and welcome to the town of wellston development review board for april twenty fourth two thousand and eighteen we have two items on the agenda tonight d p eighteen dash seventeen a boundary line adjustment and d p eighteen dash eighteen a master signed plan application we will start tonight's meeting as we difficultly do with a public forum is anyone here  interested in addressing the board hearing don we will dive right into application number one d p eighteen dash seventeen  gary a howard and ross are howard requests for discretionary permits for boundary line adjustment if you would please come forward to the table mean he's a hard man to move if you would state your name and address for the record please i'm gary howard six ninety seven butternut road will still be my welcome stuff goes first sure ok so this is a an application for a boundary line adjustment a boundary line adjustment is where you have two or more parcels of land and the applicants proposed to move one or more of the b lines between the parcels but you don't create any new parcels in this particular case we have two rather large parcels owned jointly by the the two howard brothers totaling roughly one hundred and sixty two  acres now in many cases boundary line adjustment is process administratively but under our regulations if the amount of land that's moved between one parcel to another is equal to or greater than the amount that would be able to speak subdivided it has to come to be for review and approval so that's why this is in front of you so we don't have any any development that's being proposed per se two pieces of land a proposal to move  be developed so the particulars of the two parcels there is a table that i prepared for you on page two so you have the existing parcels a and b existing ninety two point four acres zoning district and when you have a property in the air c t that that's greater than ten and a half acres if it gets subdivided there's a minimum open space requirement of seventy five percent so it's one of the things that we're always mindful of is the applicant proposing to make one of these parcels smaller than ten and a half acres and in this case the answer is no so both of the parcels today are greater than ten and a half acres both of the parcels that are proposed would still be greater than ten and a half acres so in the event that wine or both of these parcels of land would come in for a subdivision request in the future they would then be subject to the seventy five percent open space requirement or whatever whatever the provi so this doesn't this doesn't get them off the hook for any of those requirements one of the things that i would like to discuss is there are so the project was reviewed by the conservation commission and one of the recommendations from the conservation commission recommendation number three was they wanted a floating easement for a primitive pa you may as you may know the conservation commission frequently recommends that we get a trail easement when we go through role parts of town we had a similar type of request a few years ago actually also  not and we had a discussion about this and we we were provided with a legal opinion from the outlook it's attorney and we got our own legal opinion and basically upshot of it was well a trail is nice but there's there's nothing they're not creating any new demand and so there's no legal nexus to to require a trail and so the staff recommendation would be just like with the open space provision is the information is out there at some point in time one or both of these parcels comes in for development that whether there's a trail east that would be right for discussion but it's not and so in condition number five i simply wrote the applicant must address the conservation commission comments from the memo concerning their recommendation number conservation commission's recommendation number three on now to your time turn to address anything that you feel should be brought up or any concerns that you have with conditions of approval the conservation commission and i didn't want to get engaged with a floating all right all right ok thank you ok next up is d p eighteen dash eighteen master sign plan welcome mandy if you would state your name and address for the record please whenever you have a building that has multiple tenants or where an applicant wants to have more than the minimum or more i should say more than the maximum amount of signage that can be approved administratively so in this the signs that are being proposed and what's the total amount of signage but there is a theoretical maximum that we have to calculate and it goes by the square footage of the street facing elevation of the this particular case we have a building it's on a three sided lot it's got street frontage on three ties now what we have done over time pretty consistently with the board is when we have properties like this the buy a lot was really only contemplating that you feel eight signage based on one frontage so we say pick one friday age typically it's the biggest and then we calculate that square footage and we use that for the basis of making a determination on the bass or sign place and so the maximum theoretical i'm not assigning to you could have is eight percent of that frontage so in this particular case it's two hundred eighty eight square feet and so we have it in that table that shown on page one in two there's a breakdown of existing freestanding signs as well as existing and proposed wall signs and then a totalling up what the square footage of all those are and it's two hundred thirty five square feet now it looks like there's an awful lot of sign so there are a lot of signs at closer examination what you'll notice is most of these are pretty small so this is an industrial building there are loading docks so you have no science  identify a tenant suite like here's the door where you go in for the person there's also a free standing sign there's also signage which is to direct delivery and departure trucks signs for loading docks et so at first blush it may look like oh my god i can't believe how many signs that are here but in this particular case the these are signs that that actually make a lot of sense in terms of this this type of fun of buil so there's a finding there for the board to make whenever there's a master signed plan that's approved and we've drafted recommendations conclusions and conditions of approval very thorough and i appreciate that have you read the recommended conditions of approval yes do you have any exceptions are there any questions from the board yet as the are you having development corporation surrounds this property have any problem these signs nope the questions from the audience ok we're going to go into deliberations i try not to go out on the land i'm predicting  k welcome back to the wilston development review board on april twenty fourth two thousand and eighteen where out of deliberative session at seven twenty eight board having reviewed the application submitted and all accompanying tiriel including the recommendation of the town staff and the advisory boards required to comment on this application by the host and development by law and having heard until they consider the testimony presented at the public hearing of april twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen except the finding of fact in conclusions of law proposed by staff for the review of the d p eighteen dash seventeen and approved this discretionary permit subject to conditions about this approval authorizes the applicant to file final plans obtain approval of these plans from staff and then seek and administrative permit for any development which must proceed in strict conformance with the plans on which this approval is based thank you is the having reviewed the application material submitted in all accompanying materials including the recommendations of the town stock and advisory boards required to comment on this application by the will list and unified development by law and having heard and duly considered the testimony plan this approval authorizes the applicant to submit final plans obtain approval for these plans from staff and then seek administrative permit for future development which must proceed in strict informant for the plans on which this approval is based motion to approve the minutes of april tenth two thousand and eighteen so move is their second i'll second any discussion of those of favor