Is a waiver request final plan checklist requirements for combined preliminary and final planified development minor land development application of the North Kingstown food pantry for an addition associated improvements to the food pantry located at 445 School Street, Cessus Plat 149 lot 11 zoned public.

In case you are familiar with this staff will walk us through if uh after questions that you we may ask you to present, but I I think after the site visit, this may be not a very complicated process for you tonight.

So it's I have a very brief few words to say.

Again, it's a checklist requirement that they submit a landscaping plan, you know, stamp by landscape architect.

So they're asking to waive that requirement so they can move forward in the process.

And again, they want to use some local community groups and volunteer groups to do the plantings on the property.

Um so instead of having a landscape architect, they're gonna try to use some local groups to do the plantings for them.

Um it'll mimic similar landscaping that's already on there.

So if you went to the site visit, you'll you'll see what's out there.

And again, there's institutional use of budding it on at least one or two sides.

Um, and they will need a few variances from some of the landscaping requirements, but um for tonight, they're just asking to not submit that landscaping plan.

I mean, after being out there almost it's uh I don't want to it's a well kept site, but it's not incredibly landscaped, it's functional.

Yep.

So I think anything would be more than what we have now.

Absolutely.

Does anyone have any questions for staff?

Does anyone have any uh questions of the applicant?

Uh is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment?

Seeing none, would anyone like to make a motion to grant this waiver request?

I'll make a motion to grant the waiver request on the landscaping.

So a second.

Any discussion?

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

It's five all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh next item on the agenda, item 3B, development plan review modification of Mighty Geese LLC for a proposed 1,490 square foot deck addition and outdoor seating area for property located at 1340 and 1376 Tower Hill Road.

Assessors plat 7, lots 13, 22, and 23, zoned rural residential located in a groundwater recharge area.

And I see the applicant is here and I know attorney craven knows the process as well as anyone.

Yep.

So um I'm sure most of you uh will remember this, but um the property is located in the groundwater recharge area and the scenic overlay district.

So as such, any modifications um have to come before the planning commission for approval.

So that's why it's here tonight, even though it's a very minor minor modification.

Um it is for a 26 by 57 foot seven-inch deck or about 1490 square feet on the north side of the existing building.

Um, and there's about 48 seats proposed, and the total for the seats across the site is about 174.

Um there's no flood zone or wetlands or coastal features on the property.

We asked the applicant.

This is a modification because we only asked them for a few key items to address given the size of the improvement.

They addressed um traffic in the narrative, uh, the suitability of the system to accommodate the additional seats, and then stormwater.

So those are kind of the three main areas that we um had the applicant submit materials to address.

Um traffic-wise, again, they're more um thinking that these seats are going to accommodate customers already coming to the property, so they don't anticipate an increase in the actual number of trips per day, but rather better accommodate their clients and customers that are already coming to the property.

If you've been there on a busy night, you might see that they could certainly use a few more seats for folks.

So I think that's the intention rather than attracting new um customers to the property.

Um they do have sufficient parking on the property per our ordinance, and one thing we we have discussed with the applicant at TRC is the fact that the parking is based on the square footage of the building and not on outdoor seats.

And so um really when you have a lot of folks that are inside the building and outside the building in these seats, you might need more parking than our ordinance requires.

But they are meeting the ordinance for parking.

So one thing we did talk about was um right now the parking areas and what was overflow parking areas are kind of full at their busiest times, and so I it's my understanding they're using valley service to mitigate some of the impacts from um the full parking lots.

Um it might be wise, and I put a condition suggested that maybe they want to officially designate an area for overflow parking, really for a safety issues and making sure it's it's well managed, but also I think over time obviously your parking cars on grass somewhere, it'll um wear down, it can be compacted.

So maybe that's something that they should consider uh an overflow parking area just to mitigate some of those impacts.

Um let's see.

Stormwater, um, they did submit uh drainage calculations.

Uh, one thing that I I um I did send you guys late were the comments from the town engineer.

They the stormwater calcs that they submitted did not include the roof area, so they would have to be revised to address the additional roof area.

I know there was some questions whether or not the deck is pervious or impervious.

I'll let Allie speak to um or the applicant can speak to their opinion on that.

Regardless, they would have to at least include the roof area because it does not include the roof area, that is impervious.

So in one way or the other, whatever everybody agrees to, those calculations would have to be revised in some manner to reflect exactly what um is being proposed.

If the additional runoff from the um roof area cannot be accommodated in the existing stormwater system, I asked Ali if a drywall would be a reasonable alternative, and she certainly said yes it would.