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Zoning board continues hearing on proposed Route 12 drive‑through; traffic study required
Summary
The Swansea Zoning Board on March 3 continued a public hearing for a special‑exception application to allow a drive‑through restaurant at a business‑district site on Route 12, and the board agreed to an extension past the 90‑day statutory review period while the applicant obtains a traffic study requested by the planning board.
At a special meeting on March 3, the Swansea Zoning Board continued the public hearing on the special‑exception application for a drive‑through restaurant at the intersection of Marcy Hill Road and Route 12.
The application (identified in the hearing record as EBA 205‑002) was presented by Mark Roder, a professional engineer with Civil Horse New England, on behalf of owners Steven and Lani Giordano. Roder said the applicants are currently marketing the site generically as a restaurant use — likely a coffee‑shop style tenant — but that no tenant lease is yet signed. He described plans for a building with interior seating and two drive‑through windows, a dedicated drive‑through lane and a separate bypass lane for vehicles entering the parking area. Roder told the board that the site is entirely within the town’s business district and that the nearest residential zoning begins a few hundred feet away.
The applicant corrected a prior materials detail during the presentation: the town’s drive‑through regulation requires stacking for…
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