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Board approves parking variance for metal-recycling site, accepts perimeter parking layout with conditions
Summary
The board granted a major parking variance for a proposed metal-recycling operation on a 20.85-acre parcel, approving a reduced parking count (13 spaces proposed) after staff and the applicant discussed net acreage, wetlands, and truck-maneuvering needs. Board conditioned the approval on operations remaining consistent with the described recycling use.
The zoning board approved a parking variance that allows a proposed metal-recycling facility to provide far fewer spaces than the zoning classification would ordinarily require for a junk/salvage yard. Applicant representatives presented a net-acreage calculation that reduces the usable acreage once wetlands and required open space are subtracted; that calculation lowered the effective parking requirement and supported the request for 13 provided spaces instead of the 91 spaces that a strict gross-acreage calculation would yield.
Mary Kramer, representing the applicant, said the operation is not a pick-and-pull junkyard but a metal recycling business whose layout and truck turning requirements limit where parking can be placed. Board members raised questions about future changes of use and noted that any change would require revisiting parking calculations; the board approved the variance with staff-specified conditions on site layout and use.
Quote: “This is not a pick and pull. It's not that type of operation,” the applicant representative said, stressing the operational distinction.
Provenance: topic introduced SEG 1642; discussion and vote concluded SEG 1866.
