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Applicant revises Tucker Boulevard rebuild plans after peer-review questions; hearing continued
Summary
At a July 28 hearing the Tinsville Conservation Commission pressed the applicant for 137 Tucker Boulevard to clarify whether stairs and dock work alter bordering land subject to flooding and to provide compensatory storage and alternative-analysis calculations; the hearing was continued to Aug. 11.
Don Lees, engineer representing the applicant, told the Tinsville Conservation Commission the team revised plans for 137 Tucker Boulevard and added planting and replication areas after the commission's prior comments and a SWCA peer review. "We added some more plantings," Don Lees said, and described a floating dock anchored to shore with steel posts and cable so it "won't be anything in the river."
Commissioners focused on whether the proposed stairs and grading would constitute fill in bordering land subject to flooding and asked for explicit compensatory-storage calculations. One commissioner said the permit narrative's line claiming "the project does not propose to alter or fill bordering land subject to flooding" was inaccurate as written and asked for corrected language and a calculation showing cubic yards of grading and stair impacts. Another commissioner pressed for a clearer alternatives analysis, including a side-by-side count of existing versus proposed impervious surface and a comparison of redevelopment areas, restoration areas and septic-related exemptions. "I think a more formal one should be presented," a committee member said regarding the alternatives analysis.
The applicant said they would update the WPA form and plan tables, provide the per-elevation flood-storage calculations already on the plan, attach site photos for peer reviewers, and add notes showing footings for the dock posts to confirm no new resource areas are being impacted. Commissioners discussed imposing weekly erosion-control inspections and including special conditions that the approved planting palette and invasive-species removal be followed.
After questions and follow-up requests, a motion to continue the hearing to Aug. 11, 2026 passed with no opposed votes. The continuance will allow the applicant to submit revised calculations, a clarified alternatives analysis and the updated WPA form.
