Four-unit rehab with parking variance (Case P2025-0270)
At a glance
Based on auto-generated captions; names and details may be misheard.
- What: preliminary and final major site plan to rehab an existing two-family building into four four-bedroom units, with an addition, on Wegman Parkway (case P2025-0270).
- Where it stands: carried to a date uncertain on October 13 because a parking variance that was never noticed turned up during the hearing.
- Next: the applicant must renotice, with or without a revised plan; staff suggested November 10 if a date certain were set.
The proposal
- The existing building gets a vertical addition and a side addition; a garage on the lot is demolished up to a party wall shared with a neighbor's garage.
- A shared driveway with a recorded easement stays; the applicant's half is to be resurfaced. Rear yard gets lawn, a shade tree and a bio-retention basin about 18 inches deep that takes roof runoff, with overflow piped to the sanitary line to avoid cutting the brittle clay storm sewer in the street. The new service is a combined 6-inch water and fire line; two street trees and a wall-mounted light are proposed.
- Stormwater is a minor development; the design provides 232 cubic feet of retention against 205 required.
Concerns
- A commissioner worried about sediment and debris clogging the basin inlet and flowing into the city sewer; the engineer said it is mostly clean roof runoff and a filter fabric would clog.
- Commissioners questioned how four units' cars would use a shared driveway when the applicant's garage is removed, since there is no on-site parking.
- Planning staff then said the lot width over 50 feet triggers a parking requirement of 0.3 spaces per bedroom, 4.8 spaces here, so a variance would be needed that was not in the notice. The board said the application must be renoticed and carried it to a date uncertain.
Sources
- 2026-10-13 - Planning Board (video of the October 13 Planning Board meeting, auto-captions)
- No Planning Board agenda page is on file for this meeting.
Discussion time
About 26 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).
| Meeting | Minutes |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-13 - Planning Board | 26 |
Log
- 2026-10-13 - Planning Board - Hearing stopped when staff identified an un-noticed parking variance; carried to a date uncertain for renotice. About 26 minutes.