Planning board approves site plan changes for 1141 County Street, developer to meet accessibility and utility conditions

The Taunton Planning Board on April 3 approved a modified site plan for 1141 County Street, a previously authorized multi‑building residential project now proposed by the Hanover Company.

David Hall, a representative of the Hanover Company, told the board the company acquired the project from Alliance Residential and proposed design changes intended to respond to neighbor concerns and site constraints. The modification keeps the approved unit total at 275, changes several building footprints and heights (including reducing Building 1 to three stories and increasing Building 3 and Building 4 to four stories in parts), shifts some buildings away from wetlands and neighbors, adds interior garage buildings, and increases resident parking from 386 to 406 spaces. Hanover said retail shown in earlier plans will be subdivided to a separate lot and is no longer part of the immediate residential scope.

Nate Scheel of Tetra Tech, the project engineer, said utilities and drainage are essentially unchanged from the previously approved plan, noting one surface detention basin and several…