07/16/2019 PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES Minutes

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Minutes of Meeting Plan Review Committee Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:00 am Business Name: Industria Development Group, Inc. Project Address: 413 Nathan Ellis Highway Agent: Kevin Kirrane, Esquire Engineer: Atlantic Design Engineers, Inc. Request: Applicant is proposing to construct a 9,993 sq. ft, commercial building for retail use with accessory parking. Attorney Kevin Kirrane represented the project. Also present was Chris King, with Atlantic Design. This lot was developed back in the 1980's when a lot of the regulations were not in place. This site is commercially zoned, and the proposed use is a Dollar Tree which is a one tenant retail use. The proposed building will be 9,975 sq. ft., and the lot size is 51,000 sq. ft. The lot percentage conforms to the Zoning Bylaws, but because' of the regulations that have been .adopted since this lot was created many years ago, there are certain variance requirements that will be requested by the ZBA which includes the location of the parking, dealing with the subsurface drainage issue, and the surface drainage issues, location of the landscaping within a parking area, and certain setback criteria. Attorney Kirrane mentioned that there is a road that is completely located within the lot. Over the years that road was not part of the lot, but over the years the land court plans changed. The plan depicted a dotted line showing the location of the road was and was abandoned. Attorney Kirrane did apply for a variance from the setback requirements from that road, even though it does not exist, to cover all the necessary bases. It would need to comply with a 75 ft, setback from Ninigret, a 75 ft. setback from Nathan Ellis, and a 50 ft. setback from the adjacent residential area. He said it isn't really practical to have parking on the rear and side in this case unless there is relief from the building location. If the building location were moved forward, so there wouldn't be a variance from the 75 ft. front yard setback'for the building, than it might be possible to locate the parking to the rear of the building as opposed to the front. But the adjacent businesses such as Andy's Market, Dino's, and the strip mall with the landscape business across the way, all those uses have parking in the front of the buildings. So what is being proposed is not inconsistent on a design prospective, and unless the building itself is sitting on the street it is virtually impossible to accommodate parking behind the building. 5