Planning board accepts Riverside Landing subdivision application; hearing continued to May business meeting

The Plymouth Planning Board accepted as complete a minor-subdivision application from Riverside Landing LLC to divide parcel 212046 into three lots (7.26 acres, 1.68 acres and 34.69 acres), opened the public hearing and agreed to continue the hearing to the May business meeting to allow time for water-and-sewer easement clarifications and a pending variance before the Zoning Board.

Planning staff summarized extensive comments from the Plymouth Village Water and Sewer District, which requested the applicant confirm ownership and easement boundaries for privately owned water and sewer mains shown on plans and noted that changes to ownership could require amendments to existing mainline agreements. Board members discussed whether revisions to easement language would be a substantive change that could render the acceptance as complete invalid; staff and members agreed the likely changes would be easement clarifications rather than a change to lot configuration.

The applicant asked the board to accept the application as complete and to open the public hearing but to continue the hearing so the water-and-sewer district and the applicant could finalize details without restarting the hearing. The board accepted the application as complete, opened the public hearing at 7:25 p.m., and voted to continue the hearing to the May business meeting. One board member recorded an abstention on the continuation vote and the board discussed potential variances related to frontage and parking-setback nonconformities.