Planning Board waives loading‑bay requirement for restaurant permit
Summary
The board recorded a waiver of the standard 12x65‑ft loading bay requirement for the Local Nest special‑use permit, requiring instead that the applicant show a delivery point on the building plans and submit revised maps.
As part of the Local Nest special‑use permit the Lumberland Planning Board recorded on the record that it would not require a 12‑by‑65‑foot loading bay in the parking lot for this approval.
Staff had advised the board that code calls for a 12x65‑foot loading area and that loading cannot be conducted in the parking lot. The board nevertheless exercised discretion for this specific permit, asking the applicant to identify a delivery area on the building plans (for example, a kitchen door where deliveries will be received) and to update maps showing actual lot coverage. The waiver was incorporated into the permit motion and recorded as the board’s only condition beyond the required map revisions and county 239 referral.
Chair D. Brinsky and staff described the technical constraints and the applicant agreed to submit revised drawings. The board noted the waiver applies to this permit and did not change the underlying code language; any future proposal would be reviewed on its own record.
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