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Planning board hears Nordi Dental Post Road plan; approves frontage trees and a 60‑day extension
Summary
The Townwell Planning Board reviewed a proposal for a 5,400 sq. ft. Nordi Dental office on Post Road, pressing the applicant on drainage, easements and buffers. The board approved frontage shade trees, accepted east-side plantings and granted a 60‑day extension for final easement and legal descriptions.
Rob McSorley of Cybaga Technics presented a site plan for a proposed 5,400-square-foot Nordi Dental office on Post Road and answered board and resident questions about setbacks, buffering and stormwater design. He told the board the project will include parking, an on-site stormwater basin and a proposed drainage easement that the applicant will dedicate so abutters and the town have maintenance rights.
The planning staff summarized comments from the public hearing and recommended technical changes before final approval. "The only comment I have in the drainage review is to upsize this pipe from an 18 inch to a 24 inch," the planner advised, urging the applicant to evaluate whether a drain manhole inlet is required and to size riprap at the outlet for erosion control.
Board members pressed the applicant on culvert outlet protection and the effect of upsizing the pipe on flow velocity. McSorley said the design will include an inlet top and that riprap would be sized to published velocity standards, and he described plans to provide a drainage easement and a separate maintenance easement near existing lighting.
On landscaping, staff noted three proposed trees in front of the site and said two were just outside the 15-foot required Route 1 landscape buffer; the applicant moved those plantings into the buffer. The board voted unanimously to find that the two shade trees along Route 1 meet the ordinance requirement and later voted unanimously to accept the east-side vegetation adjacent to a residential property as suitable.
The board deferred action on the north buffer until the applicant completes coordination with the abutter on plantings. To allow time for final legal descriptions and recorded easements, the board granted a 60‑day extension for the application to return with revised exhibits.
Next steps: the applicant will finalize easement descriptions and property sketches, submit them to counsel and return to the board for final action once those materials and abutter agreements are complete.
