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Goshen board presses developer on 87% impervious coverage and sidewalk waiver for Jessup Switch Road warehouse
Summary
At a continuation hearing the Goshen Zoning Board questioned an applicant seeking variances for a 100,000-square-foot light-manufacturing building at 131 Jessup Switch Road, including relief to exceed 70% lot coverage (to ~87.3%), waivers for a bike/ped path because of wetland/bridge constraints, parking-location relief and an impossible curb-cut separation.
The Goshen Zoning Board spent substantial time on May 5 reviewing a continuation for a proposed warehouse/light-manufacturing building at 131 Jessup Switch Road that would join three SBLs and, as presented, result in about 87.3% impervious cover — well above the town’s 70% limit.
Applicant counsel and engineers told the board the site’s configuration and an existing bridge crossing make the code’s 421-foot curb-cut separation effectively impossible to meet. “The curb cut sentence in that code…doesn’t need a variance. It’s just impossible to satisfy because of the lot configuration,”…
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