HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999-11-08 Community Planning and Development Commission MinutesTOWN OF READING
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COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMEN IOMMSS ONE
CPDC MINUTES
Meeting Dated.• November 8h,1999
Members Present Jonathan Barnes, Chairman (JB), Neil Sullivan, Secretary (NS);
Richard Schubert (RS); Michael Flammia (MF), Richard Howard (RH)
Also Present Joseph Delaney, Town Engineer ()D); Anne Kne& Town Planner
(AR)
The Chair called the meeting to order at 6:45 PM. The location was in Room 210
at the Reading High School.
RECONSIDERATION OF ZONING AMENDMENT - PARKING REQUIREMENTS
FOR RESTAURANTS
The Commission was briefed by staff and Counsel's recommendation to not
include in the amendment to Town Meeting language exempting those
businesses within three hundred feet from a municipal lot from parking
requirements. It was opined this is a substantial change to the original intention
of the amendment as advertised and posted for the Town Meeting.
RS made the following motion, seconded by ME
We, the Reading Community Planning and Development Commission, under
the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40A, Section 5, to hear a
zoning by-la w amendment for inclusion in the Special Town Meeting for
November 8, 1999 as Article 11, do hereby vote, to forward the following
language to the Town Meeting with a favorable recommendation:
Amend Table 61.1.3. Off-Street Parking and Loading/Unloading Requirements
of the Reading Zoning By-Laws by deleting the current text of the Minimum
Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required for Restaurants and substituting
therefor the following
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"Restaurants Forrestauranfs with seating one (1) space for everyfour (4)
persons of the rated seating capacity of the facility, plus one (1) space for every
employee on the largest shift. Forrestaurants with no seatin& one (1) space for
every seventy five (75) square feet ofnetfloor area orfraction thereof, butno less
than ten (10) spaces shall be provided In addition to the foregom& restaurants
with dnve-tlu u windows shall provide both a pass-through lane and a drive-
thru lane. The drive-thm lane shall have stacking capacity of atleast one
hundred ninety eight (198) feetin length of which atleastninety (90) feet of the
stacking spaces are to be for ordering and the transaction of business In
addition to the foregom& the drive-thru lane shall also have stacking capacity of
fiffy-four (54) feet exiting onto the road.
All in favor.
CONTINUATION OF A PUBLIC HEARING - MARRIOTT SENIOR LIVING- 40 TO
42 WEST STREET
The Commission and the applicant (Mark Favaloro, Esq., and Lino Bernardi of
Marriott Corporation) debated as to how to determine access to the back portion
of the lot and still maintain the existing cedar tree line at the property line.
At a point in the hearing, Lino Bernardi left the hearing without comment.
RH made the following motion, seconded by NS:
We, the CPDC, as requested by Marriott Senior Li vmg Services, Inc. Of
Washington, DC, under the provisions of Section 4.3.3.1. of the Zoning By-Laws
of the Town ofReadin& to consider the contemplated site plan development-for
property addressed at 4042 West Street (Assessor Map 29, Lots 2 and 3), as
shown on the plans entitled "Site Plan/Elevations Brighton Gardens", lastly
revised September 21, prepared and stamped by BSC Group and JSA
Architects, Inc, respectively; do hereby vote.• to approve the aforementioned site
plan as shown on the submitted plans
This approval is subject to the following conditions-
1. Prior to the issuance of a building permit, all otherrequirements and permits
shall besought and received, including, butnotlimited to a curb cut permit
and a utility connection permit. The applicantshall bear the burden of
ensuring all state and local permitting has been sought and recei ved.
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2. Exterior construction of this project shall be limited to the following hours -
Monday through Friday from 700AMto 8 00 PM, Saturdayfrom 9.•00 AM to
5 00 PM. No construction on the exterior shall be allowed on Sunday or legal
holidays Interior construction shall be limited to these hours if the work
performed is audible within three hundred feet of the property boundary.
3. Construction apparatus shall not use South Street and/or Walnut Street for
access to, or egress from the site.
4. The Town Planner, prior to the issuance of a building permit, shall approve
final landscaping plans
5 Prior to the close of the Zoning Board of Appeals-public hearingfor this
projects required Special Use Permit, the Town Engineer shall approve final
layout and grading plans for the proposed access drive to service the back
portion of the property; as proposed to be deeded in the future to the Town
of Reading.
6. PY•ior to the issuance of a building permit, there shall be coordination with the
West Street Corridor Improvement Plan with the Town Engineer for the final
layout of the access drive for the facility, the conveyance of necessary
deeds/easements for right of way construction, and any other obligatory
elements of the Corridor Plan influenced by/from this project
7 The oral agreement with the ReadingHousingAuthority as provided forin
this By-Law, shall be confirmed in writing prior to the issuance of a building
permit.
All in favor.
Motion to adjourn at 725 PM, made by W, seconded by RH. All in favor.
These minutes were prepared by Anne Krieg, Town Planner, and submitted to
the CPDC on November 12 1999
Minutes 'were approved by the CPDC on November 22,1999.
Signed as approved:
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Neil Sullivan, Secretary Date