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Planning board continues review of North American sales/rental flex building, asks for screening and siting details
Summary
Applicants for a proposed 16,000-sq-ft flex building on County Road 41 presented site layout, utilities and parking; board members pressed about truck parking visibility and asked for landscaping/screening renderings before the next hearing, which was continued to Aug. 5.
The Farmington Planning Board heard a presentation from Marathon Engineering and the property owners of North American Sales and Rentals on a proposed 16,000-square-foot flex building along County Road 41 and voted to continue review to allow the applicant to provide additional materials on visual screening and traffic operations.
Jake Alvarez of Marathon Engineering (Jake Alvarez, speaker 12) presented the project’s layout, utilities plan and parking design, describing 88 automobile spaces, truck/tractor-trailer parking in a northern corner of the site and stormwater bioretention facilities. Owner Jacob Berardi (Jacob Berardi, speaker 13) said the building is designed to be split into two 8,000-square-foot tenant bays and that typical tenants are regional distributors that would not permanently store semitrailers in the bays.
Board members asked why the building could not be shifted forward so loading docks and truck parking would be out of public view. The applicant explained that topography and proposed detention/retaining walls guided the current layout but agreed to provide more specific planting/landscape plans and renderings to reduce the visual impact of parked trucks along Route 41.
A brief public hearing segment included a resident question about what tenant uses would be allowed; applicants emphasized the building is speculative space and hazardous storage would be subject to separate permitting and tenant review.
The board moved to continue the public hearing to Aug. 5 to allow Marathon Engineering and the owners to submit revised drawings, planting plans, and any additional traffic details for review by staff and the county planning board.
Next steps: applicant to submit updated drawings and planting visuals; board will review materials and hear the continued application on the posted date.
