Developer presents Newport Road subdivision; board presses environmental safeguards
Costage Engineering presented a plan to subdivide a parcel into five lots; the conservation board flagged slope stability, tree loss and understory concerns and reiterated prior recommendations that the parcel remain at three lots pending further review and EPOD/plot-plan submissions.
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Mike Ritchie of Costage Engineering presented a subdivision plan for Newport Road that would convert the existing parcel into five single-family lots. "This project was previously before the conservation board and the planning board," he said, and described a tree survey, a geotechnical study that found slopes "stable," and an erosion- and sediment-control plan. Ritchie said the developer intends to minimize tree removal and will provide individual lot plot plans later in the process.
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