Goshen ZBA grants two variances and partial interpretation for Healy Ford expansion

Goshen — At a regular meeting, the Goshen Zoning Board of Appeals granted two area variances and a partial interpretation for a proposed expansion of the Healy Ford truck repair facility, concluding the additions would not increase impervious coverage and preserving the planning board’s authority to require site-plan screening.

The board approved a reduction of the town’s 100-foot stream-corridor setback to approximately 47.8 feet for the proposed building addition, granted an impervious-surface variance raising allowed coverage from 70% to roughly 78.5% on the existing, largely paved site, and issued an interpretation finding the inventory vehicle storage area is not subject to the strict landscape-island spacing requirements of section 97-48a(4)(c) while leaving planning-board buffering and site-plan review authority intact. The decisions were entered on the record and counsel will prepare a written decision for adoption at the next meeting.

Why it matters: The parcel’s watercourse bisects the site and the board concluded that site constraints and existing development make reconfiguration impractical; the board balanced statutory factors including…