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Walmart revises fuel-station plan to reduce wetland impacts; public hearing set for April
Summary
Walmart Real Estate Business Trust presented a revised plan for a fueling station at 697 Tiffany Boulevard that shifts tanks and the building to avoid wetland buffers, adds a 'jellyfish' stormwater filter and an emergency shutoff before the wetland outfall; the board scheduled a public hearing for April.
Connor Anderson, representing the applicant and Polar Engineering, presented a revised site plan for a Walmart fueling station at 697 Tiffany Boulevard and told the Planning Board the changes were driven largely by conservation-commission feedback.
Anderson said the design reduces impervious area compared with the earlier layout, shifts the underground fuel tanks and the fuel canopy to avoid the 60-foot wetland buffer and repositions the building to reduce impacts. He described new stormwater features, including a subsurface detention unit to mitigate rates and a "jellyfish filter" to provide additional phosphorus treatment prior to discharge to the wetlands, and said an emergency shut-off valve will be installed just before the wetlands outfall at the request of the conservation commission. "We added a emergency shut off valve right before discharge to the wetlands," Anderson said.
Board members noted plan labeling errors (references to Coventry, R.I.) and clarified buffer labeling language in the wetland bylaws; Anderson acknowledged the labeling will be corrected. He confirmed the conservation commission reviewed buffer impacts and that columns and pump equipment were moved out of sensitive zones. On drainage the applicant said the outfall pipe will be reconstructed with the same diameter material ("15inch CPP today") and that the project reduces flows compared with current conditions, with existing rip-rap slope retained and a detention unit for rate control.
Because the required advertising period could not be met before March 24, the board scheduled the project's formal public hearing for the April meeting and asked the applicant to follow up on unresolved comments before then.
The board also discussed signage changes: the proposed pylon sign will be replaced in the same area and revised to meet a 50-square-foot maximum.
The board did not vote on the site plan at the March 10 meeting; it set the public hearing for April and asked staff and the applicant to address remaining comments.
