Healy Ford seeks variance to expand truck-repair facility near Rio Grande; public hearing set for Nov. 18

Healy Ford Lincoln asked the Zoning Board of Appeals Thursday for permission to expand its existing truck-repair facility at 6 Nap Station Road, seeking variances from the town code for a watercourse setback and impervious-surface limits and an interpretation on whether outdoor vehicle inventory counts as a parking lot.

The proposed addition would place part of the building 47.8 feet from the top of the bank of a watercourse running through the site, according to engineer Jay Samuelson, who represented the applicant. “The building is proposed to be 47.8 feet off the top of the bank of the water course,” Samuelson said. The ZBA set a public hearing on the application for Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Why it matters: the project would enlarge a service facility used to repair commercial trucks and could affect runoff and visual impacts along a nearby rail trail and the Rio Grande watercourse that crosses the property.

Details of the application and discussion

Jay Samuelson, the applicant’s engineer, told the board the expansion is to the rear of the existing building and that he used a conservative measure — the top of the bank — to locate the setback because the Rio Grande’s…