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Planning board presses Premier Roofing site plan on parking, setbacks; schedules site walk
Summary
Planning Board reviewed a site plan for Premier Roofing (major home occupation), focusing on parking counts, driveway and front‑setback encroachment and wetland setbacks. The applicant agreed to reduce commercial parking, provide turning templates and relocate outdoor storage; the board scheduled a site walk for July 29 at 6:00 p.m.
John Rokey of Rokey Consulting, representing Premier Roofing, returned to the Planning Board with a revised site plan that moves vehicle and materials storage into a proposed garage and aims to bring parking and storage out of zoning and wetland setbacks.
Rokey said a recent survey showed the existing wetlands and front setbacks left room for a row of parking and a proposed building without encroaching on wetlands. He described plans for a multi‑bay garage to enclose materials and move outdoor dumpster storage into an enclosed pad. “All the materials are gonna be going inside the garage,” Rokey said, adding the plan includes a driveway permit and that he would size an infiltration basin and a grade plan for stormwater control.
Board members pressed long and detailed questions about whether the existing gravel parking and drive aisles fall inside the town’s front setback, and whether the paved/compact parking area should be treated as a parking lot (and therefore a structure) rather than a driveway. Members noted the ordinance limits major home occupations to “no more than four off‑street parking spaces beyond those required by normal residential site plan” and said the applicant’s plan shows more spaces than the ordinance contemplates. The board and applicant discussed whether trucks with trailers count as one parking space if the vehicle and trailer fit wholly within one marked space; the board said if a truck and trailer extend beyond a single 20‑foot space they count as multiple spaces.
Rokey said Premier Roofing currently has three employees and three trailers and that he had drawn regular 9‑by‑20 foot parking stalls to organize vehicles. Board members suggested reducing the number of commercial spaces to the minimum required for operation or reconfiguring spaces to accommodate truck/trailer combinations; they also discussed angling stalls and garage orientation as possible solutions. Rokey agreed to prepare turning‑radius templates showing what vehicles can maneuver on site and to revise the plan to reduce commercial parking and relocate some features. The applicant requested a site walk, and the board voted to hold a site inspection and continue the application to July 29 at 6:00 p.m. for the site walk; the board recorded the continuation vote and no final site‑plan approval was granted at the meeting.
