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Commission approves 12-lot Canterbury Turnpike subdivision with conditions and sidewalk waiver
Summary
The commission approved a 12-lot subdivision at 89 Canterbury Turnpike contingent on health-department testing, a drainage-pipe plan revision, preservation of historic stone walls, and a maintenance agreement for properties on Beebe Road; the commission also waived sidewalk requirements for the subdivision.
The Norwich Commission on the City Plan voted Feb. 18 to approve a 12-lot subdivision at 89 Canterbury Turnpike, subject to conditions requested by staff and the health district and contingent on a maintenance agreement for lots that border private Beebe Road.
Greg Fettis of Fettis Engineering, representing property owner Green Star Capital, presented revised site plans and response letters showing added sight-line sheets for Canterbury Turnpike driveways, percolation test results, foundation-drain details, stormwater measures including infiltration trenches sized to capture the first 1.3 inches of runoff for driveway surfaces, and coordination with Norwich Public Utilities on wells and connections. Fettis said driveway sight distances achieve the required 300 feet in both directions on every driveway and noted plan changes to locate utilities and show no footing drains on Lot 7 (that house would be slab-on-grade due to high groundwater).
Neighbor Greg Case spoke during public comment to express concerns about the condition and maintenance of the private Beebe Road and requested that the developer consider paving the first 300 feet to reduce strain on the existing private maintenance arrangement. Matt Bossick of Green Star Capital said the developer would consider improvements and cost-sharing but did not commit to full paving; he proposed discussion of a maintenance agreement and incremental improvements for marketability and safety.
Staff recapped that most review comments had been addressed in revised plans and enumerated conditions and an exhibit list in the record. Staff recommended a condition that a maintenance agreement for Beebe Road lots be in place before disturbance of those lots and that a drainage pipe be shown on revised plans in coordination with the city engineer. Commissioners first voted to waive the sidewalk requirement for the subdivision and then approved the subdivision itself with conditions requiring health-department testing, the drainage addition with city-engineer approval, preservation provisions for historic stone walls and the maintenance agreement prior to disturbance of lots on Beebe Road.
Both the sidewalk waiver and the subdivision approval passed unanimously.
