SITE PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE
September 19, 2007 - Minutes
A meeting of the Site Plan Review Committee was called to order at 10:00 a.m. in Skaket Meeting Room at the Orleans Town Hall. Departments Present: George Meservey (Planning); Mark Budnick (Highway); Bob Canning (Health); Bill Quinn and Robert Felt (Fire); Brian Harrison (Building);
Todd Bunzick (Water); Jennifer Wood (Conservation).
INFORMAL REVIEW: Snow’s Home & Garden, 22 Main Street
Sid Snow (Snow’s Home and Garden) presented the informal review to the Site Plan Review Committee. Snow stated an immediate need for warehouse space and additional parking and noted that approximately four acres in the rear of the complex are tied up in a Conservation Restriction as stipulated during the Development of Regional Impact process for the last expansion in 2000. Snow stated his proposal to reclaim approximately two acres of the conservation restricted portion of the property and offsetting it by swapping it with land the town is proposing to purchase known as the Sparrow property. Snow stated that a donation would be made to the town for the value of the property to mitigate according to the Cape Cod Commission decision. Snow stated that he had a meeting with the Cape Cod
Commission and they have indicated their support for this swap when it is presented to the Assembly of Delegates.
Snow indicated the following immediate needs for completion by December 2008:
- Letter of recommendation from the Town of Orleans to mitigate and swap land and remove land near Snow’s Home and Garden store at 22 Main Street from an existing Conservation Restriction .
- Work with Orleans to provide additional employee and customer parking spaces.
- Determine town requirements for building additional warehouse space at Snow’s Home and Garden Store at 22 Main Street.
Snow indicated the following anticipated future needs:
- Dismantle the large existing greenhouse attached to the previous store addition and reassemble a smaller greenhouse elsewhere on the site.
- Want to construct additional warehouse space with a first floor and full basement and three apartments on the third floor and room for office expansion.
- Improve customer pickup area and add more parking for customers in the nursery area.
- Area A (near the culvert) to be unrestricted for clearance around the warehouse building.
- Area D near man made retention pond behind the fuel storage tanks was created before the 110% containment area in the tanks to contain possible oil spills for clean up in the pond. Currently the pond is only used for storm water drainage a couple of times per year.
- Area C is currently under an agricultural restriction which was semi-cleared and graded in 2000 and would be good for additional parking with the least amount of environmental disruption and possibly for additional future warehouse space.
Comments:
Fire: A sprinkler system will be required for the main store expansion. 12,000 square feet is the threshold to require sprinklers in a warehouse. A formal site plan will be required. A 42’ radius will be required to provide adequate emergency vehicle access. It should be noted that Snow’s has been a good neighbor for environmental issues.
Health: An engineer must certify that the septic system sewage flow is adequate for the proposed warehouse project. No hazardous materials, pesticides or floor drains are allowed in the warehouse. Septic system must be designed to accommodate parking on top of it. Proposed apartments may trigger an upgrade to the septic system.
Water: There is an existing water main that runs down the bicycle trial.
Highway: 25-year storm drainage must be contained on-site and drainage calculations must be provided to the town by a Professional Engineer and shown on the Formal Site Plan. There are problems with the south side traffic entrance to the store parking lot and need review for the stores future growth and traffic flow onto Main Street. This can be reviewed at the building expansion phase of the proposed project.
Conservation: A Notice of Intent must be filed with the Conservation Commission regarding the nearby wetlands. Need to obtain approval from Conservation Commission for piping to and from the ditch.
Building: A Special Permit will be necessary from the Zoning Board of Appeals for construction over 2,500 square feet. This project must be monitored as controlled commercial construction.
Planning: This is a substantial project and will need to come back before the Site Plan
Review Committee for a formal review. Issues with the Conservation Commission and Cape Cod Commission (Development of Regional Impact) at the regional level will have to be resolved.
There was a consensus of the Site Plan Review Committee that this application will have to come back for a Formal Site Plan Review.
Todd Bunzick left the meeting.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: September 5, 2007
MOTION: On a motion by Bob Canning, seconded by Bill Quinn, the Committee voted to approve the minutes of September 5, 2007.
VOTE: 6-0-0 The motion passed unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at 10:48 a.m.
Respectfully submitted:
Karen C. Sharpless
Recording Secretary
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