Standish Planning Board Meeting Minutes
Charles Brown 0:00
Welcome to a continuation of our Planning Board meeting. We have six members present, we have a quorum. This is a continuation of the August 6, 2021 meeting, so I'm not going to read all through the standard material that we discussed at the last meeting . The project has a letter of opinion from the Town Attorney, relative to the capability to waive the interior road requirement. Everyone received a copy of that and hopefully you have had a chance to review it. Scott has recommended one change. That will be Standard Code subsection 181 - 97.1. The applicant, Brent Day has requested a waiver on the interior road requirement,as this would cause a significant impact on the environmental conditions on the site.
There are six driveway entrances and those have been approved by the Maine Department of Transportation.We are also working out the deed restrictions on the various parcels for the drainage easements. Those will be put on the plan.And the only other clarity I think that we might need was on the hydrant. I know there was a recommendation to do that, after the fact. I'm assuming you have talked to the Fire Chief ?
Scott Hastings-Planner 3:45
Yes, everything has already been discussed with the Fire Chief.
Charles Brown 4:09
Do we need to make that a condition?
Scott Hastings-Planner 4:09
I think we can add that onto Condition #6 and just say that when the dry hydrant is installed as an" as built," the drawing needs to be submitted to the Town.
Charles Brown 4:28
So we already talked about the branch stream, and that they are going to have to install property markers that align with the ordinance, usually granite posts for the corners of the entire parcel rendering the meets and boundaries of the property.
When they come in for a building permit. They're gonna have to show that they get the permitting as we just talked about. My impression is that any house that is farther from 2000 feet from a dry hydrant you need to have been sprinkled.
Brent Day 5:25
When you set the granite monuments, is that at every corner of the lot, or is that the overall lot? And we can iron pin each lot ?
Charles Brown 5:42
My understanding is the external points of the subdivision is where the markers need to go.
Deb Boxer 6:58
The only other question I had is, we talked about the multifamily. And there was a lot of talk amongst about where did we end up with that? I know the lots cannot be further subdivided, but can they have two dwellings on each lot?
Scott Hastings-Planner 7:29
This could either be done to a maximum number of units, a single family or duplex. It could probably be the maximum if you want to do a duplex or a house with an accessory apartment. Or you can do deed restrictions in terms of it's restricted to residential. If you want to do it that way, you could also do a home occupation on each lot, as that is an of dwelling units on it. I have recommended that each lot is limited to residential,agriculture and forestry uses and uses which are accessory to the primary residential use.
Families seem to want to reside in a homestead and then they go on to big lots with some flexibility.I
If you meet certain requirements under the ordinance,you could have the possibility of multiple uses on one lot, like a duplex or accessory dwelling. It depends what the person is proposing and whow its set up like a condo arrangement where there is a two separate ownerships on one single property, or it could be rented, where one person is owning and renting it, in the case of a accessory apartment, still likely to be a rental. But it could also be something like an in law apartment and where it's a separate unit, but it's not necessarily owned by one entity, but may not be limited to two as such. In all of these circumstances, if you were to put this condition on, tit would be restricting or limiting it so they couldn't do a duplex and a family apartment.
Charles Brown 10:56
So this is rural residential, right?
Scott Hastings-Planner 10:57
It is rural which allows accessory apartments, accessory use in buildings, family apartments, home occupations level one.
Charles Brown 11:41
Accessory apartments, accessory use and buildings, family apartment. homecare services from occupation level one, manufactured housing units that would be like a mobile home or a modular home that can be built like those that come in pieces, single family dwellings permit
So the dwellings two families, are also allowed. So we need to get back here for the two families. So if we put something in the conditions limiting this to two dwelling units, they would not be able to do more than that on any one lot.
Okay. We need to address that. That would come on to page three from the Planners memo.
We need to at least address the waiver on the interior road. What's the board feel on that? The Board did get a good response from Sally Daggett. town attorne I'm all for granting a waiver.
Is there a motion to do so. Mr. Struebing made a motion seconded by Mr. Wright to waive the interior road. All in favor. I don't know tha if this addresses the deed restrictions relative to the number of units. At the bottom of page three of Mr. Hastings memo, staff has some notes which we could turn into a condition,the last two items on the page . Use of these properties is limited to residential agricultural, forestry uses, and uses which are accessory to a primary residential use. All uses on these properties must meet all requirements of the ordinances. What's the board's thought on that? Do we want to make that condition. I would entertain a motion to do so. Motion made by Mr. Wright and seconded by Mr. Struebing. All in favor to take the last two items on page three and make them into a condition of approval(#9).
Brent Day 18:31
You're looking for a detailed location for the dry hydrant. I talked to Wayne about it he was going to put a note on the plan as to where the location is.
Scott Hastings-Planner 18:42
He just needs to add a note to the plan and then after the hydrant is installed, we will want a drawing submitted to the Town.
Charles Brown 20:27
Does the board want to go through every one of these approval criteria? Members of the Board answered no.
So we've approved the waiver as presented by Sally. So the board feels that the applicant has met all the criteriaand the nine conditions as outlined in the report. Staff's recommendation was to move that the pBoard grant approval under the provisions of the standard land use code of White Tail Ridge Estates subdivision, a parcel map, as submitted by William Day Jr. and sons and Craig Woodbrey. Having found that it meets the review criteria of Chapter 181- 3, subdivision regulations and standards of the local ordinance and the requirements of Title 38 ,Chapter 187,sub section 4404 of the Maine State Statutes for Subdivisions review with the nine conditions for approval. Mrs. Boxer made the motion to approve the application seconded by Mr. Struebing. All in favor.
Mr. Brown asked for a motion to adjourn and this was made by Mrs. Boxer, seconded by Mr. Struebing. All in favor.
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