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ZBA approves parking variance for Northern Fair/Norden Enterprises; planning issue flagged over on-site logs
Summary
The ZBA approved an area variance allowing additional parking stalls at Northern Fair/Norden Enterprises, but the board flagged an outstanding planning-condition issue about log storage and firewood for the planning board and DOT to address.
The Goshen Zoning Board of Adjustment approved an area variance to allow additional parking stalls at the Northern Fair / Norden Enterprises property, while noting an unresolved issue over logs and firewood stored on the site that remains subject to planning-board review.
Board members reopened the continued public hearing and reviewed prior site-plan and parking-stall counts dating to a 1983 approved plan. The applicant sought relief from the number and location of parking stalls at the front of the building and confirmation that the existing impervious surface coverage complies with code. The ZBA conducted the five-factor test for the requested area variance and, after discussion, voted to grant the variance with general planning conditions.
A primary topic of public comment and board questioning was an on-site accumulation of logs (separate from retail firewood) that…
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