The North Kingstown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, at 7:00 PM in Town Hall. The meeting covered several consent items, a discussion on a minor modification for an affordable housing unit, and public hearings for a 56-unit affordable housing development and a municipal office building addition. Votes were taken on multiple items, with decisions to approve, continue, or postpone.
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 Planning Commission meeting. First item on the agenda, item 3A is a cost estimate modification for sanctuary estates. Nicole. Good evening. You have already approved of a cost estimate for sanctuary estates as a whole, but the applicant has requested to divide it into two pieces. So each route has its own individual, basically phase. So Allie has done just that, and the amount still equals what you had approved the origin first time, but this is now just separate per road. Okay. And Ali is here if you have questions. Yes, she has. Two things. One is there some documentation, a drawing that shows where the division is between the two. Allie, you did it based on the roads and the infrastructure that went with each one, correct? Not in your packet for tonight. Well, I know in the past you did use that. Some place with a line or something that I don't believe there is necessarily a phased plan, um, but it was pretty clearly delineated um with the cars cars lane road. There's um some stormwater associated with that. Um and then sanctuary lane is a completely separate. There was one lot that looks like it's closer to sanctuary, but it is included in the cars. Um I don't know if there's a record plan splitting them up. There is okay. Eric is still telling me that there is some kind of record plan showing the space split. But the infrastructure was all pretty obvious in my mind. Okay. The other thing is, does this you know we there's some timing is when construction has to start? So I mean, because we're kind of making it now two say two phased. Is this impact any of those timelines? I no, I would say it does not. The the only thing that they have to do is before they were to put a uh law on the market, they'd have to post the bond for it. Um at this point, we're we're not we won't run into any of those issues. I believe they have two years to start. So if they start say they start cars lane within two years and start seconds, so they later they can start construction pad, they just can't record you they can't sell the lots or record them without paying the bond. So I mean as long as they're doing work now, we wouldn't say we wouldn't say that they're that anything's expired. If they did nothing at all on the site in the site, right if there's no work at all being done, that would be a different story. But if they have started improvements and they're doing it, they're they're doing it on their their own. Um they pay their inspection fees, they can do that. It's if they weren't doing any of that, then I would say that would be an issue. It would be like we there I think it says two years in our ordinance. So in other words, they could do cars lane within the you know, start it within the two lanes, totally finish it. Yep. Pay the bond, close out the bond. Yeah. And 15 years later, start saying No, no, no. If it was 15 years later, that would be a different story. But right now, they're they're proposing to do work on both of them. It's just that they're not there, so they're not that they're not gonna pay the bonds at the same time. They'll do it when they're ready to record those different phases. If they were doing and we know they're doing work out there, so they've already started. If they were doing nothing, then it would be a different story.