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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-10-04 Planning Board Minutes I TOWN OF NORTH ANDOVER PLANNING BOARD " 2 Minutes of the Meeting r 3 October 4, 2005 4 Town Hall _ 120 Main Street 5 7:00 PM 7 8 Members present: Richard Nardella, Chairman 1 9 John Simons, Vice Chairman to James Phinney, Clerk 11 Jack Green 12 Richard Rowen, alternate 13 14 15 Member absent: Alberto Angles 16 17 Staff present: Lincoln Daley, Town Planner 18 Mary Ippolito, Recording Secretary 19 20 Richard Nardella, Chair called the meeting to order at approximately 7:05 pm. 21 Four Board members are now present, however, John Simons should arrive 12 shortly. Chair explained the procedure to the assembly present. There are currently 23 5 petitions listed as postponements for tonight's agenda. They are as follows: 24 25 0 Methuen Street- Duplex -Definitive Subdivision 26 k,,ui. 4, 2005 27 Currently in front Con/Com until end of October 28 Withdrew without prejudice from ZBA 29 Keep on as postponement until further notice. 30 Submitted continuance until 10/27/05 31 32 33 205 Dale St., Watershed Special Permit— James & Sandra Timmons 35 Requested waiver from VIIB review. 36 ZBA continued until complete set of plans are submitted, j 37 Keep on as a postponement until further notice. 38 1 Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page I Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda, 1 2 Lot 20A Bridle Path, Watershed Special Permit, construct single-family 3 residence within non-disturb zone. 4 1,111.. n l c e t k r j; r 8 u r ; Rl I I I�S III!A S 1'°e1()T I r N;I�f 4',N VIK'A I!I "Ir II{ 5 Requested to be heard at November 1, 2005 Pl. Bd. Mtg. 6 VHB has not submitted review 7 8 9 Molly Towne Road Modification Site Plan Special Permit PRD Charlie j 10 Carroll. 1,� 11"",b d I A 1` 111 ,kI'` I III AI'"I) Y1 ;1". 12 VHB has not submitted review. 13 14 15 1025 Osgood Street Hearthstone Real 3-story office building Phase II 16 Site Plan Special Permit 18 Treadwell's postponed until 10/1.8/05. 19 VHB has not responded w/letter. 20 21 22 Board discussed the issue of why 1025 Osgood Street was postponed. Lincoln 23 stated that VHB didn't get their letter to the Planning Department in time for 24 tonight's meeting; only a draft letter is in progress by VHB. VBB is now 25 finalizing the letter ASAP. Board finds this unacceptable. Board advised Lincoln 26 to find out what other options are available. If it takes two weeks to write a letter 27 that's too long. Lincoln to write a letter to VHB for the Chair to sign expressing 28 his extreme displeasure noting they must be too busy to help us out and that's 29 troubling. Chair advised that there would be no more postponements on this 30 petition. Chair asked Lincoln to send the VHB contract to Jack Green for his 31 review. 32 33 34 Bond close out: 35 Country Club Estates subdivision. $28,200.00 + accrued interest. Planning 36 Department received verification of recording of all documents at Registry of 37 Deeds. All documents are in order per notification by Town Counsel. 38 Subdivision was accepted at Town Meeting in May of 2004. Mr. Grasso, Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 2 Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. 1 developer, requested a close out of his bond and balance returned to him. Upon a 2 motion by Jack Green, 2"d by James Phinney, to close out bond "G" and to release 3 $28,200.00 + accrued interest to Mr. Grasso, developer, vote was unanimous 4-0. 4 5 6 Please note: John Simons arrived at 7:25 pm. 7 8 Discussion: 9 Steve Fiore to discuss placing "rezoning of property on Rte. 114 " article on 10 warrant at Special Town Meeting of December 5, 2005. This property is 11 currently owned by Mr. Digrazia. Mr. Fiore is currently paying a montly rent and 12 would like to rezone the property. Lincoln did a presentation slide show showing 13 where the property is located on Rte. 114. The property is currently zoned for I-1 14 zoning district. 15 16 Mr. Fiore stated that he would like to rezone the property to B-1 zoning district. 17 All of the dimensional requirements currently meet the requirements for B-1 18 zoning district. Mr. Fiore stated that when he rented the property he was under the 19 impression that the property had previously been used as a retail use. Mr. Fiore 20 stated that besides paying a monthly rent he had started painting and changing light 21 fixtures, etc. then he found out it was zoned for Industrial. Board stated they are 22 satisfied with the B-1 zoning district for this project. Chair suggested that possibly 23 rezoning could also be done all along this area in order to avoid any spot zoning. 24 Board instructed Lincoln to contact Mr. Digrazia and ask him if he is interested in 25 rezoning the rest of his property to B-1. Chair instructed Mr. Fiore to submit 26 warrant article to rezone to B-1 zoning district ASAP and that the Planning Board 27 will endorse it. 28 29 Discussion: 30 Chris Adams to discuss rezoning of property at 1591 Osgood Street, located 31 across from Lucent property. Chris Adams was present tonight and stated that 32 he is the owner of the property located opposite Lucent; Mr. Adams stated that he 33 has been paying taxes on the property for approximately 47 years. He wants to 34 further develop his property. He saw that Ozzy Properties plan to develop a 40R 35 development and he met with Chris Huntress and Lincoln Daley for further 36 information on developing his property and rezoning requirements. Mr. Adams' 37 property is currently zoned for I-S zoning district, he now wishes to rezone to the 38 same zoning district as Lucent I-2. Minutes of the Meeting a October 4,2005 Page 3 Note: The Plasnting Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. 1 2 Mr. Adams went into a brief summary of a previous project that he attempted to 3 undertake, that of a cold storage unit, however, due to circumstances beyond his 4 control the project was never approved. He stated that someone-else got the 5 approval for a cold storage unit before he did so that Mr. Adams lost out on the 6 project. 7 8 Chair stated that when moving forward with the Lucent development, the Board 9 should look to expand this project to abutting properties and to properties located 10 across the street, (especially if a train station goes in). Mr. Adams should not limit 11 himself to a small view of the redevelopment but maybe a larger view in order to 12 benefit himself as well as abutting properties. Chair instructed Lincoln to 13 coordinate a meeting with all of the property owners in this Lucent development 14 site and to see what zoning district they may want to be zoned to. Board wants to 15 be carefiil about what is included in the rezoning in this area. If property across 16 the street should be included then Board wants to make sure it gets planned 17 properly. Further discussion ensued by the Board regarding the creating of an I- 18 2+ zoning district; Board discussed use for the I-2 versus an I-2+ zoning district. 19 20 Board wants Mr. Adams to get together with the other property owner's and ask 21 them if they want to rezone. Lincoln to bring in the abutters to an information 22 discussion at the Board meeting soon. Mr. Adams to involve himself in the 23 abutters meeting with the Board. Subject of the meeting: to revise the I-2 zoning 24 district to create a new zoning district, put some new uses in it and change to I-2+. 25 26 Planning Board "Old Business": 27 28 Roadway located behind high school. 29 Chair stated he is in receipt of e-mail from our Superintendent's office that the 30 roadway located behind the High School is now open. Chair requested further 31 verification regarding the implementation of an emergency evacuation plan. How 32 does the plan work? Who will take responsibility for coordination of the plan? 33 Police and Fire are to be the keeper of the key? Lincoln to send a letter to Police 34 Chief and Fire Chief and expect them to respond regarding emergency issue. 35 Chair read a letter from Planning Board to Chief Dolan & Chief Stanley looking 36 for assurances of their plan to open the gate. Suggest a police detail at the end of 37 the street if necessary for an emergency evacuation procedure. Chair wants this 38 emergency evacuation plan information available in the Planning Department as a Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 4 Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. 1 public record. Chair also thanked our school Superintendent and our School "! 2 Committee for their work on this issue. . 3 4 5 "Old Business" 6 7 CVS stone wall: s Chair stated that the stonewall located at CVS Pharmacy is in disrepair again, 9 cement and more stonewall has crumbled and fallen down again. "They fix it and 10 it keeps falling apart". Chair stated get the wall fixed. Issue arose whether there is 11 bond money remaining in the bond account in case Board has to seize the money in 12 order to ensure that the stonewall gets repaired. Planning Assistant will check the 13 balance in the bond account and get back to Board with information. 14 15 16 Discussion: 17 A brief discussion ensued between the Board regarding the previous scheduling of 18 a 40R overlay district meeting. Chair stated that a mutual time should be 19 established for the Planning Board to meet with other attendees regarding this 20 project. Many of the Planning Board members work out of town, it's impossible 21 for them to leave work during the middle of their day to get to a meeting. Chair 22 requested that reasonable advance notice be given when scheduling a 40R meeting, 23 allowing the Board members a sufficient amount of time to fit the meeting into 24 their schedule and reasonable amount of time for travel tune to the meeting. 25 26 27 28 Continued Public Hearin s: 29 30 Turnpike St. & Waverly Rd, Walgreen's Pharmacy & additional building 31 Site Plan Review Special Permit 32 First meeting date: Sept. 6, 2005 33 Attorney Vin Manzi was present tonight. Atty. Manzi stated that he obtained 34 abutters list from N.A. Assessor's office and noticed in the Tribune to abutters in 35 North Andover. Atty. Manzi stated that MHF comments arose as to weather or not 36 Lawrence and Andover fell within the 300 feet to notice to abutters. He later 37 obtained abutters list from Assessor's office for Lawrence and Andover and then Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 5 Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. I noticed in the Tribune to abutters from both locations. Atty. Manzi then renoticed 2 to abutters in North Andover. 3 4 Atty. Manzi stated that he now requests to have all of the original paper work 5 resubmitted to the file as of tonight's date (10/4/0 5) and reopen the meeting as of 6 tonight's date (1014/05). Atty. Manzi requested permission to submit a withdrawal 7 without prejudice tonight. Atty. Manzi also asked if the Board will go fin-ther with 8 this hearing and waive the application refilling fees. Upon a motion by John 9 Simons, 2nd by Richard Rowen, to accept a withdrawal without prejudice for the 10 original application. Vote was unanimous 5-0 the withdrawal without prejudice 11 was signed and accepted tonight. 12 13 Please note. Any fees to renotice in the newspaper is not the financial 14 responsibility of the Town of North Andover and should not be absorbed by the 15 Planning Department. 16 17 Upon a motion by James Phinney, 2nd by Jack Green, the Board voted to open this 18 petition as a new public hearing as of 1014/05. Board will accept all data as of 19 today's date. Application for a Site Plan Review Special Permit under Section 8.3 20 & 10.3 & Planned Commercial Development District, Section 15.4.1 of the North 21 Andover Bylaw. Applicant seeks to construct two contiguous commercial 22 buildings, Bldg. #1 as a Walgreen's Pharmacy & Bldg. #2 for a proposed retail 23 use. Plan dated 8/4/05 & 9113/05 revision #1. Vote was accepted and unanimous 24 5-0. Mr. William Goebel, P.E. from Bohler Engineering was present to speak 25 tonight. Refer to previous minutes to recap his presentation. He stated that new 26 changes to sidewalks have been made, problem with a grade change provided 27 handicapped access put a sidewalk along Waverley Rd. and back along the back of 28 the parking spaces along Rte. 114. 29 30 Board wants more trees, and plantings to be added along the corridor wall area. 31 Board wants this area to be maintained. VHB reviewed project for additional 32 drainage issues. Other issue, delivery tracks and how they maneuver around the 33 parking lot aisle widths. Issue of awnings that were added to the front of the 34 building, there cannot be a name added to/on the awnings because it would 35 constitute a sign. Chair wants more plantings all over 3 1/2" caliber tree plantings, 36 put more plantings along the Waverly Rd. side. Engineer stated that he added 37 more than usual plantings and submitted a drawing showing the extra plantings. 38 Board asked Engineer to present this project with a better visual impact, maybe Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 6 Note: Ilie Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. 1 add a split rail fence, or a stone wall? Mr. McEvoy, Architect presented. The two 2 proposed buildings are to be joined together at one point. Proposed a connecting 3canape above both buildings. Glass window panels above and below wall. 4 Exterior, clapboard, texture to look like wood. Discussion ensued regarding 5 building materials w/the Board and the Architect. Time is now 9:30 pm. Bob 6 Vanase, traffic engineer, presented to the Board. Traffic is 30K a day at peak time; 7 Addressed TEC issues in Sept 05 letter. Board wants to know what stop and start 8 traffic will affect the 30K a day. It was noted by the Board that the engineer 9 reviewed the issue of a drive-thru restaurant. Board stated they wanted 10 confirmation from the applicant that a drive thru restaurant will not be proposed to 11 be built. Why was it not brought up earlier in the application process, now it's too 12 late to request a restaurant? Donate a frontage piece of land to Mass highway 13 issue was raised in the review; issue needs to be addressed by engineer. Expansion 14 of Rte. 114 may be required at the front of the area. Lincoln to visit Mass 15 Highway Department along w/traffic engineer, to get their input ASAP. Continued 16 until Oct. 18, 2005 meeting. Board acknowledged a written letter from Patricia 17 Ferris, abutter. Janet Ferris, daughter, was present and stated that the plan 18 presented this evening is not drawn correctly. She pointed out that Rte 114 19 currently turns into four lanes now, she stated that the plan submitted in incorrect, 20 and she lives in the area. Lincoln to do a site visit to check out Ms. Ferris' 21 objection to the traffic problem existing now. Fix traffic issues. Time is now 10:00 .22 pm. This petition will continue until the October 18th Planning Board meeting. 23 24 25 Initiatives to come out of the meetine; 26 27 Lincoln to check other options available for outside consultant to the Town. 28 29 Lincoln to write a letter to VHB regarding 1025 Osgood Street for Chair to sign. 30 31 Send VBB contract to Jack Green for review. 32 33 Lincoln to meet w/Steve Fiore and Mr. Digrazia regarding rezoning to B-1. 34 and for Steve to submit warrant article for Town Meeting in December. 35 36 Lincoln to set up meeting with abutters of Chris Adams' regarding rezoning to I- 37 2+. 38 Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 7 Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda. I Lincoln to send letter to Fire and Police Chief regarding coordination of 2 emergency evacuation plan. 3 4 Planning Assistant to check out remaining balance in CVS bond account. 5 6 Meet with Mass Highway Dept. regarding frontage at Walgreen"s. 7 8 Check out sidewalks and frontage along Rte 114 in front of Walgreen's. 9 10 I]. Approve the "Minutes" of the Meeting for August-16, 2005 12 13 Upon a motion by James Phinney, and 2nd by John Simons to approve the Minutes 14 of August '16th, 2005, vote was unanimous 5-0 " Minutes" approved. 15 16 17 Upon a motion by James Phinney, and 2nd by John Simons to adjourn tonight's 18 meeting at approximately 10:10 pm, vote was unanimous 5-0. Meting adjourned. 19 20 21 Upcoming Planning Board Meeting: 22 The Oct. 18, `005 Planning Boaiii-d rneefing will beleld dot the Senior Center. 23 24 25 By order of the Planning Board 26 27 28 29 Approved: 30 Minutes of the Meeting October 4,2005 Page 8 Note: The Planning Board reserves the right to take items out of order and to discuss and/or vote on items that are not listed on the agenda.