Green Code variances -- at the July 10 meeting they said they'd only need one, for side lot parking.
To stay compliant with the rest of the Green Code's provisions, the plan needs more adjustments to the parking lot border areas, which would not be up to code as proposed. Required buffer areas are missing and/or mis-used.
Sections 7.1.5 and 7.1.6 lay out the requirements for parking in zone N2-R, which include a "Type C Buffer Yard" -- 5 feet wide, with shrubbery (about one shrub every 7.2 inches), and a fence at the outer property line.
7.1.5.B.2: Where any parking lot is located along, within 50 feet of, and visible from an interior side or rear lot line that abuts any lot in an N-2R, N-3R, N-4-30, N-4-50, D-R, D-OS, D-OG, or D-ON zone, the parking lot must be screened by a Type C buffer yard, designed per Section 7.1.6.
7.1.6.B.3: Where a fence and landscaping are required within the buffer yard in accordance with Table 7A: Buffer Yards, the fence must be positioned interior to the landscaping, except for buffer yards along an interior side or rear lot line, where fences must be positioned exterior to the landscaping. However, the City Planning Board may adjust the positioning of a fence within a buffer yard to better mitigate potential impacts between the proposed project and adjacent properties.
A dumpster is not one of the allowed features in any buffer yard.
Green Code variances -- at the July 10 meeting they said they'd only need one, for side lot parking.
To stay compliant with the rest of the Green Code's provisions, the plan needs more adjustments to the parking lot border areas, which would not be up to code as proposed. Required buffer areas are missing and/or mis-used.
Sections 7.1.5 and 7.1.6 lay out the requirements for parking in zone N2-R, which include a "Type C Buffer Yard" -- 5 feet wide, with shrubbery (about one shrub every 7.2 inches), and a fence at the outer property line.
7.1.5.B.2: Where any parking lot is located along, within 50 feet of, and visible from an interior side or rear lot line that abuts any lot in an N-2R, N-3R, N-4-30, N-4-50, D-R, D-OS, D-OG, or D-ON zone, the parking lot must be screened by a Type C buffer yard, designed per Section 7.1.6.
7.1.6.B.3: Where a fence and landscaping are required within the buffer yard in accordance with Table 7A: Buffer Yards, the fence must be positioned interior to the landscaping, except for buffer yards along an interior side or rear lot line, where fences must be positioned exterior to the landscaping. However, the City Planning Board may adjust the positioning of a fence within a buffer yard to better mitigate potential impacts between the proposed project and adjacent properties.
A dumpster is not one of the allowed features in any buffer yard.