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Board approves site-plan review and parking relief for 30310 Baker Avenue project
Summary
The Board approved a site-plan special-permit application for a partial demolition and parking reconfiguration at 30310 Baker Avenue, accepting shared-parking agreements and finding sufficient available spaces across the campus; Natural Resources and Planning Board recommendations were noted.
The Concord Board of Appeals approved a site-plan application from Taurus Investment Holdings and CD 2 11 Property LLC for work at the corporate campus at 30310 Baker Avenue that will remove about 11,400 square feet of building and reconfigure parking to serve both an existing office building and a separate forthcoming residential lot.
Kevin Hurley, the applicant’s land planner, described a proposal to demolish a two-story 60-by-94-foot portion of an existing 414,000-square-foot office building and to create 54 parking spaces in the vacated area to improve parking distribution at the campus. Hurley said the developer has agreements to use additional spaces on the adjacent hotel property and proposes joint-parking arrangements so office and residential uses can share underused spaces during different hours. "On this day, 802 of those parking spaces were vacant," Hurley said, summarizing an occupancy survey; he added that even after reallocations and the new lot split, the office building would be supported by well over 1,100 dedicated spaces and additional joint-use spaces on the hotel lot.
The project team said the Natural Resources Commission issued an order of conditions and the Planning Board recommended approval with conditions. Engineer Dan Feeney described test pits and revised grading design that reduced net fill into the floodplain to approximately one cubic yard and that a new infiltration system will manage parking-lot runoff. Feeney said test pits showed sandy soils suitable for infiltration and that the town’s peer-review consultant (GPI) issued comments that applicant engineers addressed in revised plans.
Board members and planning staff discussed sequencing: without a proposed parking garage the developer can move forward on the residential building more quickly, which has timing implications for the town’s affordable-housing counts (SHI) and grant eligibility. The board approved the application adopting the Planning Board’s recommended findings and conditions and asked that outstanding peer-review items be included as conditions in the final decision.
The board’s action allows demolition and the parking reconfiguration described in the site plan; conditions require the project team to finalize any outstanding stormwater and peer-review items and to meet all Natural Resources Commission conditions and planning-board requirements prior to building permits.
