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Sloan Motors, Planning Board disagree over landscaping, lighting; board requires native species and photometric confirmation
Summary
The Planning Board on June 2 told Sloan Motors it must replace removed landscaping with straight native species and provide photometric/hardscape calculations for lighting after the applicant sought to substitute non-native shrubs and trees following facade work.
At a contentious June 2 discussion, representatives for Sloan Motors (212/218 Turnpike Road) presented proposed landscaping and lighting changes tied to recent façade work. The Planning Board reviewed the requested substitutions and required the applicant to submit a revised planting plan using native species and confirm lighting calculations to meet Town outdoor-illumination requirements.
The property owner, Scott Barry (Sloan Motors sales president), told the board he removed several shrubs and trees to support facade work and sought to replace them with species his landscaper recommended—specifically inkberry shrubs (Ilex species) in front of the showroom instead of the previously proposed mountain laurel, and columnar/fastigiate trees rather than the gray birch that had been suggested. Barry said he preferred plants that maintain…
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