OBSERVER Photo by M.J. Stafford Jamie Easton, representing Regan Development, shows a site plan of a proposed mixed-use development on East Fourth Street to the Dunkirk Planning Board Wednesday.

A proposed mixed-use development near Dunkirk’s Save-a-Lot plaza on East Fourth Street advanced Wednesday with approval of a site plan by the city Planning Board.

The board also approved a State Environmental Quality Review Act declaration of no negative effects from the project.

The plan has some differences from what project developer Regan Development has shown previously. Instead of an “L-shaped” building, it is now a straight building, with a slight zigzag, that will not abut the plaza buildings slated to remain.

Glenn Christner, Dunkirk’s top code enforcer, said the city Zoning Board approved a conceptual site plan earlier.

Jamie Easton, representing Regan Development, presented the site plan to the Planning Board Wednesday. He said the redesign into the zigzag shape will allow for more parking at Save-a-Lot. Two empty storefronts to the west of Save-a-Lot will still be demolished.

Developers also lowered the commercial square footage slightly below 6,000 square feet; it was slightly over the 6,000 mark previously.

According to the site plan, the building will contain 30 apartments; 14 of them will have two bedrooms while 13 will have one and three units will have three bedrooms.

Greenspace is now broken up throughout the property, instead of in one area. Islands in the parking area were added, for example. Easton acknowledged, “Overall green space on the project did go down,” though he later said the difference is very small and that about 20% of the site is still green space.

“There are traffic islands and landscaping that break up that parking lot that right now is a sea of asphalt,” Christner said earlier.

Easton concluded about the project, “Some of the details stayed exactly the same. Some of them did change up a little.”