07/16/2019 PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE MINUTES Minutes

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Minutes of Meeting Plan Review Committee Tuesday, July 16, 2019 There are certain landscape requirements such as trees within the parking area that is not practical so the tree planting will occur in the buffer zone areas of the project. There is also a bike path that is planned along the front and will have to be coordinated with the Town and take the particular steps. There is also variance relief requested relative to the treatment of the surface drainage. The State has certain requirements that call for the location of drainage swale basins that are naturally vegetated on the site. There is no room to do that, and will be presented by the Chris King, Engineer to explain that, and the Ground Water Protection District that runs through the middle of this lot. There are limitations on the types of uses because of this district. It's a single use retail building that is allowed in this zoning district. There are 35 parking spaces, two are which handicapped spaces. The limitations that are present for Variance relief largely revolves around that it boarders on two sides by streets which require certain setback criteria. Glen Harrington, Board of Health. A couple of points on the septic system. He said that the Board of Health has regulations that require the reserve area be built at the time of construction. There are valves in between the two primary reserves to switch back and forth especially where this is under pavement. He saw the dumpsters have enclosures. The design data shows the design flow is office for retail. If using the 50 gallons a day per 1,000 sq. ft. but it's labeled as office, which is 75 per thousand, this needs to be revised because if there is any administrative office use, this needs to be included in the square footage. As long as the amount stays below the 600 regulation there will be no need for a denitrification. There needs to be subsurface disposal of the storm water runoff, and there is no issue as long as it meets the calculations there is no issues. He asked if a slab construction to look at the leaching will be 10 or 20 ft. setback. The use is fine. Evan Lehrer: He will repeat many of the comments already made. He is in agreement that there are unique constraints on this particular parcel. Given a paper road that does exist, it was correct to apply for variance relief. He said despite the challenges on the site, the question always asked is there potential for development that would be compliant to the zoning bylaw, and he thinks the answer is maybe because what is proposed is a 9900 sq. ft. building. He doesn't think that this size building is appropriate for this site. 6