McDonald’s is seeking to demolish its current restaurant at 33 West Cavalry Drive in New City and construct a new building that would be a bit smaller yet have more seats inside. McDonald’s now operates at the 19-acre New City Plaza Shopping Center. Its existing restaurant and drive-thru is in a 4,570-square-foot building and has 41 seats. The size of the section occupied by McDonald’s is approximately 72,084 square feet or 1.65 acres.
The Town of Clarkstown’s Planning Board has been reviewing the site plan application filed by McDonald’s Corporation through its office in Stamford. McDonald’s is asking for approval to construct a new 4,455-square-foot building with 61 seats. The existing building has 41 parking spaces and McDonald’s wants to keep that number for the new building but change the layout so that some spaces are closer to the building.
McDonald’s notes that it leases the site from 180 New City Realty LLC and that the property is located within Community Shopping District (CS District) zoning in which the existing McDonald’s and the proposed McDonald’s are permitted as-of-right uses.
Other tenants at the shopping center include a Stop & Shop Supermarket, a Stop & Shop Gas Station, a Walgreens with a drive-thru pharmacy, an Ocean State Job Lot, Norcina Restaurant, and Mizu Hibachi.
The Planning Board has referred the matter to Clarkstown’s Architectural Historic Review Board, which must give its approval to the signage McDonald’s wants to install. Kim Vukov of McDonald’s Corporation said that the new building would be slightly to the west of where the existing building sits. The drive-thru would be reconfigured as would be traffic patterns within the McDonald’s site along with the replacement of existing pavement to improve drainage.
McDonald’s pointed out that the site contains part of the Demarest Kill Stream, which is in the National Wetlands Inventory. The site also is partially located within the flood hazard area for Demarest Kill. McDonald’s said it would apply to obtain appropriate environmental permits if necessary.
