The North Kingstown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, December 20, 2022, at 7:00 PM in Town Hall. The agenda was reordered to address two routine items first, then a public hearing on the Pinewood Village comprehensive permit major land development. The commission approved two routine items unanimously and voted to continue the Pinewood Village hearing to January 17, 2023, to allow additional time for deliberation and final conditions.
Oh yeah. Yeah, I said the point. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, good evening. I'd like to welcome everyone to the Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 Planning Commission meeting. Uh we have three items on the agenda, and um we're gonna flip it and do it in reverse order just because the first two are I think might be a little bit less involved than the uh item three A. So the first item we're gonna do is a development plan review waiver request, the request to waive the development plan review approval requirements for Ivy physical therapy to be located in the Hunt River Commons Complex, 20 French Town Road, Cessus Plat 177 Lot 21 zone post road. Is anyone here representing that application? Jim, I don't believe anyone was coming to the meeting from the application. Um do you want to walk us through this? I think it's a little kind of sure. This is um similar to the the waiver request you had at your last meeting. Um they're doing some tenant fit outs in this building and and adding new tenants to it, moving things around. And as you know, the um groundwater ordinance requires that any alteration change of use, blah blah blah blah blah needs to go for development plan review in the planning commission. Um this is a similar case where they're they're not changing anything on the site other than adding a tenant to a to a a space, a retail space. In this case, it's a um a physical therapy rehab outfit. So they're asking the same thing, uh they're asking for the same waiver of the development approval um and have submitted a letter indicating that they are not doing any any work to the the property. I mean other than probably adding a sign. And in this case, we'd we can certainly ask them the same thing for um for uh capacity, a pseudo capacity, but it'll it'll most certainly be minimal in in this case. This is a twenty-four hundred square foot space and almost a hundred and fifty thousand square foot building. Minimal does anyone have any questions as it relates to this application. No, they're not gonna like to make a motion to approve the development plan review waiver request. I'll make a motion that we approve it. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, thank you. That's six zero. Uh item three B is a recommendation to the zoning board, the application of Palma BB for dimensional variances to accommodate an exterior compressor unit in accordance with Article 4 Dimensional Regulations Table 2B, business districts to be located at the rear of the structure of 26 Brown Street, also known as Assessors Plat 117, lot two eighty-seven, zoned uh Wickford Village Center. And we're just gonna handle this one too, Jim. Okay. So um it's a commercial application and um because they need relief from the zoning board, it requires a recommendation from the planning commission to the zoning board. Um you have done these in the past. Um they are seeking three different variances to um are it's a little confusing because one of them is just for the regular setback, it but there's also a standard of of needing a variance because it's adjacent to residential district, so out of an abundance of caution, Joe has listed all three variances that they need. The existing structure is already within the setback, so pretty much anything they do there is it would require relief. So these are for some condensers for the new um tenant that is gonna be in the building. Um I don't know if you need the actual dimensions, Jim, for any of them, or if you want me to get into more detail, but it's pretty straightforward. They're decided in rear step. Is that the compressors will not exceed the existing conventional nonconformity existing at the property? So that's true. No. This is we've talked about whether or not mechanical components are structures. Yes, yep. We haven't changed it yet, so we're still reviewing them this way. Yep. Does anyone have any questions on this application? We could confirm the perimeter survey that's included in a size. Yep, I confirmed that with Joe today.