The Planning Board will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m., March 9, regarding development plans for the former Newport House.

The hearing, at Town Hall, 1280 Titus Ave., will be to receive public comments on the proposed project's environmental impact statement, covering topics such as parking, traffic and drainage.

Developers want to build 47 condominiums and nine townhouses on the site, on the shores of Irondequoit Bay.

Plans also include retaining 187 boat slips on the site - 85 that would be for residents, 92 for rental by contract and 10 for visitors. The condos would be in four multilevel buildings, and the townhouses would be in three buildings.

The Newport House, an upscale restaurant at 500 Newport Road, served customers on the bay from 1840 until it closed in 2006, according to the town's Web site.