2005-09-26 Community Planning and Development Commission Minutes

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Public Hearing (continued): Dwight Road Definitive Subdivision Request for continuation. (Action date: October 17, 2005) The Board had received a letter from the applicant requesting a continuance and an extension. Attorney Brad Latham represented the applicant. Mr. Latham said that the developer is asking for an extension to November. JS moved to continue the Public Hearing on the Dwight Road Definitive Division until the November 1, 2005 meeting and to grant an extension of the Action Date to November 30, 2005. JB seconded. Voted Approved: 4:0:0. Public Hearing: 2005 Subsequent Town Meeting Zoning Amendments Downtown Business B Mixed Use Overlay District The Board reviewed the current draft of the Mixed-Use Bylaw. Various grammatical changes were suggested and made. The Board asked the Town Planner if the Town Counsel's questions had been answered? CR said they had. The Board then asked the Town Planner if more background information should be added to the sections the Town Counsel had questioned? CR said he thought it would not be necessary. Mr. George Katsoufis asked if the Dimensional Requirements section might need a paragraph on corner lots? His concern was, as there is no minimum side-yard setback, the geometry of the front yards of the entire street adjacent to the corner lot's side yard might be affected. The Board considered adding more specific language to the section until CR pointed out that there was already language in the bylaws that handled such a case. "5.2.3 Yards" mentions averaging the front-yard setbacks on a street. The consensus of the Board was that they could depend on the language already in the bylaws to handle most cases and anything out of the ordinary could be dealt with through the Mixed Use Bylaw's special permitting authority. JB asked if the wording on curb-cuts limits them to no more than one curb-cut per site? The Town Engineer said that we shouldn't be encouraging the construction of a lot of curb-cuts. He also pointed out that requiring even one curb cut might not be wise. He gave M.F. Charles as an example of a site that has access to parking but no curb cut and no curb cut is necessary. The Board decided to amend the curb-cut language of the bylaw to say that one curb-cut to a public way may be required. Coning lvlap Amendment to Expand Business B District and to adopt Mixed Use This concerns the expansion of the Business B District to include properties between Sanborn Street and Linden Street. The rationale behind the expansion is that half the block is already Business-B and of the half that is not most have business uses (medical). The Page 2of12