August 14, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Transcript - WEHI

51 (Pages 198 to 201)51 (Pages 198 to 201) Page 198 1 know specifically all the operations, you know, that 2 would be there but -- 3 MS. PAUL: Is this a commercial 4 property, is this zoned for commercial use? 5 MR. APPEL: I believe the building was 6 and this use was always contemplated, so it's -- 7 MS. PAUL: So I guess it must be. 8 Does the Planning Board know whether it's zoned 9 for -- 10 MS. McGOVERN: I think -- 11 MS. PAUL: -- commercial use? 12 MS. McGOVERN: -- it's definitely 13 zoned for the kennel because that's part of the 14 ordinance. I don't know whether outside -- people 15 outside of the complex and if it's something that -- 16 MS. PAUL: Even if it's someone in the 17 complex, I'm assuming they'll pay for the service, 18 no? 19 MS. McGOVERN: Yes, but it's part of 20 the ordinance. That's allowed under the ordinance. 21 They have -- I'm trying to find it. The ordinance 22 that was designed for this complex -- 23 MS. PAUL: I got it. 24 MS. McGOVERN: -- the fact -- 25 MS. PAUL: So -- Page 200 1 the ordinance provides, so -- 2 MS. PAUL: Wait, so they're having a 3 dog park indoors? 4 MS. McGOVERN: No, I think in addition 5 to an -- 6 MS. PAUL: Oh, okay. 7 MS. McGOVERN: -- outdoor -- 8 MS. PAUL: -- sorry. 9 MS. McGOVERN: -- dog park. 10 MS. PAUL: I'm sorry. Thank you. 11 MS. McGOVERN: Okay? 12 MS. PAUL: Yeah. I'm sorry. 13 MS. McGOVERN: So that's what the 14 ordinance provides. If they go past what the 15 ordinance provides, a decision on zoning will be 16 made by the Zoning Officer. That's not -- we're not 17 here to interpret it, they're just building the 18 building. 19 MS. PAUL: Yeah, no, I'm just trying 20 to understand, I'm sorry. Thank you. 21 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: Thank you. 22 MR. WEISLEDER: Seth Weisleder 23 S-E-T-H, W-E-I-S-L-E-D-E-R. 24 My question is, on the ---en all the 25 buildings, actually, if we can pull up the slide of Page 199 1 MS. McGOVERN: -- that -- 2 MS. PAUL: So if it's open to people 3 outside the complex, is that a different ordinance 4 or is that a different rule or -- 5 CHAIRMAN BAGOFF: It's managed by the 6 complex. 7 MS. PAUL: I mean, I have no -- 8 MS. McGOVERN: I'm just going to read 9 the ordinance, and I'm not the one to make an 10 interpretation of it -- 11 MS. PAUL: So who would -- 12 MS. McGOVERN: -- I'm just reading it. 13 MS. PAUL: Who will know the answer to 14 this, though? 15 MS. McGOVERN: I guess we'll

one to make an 10 interpretation of it -- 11 MS. PAUL: So who would -- 12 MS. McGOVERN: -- I'm just reading it. 13 MS. PAUL: Who will know the answer to 14 this, though? 15 MS. McGOVERN: I guess we'll get more 16 specifics if we need to, but it says in the 17 ordinance "Pet-Friendly Amenity. As part of the 18 amenity package in addition to dog parks and other 19 playgrounds above, a development shall be permitted 20 to include an on-site pet service that shall be 21 permitted to offer walking services, pet-sitting 22 services, a pet spa or grooming service, overnight 23 boarding or related services, which shall be 24 permitted to operate indoors as part of a building 25 and/or as a standalone building." So that's what Page 201 1 all the buildings, if you can just depict for us how 2 many feet each -- each side or flat side of the 3 building, I think there were six of them, is from 4 different homes. 5 (Site plan is put up on the screen.) 6 MR. WEISLEDER: So let's just start 7 with Building A. How close is that? Which one's 8 Building A? I'm more familiar with D because we've 9 been focused on D all night. But if we look at 10 Building A, if you look at the -- just the flat 11 sides of it -- like, Building D had that red line; 12 if we could just look at the other buildings and say 13 "Okay, the left of Building A" -- right. So how far 14 is that side from the nearest home? 15 MR. APPEL: So what I had done was I 16 think we had taken a line from here over to -- from 17 this corner here over to, I think the corner of the 18 building that's next to -- that's just off the -- 19 off the line, so that in here, I think -- and these 20 are scaled-off site plans so that, you know, this is 21 an approximation, was 648 feet. 22 MR. WEISLEDER: Okay. Can we go to 23 the next building and just do the same thing, 24 please? Thank you. 25 MR. APPEL: And we took, from this