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Commission conditionally approves 6,000-square-foot office at Third and Curlin
Summary
The commission granted preliminary/final conditional approval for a 6,000-square-foot office building at 607–629 West Third Street, consolidating 10 lots into a single 31,972-square-foot parcel; approval is subject to engineering, utility and landscape details.
The Chester City Planning Commission on Feb. 5 conditionally approved a land-development plan to consolidate 10 lots and build a 6,000-square-foot office building at 607–629 West Third Street, subject to standard engineering and permitting conditions.
Applicant Rick Zylo (represented by architect/engineer Sean Paul) described revisions made since the project’s prior presentation: clarifications to ADA ramp and sidewalk details at the Third-and-Curlin intersection, refinements to the stormwater managed-release design with an 8-inch PVC outfall and trash-wrap orifice to Delcora, and relocation of utility tie-ins to Third Street after locating a water line in Mary Street. The plan depicts outdoor equipment and light-material storage areas and a black vinyl-coated chain-link security fence; landscaping was increased at the street corner and along Third Street per Shade Tree Commission and planning staff comments.
City planners asked the applicant to confirm that accessory outdoor storage does not exceed the ordinance’s 25% threshold; staff said that in the planning department’s measurements the storage area was “literally over” the 25% threshold and needed clarification. Engineering staff asked for final sanitary, storm and water-service connections and ramp cross-section details; the applicant said full-serve letters had been requested from Delcora and Chester Water and that the proposed office use will demand fewer sanitary-equivalent dwelling units (EDUs) than the prior multiuse/multifamily structure.
The applicant also described site-security fencing that will sit outside required residential buffers and an access easement to allow adjacent homeowners to maintain rear yards that border the new property line. The city engineer and planning staff said minor final plan revisions remain, but that the submission addressed most prior comments; they recommended preliminary-final conditional approval.
The commission moved, seconded and approved the plan with stated conditions tied to the city engineer’s and planning department’s letters. The applicant will provide final sanitary/water utility approvals, clarified outdoor-storage calculations, and any remaining ramp/landscape details before recording.
Votes at a glance: motion carried by voice vote; item approved conditionally.
Next steps: applicant to submit Delcora and Chester Water full-serve letters, revised plans showing clarified accessory storage percentages, and final responses to city engineering comments.
