Pursuant to RIGL 4246-6C notice of the meeting has been posted with the Secretary of State.

Item 3A is the decision on a unified development review for the combined preliminary and final development plan review and special use permit and dimensional variance request.

Application of ADCAR Rhode Island Inc.

1950 Tower Hill Road, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, 02852 to add 10 beds to the existing convalescence care campus for a total of 80 beds located at 1950 Tower Hill Road, Assessors Plat 36, Lot 5, Zone Rural Residential, and in the Groundwater Recharge Overlay District and the Scenic Overlay District.

Did everybody have a chance to go through the decision that was emailed?

And does anybody have any questions, comments, concerns?

I'm not sure.

I'm good.

Then I would entertain a motion to approve.

Motion to approve.

So Rich, just I didn't write this one, but is there a separate zoning vote?

And um so just make sure I'm just looking at it.

Yeah, there's a separate vote for the zoning on page eight.

And then on the back page 10, there's a vote for the um development plan review.

Okay, so let's take it one at a time.

I'll entertain a motion for the zoning.

I move that we approve the zoning release.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye, aye.

And a motion for the development plan review approval.

I move that we approve the um what you just said the development plan review.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

And there are conditions too, but there you guys are good with those.

Okay.

Uh 3B is a public hearing of the master plan comprehensive permit of major land development project application of Franklin Commons LLP for Franklin Commons, a 66 unit residential project proposed in one building to be located at 7259 Post Road, assessors plat 136 lot 170, zone post road, and in the ground raw groundwater recharge overlay district.

Becky.

I'll give you guys a little overview.

So most of you will remember this was before you a few months back as a pre-application.

Um at that time it was just a um straight up major land development project.

Um they have resubmitted at the master plan stage, which is now optional under the um revised state laws recently revised.

Um, and it is um now a comprehensive permit, which again you have reviewed in the past, and so that does allow the planning commission um to sit as the regulatory board for any adjustments they're seeking or variances, waivers, um, as well as approving the land development project.

So it's a streamlined approval process.

So there's a couple of different um provisions which were included in your staff report.

Um, the findings, and I gave you a separate cheat sheet um when the time comes that stipulates the six, I think standards that you have to find positively on.

I also gave you the land development project findings that is pretty standard, and then I gave you a separate um write-up of the adjustments they're seeking, either um which would typically be variances from the zoning ordinance or waivers from the subdivision um regulations.

So again, um it's uh uh very similar in concept to the previous application at pre-app.

It's a one one building, five stories, sixty-six units.

Um it has a footprint of about 13,000 um 29 square feet.

It's 11 acres total, but there's about seven of suitable land.

So again, they base their density calculations on suitable land.

As submitted, they're not seeking any density um adjustments.

So very typical of a comp permit, one of the main goals is they typically want to seek a density adjustment.

In this case, they're not.

They actually meet the base zoning under the revised general laws.

They could have 12 units per acre.

So for applications that have both public water and sewer and are 100% affordable, they could have 12 units per acre.

So they're under that at about nine units per acre as presented with the 66 units on the seven acres.

They're also um providing 81 parking spaces.

Um they need 66.

So again, another um difference in the um LOMOD housing law is that um towns cannot require more than one parking space per unit up to two bedroom units.

So in this instance, 66.

So they more they meet that requirement, they have 81 and five of those spaces are going to be for electric charging um vehicles stations.

Uh they're gonna have 34 one bedroom, 32 two-bedroom, which averages out to 1.48 bedrooms per unit, again, more than meeting the 2.25 per unit in the post road district.

You guys walk the site, so you're kind of familiar with what's around it.

Um it does a but the post-road apartments project, which is now underway as we saw during the site visit, and um some of the things that they are looking at is like looping some of the water service in the area and maybe sharing some um pedestrian connections.