Regular — 4.9.26 OCIDA Reg Mtg Minutes SIGNED
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Regular Meeting Minutes
April 9, 2026
A Regular meeting of the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency was held on Thursday,
April 9, 2026, at 335 Montgomery Street, Floor 2M, Syracuse, New York.
Randy Wolken called the meeting to order at 8:30 AM with the following in attendance:
PRESENT:
Randy Wolken
Alan Marzullo
Mark Muthumbi
Cydney Johnson
ABSENT:
Elizabeth Dreyfuss
Leslie English
Garard Grannell
ALSO PRESENT:
Robert Petrovich, Executive Director
Nate Stevens, Treasurer
Alexis Rodriguez, Secretary
Robert Schoeneck, Assistant Treasurer
Evan Carter, Assistant Secretary
Jeffrey Davis, Esq., Agency Counsel
Charlie Breuer, Twin Ponds HB, LLC, Managing Member
Brody Smith, Twin Ponds HB, LLC, Counsel
William Capalletti, Twin Ponds HB, LLC
John O’Brien, Twin Ponds HB, LLC (via Zoom)
Approval of Annual Meeting Minutes: March 5, 2026
Upon motion by Cydney Johnson, seconded by Alan Marzullo, the Board approved the Annual
meeting minutes of March 5, 2026. Motion was carried.
Approval of Regular Meeting Minutes: March 5, 2026
Upon motion by Cydney Johnson, seconded by Mark Muthumbi, the Board approved the Regular
meeting minutes of March 5, 2026. Motion was carried.
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Treasurer’s Report:
Nate Stevens gave a brief overview of the Treasurer’s Report for the month of March 2026.
Upon motion by Alan Marzullo, seconded by Mark Muthumbi, the Board approved the Treasurer’s
Report for the month of March 2026. Motion was carried.
Payment of Bills:
Upon motion by Cydney Johnson, seconded by Mark Muthumbi, the Board approved the Payment of
Bills. Motion was carried.
Action Items:
1. Twin Ponds HB, LLC (Project #3101-25-02A) First Meeting
The applicant is proposing to construct a residential community consisting of approximately
309 multifamily units, a commercial space, and recreational areas in the Town of Manlius.
Specific project amenities will include a well-equipped fitness center, a children’s play area, a
dog park, a new dock, and a covered pavilion.
Brody Smith, attorney at Bond Schoeneck & King who represents Twin Ponds HB, LLC
made the following comments:
The project is located at 5440 North Burdick. The lot is 54.5-acre parcel that’s currently
vacant and has been vacant for quite some time. Previously it was a quarry. B. Smith drew
attention to the two water features on the property, explaining that the project would occur
between the two water features, which is the suitable area for development.

The project includes 309 residential units, including 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments. There
will be three modern five-story buildings and 87,000 square feet of covered parking. There
will be an additional 5,700 square foot building reserved for commercial space as well as five
additional apartments. 304 of the 309 units will be in the modern three, five-story buildings.
The amenities will include a fitness center, a play area, a dog park, a clubhouse, the ponds
itself which will be available for recreational use, a pavilion, and trails. The trails on-site
have the capability to link up to the Canalway system by a pedestrian bridge over Limestone
Creek that the village and town are looking into constructing. This would be an exciting
opportunity to help connect the Town Center area to the Village of Fayetteville, which
essentially doesn’t exist right now.
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Due to the previous restrictive zoning and the development patterns in the area, prevented
development of this parcel for quite some time. The Applicant worked with the Town to pass
a floating zone planned development district law. This project was the first project under that
law because there is some development challenges under the old zoning laws that prevented
this from being developed.
B. Smith drew attention to the infill, explaining that it’s the best kind of infill because there’s
no new significant infrastructure required.
B. Smith provided the following information to the Board to explain the location: To the west
across the street is the town center senior living facility and Northeast Medical. Near the
southern edge of the property on the east side is where Kohls is and access into the town
center.

B. Smith advised that the Applicant has received great local support and they obtained a letter
of support from the Town of Manlius the night prior, which they have copies of for the
Board’s viewing. The Town has offered full throated support for the project, which didn’t
come as a surprise to them considering all of the zoning challenges associated with the
parcel. The Town of Manlius has already completed the SEQR review process and issued a
negative declaration. Part of that process was the Applicant working with the Town to
achieve certain community goals, such as workforce housing, and housing for people with
special disabilities included in the project. There were conditions to the passage planned
district plan, in addition to some sustainability aspects of the project and others that the Town
deemed to be important.
The Applicant has also provided an updated letter pertaining to its market study that reached
the conclusion that there is a desperate need for more housing in the area.
Robert Petrovich noted for the Board that the Agency staff has been evaluating the proposed
application, and some of the things that have been referenced by the Applicant have come in
at the last minute, which means the Agency staff hasn’t had a chance to vet them yet.

R. Petrovich stated that the action before the Board today is to authorize a public hearing,
however Agency staff will not move forward with scheduling a public hearing until staff
deems that the additional information is sufficient for a complete application.
R. Petrovich referred to media oversight on the Agency’s actions that can be seen as
controversial regarding housing. The Agency wants to make sure that everyone knows going
in what’s being asked of in terms of the locality and ensuring that we have a clear
understanding of what is being proposed and what incentives are going to be offered.
Alan Marzullo asked how many local permitted jobs will the project create.

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B. Smith responded that the project will create 120 construction jobs. Construction will be
slated to start later this year.
B. Smith stated that in terms of long-term jobs associated with the management of the
apartments, there will be a leasing agent, manager, and maintenance employees, which would
total around 7 jobs that will all be local hires.
Alan Marzullo asked about the construction time frame.
B. Smith responded that they would like to start construction at the end of this year. The
project will take about two years to complete.
Alexis Rodriguez noted for the Board that the project has a 10% workforce housing
component.
B. Smith explained that even before the Agency changed its UTEP, the Applicant had already
committed to the workforce housing component as part of their zoning process with the
Town.
Randy Wolken added that this project is needed in the community.
Randy Wolken read the Agency action requested, “A resolution of the Board authorizing a
public hearing.” Motion was made by Cydney Johnson, seconded by Alan Marzullo. Motion
was carried.
National Grid — Easement Authorization
The Agency wishes to grant easements to National Grid over portions of lands owned by the
Agency for the purpose of building facilities to provide electric and gas services for the White
Pine Commerce Park.

R. Petrovich explained that this is an easement for electric service to come across
Caughdenoy Road to enter the White Pine Commerce Park. There was once discussion about
putting the power overhead, but it is now going underneath the road and the railroad, coming
up on the other side on property that the Agency owns. Consulting Jeffrey Davis, R.
Petrovich asked how long the Agency will own this property. J. Davis advised that the
Agency would own the property for roughly another 30 days.
J. Davis explained that resolution before the Board is one to enter into the easements that will
be for both electric and gas. The electric easement is what’s in front of the Board right now,
and it’s consistent with where it was shown all along in the site plans. The gas easement will
most likely come within the next two weeks, but the Agency may not own the property at that
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time. J. Davis explained that if the Agency does own the property at the time, subject to legal
review, the Board would be approving entering into the easements. The easements have been
reviewed by Micron, whose under contract to purchase the property. Micron has reviewed
these and agree that the locations are all consistent with where they need to be considering
their operations but because the Agency is still in the chain of title, the Agency needs to
approve this now, as it’s an important step for National Grid to take their regulatory steps to
show that they have control of the land to put their infrastructure on the property. National
Grid cannot complete these next steps without having these easements in place.
R. Petrovich included that the Agency has a purchase and sale agreement with Micron for the
810 acres on the west that has gone back and forth in negotiations and terms. The
expectation is that the Agency will close in the month of April on the sale of the property for
everything that Micron is doing west of Burnet Road.
J. Davis added that this area has been studied under SEQR and it was included in the original
Environmental Impact Statement. This allows National Grid to proceed with the
infrastructure that has already been reviewed and examined.
R. Petrovich added that the electric is coming across the north side of the parcel and the gas
line will come across further south of the parcel.

J. Davis confirmed that the gas line would come out a little further south of Caughdenoy
Road and it would be more in line of where the rail spur property is, on the other side of the
Micron facility.
Alan Marzullo questioned if the easement displaces any properties.
J. Davis responded that this easement only relates to the final portion of land that is still
currently owned by the Agency.
Randy Wolken read the Agency action requested, “A resolution of the Board authorizing the
execution of an easement in connection with property located at White Pine Commerce Park
for facilities to provide electric and gas services.” Motion was made by Alan Marzullo,
seconded by Mark Muthumbi. Motion was carried.
White Pine Science & Technology Park
J. Davis explained that at the previous meeting, the Board declared their intent to be lead
agency for SEQR to start the environmental review process for White Pine Science &
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Following that meeting, the Agency sent out 30-day notices as is required under SEQRA. 30
days has passed. The Agency received two comments back within the 30-day period. One of
those comments was from the NYSDEC.
J. Davis explained that at the last meeting Part I of SEQR was approved and the Board
declared the Agency’s intent to be lead agency. The resolution before the Board is going to
state that OCIDA is lead agency and the Agency has reviewed Part IT of SEQR and has
determined that there are potentially significant adverse impacts, as a result of the
development of the White Pine Science & Technology Park on the 104 acres of land. As a
result of the review, the Agency will issue a positive declaration under SEQA and start a
Generic Environmental review process. The first step of that process is to go out to scoping,
which starts the public process of this review, which is an important step under SEQRA.

There are dual resolutions in front of the Board. The first part being that the Board has
reviewed Part II. J. Davis summarized Part II, noting that the consulting firm has reviewed
this, identified that there will be impacts to land, ranging from moderate to large, no impacts
to geologic features as a result of the development on the site, no unique land forms on the
site, there will be impact to service waters, ranging from moderate to large, there will be no
impact to groundwater and use of groundwater, there will be public facilities that will be used
for water purposes, there could be potential impacts on flooding given the nature of the site
that could require modifications to existing drainage patterns, there could be impacts on air
depending upon the ultimate development of the site and on the end user of the site, there
could be impacts to plants and animals, specifically removal of trees at the site, which were
not deemed to be moderate or large, there will not be an impact to agricultural resources, as
the property is not being used for farming and is not zoned for that purpose, there could be
impact on aesthetic resources, ranging from moderate to large depending on the development,
there will not be impact to historic or archaeological resources, and the property is identified
in a potentially sensitive area, which the Agency did receive a letter from the NYSDEC
stating that, there will be no impact to open space and recreation development, there will be
no impact to critical environmental areas, there could be potential impacts on transportation,
there could be impacts on energy, there could be impacts on noise, odor, and light, an impact
on human health, and the development is consistent with community plans and there could be
a change in community character as result of the development of the site given what is there
now versus what the development would be.

J. Davis stated that based upon that review of Part II, the Agency’s consulting team has
recommended that the Agency issues a positive declaration and completes Part III to note that
the Agency will do a positive declaration, and that the Agency advances a Draft Scope for
public review and comment. That public review and comment will include a public hearing,
which is not required, but the Agency would like to conduct a hearing. The recommendation
is that the Agency holds a public hearing on April 30, 2026, at the Clay Town Hall from
6:00PM to 8:00PM. The Draft Scope is designed to illicit comment for what should be
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studied in the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will ultimately lead to the
development of the site. After the Agency receives the comments on the Draft Scope, the
Agency will then develop a Final Scope, which will determine what will be studied and be
included in the Generic EIS for the development of the White Pine Science & Technology
Park. The EIS process will then start with the development of a Draft EIS.
R. Petrovich added that the Agency will be taking a fresh look at the issues that have
manifested as part of this internal review. The Agency certainly wants the public’s
participation in the review and comment of this. A lot of the impacts have been touched on
by Micron’s larger and fully comprehensive EIS that was completed. Micron was aware of
the possibility of this project, so the Agency will incorporate some of that information in the
EIS. The Agency will also generate its own data. These steps in the environmental review
process are all necessary to prepare the site for supply chain. The goal of this will be to
ensure that the site can handle what is being proposed.
Cydney Johnson questioned if there was a study on the land before the Micron EIS was
completed.

J. Davis responded that on the main campus there were two Environmental Impact studies
done in order to develop White Pine Commerce Park. The original was done and then a
supplement was done in 2021 where the Park was expanded from 300 acres to the current
1,400 acres. There were two Generic Impact Statements done and then a full site-specific
EIS done, focused on Micron. Referring to R. Petrovich’s previous comment, the traffic
study in Micron’s EIS included a potential development at White Pine Science & Technology
Park and assigned a certain amount of traffic that could come out of the development.
J. Davis explained that the Agency’s job will be to take from some of what has been done
already but also to take a look at site-specific GEIS for the White Pine Science & Technology
Park.
J. Davis added that the NYSDOT FHWA is doing their own EIS on the specific
improvements that they will implement, which was recommended under the Micron EIS.
The Draft Scope lays out certain study areas for the Agency, which the Agency will consult
NYSDOT FHWA, as they’re in a process right now that will be parallel.
Randy Wolken read the Agency action requested, “A resolution of the Board designating
OCIDA as lead agency with respect to a coordinated review and determining to issue a
Positive Declaration pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act.” Motion was
made by Cydney Johnson, seconded by Alan Marzullo. Motion was carried.

Randy Wolken read the Agency action requested, “A resolution of the Board finding that the
draft Scoping Document is sufficient for public review, opening a thirty-day public comment

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period during which a public hearing will be held on April 30, 2026.” Motion was made by Alan
Marzullo, seconded by Mark Muthumbi. Motion was carried.
Motion to adjourn was made by Cydney Johnson and seconded by Alan Marzullo at 8:56 AM.
Qo Rodrigues,
Alexis Rodriguez, Secretary