glens falls &mdash the city planning board on tuesday unanimously approved plans for just beverages to renovate the former st. alphonsus roman catholic church for a water packaging facility, leaving open the option for discussion of an alternative truck route that would bypass new pruyn street.the company will &ldquoimmediately&rdquo seek a building permit to begin renovations and installing equipment, in hopes of being ready to process water to submit for regulatory approvals by the end of december, just beverages chief operating officer jim siplon said after the meeting.developer thomas o&rsquoneil, who owns four multifamily rental properties with 13 apartments on new pruyn street and has opposed the project, suggested routing trucks along elm street instead of new pruyn street.using elm street instead of new pruyn street, trucks would go past eight residences instead of 30 residences, he said.&ldquoso i&rsquom going to suggest a compromise,&rdquo he said.siplon said the company is willing to discuss o&rsquoneil&rsquos suggestion with city officials.&ldquowe will follow whatever direction the city gives us,&rdquo he said. &ldquoi appreciate tom&rsquos problemsolving here. i think that&rsquos a harbinger of good things to come.&rdquothe company was simply following the city&rsquos designated truck route, which includes new pruyn street, siplon said.the goal of the designated truck route is to divert truck traffic from retail and commercial areas, city engineer steve gurzler said.the planning board left the option open by approving the site plan with conditions, including that the beverage company &ldquofollow guidelines of the city truck route and comply.&rdquogurzler said after the meeting he is not certain who would determine whether the truck route can be changed, but he believes the decision would be made by the city board of public safety in consultation with the state department of transportation.siplon said during the meeting that the beverage company will have little impact on traffic.on a recent monday, the busiest day of the week, 199 trucks passed through the intersection of broad and new pruyn streets between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., according to a traffic study the company completed.the beverage plant would add two or three trucks per day, initially, and eventually up to 16 trucks per day when at full capacity, siplon said.under the current city truck route, water would be hauled in trucks about the size of a fuel delivery truck from the city&rsquos watershed property in queensbury.in september, the city common council approved a contract for the company to buy up to 25 million gallons of water a year, to be drawn from an underground well the company would build on the city&rsquos watershed property.siplon has said the company can process no more than 10 million gallons per year with the equipment it is installing at the former church.several community leaders, including adirondack regional chamber of commerce president and ceo peter aust and glens falls school superintendent paul jenkins, urged the planning board to approve the project.anthony askew, a resident of 28 broad st., said the recent broad street reconstruction project and o&rsquoneil&rsquos renovation of homes along new pruyn street have made the neighborhood more desirable for families.for the first time in years, he said, he can hear children playing hide and seek.&ldquonew pruyn street has once again turned into a neighborhood,&rdquo askew said.planning board member peter accardi said new pruyn street residents are more likely to voice concerns to each other than to city planning officials.&ldquoi&rsquom trying to find a way to approve this,&rdquo he said before voting, with the rest of the board, in support of approving the site plan with conditions.just beverages will not need to return to the planning board for review, provided it documents it has met the conditions. 
