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Wells planning board accepts Holiday House site-plan update, schedules site walk Oct. 18
Summary
The Wells Planning Board received an amended site plan for Holiday House to update existing conditions for lodging license renewal and scheduled a site inspection for Oct. 18 at 8 a.m.; planner flagged hotel-buffer, tree-retention and utility encroachment issues.
The Wells Planning Board on Oct. 6 received an amended site plan for the Holiday House lodging property and scheduled a site inspection for Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 a.m.
The board received the application and voted unanimously to accept the submission for review. The submission updates boundary and existing-conditions information ahead of a lodging-license process, according to the project's engineering representative.
Jeff Aliva, representing Civil Consultants, said the firm “completed an updated boundary and existing conditions plan” this past summer and identified the locations and sizes of cottages and decks to reflect what currently exists. Aliva said many features on the property are grandfathered and that the site is within the town's zoning lot-coverage limits.
Planning staff noted several items for follow-up. Staff said the property sits within a 25-foot Route 1 hotel buffer adopted in 2013 and that the older site plan does not reflect lot-line changes that separated a front residential building into a condominium lot in the early 2000s. The board and applicant agreed the updated plan must show specific trees to be retained in the buffer and address a neighbor driveway encroachment and the presence of underground conduit and fiber work along the rear property corridor.
Board members also discussed visual site conditions: the southern peninsula of the lot is densely vegetated with a gully, while the northern edge is more lawn with a vegetation screen. Aliva said a small turnaround driveway and some gravel parking areas have existed for many years and that some site pavement and an unauthorized parking spot will need to be addressed on the updated plans.
The board scheduled a site walk for 8 a.m. on Oct. 18 and voted unanimously to hold that inspection. Aliva said he would work with staff to provide revised notes and plan changes before the next step in the review.
The board did not take a final approval on the amendment at the meeting; the receipt and the site-walk scheduling were the formal actions taken.
