ALTAMONT — Nearly two years after first coming to the village with his proposal, Troy Miller this week received approval from the Altamont Zoning Board of Appeals for an 11-lot subdivision on 13 acres bounded by Western Avenue, Schoharie Plank Road West, Gun Club Road, and Marian Court. 

Some of the board’s conditions for approval appear to address concerns raised by residents during multiple meetings on the proposal, like building permits not being issued until after the village has dredged Fly Creek and the installation of plants to screen adjacent properties from the project, while others are more standard, like paying into the village’s park and sidewalk funds. 

The resolution was adopted by all five of the currently five-member board. The village abolished its five-member planning board two years ago, replacing it with a seven-member zoning board with two alternate members. 

Miller, by way of his CM Fox Living Solutions LLC, will build 10 new homes with one lot already containing a home. Three properties will be accessed by a shared roadway located between 133 and 137 Western Ave; another three will be accessed directly from Western Avenue; and the remaining four lots are to be accessed by a road placed between 115 and 117 Schoharie Plank Road West.

The project received multiple variances that allowed for the creation of four keyhole lots, each with approximately 16 feet of road frontage; zoning requires a minimum road frontage of 30 feet for a keyhole lot.