calendar shows how much of the April 22 docket carried forward. The Gabor Subdivision, tabled again on May 13 over a non-conforming setback question, wasn't finalized until the board's May 27 meeting. The Chad Mutter EV charging amendment was among the projects the board advanced at that same May 13 session after the ADA fix. The Hinerwadels project, meanwhile, was still without a final decision as of the board's July 8 meeting, when the board adjourned its entire agenda — Hinerwadels among several other West Taft Road-area cases still waiting their turn.