December 11, 2024 Planning Board Special Meeting Minutes - WEHI

¢ Micaela Bennet at 33 Old Indian Road stated a bar is not a permissible use in a R2 zone. According to the board’s ordinance, you can only have one use in an R2 zone. ¢ Ms. Bennet states the ordinance permits as a use a golf course, it permits as a use a golf club house, and it accepts a golf club. e Ms. Bennet said a bar being built on a golf course is not a use the board should be considering. She states this application belongs before the zoning board. ¢ She shared that swimming pools are permitted accessory uses as well as recreational facilities but if you look it up in the ordinance it talks about swimming pools in residency, it does not talk about them on a golf course. ¢ She suggests that a bar is a use not permitted in this zone. She is not suggesting that they can’t eventually get permission to do this, she is saying that they are in front of the wrong venue in order to make their argument for why they should be permitted to do so. e Ms. Bennet provided the board with a copy of the applicant’s liquor license that has a sketch of where they are permitted to sell alcohol. She states Ms. John-Basta mistakenly advised the board they can sell alcohol anywhere from the 177 acres. Ms. Bennet said that is not factually accurate, they are allowed to sell alcohol from the location that is sketched within the liquor license. That sketch is within the club house. ¢ She states the rules require the applicant to be very specific, especially when the sale of alcohol is something that’the public should know about. ¢ She is asking that if the board decides to move forward, that the applicant is required to re notice the public. ¢ She states the language in the applicant’s notice is not specific enough that it leaves without any doubt for the public what they intend to do in that structure. ¢ She said the board must consider the sale of alcohol when you consider the intended use, otherwise why would it be required by the courts that the applicant must specifically state the intent to sell alcohol. e Ms. Bennet says the sale of alcohol should be stated. ut further n Meeting adjourned at 10:37 PM. ADOPTED: 3lizlzs ite, Board Secretary Planning Board Secretary