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Tiverton planning board approves amended Trilogy master plan, forwards Armach text amendment to council
Summary
The planning board on June 16 approved an amended master plan for the Trilogy development—40 residential units including four low/moderate‑income (LMI) units—and voted to recommend a draft amendment to the town’s age‑restricted mixed‑use (Armach) ordinance to the Town Council.
The Tiverton Planning Board voted June 16 to approve an amended master plan for the Trilogy project on Souza/Main Road and to recommend a text amendment to the town council to restrict where the town’s age‑restricted mixed‑use ("Armach") ordinance may apply.
Attorney Matthew Landry, representing Trilogy Tibetan LLC, told the board the change reduces the amount of commercial space on the site while preserving four LMI units in a single mixed‑use building along Main Road. "We're maintaining four LMI units in that building," Landry said, adding that moving the affordable units into the commercial structure was driven by financing and the project's status as a non‑comprehensive permit submission.
The board first voted to recommend the proposed Armach text amendment to Town Council. The amendment would limit the Armach use to the general commercial and waterfront business zones and apply minimum developable‑land thresholds, Landry said, narrowing the ordinance’s reach compared with its current cross‑zoning language.
After questions about the LMI unit arrangement and technical corrections to the draft decision—servicing will be provided by Stonebridge and not North T., and the commercial square footage figure will be adjusted—the board moved to approve the Trilogy master‑plan application. The motion to approve passed by a 5–1 vote; the board recorded the vote and asked staff to incorporate the clerical corrections into the written decision.
The board’s approval is a preliminary development step; the applicant must still complete final construction plans and any state permits required at later stages. Attorney Landry noted several editorial corrections to the board’s draft decision and said the project team will provide corrected figures for the record.
What happens next: the board forwarded its recommendation on the Armach amendment to the Town Council and recorded its findings of fact approving the Trilogy master plan with the stated corrections. The council will consider the Armach text amendment at a later date.
