Planning commission approves Stringtown Station site plan with conditions after neighbor raises drainage concerns

The Linden City Planning Commission on March 11 approved a site plan for Stringtown Station, an eight-unit office-warehouse building at about 40 North Geneva Road, with conditions including parcel consolidation, final engineering sign-off and a landscaped frontage reduced to 15 feet.

City planning staff presented changes the applicant, Bill Fairbanks, made after an earlier review, saying the project remains an eight-unit, roughly 27,000-square-foot office-warehouse building and that the applicant agreed to increase the sidewalk width to 6 feet, add a project monument sign and provide additional landscaping in other areas along Geneva Road. "They adjusted where the building rests compared to the last one," staff said, and staff added landscaping-plan requirements as conditions of approval.

The commission placed particular conditions on final approvals and infrastructure. The motion approved by the commission requires, among other items, that the three parcels be consolidated before final site plan approval; that final engineering corrections be completed with the city engineer; that plans comply with Linden City development specifications and Title 17 of the city code; that a…