GUILDERLAND — Cumberland Farms is trying again to set up shop in western Guilderland. This would be the company’s second shop in Guilderland; there is already one in Westmere, at Witte Road.

A representative of the company with a chain of 600 convenience stores and gas stations appeared before the planning board on Jan. 11, seeking concept approval of a revised plan for a site at the corner of routes 20 and 146 in Guilderland. Cumberland Farms first proposed building a convenience store and gas station there more than two years ago.

The plan would include tearing down the abandoned bank building near the corner that is almost completely covered with vines.

The current site, comprising two parcels instead of just the corner lot, is now 2.35 acres, instead of the 1.35 acres proposed in 2014.

It extends all the way, on the east, to the edge of the Western Turnpike Golf Course.

The new plan also incorporates a car wash, although this, presenter Stefanie DiLallo Bitter of the law firm Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes told The Enterprise, would be an optional “phased development” that could be added at a later date if town officials and residents were amenable.

In 2014, the state’s Department of Transportation had expressed concern about access — specifically about cars turning left into the site from Route 20 westbound, as well as cars turning left out of the site onto Route 20 westbound, according to a Nov. 2014 letter from the DOT to then-Town Supervisor Kenneth Runion.

DiLallo Bitter noted at the Jan. 11 meeting that the applicant hopes that the driveway on Route 20 has now been moved far enough east to mitigate these concerns.

The project’s traffic engineer, Wendy Holzberger of Creighton Manning, said at the meeting that the driveway is 100 feet further east than it was previously. “Now we’re at the end of the left-turn lane storage,” she said, “and we have a recommendation in [our] report to increase that left-turn storage just a little bit.”

Feeney suggested at the meeting that the applicant must, first of all, work out with the Department of Transportation any issues related to access, to see if the DOT wants to change the conditions that it placed on the project in 2014.

DiLallo Bitter told The Enterprise that a new traffic study has now been done for the larger parcel and that she hopes that the Department of Transportation will agree to look at the new data. If it does, she said, she hopes that it may grant the applicant’s request for full-access entrances and exits on both Route 20 and Route 146, with no restrictions on left turns.

Once the board receives a letter saying that the department is satisfied with the plan for access, it will put the project back on the agenda, Feeney said.

The board did not make any decisions on the matter.

Other business

In other business, the board:

— Held a public hearing, and gave final approval, 7 to 0, to the final plat of a proposal to cut a three-acre parcel from a 73-acre one at 5891 Depot Rd. owned by Rocsanna Rivers;

— Heard a concept presentation for a proposed two-lot subdivision of 88 acres at 6732 Dunnsville Rd. owned by Scott Carroll; the concept was approved 7-0, but the board expressed concerns about the length of the driveway and its 12-percent grade.

Feeney said that that was “very steep for a driveway”; he added that, in many cases when driveways are especially long, people put off paving them because of the cost and said that unpaved gravel driveways can be “hard to clean.” His concern was that the grade would make it dangerous, especially in bad weather. He recommended that the applicant request a letter from the fire department, stating that it is comfortable with the applicant’s plans for the site;

— Approved, 7-0, a revised site plan by Ryan Jankow for his properties at 1206-1210 Western Ave., where he plans to turn a one-family home in disrepair into a retail space with several different tenants. Since his last appearance before the Planning Board, Jankow had moved parking from the front of the building to the back, created more green spaces, and flipped the building around to bring the driveway over to the traffic light. Following a question from McKownville resident Martha Harausz, the board suggested that Jankow sign a formal, written easement between his property and the City Line, a nearby property that he also owns, in case one of them should be sold to a different owner in the future. Jankow was set to appear before the zoning board Wednesday night;

— Approved, 7-0, a request from The Meadow at Mill Hill, Luke Michaels presenting, to remove from the plat a stone walking path that was to link the nearby Stewart’s Shop to the housing community for people aged 55 and older; Michaels said that residents have now started to live in the community, and that “over 75 percent of people in the community are against the path, and asked me to come here and ask to remove it from the final plat.” He said that they considered it a safety concern, since Stewart’s was open late at night;

— Approved, 7-0, a request from Janice Hesler, Donald Cropsey presenting, to have the single-family home on an approximately half-acre lot that she owns at 6508 Vosburgh Rd. changed from R-20, or residential, with a minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet, to multi-residential; Cropsey said at the meeting that her property is “sandwiched in” among properties belonging to Carpenter Village and zoned multi-residential. Hesler plans at some point in the future, Cropsey said, to build a three-family home behind her home; and

— Heard from Ron DeVito, who seeks to build a facility to be known as Concordia Senior Housing Residences at 2298-2316 Western Ave., a site created by combining several vacant properties including the former Master Cleaners and a number of other nearby buildings. The lot would stretch about 800 feet to the east, starting from Foundry Road. Feeney recommended that the applicant reconsider the design to avoid building near the steep slopes at the back of the property and being forced to put in huge retaining walls that Feeney said would, in some places, be “as tall as 30 feet.”

DeVito previously told The Enterprise that he has told town officials he would be willing to donate land along the top of Foundry Road to the town, to make it possible to widen the road. At the meeting, Feeney spoke with DeVito about the possible need in the future for a turn lane from Western Avenue onto Foundry Road. DeVito at first suggested that he might be willing to create a turn lane there, but Feeney warned him that the cost would be “a heavy lift,” and suggested that it would probably be necessary to create a left-turn lane onto Willow Street at the same time.

Feeney told The Enterprise Wednesday that he does not believe the DOT will require left-turn lanes on Route 20 for this project, but said that the lanes might be needed at some point in the future, and did not want to do anything now to preclude that in the future. So, Feeney said on Wednesday, DeVito will need to figure out a way to avoid the cost and the environmental impact of building into the ravines; in order to do that, Feeney said, DeVito will need to get a clearer sense of where the facility can be in relation to Western Avenue and Foundry Road.