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Planning board approves site plan, ties Colbert Lane RV/boat storage to mediated settlement limiting 100 spaces
Summary
The Planning & Development Board approved a site development plan for a Colbert Lane commercial parcel, adopting terms from a prior mediated settlement that limits the project to no more than 100 RV/boat storage spaces and imposes 22 site conditions.
The Planning & Development Board approved a site development plan for a Colbert Lane property that had been the subject of earlier mediation, adopting the mediated settlement limits and site conditions.
The action affirms a mediated settlement agreement that restricts the development to “not more than 100 storage RV boat parking spaces,” and ties the site plan approval to the 22 conditions listed in that settlement.
Board staff said the parcel — described in the record as Tract R and its outparcel — had a complicated history that included earlier PUD applications and a mediation process after a prior denial. Staff said the mediated settlement limited the development, required landscaping buffers and allowed a single office on the property. “That mediation mediated settlement agreement, limited this development to, 100, not more than 100 storage RV boat parking spaces on this property,” staff said during the hearing.
Adam Mengel, planning staff, told the board that staff and the applicant had worked through technical reviews including drainage and fire‑marshal comments and that the current plan reflected those reviews. Mengel said the extinguishers originally discussed during mediation were not accepted by the fire marshal for building fire protection, and as a result the applicant is proposing surface parking rather than covered structures.
The applicant’s engineer, who identified himself as Famous Schroeder of Brandy Hills Drive, said the plan preserves a 50‑foot natural buffer along the front of the site and offsets the driveway where possible to limit direct sight lines into the parking area. He described the smaller subdivided outparcel and explained that the drainage pond would be placed partly within a 25‑foot buffer area allowed by the covenant.
Board members asked for clarification on buffers and on whether alternate (pervious) surfacing options for outdoor storage or parking were under consideration; staff said alternate surfaces are allowed under the code for off‑street parking or could be requested but are not automatic approvals. Public comment was closed with no speakers.
A motion to approve the site development plan was made and seconded; the board voted to approve the application with the site plan explicitly made “subject to the 22 conditions” enumerated in the mediated settlement agreement. The record shows the board tied its site plan approval directly to the mediated settlement’s conditions.
The approval resolves the most recent proposal for the property as limited by the mediation terms. The transcript does not specify a timeline for construction or whether future changes to the plan would require additional board review.
