2015-07-27 Community Planning and Development Commission Minutes

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4 Town of Reading A Meeting Minutes REI:tIVf U .r TOWN CLERK READ NG, MASS. Board - Committee - Commission - Council: Community Planning and Development Commission ' ' - I All: 30 Date: 2015 -07 -27 Time: 7:30 PM Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Selectmen Meeting Room Address: 16 Lowell Street Purpose: General Business Session: General Session Attendees: Members - Present: Chair Jeff Hansen, John Weston, Dave Tuttle, Karen Goncalves -Dolan Members - Not Present: Nick Safina Others Present: Community Development Director Jessie Wilson, Assistant Town Manager Jean Delios, Dave Arsenault, Administrative Assistant Caitlin Saunders. Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Caitlin Saunders Topics of Discussion: Request for Minor Site Plan Review - MF Charles Building This request is to fit out the second and third floors of the building for commercial use. It is exclusively for an interior buildout with no additional signage at the moment. The second floor will be a single tenant which is Northern Bank with approximately 15 employees. The third floor will most likely be two commercial tenants. Northern Bank has already purchased five parking spots from the Knights of Columbus for their employees and are actively looking for more. The trash plan is the same at the moment but will be looked at again when the third floor has tenants. The Historical Commission has no problems as long as the new roof top units are painted black like the existing ones. Dave Arsenault from 580 Main Street says he is working on a contract to hopefully occupy the third floor of the building and his employees have no parking issues as they use the employee stickers around town. Dave Tuttle made a motion to approve the minor site plan review for 600 -622 Main Street as amended, second by Mr. Weston and approved with a 4 -0 -0 vote Update on Open Space Zoning/ Natural Resource Zoning The staff did a lot of research to take a look at our peer communities. Mr. Tuttle noted a lot of these seem to be for large parcels /big developers that may not apply to the small spaces we have in Reading. Ms. Delios commented most communities seem to say they can have the special permit as long as they are within the district and guidelines which is a lot simpler than our process. Ms. Wilson said North Reading has a cluster bylaw for under 6 houses, over 6 houses and then a backfill one as well. Ms. Delios suggested doing another public forum before going to Town Meeting and then maybe start with giving Town Meeting an update first. Mr. Tuttle noted removing PRD may simplify things but Mr. Hansen asked if there would be a risk between removing the PRD and the time it takes to put a new one in place. The consensus was it does not seem like a risk as there is no real need for PRD at the moment. Mr. Hansen said we should look at what projects went thru as a PRD and what Page 1 1