Nearly two years into review, the proposed hotel at the former Wegmans Great Northern site picked up two new objections on Feb. 26 that go to the heart of whether the project works as drawn: whether the land actually has wetlands on it, and whether the parking plan provides enough spaces to begin with. Board member Jim Palumbo told the Planning Board he had looked at the contours on the grading plan and said the environmental assessment form's finding of no wetlands was "difficult to believe," according to the minutes, pointing to what he described as an isolated low area where all the site's drainage collects. Palumbo said relying on the state's DEC mapper showing no records was not the same as an actual wetland delineation, and he asked that one be done. Engineer Mike Ritchie of Costich Engineering, representing the applicant, agreed to research the question further, though he noted a delineation cannot be performed for roughly two months because of winter weather conditions. Attorney Kathleen Bennett, the board's counsel, said she concurred with the concern and separately asked whether a 20-foot easement running through the property was for a National Grid electric transmission line or an underground gas line — a distinction Ritchie also agreed to clarify. The parking count drew an even blunter reaction. A resident, Janet Rathburn, asked how many rooms the hotel would have; Ritchie answered 103. Board member Karen Guinup said 155 parking spaces are needed to serve that many rooms — and that under the current plan, a third of those spaces would merely be "banked," or set aside for future construction rather than built now. Guinup called that arrangement "totally unacceptable," the minutes state. Board members also questioned where snow removed from the lot would be dumped, since the proposed banked-parking area sits in the site's designated snow storage zone; Ritchie said snow would go over a six-inch curb behind it, an answer Deputy Chair Michelle Borton said would need to be shown in the plan's details. Members Paul Graves and Al McMahon separately raised a related concern: the site plan includes no parking spaces sized for the campers, trailers and larger trucks that visitors bring to events like the Syracuse Nationals car show, a wrinkle for a hotel expected to draw exactly that kind of overnight guest. None of it stopped the clock. The case, which received its underlying zoning variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals in December, was adjourned to April 9 — its motion, like every other motion on the night's nine-case agenda, carrying 6-0. That unanimity extended to a night in which nothing else got decided either. Tully's Tenders, a drive-thru restaurant proposed for State Route 31, ran into its own dispute over whether an existing curb cut near the Niagara Car Wash is safe; the state DOT and the applicant's traffic study both call it acceptable, but Hal Henty, Paul Graves and Al McMahon each told the board on the record that they think it is not, with Graves invoking the traffic backups Tully's other location on Route 11 already produces. The county also wants sidewalks built to the site's frontage — sidewalks Henty noted currently "go nowhere" in that stretch of road. That case, too, was pushed to March 19. So was the Inverness Gardens senior-living project on West Taft Road, stalled since the county rejected its preferred driveway configuration; a subdivision proposal from Scott Merle Builders on Gaskin Road, waiting on demolition and easement paperwork; Pack Rat Storage's expansion on Wetzel Road; the J.W. Didado plant expansion on Morgan Road; and two John E. Fisher Construction cases on Wetzel Road, both pushed to April 9. The only items the board actually closed out were four routine sign permits — for a bank, a nail salon, a wealth-management office and an AT&T store — each already sized to meet code and approved without discussion. Every applicant with a live land-use question left Town Hall with a later date instead of an answer, the hotel foremost among them, now carrying not just a variance and a stack of engineering comments but a wetland study still to be scheduled and a parking number its own board has called unacceptable.