The North Kingstown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, to discuss a major 16-lot subdivision pre-application for Sanctuary Estates, debate parameters for traffic impact analyses, and approve minutes from previous meetings. The meeting included staff presentations, public comment, and board deliberation.
Sanctuary states a major 16 lots subdivision pre-application for property located. 309 off the Nesset Road Queenstown. I think the applicant or in demand knows the process. The staff will give us a synopsis and have questions for that anything you wish to. I'm going to first introduce Joe, who is our newest employee. I'm not gonna put him on the spot and make him present tonight, but he is here to start being harassed by the boards. He started off, he joined me for the economic development meeting today, so you're his second meeting of the night. He does. Oh, you would like to know it. Joe, do you like to give an introduction of yourself? Quick, quick, quick. Sure. Where you're from? Who you are? Yeah, I'm uh Joe Dunnehoo. I just started in July. Um I just recently graduated uh with my MPA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. So a little bit of a difference here, but um I'm excited. So he's still here, so that's a good thing. So we can move on now to sanctuaries. No, I didn't. Put him on the spot. Sounds like something you wanna do. So the application you have in front of you tonight is for it's a pre-application, so that's the first conceptual stage of a project for sanctuary estates, which is located on North Quinnescent Road, assesses plat 160 lots 91 and 92. The parcels together are approximately 37 acres, and they are in a neighborhood residential zone. If you've been a North Kingstown resident for a while, you would remember this as the bird sanctuary on um North Quinnesset Road, and there's still existing pieces of the property that hold old structures that were related to the bird sanctuary. And I believe some even some of the ponds and configuration are based on what the sanctuary was at the time. Um this is not in the groundwater protection district. It it's not there's not a floodplain on the site. Um it really isn't covered by any of the districts that we normally look at in, you know, if there's any additional concerns, and that is outlined in your staff report. It is in the neighborhood residential zone, which is a one-acre zone. And the the properties are subject of two other pre-applications you've seen recently. There's minor subdivisions on the two different sides. One was called 309 North Quinnessa, and the other one was something similar to that. So the proposal for this particular subdivision is to create 14 lots. One portion, which is the eastern portion, will have larger lot sizes, so they will have three to four acre lots, and there will be six of them on that side. The western portion will have eight lots. These will be smaller in size and will be closer to the neighborhood residential lot size of 40 um thousand square feet. Uh they range from 40,000 to 61,000 square feet on that side. The applicant proposes to use private wells and subject systems. This is not within the water service area, so they cannot use water for the project. However, they're having discussions in-house about fire protection, and they'll they will be allowed to to tie in for fire protection only at the site if they choose to do so. Um the site has as I said, the site has a lot of natural features, stonewalls, wetlands, a lot of things that when we go out for the site visit, we'll have to take note of and see and the the project has been designed around those those features. Um September TRC meeting. Um a lot of discussions were based on how they are technically two separate projects, so the HOAs for them will have to be separated out and all of the infrastructure will still have to be covered in those HOAs, but they'll have to they'll have to work together but work separately at the same time. Um again, the the issue of fire protection was addressed at this, and the fire marshal is going to require fire hydrants and they are able to do that because of the ability to connect to the water system for fire protection. If they couldn't connect, they would have to put up a 30,000 gallon cistern. Could the um sprinklers work in this area, or do they have to be on uh on the city? This the sprinklers could probably work too. Um at the I'm not sure actually if Eric has discussed this with the fire marshal, but this is the direction that they have been looking at for this property.