The North Kingstown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at 7:00 PM in the Town Hall at 80 Boston Neck Rd. The commission addressed a surety reduction, a development plan review waiver, two zoning ordinance recommendation letters, and the approval of previous meeting minutes.
Ready, Becky? Okay. Welcome everyone to the uh June 6th, 2023 uh planning commission meeting. Um several uh items on the agenda uh short sorted reduction uh for dusty hollow uh development plan waiver request uh a couple decision letters and um minutes we'll start out with the first item which is the sority reduction for dusty hollow and I think we'll start with uh town engineer. Yep, only yeah, Allie's Allie's here if you guys have questions of her, but you guys have seen these before. Um they were before the town council last on June 13th, 2022, as you can see in the cover memo that Allie prepared. Um they're looking to reduce the um surety amount by 104,362.22 cents, and then we will have a retainer remaining of 33,695 dollars and eighteen cents. Which is the 10 percent. Yep. And actually, as you can, you know, we do you can see Allie added a note at the bottom just as a reminder about that one year period, too. Comments? Eric Tracy? Okay. Uh do we have a motion to uh approve the reduction or to recommend the this is a recommendation, right? I'll make sure button. Make a recommendation that we approve the reduction. I'll second uh uh motion and a second. Any discussion all in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed motion carries. Great. You're all set, Jim. The next two items are uh decision letters. Well, there's the um waiver first. Oh, I'm sorry. Yep, I'm sorry. Next item is development plan waiver request, request of Richard Storty to waive development plan review approval requirements for Lil Roadie pickleball to locate pickleball courts, indoor commercial recreation within an existing retail space in Kingstown Plaza, located at 6615 Post Road, Cessors Plat 57, lot 143, zoned post road, and located in the groundwater recharge area. Yep. So as you guys are aware, you've had a couple of these um waivers as of late. Um the property is located in the groundwater overlay, and um a change of tenancy or occupancy would normally um kick in development plan review, but the subdivision regulations allow for a waiver request if they can meet certain standards, which um where they should have been. I'm not sure if you receive them in this packet, um, but uh their letter, their cover memo addressed the main concerns that we have. Um the section is 8.2 of the subdivision uh regulations for waiver of development plan approval, and some of the key items is there's no extensive construction. Um it will not affect existing drainage, circulation, relationship of buildings to each other, landscaping buffering, lighting, um, and as was noted in his cover memo, and I did follow up. Meg asked me to get a little bit more information, which I'll share with you guys because there was only that waiver request in your packet. Um we didn't really have much more, but I did have some email exchanges from another staff member that they shared with me. And the applicant is here and they can answer any questions that you might have if this doesn't cover it. My understanding is it's five courts, although there was a little I wasn't quite certain. They the email said one and a half for like rent being able to rent them or so. I'm not entirely sure for lessons they can clarify that, but my understanding was five rentable courts. It's 10,000 square feet of space in um to the left of the existing TJ Maxx where the old Sears building our space was. They um anticipate a maximum of 20 patrons plus two staff members, no new showers or bathrooms. There's two existing handicappes that will remain. Um there's no other changes to the exterior of the site. They did mention the potential of having to um relocate the front entryway on that same facade front, but I'm not sure if that's planned right now. Um and other than that, they're not doing any exterior changes. They have to remove some interior walls, rebuild a small office, you know, add some countertop space, and obviously install the install the courts themselves. Um so again, the applicant is here if they want to come up either and add anything to that, um, or if you guys just want to discuss, you know, and if you have any questions for them, they can come up. I'll give an opportunity if you want to come up and uh address us, please uh use the microphone there. And just press if it's not already pressed the little button, so the light is green, just so that means the microphone is working.