Traffic generated by the Tempo by Hilton hotel, proposed for West Avenue in Patchogue, was a major topic of discussion when the village’s planning board held a public hearing on June 10 to discuss plans for the proposed hotel.

The developer, West Avenue Partners LLC, of Merrick, wants to raze a former bowling alley at 138 West Avenue and build a 96-room hotel with 13 apartments and amenities, including a rooftop restaurant and bar, spa, and 3,400 square feet of event space, enough to accommodate a small conference or wedding. There would be three floors of hotel rooms and one floor of apartments, the project’s architect, James Manicone, of JM2 Architecture, told the board.

The 105,280-square-foot building will cost between $35 million to $40 million. Larry Davis, the attorney for the developers, said the developers plan to apply for a tax break from the Town of Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency.

“The property is within the village’s floating hotel district, so the developers have the right to build a hotel there,” planning board chairman John Rocco said at the meeting, but they need planning board approval for the building’s size and appearance.

“Our job is not to decide whether there will be a hotel there,” Rocco said. “That ship has already sailed.”

The hearing before the planning board dealt largely with concerns about how much traffic the hotel would generate along West Avenue and Division Street and the impact on residents who live nearby.

The traffic signal at West Avenue and Division Street is already a congestion point and traffic can stack up at that intersection, especially during midday around 12:45 p.m. and particularly when cars have to wait for a Long Island Rail Road train to enter or leave the Patchogue station, which is located across the street, several planning board members said.

Rocco said the addition of a left-turn lane at the light would alleviate the problem.

“We’re going to get the traffic figured out,” he said.

Manicone, the project’s architect, said the developer would be amenable to adding the turning lane.

As for parking, the developers plan to place a parking lot behind the building. Plans call for 119 spaces, six of which would be ADA accessible, and with another 13 landbanked spaces. This exceeds the 101 spaces required under the village code.

The planning board also wants the developers to meet with the village’s Conservation Tree Committee to discuss which trees would be best for the site.

The planning board closed the public hearing after about two hours of discussion and didn’t issue an immediate ruling on the developer’s application for site plan approval.

The planning board next meets on June 24. The hotel project wasn’t listed on the agenda as of the afternoon of June 16.