The North Kingstown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, at 7:00 PM in Town Hall to consider a zoning variance and preliminary land development application, approve a construction cost estimate bond, and grant a continuance for a solar project public hearing. The meeting was adjourned at 7:09 PM.
First item on the agenda item 3A is a decision, the unified development review for a zoning variance application and preliminary land development project application of AR building company for post-road apartments of 77 unit major land development located off a post-road assessors plat 136 lot 9 and 21 zone post road continued from May 21, 2024 and June 18th, 2024. And everyone should have an updated uh decision that Becky provided tonight, it which includes the removal of a repetitive word on I believe it was page five or six. Page five under each. And there were three additional um findings uh just to firm up the decision, um added on page 11 of 12 that were put in from the draft we got. And I I think those are all very consistent. They just uh document the decision a little bit more thoroughly. Yep. They're just adding three sections of the ordinances, regulations that were part of the review. Okay. Um had a chance to look at this, and I assume that there's no other comments, questions. Anyone would like to make a motion to approve the decision as amended. I'll make the motion to approve as amended. Is there a second? A second. The motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that's 5-0. Thank you. Thank you, Nancy. He beat your time. 701. Uh next item on the agenda is a construction cost estimate for sanctuary estates. And I believe everyone has received this. I I believe Mr. Cooper is going to make a request for um consideration after the fact uh that we would be moving tonight to recommend the bond with a total of $918,450 and eleven cents. But this would be done, allowing the applicant to come back in the future and ask uh the town engineer uh to divide this appropriately between the two roadways so that each roadway could be considered to be bonded individually uh rather than the total and aggregate. It shouldn't have any bearing on the total number. It would just be the way that they are allocated. Is that correct? Could that impact is are there any phasing requirements on this project? No, they they have created they have set it up so that they could do the two roads separately. Um just when they requested the bond reduction or uh we we do it as a whole, we didn't do it separately, so we can take the total. It may not be exactly even, it may be a couple of things that are you know on the front portion of it. Um, but we'll come back to you. It'll be the theme number, just divided amongst the two different roadways. This way they can move forward. Okay. Seems reasonable. Especially because one could be built and the other could sit for two years. Um anyone like to make a motion uh to accept the bond total of 918,450 11 cents, with the understanding that they still have the right to come back and ask that that be oh, we're gonna ask that that be done. Um I'll be sending Nicole a letter probably the next couple of days asking that have that bond split between the two, I guess, phases, if you will. Always been two different projects. We're gonna post the entire uh inspection fee though at one time for both of them, just so we can get one underway before we have to come back for the for the split. And whatever time they need to get that together is fine. Uh we just want to get going on the one phase that's going to be recorded and uh completed. As soon as possible. Thank you.