The Planning Commission met on May 19, 2026, to consider three general business items: two waiver requests and a pre-application review for a conservation development. The meeting also included approval of minutes from May 5, 2026.
North Kingstown. Pursuant to RIGL forty-two forty-six-six C. Notice of the meeting has been posted on the Secretary of State's website. On the agenda, general business item 3A is a rave waiver request, major land development checklist requirement for a combined preliminary and final plan unified development application of the North Kingstown School for construction of the middle school and associated improvements to be located at 250 Tower Hill Road. Good evening. They're reviewing the cost in the strategy on how they plan on irrigating the fields in the the remainder of the property. So we had the conversation at the last meeting about how we would prefer them to use wells. So it would be after your after your meeting, or this is really this is just for completeness. So they're working on putting the application together. I don't see that as an issue for moving completeness forward at this time. So we are comfortable with this waiver request from the applicant. And we've done this on other projects recently. We have, yes. A lot of in fact we do it in this case they're combining a master in preliminary, so they are including the engineering stage in it. But many, many cases we have done it for um master. In fact, we've talked about changing the checklist so that it's not at that stage too. So this is not something that we are uncomfortable with. Anyone have any questions or staff? There's a representative from the project if you have any other questions. I just want to make sure that um if they do have to connect, that they will be coming back with us with a written that's correct. If they want to connect to the municipal system, they have to do hydraulic modeling and get approval. We have to see in writing. Right. We have to see that the system can handle it. That's part of what that's for. Okay. Um so right now they're not at the city, they're they're putting it together, but to consider this complete so they can move forward with scheduling. Um it's RNA checklist. We can't we cannot make that decision. You have to make that decision. Yeah, I understand that. I just want to make sure that moving forward, they understand that um it it if it's required, it's gonna be required in writing, not just verbal. No, no, no, they'll have to apply no different than any other development. They'll have to go through the process and you'll get they'll have to go to the town council for approval. Okay, that's all I want to make sure of. Meg, you have any? No. I'm good. Good. I would entertain a motion to approve uh the waiver request from the North Kingstown School Department for the water modeling. I'll make that motion. I have a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. All opposed, the ayes have it. Uh item three B is a waiver request for the development plan from the development plan review checklist requirement for a combined preliminary and final plan application of Dina Realty LLC for the construction of a building for the purpose of storage and office use and associated improvements to located at 486 Drybridge Road, Assessors Platz 79, lot 48, zone light industrial, and in the groundwater wellhead overlay district. This is similar to your the request you just did. This is again, this is just for the checklist for completeness. This is not saying uh well, I guess in the situation is a little bit different.