The Planning Board on May 22 approved an amended site plan for the Amazon ADI site and incorporated findings tied to a recent zoning-board variance that reduces the total required parking for the property.

The approval, offered as a motion during the meeting, notes previously authorized additions to the building and confirms that a variance granted by the Zoning Board of Appeals reduces the total required parking from a previously stated requirement to 273 spaces. The board's motion also states that 25% of the required 273 parking spaces may be held in reserve and do not need to be built at this time.

The board's motion recites prior approvals: a site plan approved June 13, 2024 permitting construction of a 71,250-square-foot addition and a 10,599-square-foot addition and that the earlier approval required a total parking count of 420 spaces. The current amended plan sought permanent relief from elements of that parking requirement and sought to leave a portion of parking as reserved capacity rather than constructed immediately. As stated in the motion, "This approval is made with the further condition that the Department of Planning and Zoning or the Planning Board may require the parking be built on the same as deemed necessary or desirable for the current use of the site." That language was read into the record by a Planning Board member.

Board members present voted in favor; there was no roll-call record of individual votes in the transcript. The approval as read ties the amended site plan to the Zoning Board of Appeals' variance, and leaves the timing of any future construction of the reserved parking to administrative discretion.

The Planning Board discussion did not change stormwater or traffic circulation elements of the previously approved plan, according to the applicant representative, who said the primary change to the site plan was a reduction in parking. The applicant representative identified the parking removed as previously banked spaces and said that stormwater systems associated with those banked spots were no longer in place.

The board placed the amended site plan approval on the record with findings and conditions that preserve the June 13, 2024 approval in full except where specifically changed by the current motion.

Planning staff and the board noted that if site use or conditions change, the Department of Planning and Zoning or the Planning Board may require construction of the reserved parking.