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South Burlington board continues city park turf, parking and storage building proposal
Summary
The Development Review Board reviewed amendments to a previously approved 68‑acre recreation park at 600 Swift Street that would add synthetic turf, expand parking and build a 3,000 sq ft maintenance building; the board asked for revised parking‑island calculations and continued the item to Aug. 4 to allow the applicant to submit updated plans.
The South Burlington Development Review Board on July 21 reviewed a city application to amend an existing site plan at 600 Swift Street by converting a field to synthetic turf, expanding an existing gravel lot into a full parking lot and constructing a 3,000 square‑foot storage and maintenance building for DPW and park programming. Chair Quinn Mann presented the proposal and asked the applicant’s team to give an overview.
Silken Kershner, the city’s project manager for transportation and open spaces, and civil engineer Greg Dixon said the principal changes are a synthetic turf field, reconfiguration of adjacent fields, expanded parking and the maintenance building. Staff focused discussion on parking‑lot landscaping: curbing that protects planting islands and a requirement that interior parking islands comprise 10% of the parking area. The applicant said the intent was to avoid curbing on the north side to allow stormwater to flow to basins and to maintain snow storage operations; the board signaled comfort with curbless treatment on the north and curbing on the south but asked the applicant to return with precise island reconfiguration and area calculations.
“The board would be comfortable with that—not having curbing on the north side, but seeing the curbing on the southern part,” Chair Quinn Mann said, summarizing the board’s direction. Greg Dixon told the board the design team can reconfigure islands to meet the standard and will provide the calculation with the revised materials. Staff also asked for a 25‑year stormwater report before closing the hearing and for confirmation that a licensed landscape architect will prepare the required landscaping plan.
There were no public speakers on this item. The board voted to continue PZ Site 202619 to the August 4 DRB meeting to allow the applicant to submit the requested revised drawings and calculations; the continuation is contingent on the applicant delivering revised materials to staff in the days before the hearing.
