WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. By John F. Bailey. May 19, 2006: The hottest site plan in town, the Louis Cappelli revised site plan showing the new Ritz-Carlton design changes was not reported available in the Building Department yesterday afternoon.
WPCNR inquired at the Building Department of the City of White Plains to see if I could see the plans for a closer look at the project. The Building Department personnel I reached did not know if the plans were in the department for viewing, or their whereabouts.
Other than the boards shown to the Common Council Wednesday evening, (which the Common Council did not receive copies of), the revised unapproved site plan, (already being followed) was not reported available in the Building Department as of 4 P.M. Thursday afternoon, after repeated calls by this reporter.
The whereabouts and availability of the new site plan could not be determined by the secretary to the Commissioner of Building who left messages for the Commissioner of Building to get back to The CitizeNetReporter. The former site plan approved for the project called for 8 stories on the podium, not 10, and 890,000 square feet, not 940,000. The plans were reported by the Mayor as approved by the Building Department when Mr. Cappelli requested the changes, however the actual site plans appear not available in the Buiding Department to clarify the sketchy details of the plans shown Wednesday night.
WPCNR checked with Cappelli Enterprises to see if possibly the new site plan is still in the process of being tweaked, or has not been submitted yet.