2009-08-10 Community Planning and Development Commission Minutes

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CPDC Minutes of 8/10/2009 • Changing the pre-construction meeting condition to allow the applicant to schedule such a meeting with the Building Inspector, Town Planner, and Town Engineer ten instead of thirty days prior to requesting a building permit. • Correcting a strange syntax in the language of the Major and. Minor Modification section of the decision (a section common to all site plan review decisions) as follows. The sentences beginning "Include but not limited to" will in this and all future decisions be corrected to read "This includes but is not limited to". DT moved the Board approve site plan review decision for 345 Main Street as amended. JP seconded and the motion was carried 5:0:0. Site Plan Review (Continued): 107 Main Street, SVam's Bistro The applicant, Mr. Michael Palmer, was present and represented. by attorney Brad. Latham. A draft decision had. been prepared by the Staff Planner and distributed to the Board and applicant prior to the meeting. Mr. Latham summarized how they have addressed the Board's and Town Staff's concerns raised when the applicant was last before the Board. • Drainage. They have met with the Town Engineer and per his recommendation the drainage system has been enlarged. An additional stormcepter chamber and manhole has been added to the site. Updated drainage plans have been submitted. • Employees and employee parking. Efforts are being made to secure off-site parking for employees but for now and the foreseeable future the number of employees will be held. to ten and they will park on-site. • Deliveries. The owner has his own delivery vans and therefore can schedule deliveries so as not to disturb abutters. • Lighting. Catalogue cutsheets of fixtures and a plan detailing the distribution of illumination across the site have been submitted. The Board discussed the Town Engineer's recoiumended changes to the site plan decision's conditions as outlined in his memo to the Staff Planner dated 8/10/2009. The Board agreed with four of the five suggestions. • The Board agreed the Conservation Administrators' language specific to the drainage system should be added to the decision but that only the portion requiring the applicant to submit a final drainage plan prior to constriction should be made a condition. The rest of the administrator's language should be a finding. • The Board agreed trash removal should be scheduled before normal hours of operation and determined those hours to be between 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM. • The Board agreed snow should be hauled off site as needed. • The Board agreed the curb cut onto Hopkins Street should not be an emergency exit only but a normal exit instead. Mr. Latham added the Fire Chief told him he was in favor of this change. Page 2 of 6