ROCK HILL — The Avon Commercial Park project was once again before the Thompson Planning Board on May 25 in order to make a “determination of significance” on the large commercial warehouse project that Glen Wild Land Co. LLC is proposing.

The developer wants to build 560,000 square feet of warehouse space in two buildings along Rock Hill Drive.

The developers also went before the board to go over the Traffic Impact Study (TIS) and the comments that were made by Sullivan County and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT).

One of the comments made by NYSDOT was that the proposed warehouses will have over 400 employee parking spaces, and according to the NYSDOT, the TIS “does not show anywhere near that number of vehicles added to the roadway network, and we question the need unless there are additional phases of the project that are not being shown.”

A letter provided by DTS Provident Design Engineering, LLP on the applicant’s behalf stated that peak hour vehicular trip generation does not directly correlate to peak parking demand.”

According to DTS, the number of vehicles arriving at the proposed project site would occur outside the peak hours.

“The amount of parking spaces proposed is intended to accommodate peak parking demand during shift changes,” said Carlito Holt from DTS on behalf of Avon Commercial Park.

Those at the Thompson Planning Board meeting also discussed the addition of curbs at the intersection of Katrina Falls Road and Rock Hill Drive, where the proposed traffic signal could be installed.

The developer is proposing two traffic stoplights, one on Katrina Falls and another on Glen Wild Road.

Board members were concerned if there would be enough space around the new curbs and how that would impede traffic - Rock Hill Trading Post and Dutch’s share the intersection.

Furthermore, the issue is where to place the snow during winter months as the intersection is also used to pile up snow during inclement weather.

Steven Vegliante of Brown, Duke, and Fogel, an attorney for the Avon Park Project, said that matter would be looked into by the engineers on what that proposed traffic light and new curbs could look like in that intersection and will be presented to the board before any improvements are made.

According to DTS, on Rock Hill Drive and the Glenn Wild Road intersections, there will be striping along Dutch’s frontage in “order to channelize traffic to more safely and efficiently enter and exit the parking area under the protection of the proposed traffic signal at the Rock Hill Drive/Glen Wild Road intersection.”

The board approved for Larry Wolinsky, a legal consultant to the planning board, to draft a negative declaration for the New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) for the next planning board meeting, where the board is expected to adopt the “neg dec” on the SEQR which furthers along with the project.

The board has yet to approve the site plans and special permits needed and will be discussed at the next meeting on June 8 at 7 p.m.